Are You Funding Terrorism

Hi Dhidhi , I brought three good movies from Burma bazaar on Sunday. Saritha(she is my colleague) posed for a moment and told me, “anish you know something ,Actually pirated cd’s are distributed by terrorist’s and it is one of the major source of income for them, Last week I have seen a documentary in Discovery channel. In that they explained the fund sources of Terrorist. Among that pirated DVDs are a major one. So by buying that you are literally funding them”. When I heard I got shocked because it was  new information for me. Even though I’m not a movie junky, I used get pirated cd from Burma bazaar occasionally because they give best DVD’s for cheap rate like 20-30 rupees and all(Some times you will get the movie before that released in India). And same time if we go to planetM or music world we have to spend minimum 200 bucks for a good English movie. So in fact I didn’t want to believe that, but anyways I googled about it. The result was shocking. What I read was more than saritha told me.

 The movie\music pirates have strong links with the terrorist organizations .The money raised from pirated movie\music cd\ DVD is going to secret funding of organizations like the LTTE, AL QUIDA, and Lashqar -ie-toiba etc. In one of the article I read that film piracy can be even more profitable than drug trafficking or other enterprises commonly linked to organized crime. Because compared to drugs and smuggling, manufacturing and distribution of pirated DVD’s are easy and safe. The reports says a pirated DVD made in Malaysia for 70 cents is marked up more than 1,000% and sold in London for about $9. “The profit margin is more than three times higher than the mark-up for Iranian heroin and higher than the profit from Columbian cocaine,” the report says.

So it is time for us to take a decision like, do we need to support another Mumbai 26\11 or Bangalore bomb blast. Now a day’s company’s like Moser Baer, Eros started selling DVD’s at a cheap rate like 30-50.so why can’t we buy those original cd’s instead of  sponsoring our own destruction.think about it………

edited on 29-may

  some articles i found online about the same topic

http://www.window2india.com/cms/admin/article.jsp?aid=3810

http://www.samaylive.com/news/check-piracy-to-defeat-terrorism-says-nasheed/602463.html

http://www.allbusiness.com/retail-trade/miscellaneous-retail-retail-stores-not/4368051-1.html

PS : We have to raise awarness about this because it is not a  silly issue that we can ignore just like that

Enough is Enough – Mumbai Terror Attack

On nov-27 many of them like me got up by hearing the shocking news-Mumbai terror attack. Now a days the bomb blast, terror attack are not a ‘big news’, it happens frequently (whom we should blame 4 this).But still it was shocking, cruel and unbelievable. They slaughtered civilians like animals .It was against the simple laws of humanity (Which religion/god teaches to kill common man, is’t Islam, but I heard prophet Mohamed taught to love people not 2 kill people for any reason).

 

When my sister told abt this in the morning,I didn’t bothered abt this much ,coz now a days it happens frequently. But once I switched on the TV and saw wht was the actual matter, I become shell shocked (It remained me again there is no security for any one in anywhere even in top five star hotels). It was so sad to see politicians were trying to get benefit from this instead of stay united and fight against them single handedly. Where was Mr. raj Thackeray and his MNS when the terrorist slaughtered the Mum bait’s. We should throw away these nonsense politicians, who try 2 gain personal benefits by separating peoples and making them fight each other in the name of cast, province, religion or wht ever. The success of this operation taught us and remind us that India is one and all the Indians should stay united against all the internal and external attack (despite whether u r north Indian or south Indian or Hindu or Muslim etc).

Finally enough is enough. Now it’s the time for government to take strict action to counter terrorism (no matter its internal or external).don’t use this tragic thing for gaining political benefits. We shd learn from USA (like how they bounced back after 9/11 attack. Did any terror attack happen in usa after 9/11 attack.).

click this link to see those Heart-breaking sights — http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2008/11/mumbai_under_attack.html

 

PS: We salute each of the warriors who laid their lives and also all commandos, ATS members, etc who risked there lives to counter this attack. We also remember and honour those among us who aren’t here anymore.