Chicago, USA—Many journalists have referred to the recent Mumbai terror attacks as “India’s 9/11.” Noted anti-terrorist and human rights expert on South Asia, Dr. Richard Benkin, has been warning about the terrorist threat in India for years. “On my last trip there,” he said. “There was a terrorist attack or counter-terrorist action every day. The carnage in Mumbai was new only in the attention it received.”
Whether or not the anger those attacks generated will be translated into a sustained resolve to overcome terror at its multifaceted source will depend on a number of factors, Benkin said. “But all of it is within the control of the Indian and allied governments.” He also warns not to let the attacks in western India take focus from the much more volatile and dangerous northern and northeastern front.
Dr. Richard L. Benkin, Founder of Interfaith Strength, is an anti-terrorist and human rights activist who has traveled to South Asia on multiple occasions to free political prisoners, visit refugee camps, identify the alliance among South Asian Islamists and Communists, oppose Islamist radicals, and protest the ethnic cleansing of Bangladeshi Hindus. He currently is working with South Asians in the United States and elsewhere to develop anti-terror and human rights organizations.
Benkin is available for interviews and commentary and can be contacted via telephone (+1-847-922-6426) or email (drrbenkin@comcast.net).
Dr. Richard L. Benkin is a human rights activist who most often finds himself battling America’s and Israel’s enemies. He is the foremost advocate fighting to stop the ethnic cleansing of Hindus by Islamists and their fellow travelers in Bangladesh. He earlier secured the release of an anti-jihadi journalist and stopped an anti-Israel conference at an official Australian statehouse. For more information, go to InterfaithStrength.com orForcefield.
