Don’t label, says PM, as Glasgow bomber is ‘identified’ as Indian

With Indian doctors being arrested in connection with the failed terror plots in the UK, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh spoke to his British counterpart Gordon Brown and assured of him all possible help in investigations.

With Indian doctors being arrested in connection with the failed terror plots in the UK, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh spoke to his British counterpart Gordon Brown and assured of him all possible help in investigations.

Disclosing this here today, Singh warned against dubbing anybody or any country as a terrorist, saying if any community is targeted, it would create “new sets of grievances”.

“It is wrong to label any community or country. We have to look for solutions,” Singh said. “If a particular community is targeted, it will create a new set of grievances,” he told a group of women journalists during an interaction here.

“We should not fix labels like Muslims or non-Muslims. It won’t help us in understanding the situation or dealing with it. It is very stereotype to classify a person,” he said. He suggested that even if any one Indian is suspected of terror linkages, all Indians could not be dubbed as terrorists.

“A terrorist is a terrorist and he has no religion or community,” he said. Singh said there are misguided youth in any society and this was not any community specific. “As a Sikh, I understand the trauma (of being labelled),” he said.