So you say it is ok with acts of terror just because they have some axe to grind with the someone?
So it's ok to take some other innocent people hostage and kill them just not your next of kins? LOL!...
Act of terrorism is to be condemned no matter who are the hostages or for whatever reason or purposes.
If whole society, condemn such acts and make no province of it no matter what cause it is for, then maybe these clowns will rethink about their action.
However, history has shown that if you are the victor, then whatever terrorist acts you employed previously, can be re-written as a fight for freedom. Even if innocent lives were taken.
Even the great Nelson Mandela took up terrorist acts in his early struggle against the Apartheid White gov of South Africa. But you don't hear much of these as he is now a celebrated freedom fighter.
Read below from Wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nelson_Mandela
"Later, mostly in the 1980s, MK waged a guerrilla war against the apartheid regime in which many civilians became casualties. Mandela later admitted that the ANC, in its struggle against apartheid, also violated human rights, sharply criticising those in his own party who attempted to remove statements supporting this fact from the reports of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission.
Up until July 2008, Mandela and ANC party members were barred from entering the United States — except the United Nations headquarters in Manhattan — without a special waiver from the US Secretary of State, because of their South African apartheid regime era designation as terrorists."
It is because of dumbfucks like you who kept quiet and giving them some false sense of righteousness in their actions which resulted in even more terrorist activities.
If the ALL majority of "peaceful" silent Muslims condemn such act as non-Islamic and in no way related to Islam, then maybe they fuck heads has no claim to be doing it for Islam.
However, the majority quiet Muslim can't do that as they know jolly well that such tactics are allowed and mentioned in the Koran. Hence, giving the manipulated few, reasons to call it their Jihad war against non-Muslims, and they will become heroes if and when they succeed in their struggles.
If the whole world view killing of innocent people (and non-Muslim for these fuck heads) in the same light as killing of their own parents, and to be condemned no matter what and even if they succeed in their cause, and if the whole world can view taking hostages of innocent people (and non-Muslim for these fuck heads) in the same light as taking hostage of their own parents, and to be condemned no matter what and even if they succeed in their cause, then maybe these fuck heads may think twice about doing such acts.
However, as we can see in this forum, there are still many people who think it is ok to take hostages, but not when it's their next-of-kin.
It is ok to condemn such act of terror, just not when it's their next-of-kin.
It is ok to employ acts of terror if you succeed in your fight.
Don't forget, the innocent victims may not be your next-of-kin, they are the next of kin of others. For such acts of terror to be discouraged, it has to be viewed and condemned in the same light as acts of terror against the perpetrators' parents, and there is no honour for such actions no matter what the causes are.
Just look at how the fuckhead filipinos made the hostage murderer cop a hero. I guarantee you that there will be another hostage taker cum murderer hero in the philippine. Cos these filipino fuckheads approved of such act of terror.