People who read, write, and speak English often seem to flounder, mostly deliberately and confuse (or rather, obfuscate) the distinction between a terrorist and an assassin.
Ajmal Kasab was a terrorist.
Nathuram Godse was an assassin.
Kasab’s mission was indiscriminate slaughter. To kill anybody and everybody with his AK-47. The more the better.
He fired randomly into crowds and took aim at individuals alike, his purpose being to create chaos, mayhem, and death.
Godse’s mission was singular - to eliminate Gandhi, and Gandhi alone.
Everything we have seen, experienced, and studied about jihadi terror tells us that it is guided solely by religion.
Blood is spilt in the name of Allah, and those who perpetrate it believe they do so with divine sanction.
That was not the case with Godse. He assassinated Gandhi for what he believed was a political and moral cause.
Crucially, he neither ran nor hid. He surrendered, fully aware that under the law he had murdered a man and would face trial and punishment.
To repeatedly dredge up a single 77 year-old incident to equate it with the global scourge of jihadi terror, that the world continues to endure in its most brutal forms only exposes the weakness of the argument, the strength of the victimhood narrative, and the evil of the ideology that sustains it.