Terrorist!

By John Cheeran
It is just not cricket.
Tens Sports commentator and former Australian cricketer Dean Jones has given us a peek into how racist some of us can turn into when he described the South African cricketer Hashim Amla, who incidentally happens to be a Muslim, a terrorist.
Jones made the comment when Amla took a catch on the fourth day of the second Test against Sri Lanka in Colombo.
Jones has made a huge mistake to brand a sportsman a terrorist in whatever context he said it so.
Here I should confess that all of us carry within ourselves our prejudices, history of private sentiments but what makes us civilised is our ability to not release everything that agitates our minds.
Ten sports has sacked him as a commentator but the damage has been done.
You cannot deny that majority of the terrorist acts are committed in the name of Islam. But that should not be an excuse to tar anyone with the terrorist brush.
Jones himself has realised his mistake, after losing his job, to consider every bearded man with a Muslim name a terrorist and has said that he would try his best to overcome such prejudices.