Living in a terrorised world...

I had very recently sent a courier to a friend of mine, which contained a perfume as a birthday present, wrapped in a gift wrapping and all. I was shocked to have it returned to me after literally being "strip-searched"!
The gift wrapping and the container envelope had both been torn open and the contents analyzed! On contacting the courier people i found out that this had been done by the airport officials, and the package had been returned because it contained a liquid. I am well aware of the new norms casting restrictions on taking liquids(or cosmetics) with you during a flight but this is just plain ridiculous! As far as my knowledge goes, the liquids cannot automatically convert into explosives and explode by themselves, they need a piece of machinery (which could easily have been discovered in an X-ray scan) or manual triggering for that to happen!
I fail to understand whats all the paranoia with sending a courier containing a liquid in it. Is it just in India or is it a worse situation in west(which are usually said to be much more easily scared), is something that i wonder...

Aah the banes of living in a terrorized world.

Thank you Mr. Osama Bin Laden(and the other major contributors).