India in the Grip of Terrorism

[Neo]

India in the Grip of Terrorism ​

Monday September 29, 2008

Tanveer Jafri

Hardly one week had passed, when the terrorists made serial bomb blasts in Delhi, the Capital of India Delhi again came on the headlines on September 19. When Delhi Police & National Security Guards (NSG) raided a hideout of the terrorists in the Okhla area of Delhi & killed two terrorists. A brave inspector of Delhi police, Mohan Chandra Sharma laid his life in this encounter.

In this densely populated area, during the action at the morning, a suspect named Saif was arrested whereas two terrorists escaped. In this combat on Friday morning, in the densely populated Muslim area, there were some persons who were trying to call it a fake combat to insult the Muslim community. Where as there were a large number of the Muslims & the others who were the eyewitness of the event of the firing from the both side, the police & the terrorists. And the martyrdom of inspector Sharma is a hard proof that the terrorists constantly fired at the security persons & in return the police had to open the fire. As the terrorism, especially the terrorism based on religion & community is taking the country in its grip. There is great need to check the activities & those who give shelter to the terrorists should be immediately curbed. The statement of the father of Saif, the suspect caught in Delhi combat should be a lesson for the Muslims in India. He says, `If my son is a terrorist, shoot him in front of me`. The Muslims of India should also learn a lesson from the mother of another alleged terrorist Zubeida. She said that if her son was involved in the terrorist activities, he should be hanged.

Despite one thing that came out causes great worry. The Indians were proud of the fact that the persons involved in these terrorist activities were not Indians. But misfortunately the name Indian Mujahideen, the terrorist organisation that is in the headlines today belongs to the Indian soil. It simply means that some misguided fundamentalist Indians have been impressed & started work with an organisation that has been striking at the very cause of communal harmony in India.

Undoubtedly, the Indian Muslims especially the Muslim literates are worried about the issue that because of some inhuman activities of some misguided Muslim youths, the Islam has to face a great insult. To publicise their worry, last days sometime in Delhi & sometime in Deoband, the Muslim priests, Ulema,s & imams tried to show the world in great gatherings of the Muslims scholars & the Muslim public, that Islam is not associated with terrorism. The Muslim scholars clarified the point that the Islam doesn`t teach terrorism. It doesn`t inspire for terrorism. It is anti-Islamic to kill innocent & unarmed people. It is totally anti-Islamic to kill the women, the children & the old people. A person who is involved in such activities is unreligious & can`t be called a Muslim. But the reason is beyond one`s knowledge that in spite of these declarations of the Muslim scholars, the terrorism is spreading in India? The world `crusade` (Jihad) that was heard from across the border or sometimes in Kashmir has made a base in India under the name Indian Mujahideen. Because of these misguided Muslim youths, the communal harmony of the country is being spoiled & the persons who are anti-Islamic get the chance to raise the fingers.

Now it is a proper time to see the challenges that the Indian Muslims have to face & what should be done to lessen the terrorist activities so that anti-Islam persons shouldn`t get chance to affront the Islam. Obviously it is not time to waste the time in discussing, all this why & how it happened & why it is happening? In my opinion, already we have made the Muslims & the Islam to stand on such a point only because of these discussions. Now the need is to find the immediate solution of these problems. For these solutions, it is necessary that Indian Muslims should feel themselves unassimilated & unlinked from the Arabian Muslims. They should try to understand the difference between the Indian Muslims & the Arab Muslims. The second attempt should be from the side of Indian Muslims that they shouldn`t associate the Talibani teachings & the Talibani movements with the Islamic teachings & the Islamic movements. The Muslims should make an attempt, as Friday is the day of collective prayer, as most of the Muslims gather for prayer in mosques on this day. So on every Friday the persons who make the prayer the Imams should address to the persons who pray that the terrorism is inhuman & anti-Islamic & the Muslims are against terrorism & to kill the innocent persons is a way to hell. There is no place of extreme religion in India & there is no need of it at present. The Imams should teach the Indian Muslims to live with cooperation & love with other communities in India. They should teach that it is good to take part in the religious activities of the other communities. The addresses to be given in the mosques should have the lessons of not spreading hatred but to have social cooperation & shouldn`t think one self above others.

The need is that the Islamic religious leaders should teach in the mosques to the Muslims about nationalism, communal harmony & equality for all religions. If some conservative & misguided Muslims take inspiration form the rulers like Gaznavi or Tughlaq, in reality they are affronting the Muslims & the Islam. For a true national Muslims, how can a looter or a plunderer or assailant or an assaulter be a source of inspiration?

A true Indian Muslim should get inspiration form the brave Abdul Hamid, who was awarded the Paramveer Chakra. If a Muslim of today will be guided by Ashfaquallah, he is the right person to be called a true Muslim. There is a need to accept Bharat Ratna APJ Abdul Kalam, Dr. Zakir Husain, Abul Kalam Azad, Rafi Ahmed Qidwai & Azeem Premji, the persons who have the national thoughts as the ideal. If the religious leaders talk of these national guides publicly among the Muslim brothers & the Muslim youth are told to take inspiration from these persons & to walk on the footsteps of these personalities, there is no doubt that the Muslim youths will be filled with national thoughts in future. In the present time, there is an important role for them to wash away the blots that are there because of the Muslim youth`s involvement in the terrorist activities.

 

[DarkStar]

This article is looking at the symptom but not the cause and the cure. Nowhere in this article are bomb blasts by Hindutva militants mentioned, as the bombing of the samjhota express or the Hyderabad mosque blasts have happened targetting the muslim communities. Such an anti islamic attitude has got the Indian nation in its grip, that even if muslims fall victims to terrorism or genocidal mobs, ways are devised to actually blame the victims themselves. The latests piece of propoganda being that attacks against muslims are being carried out by muslims themselves.

No mention is made of the fact that Muslims are under represented as a community in almost every sphere of life. Wether it is education, sanitation, commerce, farming, police, army, civil services, they as a community have been degraded so much, that after 60 years of Indian independant rule they have been lowered to the status of a dalit, or even lower. Instead of this, the 60 years should have been spent on the uplifting of the poor, including the Musilm and Dalit communities.

Some Dalit's have rightly found an exit strategy of choosing to become either Buddhists or Christians, but the recent wave of violence against these "conversos" shows that Upper Caste Hindus are in no way ready to let Dalit's take off the shackles of subjugation ( who will do the menial jobs and carry our faecel waste(since a lot of india has still not been introduced to the flush toilet system) being the common concern of Uppety Hindus). Why do Upper Caste people believe that they are only allowed to excrete, but not to clean?

I think cleaning is a nobler duty than actually making something unclean in the first place. Logical thinking would be that the Dalits are actually nobler and of a higher status than kshatriya or brahmins, since the Dalits and Shudras have been cleaning the pollution the higher caste people have been leaving around for millenia.

Nothing is mentioned of discrimination, alienation, the usurption of muslim language and culture, the constant bashing of the religion in the Media. If peaceful ( although with unpalatable views ) organisations like SIMI are banned, the other options left then do lead to the kind of terrorism that we are all trying to avoid.

Muslims and other down trodden communities should be empowered, and enfranchised rather than demonised. If Indians even now take a different approach, they can take the sting out of the tail of the scorpion, and stop the flow of human resources to these terrorist organisations.

But something makes me think, the Indian policy makers are still not listening, and are busy with vote bank politics. Good luck to them.

 

[jeypore]

They should try to understand the difference between the Indian Muslims & the Arab Muslims. The second attempt should be from the side of Indian Muslims that they shouldn`t associate the Talibani teachings & the Talibani movements with the Islamic teachings & the Islamic movements.

This article does make good point that there is hugh amount of difference between Indian muslims and Arab muslims. If the cord is disassociated, the ideologes would change considerably. Especially, the home grown terrorism would certainly be stopped.

 

[Neo]

This article is looking at the symptom but not the cause and the cure. Nowhere in this article are bomb blasts by Hindutva militants mentioned, as the bombing of the samjhota express or the Hyderabad mosque blasts have happened targetting the muslim communities. Such an anti islamic attitude has got the Indian nation in its grip, that even if muslims fall victims to terrorism or genocidal mobs, ways are devised to actually blame the victims themselves. The latests piece of propoganda being that attacks against muslims are being carried out by muslims themselves.

No mention is made of the fact that Muslims are under represented as a community in almost every sphere of life. Wether it is education, sanitation, commerce, farming, police, army, civil services, they as a community have been degraded so much, that after 60 years of Indian independant rule they have been lowered to the status of a dalit, or even lower. Instead of this, the 60 years should have been spent on the uplifting of the poor, including the Musilm and Dalit communities.

Some Dalit's have rightly found an exit strategy of choosing to become either Buddhists or Christians, but the recent wave of violence against these "conversos" shows that Upper Caste Hindus are in no way ready to let Dalit's take off the shackles of subjugation ( who will do the menial jobs and carry our faecel waste(since a lot of india has still not been introduced to the flush toilet system) being the common concern of Uppety Hindus). Why do Upper Caste people believe that they are only allowed to excrete, but not to clean?

I think cleaning is a nobler duty than actually making something unclean in the first place. Logical thinking would be that the Dalits are actually nobler and of a higher status than kshatriya or brahmins, since the Dalits and Shudras have been cleaning the pollution the higher caste people have been leaving around for millenia.

Nothing is mentioned of discrimination, alienation, the usurption of muslim language and culture, the constant bashing of the religion in the Media. If peaceful ( although with unpalatable views ) organisations like SIMI are banned, the other options left then do lead to the kind of terrorism that we are all trying to avoid.

Muslims and other down trodden communities should be empowered, and enfranchised rather than demonised. If Indians even now take a different approach, they can take the sting out of the tail of the scorpion, and stop the flow of human resources to these terrorist organisations.

But something makes me think, the Indian policy makers are still not listening, and are busy with vote bank politics. Good luck to them.

Excellent post DarkStar, very well worded!

 

[jeypore]

This article is looking at the symptom but not the cause and the cure. Nowhere in this article are bomb blasts by Hindutva militants mentioned, as the bombing of the samjhota express or the Hyderabad mosque blasts have happened targetting the muslim communities. Such an anti islamic attitude has got the Indian nation in its grip, that even if muslims fall victims to terrorism or genocidal mobs, ways are devised to actually blame the victims themselves. The latests piece of propoganda being that attacks against muslims are being carried out by muslims themselves.

So you are suggesting that Hindu-fundametalist have caused Home grown Indian muslims to become terrorist because there is no way out. The reality speaks the other way, people like osama bin laden and Taliba, with there throwback ideas have caused the actual terrorism treat. Why not admit to that first.

 

[Goodperson]

So you are suggesting that Hindu-fundametalist have caused Home grown Indian muslims to become terrorist because there is no way out. The reality speaks the other way, people like osama bin laden and Taliba, with there throwback ideas have caused the actual terrorism treat. Why not admit to that first.

Even if you accept for India then why Pakistan and most of world is under the same is it all due to Hindus?

 

[DarkStar]

So you are suggesting that Hindu-fundametalist have caused Home grown Indian muslims to become terrorist because there is no way out. The reality speaks the other way, people like osama bin laden and Taliba, with there throwback ideas have caused the actual terrorism treat. Why not admit to that first.

Do you seriously think, that muslims leading a normal, peaceful and fulfilled life, one day suddenly go out to buy speeches of bin ladin and mullah omar, indoctrinate themselves, strap a suicide belt and head for the nearest public gathering?

Wherever you see terrorism, there is always a political and social climate which allows it to incubate. The freedom struggle in Kashmir had been peaceful and non violent for years, led at first by the JKLF. No one can accuse the JKLF of being Islamic. But Indian atrocities led for there to be a climate where people sought to become militants.

Why do people in the far north east of India tend to become militants, rather than mahrashtrians? Are they somehow humanly uncapable of leading peaceful lives?

The situation is Palestine is also much the same. The earliest terrorists were the Democrat front for the liberation of Palestine, and the Popular front for the liberation of Palestine, which were involved in the famous Munich attacks. The leader of the latter group is one George Habbash, a Palestinian christian. The rest of the group is made of leftist muslims, atheists and christians. It was only later that the struggle got a religious connotance. The fact is, there was a political dispute and social imbalance which allowed religiously motivated militancy to take hold.

Any casual observer of recent Indian history knows that the first spate of bombings in the early 90's was a reaction from the muslim elements of the Bombay underworld (with help from their hindu friends) against the Babri Masjid pogroms in which muslims were killed.

The recent violence in which the Indian authorities claim many professional muslims (Doctors, directors, IT people, etc) have become part of terrorist organisations can be traced right back to the Gujrat pogroms against muslim men women and children after the Godhra accident was used to falsely accuse the local muslims of murder.

It was said then and there that the gujrat situation will get a reaction, but no body listened.

During the 90's people advised the govt not to let RSS and VHP recruit cadres from the civil and police services, but no one listened. The planned violence in which the authorities aided and abetted the mobs to target prominent muslim families in most parts of gujrat, led many to blame the Federation of the secular govt of India. A small minority of them may have taken up arms.

Bin ladin and Mullah omar, no matter how evil they may be, had nothing to do with that. Who needs these people, when you have your very own Narindra Modi to act as a recruiting sergeant for the terrorists?

 

[Vanguard_786]

darkstar
You writing is very articulate and your observations are spot on. It was a pleasure to read both your articles.

Indian muslims have been remarkably restrained even though they have born the brunt of discrimination in India. Much of this has got to be about life in India in general. Thinks happen in India but people do not dwell on this for long. If a Godhra happens, life returns to normal in a short time. If a bombing happens in a busy mall, the next day the mall is filled up again.

Life is India will continue on its merry way. Hopefully terrorism and anarchy will dissapear not only from India but Inshallah from your country as well.

 

[Goodperson]

darkstar
You writing is very articulate and your observations are spot on. It was a pleasure to read both your articles.

Indian muslims have been remarkably restrained even though they have born the brunt of discrimination in India. Much of this has got to be about life in India in general. Thinks happen in India but people do not dwell on this for long. If a Godhra happens, life returns to normal in a short time. If a bombing happens in a busy mall, the next day the mall is filled up again.

Life is India will continue on its merry way. Hopefully terrorism and anarchy will dissapear not only from India but Inshallah from your country as well.

How does that explain about the riots and killing of Muslims by Muslims out side India even in neighboring countries ? Any way that is not the topic of the thread.

I do respect darkstar's viewpoints if not completely agree with them.

 

[Vanguard_786]

How does that explain about the riots and killing of Muslims by Muslims out side India even in neighboring countries ? Any way that is not the topic of the thread.

I do respect darkstar's viewpoints if not completely agree with them.

There are 52 majorityIslamic nations in the world. Divided roughly equally between secular states and Islamic states. All are different and have problems unique to their country or neighbourhood. If there were 52 Hindu majority states, I might generalise that situation would be similar.

I agree, lets not get off topic

 

[Zaheerkhan]

I reject this theory, when people look at voilence in west Asia, I can very well say that the Palestenians have nothing else in their power to get to task with Israel, they are compelled to do it...now, here in India, these mongers are thrusting voilence on the Indian society...voilence in India is'nt comming from among the people in India, it is being imposed on the people of India, this can very easily be controlled with a strong government, majority of Indian muslims believe in the Indian system and multi-cultural fabric of India.

 

[Spring Onion]

I reject this theory, when people look at voilence in west Asia, I can very well say that the Palestenians have nothing else in their power to get to task with Israel, they are compelled to do it...now, here in India, these mongers are thrusting voilence on the Indian society...voilence in India is'nt comming from among the people in India, it is being imposed on the people of India, this can very easily be controlled with a strong government, majority of Indian muslims believe in the Indian system and multi-cultural fabric of India.

Agreed. Specialy with comment about Muslims in India. The Muslims in India had always been loyal to their country, the only problem is with the otherside of the nation. The problem is despite their loyalities to the country and nation, Muslims were never integrated and considerd as loyal Indians.

 

[was]

this is the special treatment for muslims in india


YouTube - Police beat Muslim on the streets of India

 

[was]

dobble post delete this please

 

[su-47]

this is the special treatment for muslims in india


YouTube - Police beat Muslim on the streets of India

This is how police beats everybody in india. go to a subjail in kerala. you'll see the police 'eman' (slang for Sub-inspector) digging his knee into the ribcage of some poor b@st@rd, regardless of his religion. My uncle received two broken ribs when he was arrested for protesting in a anti-government rally during Indira gandhi's reign.

the police in india are brutal. even hindus, christians, sikhs and buddhists get the crap beaten out of them by the police.