India’s destiny to tolerate blasts?
February 1, 2009 by Amitabh Tripathi
It was another evening in national capital of India and people were engaged with their routine work from labor to officer. Some of them were planning to enjoy their weekend and some daily labors were working for their daily bread but none of them was aware to their destiny before five serial blasts took place in several dense markets as well as places in Delhi. It was another horrific story on 13th of September in national capital when Islamic terrorists challenged to Indian security and morale with their blasts. In this article Islamic terrorist word has been used because like three previous blasts Indian Mujahideen send an email to media personnel and claimed the responsibility of these blasts and warned for more attacks in Mumbai later this month. When first time Indian Mujahideen came in picture last year in November with claiming the responsibility of serial blasts in various courts of Uttar Pradesh none of the government agencies to security agencies taken them seriously but now this is fourth time when this newly formed Islamic organization with clear manifesto of Jihad has openly boasted about its capability to attack any place in country with forewarning.
In last four months India has tolerated four blasts and more than 200 people have died and more than 500 injured but still governments is unprepared for these attacks. When terrorist attack occurred in Delhi and fortunately three other live bombs were diffused which had potential of more casualties’ response of government India was no much different from repeated customary statements with condemnation that these cowardice acts should be condemned in strong words and this is work of those forces which want to vitiate the social fabric of nation. Even Home minister for state Shreeprakash Jaiswal shamelessly told mediapersons that one billion people could not be provide security cover. It is an exhibition of high standard irresponsibility from a person who is responsible for internal security. A person who is holding such sensitive post is so irresponsible and casual to his statements that he even don’t care in how many ways his statement could be interpretated in various ways. Was the senior man in government responsible for internal security inviting people to take law in their hands to defend them?
This is not the first time in recent history of Islamic terrorism in India when home minister for state Shree Prakash Jaiswal has come out in such casual and irresponsible manner. In 2006 when Mumbai commuters were targeted by Islamic terrorists his statements had a good music to the hear of perpetrators of this crime as well to those apologists who were investing their academic caliber to defend these attacks with theory of atrocity on Muslims. After the attacks on local train service in Mumbai when the whole nation was shocked with ghastly work of terror home minister for state was busy on several television channels to justify the attack as retaliation of demolition of Babri structure in 1992 as well as riots in Gujrat in 2002. It was first step towards communalizing the problem of terrorism and giving full support from government to the theory of atrocity on Muslims. Home minister of state Mr Jaiswal is not the lone person in this entire government of United progressive alliance who has vocal support for the perpetrators of terrorism he has a long list with him which include chairperson of UPA Mrs Sonia Gandhai , Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh , chief of Samajwadi Party Mulayam Singh Yadav, chief of RJD Laloo Prasad Yadav who deserve more to host a show of lofter challenge on some Television channel rather than holding an important post in cabinet and above all a person who has continuity with his ministerial berth right from 1989 to till date irrespective of any government at centre Ram Vilas Paswan. These all stalwarts from UPA have no hesitation in downplaying the danger of Terrorism to seek the Muslim vote.
When incident took place in various places of Delhi on Saturday 13th September entire UPA cabinet was searching some place to hide there with some political gimmick to save their embarrassment. After two days of attacks an important constituent of government RJD chief Laloo Prasad Yadav came before media with a demand of resignation of Home minister Shivraj Patil with his outburst for intelligence bureau. At the same time spokesperson of Congress party Abhishekmanu Singhvi with his dried emotions attacked opposition party (read it BJP) for playing politics with terrorism. Singhvi went to such extent to declare that those who are demanding for the resignation of Home minister are anti national forces who want to create unrest in nation. Congress spokesperson also suggested for a national consensus of the issue of terrorism. The way in which Congress and its allies has come out in open with their reaction on terrorist attack has some implications.
RJD chief Laloo Prasad Yadav has criticized Intelligence bureau for its insufficiency and Congress spokesperson has called for a national consensus on the issue of terrorism. These statements suggest that UPA is still behaving like an ostrich on the issue of terrorism. It is an extremely unfortunate situation for the country that intelligence bureau has been targeted by a politician who left no stone unturned to link the problem of terrorism with Muslim vote even to such extent to defend the prime accused organization SIMI who is responsible for fomenting terror in country with its clear manifesto of Jihad. In the same way Congress is asking for national consensus on terrorism but their consensus inherent with a clear message not to define terrorism as Islamic terrorism and not to mention perpetrators with their ideological commitment as well follow the political correctness in every sphere of life with this problem of terrorism. What a dilemma for security as well as intelligence agencies between reality of problem and political correctness.
On the one hand they have job in their hands to gather information and movements of terrorists on the other hand they have their hands tied to take action against them. All the perpetrators belong to one religion and one community with clear motive of religious fanaticism but when they have been arrested or taken into custody various Islamic organizations to NGO’s with political parties come in public with a unique theory that innocent Muslims should not be harassed in the name of investigation. Not before long we have witnessed this dilemma of security agencies in Azamgarh a notorious place of Uttar Pradesh an emerging hub for Islamic terrorists in India. When a prime accused in Gujrat blast was arrested from somewhere in that district and all the major political parties visited to his parents and Shahi Imam of Jama Masjid addressed a gathering of Muslims there with warning to Indian state that if innocent Muslims will be targeted in the name of terrorism a bloody reaction from Muslim side is inevitable. How would you define that who has been arrested in connection of any terrorist activity is innocent. It clearly indicates that those who are showing sympathy to these accused persons are preoccupied with their mind that security agencies and judicial system in India is vindictive towards Muslims and in this process they are legitimizing the theory of atrocity on Muslims which later culminates in recruitment of more Muslims as Jihadis.
So what could be the response to this menace? Should all Muslims be singled out and seen with suspicion or radical and militant Muslims should be identified? If you ask to me I would opt for second option. Problem of Islamic terrorism should be identified in its totality and instead of skip to this debate it be ignited.
We have lot of political commentators and analyst who are more proud to delink the Indian response to terrorism with that of American and European response but have we something with us to be proud on which. Our response to this problem is more humane and non discriminatory to Muslims but what we have gained from this. We have gained more attacks. Few years back we were facing one or two major terrorist attacks in one year but now this frequency has converted into attack in almost every month. No one wants to have an eyeball to eyeball with this fact. We have allowed with our response to this country to become a hotbed of young sophisticated Jihadis to infiltrate in Muslim population with sleeper cells in every densely populated Muslim area. Our policy of non discrimination (read it Muslim appeasement) to Muslims emboldened radical Islam to push the agenda of Jihad in this country with support of political parties who are deeply involved in Muslim appeasement as the cost of national security. In this story we have the latest name in the form of Ram Vilas Paswan who in his party meeting demanded the government of India to give the citizenship to all Bangladeshi infiltrators. What a shame? Ram Vilas Paswan is not only undermining the national security but also challenging to those security agencies who are demanding to government of India from last several years to have a policy to stop the Bangladeshi infiltration which has become a grave problem for national security. Not only had this Ram Vilas Paswan also challenged the various strictures of various courts in India who from time to time voiced their concern for Bangladeshi infiltration. If you have politicians like this who are bending their backward to Muslims to garner their support at any cost even at the cost of national security then how terrorist attacks or radicalization of Muslims could be prevented.
So could we have some different policy to deal with problem of Islamic terrorism or we don’t have any policy at all. Definitely we don’t have any policy at all and we are boasting to have some tolerant and more humane policy towards this problem. India is the worst sufferer of terrorism after Israel in this world. America witnessed this horrific problem in 2001 but India was facing it before one decade earlier but our response to this problem is really poor. India has not yet defined this problem and has not formed any policy yet to combat it.
To combat this problem of terrorism with ideological leanings and motive of jihad we have to take it as a war against state to overthrow it with a utopian world order based on shariyat and quran. Until this problem of Islamic terrorism is not seen in this perspective we would not be able to combat it properly. What a paradox with Indian state of mind that Islamic organizations are openly declaring their manifesto of Jihad with their idea of imposition of supremacy of Islam in every sphere of life but politicians in Indian with Muslim appeasers in the name of secularists and academicians are pleading for the innocence of these terrorists.
Prominent thinker on Islamic studies Dr. Daniel Pipes has reiterated that this unconventional war has to be fought with some new weapons and the most important weapon in one of them is intelligence. Professional and efficient intelligence could avoid several causalities. But if government is not going to act on inputs of intelligence agencies or putting some pressure on security agencies to follow political correctness then how would you expect from these agencies to work with their morale. If India has to combat the Islamic terrorism it should shed out its policy of being different in tackling this problem and follow the path of Israel. Need of the hour is to reverse the policy on terrorism because non discrimination with Muslims are ideal thing but there should be differentiation between common Muslims and followers of militant and radical Islam. All those institutions should have been put under scanner who is promoting the jihad with a sanction of religion to apply the policy of terrorism to impose the rule of shriyat and quran.
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