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Target Terrorism
Target Terrorism
Author: Editorial
Publication: Organiser
Date: September 30, 2001
On September 11, 2001, the US woke
up to the horror of Islamic terrorism. The impact of plane-bombing of WTC
tower was immense on the "free" American psyche as they realised the festering
disease jeopardising their freedom. President Bush minced no words in accepting
the fact that the US is awakened to the global menace. "We are a country
awakened to danger and called to defend freedom. Our grief has turned to
anger and anger to resolution. Whether we bring our enemies to justice
or bring justice to our enemies, justice will be done", said a resolute
Bush to his Congressmen reiterating American promise to "eliminate" terrorism
and "destroy it where it grows". The US President went a step further and
identified the "heirs of all the murderous ideologies of the 20th century",
the terrorists who "practise a fringe form of Islamic extremism". He went
on saying the terrorists mindset has been "rejected by Muslim scholars
and the vast majority of Muslim clerics". No one is in doubt that Bush
was selectively and deliberately playing to the Islamic gallery to keep
the constituencies both at home and abroad happy. For, who, if not the
US, knows the true face of Islamic fundamentalism? To quote Bush's own
words: "There are thousands of these terrorists in more than 60 countries.
They are recruited from their own nations and neighbourhood and brought
to camps in places like Afghanistan where they are trained in the tactics
of terror. They are sent back to their homes or sent to hide in countries
around the world to plot evil and destruction". The world including the
US is in no doubt that had it not been a terrorist face of a particular
religion, however liberal it might be otherwise, this new kind of terrorism
would not have assumed global proportions. Islamic fundamentalism has terrorised
countries in both the West and the East. To term these terrorists as practising
a "fringe form of Islamic extremism" would keep our eyes shut from the
naked reality. Time has come to realise that Islamic fundamentalism has
endangered the "freedom" of the world. Here what Prime Minister Atal Behari
Vajpayee said the other day becomes more relevant: "It is for America to
decide whether terrorism is a global phenomenon or whether it is restricted
to just one individual. America alone can determine whether it will address
the symptom of terrorism or the system of terrorism. Afghanistan is a symptom.
America will have to look well beyond it. It will have to look at the sanctuaries
provided to terrorists, at the training camps, at the arms and money flowing
into the hands of terrorists if it wants to get rid of terrorism root and
branch." To wipe out Islamic terrorism from the face of the earth we need
a concerted war against the mindset that inspired the bloody ideology.
Unfortunately, apologists of Islamism still maintain that the jehad factories
established throughout the world are not the creation of Islam as such
but of a handful of disgruntled ulemas. The world must act decisively to
silence such secularists or whoever they may be in order to provide peace
a chance. If we miss the opportunity now we would have to wait for long
to get rid of these blood-thirsty Islamic fundamentalists.
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