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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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