Author: J. N. Raina
Publication: The Free Press Journal
Date: May 11, 2002
The continuing communal outrage
in Gujarat is ostensibly an extremism of 12-year-old Pakistan-sponsored
proxy war in India. Let there be no doubt about it. The hydra-headed
(communal) monster is not going ton sleep like a long. The plot has
been well orchestrated to humiliate India in the comity of nations.
Political pundits and pseudo-secularists
who have reaffirmed their faith in the dictum that the riots in Gujarat
were a "systematic progrom", are living in a foool's paradise. It
is baffling as to why leading opposition parties as well as political outfits
linked to the National democratic Alliance (NDA) , underestimated the vicious
role Pakistan has had been playing to "bleed India".
There are genuine reports that Pakistan
is behind Godhra mayhem. According to a study conducted by a five-member
team, led by former Chief Justice of the Calcutta High court D. S.
Tewatia, the Godhra train carnage on February 27, was "an act of terrorism,
planned at the behest of Pakistan, to foment communal riots all over the
country". The report, released in New Delhi recently, has been prepared
for the Council for International Affairs and Human Rights. The Godhra
incident is an act of "international terrorism", planned and executed in
connivance with jihadi forces, says the report.
The communal outgrowth is a by-product
of terrorism. The global war against terrorism, with its epicentre
in Pakistan, was shelved overnight following the communal flare-up in Gujarat.
The so-called referendum in Pakistan
should not be treated as an i9solated issue. Parvez Musharraf wants to
hold on to power perpetually to see his plans through. Pakistan's new "sultan",
who was sucked to a corner by the U.S. President George W. Bush, for his
"double standards" on the question of waging war on terrorism, is not gleefully
watching the scene from across the border, without even passing his usual
itching comments.
The U.S. no more finds fault in
Musharraf as before, when the latter was having sleepless nights following
exhortations from Bush. The world scenario has changed. Most
of the foreign missions, especially the European Union nations, have named
India for its "inaction" in Gujarat. They have used provocative language
and are questioning secular credentials of the Indian Government.
No one talks about Afghanistan,
Osama and his Al Quaida. India's attention has been focussed
on Gujarat violence. Today Indian remains engaged elsewhere, when
it was needed to pay heed on Kashmir and the continuing proxy war, engineered
by Pakistan's ISI.
"The ISI is a frightening reality
today", a high-ranking intelligence officer has said. Pakistan wants to
keep Kashmir on the "boil" until the "unfinished business of partition"
is completed and the "humiliation of Bangladesh is avenged". It is
just one part of the strategy of "internal encirclement" and the "doctrine
of a thousand cuts divided India like the Balkans", that the ISI is assiduously
working on, the then I G (Intelligence) BSF Bibhuti Narain had predicted
a year ago in "Communalism Combat".
The elements of the ISI's "nefarious"
and "multi-pronged" game plan are manifold, including madrassas for jihadis."
Madrassas have been redefined in Pakistan in recent years to act as breeding
grounds for producing mujahids, willing to kill and die in the name of
Islam. The ISI now has a similar plan in mind for India". Narain had said
in the journal. It is actually happening in Gujarat.
Since 1992, madarassas and mosques
have mushroomed in large numbers along India's borders - from Gujarat and
Rajasthan in the west to U.P. in the north, Bihar and West Bengal
in the east and Assam in the north-east, funded by money from Saudi Arabia.
Various Muslim organisations, influenced
by the highly orthodox Wahabi philosophy - the Tablight Jamaat, the Jamaat-e-Islami,
the Jamaat-e-Ulema, and the Ahle Hadees are helping in the process.
The major task for the Jihadis,
recruited by the ISI, was to organize the minority community in India through
a chain of madrassas. The muftis, imams and moulvis, according to the plan,
are to be replaced by highly fanatic agents of ISI in the near future.
These madarassas have to provide shelter to hard-core militants, as was
the case in the Golden Temple at Amritsar during militancy in Punjab.
These madarassas and mosques may soon become an efficient launching pad
for ISI agents.
An year ago, the Union Government
imposed ban on the Deendar Anjuman on the ground that the organisation
was found indulging in fomenting communal tension and it had links with
ISI. Anjuman has links in Mardan (Pakistan) and had been organising
a band of "disgruntled" Muslim youth in India into a mi8litant outfit for
launching holy war with the avowed objective of "total Islamisation of
the sub-continent", The Union Home Ministry had then observed.
The question arises will such a
dreaded militant outfit be cowed down? Perhaps never. They can go to any7
extent to keep up their p0ledge after being indoctrinated by the ISI.
A lot of hate campaign has already begun.
Precious time was lost in Parliament,
where proceedings were stalled for a week, with the opposition and some
NDA coalition partners demanding the removal of Gujarat Chief Minister
Narendra Modi. No one realised the gravity of the situation created by
Pakistan. Instead of displaying unity, the NDA Government was ra0pped
with biased intention. There are several important issues on which the
Governmment can be put on the mat.
There was a lot of mud-slinging
in parliament. The opposition, just for the sake of opposition The
opposition, just for opposition went beyond limits of decency. The
RJD chief Laloo Prasad Yadav. Even blamed the BJP and its sister allies
for engineering Godhra mayhem.
As a matter of fact, Pakistan had
been demanding India to withdraw its forces from the borders. India
on the contrary had been asking Pakistan t09 end cross-border terrorism,
but instead, Pakistan responded by 'invoking' its communal card.
Pakistan is in a disadvantageous
position. Its economy is dwindling. Mumbai-based International Centre
for Peace Initiative (ICPI) has warned that "water and money in Pakistan
will get increasingly scarce over the next decade. Pakistan's economy faces
collapse by 2006; its GDP of 2.6 per cent last year was matched by its
growth rate, growth rate, translating to a net gain of zero. The temptation
to wage war will be the highest then".
What is wrong in Vajpayee's assertion
that "wherever there are Muslims, they do not want to live with others".
In fact he had jihjadi Islam in mind, which according to hi "wanted to
mould the entire world". It looks distasteful only because these
utterances are coming from a Prime Minister.
Has it not happened in Kashmir,
where then majority Muslim Community, by overt and covert means virtually
drove away the Hindu minority community from the valley, beginning
1947 when popular Government came into power. The Muslim fundamentalists
got an opportunity to strive for establishing what they call "Nizam-e-Mustafa"
(Islamic way of life). This is the main trouble in the valley.
The wise man has said, "Today, problems
are the result of yesteryears short sighted solutions". People suffer
because politicians have given and taken votes based on caste politics.
Noted Islamic scholar Dr Rafiq Zakaria
has observed: "Jihadis thrive on suicide and murder, which are both prohibited
by Quran." If it is so, why both declare them (jihadis) as non-Muslims?
It is the jihadi kind of Islam which
repugnant everywhere. Those Muslims who follow then tenets of Quran
in its true spirit, should repudiate jihadism. If jihad is not launched
by true lovers of Islam against jehadis, Islam will be in danger in the
foreseeable future.