Author: B Raman
Publication: The Pioneer
Date: January 20, 2004
In 1995, Wahabi terrorists belonging
to a Pakistani organisation then called the Harkat-ul-Ansar (HuA), and
now called the Harkat-ul-Mujahideen (HuM), kidnapped a group of Western
tourists in J&K. They operated under the assumed name, Al Faran. One
of them, an American, managed to escape. It was reported that the terrorists
slit the throat of an European, like one slits the throat of a sacrificial
goat. As he bled to death, they sat round him, prayed and thanked Allah
for giving them an opportunity to kill a Christian. We do not know what
happened to the remaining Western tourists.
In October 1997, the US designated
Al Faran a Foreign Terrorist Organisation. Pakistan did not act against
it. In December 1999, two months after the Pakistan Army under General
Pervez Musharraf seized power, Wahabi terrorists from the same organisation
hijacked an Indian Airlines aircraft and forced it to fly to Kandahar,
Afghanistan, which was then under the control of the Taliban and where
Osama bin Laden was then living and plotting his terrorist strikes against
the US.
On the way, they separated a young
boy (Rupin Dang) from his newly-married wife and slit his throat like one
slits the throat of a sacrificial goat. As he bled to death, they sat round
him, prayed and thanked Allah for giving them an opportunity to kill a
Hindu. After the hijacking ended, the Pakistani hijackers escaped to Pakistan.
Till today, Pakistan has not arrested them and handed them over to India
for trial. Nor did it ban the organisation.
Today, three years later, the Wahabi
hijackers are still roaming free in Pakistan, plotting more terrorist strikes
against India, the US, Israel and other nations of the world. Pakistan
has avoided acting against them. In January 2002, Pakistani Wahabi terrorists
belonging to organisations allied to the HuM and the Al Qaeda kidnapped
a young American journalist Daniel Pearl. After some days, they slit his
throat like one slits the throat of a sacrificial goat. As he bled to death,
they sat round him, prayed and thanked Allah for giving them an opportunity
to kill a Jew. Pakistan claimed to have brought to trial the terrorists
responsible. One of them was even sentenced to death, but the sentence
has not been carried out. The world does not as yet know the full facts
of the case.
President Pervez Musharraf recently
sought to reward this officer by posting him as Pakistan's High Commissioner
to Australia. It reportedly refused to accept him. The Pakistani media
has reported that Musharraf now proposes to send him as Ambassador to Indonesia.
Reward for what? For raising a terrorist and motivating him to kill Indians
and Americans? The world does not know the truth.
The Muslims of Kashmir are largely
descendents of converts from Hinduism and had been influenced in the past
by the traditions of tolerance of Sufism. Since 1993, the ISI, by infiltrating
hundreds of jihadis of Wahabi-Deobandi orientation into the State, has
been trying to Wahabise the Muslims and rid them of the influence of tolerant
Sufism. The extent of the infiltration of ISI-trained Wahabis into the
State would be evident from the fact that whereas before 1999, the number
of foreign Wahabi mercenaries killed by the Indian Security forces in the
State came to an average of 172 per annum, it has steeply gone up to an
average of 951 per annum since the Army under Musharraf seized power in
October, 1999. The majority of them were Pakistanis. A small number of
terrorists belonging to 18 other nationalities have also been killed or
captured.
The Wahabi mercenaries from Pakistan
have introduced suicide terrorism into J&K since 1999. There have been
46 acts of suicide terrorism or fidayeen attacks in J&K since General
Musharraf came to power, of which 44 have been carried out by Pakistani
Wahabi terrorists. The hopes placed by the US Administration in the Government
of Pervez Musharraf that it would eradicate the snake-pit of Wahabi jihadi
terrorism in the Pakistan soil have been belied. While pretending to take
action, he has taken no action to prevent the infiltration of Wahabi terrorists
not only into India, but also into Afghanistan, to stop the flow of funds
to the terrorists and to wind up the terrorist infrastructure.
The time has come for the US to
act to eradicate this snake-pit of Wahabi jihadi terrorism, which threatens
international peace and security. Otherwise, there will be no enduring
freedom for the free nations of the world. A democratic state, whether
the US, India, Israel or any other country, has no greater duty than to
protect its citizens from these irrational jihadi serial killers and eradicate
them before they manage to lay hands on what they call Pakistan's Islamic
atomic bomb and turn it into a Wahabi atomic bomb.
(The article is concluded-ADNI)
