Author: Jamie Glazov
Publication: FrontPageMagazine.com
Date: August 12, 2008
URL: http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/Read.aspx?GUID=5C2AF0F9-9FDD-4595-89BA-308CC5C8549A
Frontpage Interview's guest today is Moorthy
Muthuswamy, an expert on terrorism in India. He grew up in India, where he
had firsthand experience with political Islam and jihad. He moved to America
in 1984 to pursue graduate studies. In 1992, he received a doctorate in nuclear
physics from Stony Brook University, New York. Since 1999 he has extensively
published ideas on neutralizing political Islam's terror war as it is imposed
on unbelievers. He is the author of the upcoming book, Defeating Political
Islam: The New Cold War.
FP: Moorthy Muthuswamy, welcome to Frontpage
Interview.
Muthuswamy: Thank you for this timely interview,
Jamie
FP: There were some Islamic terror attacks
against India in late July. What do you make of them?
Muthuswamy: The late July 2008 blasts are
ominous signs of a political Islamic movement in India coming of age. This
movement is a consequence of a thirty year old process of jihadization of
Indian Muslims or simply, jihad build up in India.
The Islamic conquest of nations and people
in Arabia and Africa is now part of history. We are now witnessing the Islamic
conquest of South Asia. With Pakistan and Bangladesh firmly Islamized, now
the attention is shifting to India, the last big land of South Asia yet to
be conquered.
Who would have thought that this barbaric
conquest phenomenon will rear its ugly head again in our life time?
FP: Can you give some background to the readers?
Muthuswamy: Sure.
Studies of Islamic conquest of non-Muslims
and their land have identified a process called jihad build-up in non-Muslim
nations. This build-up also creates what is called a political Islamic movement.
In this process the Muslim minority is systematically
and politically indoctrinated by mosques aided by funding from Muslim majority
nations, on the grounds of "religious freedom". This indoctrination
is geared towards driving Muslims away from the mainstream, to become hostile
to their own nation, and to identify with pan-Islamic aspirations, including
a unified Caliphate under Sharia. The Caliphate is envisioned to wage wars
until the whole world is converted to Islam.
The contiguous land mass of the Caliphate
requires destroying India and converting it into an Islamic state - the primary
goal of the political Islamic movement in India. Spearheading this effort
in India is the Student Islamic Movement of India (SIMI), identified by Indian
intelligence as the terror outfit behind the serial blasts of late July, 2008.
Here is what one may call as a well-articulated
manifesto of the Call to Arms (armed jihad): click here. This manifesto was
sent minutes before one of the serial blasts and it warned of impending blasts
to note that Hindu blood is, "the cheapest of all mankind" and contained
Koranic justifications for killing unbelievers. Of course, the manifesto also
called on the Hindu majority in India to embrace Islam in order to avoid further
attacks - a chillingly similar threat Bin Laden and his deputies' issue to
America every now and then.
FP: What is the ideological inspiration and
cover for SIMI?
Muthuswamy: It is mostly derived from Deoband
Islamic seminary and the tens of thousands of clerics it has graduated over
the years. Deoband is an Indianized version of Wahhabism established in the
19th century (most terrorist outfits in Pakistan, Taliban or even many in
ISI, the Pakistani intelligence agency, are considered its followers). A declaration
issued at the end of February 2008 "anti-terror" conference organized
at Deoband showed Islamic deceit or Taqqiya at its very best - "Their
[western] aggression, barbarism and state-sponsored terrorism - not only in
Palestine, Iraq and Afghanistan, but also in Bosnia and various South American
countries - have surpassed all records known to human history."
The declaration said nothing about Pakistani
and Saudi sponsorship of terror in India or Indian Muslims' role as foot-soldiers
of this jihad. Among the main thrust of this conference was to give a clean
chit to SIMI and to absolve it of any terrorism related activities carried
out in India.
Ironically, the Indian government too has
unwittingly acted to nurture the intellectual base of jihad and sponsorship
of SIMI, through an increasing number of government-funded universities with
"Muslim character" - Aligarh Muslim University, Jamia Millia Islamia
University, to name a new.
FP: Can you talk about the serial blasts themselves?
Muthuswamy: The back-to-back serial bomb blasts
that killed many and injured scores of innocent civilians in the Indian cities
of Bangalore, Ahmedabad, and detection and diffusion of scores of other bombs
in Surat in July 2008 may have signaled the next stage of jihad build-up in
India - from siege to attack mode. Bangalore was probably chosen due to its
prominence as the emerging technology capital of India; the city of Surat
in Gujarat is the diamond business center of India and Ahmedabad is the capital
of the Indian state of Gujarat - the engine driving India's economic growth
and whose population is most resistant to jihad.
From the strategic point of view of destroying
Indian economy and degrading the will of the unbelievers to resist, and to
destabilize India, no other targets could be better chosen.
These blasts show exceptional levels of organizational
ability, inspiration, logistical support in both men and material, and importantly,
wide following of extremism among Indian Muslim population. I believe that
Indian jihadists and their sponsors in many Muslim nations have concluded
that due to the extensive network of terror cells established in Muslim communities
all over India they can now indefinitely bleed India until it is destroyed.
I also think that the Indian jihadists have shown only a small measure of
what they are capable of.
Unlike most western nations where state monitoring
of mosques and other jihad sponsoring entities is good (especially since 9/11
attacks), in the case of India, a retired top intelligence official has noted
very limited penetration of terrorist entities by the state. Due to this reality,
Indian intelligence has no clue about the full dimension of terrorist threat
India faces.
Unsurprisingly, military pressure on India
is now mounting on its western front, with frequent reports of gun fire exchange
with Pakistan and breaking of the four year old ceasefire. As the Indian army
is increasingly diverted to quell Muslim-Hindu fight within India, Pakistan
is expected to infiltrate more of its irregular jihadists and troops disguised
as "freedom fighters" in order to help "oppressed" Indian
Muslims to take the war inside India.
The excitement of a resurgent India is fast
getting replaced with India as a theater of jihad.
FP: American intelligence officials have gathered
intelligence suggesting that Pakistan helped plan the deadly bombing of India's
embassy in Afghanistan. What do you make of this?
Muthuswamy: Indeed, there is every bit of
motivation for Pakistanis to plan and execute the Embassy bombing. Pakistanis
see India as their primary enemy and clearly, they couldn't digest increasing
Indian influence in what they see as a Pakistani sphere of influence.
This bombing puts a damper on developmental
efforts in Afghanistan. When you add this to the Pakistani support and sponsorship
of the Afghan Taliban, the American effort to stabilize and to moderate Afghanistan
is running into some serious difficulties.
In addition, aided by Saudi Arabia, even under
Musharraf, Pakistan has continued to destabilize India.
It seems, American effort to engage Pakistan
has yielded very little on the larger strategic front, while tactically it
may have been successful in capturing some Al-Qaeda operatives.
Jamie, as you may recall, in an earlier interview
conducted last year, I had mentioned that, "[t]he de facto power in these
nations [Pakistan and Saudi Arabia] are political Islamic movements, this
makes these leaders ineffective in stopping these nations from being fountainheads
of terror."
Pakistani military and ISI are the sword-arm
of political Islam in Pakistan. First and foremost, they will never stop armed
jihad - and no other internal force can change that.
Even Musharraf showed his true colors by coming
to the aid of the ISI, by calling it: "the first defense line of Pakistan."
Pakistan has now become one of America's biggest
foreign policy and strategic challenges. The bottom line is that America has
little leverage against Pakistan (or Saudi Arabia for that matter).
A desperate India and frustrated America will
be increasingly pulled toward each other to counter Pakistan-Saudi axis in
the region.
FP: What are the powers behind the jihad build-up
against India?
Muthuswamy: The primary powers behind the
jihad build-up in India, and the resulting terror and mayhem created there
are Pakistan and Saudi Arabia.
We may be able to associate these nations
and their leaders with genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes as
defined by the Geneva Convention. This is an interesting angle because it
may provide the western powers much-needed leverage against these terror-sponsoring
entities and also legal justification to jihad victim states to decisively
strike back.
Let me present some material that might implicate
Pakistan and Saudi Arabia.
Centuries ago "offensive" or "expansionist"
armed jihad was used to conquer land and people for Islam. It is interesting
to note the view of a Sharia judge of Pakistan who had sat in its Supreme
Court for twenty years: "Even in those days . . . aggressive jihads were
waged… because it was truly commendable for establishing the grandeur
of the religion of Allah."
Now, with international criminal system in
place, and also because many Muslim nations no longer have the military might
to impose an expansionist jihad on unbeliever nations, the concept of "defensive"
armed jihad has been invoked to justify arming and funding Muslim insurgencies
in many non-Muslim majority nations in order to create separate homelands
for Muslims.
As part of the grand vision of the so-called
defensive jihad, state-sponsored Saudi charities have worked to deliberately
drive a wedge between Muslim minorities and the non-Muslim majority in many
nations; new mosques were established and material hateful of unbelievers
was distributed and preached. These measures, funds for mobilizing the faithful
and the indoctrinating the necessity of waging armed jihad have given Muslim
populations a sense of empowerment, ideology, logistics, and motivation needed
to mobilize and to finally wage armed jihad.
In Muslim majority nations such as Pakistan,
the above process has created a steady stream of recruits for global jihad.
In other words, as we will see, worldwide
Islamic terror is part and parcel of a grand vision of Saudi Arabia.
Having financed and provided logistics for
the charities, the Saudi government itself provided material for indoctrination
and to prepare Muslim minorities to wage armed jihad on their non-Muslim compatriots.
Here is a sample of the official Saudi school material for consumption both
internal and abroad:
In these verses is a call for jihad, which
is the pinnacle of Islam. In (jihad) is life for the body; thus it is one
of the most important causes of outward life. Only through force and victory
over the enemies is there security and repose. Within martyrdom in the path
of God (exalted and glorified is He) is a type of noble life-force that is
not diminished by fear or poverty (Tafsir, Arabic/Sharia, 68).
Before adverse publicity compelled the Saudis
to remove the following statement, the Islamic Affairs Department of the Saudi
embassy in Washington carried the following statement defining the motif for
jihad:
The Muslims are required to raise the banner
of jihad in order to make the Word of Allah supreme in this world, to remove
all forms of injustice and oppression, and to defend the Muslims. If Muslims
do not take up the sword, the evil tyrants of this earth will be able to continue
oppressing the weak and [the] helpless…
There is every reason to believe that the
Saudis have distributed these kinds of materials around the world, including
in India.
FP: Can you discuss the specific case of the
Kashmir jihad?
Muthuswamy: "Self-determination"
of "oppressed" or "alienated" Muslims in Kashmir is among
the most popular cause (of "defensive" jihad) in the Muslim world.
Pakistan and Saudi Arabia have pursued this jihad aggressively, while exposing
their hand (and thereby implicating them) because they seem to think that
they are dealing from a position of "moral high ground" and because
India is seen as a weak state.
By the Pakistani Ambassador to the United
States, admitting its role: "Jihad, insurgency or whatever you want to
call it in Kashmir... Yes, Pakistan may have helped the jihad at some time,
but it was not started by us".
First, I want to show that the Kashmir jihad
is an offensive one aimed at extending Islam's boundaries at the expense of
non-Muslims by imposing a no-holds-barred warfare on the state controlling
Kashmir, India. It is ironic that Pakistan would want to grab more territory
from India, especially when it owes a significant portion of its territory
to India for its recent acts of non-Muslim ethnic cleansing.
Funding for building mosques and indoctrinating
Muslim populations in Kashmir has been funneled through state-sponsored Saudi
charities. While supporting Muslim self-determination in Indian part of Kashmir
(so that the Muslims would vote to join Pakistan and take the land to Islamic
Pakistan), nothing is said about non-Muslim ethnic cleansing (to India) from
Pakistani part of Kashmir or from Pakistan itself (to India).
Just as India had to absorb non-Muslims driven
out of Pakistani part of Kashmir and from the rest of Pakistan, Pakistan could
simply absorb the Muslim population in the Indian part of Kashmir (minus the
land), if they feel so alienated. And, that could be considered an equitable
arrangement. But clearly that is not the case here; the principle that has
been invoked is: What is mine is exclusively mine and what is yours is also
mine!
In other words, Kashmir jihad is a bogus "defensive"
jihad.
FP: Can you provide more details on the jihad
buildup in India aided by Saudi Arabia (and assisted by Pakistan)?
Muthuswamy: I provide them below. I believe
the Indian govt. has shared much more comprehensive data implicating both
Pakistan and Saudi Arabia with their American and other western counterparts.
* Funds for Muslim insurgencies, including
Kashmir Muslim insurgency and Al-Qaeda were funneled through Saudi state-sponsored
charity organizations such as Muslim World League (MWL) and World Association
of Muslim Youth (WAMY). A MWL communiqué in 2000 called for, "all
assistance to the people of Kashmir, and support its steadfast struggle."
Since a major part of this "struggle" is armed insurgency, this
call for material support and support of the "struggle" can be taken
to mean supplying of funds, arms, and ammunition for an armed jihad. According
to Indian government, "90 percent of the funding [for Kashmir militants]
is from other countries and Islamic organizations like the WAMY".
* A cursory review of over thirty years of
MWL's mouthpiece, The Muslim World League Journal, indicates that it has consistently
ignored expulsion of over 300,000 non-Muslim Kashmiris and Kashmir Muslim
complicity toward this cleansing act. Also ignored are Kashmiri Muslims' religious
apartheid practices toward non-Muslim Kashmiris and others in the rest of
the state.
* The key first step toward building up jihad
is the construction of new mosques. Starting 1980, scores of new mosques were
constructed. Since 1990s at least 3,000 new mosques were constructed in Kashmir,
many with Saudi assistance.
* SIMI's, "spectacular growth after 1982
lay in the support it gained from Islamists in West Asia, notably the Kuwait-based
World Association of Muslim Youth and the Saudi Arabia-funded International
Islamic Federation of Student Organizations."
* With authorities in Saudi Arabia, Pakistan,
Egypt, Libya and Sudan assisting, about $700 million was raised to further
growth of Islam. As part of this plan new mosques and madrassas were to be
constructed outside of Kashmir.
* Indian security agencies have detailed how
Saudi Arabia acts as the meeting point of Indian and Pakistani-backed terrorists
who plot their strikes in the Indian Kashmir and elsewhere. Indian security
officials have been unhappy with the Saudi efforts in monitoring sizable funds
that are transferred to India, a big portion of which is suspected to be routed
to fundamentalist institutions.
* Saudi-funded mosques in Kashmir have been
at the forefront of jihad against non-Muslims in Kashmir that led to over
300,000 of them driven out of Kashmir, many murdered and raped.
* Saudi Arabia is also indirectly sponsoring
jihad against India by, "[s]ubsidizing Pakistan's terrorism training
infrastructure and ISI terrorist operations by a whole host of Islamic fundamentalist
terrorist outfits against India".
* In January 2006, India approached the Saudis
to sign an extradition treaty covering terrorism. But Saudis demanded that
India agree to incorporate "freedom struggles" as a justification
of acts of violence.
* Additionally, state-sponsored Saudi charities
have funded India specific terrorist outfits in Pakistan, such as Lashkar-e-Taiba
(LeT), who are working to create additional homelands for Muslims in India
through terror. An ex-activist of SIMI claimed, "Funds are available
for the asking for LeT not only from Pakistan, but also from Wahhabi fundamentalists
in Saudi Arabia and the UAE".
Battling Saudi-sponsored Islamic terrorism
has been an escalating burden on an impoverished India. Nearly about 6,000
children die every day in India due to malnourishment driven by poverty.
Serial blasts by suspected Islamists, in major
Indian economic and technological hubs such as Bangalore and Ahmedabad are
poised to drive capital and investment out of India, drive millions more into
poverty and make it easier for jihadists to destroy India from within.
Also notable is terrorist attacks directed
at Hindu temples - exposing the intent to annihilate the idolaters' way of
life, as suggested in Koranic injunctions.
All of the available evidence appears to show
a desire, intent, and execution on the part of Saudi Arabia (and Pakistan)
to impose an offensive jihad on India - not just restricted to Kashmir - using
bogus excuses that are either exaggerated or invented. Even the so-called
alienation of Kashmiri/Indian Muslims is to a great part built up by Saudi
charities in order to use Indian Muslims as foot-soldiers to purposefully
extend Islamic sphere of influence at the expense of non-Muslims. This is
sanctioned by the pseudo-Constitution of Saudi Arabia, the Koran and the Sunnah,
which have widely quoted verses (by Muslim clerics) that justify violent conquest
of unbelievers.
This deliberate, long-term, and large-scale
execution of terror plans has already devastated significant portions of India,
with about one hundred thousand people killed, and about half a million displaced.
Besides, this highly impoverished nation had to divert its scare resources
to fight this terror imposed on its people, and this has in turn led to exacerbating
malnutrition of its children, their deaths as a result and grinding poverty
of millions of its citizens.
Among the cross hairs of the terrorists' hit
list, according the Indian Home Ministry: India's nuclear installations, power
plants, and oil refineries. The current escalation of serial blasts and what
is yet to come at this rate is poised to devastate and kill tens, if not hundreds
of millions of Indians and take away the future of many more in the coming
decades.
It appears that one can associate the pattern
of terrorism waged on India, spearheaded by Pakistan and Saudi Arabia as genocide,
crimes against humanity and war crimes as per the Geneva Convention. This
act of genocide is of a slow form, likely taking several decades to conduct
(less likely to be noticed, as a result), unlike the classic one in Darfur
region of Africa which is measured in years.
By emphasizing just the "self-determination"
of the Muslims in Kashmir while ignoring the ethnic cleansing of non-Muslims
in Muslim majority regions nearby, leaders such as the reigning King Abdullah
of Saudi Arabia and Pakistan's leadership may have set forth policy measures
leading to terror, genocide and crimes against humanity conducted on the people
of India, using the Saudi and Pakistani resources respectively.
FP: What can India do?
Muthuswamy: In the near-term there is little
the ruling regime in India can do, as the nation awaits blasts of increasing
devastation and frequency.
Internally, the tipping point may have been
crossed; India no longer defendable. Jihadists know what they are doing, as
a Pakistan-based jihad commander proclaimed a few years ago.
Even in the long-term, poor governing and
a dysfunctional democracy significantly undermine India's prospects. Besides,
the institutional know-how on dealing with the Islamic threat remains primitive,
as the recent Frontpage Symposium can attest to.
Putting it differently, India is a sitting
duck - and these serial blasts mark the beginning of extreme destabilizing
of India: Spreading of Kashmir jihad into the rest of India.
In this war of minds, first and foremost,
India has to articulate the rationale for its existence within human rights
framework. Here is one.
Non-Muslims from every Muslim majority region
of South Asia - without exception - be it Pakistan, Bangladesh or from India's
own Kashmir valley have been massively driven out to Hindu-majority India.
This occurred when Muslim populations in these areas obtained political power.
In addition, in 1971, the Pakistani army selectively sought out and killed
perhaps a million or more Hindus and drove many more to India. But it was
never held accountable. Indeed, due to this mostly one-sided religious cleansing
India ended up accommodating about 85% of the original population in about
75% of the original land called British India.
The fact that non-Muslim populations in these
Muslim majority regions shared ethnicity, language, food habits, and culture
didn't at all help or save them. This data shows unequivocally that South
Asian Muslims do not believe in coexistence and that the Islam practiced in
the region is a repressive political ideology of conquest that pretends itself
as a religion.
This documented genocidal conquest of non-Muslims
in South Asia compellingly defines the first human rights priority for India:
Ensuring India's long-term existence as a free and safe land of opportunity
for non-Muslim South Asians.
Armed by this rationale and with the right
leadership India can take to the much-needed offense by first mobilizing the
non-Muslim majority and to weaken jihadist hold on a mobilized Indian Muslim
population.
However, the major responsibility of stopping
jihad in India falls in the hands of mainly those who nurtured it all these
years: political and religious leadership of Pakistan and Saudi Arabia. Besides,
in the eyes of Indian jihadists, these external entities carry more weight
than the internal ones.
It is only natural that the Indians make the
following demands on the Saudi/Pakistani political and religious leaderships:
* They apologize for their one-sided past
support of "self-determination" of Muslims in Kashmir while ignoring
the plight of non-Muslims driven away from nearby Muslim majority regions.
* These leaders will appeal to the Indian
Muslims, Pakistanis and the Saudis - and take steps to stop the jihad directed
at India and its citizens.
* Saudi Arabia will agree to generously fund
to rehabilitate Indian Muslims away from extremism, to compensate non-Muslim
Indians affected by Islamic radicals that are in anyway indoctrinated by Saudi-originated
funds and to compensate the Indian state for the damages suffered and expenses
occurred due to Saudi jihad.
* Saudi Arabia will not stop oil exports to
India, as this could be interpreted as waging additional jihad on humanity
in India.
* Pakistan will take the "alienated"
Kashmiri Muslims from India and settle them in the portion of Kashmir it holds
and in the rest of Pakistan.
Of course, one should be under no illusion
that any of these demands are going to be made by the Indians any time soon
or even if they are made, the Saudis and Pakistanis are willingly going to
embrace them!
Yet, if India wants to exist and do so securely,
it has little choice.
These are first of the steps India has to
undertake in order to persuade western powers to bring up genocide and other
charges against the Saudi and Pakistani political and religious leaderships,
and before embarking on a military offensive.
The 1996 Advisory Opinion of the International
Court of Justice even extends such authority to the preemptive use of strategic
nuclear weapons in certain existential circumstances.
Should the terrorist attacks continue to devastate
India and if Pakistan and Saudi Arabia do not act to discourage jihad, India's
existence is threatened and as a nuclear-armed state, it should use every
means to devastate Saudi Arabia and Pakistan, paving the way for unraveling
of political Islamic movements in India and beyond.
The conundrum of Pakistan is understandable;
any limited offensive military measure directed at punishing it will most
likely destabilize it and persuade Pakistani military leadership to retaliate
with nuclear strikes. However, under the current western policy of "engaging"
Pakistan, Al-Qaeda and the Taliban have only grown stronger due to internal
support.
India could be the missing link in neutralizing
the threat Pakistan poses in Afghanistan and through its procession of "Islamic"
nuclear bombs.
If Indians feel that they have to hit back
at Pakistan due to extensive internal terror attacks attributable as genocide
or crimes against humanity, an option worth backing by the western powers
is a full-scale Indian offensive that may involve massive pre-emptive strategic
nuclear strikes to first soften up Pakistan, followed by over running Pakistan's
territory with Indian troops and liberate its population to Hindu way of life
(which culturally Pakistanis belong to), by comprehensively neutralizing its
Islamic roots. The West can follow it up by aiding nation-building to be utilized
wisely for the first time in Pakistan (until now, the well-meaning western
aid has gone into jihad-building there, much to the discomfort of the givers).
Such a Pakistan will not only have a negative memory of its Islamic past,
but importantly, will be a much less likely terror sponsor.
FP: What can the western powers do?
Muthuswamy: Let me set this section up by
first explaining how policy decisions regarding Islamic terrorism are taken
in India at the present time.
India's top two leaders' (the unelected Prime
Minister Manmohan Singh and his boss, Sonia Gandhi, the president of Congress
Party) interaction with the public or journalists on foreign policy and security
matters come down to reading statements prepared by aides, with virtually
no cross-examination. Singh's long career in the government had been that
of an economic technocrat and Gandhi's prior experience consisted of home-making.
Due to these leaders' inexperience on strategic
issues, including matters related to Islam or Muslims, Muslim leaders who
serve as aides or those who serve in the Cabinet have take the lead in formulating
policies. This has been a recipe for disaster as the Muslim leadership in
India reflects the Bin Laden loving, fundamentalist-oriented Muslim community.
Not surprisingly, every long-term decision
taken by these two leaders have gone on to advance the cause of jihad. Even
in cases of obvious Islamist violence, Muslim leaders close to these top Indian
leaders have used their influence and access to stymie the investigation and
let the terrorists run free. In addition, the Muslim leaders have helped to
misguide the focus of government effort away from the roots of terror within
their community.
That the Muslim leaders with jihadist outlook
are pulling strings behind the top two Indian leaders can explain the bizarre
Muslim exclusive promises made by these Indian leaders. Prime Minister Singh
stated in Dec. 2006: "They [Muslims] must have the first claim on resources."
Sonia Gandhi went a step further. She wrote a letter as part of a 2007 election
campaign in India's most populous state, specifically pleading to over 15,000
Muslim leaders, including clerics, "I can build a society of your dreams".
The shocking reality of India is that the ruling Manmohan Singh regime is
an unwitting proxy of jihadists on policy matters pertaining to Islam and
Muslims.
The ruling regime's success in bringing India
along to sign the proposed nuclear deal with America shouldn't misconstrued
as an ability to tackle Islamic terrorism. Reason: This proposed deal is not
an Islam related issue and hence Muslim "advisors" didn't play a
determining role. In any case, in my view, the nuclear deal with India is
highly irrelevant for the reason that India will neither be able to securely
build nor maintain the nuclear reactors it proposes to construct in another
ten years time, should internal destabilizing continue at this rate.
Give these realities it is hard to believe
that India is any longer capable of surviving the Islamic onslaught all by
itself.
It all comes down to western leaders deciding
whether they would like to see India rapidly destabilized by an Islamic war
of thousand cuts, with millions of people dying of hunger and malnutrition,
and importantly, hostile jihad-sponsoring Muslim states born inside of what
is left of India within the next few decades.
When large-scale terrorism that can categorized
as crimes-against-humanity is taking place in a nation at the behest of external
Islamic powers and where the regime in power is not only ineffective in stopping
terror but even seems to act as a proxy for the Islamists, there is every
reason for the world powers to step in and help the beleaguered people staring
the face of a mutual existential threat.
Such a help can come in the form of backing
the nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and its strong leader, Narendra
Modi, the chief minister of the Indian state of Gujarat. Indian intelligence
has identified BJP as the only main stream party free of terrorist infiltration.
Manmohan Singh's Congress Party with its traditional reliance on Muslims has
become susceptible to jihadist infiltration and influence.
As part of discrediting the jihadist moral
"high ground", the United States must question the credibility of
the Kashmir jihad.
The western powers should persuade and back
India to build up the case of crimes against humanity implicating both Pakistan
and Saudi Arabia through the International Criminal Court. Not just in the
case of India, this angle needs to be pursued to include other jihad victim
states and also potentially more sponsors, including the Islamic Republic
of Iran (due to its sponsorship of terror directed at Israel).
The 1993 World Trade Center bombing and other
attacks directed at the United States by Al-Qaeda should have given more than
ample warning to the Saudi ruling class (and Pakistan) that continued funding
- directly or through government-linked charities - of either the Taliban
or Al-Qaeda is to harm American interests - and that corrective measures must
be put in place to roll back extremism. We now know that the Saudis and Pakistanis
hardly undertook any measures to stop the funding of terrorist groups, let
alone undertake any corrective measure, until a least 2001 - and that make
these nations significantly responsible for 9/11 attacks on America. Still,
the 9/11 Commission has blundered into letting the Saudis (and to a lesser
extent Pakistanis) off the hook.
The need to move beyond proxies, from Al-Qaeda,
Taliban or Hezbollah to their major sponsors - namely, Saudi Arabia, Pakistan,
and Iran - can't be overstated.
Associating Saudi Arabia with genocide and
other crimes against humanity gives us an unprecedented ability to regulate
its funding for "religious causes" in the West, to even retroactively
shutdown any "religious" institution built with its funding, to
discredit its standing (Saudi Arabia is synonymous with Islam and vice versa)
in the community of societies and nations - and to even seize its oil-based
assets (used to sponsor genocide) as a last resort.
Specifically, western powers, going beyond
their support for India, should call on the Saudi leadership to allocate,
say, 30-40% of its oil-based revenues for rehabilitating Muslims it has indoctrinated
all these decades and to compensate non-Muslim victims and their states.
The victim list includes the United States.
Should the Saudis balk at this humanitarian
proposal, the western powers should work to add top Saudi political and religious
leaderships to the elite list now occupied by the fellow Muslim, Sudan's leader,
Omar al-Bashir - now charged by the International Criminal Court. Similar
approach may be pursued in the case of Pakistan in order to make it disengage
from terror sponsorship directed at Afghanistan and India.
Due to deeply entrenched and popular nature
of political Islamic movements based in Saudi Arabia or Pakistan that are
answerable to none, it is unlikely that even the above approach will yield
any meaningful results. Still, this intermediate step may be necessary before
justifying far more lethal means.
FP: Moorthy Muthuswamy, thank you for joining
Frontpage Interview.
Muthuswamy: Thank you Jamie.
- Jamie Glazov is Frontpage Magazine's managing
editor. He holds a Ph.D. in History with a specialty in U.S. and Canadian
foreign policy. He edited and wrote the introduction to David Horowitz's Left
Illusions. He is also the co-editor (with David Horowitz) of The Hate America
Left and the author of Canadian Policy Toward Khrushchev's Soviet Union (McGill-Queens
University Press, 2002) and 15 Tips on How to be a Good Leftist.
