Author: P K Debnath
Publication: Islam-Watch
Date: August 4, 2008
URL: http://www.islam-watch.org/Others/Put-End-to-Islamic-Terrorism.htm
Bangalore or Bangaluru, the capital of the
southern Indian state of Karnataka, is a city of 6 million people. It is also
the hi-tech capital of India and is the home of software superpowers like
Infosys Technologies and Wipro. On Friday, July 25, the city was rocked by
8 serial blasts that reportedly took place within 12 minutes at around 1.30
PM, just after the Friday's Muslim congregational prayer in local mosques.
The blasts killed one and injured more than 15.
The high orchestration for first five or six
blasts suggests the use of precision timing devices in the blasts. But, according
to the experts, the explosive used was not of sophisticated type and most
probably ammonium nitrate, mixed with a booster, was used by the terrorists.
The investigators believe that the primary objective of the miscreants was
to convey the message that they have the capacity of hitting any target wherever
and whenever they like. However, no organization has yet claimed the responsibility
of the bombings.
On the next day, i.e. on Saturday, 26th July,
17 bombs were exploded in Ahmedabad, the capital of Gujarat, killing 49 people
and injuring many. There were two blasts in Maninagar and the first blast
occurred in this area at 6.45 PM. The second blast here occurred near LG hospital.
It should be pointed out here that Maninagar is the constituency of Chief
Minister Narendra Modi. Some of the bombs were believed to have been placed
in cycles as it were in the Jaipur blasts on May 13, in which 65 persons died.
A couple of bombs were reported to have been placed in tiffin boxes, in a
modus operandi similar to the explosions that took place outside a Lucknow
court last year.
A Muslim organization, called "Indian
Mujahideen", has claimed the responsibility of the Ahmedabad blasts through
an e-mail, but the security personnel are convinced that it is a handy-work
of the infamous "Students Islamic Movement of India" or SIMI, in
a new guise. In any case, the attacks have served a caution that the country
that, even after 60 years of independence and despite its present economic
progress, it remains vulnerable to terrorism. Both the Chief Minister Narendra
Modi and the Home Minister Amit Shah suspect international conspiracy in the
attack. But the modus operandi of the attack suggests involvement of local
Muslims as well. There is no doubt that the bombs were planted with local
knowledge as it was not possible for the outsiders to plant them at vulnerable
spots. The un-exploded bombs have been sent to the forensic department to
ascertain the type of explosive used and why they did not go off. "So
far, no arrest has been made," says the Home Minister on Thursday, July
30.
The matter does not end here. Meanwhile, various
Terrorist Muslim organizations have sent threat letters to the authorities
of various cities to blow up important buildings. A letter from SIMI activists
has threatened to blow up the 7-storey building of Vadodara stock exchange.
Till yesterday (30th July), 26 unexploded bombs were discovered and defused
in the city of Surat in Gujarat. Police suspects local involvement in these
activities. On the other hand, on July 29, the Border Security Force (BSF)
has seized 20 kg opium near Indo-Pak border in the Barmer district of Rajasthan.
It should be mentioned here that smuggling of drugs and other narcotics are
used to fund terrorist activities. The incident suggests that many such blasts
may take place in the near future in Indian cities.
How to Contain Islamic Terrorism
Whenever an incident of terrorist attack occurs
in a civilized society, the law enforcing authorities become convinced that
it has been done by a terrorist organization like Al Qiada, or Laskar e Taiba,
or Hizb ul mujahideen etc. and the culprits are a few people associated with
those organizations. Or more pointedly, a few misguided young Muslim men,
who are associated with the said terrorist organizations, have committed the
crime. So they start to find clues to ascertain which organization is associated
with the attack and after that tries to arrest those people to start a legal
procedure against them. After 9/11, the US security agencies could ascertain
that the al-Qaeda terrorists were involved. So the US armed forces attacked
base camps of al-Qaeda in Afghanistan, bombed the al-Qaeda hide-outs. In a
similar manner, Indian authorities, after a terrorist attack, go for tracing
the terrorist organization involved and to capture a few people, who have
committed the crime.
However, in reality, it is not only a few
terrorists among Muslims, who are responsible for such a terrorist and subversive
act. Every pious Muslim, who takes the oath of killing the kafirs five times
a day through their prayers, cannot be dissociated from these barbarous, heinous
acts. There is no doubt that the Koran is the fountainhead of Islamic terrorism,
as it says: "when the sacred months are over, slay the idolaters wherever
ye find them and take them captive
." [Quran 9:5]. There are numerous
such verses in the Quran invoking violence against harmless non-Muslims. Anyone
who believes in the Koran, wittingly or unwittingly, is complicit in the terrorist
acts, which some among them commit, by acting upon the common Muslim belief.
Islamic terrorism, therefore, cannot be wiped
out by capturing a few terrorists and killing them or by putting them in jails.
So long, this terrorist belief, inherent in their central focus of life-their
religion-their community will continue supplying new recruits, probably with
increased number, to sustain terrorism. The years, since the 9/11 terror acts
in the US, has proved this point most glaringly. To put an end to Islamic
terrorism, actions should be taken against the root-the Muslim religion. The
entire Islamic faith, and the Muslim community for that matter, act as the
breeding ground and cover for the terrorists to plan and execute their mindless
violence. The fingers should be pointed at the right place, if we are to contain
and survive this barbaric Islamic scourge-both here in India and elsewhere.
The Koran-more pointedly, its hateful kafir-killing
verses-is the fountainhead or the source of inspiration for Muslim terrorism.
So, the first step to end Islamic terrorism is to ban that blood-curdling
holy book.
Most people maintain that not all among the
Muslims are bad and there are good or moderate Muslims as well. While this
is true, but they cannot be exonerated from their complicity in the terrorist
acts, simply because, there is only one Koran-and no good and bad Koran. Muslims,
through their profession of the Islamic faith, promise terrorist acts against
the kafirs of much greater proportions, such as complete extermination of
the polytheists-Hindus, Buddhists, Animist among them. So, to put an end to
the menace called Islamic terrorism, the entire Muslim community must be told
of where lies the problem and what is expected of them.
We, the civilized people, must have the responsibility
of protecting the right to life of every innocent citizens. Stark measures
must be undertaken against those who profess harm to human lives for whatsoever
reasons. The worth of innocent lives is much greater than those of sworn murderers;
and the loss of every innocent life must be redeemed in due measure. If the
entire world-community of kafirs adopt such firm measures, Islamic terrorism
will evaporate fast.