By Sikander Hayat
I am expecting a rise in Pakistan’s compliance to Indian demands, given that responsibility of Samjhota Express massacre, which was carried out by Hindu terrorists, was excepted initially by the Pakistani government to be the handy work of it’s nationals and now they have excepted the responsibility for the Mumbai tragedy as well.
If it is true ( based on Pakistan’s own investigation and not some dodgy dossier from India) that Pakistani nationals are indeed behind the Mumbai atrocities than any involved individual must be punished. It is also paramount that India must provide Pakistan of any details of the Indian accomplices of these attackers who gave shelter, ammunition, rations etc to these individuals which will help Pakistan in making a case in the court of law and also expose the underbelly of growing extreme form of Muslim assertiveness in India.
India must also understand that by supporting the terrorists in areas like Swat, Waziristan and Balochistan, it is playing with fire. These people want to break Pakistan up and turn India back to its Mughal era with Muslim minority ruling Hindu majority and non-Muslims living as dhimmis of the state. There is a growing jihadi chatter these days that Pakistan has fulfilled its purpose and not required anymore and they ( the hardliners) must move onto India.
These fundamentalists have a lot of support among Indian Muslims and India may have to regret its meddling in Pakistan as Pakistan is regretting now its support for the Taliban. This jinni is out of bottle now and feeding it with more fire may come to haunt India in ways that they have imagined even in their worst nightmares.
As a Pakistani, I can tell you that we are suffering and a warning that claws of this evil creed is nearer to your throats than you think.
I am expecting a rise in Pakistan’s compliance to Indian demands, given that responsibility of Samjhota Express massacre, which was carried out by Hindu terrorists, was excepted initially by the Pakistani government to be the handy work of it’s nationals and now they have excepted the responsibility for the Mumbai tragedy as well.
If it is true ( based on Pakistan’s own investigation and not some dodgy dossier from India) that Pakistani nationals are indeed behind the Mumbai atrocities than any involved individual must be punished. It is also paramount that India must provide Pakistan of any details of the Indian accomplices of these attackers who gave shelter, ammunition, rations etc to these individuals which will help Pakistan in making a case in the court of law and also expose the underbelly of growing extreme form of Muslim assertiveness in India.
India must also understand that by supporting the terrorists in areas like Swat, Waziristan and Balochistan, it is playing with fire. These people want to break Pakistan up and turn India back to its Mughal era with Muslim minority ruling Hindu majority and non-Muslims living as dhimmis of the state. There is a growing jihadi chatter these days that Pakistan has fulfilled its purpose and not required anymore and they ( the hardliners) must move onto India.
These fundamentalists have a lot of support among Indian Muslims and India may have to regret its meddling in Pakistan as Pakistan is regretting now its support for the Taliban. This jinni is out of bottle now and feeding it with more fire may come to haunt India in ways that they have imagined even in their worst nightmares.
As a Pakistani, I can tell you that we are suffering and a warning that claws of this evil creed is nearer to your throats than you think.
That Map of Hindu Vs Muslim is sad and wrong.
ReplyDeleteIt's sad because it shows us how Pakistan has ethnically cleansed Hindu's from their regions. And its wrong because Sri Lanka has a Buddhist majority state with heavy Hindu minority in the North and East. West Bengal and Bombay isn't Muslim majority either.
India should not fear anything from these tribal azzhats who dream of Caliphate. Her being was founded on Secular principles and Muslims are her children just as much Hindu's, Parsi's, Jains or Christians.
Pakistan on the other hand was founded as state for Indian Muslims but given the fact there are more Muslims in India and Bangladesh now...there whole reason d'etre is fantasy.
That's why Pakistan is the way it is now. Their whole identity now is being the "Anti-India" which betrays any progress for our collective peoples.
The writer of this column has lost his mind and sense of true journalism. When it comes to his own country he asks for the solid proof backed by the enough evidence but he uses his own whims and fancies to tarnish the image of Indian Muslims. Indian Muslims are much better than what is being potrayed by the writer of the column "India Must Not Play With Fire By Supporting the Terrorists In Pakistan".
ReplyDeleteThe writer has lost the art of reporting an event. So I thought to post a geniune report on Indian Muslims by Thomas L Friedman who was in India a few days ago and not like the writer of the column who is not aware of the ground realities and wants to tarnish the image of Indian Muslims
The following coloums was printed in The Times of India, dated 19 February 2009.
MUSLIMS IN INDIA ARE DIFFERENT
There are nine bodies — all of them young men — that have been lying in a Mumbai hospital morgue since Nov. 29. They may be stranded there for a while because no local Muslim charity is willing to bury them in its cemetery. This is good news.
The nine are the Pakistani Muslim terrorists who went on an utterly senseless killing rampage in Mumbai on 26/11 — India’s 9/11 — gunning down more than 170 people, including 33 Muslims, scores of Hindus, as well as Christians and Jews. It was killing for killing’s sake. They didn’t even bother to leave a note.
All nine are still in the morgue because the leadership of India’s Muslim community has called them by their real name — “murderers” not “martyrs” — and is refusing to allow them to be buried in the main Muslim cemetery of Mumbai, the 7.5-acre Bada Kabrastan graveyard, run by the Muslim Jama Masjid Trust.
“People who committed this heinous crime cannot be called Muslim,” Hanif Nalkhande, a spokesman for the trust, told The Times of London. Eventually, one assumes, they will have to be buried, but the Mumbai Muslims remain defiant.
“Indian Muslims are proud of being both Indian and Muslim, and the Mumbai terrorism was a war against both India and Islam,” explained M.J. Akbar, the Indian-Muslim editor of Covert, an Indian investigative journal. “Terrorism has no place in Islamic doctrine. The Koranic term for the killing of innocents is ‘fasad.’ Terrorists are fasadis, not jihadis. In a beautiful verse, the Koran says that the killing of an innocent is akin to slaying the whole community. Since the ... terrorists were neither Indian nor true Muslims, they had no right to an Islamic burial in an Indian Muslim cemetery.”
To be sure, Mumbai’s Muslims are a vulnerable minority in a predominantly Hindu country. Nevertheless, their in-your-face defiance of the Islamist terrorists stands out. It stands out against a dismal landscape of predominantly Sunni Muslim suicide murderers who have attacked civilians in mosques and markets — from Iraq to Pakistan to Afghanistan — but who have been treated by mainstream Arab media, like Al Jazeera, or by extremist Islamist spiritual leaders and Web sites, as “martyrs” whose actions deserve praise.
Extolling or excusing suicide militants as “martyrs” has only led to this awful phenomenon — where young Muslim men and women are recruited to kill themselves and others — spreading wider and wider. What began in a targeted way in Lebanon and Israel has now proliferated to become an almost weekly occurrence in Iraq, Afghanistan and Pakistan.
It is a threat to any open society because when people turn themselves into bombs, they can’t be deterred, and the measures needed to interdict them require suspecting and searching everyone at any public event. And they are a particular threat to Muslim communities. You can’t build a healthy society on the back of suicide-bombers, whose sole objective is to wreak havoc by exclusively and indiscriminately killing as many civilians as possible.
If suicide-murder is deemed legitimate by a community when attacking its “enemies” abroad, it will eventually be used as a tactic against “enemies” at home, and that is exactly what has happened in Iraq, Afghanistan and Pakistan.
The only effective way to stop this trend is for “the village” — the Muslim community itself — to say “no more.” When a culture and a faith community delegitimizes this kind of behavior, openly, loudly and consistently, it is more important than metal detectors or extra police. Religion and culture are the most important sources of restraint in a society.
That’s why India’s Muslims, who are the second-largest Muslim community in the world after Indonesia’s, and the one with the deepest democratic tradition, do a great service to Islam by delegitimizing suicide-murderers by refusing to bury their bodies. It won’t stop this trend overnight, but it can help over time.
“The Muslims of Bombay deserve to be congratulated in taking this important decision,” Raashid Alvi, a Muslim member of India’s Parliament from the Congress Party, said to me. “Islam says that if you commit suicide, then even after death you will be punished.”
The fact that Indian Muslims have stood up in this way is surely due, in part, to the fact that they live in, are the product of and feel empowered by a democratic and pluralistic society. They are not intimidated by extremist religious leaders and are not afraid to speak out against religious extremism in their midst.
It is why so few, if any, Indian Muslims are known to have joined Al Qaeda. And it is why, as outrageously expensive and as uncertain the outcome, trying to build decent, pluralistic societies in places like Iraq is not as crazy as it seems. It takes a village, and without Arab-Muslim societies where the villagers feel ownership over their lives and empowered to take on their own extremists — militarily and ideologically — this trend will not go away.
I am proud to be an Indian Muslim