07-17-2006, 03:12 AM
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin--><b>Jihad Indica </b>
The Pioneer Edit Desk
No Maginot Line to this global war ---- As the dust settles on Mumbai's horror, it is time for India to consider what the devastating bomb blasts of July 11 mean. The UPA Government has reacted almost predictably and blamed Pakistan. Yet this accusation has been tentative. <b>It began with the Home Minister insisting the "peace process" would not be affected, swerved to the right when Prime Minister Manmohan Singh accused Islamabad of complicity and, as the week ended, led to Ms Brinda Karat attempting to sound hawkish. The CPI(M) MP, along with other ruling alliance back-benchers, announced she was opting out of a conference in Pakistan</b>. In between the Foreign Secretary said no final decision had been taken on cancelling upcoming talks with his Pakistani counterpart, discounting his own Government's briefings to the contrary. <span style='font-size:14pt;line-height:100%'>Keen to establish a "foreign hand" - a useful bogeyman to deflect attention from domestic troubles -</span> intelligence agencies have spoken of a multi-national conspiracy stretching from safe-houses in Kathmandu to Lashkar-e-Tayyeba accomplices in Pakistan, Afghanistan and Bangladesh. <b>Indeed the terrorists - who have conveniently "fled the country" - are everywhere except in India. This is not just bizarre, it is a downright travesty</b>. Terror cannot be fought by selectively ignoring obvious messages. The radical Students Islamic Movement of India (SIMI) may be very active in Uttar Pradesh and may be a catchment area for the Samajwadi Party, but that is not the be all and end all of jihad in India. <b>Neither are the Gujarat riots of 2002 the sole provocation, without the occurrence of which India would have been a peaceful, bomb-free paradise</b>. The truth is, as always, complex business, and the UPA Government cannot simply erase unpalatable segments.
There are lessons India has to draw from Mumbai, 7/11. First, the current round of terrorism may be Pakistan facilitated but it is difficult to wish away evidence of homegrown jihadi cells. <b>If Uttar Pradesh is a hotbed of incendiary Islamism, Aurangabad and Hyderabad have become incubators of terrorism. The State Governments - Maharashtra and Andhra Pradesh are both ruled by the Congress - cannot escape that chilling realisation.</b> <span style='font-size:14pt;line-height:100%'>All terrorists operating in India are not imported; some of them were born and raised in this country. Second, the "cause" is no longer limited to Jammu & Kashmir or the immediate past religious flashpoint - Ayodhya in 1992-93, or Gujarat a decade later, for instance.</span> Those who attacked Mumbai saw themselves <b>as part of a global war against the 'infidel' armies of the Christian West, of Jewish Israel and of Hindu India</b>.<b> Even if every single case in Gujarat ends in a conviction, these crazed, neo-Caliphate urges will remain</b>. The prize they seek is no longer an ethnically-cleansed Valley; it is Nizam-e-Mustafa in India. Third, India can no longer pretend it is an innocent bystander in the global war against terror, with no stakes in, for example, the conflict in West Asia, whether the renewed assault on Israel or the Islamist 'insurgency' in Iraq. Take the possibility of the US forces quitting Iraq and leaving it, to borrow from the Mahatma, to god and anarchy. Its upshot will not just imperil New York; it will dramatically heighten threat perceptions in Mumbai, too. India cannot hide itself behind a self-drawn Maginot Line, not after the carnage in Mumbai.
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First Godhra took place. Gujarat riots came later.
Ethnic cleansing in J&K started in 1989 and Babri happened in 1993.
Only "moron secular" and communist and ofcourse Islamist in India see differently.
Only mantra for them " LIE DENY LIE DENY"!!!!!!!!!!
The Pioneer Edit Desk
No Maginot Line to this global war ---- As the dust settles on Mumbai's horror, it is time for India to consider what the devastating bomb blasts of July 11 mean. The UPA Government has reacted almost predictably and blamed Pakistan. Yet this accusation has been tentative. <b>It began with the Home Minister insisting the "peace process" would not be affected, swerved to the right when Prime Minister Manmohan Singh accused Islamabad of complicity and, as the week ended, led to Ms Brinda Karat attempting to sound hawkish. The CPI(M) MP, along with other ruling alliance back-benchers, announced she was opting out of a conference in Pakistan</b>. In between the Foreign Secretary said no final decision had been taken on cancelling upcoming talks with his Pakistani counterpart, discounting his own Government's briefings to the contrary. <span style='font-size:14pt;line-height:100%'>Keen to establish a "foreign hand" - a useful bogeyman to deflect attention from domestic troubles -</span> intelligence agencies have spoken of a multi-national conspiracy stretching from safe-houses in Kathmandu to Lashkar-e-Tayyeba accomplices in Pakistan, Afghanistan and Bangladesh. <b>Indeed the terrorists - who have conveniently "fled the country" - are everywhere except in India. This is not just bizarre, it is a downright travesty</b>. Terror cannot be fought by selectively ignoring obvious messages. The radical Students Islamic Movement of India (SIMI) may be very active in Uttar Pradesh and may be a catchment area for the Samajwadi Party, but that is not the be all and end all of jihad in India. <b>Neither are the Gujarat riots of 2002 the sole provocation, without the occurrence of which India would have been a peaceful, bomb-free paradise</b>. The truth is, as always, complex business, and the UPA Government cannot simply erase unpalatable segments.
There are lessons India has to draw from Mumbai, 7/11. First, the current round of terrorism may be Pakistan facilitated but it is difficult to wish away evidence of homegrown jihadi cells. <b>If Uttar Pradesh is a hotbed of incendiary Islamism, Aurangabad and Hyderabad have become incubators of terrorism. The State Governments - Maharashtra and Andhra Pradesh are both ruled by the Congress - cannot escape that chilling realisation.</b> <span style='font-size:14pt;line-height:100%'>All terrorists operating in India are not imported; some of them were born and raised in this country. Second, the "cause" is no longer limited to Jammu & Kashmir or the immediate past religious flashpoint - Ayodhya in 1992-93, or Gujarat a decade later, for instance.</span> Those who attacked Mumbai saw themselves <b>as part of a global war against the 'infidel' armies of the Christian West, of Jewish Israel and of Hindu India</b>.<b> Even if every single case in Gujarat ends in a conviction, these crazed, neo-Caliphate urges will remain</b>. The prize they seek is no longer an ethnically-cleansed Valley; it is Nizam-e-Mustafa in India. Third, India can no longer pretend it is an innocent bystander in the global war against terror, with no stakes in, for example, the conflict in West Asia, whether the renewed assault on Israel or the Islamist 'insurgency' in Iraq. Take the possibility of the US forces quitting Iraq and leaving it, to borrow from the Mahatma, to god and anarchy. Its upshot will not just imperil New York; it will dramatically heighten threat perceptions in Mumbai, too. India cannot hide itself behind a self-drawn Maginot Line, not after the carnage in Mumbai.
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First Godhra took place. Gujarat riots came later.
Ethnic cleansing in J&K started in 1989 and Babri happened in 1993.
Only "moron secular" and communist and ofcourse Islamist in India see differently.
Only mantra for them " LIE DENY LIE DENY"!!!!!!!!!!