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    ROOTS OF TERRORISM
    By V Sundaram

    News Today, India
    May 25 2006

    Terrorism is simply the name of a technique:

    Intentional attacks on civilians.

    I understand that a 'Symposium on Roots of Terrorism' was held in
    Washington DC on 28-29 April. It was sponsored and organized by
    America Truth Forum. A large number of prominent and highly-placed
    intellectuals and experts on Islamic studies attended the symposium.

    Many of them were celebrities and known personalities on national
    TV and radio stations. A forceful Indian and Hindu view point was
    presented by Dr Babu Suseelan, a psychologist and Director of Addiction
    Research Institute, Pennsylvania and board member of Indian American
    Intellectuals Forum (IAIF) on that occasion.

    What is very gratifying to note is that more than 375 intellectuals
    and US opinion makers, many of them Jewish and Christian Americans,
    took an active part in the Symposium. To quote the words of Narain
    Kataria in this context: 'This was a rare occasion for IAIF members
    to interact with American mainstream personalities and exchange
    the Indian viewpoint openly on the menace of terrorism. It was,
    probably, for the first time that the presence and scholarship of
    Hindu Americans was recognized and appreciated by renowned global
    experts on counter-terrorism'.

    Dr Babu Suseelan insisted that it was absolutely essential for the
    world to understand the deadly ideology that successfully transforms
    the simple human beings into deadly suicide bombers and terrorists. He
    said that we cannot deal with the problem of terrorism until and
    unless we completely comprehend the ideology which extols the virtues
    of killing and preaches hate, incites violence and enjoins on its
    followers to instill terror in the hearts of those who do not believe
    in Allah (8:12); insists on its followers to make a war on unbelievers
    who dwell around them (9:123); compels its followers to be harsh
    to unbelievers; tells them that ultimate abode of infidels is Hell,
    directs them to lay hold on infidels; bind them; burn them in the fire
    of Hell, then, fasten them with a chain seventy cubits long. The only
    fault of infidel was that he did not believe in Allah, the Most High.

    Jihad, fundamentally, is a do or die doctrine of permanent
    warfare. Jihad, Holy War and Terrorism are all interchangeable words
    in all contexts and all situations relating to so called infidels
    or non-believers or what Islam calls Kafirs. He pointed out that
    Muslims have been in a state of perpetual war wherever they live,
    be it Afghanistan or Iraq, Chechnya or Sudan, Kashmir or Thailand,
    Indonesia or Bangladesh, Philippine or Spain, USA, UK, or India. Dr
    Prithipal, Professor of Comparative Religion, University of Alberta,
    Canada has categorically observed: 'Muslims will only live as an
    oppressive majority and in turbulent minority'. This is because of
    the supremacy and paramountcy of the Islamic Jihad.

    Surveying the History of India, Dr Suseelan pointed out that the
    Afghanistan was once Hindu and a part of the original India of that
    time. In 1947, Pakistan too was forcibly carved out of the Indian
    Territory by Islamists. Now, feverish efforts are on by all Islamic
    nations to wrest the Indian Kashmir from the Hindu India.

    Threats of violence, loot, murder and rape of Hindu people all familiar
    tools of terrorism have become a routine thing in the Indian Kashmir
    today.

    Many people are under the mistaken impression that terrorism in
    the world began on 11 September, 2001. This assumption is based on
    total ignorance of the known facts of history. Dr Suseelan added:
    'India has been experiencing terrorism for hundreds of years. Even
    the so-called Moghul King Akbar-the-Great had killed 30,000 to 40,000
    innocent Hindus in one day'. He then referred to 14,000 young Hindu
    girls who had to immolate themselves in fire in a city named Chittor
    in Rajasthan in India when Hindu soldiers were not able to defend
    the honour of their womenfolk against the barbarian Islamic forces.

    1,00,000 Hindu prisoners in one day were put to death by
    Timur-the-Terrible.

    The sword of Islam was washed in the blood of the infidels of India
    ever since the Arab conquest of Sind in 712 AD.

    To quote Dr Suseelan in this context: 'The whole world knows that
    six million Jewish people were murdered by Nazis. It is also known
    that 1.2 million Armenians were butchered by Turkish Muslims.

    But nobody knows about the Hindu Holocaust. There are various estimates
    on how many million Hindus have been slaughtered by Islamic invaders
    inspired by holy Quran. Prof Bill French of the Centre for the Study of
    Political Islam, Tennessee, who has conducted an in-depth research on
    the subject, told me that Muslims have killed 120 million human beings
    around the globe (including 40 million Hindus in India alone). Hugh
    Fitzgerald of Jihad Watch says that in sheer numbers, no group of
    people has suffered from Islam like the Hindus. He further said that
    it is amazing how few Americans and British of Indian origin seem to
    know the history of their own ancestors. Prof K S Lal writes that 60
    to 70 million Hindus were murdered by Muslim rulers'.

    In conclusion, Dr Suseelan said that Hindus and Hinduism are
    under siege in India. At present the Muslim population in India is
    rising by leaps and bounds. There are 162 million Muslims living in
    Pakistan. There are approximately 150 to 160 million Muslims in India;
    Bangladesh has another 147 million Muslims. Roughly one-third of the
    world Muslim population lives in the Indian sub-continent.

    This is a very frightening scenario for India. Enlightened members of
    the audience in the high-profile Symposium were horrified and shocked
    by the detailed and documented information provided by Dr Suseelan.

    Returning to the Indian context, since 1989, more than 13500 civilians
    and 5300 security personnel have been killed by terrorists in Jammu
    and Kashmir. By contrast, over the same period, till December 2004,
    just 62 persons have been indicted for terrorism in the State. Our
    Courts of Law don't and won't deliver. When someone at the greatest
    risk to his life acts to save the country, a shriek is sent up,
    Human Rights Violation.

    During the last 20 years about 64,000 have been killed in terrorist
    related violence within the territory of India. By the end of 2004, 220
    districts, covering 40 to 45 per cent of the country's territory had
    come to be affected by insurgencies of one kind or another. K.P.S. Gill
    has given three reasons for these killings: i) Islamic fundamentalism;
    ii) Left wing extremism; and iii) Ethnic Fundamentalisms in the North
    East. Arun Shourie has rightly observed that it is more or less taboo
    to talk about the first. The second is explained away in fashionable
    circles as the counter to State-terrorism as a direct consequence
    of Land Reforms not having been implemented. The third is lauded as
    'The rise of consciousness among indigenous people'.

    India is a State in denial, a State which has withered away for good
    or for evil.

    Against this crumbling edifice of national security situation, it is
    shocking to see our pusillanimous Prime Minister offering on bended
    knees with supplication an offer of a new deal to the terrorists and
    quislings of Kashmir today. The same Prime Minister treats the striking
    students of IITs and Medical Colleges as quislings, ably assisted by
    the Human Resources Destruction (HRD) Minister and a known page boy of
    the Nehru family. The Hindu victims of Islamic terrorism in Kashmir
    are being treated like disposable consumables in the crucible of an
    artificially sponsored peace process founded on a superstructure of
    sanctimonious humbug. We have a weak government; we have a weaker
    economy; we have puny men at the highest levels of governance with
    contempt for our own nation and her people. Is this a sign of our
    tolerant culture? Is it a sign of our being a democracy? Is it a sign
    of confidence and strength? Or is it a sign of our being confused,
    of our having been fed guilt, and of our having internalised it?

    It is in this context I am reminded of the strong stand taken by Deng
    Xiaoping, President of China when the Western nations spoke about
    violation of human rights in China, after the suppression of the riots
    in Tiananmen. Deng Xiaoping said that the troubles had been executed
    by 'so called democrats' who were in fact the scum of the Chinese
    nation. Deng Xiaoping gave a warning as follows: This turmoil has
    been a lesson for us. We are more keenly aware that first priority
    should always be given to national sovereignty and security.

    Some Western countries, on the pretext that China has an unsatisfactory
    human rights record and an irrational and illegitimate socialist
    system, attempt to jeopardize our national sovereignty.

    Countries that play power politics are not qualified to talk about
    human rights. How many people's human rights have they violated
    throughout the world!... They are not the United Nations. What grounds
    have they for interfering in the internal affairs of China?

    Who gave them power to do that? The Chinese people will never accept
    any action that violates norms of international relations, and they
    will never yield to outside pressure.

    One million of our so-called Nethas cannot equal one Deng
    Xiaoping. When are we going to get tall leaders with judgement,
    courage, vision and above all political integrity?

    (The writer is a retired IAS officer)

    http://newstodaynet.com/2006sud/06may/25 05ss1.htm
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