Terrorism has now reached the alarming proportions in India. The series of terrorist attacks in different cities across India has revealed the lack of proper Intelligence mechanism in place and the lack of political will to improve it.
It has once again underlined the fact that 'Violence attracts Violence' and it cannot be the solution for any issues. SIMI got many recruits from India after the Babri Demolition and the Godhra Incidents. The belief of terrorists that they are taking revenge of whatever happened to their fraternity is totally misplaced. This will go to aggravate the situation of Muslims residing in India as they will be seen more skeptically than ever. JIHAD may be a noble word, as one of my friends who is a Muslim suggested me yesterday. I could not disagree given his calm nature and friendly attitude but my suggestion to him was doing talk about clearing this misconception at this juncture would not be fruitful. People are already frustrated, angered and feeling helpless and the only thing which is coming out related to these bombs are the e-mails consisting words of ALLAH, JIHAD,REVENGE and about Muslims. And this frustration gets channeled into these lines. We can clearly hear people discussing this with more alacrity that once the most cherished identity of India being a SECULAR state is now working against it. And watching the media reports that local Muslims of UP and Delhi are involved does not help the matters either.
But is it fair to direct our suspicion against a community on basis of all these? The answer is clearly NO. Right through my childhood, all my Muslim friends I found were supportive, peace loving and equally patriotic. There are miscreants and bad people in each community and same here.
Having said that I would like to see more obvious and upfront efforts from our Muslim citizens and friends to allay the apprehension of fellow citizens by strongly denouncing the act and ensuring to stop young minds from being misled based on religion by terror organization. Also in finding those traitors of nation and Islam through their own system who are trying to spread this hatred.
Time has come for Government to ban and crush all the fundamentalists with force, be it SIMI, RSS, VHP, Bajrang Dal or Separatists in Kashmir. The intelligence agencies should improve upon the system and get foreign assistance, if needed. The talk of a Federal Agency will be a step in right direction.
To stop this terror is not only the work of Police and Intelligence agencies, we citizens should also be watchful of the suspicious activities around and provide inputs to the police. This has to happen on more consistent basis rather than only for few days after each terror strike.
It has once again underlined the fact that 'Violence attracts Violence' and it cannot be the solution for any issues. SIMI got many recruits from India after the Babri Demolition and the Godhra Incidents. The belief of terrorists that they are taking revenge of whatever happened to their fraternity is totally misplaced. This will go to aggravate the situation of Muslims residing in India as they will be seen more skeptically than ever. JIHAD may be a noble word, as one of my friends who is a Muslim suggested me yesterday. I could not disagree given his calm nature and friendly attitude but my suggestion to him was doing talk about clearing this misconception at this juncture would not be fruitful. People are already frustrated, angered and feeling helpless and the only thing which is coming out related to these bombs are the e-mails consisting words of ALLAH, JIHAD,REVENGE and about Muslims. And this frustration gets channeled into these lines. We can clearly hear people discussing this with more alacrity that once the most cherished identity of India being a SECULAR state is now working against it. And watching the media reports that local Muslims of UP and Delhi are involved does not help the matters either.
But is it fair to direct our suspicion against a community on basis of all these? The answer is clearly NO. Right through my childhood, all my Muslim friends I found were supportive, peace loving and equally patriotic. There are miscreants and bad people in each community and same here.
Having said that I would like to see more obvious and upfront efforts from our Muslim citizens and friends to allay the apprehension of fellow citizens by strongly denouncing the act and ensuring to stop young minds from being misled based on religion by terror organization. Also in finding those traitors of nation and Islam through their own system who are trying to spread this hatred.
Time has come for Government to ban and crush all the fundamentalists with force, be it SIMI, RSS, VHP, Bajrang Dal or Separatists in Kashmir. The intelligence agencies should improve upon the system and get foreign assistance, if needed. The talk of a Federal Agency will be a step in right direction.
To stop this terror is not only the work of Police and Intelligence agencies, we citizens should also be watchful of the suspicious activities around and provide inputs to the police. This has to happen on more consistent basis rather than only for few days after each terror strike.
