My family, my whole family, mom dad sis, had a narrow escape in today’s Delhi serial blasts. By ‘narrow’ I mean really really narrow. They were a few meters away from the blast site, and were AT the site from where live bombs were found minutes later.
Only I know what I felt during the time I heard about the blasts till the time my family got a three wheeler and reached home safely. At last I had a sigh of relief but today they escaped, what about tomorrow? And if not my family what about the families of those 20 that did lose their life and those 100s battling for in the hospital?
The first thought that my sister had after having a narrow escape from the blast was that “we have all been turned into insects, just waiting to be crushed anytime. There is no value of our lives, you never know when, where and how.”
A million thoughts came to mind. What exactly do these people want? I really wonder if there is anything that we could offer them so that they would stop this blood shed. Earlier we thought, okay the terror attacks on India by Islamic groups are because they want Kashmir. Some people even went to the extent of respectfully calling them freedom fighters for Kashmir and terrorists for federal India. But this Indian Mujahideen, they simply are just mindless blood thirsty psychos.
Looking at the things they said in their emails you wonder how can any group utter such non-sense.
“Within 5 minutes from now…this time with the Message of Death, dreadfully terrorising you for your sins,” the email said.“ And thus our promise will be fulfilled.Inshallah” [Source: Economic Times]
What promise? What sins? What on earth are they trying to do? Are they really so naive to think they’d ever achieve anything in this manner. No matter how flawed our governance is or how weak our intelligence is do they really think they can successfully wage and win a war against an entire nation’s force? Are they that stupid?
In all the news channels this email was shown today. The opening line says, “in the name of Allah.” So do they mean their Allah told them to kill people? Kill which people? Hindu or Muslim or other religion people? Or did Allah specifically ask them to kill Indians of whatever religion? Are they going to kill Indians living in India only or NRIs too?
These Muslim religious leaders keep issuing Fatwas for all sort of reasons. Last they said, Salman Khan is not a Muslim any more and imposed a social boycott on him and his family because Salman did a Ganesh puja. They said idol worship is against Islam. Then they said Muslim women can’t use mobiles, can’t travel alone, can’t buy products from sales men etc. [Link to this crazy news]
Now why can’t these Imams issue a Fatwa against these terrorist declaring them as non Muslim on the ground that killing innocent people is against Islam. Or at least condemn the killings. Since nothing of that sort ever happens, should we then assume that killing innocent people is NOT against Islam?
Am sure the Hindutva brigade would jump at this now and say, “that’s the whole point we been trying to make for so long”. But let’s not get into that now.
This Hindutva v. Jihad is pure politics, a game of power, which has got nothing to do with the people dying. Those who are dying, whether Hindu or Muslim are neither interested in Hindutva nor in Jihad, they are just regular law abiding peaceful citizen of this country going about their life rather unaware of the dangerous religious politics their leaders are playing all over the world in the name of their religion. They just want to live their life at peace.
The only way to fight terrorism is by not being terrorised. ‘Not be terrorized’ would mean to not jump the gun and brand the next Muslim you see on the street as terrorist. Neither should we assume that every Muslim subscribe to these killings or would eventually become a jihadi.
Irrespective of what their holy book say or what their leaders may insist, no human being of sane mind would to become a killer. People really just want to live their lives. It’s always a few rotten apples that has spoiled the whole bunch.
That said, I really wonder what impact do groups like ‘Indian Mujahideen’ have on the average Muslim youth in India and across the world. Why don’t we ever read or hear enough from them? Not just this issue, why don’t the average Muslim speak against arbitrary diktats their religious leaders often impose.
Though Salim Khan is a welcome exception in this context. He not only openly questioned the locus standi of the Imam to issue any kind of Fatwa but also went on to say his wife being a Hindu, celebrating Ganeshotsav is in his blood. Those are some brave words from a truly secular and brave Indian Muslim. Mr Khan said,
“What is the locus standi of these people? Who are they to question people’s religious beliefs? Why don’t they issue such a ‘fatwa’ against terrorists and terrorism, which is un-Islamic? The clerics are talking nonsense,” he thundered before a television channel on the evening of September 12. [Source: Sify News]
But besides that, why ain’t their enough voices against such high degree of gender discrimination I juts mentioned above? Don’t the educated Muslim men see the craziness behind such mindset? Can’t they be vocal about it? I would really need some answers to these questions without which it really gets difficult for a secularist to defend them when another counter-terrorism group attacks another bunch of innocent people as a natural reaction to terrorism.
Even keeping the religion completely aside, if we could look at these attacks purely as law and order problem; lack of intelligence; lack of ground level security measures issue, we would achieve a lot. I mean the funniest things that I notice in such times are 1) The High Alerts in each city 2) Politician’s condemnation pouring in from all sides 3) and the speculation over the intensity of the bombs. That’s all we do and all we achieve after those long hours of “breaking news” telecast. But what happens after that? Nothing.
Every time a Modi would say we need more stringent laws to tackle terrorism. But what can law do when our ground level policing is not effective. We don’t have enough smart and active police keeping a daily vigil at various nook and corner of the city. Instead we have pan chewing pot bellied yawning police men who are busy collecting bribes from petty criminals.
You have a terrorist group carrying on its illegal activity in a certain city for months together before the actual blast but not one local police constable would suspect a thing. They must be visiting the spots couple of times to design their attack, they must be buying raw materials from some place to make these bombs, they must be using cell phones to communicate. Can’t we have intelligence which could nab these culprits at such sources?
There is no answer why our security is so flawed that we never ever get a clue before the attacks take place. So many blasts in the last couple of years but how many arrests? How many cases solved? How many proven guilty beyond doubt?
Another fashionable thing to do after such blast is to blame media for their coverage style. Today, they frowned upon CNN IBN’s showing the life less body of a woman lying on the pavement over and over again. They said, “media only wants to show gory pictures exaggerating things. The city is calm, media is making it look like a war situation.”
Not showing the gory picture wouldn’t help anything you know. It’s not media’s problem that we feel uncomfortable to see the gory picture. Moreover even if one person is dead that is a serious matter, why blame the media? That’s a real body lying there, not a fake body that media has thrown in to create sensation.
Media also got blamed for giving extreme coverage to the email from Indian Mujahideen. Logic? That ‘coverage’ is exactly what the terrorist want so the media is in a serving their purpose. Yes, that may be true but that doesn’t mean Media would keep quiet about the emails. The people of this nation ought to know everything that is there to be known. Controlled information is not going to help.
Yet another rhetoric is “the people of blah blah city has shown that they cannot be cowed down by terror activities. Life gets back in track with full spirit.” My sister called me from the blast site. She said, “People ain’t panicking here. Those who were at bus stops are still waiting for their buses, not everybody can afford an auto even on a crisis day. Dad still tried to bargain with the auto guy.”
So the question is-this ‘not panicking’ is a sign of what? Is it ‘strength’ or ‘surrender’? or is it Apathy? Or are we getting immune to terror attacks?
Whatever it is, it is not a good sign that every time we fall, we get up, get going only to fall again. We must strike back and show these criminals their place. They have dared us enough. This is no less than an attack on our sovereignty. When will we ever say enough is enough?
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hindustani
September 14, 2008
first of all i wud like to convey my deepest sympathy with the relatives of the victims.i wud like to pose one question to u all, have u ever heard of blasts prior to babri demolition.several muslims have been massacared in mumbai in 1993 riots so was in gujrat in 2000 no one have been framed for that as we all know verdict for 1993 mumbai blast in already out but wat is the fate of mumbai 93 riots which took place 3 months prior to mumbai blast,it moved no where why coz all the culprits are HINDUS.wat abt Gujrat where so many children pregnant woman died in the hands of crazzzzzzy hindus.y do u call bomb planters as islamic terrorists if is it so u shud call rioters hindu terrorists
does hindu scriptures promote riots killing of children pregnant woman?????????????????
Another Kafir
September 14, 2008
Dear secularist sanjukta,
I have pondered on the problem and I think that Islam and Quran are the problem. Make no mistakes there are terrible verses in each religion but because of being talked about and criticised by atheists like myself the hindus or christians dare not put them in to practice. The muslims on the other hand and the government do not allow any dialogue on Islam and how cruel it is in public life. I read the last email sent by them after Ahmedabad blasts and he takes all his inspiration from the Quran and the Hadiths. They even ask the hindus to abandon their idols. These are things which are not reactionary because of their oppression, but these are directly inspired by the cruelty that Islam and Quran stand for. We should not jump to conclusions but the muslims ought to answer why the verses of Quran invoked by the terrorists are not actually to be interpreted that way. Let them give an explanation, if they do we can advertise it and tell everyone that Quran does not promote violence. However, if they should fail to do so, Islam is at fault and there is no mistake in speaking against it.
The hindustani dude raises a point, about hindu scriptures and Islamic scriptures, the hindu rioters have not invoked their religion to say that they are supposed to kill pregnant women or any innocents for that matter. The Islamic terrorists do quote their scripture and that is why they are Islamic terrorists, they want to incite terror into everyones hearts the way their religion requires them to, Quran 9:34 I think.
There have been many terror incidents in India prior to Babri demolition, but mainly restricted to kashmir. Even when Salman Rushdie’s book was released and protests were going on in 1989 (before 92) about 20 people died almost all of them in India. Why? Why did the offending of muslims cause deaths here? Also read the history, read about Guru Tegh Bahadur, how he was executed on the orders of Aurangzeb so that a large number of people could be converted forcefully. Or well read about Swami Shraddhananda who raised the same questions about Islam that are still relevant and was killed in 1926. For that matter go read the history of Mohammed, he himself was no saint, he ordered all his dissidents killed and raided many tribes on surprises and everyone who was male and had attained puberty was killed while the women and children were taken slaves. Interestingly he made it seem like a virtue when he manumitted them afterward.
Lets not side track the debate and lose track of ourselves, the Indian mujahideen is quoting the Quran and Hadith, tell me why they are wrong and if I agree with you, I will try to help everyone read it.
I have been a proponent of the left but I think I am tired of lying in the hope that Islam will clean up its act, Islam has been bitter and opressive to all classes and it should stomach that fact and denounce it.
You can respond, curse me on my mail anotherkafir@yahoo.in
joeshik
September 14, 2008
Hindustani is not Hindustani. He is another sick example of mutant thinking. How many problems occured in India prior to Babri Masjid also? If Hindus or Christiians or Sikhs or the world for that will start avenging muslims for every griviences they have produced and brought to the mankind, then no muslim will survive. But when it comes to this Musims say that majority o them are against terrorism. And as a normal person I belive this too.But lately I have been noticing that sick mutanat thinking in the muslim brains is on the rise. Innstead of blaming themselves for the sceptical and bad behaviour towards them by others thy try to play balme games. Actually this policy of hate crime and revengefullness is causing big problems. And the worst thing is that they are doing all this bull shit in the name of the Allah. Shame on you. Please spare your god and dont make him a scapegoat of your coward and sinfull behaviour.
sanjukta
September 14, 2008
@Hindustani
We do call those who kill and rape pregnant woman as Hindu terrorist. Look up any forum, all human rights activists have done enough of condemnation of the Godhra genocide. The secularists of this country are always trying to prevent the ordinary people from such mindless fanaticism and religious terror. But every time we make progress one of you would make such fatal error of comparing one incident to another, would try to justify one killing by another. At the wake of Delhi Blasts why are you talking about Gujarat or Bombay. My question is why can’t each educated Indian Muslim speak openly against the arbitrary manner in which a bunch of absolute illegal miscreants, those who don’t have any other religion but that of crime are spreading hatred all across. Why don’t you all have the guts to speak against your ill-logical and un-just religious leaders? Why don’t we see all the Imams in the country, every body from Jama Masjid to Muslim personal board jumping to the scene of a terror and condemn the terrors as anti Islam at the very first instance. If there are 5 blasts we should have 10 Imams condemning the blasts. Do we?
@Another Kafir,
I agree with your question. I want to see a secular Muslim who can read Arabic to read those verses quoted by the terrorist and give a peaceful interpretation of the same. That is an open invite to all peace-loving Muslims.
@Joeshik,
I won’t say i have seen militant thinking on the rise in ordinary muslim’s minds, but yes Hindustani’s comment above is not in the right spirit. He sure is not helping in having peace.
sajeev
September 14, 2008
I read a hindustani trying to justify the Delhi blasts as there were riots in Mumbai and gujrat. I am proud of Indian secularism. I believe it is the best in the world. We have suffered enough. From Looters like Gazni and Ghori and opressers like Moguls etc. We are not available for a repetition of the same. No Hindu is making bomb blasts in the name of the brutalities done by the Muslim rulers and Looters of that age.
Where Muslims do not have a problem in this world? Everywhere they have problems. In india it is Hindus, in america it is christians, in China it is chinese, in Russia it is communists. Muslims are a group narrowed many old and orthodox ideas who can’t co-exist peacefully. If anybody thinks that Mumbai riots and Gujrat riots were not there all these would not have happened, he is utterly wrong.
IT IS HIGH TIME WE ARE PRETENDING NOT SEEING THE REALITY. IF THE DISEASE IS “RABIES”, GETTING THE COWS VACCINATED IS ENOUGH. IT IS HIGH TIME POLITICIANS SHOULD TELL THAT IT IS THE “DOGS” WHO NEED VACCINATION AND SEE THAT AFFECTED DOGS ARE QUARANTINED.
K.M.Venugopalan
September 14, 2008
Samjukta seems to be raising the right questions here.
I wish to add a few more..
The administrations on such occurrences , both the Central and various State administrations, often behave as though they knew all about the designs of so called Indian Mujahiddins or other Islamist terror groups.Then,
1. Why is it that despite the initial claims of having identified the cullprit individuals or organizations, these administrations end up in booking law abiding Muslims,especially the educated youths without any proof at all?
2. Why are leaders of many Hindu fanatic organizations whose names when even figured initially in some investigations, with very strong evidences against them ( as in the bomb business, with wigs and artificial beards kept in their headquarters (for disguising as ‘Muslim Terrorist’,
as reportedly found at the scene of Nandhed blast in 2006, where two Bajrang Dal activists were killed in an accidental bomb blast, and in at least half a dozen other similar incidences reported from Tamilnadu(2008 Jan), Lucknow(2008 Aug)and elsewhere invariably escaping charges and prosecution under terrorism laws?
3.In spite of all those dreadful exposes by Tehelka, why many of the leaders who had directly owned up the act of mass killing in Gujarat 2002 and several ‘encounter killings’ since then are, at large in public life and are even being described by the mass media as the immediate electoral gainers by default,of all these killings?
Regards,
Venu K.M
K.M.Venugopalan
September 14, 2008
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Rishil
September 14, 2008
The time has come for India to take a stand, if India is to survive, it should learn strike back and strike bad hard. It is a shame to accept that we are the weakest nation in the world when it comes to fighting terrorism.
http://goindia360.blogspot.com/2008/09/india-needs-to-fight-back-terrorism.html
Mayank
September 14, 2008
Thanks for this wonderful post Sanjukta. You’ve raised some really good questions.
Quite a few known too’s had narrow escape in yesterday’s blasts and just like you I feel the pain. They were lucky but some weren’t(I am sorry for them).
I am not aware of the intention behind these blasts but given the fact that they were low intensity it could be to instill terror among masses and mock our security apparatus. Security as you know is a joke and security drills, checks only a farce. Its an everyday experience be it a trip from metro or a visit to a mall. Often I am cleared without bring frisked and only rarely frisked properly.
Until I read this post I never realized that there are hardly any vocal outbursts against people behind terror attacks by Muslim clerics and you are right in saying we rarely see educated Muslims standing up against irrational fatwas.
What really defies my understanding is the what to make of the news that this leader or that agency had warned of possible attacks ? WTF is going on ? Are the concerned government people lame/incapable or what ? Or do they deal with these issues just like they deal with other things and the files never leave their desks/shelves ?
Maybe its time we have “A Wednesday” in real life.
zenlad
September 14, 2008
This is **NOT** to defend violence of any sort committed by anyone. But let’s face it: we live in a semi-feudal society in India (the entire Indian subcontinent for that matter) where ‘badla’ (revenge, tit for tat, whatever) is a hot item in general.
Once again, this is absolutely **NOT** to defend violence of any sort committed by anyone. But the fact (yes, fact) is that in both 1993 (Mumbai) and in 2002 (Gujrat) Hindu mobs reacted to direct assault by Muslims. 1993: Muslims first rioted in Mumbai by attacking Hindus, who then responded on large scale themselves. 2002: A Muslim mob burnt the train carriage with Hindus in Godhra which led to large scale anti-Muslim violence.
Since Muslims always keep harping on Mumbai and Gujrat, can soemone please explain why:
- Muslims attacked Hindus in Mumbai in 1993 when Hindu zealots tried to attack Babri Masjid in Ayodhya maybe 1000 km away?
- A Muslim mob burnt a train carrying Hindus?
zenlad
September 14, 2008
K. M Venugopalan: Care to tell us the below?
1. Any reliable (more than just one) sources to back up this item?
2. Where did you see all these ‘reports’ that you claim about people trying to disguise as Muslims? Also who were the reporters?
Dhanyawaad/Shukriya (Thank you)
Zenlad
September 14, 2008
What a disgrace to a nation that likes to (day)dream that it’s a superpower. People are literally dying while our sleepy, babu-ishtyle government can only pick its nose and think about which bribe to accept next and how to oppress poor people.
snigdha
September 15, 2008
Nicely written post and very relevant points raised.
Ashish
September 15, 2008
This is not about being a Muslim or Hindu. we all condem these blast cause both religion people are killed and injured. This is a time to fight against terrorism not within ourselves. We all believe in GOD but pray in different forms. And fight is just to prove the superiority with the forms of GOD. why? Cant be behave just like Human beings living together. Why is religion creating so many issues?
If any one has an answer for this question then please solve my queries.
Brother Riyaz
September 15, 2008
I know you would have not seen or heard the condemn messages and voices of various secular muslim organisations, bcoz its not published in the media or published in a very small column, which is normally unnoticed by the normal readers. We all condemn those terrorist activities and terrorist organisations. I would reiterate that all the islamic organisations and scholars are repeatedly stressing that those activities are unislamic and also against it, because the Quraan and the islamic law doesnt allow those terrorist activitites.
There is lot of misconceptions and misunderstanding about islam, may be because of the media, which is not projecting it in the right spirit. Those terrorists who claim to be muslims are not real muslims, bcoz the Quran and the islamic law, prohibits killing innocent people and civilians, women, children, elders, etc., even in a war caused and created by enemies and in a war to protect against invasion. My dear brothers and sisters, i kindly request you to go through the (real) history of (protective) wars done by our Prophet to protect the country from enemies and their invasion and the orders issued on the rules of war, one of them i had mention above .
While reading any book, be it holy Quraan or others, has to be read completely and comprehended in that context. This is where the mistake happens and happened, where people take only that particular word / verse which says “Jihad”, but my dear brothers and sisters, i would kindly request you to go through that particular verse and the Quraan completely and comprehend in the manner given in it and not in a wrong spirit.
Praying for a coordial relationship with all brothers and sisters across the globe and for peace, humanity and brotherhood.
Deepa Govind
September 15, 2008
hmm..
All beleive “There IS God”
and
we all KNOW,
“There ARE people who kill in the name of God”.
If Sanity Is God, then There is no longer Sanity
All that pervails is (In)Santy, we see no God
Shailendra
September 15, 2008
There is no God.
And he ain’t saving anyone.Wake up!!
Islam or any other religion in the world has to change with changing times, we don’t live in medieval times.
Bastards…Stop killing innocent people!! .(Pl don’t mind my language but i cannot control it)
sanjukta
September 15, 2008
@Zenlad
The eye for an eye is a vicious circle. You ask:
- Muslims attacked Hindus in Mumbai in 1993 when Hindu zealots tried to attack Babri Masjid in Ayodhya maybe 1000 km away?
Now why did Hindu attack Babri Masjid? To find that answer we will go back in time some more, and then some more. Why can’t we get over the past? They could have left Babri Masjid alone… but the politicians needed an agenda, needed a reason to create disharmony amongst the people. And its the common man who suffers.
- A Muslim mob burnt a train carrying Hindus?
Like I said may be we’d have to go back in time to find the answer. Moreover it is still debatable whether those who did the first attack were at all muslims or was it a set up. We would keep looking back and do some killings in the present to avenge some in the past. No end to it.
That said, I would like to maintain that those who kill innocent people are neither Hindus nor Muslims, they are simply criminals and none of their act can be justified on grounds of religion. Attacking babri masjid was a crime, attacking Hindus was a crime and attacking Muslims was also a crime. Period.
Criminals are to be dealt with by the state’s police without even looking at their religion. But our police and security are not doing their job properly. And we are fighting amongst ourselves.
Manni
September 15, 2008
i am not saying that muslims are terrorist, but terrorist are cowards,impotent and cheap peoples who do not have the courage of fighting face to face . they are the dogs who only kills the innocent people to show thier bravery in the name of their respective god. They hide their cowardness behind the religion or holy war.
Zenlad
September 15, 2008
@Sanjukta:
You say, “The eye for an eye is a vicious circle.”
I absolutely agree with that. No one should take the law in their hands. I merely brought up those two incidents because I have seen Muslims constantly refering to these two incidents in order to justify bomb blasts and to demonize Hindus.
I realize that digging up the past can be a painful exercise. But whether anyone likes it or not, the fact is that Hindus will score big time in such a ‘going-back-in-time’ competition. Why? Because they never left their native land to conquer other regions of the world. They have stayed put on this soil for ages. The only way someone could offend them or they offend someone was if an outsider came to their native lands. But that’s a different topic for a different day.
Right now, a CAPABLE government and police force are desperately needed in India. But I’m not sure if we should expect these anytime soon, given the quality of current politicians accross the board.
Gopal Sea
September 15, 2008
Your quote Sanjukta: “Criminals are to be dealt with by the state’s police without even looking at their religion.”
Well, I like your quote and that’s the way to deal with this issue. Now, let me tell you that i admire the mumbai police of encounter (Salasker-Bhonsle) heydays. They did a cleaning job effectively. Ofcourse police did aid and abet crimes good example being them disarming the delhi sikhs before the 3500 approx sikh massacred in delhi post indira gandhi assasination, another example being the police blinking in godhra while initially hindus let loose terror (i dunno where i am wrong n where i am right) etc. We have police who book you for wrong parking and no helmet and we have people like Sajjan Kumar, Jagdish Tytler etc., sitting pretty with the ruling party after having created n led a massacre in ’84. Mass murderers. Modi is yesterday’s brat. There are experienced hands at this trade. Not many would quote what i am about to say but i’ll begin by mentioning that Honourable Mister and Minister Mr. Sharad Pawar (here on mentioned as SP) was Defence Minister 1991.Then chief minister of Maharashtra Sudhakarrao Naik had good relations with Narsimha Rao in Delhi. SP was getting marginalised in Delhi and suffocated in Bombay politics. SP was desperate to regain lost ground in Bombay politics. Destruction of Babri Masjid occured on 6th December 1992. Since SP would have lost his home ground in Mumbai n Pune politics and had started losing his grip and assertion due to S. Naik, Babri Masjid proved a blessing in disguise to bring down the Chief Ministers Government in Maharashtra. The National background that one should note is that there were no riots in UP, Delhi,Bhiwandi,Malegaon,Ichalkaranji. Then why in Mumbai. December 6 Babri falls, 1st Round : December 9 riots. What discredited the government? It is said that it was Dawood’s men who hacked the two policemen to death. If it was Dawood, then he did SP a favour by doing it. Police establishment became very upset and a brutal reaction (over-reaction) to it was that Muslims were killed,(around 150)living in zhopdis and slums. The media flashed itself-”Hindu police” -”Anti-muslim govt” “Sudhakarrao incapable” In all India sentiment against Hindu police was the media reaction. The real rioting was only just about to begin. 2nd round: Lets start the second round with police orders from establishment… Wireless messaging “No Shooting use only lathis..Goli Chalvaaychey Nahi” was order given to police, right down to the last constable standing. In January in Jogeshwari two Maratha mutton-shop owners were made into kheema- no movement from police after continuous rioting and killing of Hindus for one… two… three days. Fourth day: Four days after heavy Muslim rioting Mr. Bal Thackeray appealed through Saamna “Hindus/Shiv-sainiks enter the arena” Shiv sena reacted most violently-Even upper middle class muslims in usually very safe localities were not spared. After 1st round and 2nd round, SP’s purpose was served. SP did not allow army to flag march. No army deployment until the late stages. He would come on T.V. and say that army would be deployed… army would be deployed. When! To pick the dead bodies? After killing all muslims and hindus in what was an effective way of eye for an eye. That was the gory drama which i described in two rounds
Well the bomb blasts in mumbai by Dawood,Tiger Memon and Company and ISI was supposedly a revenge act.
Now, you don’t see such clever politicians daily- March 13 1993 Bomb Blasts finer aspect is that a place like Mumbai where no riots had occured after 1947 partition riots becomes a victim to an excellent riots-event management by mysterious forces. Why Mumbai. Why Mumbai. Ask that twice and you will get the answer.
Gopal Sea
September 15, 2008
These are the statements made by the person responsible to keep law and order intact in this country of 110 crores. Honourable Home Minister Mr. Shivraj Patil-Chakurker.
Delhi: Sept 13, 2008: “I condemn the blasts. Those behind the blasts will be given stringent punishment”
Ahmedabad: July 26, 2008: “I condemn the blasts. The culprits will soon be identified and brought to book.”
Bangalore: July 25, 2008: “I strongly condemn the blasts. We’ll deal with anti-nationals elements in a resolute manner.”
Jaipur: May 13, 2008: “I condemn the blasts. India will continue to fight terror at all costs and thwart the designs of terrorists.”
Hyderabad: May 2007: “I condemn the blasts. The Centre is keeping a close watch on the situation”
Why there is no continuous terrorist attack in USA after 9/11 or UK or for that matter even Israel now seems to be abandoned space for terrorist attacks. Wiping Israel off the map is the sworn intent of Islamic Terrorism. Policing should be real policing. Appeasement and vote-bank politics, competitive populism translated as competitive secularism no concrete action, no political will and petty/partisan politics is the reason for this lack of action from the establishment
If the govt of the day and if the govt is strong, nothing of this sort.. no terrorist would dare to venture into Indian soil. Terrorism has no religion. No politics.It is purely anti-people and anti-national. If you think about your christian vote-bank, muslim vote-bank, hindu vote-bank, bengali vote-bank, tamil vote-bank before dealing with terrorists then the national interest is lost. That’s my final word. As for Shivraj Patil, he was a good speaker, but please excuse us.
Pradeep
September 15, 2008
What is most shocking is the lack of resolve to make our lives secure. One 9/11 and the US learnt a big lesson. But not we, even after many attacks. Very demoralising.
Bhavik
September 16, 2008
Nothing’s going to change the situation unless we accept the fact that a certain section of the society do support such terrorist ctivities. As they say the first step of solving a problem is accepting it. We all know that the terrorist do get support(putting it mildly) from the locals on the basis of religion. After the ahmedabad blasts jehadi material was found from a well besides a reknown masjid. The young kids of the minority community are brainwashed on the name of religion by terrorists, and the so called secular media who keeps running talk shows on gujarat riots(deliberately avoiding godhra massacre)from past 6 years.
Lunte Samte
September 16, 2008
Meanwhile, attacks on Christians and Churches continue unabated. It’s time to think who is our REAL enemy? If the Bajrand Dal activists really think they’re heroic enough, why don’t they go attack these terrorists? Man to man. One to one…
sanjukta
September 16, 2008
@Lunte Samte
Very well said, Man to man, One to one, if they really want to save the country…
Zenlad
September 16, 2008
@ Lunte Samte
@ Sanjukta
Since both of you like the ‘Man to man, One to One’ idea, shouldn’t you really appeal first to the terrorists to come out of hiding and stand in a public place like real men?
By the way why did we drift off to Orissa? The blasts happened in Delhi…. Hmmmmm…. Do we all get the ‘drift’ here? (Pun intended.)
Zenlad
September 16, 2008
@ Sanjukta
And oh… are you encouraging vigilanteism?? Not to mention that Lunte Samte is trying to hijack your primary topic, and you seem to have let him succeed.
I thought the job of fighting terrorists belongs to the police apparatus… and that people should NOT take the law into their own hands.
Question
September 17, 2008
What we need is to have all the people united against murderers (terrorists). We need to have the group that is involved identified and brought to justice. The best way to do this is to ask for help from the comunity where this has originated. If they would help, this could be solved in a matter of days. There are always people that know who has done this and where they are hiding – these people in the know are in the same community from where the terrorists originated.
India is dominated by Bollywood and its Actors hold a lot of power over Indian people. So I would as Shah Ruk Khan, Saif Ali Khan, Irfan Khan, Naseeruddin Khan, Shabana Azmi and others to condemn this terror and ask the people that know anything about this to help the police to bring the criminals to justice. The people of this country have made the actors everything that they are and the lavish lifestyle they enjoy. It is about time that they give something back to the country that has given them so much without regard to their religion. Stand up for your country.
sanjukta
September 17, 2008
@Zenlad
I agree. I believed Samte’s comment was sarcastic. At least mine was. I don’t actually mean to say all of us should take up arms and start fighting each other. It was more of a cynical knee jerk comment.
But I agree with Samte’s “who are our real enemy”.
Every where every body is fighting. Read my North East updates on this blog and you’d know the amount of insurgency going on in Manipur, Nagaland..their own jihad or whatever. Christians, Muslims, Goro, Khasi, Sikh, Biharis, Naxalites, LTTEs.. as if these were not enough now our so called tolerant peace loving Hindus have also the joined the blood shed camp. The RSS and all its children…Godhra, Kandhamal, Mangalore what are these?
As it goes in criminal jurisprudence, you shouldn’t seek justice if your own hands are tainted with crime. By that means, since every community in this country has taken to violence none of us would be able to seek any justice. Some of us would have to keep the peace…
sanjukta
September 17, 2008
@Gopal
You made a very good point. And it boils down to only one fact, this jihad and all is only some group’s hidden agenda to gain more and more political power. It doesn’t take rocket science to understand that those involved in these blood shed don’t give a shit about their religion or God. And that is true for both Hindu and Muslim terrorist.
Lunte Samte
September 17, 2008
d/zenlad,
i know we’re talking about delhi and i wasn’t trying to drift the topic off to something, or somewhere else. and i ain’t tryinna act like a cool “vigilante.” i was in CP, delhi when the world stopped turning on that september evening. yeah, i was there. i witnessed the chaos. i felt the pain. the anger. and even cried the hell out of my lungs “damn terrorists!”
then in the morning, we read about the incident in front pages – written in bold, red prints. guess what the next page carried? “attacks on christians, churches, nuns continue.” at a time when the nation mourns the blast victims and stands UNITED in the fight for terrorism, it is quite disturbing to read stories of attacks on minorities like christians…
Lunte Samte
September 17, 2008
my point was “let us mourn and stand together and fight terrorism”
saim
September 18, 2008
firstly, let me congratulate u on putting up such a relevant post.u raise some very valid questions of which answers are rquired urgently.
about interpreting Quran part:- what u need to understand is tht d Quran is more than a holy book, also it was brought down not in one go but in sretches whereby u see tht events which were happening in those times are also covered in the Quran, d verses which are quoted by terrorists are actually verses which were brought down in context with a war which was raging at that time, those verses acted as a guide on d conduct to be displayed in wars. also, d verses which mention killing “kafirs” n non believers are purely contextual…they refer to those people who had then broken a peace treaty n attacked Muslims unprovoked…so it wud b wrong to assume tht Quran preaches hatred, Islam itself is derived from d arabic word salam meaning peace…hope tht answers ur n another kafir’s question.
about not condemin part:- yes, I agree tht v dont condemn as it shud be,by tht I mean v shud probably condenm it day in,day out coz a heinous crime as such befits it, but also d media never really publicises our well meaning condemnations, wht dey do publicise is what few uneducated,caught in a time warp, so called keepers of d faith proclaim…trust me, their word holds little value in our minds.muslim personal law board n most imams r not d custodians of our religion, heck most of dem dont even knw d basic principles of Islam.
abt d admin:- d less v say is d better, one more I’d like to point out is tht after every blast v hear a new name, generally nowadays of a well educated Muslim, for a couple of weeks he is maligned,his family is harrased in d media n by d police, den v forget abt d case, y is no 1 ever caught, dont get me wrong, if a person is guilty, death is his only justified penalty but plz dont go n randomly pick up a name to cover ur inadequacies.
I hope u got some answers, I hate these terrorists as much as u do,as v all shud..peace will cum through, am still hopeful..Aameen!!!
Jai
September 21, 2008
haha…good article written in nice way & expressing the anger and helplessness of the ‘common man’ of India. and at the same time a ‘late’ act,these bomb blasts are taking place in India as a routine from a decade or so..when the author her self tasted the ‘fear’ of this act than only she could wake up and ask questions to Muslim leaders or terrorist..! why didn’t you need to ask the same questions when you kept yourself busy on your so called ‘Hindu bashing’?..this is a matter of fact that all of the arrested people in bomb blast cases in last two years are Muslim youths..some of them even s/w engineers and surprisingly many times ‘muftis’ and kaazis(for example in the recently cases master mind named Abu Bashar was a teacher in local Madarsa,in Jaipur blast case the ‘shahar kaazi’ was arrested)!!!! what the hell are these religious heads and ‘religious SCHOLARS’ are doing with these terrorists..??has anyone in this secular India tried to find out…that why only these Muslim youths are so ‘prone’ to this brain washing…if it is..! we have never listen of any Hindus being involved in such these pathetic acts(Bombing people in pieces)and in particular…have you ever seen any Hindu Saint..or Religious head/scholar involved in any damn killing…leave the Bombing case!! and i want to ask this to the ‘self declared secular’ sanjukta(nice name by the way,sounds good…think it’s meaning would also be goOd,would like to know
)that on which basis she keeps the ‘Hindu fundamentalists’ and ‘Muslim fundamentalists’ on same level of national danger??there is a clear difference between the ideologies of hindu & muslim fundamentalism….hindus talk about our nation…India,including all the natives of this land….no matter they are hindus or christians or muslims or paarsi or whatever untill unless they have the feeling of Indianness..(i.e they should be feeling an attachment,a sense of association with this land…its proud history..and its culture and traditions!!)But at the same time ‘Muslim Fundamentalism’ is determined with one aim…with dividing this world in to two groups only…dar-ul-harb(land of war) and dar-ul-islam(land of Islam)!!their only constitution is ‘Islamic Constitution i.e SHARIYA’ no other law…or indian national constitution is abiding to them….for them every non-muslim is a kaafir who deserves to be slain only by a muslim warrior….!!(Hmm feels i’m writing a thriller fiction…..how can i say all this about those people..? do i know them…no dear i have done study and devoted time understanding this very ROOT REASON OF ISLAMIC TERRORISM…about which you have just woken up..the questions you are searching for have been searched by me…and i have the original,full uncensored email of those terrorists calling themselves as ‘Indian Mujahidin’THE SECULAR MEDIA CENSORED IT……a single paragraph from a news paper caused your mind baffled…their are 8-9 pages of such crap which is indeed unbelievable for us..and if you want i can mail to you too..)Now don’t start blaming me as another ‘Hindu brigade supporter’..i realy don’t like activities of these Bajrangies on V-days and the killings of any innocent whether christian or hindu….i’m just an engineering student with as hot blood as in you..and as liberal as you may be..and further little more secular in investigating things..!!
so in short my straight question is ‘why do keep saying that Hindu & Muslim fundamentalists are all same..?’ and yes plz dont start saying about the riots….i hope you better know the difference between erupted riots…and well planned Bomb blasts!!
more questions later…n yes do tell me where to send that terror email to you …sure u’ll be interested in knowing more about it at your own