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A
very good article written by secular nationalist India. Very few
Indians have the courage to say this. Like Arundhati Roy, this man is
also hated by the RSS Hindu terrorists.
Muslims must know these
facts about terrorism and fight back with arguments. Terrorism is NOT a
Muslim phenomenon but a NON Muslim one. Those who do terrorism in the
garb of Muslims are declared as heretics in Islamic faith -- Khawarij !!
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Publication: Times Of India Mumbai;
SWAMINOMICS
Terrorism is certainly not a Muslim monopoly
SWAMINATHAN S ANKLESARIA AIYAR
''All
Muslims may not be terrorists, but all terrorists are Muslims.'' This
comment , frequently heard after the Mumbai bomb blasts implies that
terrorism is a Muslim specialty, if not a monopoly. The facts are very
different.
[ALL CHRISTIAN PEOPLE ARE NOT BAD PEOPLE, BUT ALL
CHRISTIAN COUNTRIES ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR THE MOST DEATHS WORLWIDE CAUSED
BY DROPPING THE BIGGEST BOMBS IN THEIR ARSENAL]
First, there is
nothing new about terrorism. In 1881, anarchists killed the Russian Tsar
Alexander II and 21 bystanders. In 1901, anarchists killed US President
McKinley as well as King Humbert I of Italy . World War I started in
1914 when anarchists killed Archduke Ferdinand of Austria .
These terrorist attacks were not Muslim.
Terrorism
is generally defined as the killing of civilians for political reasons.
Going by this definition, the British Raj referred to Bhagat Singh,
Chandrashekhar Azad and many other Indian freedom fighters as
terrorists.
These were Hindu and Sikh rather than Muslim.
Guerrilla
fighters from Mao Zedong to Ho Chi Minh and Fidel Castro killed
civilians during their revolutionary campaigns. They too were called
terrorists until they triumphed.
Nothing Muslim about them.
In
Palestine , after World War II, Jewish groups (the Haganah, Irgun and
Stern Gang) fought for the creation of a Jewish state, bombing hotels
and installations and killing civilians. The British, who then governed
Palestine , rightly called these Jewish groups terrorists. Many of these
terrorists later became leaders of independent Israel - Moshe Dayan,
Yitzhak Rabin, Menachem Begin, Ariel Sharon. Ironically, these former
terrorists then lambasted terrorism, applying this label only to Arabs
fighting for the very same nationhood that the Jews had fought for
earlier.
In Germany in 1968-92, the Baader-Meinhoff Gang killed
dozens, including the head of Treuhand, the German privatisation agency.
In Italy , the Red Brigades kidnapped and killed Aldo Moro, former
prime minister.
The Japanese Red Army was an Asian version of
this. Japan was also the home of Aum Shinrikyo, a Buddhist cult that
tried to kill thousands in the Tokyo metro system using nerve gas in
1995.
In Europe , the Irish Republican Army has been a Catholic
terrorist organisation for almost a century. Spain and France face a
terrorist challenge from ETA, the Basque terrorist organisation.
Africa
is ravaged by so much civil war and internal strife that few people
even bother to check which groups can be labelled terrorist. They
stretch across the continent. Possibly the most notorious is the
Lord's Salvation Army in Uganda , a Christian outfit that uses children as warriors.
In
Sri Lanka , the Tamil Tigers have long constituted one of the most
vicious and formidable terrorist groups in the world. They were the
first to train children as terrorists. They happen to be Hindus. Suicide
bombing is widely associated with Muslim Palestinians and Iraqis, but
the Tamil Tigers were the first to use this tactic on a large scale. One
such suicide bomber assassinated Rajiv Gandhi in 1991.
In India ,
the militants in Kashmir are Muslim. But they are only one of several
militant groups. The Punjab militants, led by Bhindranwale, were Sikhs.
The United Liberation Front of Assam is a Hindu terrorist group that
targets Muslims rather than the other way round. Tripura has witnessed
the rise and fall of several terrorist groups, and so have Bodo
strongholds in Assam . Christian Mizos mounted an insurrection for
decades, and Christian Nagas are still heading militant groups.
But
most important of all are the Maoist terrorist groups that now exist in
no less than 150 out of India 's 600 districts. They have attacked
police stations, and killed and razed entire villages that oppose them.
These are secular terrorists (like the Baader Meinhof Gang or Red
Brigades).
In terms of membership and area controlled, secular terrorists are far ahead of Muslim terrorists.
In sum, terrorism is certainly not a Muslim monopoly.
There
are or have been terrorist groups among Christians, Jews, Hindus,
Sikhs, and even Buddhists. Secular terrorists (anarchists, Maoists) have
been the biggest killers.
Why then is there such a widespread impression that most or all terrorist groups are Muslim?
I see two reasons.
First,
the Indian elite keenly follows the western media, and the West feels
under attack from Islamic groups. Catholic Irish terrorists have killed
far more people in Britain than Muslims, yet the subway bombings in
London and Madrid are what Europeans remember today.
The Baader
Meinhof Gang, IRA and Red Brigades no longer pose much of a threat, but
after 9/11 Americans and Europeans fear that they could be hit anywhere
anytime.
So they focus attention on Islamic militancy. They pay
little notice to other forms of terrorism in Africa, Sri Lanka or India :
these pose no threat to the West.
Within India , Maoists pose a
far greater threat than Muslim militants in 150 districts, one-third of
India 's area. But major cities feel threatened only by Muslim groups.
So
the national elite and media focus overwhelmingly on Muslim terrorism.
The elite are hardly aware that this is an elite phenomenon.
