The Scourge of Islamic Terrorism

Government and Media Collusion in Downplaying the Mehrauli Terror Blasts
Cable TV viewers in Delhi were witness to a curious series of obfuscations and denials on the part of Media Pundits and various Government Officials. Although several eyewitnesses unequivocally spoke of how two strangers on a speeding motorbike left a bomb in a black polythene bag that exploded (possibly twice) soon after it was innocently handled by a young child, most media channels and police officials attempted to describe it as an ‘accident’ caused by a gas cylinder blast.
While more than one eyewitness set the time of the terror blast at 2.05 or 2.06, most media channels set the time at 2.15,while some even suggested it to be 2:45. Even as a few channels interviewed eyewitnesses who confirmed that at least two children had died immediately after the blasts with their vital organs severed from their bodies, the police and media channels spoke of only one death. As news of deaths of those rushed to hospital filtered through, a few media channels began raising the death toll accordingly. At one point, Times Now was reporting 5 deaths, but miraculously, this number was reduced to just one an hour later.
Even as eyewitnesses described the blasts as deafening enough to be heard a kilometer away, and even as closer eyewitnesses described how blood and vital organs flew out from the victims bodies and seriously injured several bystanders and damage extended to several shops and houses in the vicinity, media analysts insisted upon describing the blast as a ‘low intensity’ affair.
Only a few channels reported that the Health Minister had admitted that the police had been warned by a phone call originating in Faridabad a day prior to the terror blast. Likewise, only a few channels showed the angst of locals who had to call the police several times before anyone bothered to show up at the scene of the crime at 3.30 – almost an hour and a half after the heinous crime.
Several victims were taken to hospital by relatives or local do-gooders and contrary to claims by channels such as NDTV, Star News and others, they were not all taken to AIIMS. One Hindi channel spoke of some victims taken to Safdarjung Hospitals, while other Hindi channels showed the presence of ambulances from Fortis – a private hospital.
Considering that the attack took place just two weeks after the previous serial blasts and was preceded by a provocative warning, the inaction of the police and medical authorities and other top city officials is simply scandalous. It is also notable that no one from the ruling party or its allies appeared in solidarity with the victims of the blast. Considering that the child who died was the son of a poor migrant worker, one might have expected a word of sympathy from amongst at least one of India’s many Communist Parties.
But none of the dominant media channels tried to bring this out.
All kinds of sorry excuses were provided as to how it may not be a terror conspiracy. It was suggested that because there was no ‘warning email’ it may have been a mere accident or the work of some local disgruntled youths.
No one dared to suggest the obvious – that it may have been revenge for the recent arrests of several members of active Islamic terror cells emanating from Azamgarh and using Jamia Milia as a safe haven. That it may have been engineered to confuse the investigations, to make the Delhi police appear incompetent and to demoralize those who were appearing to make progress in the terror investigation.
In recent days, India’s pro-Islamic media has been working overtime to defend those arrested for the previous blasts. Instead of investigating the long history of Jamia’s association with SIMI and other virulently sectarian and narcissistic Islamic terror organisations, instead of dispassionately disseminating the growing body of circumstantial evidence that connects those arrested with multiple acts of terror, they have been harping on the tired old ‘Muslims as Victims’ refrain.
Azamgarh has an old history of aligning with crime and terror. An extraordinary number of Muslim-dominated crime gangs have been traced to Azamgarh. Wealth from crime syndicates, circulation of fake currency notes and earnings from the Persian Gulf have brought a measure of prosperity to several Muslim-majority villages in the region. None of those arrested for terror links were poor. They owned laptops and cellphones. Several had multiple bank accounts with transactions in the lakhs – adding up to crores over the last few years.
Yet, the media refused to challenge the audacious claims of the Jamia authorities that the terrorists were just ‘innocent students’. No media analyst was aghast by the Education Ministers tolerance for the use of public educations funds being misused to defend terrorists. None tried to expose Mulayam or Lallu’s perfidious defence of SIMI – an organization whose ideology reeks of Islamic Imperialism and barely disguised contempt and intolerance for India’s Hindu majority.
In the wake of recent and earlier acts of mass terror against the people of India, it is startling to see how not a single prominent Muslim or supposedly ‘secular’ member of India’s intellectual and political elite has displayed even a smattering of human sympathy for the grief or sorrow for the victims of Islamic terror.
By and large, the worst victims of India’s Islamic terror have been the poor and the migrant working class. But rather than stand in solidarity with them, it is shocking how all of India’s Communist Parties have bent over backwards to protect Islamic reactionaries and violent terrorists.
They have repeated ad nauseam how Islam has been a religion of peace and how Muslims are just innocent victims of Hindu zealots, conveniently forgetting how Islam was brought to Northern India by slave traders who in the name of Islam boasted of their many acts of mass terror and destruction. Islam reached the Gangetic plain with sword in one hand and an utter ideological disdain for the Hindu ‘infidels’ of the subcontinent. To now pretend that Islam came to India entirely ‘peacefully’ or that there is a universal spirit of humanism in all factions of Islam is utterly disingenuous.
For too long, a cross section of Indian intellectuals has connived to hide or minimize the crimes of Islamists in India. They have tried to conceal the fact that there have been (and remain) cancerous strains of Islam that are completely alien to the Indian sub-continent whose adherents (like later British colonizers) have repeatedly exploited caste and other divisions amongst Hindus to conquer the subcontinent and to expropriate its once prolific wealth. SIMI and Jamia are just modern faces of the same sectarian imperial mindset that continues to divide and demoralize the hapless Hindu.
Under such circumstances, it is inevitable that more and more genuinely secular Indians will have to reassess their view of the world. It would be no surprise if they were to conclude that the greatest enemy of secular harmony and peaceful progress in India are not the forces of Hindutva but those deceitful Hindu liberals who repeatedly make common cause with hardened Islamic terrorists who have no sympathy or empathy for their Hindu brethren.
So far, Hindu apologists for sectarian Muslims, for Muslim extremists and terrorists, have been tolerated because they have developed fortress-like vote banks based on narrow caste and religious loyalties. Arjun Singh, Amar Singh, Lallu Prasad and Karunanidhi have repeatedly played the caste card to conceal their venality and incompetence.
Patriarchal politicians and leaders of India’s various left parties who have turned a blind eye to the crimes of Islam have escaped opprobrium because too many Hindus remain trapped in a whirlpool of caste and gender divisions, and Muslims with progressive instincts are too intimidated by their own clerical and intellectual elites.
But once Hindu (and Muslim) women become truly free from the psychological prison of patriarchy and Hindu (and Muslim) men liberate themselves from the vices of nepotism (and other sectarian loyalties), and understand that progress requires humanism, merit and equal opportunity, their consciousness will be transformed, and they will no longer allow themselves to become fodder for cynical politicians who make common cause with Islamic terrorists.
Until then, it is becoming increasingly obvious that under the duplicitous leadership of Sonia Gandhi and her coterie of spineless sycophants, India will remain largely impotent in combating the scourge of Islamic terrorism.
And if prominent Muslims continue to refuse any condemnation and exposure of the terrorists within, more and more Indians will see Islam as the nation’s biggest curse.
No amount of historic or contemporary falsifications will help. A nation that graduates the world’s largest pool of scientists and engineers will surely see through the web of fabrications that have been perpetrated to dupe its hitherto pliant citizenry.
India’s destiny cannot be held hostage by misanthropic journalists and avaricious and grasping politicians who willfully align with the forces of medieval darkness.