“Terror and
Religion cannot live side by side”
By S. Karmakar
Terror is the
easiest means to force a despised philosophy on others. The cowards succumb
quickly but others take a longer time. Only a strong mentality can discharge
resistance to terror and win over evil philosophy. America is a greatest nation
on earth, and has never succumbed to terror; neither in the Second World War
nor after 9/11/2001. Offence is the best form of defense, according to military
minds universally, and only a few nations have that mental strength and courage
to implement it.
Dick Cheney, Vice President
of USA at the time of the 9/11/2001 terror attack, is one of the greatest
military strategy policy makers of present time. The policy speech he made to
the armed forces soon after 9/11/2001 attack is very significant; take the war
in the heart land of terror from where it has generated. USA under leadership
of President Bush immediately launched a counter attack on Taliban safe haven
Afghanistan and forced them go on back foot. Due to this defense policy, USA
has avoided another Taliban surprise attack on its territory.
America never gave
up its commitment to peace against terror even under huge domestic and overseas
pressure. They persuaded Osama Bin Laden nearly a decade to the remote
mountains of Afghanistan and killed him in the safe haven of Pakistan. The wars
against terror have cost many lives and weakened the US economy. Yet, the USA has prevailed as a super power.
The success which Arabs achieved with sword and blade in middle ages, proved to
be unsuccessful in front of superior science & technology (Drone attack) in
21st century. Many Arab countries joined hand with west to fight
back terror in the region, because they are now
realizing the consequences in pain and suffered it brings their own people.
Some Arab countries
even today pursue a policy to despise other faiths so vigorously that
non-Muslims have almost disappeared from the Arab holy land which they claim.
Lebanon was the only Christian majority country in the Middle East two decades ago,
but clever Arabs (OIC) aided large migrations of Palestinians from Jordan to
make it a Muslim majority country. In the name of secularism and in pursuit of petro
dollars, the west kept their eyes closed to these demographic changes until the
period following 9/11/2001. Now it’s too late to return the “Paris of Asia,”
Beirut to its former glory.
After the occupation
of India in 712 AD by Mohammad Bin Qashim, Arabs first came in touch with the great
and tolerant Indian culture and developed Sufism here. Sufism is a tolerant Muslim culture practiced
in many parts of India but not in Saudi Arabia. In middle ages, Arabs launched
many military missions in Africa and Asia to conquer lands and force converts
to Islam. They also helped Arabs to
interact with different culture/faiths, enriching culture and intellect, Sufism.
Today that movement of people is one way for Arabs; they hardly interact with
other cultures. The most peaceful region of all, claimed by Islam doesn’t allow
other faiths to practice their culture in the holy land of Saudi Arabia. This
is very contrary to the verses of Quran where it allows others to practice
their faiths.
Intolerant Arab
culture has produced deadly terrorist organizations like Al-Qaida, Ansarul Islam, Jais-e-Mohammad,
Al-Shba, Al-Aqsa Martyrs
Brigade, Hezbullah, Hamas, Jaysee
Mohammad, and many more. In the Arab cultural and education system, secularism
has no place. The primary concern is whether someone is Muslim or non-Muslim.
Non-Muslims are forbidden in state activities and looked upon as subhuman beings.
In the secular
Indian society, many faiths and cultures have flourished including Buddhism,
Sufism, Sheikhs and Baishnabs. All faiths have lived side by side in India for
centuries without any bloodshed, but due to intolerant philosophy of Arabs, the
sub-continent was divided on a sectarian basis. Arabs have a psychological
problem of coexistence with other religions. The Indian sub continent was broken
into pieces on a sectarian basis in 1947 and again in 1971. Lebanon is heading toward the same fate as India
and will be in Christian and Muslim pieces soon. The intolerant Arab doctrine
of peace is so vibrant that they first fight against non-Muslims and then
against themselves. They always need a shadow enemy to keep their doctrine
moving. Jihad is a vibrant word used to identify non-Muslims and drive the
people to despise them in all ways possible. The West is now victim of their
secular views from Arab Jihadists. Destroying western secular values is the
secret duty of all Arab doctrine believers.
Although Jihad has
costs more Muslim than non-Muslim lives, the doctrine of jihad shows no sign of
tiredness. The world is now divided
between Muslims and non-Muslims. In
every ritual and prayer, Muslims pray for Muslims only; which they call Muslim Ummah and—despite the meaning of that word—did not become
universal. Indians didn’t understand the long term consequences of the 1947
partition. India retains Kashmir still to-day (at a very high cost), but tomorrow
could be different; Kashmir could be like MORO land of the Philippines.
Cultural unity was never emphasized by Indian politicians, as it was by Muslim rulers.
All Muslim rulers new the consequences
of minority rule in occupied territory and concentrated on conversion to Islam
as state responsibility. Today all Muslim countries treat their non-Muslim
population as second class, unwanted elements and deprive them of equal rights
to encourage migration or conversion to Islam.
In the short term, the
Arab doctrine of despising other faiths will work and give them the upper hand.
But in long term the Arab doctrine will lose its acceptability even to its own
people. Pakistan and Bangladesh is already paying the cost of intolerance.
Every year dozens of Bangladesh citizens are beheaded in Arab countries for
murder and rape charges. In their own territory the same offences go unpunished
through bribing the police and using social influence to negotiate with
victims’ families. If the victim is non-Muslim, eluding justice is much easier.
After the creation of Pakistan, the first victims were the non-Muslims; but
after their ethnic cleansing, the “moderate Muslims” became the target of
radicals. Every day hundreds die In Pakistan and hundred in Iraq; they are all
Muslims, and they are killed by Muslims.
Like different
religious, terror is a vibrant religion that will endure as a doctrine for some
time. Eliminating terror from the planet requires reforms in the Arab education
system. Abrupt changes in their doctrine
are necessary to prevent a wide scale war, like the Second World War, from
deciding our fate. Terror and secularism cannot live side by side. Like fascism, terror must be uprooted at any
cost.
“JOY HOK MANUSHER”