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3 Bomb Blasts Shake Central Mumbai.How to wipe out Islamic terror -
Dr. Subramanian Swamy
3 Bomb Blasts Shake Central Mumbai - NYTimes.com
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/14/world/asia/14mumbai.html?_r=1&hp
July 13, 2011
3 Bomb Blasts Shake Central Mumbai
By Vikas Bajaj and J. David Goodman
Mumbai, India - Three bomb blasts shook the city of Mumbai at the
height of the evening rush hour on Wednesday, killing at least 20
people in what Indian officials called a coordinated terror attack on
the country's economic capital.
The explosions struck central locations in the city, including the
crowded Dadar neighborhood; the Zaveri Bazaar, a well-known jewelry
market; and near the Opera House, according to India's Home Ministry,
which said 113 people had been injured.
The attack was the first in Mumbai since militants from Pakistan
mounted large-scale assaults on hotels, a train station and a Jewish
community center in November 2008, killing more than 160 people.
No immediate claim of responsibility for the Wednesday bombings was
reported. India's home minister, P. Chidambaram, said at a news
conference in New Delhi that terror investigation teams had been
dispatched to the blast sites.
The Opera House blast was the strongest of the three, said Prithviraj
Chavan, the chief minister of Maharashtra state, though the precise
severity of the blasts was not immediately clear. Indian news
accounts described the bombs as improvised explosive devices.
Sidewalks in the Dadar neighborhood were littered with shattered
glass as crowds jostled to get into a nearby train station as a rain
fell over the shaken city. Television images showed scenes of minor
destruction.
Officials said that the device in Dadar appeared to have been hidden
in an electrical box near a bus station. "The blast took place at the
meter box of electric cabin of the bus stop, as it looks initially,"
said Madhukar Sapre, an assistant commissioner of police in the Dadar
area. Four people were injured and taken to nearby hospitals.
Another of the devices, at the jewelry market, was hidden in an
umbrella, according to Mumbai's police commissioner.The largest
blast, at the Opera House, occurred just before 7 p.m. local time,
said Bhavesh Bhansali, a merchant who was leaving his nearby office
when he heard a loud blast. Rushing to the site in a narrow but busy
street, he described a bloody scene of dead and dismembered bodies.
He said he knew several of those killed in the attacks, which he said
given the timing and location, were a "very well thought out
conspiracy."
A fourth explosive device was found in Mumbai, but it did not go off.
The city remained on high alert as reports of the blasts spread.
The Zaveri Bazaar jewelry market has been bombed at least twice
before, including a 2003 bombing that killed at least two dozen.
"This is another terrorist attack on Mumbai," said Mr. Chavan, the
chief minister of Maharashtra, the state where Mumbai is located.
The police in Mumbai have been bracing for trouble for months. In
December 2010, police said that several men suspected of belonging to
the Pakistani terror group Lashkar-e-Taiba entered the country;
Indian and American officials say that group carried out the November
2008 attacks,
In February 2010, a bomb explosion at a popular bakery in Pune, a
city 100 miles east of Mumbai, killed 17 people and injured 60
people. Indian officials have said that attack was the work of
terrorists affiliated with Illyas Kashmiri, a Pakistani militant
commander.
Mr. Chavan said the city and state were much better prepared to deal
with Wednesday's blasts than they were during the 2008 attacks. "I
have appealed to the people of Mumbai to maintain calm and peace," he
said. "We are all unitedly facing this challenge."
In a statement, Pakistan swiftly condemned the attack, saying that
the country's leaders "expressed their deepest sympathies to the
Indian leadership" on the loss of life in Mumbai. President Obama in
a statement called the bombings "outrageous" and said the United
States would stand with the Indian people.
Vikas Bajaj reported from Mumbai, India, and J. David Goodman from
New York. Lydia Polgreen contributed reporting from New Delhi.
How to wipe out Islamic terror
By Dr. Subramanian Swamy
Thursday, July 14, 2011
The terrorist blast in Mumbai on July 13, 2011 requires a decisive
soul searching by Hindus of India. Hindus cannot accept to be killed
in this Halal fashion, continuously bleeding every day, till the
nation finally collapses.
Terrorism, I define here as the illegal use of force to overawe the
civilian population to make it do or not do an act against their will
and well-being.
There are about 40 reported and unreported terrorist attacks per
month in the country. That is why the recent US National Counter-
Terrorism Centre publication A Chronology of International Terrorism
states: 'India suffered more terrorist acts than any other country'.
While the PM thinks that Maoists' threat is most serious, I think
Islamic terrorism is an even more serious existential threat. If we
did not have today the present Union Home Minister, PM, and UPA
chairperson, then Maoists can be eliminated in a month, much as I did
with the LTTE in Tamil Nadu, as a senior minister in 1991, or MGR did
with the Naxalites in the early 1980s. Islamic threat to the nation
is different.
Why is Islamic terrorism our number one problem of national security?
About this there will be no doubt in anyone's mind after 2012. By
that year, I expect a Taliban takeover in Pakistan and the Americans
to flee Afghanistan. Then, Islam will confront Hinduism to 'complete
unfinished business'. Already the successor to Osama Bin Laden as the
Al Qaeda leader has declared that India is the priority target for
that terrorist organisation and not the USA.
Fanatic Muslims consider Hindu dominated India as "an unfinished
chapter of Islamic conquests". I may be recalled that all other
countries conquered by Islam became 100% converted to Islam within
two decades of the Islamic invasion. India is the exception.
Undivided India in 1947 was 75% Hindu even after 800 years of brutal
Islamic rule. That is jarring for the Islamic fanatics.
Let us remember that every Hindu-Muslim riot in India since 1947, has
been ignited by Muslim fanatics -- if one goes by all the Commissions
of Inquiry set up after every riot. Even the Gujarat riots were
triggered by the brutal killing of 56 women and children by setting
fire to a rail coach in Godhra.
By today's definition these riots are all terroristacts. Muslims,
though a minority in India, still have fanatics who dare tolead
violent attacks against Hindus. Other Muslims of India just lump it,
sulk or rejoice. That is the history from Babar's time to Aurangzeb.
There have been exceptions to this apathy of Muslims like Dara
Shikoh, in the old days, or like M J Akbar and Salman Haidar today
who are not afraid to speak out against Islamic terror, but still
they remain exceptions.
Blame the Hindus
In one sense, I do not blame the Muslim fanatics for targeting
Hindus. I blame us Hindus who have taken their individuality
permitted in Sanatana Dharma to the extreme. Millions of Hindus can
assemble without state patronage for Kumbh Mela completely self-
organised, but they all leave for home oblivious of the targeting of
Hindus in Kashmir, Mau, Melvisharam and Malappuram and do not lift
their little finger to help organise Hindus. For example, if half the
Hindus vote together rising above their caste and language, a genuine
Hindu party will have a two-thirds majority in Parliament and
Assemblies.
The secularists now tout instances of Hindu fanatics committing
terrorist attacks against Muslims or other minorities. But these
attacks are mostly state sponsored, often by the Congress itself, and
not by Hindu 'non-state actors'. Muslim-led attacks are however all
by 'non-state actors' unless one includes the ISI and rogue elements
in Pakistan's army which are aiding them, as state sponsoring.
Fanatic Muslim attacks have been carried out to target and demoralise
the Hindus, to make Hindus yield that which they should not, with the
aim of undermining and ultimately to dismantle the Hindu foundation
of India. This is the unfinished war of 1,000 years which Osama bin
Laden talks about. In fact, the earliest terror tactics in India were
deployed in Bengal 1946 by Suhrawady and Jinnah to terrorise Hindus
to give in on the demand for Pakistan. The Congress party claiming to
represent the Hindus capitulated, and handed 25 per cent of India on
a platter to Mohammed Ali Jinnah. Now they want the remaining 75 per
cent.
Forces against Hindus
This is not to say that other stooges have not targeted Hindus.
During the last six decades since Independence, British imperialist-
inspired Dravidian movement led by E V Ramaswamy Naicker, in the name
of rationalism tried to debunk as irrational the Hindu religion, and
terrorised the Hindu priestly class, ie, the Brahmins, for
propagating the Hindu religion.
The movement's organisational arm, the Dravida Kazhagam (DK), had
venerated Ravana for 50 years to spite the Hindu adoration of Rama
and vulgarise the abduction of Sita, till the DK belatedly learnt
that Ravana was a Brahmin and a pious bhakta of Lord Shiva too.
Abandoning this course of defaming Ramayana, the DK have now become
stooges of the anti-Indian LTTE which has specialised in killing the
Hindu Tamil leadership in Sri Lanka. Of course the DK has now been
orphaned by the decimation of the LTTE.
Civil war situation
In the 1960s, the Christian missionaries had inspired the Nagas. The
Nagas also wanted to further amputate Bharat Mata by seeking
secession of Nagaland from the nation. In the 1980s, the Hindus of
Manipur were targeted by foreign-trained elements. Manipuris were
told:give up Hinduism or be killed. In Kashmir, since the beginning
of the 1990s, militants in league with the Pakistan-trained
terrorists also targeted the Hindus by driving the Hindu Pandits out
of the Valley, or killing them or dishonouring their women folk.
Recognising that targeting of Hindus is being widely perceived, and
that Muslims of India are largely just passive spectators, the
foreign patrons of Islamic terrorists are beginning to engage in
terrorist acts that could pit Muslims against Hindus in nation-wide
conflagration and possible civil war as in Serbia and Bosnia.
Muslims cannot be divided into 'moderates' and 'extremists' because
the former just capitulate when confronted. Recently, Pakistan
civilian government capitulated on 'kite flying' and banned it
because Taliban considers it as 'Hindu'. Moderate governments of
Malaysia and Kazhakstan are now demolishing Hindu temples.
Collective response
Hence, the first lesson to be learnt from recent history of Islamic
terrorism against India, and for tackling terrorism in India is that
the Hindu is the target and that Muslims of India are being
programmed by a slow reactive process to become radical and thus
slide into suicide against Hindus. It is to undermine the Hindu
psyche and create fear of civil war that terror attacks are
organised.
And hence since the Hindu is the target, Hindus must collectively
respond as Hindus against the terrorist and not feel individually
isolated or worse, be complacent because he or she is not personally
affected. If one Hindu dies merely because he or she was a Hindu,
then a bit of every Hindu also dies. This is an essential mental
attitude, a necessary part of a virat Hindu (for fuller discussion of
the concept of virat Hindu, see my Hindus Under Siege: The Way Out
Haranand, 2006).
Therefore we need today a collective mindset as Hindus to stand
against the Islamic terrorist. In this response, Muslims of India can
join us if they genuinely feel for the Hindu. That they do, I will
not believe, unless they acknowledge with pride that though they may
be Muslims, their ancestors are Hindus.
It is not easy for them to acknowledge this ancestry because the
Muslim mullah would consider it as unacceptable since that
realisation would dilute the religious fervour in their faith and
also create an option for their possible re-conversion to Hinduism.
Hence, these religious leaders preach hatred and violence against the
kafir i.e, the Hindu (for example read Chapter 8 verse 12 of the
Quran) to keep the faith of their followers. The Islamic terrorist
outfits, e.g the SIMI, has already resolved that India is Darul
Harab, and they are committed to make it Darul Islam. That makes them
free of any moral compunction whatsoever in dealing with Hindus.
Brihad Hindu Samaj
But still, if any Muslim does so acknowledge his or her Hindu legacy,
then we Hindus can accept him or her as a part of the Brihad Hindu
Samaj, which is Hindustan. India that is Bharat that is Hindustan is
a nation of Hindus and others whose ancestors are Hindus. Even Parsis
and Jews in India have Hindu ancestors. Others, who refuse to so
acknowledge or those foreigners who become Indian citizens by
registration can remain in India, but should not have voting rights
(which means they cannot be elected representatives).
Hence, to begin with, any policy to combat terrorism must begin with
requiring each and every Hindu becoming a committed or virat Hindu.
To be a virat Hindu one must have a Hindu mindset, a mindset that
recognises that there is vyaktigat charitra (personal character) and
a rashtriya charitra (national character).
It is not enough if one is pious, honest and educated. That is the
personal character only. National character is a mindset actively and
vigorously committed to the sanctity and integrity of the nation. For
example, Manmohan Singh, our prime minister, has high personal
character (vyaktigat charitra), but by being a rubber stamp of a
semi-literate Sonia Gandhi, and waffling on all national issues, he
has proved that he has no rashtriya charitra.
The second lesson for combating the terrorism we face today is: since
demoralising the Hindu and undermining the Hindu foundation of India
in order to destroy the Hindu civilisation, is the goal of all
terrorists in India we must never capitulate and never concede any
demand of the terrorists. The basic policy has to be: never yield to
any demand of the terrorists. That necessary resolve has not been
shown in our recent history. Instead ever since we conceded Pakistan
in 1947 under duress, we have been mostly yielding time and again.
Bowing to terrorists
In 1989, to obtain the release of Mufti Mohammed Sayeed's daughter,
Rubaiyya who had been kidnapped by terrorists, five terrorists in
Indian jails were set free by the V P Singh's government. This made
these criminals in the eyes of Kashmiri separatists and fence sitters
heroes, as those who had brought India's Hindu establishment on its
knees. To save Rubaiyya it was not necessary to surrender to
terrorist demands.
A worse capitulation to terrorists in our modern history was in the
Indian Airlines IC-814 hijack in December 1999 staged in Kandahar.
The government released three terrorists even without getting court
permission (required since they were in judicial custody). Moreover,
they were escorted by a senior minister on the PM's special Boeing
all the way to Kandahar as royal guests instead of being shoved
across the Indo-Pakistan border.
Worse still, all the three after being freed, went back to Pakistan
and created three separate terrorist organisations to kill Hindus.
Mohammed Azhar, whom the National Security Advisor Brijesh Mishra had
then described as "a mere harmless cleric", upon his release led the
LeT to savage and repeated terrorist attacks on Hindus all over India
from Bangalore to Srinagar. Since mid-2000, Azhar is responsible for
the killing of over 2,000 Hindus and the attack on Parliament on
December 13, 2001. Omar Sheikh who helped al-Qaeda is in jail in US
custody for killing US journalist Daniel Pearl, while the third,
Zargar is engaged today in random killings of Hindus in Doda and
Jammu after founding Al-Mujahideen Jingaan.
This Kandahar episode proves that we should never negotiate with
terrorists, never yield. If you do, then sooner or later you will end
up losing more lives than you will ever save by a deal with
terrorists.
Moment of truth
The third lesson to be learnt is that whatever and however small the
terrorist incident, the nation must retaliate--not by measured and
'sober' responses but by massive retaliation. Otherwise what is the
alternative? Walk meekly to death expecting that our 'sober'
responses will be rewarded by our neighbours and their patrons? We
will be back to 1100 AD fooled into suicidal credulity. We should not
be ghouls for punishment from terrorists and their patrons. We should
retaliate.
For example, when Ayodhya temple was sought to be attacked, this was
not a big terrorist incident but we should have massively retaliated
by re-building the Ram temple at the site.
This is Kaliyug, and hence there is no room for sattvic responses to
evil people. Hindu religion has a concept of apat dharma and we
should invoke it. This is the moment of truth for us. Either we
organise to survive as a civilisation or vanish as the Persian,
Babylonian, and Egyptian civilisations did centuries ago before the
brutal Islamic onslaught. For that our motto should be Saam, Dhaam,
Bheda, Danda.
Poverty is no factor What motivates the Islamic terrorists in India?
Many are advising us Hindus to deal with the root 'cause' of
terrorism rather than concentrate on eradicating terrorists by
retaliation. And pray what is the root 'cause'?
According to bleeding heart liberals, terrorists are born or bred
because of illiteracy, poverty, oppression, and discrimination. They
argue that instead of eliminating them, the root cause of these four
disabilities in society should be removed. Only then terrorism will
disappear. Before replying to this, let us understand that I have
serious doubts about the integrity of these liberals, or more
appropriately, these promiscuous intellectuals. They seek to deaden
the emotive power of the individual and render him passive (inculcate
'majboori' in our psyche). A nation state cannot survive for long
with such a capitulationist mentality.
It is rubbish to say that terrorists who mastermind the attacks are
poor. Osama bin laden for example is a billionaire. Islamic
terrorists are patronised by those states that have grown rich from
oil revenues. In Britain, the terrorists arrested so far for the
bombings are all well-to-do persons. Nor are terrorists uneducated.
Most of terrorist leaders are doctors, chartered accountants, MBAs
and teachers. For example, in the failed Times Square New York
episode, the Islamic terrorist Shahzad studied and got an MBA from a
reputed US university. He was from a highly placed family in
Pakistan. He certainly faced no discrimination and oppression in his
own country. The gang of nine persons who hijacked four planes on
September 11, 2001 and flew them into the World Trade Towers in New
York and other targets were certainly not discriminated or oppressed
in the United States. Hence it is utter rubbish to say that terror is
the outcome of the poverty terrorists face.
If we accept the Left-wing liberals argument, does it mean that in
Islamic countries, the non-Islamic religious minority who are
discriminated and oppressed can take to terrorism? In the Valley,
where Muslims are in majority, not only Article 370 of the
Constitution provides privileges to the majority but it is the
minority Hindus who have been slaughtered, or raped, and
dispossessed. They have become refugees in squalid conditions in
their own country.
It is also a ridiculous idea that terrorists cannot be deterred
because they are irrational, willing to die, and have no 'return
address'. Terrorist masterminds have political goals and a method in
their madness. An effective strategy to deter terrorism is therefore
to defeat those political goals and to rubbish them by counter-
terrorist action. How is that strategy to be structured? In a
brilliant research paper published by Robert Trager and Dessislava
Zagorcheva this year ('Deterring Terrorism' International Security,
vol 30, No 3, Winter 2005/06, pp 87-123) has provided the general
principles to structure such a strategy.
Goal-strategy Applying these principles, I advocate the following
strategy to negate the political goals of Islamic terrorism in India,
provided the Muslim community fail to condemn these goals and call
them un-Islamic:
Goal 1: Overawe India on Kashmir.
Strategy: Remove Article 370, and re-settle ex-servicemen in the
Valley. Create Panun Kashmir for Hindu Pandit community. Look or
create opportunity to take over PoK. If Pakistan continues to back
terrorists, assist the Baluchis and Sindhis to struggle for
independence.
Goal 2: Blast our temples and kill Hindu devotees.
Strategy: Remove the masjid in Kashi Vishwanath temple complex, and
300 others in other sites as a tit-for-tat.
Goal 3: Make India into Darul Islam.
Strategy: Implement Uniform Civil Code, make Sanskrit learning
compulsory and singing of Vande Mataram mandatory, and declare India
as Hindu Rashtra in which only those non-Hindus can vote if they
proudly acknowledge that their ancestors are Hindus. Re-name India as
Hindustan as a nation of Hindus and those whose ancestors are Hindus.
Goal 4: Change India's demography by illegal immigration, conversion,
and refusal to adopt family planning.
Strategy: Enact a national law prohibiting conversion from Hindu
religion to any other religion. Re-conversion will not be banned.
Declare caste is not birth-based but code of discipline based.
Welcome non-Hindus to re-convert to the caste of their choice
provided they adhere to the code of discipline. Annex land from
Bangladesh in proportion to the illegal migrants from that country
staying in India. At present, northern one-third from Sylhet to
Khulna can be annexed to re-settle the illegal migrants.
Goal 5: Denigrate Hinduism through vulgar writings and preaching in
mosques, madrassas, and churches to create loss of self-respect
amongst Hindus and make them fit for capitulation.
Strategy: Propagate the development of a Hindu mindset (see my new
book Hindutva and National Renaissance, Haranand, 2010).
India can solve its terrorist problem within five years by such a
deterrent strategy, but for that we have to learn the four lessons
outlined above, and have a Hindu mindset to take bold, risky, and
hard decisions to defend the nation. If the Jews can be transformed
from lambs walking meekly to the gas chambers to fiery lions in just
10 years, it is not difficult for Hindus in much better circumstances
(after all we are 83 per cent of India), to do so in five years.
Guru Gobind Singh has shown us the way already, how just five
fearless persons under spiritual guidance can transform a society.
Even if half the Hindu voters are persuaded to collectively vote as
Hindus, and for a party sincerely committed to a Hindu agenda, then
we can forge an instrument for change. And that ultimately is the
bottom line in the strategy to deter terrorism in a democratic
Hindustan at this moment of truth.
About the author:
Subramanian Swamy Janata Party President is a Professor of Economics
and a former Union Cabinet Minister
"Deterring Terrorism: It Can Be Done"
http://belfercenter.ksg.harvard.edu/publication/719/deterring_terrorism.html
Journal Article, International Security, volume 30, issue 3, pages
87-123 Winter 2005/06
Authors: Robert Trager, Dessislava Zagorcheva
Belfer Center Programs or Projects: International Security; Quarterly
Journal: International Security
ABSTRACT
Many scholars and policymakers argue that deterrence strategies have
no significant role to play in counterterrorism. The case against
deterrence rests on three pillars: terrorists are irrational; they
value their political ends far above anything deterring states could
hold at risk; and they are impossible to find. Each pillar is either
incorrect or its implications for deterrence have been misunderstood.
Under certain conditions, deterrence is preferable to the use of
force. Analysis of the structure of terrorist networks and the
processes that produce attacks, as well as the multiple objectives of
terrorist organizations, suggests that some deterrence strategies are
more effective than those of the past. In particular, many terrorist
groups and elements of terrorist support networks can likely be
deterred from cooperating with the most threatening terrorist groups,
such as al-Qaida. Although the use of force against multiple groups
creates common interests among them, an appropriate deterrence
strategy could fracture global terrorist networks. The current policy
of the U.S. and Philippine governments toward the Moro Islamic
Liberation Front (MILF) and the Abu Sayyaf Group illustrates the
potential of this approach and the risks of using force. Not only can
groups such as the MILF be deterred from cooperating with al-Qaida,
they may even be coerced into providing local intelligence on
operatives linked to it.
For more information about this publication please contact the IS
Editorial Assistant at 617-495-1914.
For Academic Citation:
Trager, Robert F., and Dessislava P. Zagorcheva. "Deterring
Terrorism: It Can Be Done." International Security 30, no. 3 (Winter
2005/06): 87-123.
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WEDNESDAY, JULY 13, 2011
3 Bomb Blasts Shake Central Mumbai.How to wipe out Islamic terror -
Dr. Subramanian Swamy
3 Bomb Blasts Shake Central Mumbai - NYTimes.com
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/14/world/asia/14mumbai.html?_r=1&hp
July 13, 2011
3 Bomb Blasts Shake Central Mumbai
By Vikas Bajaj and J. David Goodman
Mumbai, India - Three bomb blasts shook the city of Mumbai at the
height of the evening rush hour on Wednesday, killing at least 20
people in what Indian officials called a coordinated terror attack on
the country's economic capital.
The explosions struck central locations in the city, including the
crowded Dadar neighborhood; the Zaveri Bazaar, a well-known jewelry
market; and near the Opera House, according to India's Home Ministry,
which said 113 people had been injured.
The attack was the first in Mumbai since militants from Pakistan
mounted large-scale assaults on hotels, a train station and a Jewish
community center in November 2008, killing more than 160 people.
No immediate claim of responsibility for the Wednesday bombings was
reported. India's home minister, P. Chidambaram, said at a news
conference in New Delhi that terror investigation teams had been
dispatched to the blast sites.
The Opera House blast was the strongest of the three, said Prithviraj
Chavan, the chief minister of Maharashtra state, though the precise
severity of the blasts was not immediately clear. Indian news
accounts described the bombs as improvised explosive devices.
Sidewalks in the Dadar neighborhood were littered with shattered
glass as crowds jostled to get into a nearby train station as a rain
fell over the shaken city. Television images showed scenes of minor
destruction.
Officials said that the device in Dadar appeared to have been hidden
in an electrical box near a bus station. "The blast took place at the
meter box of electric cabin of the bus stop, as it looks initially,"
said Madhukar Sapre, an assistant commissioner of police in the Dadar
area. Four people were injured and taken to nearby hospitals.
Another of the devices, at the jewelry market, was hidden in an
umbrella, according to Mumbai's police commissioner.The largest
blast, at the Opera House, occurred just before 7 p.m. local time,
said Bhavesh Bhansali, a merchant who was leaving his nearby office
when he heard a loud blast. Rushing to the site in a narrow but busy
street, he described a bloody scene of dead and dismembered bodies.
He said he knew several of those killed in the attacks, which he said
given the timing and location, were a "very well thought out
conspiracy."
A fourth explosive device was found in Mumbai, but it did not go off.
The city remained on high alert as reports of the blasts spread.
The Zaveri Bazaar jewelry market has been bombed at least twice
before, including a 2003 bombing that killed at least two dozen.
"This is another terrorist attack on Mumbai," said Mr. Chavan, the
chief minister of Maharashtra, the state where Mumbai is located.
The police in Mumbai have been bracing for trouble for months. In
December 2010, police said that several men suspected of belonging to
the Pakistani terror group Lashkar-e-Taiba entered the country;
Indian and American officials say that group carried out the November
2008 attacks,
In February 2010, a bomb explosion at a popular bakery in Pune, a
city 100 miles east of Mumbai, killed 17 people and injured 60
people. Indian officials have said that attack was the work of
terrorists affiliated with Illyas Kashmiri, a Pakistani militant
commander.
Mr. Chavan said the city and state were much better prepared to deal
with Wednesday's blasts than they were during the 2008 attacks. "I
have appealed to the people of Mumbai to maintain calm and peace," he
said. "We are all unitedly facing this challenge."
In a statement, Pakistan swiftly condemned the attack, saying that
the country's leaders "expressed their deepest sympathies to the
Indian leadership" on the loss of life in Mumbai. President Obama in
a statement called the bombings "outrageous" and said the United
States would stand with the Indian people.
Vikas Bajaj reported from Mumbai, India, and J. David Goodman from
New York. Lydia Polgreen contributed reporting from New Delhi.
How to wipe out Islamic terror
By Dr. Subramanian Swamy
Thursday, July 14, 2011
The terrorist blast in Mumbai on July 13, 2011 requires a decisive
soul searching by Hindus of India. Hindus cannot accept to be killed
in this Halal fashion, continuously bleeding every day, till the
nation finally collapses.
Terrorism, I define here as the illegal use of force to overawe the
civilian population to make it do or not do an act against their will
and well-being.
There are about 40 reported and unreported terrorist attacks per
month in the country. That is why the recent US National Counter-
Terrorism Centre publication A Chronology of International Terrorism
states: 'India suffered more terrorist acts than any other country'.
While the PM thinks that Maoists' threat is most serious, I think
Islamic terrorism is an even more serious existential threat. If we
did not have today the present Union Home Minister, PM, and UPA
chairperson, then Maoists can be eliminated in a month, much as I did
with the LTTE in Tamil Nadu, as a senior minister in 1991, or MGR did
with the Naxalites in the early 1980s. Islamic threat to the nation
is different.
Why is Islamic terrorism our number one problem of national security?
About this there will be no doubt in anyone's mind after 2012. By
that year, I expect a Taliban takeover in Pakistan and the Americans
to flee Afghanistan. Then, Islam will confront Hinduism to 'complete
unfinished business'. Already the successor to Osama Bin Laden as the
Al Qaeda leader has declared that India is the priority target for
that terrorist organisation and not the USA.
Fanatic Muslims consider Hindu dominated India as "an unfinished
chapter of Islamic conquests". I may be recalled that all other
countries conquered by Islam became 100% converted to Islam within
two decades of the Islamic invasion. India is the exception.
Undivided India in 1947 was 75% Hindu even after 800 years of brutal
Islamic rule. That is jarring for the Islamic fanatics.
Let us remember that every Hindu-Muslim riot in India since 1947, has
been ignited by Muslim fanatics -- if one goes by all the Commissions
of Inquiry set up after every riot. Even the Gujarat riots were
triggered by the brutal killing of 56 women and children by setting
fire to a rail coach in Godhra.
By today's definition these riots are all terroristacts. Muslims,
though a minority in India, still have fanatics who dare tolead
violent attacks against Hindus. Other Muslims of India just lump it,
sulk or rejoice. That is the history from Babar's time to Aurangzeb.
There have been exceptions to this apathy of Muslims like Dara
Shikoh, in the old days, or like M J Akbar and Salman Haidar today
who are not afraid to speak out against Islamic terror, but still
they remain exceptions.
Blame the Hindus
In one sense, I do not blame the Muslim fanatics for targeting
Hindus. I blame us Hindus who have taken their individuality
permitted in Sanatana Dharma to the extreme. Millions of Hindus can
assemble without state patronage for Kumbh Mela completely self-
organised, but they all leave for home oblivious of the targeting of
Hindus in Kashmir, Mau, Melvisharam and Malappuram and do not lift
their little finger to help organise Hindus. For example, if half the
Hindus vote together rising above their caste and language, a genuine
Hindu party will have a two-thirds majority in Parliament and
Assemblies.
The secularists now tout instances of Hindu fanatics committing
terrorist attacks against Muslims or other minorities. But these
attacks are mostly state sponsored, often by the Congress itself, and
not by Hindu 'non-state actors'. Muslim-led attacks are however all
by 'non-state actors' unless one includes the ISI and rogue elements
in Pakistan's army which are aiding them, as state sponsoring.
Fanatic Muslim attacks have been carried out to target and demoralise
the Hindus, to make Hindus yield that which they should not, with the
aim of undermining and ultimately to dismantle the Hindu foundation
of India. This is the unfinished war of 1,000 years which Osama bin
Laden talks about. In fact, the earliest terror tactics in India were
deployed in Bengal 1946 by Suhrawady and Jinnah to terrorise Hindus
to give in on the demand for Pakistan. The Congress party claiming to
represent the Hindus capitulated, and handed 25 per cent of India on
a platter to Mohammed Ali Jinnah. Now they want the remaining 75 per
cent.
Forces against Hindus
This is not to say that other stooges have not targeted Hindus.
During the last six decades since Independence, British imperialist-
inspired Dravidian movement led by E V Ramaswamy Naicker, in the name
of rationalism tried to debunk as irrational the Hindu religion, and
terrorised the Hindu priestly class, ie, the Brahmins, for
propagating the Hindu religion.
The movement's organisational arm, the Dravida Kazhagam (DK), had
venerated Ravana for 50 years to spite the Hindu adoration of Rama
and vulgarise the abduction of Sita, till the DK belatedly learnt
that Ravana was a Brahmin and a pious bhakta of Lord Shiva too.
Abandoning this course of defaming Ramayana, the DK have now become
stooges of the anti-Indian LTTE which has specialised in killing the
Hindu Tamil leadership in Sri Lanka. Of course the DK has now been
orphaned by the decimation of the LTTE.
Civil war situation
In the 1960s, the Christian missionaries had inspired the Nagas. The
Nagas also wanted to further amputate Bharat Mata by seeking
secession of Nagaland from the nation. In the 1980s, the Hindus of
Manipur were targeted by foreign-trained elements. Manipuris were
told:give up Hinduism or be killed. In Kashmir, since the beginning
of the 1990s, militants in league with the Pakistan-trained
terrorists also targeted the Hindus by driving the Hindu Pandits out
of the Valley, or killing them or dishonouring their women folk.
Recognising that targeting of Hindus is being widely perceived, and
that Muslims of India are largely just passive spectators, the
foreign patrons of Islamic terrorists are beginning to engage in
terrorist acts that could pit Muslims against Hindus in nation-wide
conflagration and possible civil war as in Serbia and Bosnia.
Muslims cannot be divided into 'moderates' and 'extremists' because
the former just capitulate when confronted. Recently, Pakistan
civilian government capitulated on 'kite flying' and banned it
because Taliban considers it as 'Hindu'. Moderate governments of
Malaysia and Kazhakstan are now demolishing Hindu temples.
Collective response
Hence, the first lesson to be learnt from recent history of Islamic
terrorism against India, and for tackling terrorism in India is that
the Hindu is the target and that Muslims of India are being
programmed by a slow reactive process to become radical and thus
slide into suicide against Hindus. It is to undermine the Hindu
psyche and create fear of civil war that terror attacks are
organised.
And hence since the Hindu is the target, Hindus must collectively
respond as Hindus against the terrorist and not feel individually
isolated or worse, be complacent because he or she is not personally
affected. If one Hindu dies merely because he or she was a Hindu,
then a bit of every Hindu also dies. This is an essential mental
attitude, a necessary part of a virat Hindu (for fuller discussion of
the concept of virat Hindu, see my Hindus Under Siege: The Way Out
Haranand, 2006).
Therefore we need today a collective mindset as Hindus to stand
against the Islamic terrorist. In this response, Muslims of India can
join us if they genuinely feel for the Hindu. That they do, I will
not believe, unless they acknowledge with pride that though they may
be Muslims, their ancestors are Hindus.
It is not easy for them to acknowledge this ancestry because the
Muslim mullah would consider it as unacceptable since that
realisation would dilute the religious fervour in their faith and
also create an option for their possible re-conversion to Hinduism.
Hence, these religious leaders preach hatred and violence against the
kafir i.e, the Hindu (for example read Chapter 8 verse 12 of the
Quran) to keep the faith of their followers. The Islamic terrorist
outfits, e.g the SIMI, has already resolved that India is Darul
Harab, and they are committed to make it Darul Islam. That makes them
free of any moral compunction whatsoever in dealing with Hindus.
Brihad Hindu Samaj
But still, if any Muslim does so acknowledge his or her Hindu legacy,
then we Hindus can accept him or her as a part of the Brihad Hindu
Samaj, which is Hindustan. India that is Bharat that is Hindustan is
a nation of Hindus and others whose ancestors are Hindus. Even Parsis
and Jews in India have Hindu ancestors. Others, who refuse to so
acknowledge or those foreigners who become Indian citizens by
registration can remain in India, but should not have voting rights
(which means they cannot be elected representatives).
Hence, to begin with, any policy to combat terrorism must begin with
requiring each and every Hindu becoming a committed or virat Hindu.
To be a virat Hindu one must have a Hindu mindset, a mindset that
recognises that there is vyaktigat charitra (personal character) and
a rashtriya charitra (national character).
It is not enough if one is pious, honest and educated. That is the
personal character only. National character is a mindset actively and
vigorously committed to the sanctity and integrity of the nation. For
example, Manmohan Singh, our prime minister, has high personal
character (vyaktigat charitra), but by being a rubber stamp of a
semi-literate Sonia Gandhi, and waffling on all national issues, he
has proved that he has no rashtriya charitra.
The second lesson for combating the terrorism we face today is: since
demoralising the Hindu and undermining the Hindu foundation of India
in order to destroy the Hindu civilisation, is the goal of all
terrorists in India we must never capitulate and never concede any
demand of the terrorists. The basic policy has to be: never yield to
any demand of the terrorists. That necessary resolve has not been
shown in our recent history. Instead ever since we conceded Pakistan
in 1947 under duress, we have been mostly yielding time and again.
Bowing to terrorists
In 1989, to obtain the release of Mufti Mohammed Sayeed's daughter,
Rubaiyya who had been kidnapped by terrorists, five terrorists in
Indian jails were set free by the V P Singh's government. This made
these criminals in the eyes of Kashmiri separatists and fence sitters
heroes, as those who had brought India's Hindu establishment on its
knees. To save Rubaiyya it was not necessary to surrender to
terrorist demands.
A worse capitulation to terrorists in our modern history was in the
Indian Airlines IC-814 hijack in December 1999 staged in Kandahar.
The government released three terrorists even without getting court
permission (required since they were in judicial custody). Moreover,
they were escorted by a senior minister on the PM's special Boeing
all the way to Kandahar as royal guests instead of being shoved
across the Indo-Pakistan border.
Worse still, all the three after being freed, went back to Pakistan
and created three separate terrorist organisations to kill Hindus.
Mohammed Azhar, whom the National Security Advisor Brijesh Mishra had
then described as "a mere harmless cleric", upon his release led the
LeT to savage and repeated terrorist attacks on Hindus all over India
from Bangalore to Srinagar. Since mid-2000, Azhar is responsible for
the killing of over 2,000 Hindus and the attack on Parliament on
December 13, 2001. Omar Sheikh who helped al-Qaeda is in jail in US
custody for killing US journalist Daniel Pearl, while the third,
Zargar is engaged today in random killings of Hindus in Doda and
Jammu after founding Al-Mujahideen Jingaan.
This Kandahar episode proves that we should never negotiate with
terrorists, never yield. If you do, then sooner or later you will end
up losing more lives than you will ever save by a deal with
terrorists.
Moment of truth
The third lesson to be learnt is that whatever and however small the
terrorist incident, the nation must retaliate--not by measured and
'sober' responses but by massive retaliation. Otherwise what is the
alternative? Walk meekly to death expecting that our 'sober'
responses will be rewarded by our neighbours and their patrons? We
will be back to 1100 AD fooled into suicidal credulity. We should not
be ghouls for punishment from terrorists and their patrons. We should
retaliate.
For example, when Ayodhya temple was sought to be attacked, this was
not a big terrorist incident but we should have massively retaliated
by re-building the Ram temple at the site.
This is Kaliyug, and hence there is no room for sattvic responses to
evil people. Hindu religion has a concept of apat dharma and we
should invoke it. This is the moment of truth for us. Either we
organise to survive as a civilisation or vanish as the Persian,
Babylonian, and Egyptian civilisations did centuries ago before the
brutal Islamic onslaught. For that our motto should be Saam, Dhaam,
Bheda, Danda.
Poverty is no factor What motivates the Islamic terrorists in India?
Many are advising us Hindus to deal with the root 'cause' of
terrorism rather than concentrate on eradicating terrorists by
retaliation. And pray what is the root 'cause'?
According to bleeding heart liberals, terrorists are born or bred
because of illiteracy, poverty, oppression, and discrimination. They
argue that instead of eliminating them, the root cause of these four
disabilities in society should be removed. Only then terrorism will
disappear. Before replying to this, let us understand that I have
serious doubts about the integrity of these liberals, or more
appropriately, these promiscuous intellectuals. They seek to deaden
the emotive power of the individual and render him passive (inculcate
'majboori' in our psyche). A nation state cannot survive for long
with such a capitulationist mentality.
It is rubbish to say that terrorists who mastermind the attacks are
poor. Osama bin laden for example is a billionaire. Islamic
terrorists are patronised by those states that have grown rich from
oil revenues. In Britain, the terrorists arrested so far for the
bombings are all well-to-do persons. Nor are terrorists uneducated.
Most of terrorist leaders are doctors, chartered accountants, MBAs
and teachers. For example, in the failed Times Square New York
episode, the Islamic terrorist Shahzad studied and got an MBA from a
reputed US university. He was from a highly placed family in
Pakistan. He certainly faced no discrimination and oppression in his
own country. The gang of nine persons who hijacked four planes on
September 11, 2001 and flew them into the World Trade Towers in New
York and other targets were certainly not discriminated or oppressed
in the United States. Hence it is utter rubbish to say that terror is
the outcome of the poverty terrorists face.
If we accept the Left-wing liberals argument, does it mean that in
Islamic countries, the non-Islamic religious minority who are
discriminated and oppressed can take to terrorism? In the Valley,
where Muslims are in majority, not only Article 370 of the
Constitution provides privileges to the majority but it is the
minority Hindus who have been slaughtered, or raped, and
dispossessed. They have become refugees in squalid conditions in
their own country.
It is also a ridiculous idea that terrorists cannot be deterred
because they are irrational, willing to die, and have no 'return
address'. Terrorist masterminds have political goals and a method in
their madness. An effective strategy to deter terrorism is therefore
to defeat those political goals and to rubbish them by counter-
terrorist action. How is that strategy to be structured? In a
brilliant research paper published by Robert Trager and Dessislava
Zagorcheva this year ('Deterring Terrorism' International Security,
vol 30, No 3, Winter 2005/06, pp 87-123) has provided the general
principles to structure such a strategy.
Goal-strategy Applying these principles, I advocate the following
strategy to negate the political goals of Islamic terrorism in India,
provided the Muslim community fail to condemn these goals and call
them un-Islamic:
Goal 1: Overawe India on Kashmir.
Strategy: Remove Article 370, and re-settle ex-servicemen in the
Valley. Create Panun Kashmir for Hindu Pandit community. Look or
create opportunity to take over PoK. If Pakistan continues to back
terrorists, assist the Baluchis and Sindhis to struggle for
independence.
Goal 2: Blast our temples and kill Hindu devotees.
Strategy: Remove the masjid in Kashi Vishwanath temple complex, and
300 others in other sites as a tit-for-tat.
Goal 3: Make India into Darul Islam.
Strategy: Implement Uniform Civil Code, make Sanskrit learning
compulsory and singing of Vande Mataram mandatory, and declare India
as Hindu Rashtra in which only those non-Hindus can vote if they
proudly acknowledge that their ancestors are Hindus. Re-name India as
Hindustan as a nation of Hindus and those whose ancestors are Hindus.
Goal 4: Change India's demography by illegal immigration, conversion,
and refusal to adopt family planning.
Strategy: Enact a national law prohibiting conversion from Hindu
religion to any other religion. Re-conversion will not be banned.
Declare caste is not birth-based but code of discipline based.
Welcome non-Hindus to re-convert to the caste of their choice
provided they adhere to the code of discipline. Annex land from
Bangladesh in proportion to the illegal migrants from that country
staying in India. At present, northern one-third from Sylhet to
Khulna can be annexed to re-settle the illegal migrants.
Goal 5: Denigrate Hinduism through vulgar writings and preaching in
mosques, madrassas, and churches to create loss of self-respect
amongst Hindus and make them fit for capitulation.
Strategy: Propagate the development of a Hindu mindset (see my new
book Hindutva and National Renaissance, Haranand, 2010).
India can solve its terrorist problem within five years by such a
deterrent strategy, but for that we have to learn the four lessons
outlined above, and have a Hindu mindset to take bold, risky, and
hard decisions to defend the nation. If the Jews can be transformed
from lambs walking meekly to the gas chambers to fiery lions in just
10 years, it is not difficult for Hindus in much better circumstances
(after all we are 83 per cent of India), to do so in five years.
Guru Gobind Singh has shown us the way already, how just five
fearless persons under spiritual guidance can transform a society.
Even if half the Hindu voters are persuaded to collectively vote as
Hindus, and for a party sincerely committed to a Hindu agenda, then
we can forge an instrument for change. And that ultimately is the
bottom line in the strategy to deter terrorism in a democratic
Hindustan at this moment of truth.
About the author:
Subramanian Swamy Janata Party President is a Professor of Economics
and a former Union Cabinet Minister
"Deterring Terrorism: It Can Be Done"
http://belfercenter.ksg.harvard.edu/publication/719/deterring_terrorism.html
Journal Article, International Security, volume 30, issue 3, pages
87-123 Winter 2005/06
Authors: Robert Trager, Dessislava Zagorcheva
Belfer Center Programs or Projects: International Security; Quarterly
Journal: International Security
ABSTRACT
Many scholars and policymakers argue that deterrence strategies have
no significant role to play in counterterrorism. The case against
deterrence rests on three pillars: terrorists are irrational; they
value their political ends far above anything deterring states could
hold at risk; and they are impossible to find. Each pillar is either
incorrect or its implications for deterrence have been misunderstood.
Under certain conditions, deterrence is preferable to the use of
force. Analysis of the structure of terrorist networks and the
processes that produce attacks, as well as the multiple objectives of
terrorist organizations, suggests that some deterrence strategies are
more effective than those of the past. In particular, many terrorist
groups and elements of terrorist support networks can likely be
deterred from cooperating with the most threatening terrorist groups,
such as al-Qaida. Although the use of force against multiple groups
creates common interests among them, an appropriate deterrence
strategy could fracture global terrorist networks. The current policy
of the U.S. and Philippine governments toward the Moro Islamic
Liberation Front (MILF) and the Abu Sayyaf Group illustrates the
potential of this approach and the risks of using force. Not only can
groups such as the MILF be deterred from cooperating with al-Qaida,
they may even be coerced into providing local intelligence on
operatives linked to it.
For more information about this publication please contact the IS
Editorial Assistant at 617-495-1914.
For Academic Citation:
Trager, Robert F., and Dessislava P. Zagorcheva. "Deterring
Terrorism: It Can Be Done." International Security 30, no. 3 (Winter
2005/06): 87-123.
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