Dhaka Attack: The Reign of Terror continues due to denial of its Root Cause
- In Current Affairs
- 11:44 PM, Jul 11, 2016
- Hemant Karandikar
Terror is the modern avatar of centuries of bloodshed and genocide sanctioned by an outdated theosophy
As images and videos of Dhaka hostage rescue act stream in, the world enacts a familiar routine. Tweets condemning of 'mindless, cowardly, dastardly, inhuman' acts and those promising 'we are one' or 'perpetrators will be punished' or 'this is an attack on our country and it will be defeated' fly around. Prayers for victims and their loved ones go up.
Some in media give live updates even alerts on imminent action by security forces. This happened in Mumbai on 26/11 and it is happening now.
There are attempts to link killings and bombings to 'poverty', 'mental derangement', 'childhood issues', 'oppression', 'revenge', 'easy availability of guns', 'misguided', 'radicalized'
Almost on cue, come familiar denials 'Terror has no religion' and 'those who kill aren't Muslims' and assertions like 'Islam is a religion peace' come in.
From 1993 Mumbai serial bomb blasts, to 9/11 to 26/11 Mumbai attacks, Paris, Peshawar, Orlando, Istanbul, Dhaka - the reign of terror continues as the world watches helplessly. 1993 wasn't the first terror attack, nor will Dhaka be the last. Here is a telling graphic. Reign of terror across the world over last 45 years.
Image source: http://www.start.umd.edu/gtd/images/START_GlobalTerrorismDatabase_TerroristAttacksConcentrationIntensityMap_45Years.png
What you see above aren't randomly ignited wildfires. They are carefully planned and meticulously executed acts of hatred and vengeance. Terrorist organizations like IS, Taliban, Al-Qaida use modern arms and technologies like social media, encrypted messaging, cyberattacks, and apps to mobilize highly motivated people to wage a war against governments and innocent people across the world. Their networks operate across borders. Some Islamic organizations collect donations in the name of their religion and fund the terror networks. The other source of funds is illegal trade of drugs and narcotics. The drugs trade is used both to generate and transfer funds to evade detection and to avoid leaving a money trail. The terror outfits run sophisticated propaganda machine vilifying the USA, the Western World, and India as chief causes of misery of Muslims and infidelity to their religion.
If poverty, injustice, religious discrimination and conversions, slavery, and genocide caused people to organize as terrorists outfits almost every religious and ethnic group would have done so -blacks in Africa, native populations in Antilles Islands, Chile, Peru, North America, Jews in Europe, Zoroastrians in Middle East, Buddhists in Tibet, and Hindus in India would have taken to terror. Their terror organizations would have outnumbered the Islamic outfits and the world map of terror would not be left with any vacant place. This has not happened.
All the state and non-state funding, technologies and arms would be of no avail without a steady, inexhaustible supply of people full of hatred for all non-Islamic faiths and motivated enough to commit to suicidal missions. There is a talk of radicalization of the young and the illiterate. Firstly many terrorists are well educated and come from well paying jobs. Secondly, grown up people cannot be radicalized enough to give up their lives unless their minds have already been readied to receive such propaganda of hate and promise of titillating after life. The real cause must be the way the children are brought up. What children see and are taught leave lasting impressions. Religious education in Madrasas and Islamic educational institutions indoctrinate children with theosophical beliefs that inherently conflict with their co-existence with other faiths. Their religious preachers continue with this indoctrination in Mosques.
“Currently, Islamic organizations – mosques, madrasas, societies, dargahs (Sufi shrines), khanqahs (monasteries), trusts, religious publishing houses, or educational institutes – are operating in a dark alley." - See more at: http://www.newageislam.com/radical-islamism-and-jihad/tufail-ahmad,-new-age-islam/india-must-act-urgently-against-wahhabi-organisations/d/105603#sthash.gH1ZHzcd.dpuf
While it is true that all Muslims are not terrorists -in fact only a small fraction of them are -almost all terrorists are Muslim. The indoctrination causes enough number of Muslims to take to terror and enough of them to provide logistics, support, cover, and funds to cause mayhem worldwide. A case in point: Thousands of Muslims attended the funeral of 1993 terror convict Yakub Memon after he was hanged. Read
Terror isn't a 20th and 21st century phenomenon of modern age, a reaction to modernity, an escape from insecurity in a fast changing world, as some argue. It is merely a modern avatar of Islamic Jihad for converting or killing millions of people, whom they call as infidels, ever since Islam came in existence. Under the Muslim rule millions of Hindus were killed for refusal to convert, large number of women committed Sati to avoid being captured by Muslim kings, and thousands of temples were destroyed. Read and read and read
What Islam really is may have different interpretations -even a different interpretation can cause violence as conflicts between Shias and Sunnis show - but the indoctrination of hate through Islamic institutions is a matter of fact. This is the root cause of terror.
Many world leaders, a large section of opinion leaders and mainstream media are in consistent denial of this root cause. The Left, who according to their own doctrine abhor religion, should condemn such religious extremism. Instead, the Left have helped in the above denial by inventing all kinds of reasons with the aim of covering up the root cause. All these people must own up their responsibility if they wish to prevent terror.
Intelligence and security operations may prevent some attacks but the reign of terror will continue unabated until the indoctrination of hate by religious institutions is stopped.
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