Are Islamist terrorists to blame for the recent serial blasts that have rocked India? Has the community failed to rein in its extremist elements? Should these elements be tackled with a iron hand? These are questions that would have arisen in the mind of any average Indian in recent days. However, the questions that media, especially the so called secular media, in India is debating is whether the terrorists who carried out the crime are home-grown or foreign. As if that really does matter to those killed and their kin!
The sinister logic of skewed secularism that has brought the country to the brink of a religious and ethnic cauldron is at work again. The logic of these apostles of secularism seems to be that such homegrown terrorists are justified because of the perceived injustices to which the Muslim community in India has been subjected to. And therefore, the logic goes, the real culprits are Indian Hindus!
In the first place, I would ask the Muslim community to do some introspection as to why they are still backward in many respects. Many of them still harbour that 'ruler' complex from the Mughal days. And many still harbour illusions of being able to make India a Muslim country. And the community's leaders are only too happy to keep stoking these illusions. Little wonder members of the community cannot mix with the mainstream and feel alienated. But does that justify the kind of violence that has been unleashed on the country in the last week?
Never. But then we have the media and the pseudo-secularists who are out to fish in troubled waters. With their eyes set firmly on short-term political and financial gains these people are out to spread the image of the 'injured Indian Muslim', whatever that would do to the country's security.
It is time to show these misguided jehadis - whether homegrown or foreign - as what they are - heartless and cruel killers, and that their actions are in no way justified. The sooner we do that the better, or we could have another Gujarat on our hands soon.
Thursday, July 31, 2008
Tuesday, July 29, 2008
Time to tell our leaders: Act now or get out!
The terror seems not yet over - not even a temporary respite is in sight. Today police defused around 15 live bombs in Surat. Yes, the killers are at large and audacious enough to go around and plant some dozen more bombs in public places. This is something India has never seen before. Earlier, there was at least a few months' lull after a serial bomb blast before the killers struck again.
What we see here is a total failure of the police and intelligence machinery. Not only have they been able to nab the terrorists, they have not even been able to bring enough pressure on them to make them lie low. It just shows all their claims of arresting the perpatrators of all those earlier terror strikes was pure gas.
The Union government is blaming state police and states are blaming the Centre. In all this din what is forgotten is our police and intelligence machinery have failed completely, and have left the Indian society helpless victims of terror. Are we paying taxes just for our politicians to move around in armoured vehicles with commando escort and for our police officers to pick up and harass law-abiding common citizens whose only crime is that they lack political connections?
We have been abandoned by our rulers and our police, the very people whom we pay to help keep this a law-abiding and secure society.
It is time to tell these busybodies to go nab the terrorists or up and leave. Indian people can and will manage such threats. But we do not need such parasites eating our money and not being able to capture a bunch of terrorists who have killed over a hundred people and are still terrorising us.
Stop the politicking, stop the religious appeasement. Act now, or get out!
What we see here is a total failure of the police and intelligence machinery. Not only have they been able to nab the terrorists, they have not even been able to bring enough pressure on them to make them lie low. It just shows all their claims of arresting the perpatrators of all those earlier terror strikes was pure gas.
The Union government is blaming state police and states are blaming the Centre. In all this din what is forgotten is our police and intelligence machinery have failed completely, and have left the Indian society helpless victims of terror. Are we paying taxes just for our politicians to move around in armoured vehicles with commando escort and for our police officers to pick up and harass law-abiding common citizens whose only crime is that they lack political connections?
We have been abandoned by our rulers and our police, the very people whom we pay to help keep this a law-abiding and secure society.
It is time to tell these busybodies to go nab the terrorists or up and leave. Indian people can and will manage such threats. But we do not need such parasites eating our money and not being able to capture a bunch of terrorists who have killed over a hundred people and are still terrorising us.
Stop the politicking, stop the religious appeasement. Act now, or get out!
Saturday, July 12, 2008
No Future Left For Left After Congress 'Betrayal'!
The Left is now crying foul.What a bright idea! For four years you misused the mandate extended to you by people from Kerala and West Bengal to support a Congress-led government at the Centre. And you did that by holding strikes almost every week in those states, derailing the life of the common people. And now the Congress having outsmarted you, you cry foul!
I wonder if Karat and co have any moral authority left to point fingers at the Congress. You had four years to keep this government under control and you did nothing. All you did was make life hell for the very same people who elected you.
Compare that with what a regional politician like Karunanidhi did. He could manage to make the UPA government change its policies in his favor even though he did not have the same number of MPs in the Lok Sabha as the Left parties combine did.
If the Left had pulled the rug from under the government the last time it kicked up a furore over the 123 nuclear deal with the US, they would still have had some credibility left. Now all they can do is bawl over the 'betrayal' of the Congress.
I am sure if the country goes to the polls today the Left will end up with less than one third of the number of seats in Parliament as it does now. That is because the misrule in its two main bastions - Kerala and West Bengal - has reached it peak. People in those two states may not care about the nuclear deal, but they do care about how governance has suffered as the party mandarins go about their own agendas.
So keep crying, Mr Karat and co. No one has any sympathy left for you. You were given a chance to help save the country from the American stooges in the Congress and you bungled. Period.
I wonder if Karat and co have any moral authority left to point fingers at the Congress. You had four years to keep this government under control and you did nothing. All you did was make life hell for the very same people who elected you.
Compare that with what a regional politician like Karunanidhi did. He could manage to make the UPA government change its policies in his favor even though he did not have the same number of MPs in the Lok Sabha as the Left parties combine did.
If the Left had pulled the rug from under the government the last time it kicked up a furore over the 123 nuclear deal with the US, they would still have had some credibility left. Now all they can do is bawl over the 'betrayal' of the Congress.
I am sure if the country goes to the polls today the Left will end up with less than one third of the number of seats in Parliament as it does now. That is because the misrule in its two main bastions - Kerala and West Bengal - has reached it peak. People in those two states may not care about the nuclear deal, but they do care about how governance has suffered as the party mandarins go about their own agendas.
So keep crying, Mr Karat and co. No one has any sympathy left for you. You were given a chance to help save the country from the American stooges in the Congress and you bungled. Period.
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