Home-grown Terrorists are Still Terrorists

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.