The new conspiracy of polarizing India

“If any amongst the Mushriks (i.e. the enemies) ask thee for asylum, grant it to him so that he may hear the word of Allah and then escort him to where he can be secure”. (Al Qur’an 9:6) As if the hectic war on terrorism undertaken by the US and piggy ridden by India under AB Vajpayee government was not enough in producing a decade and about half of false terror charges framed against Muslims we now have a bolder adventure on the anvil. Ajit Doval like his predecessor MK Narayan has gone a step further. Narayanan wanted to pay back in the same coin for any terrorist attack in India or in Afghanistan. Thus he broadened the arena of the so called war on terror. Doval known for first kill and then inquire policy dealing with terrorists has now reached into the theological base of terror through the agencies which have been his provenance, IB, R&AW, CBI, etc. One officer of the agencies has come out with the new phenomenon of Ayman Zawahiri video: “The Indian subcontinent, with India, Pakistan and Bangladesh together has the highest Muslim population, concentrated closely as a unit. Due to this reason, al-Qaeda wants to have its domination on this subcontinent and execute its ideological goal of Ghazwa-e-Hind, which it thinks would catapult the group above IS. For this al-Qaeda may use local terror modules and sleeper cells to unleash attacks within India quite like 26/11 to register a strong presence, and we’re keeping a vigil on it.” [1] Such kind of generating input on terror is a signal for beginning afresh the hunting game that put Indian Muslims in a siege mentality and more ghettoization. But this time the intelligence agencies have for the first time succeeded in co opting Muslims of different persuasions in their war on terror. This is another feather in the royal turban that PM Narendra Modi is fond of wearing in his penchant for photogenic appearance. There is also self contradiction in the agencies for 26/11 was not the work of a local sleeper module. Fahim Ansari and Sabauddin were not involved in the attacks on Mumbai landmarks. They were framed. Those who arrived by boat had stayed in the house of someone in oil business. Or else how could they start the operation no sooner than landing? They were only six according to Anita Udaiyya and they did not include Ajmal Kasab. Second, if Al Qaeda has no base in India till today how could it be assumed that the local sleeper module would initiate a comprehensive movement like Ghazwa-e-Hind? There are think tanks officious to chip in. “The al-Qaeda wants to explore the possibility of recruiting youths as jihadis from India, which is very significant for the group, so that they make the ideology of Ghazwa-e-Hind true. According to the belief, there are many Muslims waiting for this ideology to happen on ground. And al-Qaeda wants to tap this opportunity in India and Pakistan. It’s trying to bring jihadis close to it and show IS that it’s bigger,” said Alok Bansal director of Centre for Security and Strategy, India Foundation. Here, too, the think tank is in the dark. Indian Muslims have never been recruited by any foreign based terror group. Their involvement in 1993 (Bomybay blasts) and 1998 Coimbatore blasts was indigenous in its entirety as they were pushed to the wall. Students Islamic Movement for India has openly challenged the government to prove that they are terrorists. After years of incarceration its chief Safdar Nagrori was released in July 2014. Saying that to begin the fight against Al Qaeda by again focusing on SIMI or even IM is beating the dead horse. Both the agencies and the think tanks are taking very seriously what is based on hearsay. For the Prophet to have said to Abu Horaira that he felt that the territory in the subcontinent of India was favourable for Islam to spread in was to say the least, conjectural. India was and is much older than the birth of Islam. India was a geographical entity and not a political unit then. Even more revealing of the tectonic shift (that surely means more terrorist attacks in which again Muslims will suffer as more charges would be leveled against them) is that this new phenomenon will encompass all the Muslims irrespective of whether they are prone to violence or not. It would be repeat of “either you are with us or against us”. So why this hype as seen in the Shias offering 5 crore for the head of the IS chief Abu Bakr Baghdadi [2]. The Sunni Markazi Sirat Committee of Nasik on September 5, 2014 had given memorandum to the police commissioner of Nasik that they would declare any India joining the call of Zawahiri a traitor to the country. This is “National Muslims of Nasik’s declaration of war against Al Qaida.” [3] In the editorial of Saamna there is also a warning that when India is vehemently taking off [bhrari, Marathi] on the development front “Islamist be warned.” The editorial then shows true colour by change of words to “Hindustan’s enemies be warned!” Caution in such issues is a must. First the Quran does not use the word jihad at all. Surah Tawba verse 5 goes like this: “fight and slay the Mushriks (i.e. the enemies from Makkah) wherever you find them and seize them, beleaguer them, and lie in wait for them in every stratagem of war.” Therefore targeting Indian Muslims is far off the mark. They have had nothing to meddle with what is taking place in Afghanistan or Pakistan. When Quran uses the word slay it is in the context of a battle envisaged that the followers of Islam were engaged in against the polytheists of Mecca. What is even more they were not in the midst of the battle per se but this was a warning that in 4 months time the battle would begin if the polytheists did not stop their aggression! In Arabic jihad means struggle so if there is any danger against Islam/Muslims there must struggle against it. The followers of the Prophet had made a peace treaty with the polytheists of Mecca. But when the polytheists broke it the Prophet issued them warning. In India there is no such condition in actual existence. The Muslims of mainland India out of free will chose India as their country. They did not make any bone about their allegiance. In opposition to it the agencies and the think tank along with the right wing groups like Shiv Sena represented by Saamna want to fight a perceived terror threat that has not even taken place. There is no presence of Al Qaida in India. Therefore this uproar in the media is insidious and sinister. Indian intelligence agencies are wont to generate bogus terror reports involving Indian Muslims. One of the most ludicrous was that Jalgaon in Maharashtra was emerging as a university of terrorism: A Marathi paper Punya Nagri in its Jalgaon edition of Tuesday March 30, 2010 carries banner headline: “Jalgaon as the target of Indian Mujahideen.” The report says that “the Indian Mujahideen is busy (magan) training suicide squads which care a tuppence (befikar) for spewing deaths. The terrorists of IM are immersed (gark) in the training. The squad is named “Bullet 313”. The intelligence agency that has prepared the report for the government says that “Bullet 313” has first preference for Jalgaon as the target of attack. IM is recruiting students of mechanical and chemical engineering, students of computer science, as well as the usual collegians. The students of higher education are grouped in modules which would create terror in all the parts of the country. Thus, Jalgaon is the University of Terrorism in India. Delhi and Vangni near Badlapur are other such places. In the last named place the training is going on in a housing colony. The first batch has admitted 200 students and 113 will join soon. That would make it 313. The expense is covered by the fund generated in the Middle East and sent through hawala from Indonesia. It is spent on buying arms. Even if one ‘bullet’ succeeds in destroying its target the country would be in turmoil, the report adds.”[5] As the intelligence agencies have prepared fabricated inputs and kidnapped and killed Ishrat Jahan, Sohrabuddin Sheikh etc, they have their link in the police who collaborate in the conspiracy. In the case of Jalgaon too it followed the same pattern. The agencies have their handmaids in the police. ATS office NH Dhabi had kidnapped Sohrabuddin from Andhra Pradesh and Narayanan Singh along with others had killed him. One bullet from Singh’s gun was found in the thigh of the sheikh. “Bullet 313”was a conspiracy that did not take off while others did so what proof is there that the new conspiracy in Modi raj is genuine? Mere, the video? If the video is virtual reality what is reality itself in India. A consulting editor writes in DNA trying to catch in graphic description the subtext of violence of the Hindutva right in 100 days of Modi sarkar: “The passport office [in Delhi] was crowded as usual and the 14-year old was waiting patiently, his file in hand when a young man looked at it and asked if he was a Muslim. The schoolboy said ‘yes’, the youth looked at him and said flatly, “Ek din sab Musallman khatam ho jayenge.” (“One day all the Muslims would be exterminated.”) “People listened on, as of course they would in any public space. There was interest but no outrage to the bland assertion that the entire Community would be finished. Another man joined in only declare [d]. “Bahut bada jang hone wala hai.” (A big war is in the offing.)”, before going on to ask the child if he would go with India or Pakistan. The quick-witted teen said he would watch from the sidelines.”[5] If this is in the public domain instead of the so called jihad there is the Armageddon waiting for the Muslims. After the holocaust of Muslims in Gujarat 2002 that visited upon them as a result of the instruction of Modi on February 27, 2002, now they have a bigger calamity coming to them, their sure extinction! What for is the self imposed taciturnity of Modi, otherwise? His silence is screaming loudly that something is amiss for he let the genie out knowing well what imminently is in store! 1. Debobrat Ghosh, Al-Qaeda threat: Not just J&K, Kerala could be a terror hot-spot too http://www.firstpost.com/india/al-qaeda-threat-not-just-jk-kerala-could-be-a-terror-hot-spot-too-1700487.html 2 Asian Age, “Shia outfit puts Rs 5 cr bounty on IS chief, September 8, 2014 3 Saamna September 6, 2014 4 Jalgaon On The Itinerary Of David Headley!!! Mustafa Khan 02 April, 2010. Countercurrents.org] 5 http://www.dnaindia.com/analysis/column-everyday-vignettes-of-a-communal-capital-2015991