[Reader-list] The harsh reality: Nation walks on razor edge

[Aditya Raj Kaul]

Dear Sonia,

Thanks for the mail. I apologise for the error. Here is the source and link.

The Daily Pioneer, New Delhi

Link -
http://www.dailypioneer.com/columnist1.asp?main_variable=Columnist&file_name=mishra%2Fmishra240.txt&writer=mishra

Regards
Aditya Raj Kaul

On 9/28/08, S. Jabbar <sonia.jabbar at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Aditya, kindly quote your source properly when you make your posts on the
> list.  Where was this published? Who is the author?
> Rgds
> sj
>
>
> > From: Aditya Raj Kaul <kauladityaraj at gmail.com>
> > Date: Sat, 27 Sep 2008 23:00:52 +0500
> > To: sarai list <reader-list at sarai.net>
> > Subject: [Reader-list] The harsh reality: Nation walks on razor edge
>
> >
> >  The harsh reality: Nation walks on razor edge
> Dina Nath Mishra
>
>   Increasing
> > *jihadi* attacks in cities have reached a point from where the
> next jump would
> > be much more devastating for the nation. While these attacks
> are called
> > terrorist acts the world over, *jihad* is actually something
> different. As
> > explained by several e-mails before the blast, it means that
> the devastating
> > bomb blasts are a religious duty of every Muslim to kill the
> non-believers.
> > Those who do not participate in *jihad* are not doing their
> duty. But not
> > every Muslim thinks like this but this is a small section
> only.
>
>
> > Knowledgeable members of Intelligence agencies and police assess that
> > there
>
> are 60,000 *jihadi*s in different parts of India. Formerly, these types
>
> > of
> attacks were conducted by the ISI with the help of sleeping cells. An
> > outfit
> named SIMI was born. It gained strength during the rise of Osama Bin
> > Laden.
> SIMI members used to sell Osama literature, cassettes and photos. The
> > media
> noticed this at many places in UP.
>
>   After covering around half the
> > districts in UP, SIMI gradually spread
> throughout the country. From recent
> > blasts in four State capitals, it boldly
> rechristened itself Indian
> > Mujahideen. After the blasts in Ahmedabad and a
> large catch of explosives in
> > Surat, the Gujarat Police caught hold of Abu
> Bashir, the mastermind of Indian
> > Mujahideen from Azamgarh. Gujarat Police,
> assisted by UP Police, unearthed an
> > undesirable part of the terror network
> in north India. The Delhi serial bomb
> > blasts opened the eyes of the general
> public to it.
>
>   Some Jamia students were
> > involved in these dastardly acts of terror, which
> killed around 30 people in
> > Delhi alone. Raids were conducted in the narrow
> bylanes of Jamia Nagar. Two
>
> > *jihadi*s were killed on the spot, two arrested
>
> while two escaped. A police
> > inspector, Mohan Chand Sharma, was killed by the
> terrorists. This raid was
> > conducted as the police had concrete information.
> But the local Muslim
> > population was soon up in arms against the raiding
> police party.
>
>   Within two
> > days, the Jamia students started protesting. Meetings of Muslim
> students were
> > held and addressed by fiery speakers. These speeches were
> quite provocative,
> > saying that Muslims were under attack and that they
> should fight. Elements
> > connected with SIMI, its clone Indian Mujahideen, and
> the *madarsa* cadre who
> > had been working underground in the campus, surfaced
> boldly. They claimed that
> > the students allegedly involved in the Delhi
> blasts were innocent. They also
> > alleged that Sharma's own colleagues shot
> him.
>
>   These Muslims raised a lot of
> > questions about the raid. Why didn't the
> police take permission from the local
> > MLA? Why didn't they first inform the
> mohalla committee? The most bizarre
> > demand was that of raid should have been
> conducted by Muslim policemen.
>
>   The
> > raiding of suspected terrorist hideouts faces the resistance of Muslim
> masses
> > in general. This is not new. In 1995, after the serial bomb blasts
> > in
> Hyderabad, a suspect was arrested. During interrogation he revealed that
> > he
> was trained by ISI in Islamabad. He also disclosed about his associates
> > and
> told the police how he arrived in India via Kathmandu with arrangements
> > for
> staying for a day in a Patna mosque on his way to Hyderabad.
>
>   The
> > Hyderabad and Bihar police planned a raid in the wee hours. But the
> Imam ran
> > to the minaret loudspeaker and gave a call to Muslims to assemble
> at the
> > mosque. He aroused their religious sentiments. As a result, thousands
> of
> > Muslims gathered there within a few minutes. The raiding party was
> > under
> siege. They rang up high officials who, in turn, ran to the Chief
> > Minister.
> Instantly the raiding police party was withdrawn. The police party
> > had to
> escape through the backdoor.
>
>   This is not the story of just one raid.
> > It is a pattern. It could not
> materialise in Jamia Nagar. But during the
> > second half of the raid, the
> anger against police action was raging among the
> > local Muslims. But as
> Sharma was killed, they could not do much.
>
>   The
>
> > *jihadi*s who escaped were from Azamgarh that has acquired notoriety
>
> > of
> producing scores of terrorists and the mafia. Having obtained the clues
> > from
> arrested terrorists about the whereabouts of the perpetrators of
> > serial
> blasts in Delhi, the Delhi Police, accompanied by the UP Police, went
> > to
> Azamgarh to flush out those responsible for the blasts.
> > House-to-house
> searches were conducted in Sarai Mir and Sanjarpur.
>
>   Cops were
> > looking for Sajid, Salman, Khalid and Mohd Arif. Their families
> said they had
> > had no communication with them from four months. Documents and
> CDs pertaining
> > to the blasts were recovered during these searches. These are
> only few
> > examples. Azamgarh has a horrendous history of riots. After a
> recent riot, a
> > *jihadi* proudly told a media person that Azamgarh would turn
> into another
> > Kashmir.
>
>   Indian security agencies must get ready to face such a serious
> > situation.
>
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