[Reader-list] Islamism’s rage boys - Premen Addy

[Aditya Raj Kaul]

*Islamism’s rage boys*
*September 17, 2010   10:59:46 AM*

*Premen Addy*

*Link* -
http://www.dailypioneer.com/283635/Islamism%E2%80%99s-rage-boys.html

*It doesn't require genius to bring Kashmir’s jihadis to heel; a firm hand
will do. Remember Shakespeare's words: Be bloody, bold and resolute*

Fellow travellers of causes Left and Right have long been a political
hazard. The occupant of the British throne, Edward VIII, was a Hitler
sympathiser; other exalted Britons were under Mussolini’s spell because the
Duce made Italy’s “trains run on time”. The eminent Cambridge economist Joan
Robinson uttered rhapsodies to Chairman Mao’s Great Leap Forward and
People’s Communes. She wrote a Penguin eulogy to the Cultural Revolution.
Just before her death, Prof Robinson remarked plaintively that she had no
understanding of China, Beijing having invaded Vietnam, in February 1979,
“to teach it a lesson as India had been taught a lesson in 1962”. Things
fell apart for a distinguished intellect.

The blood-dimmed tides were loosed, and everywhere the ceremony of innocence
was drowned, as credible stories of a tragedy without parallel in human
history began to emerge. Frank Dikotter’s deeply researched tome — *Mao’s
Great Famine: The History of China’s Most Devastating Catastrophe,
1958-62*estimates that 45 million people perished during those bitter
years.

Today, sections of the British media, including the *BBC*, and a gaggle of
Left-wing activists are, like many useful idiots before them, apologists,
this time for Islamism and its burden of victimhood. They believe they are
befriending the underdog.

In the aftermath of the London bombings of July 7, 2005, *The Times’s *Europe
Correspondent, Anthony Browne, fired this broadside: “Islamic radicals, like
Hitler, cultivate support by nurturing grievances against others. Islamists,
like Hitler scapegoat Jews for their problems and want to destroy them...
Hitler divided the world into Aryans and sub-human non-Aryans, while
Islamists divide the world into Muslims and sub-human infidels. Nazis aimed
for their Thousand Year Reich, while Islamists aim for their eternal
Caliphate. The Nazi party used terror to achieve power, and from London to
Amsterdam, Bali to New York (and Mumbai)... Islamists are trying to do the
same... Even post-bombing, Britain has a long way to go in its understanding
of Islamic fascism. The tragedy is that we start daring to understand it
only when innocent lives are lost.”

These words should constitute a warning to the Indian establishment in their
ritual hunts for the philosopher’s stone of political correctness even as
the barbarians muster at the Kashmiri gate. VP Menon, Sardar Vallabhbhai
Patel’s principal aide, apropos of the Pakistan-sponsored Pathan invasion of
the Kashmir valley in October 1947, wrote of centuries-old descents into
India of marauders from Central Asia. The first thing the new Islamic state
of Pakistan had done was to repeat the exercise: Srinagar today, Delhi
tomorrow, he warned. A nation that forgets its history and its geography
will be condemned to suffer the fraught experience of its past. India cannot
be afraid of its own shadow, concluded this wise servant of state, whose
ripe wisdom India’s present guardians will ignore at their (and the
country’s) peril.

Kashmir’s separatist *jihadis* have issued a primordial challenge to the
Government in New Delhi: Their goal is the creation of an Islamic state
complete with *sharia’h:* Death by stoning, beheadings, floggings,
amputations and much else to follow in due course, including the mandatory *
burqa*. The exalted musings of the Persian Sufi poet Rumi have not prevented
the appearance of an Ayatollah-ruled Iran, so be warned. Hallucinogenic
twaddle about human rights and governance is an opiate to dull the pain of
Kashmir’s ultimate severance from the Indian body politic.

A disingenuous BBC radio programme involving the Corporation’s Srinagar
stringer Altaf Hussain and anchor Julian Marshal was notable for stock
cliches, elisions and evasions and myriad economies with the truth. Burning
Christian schools and Government buildings are presumably an accepted
spectator sport; police retaliation is an un-constitutional response. No
mention was made of the ethnic cleansing of Kashmir’s Hindu Pandit community
— theirs not to reason why, theirs but to do and die. Amy Kazmin, the
*Financial
Times *Delhi-based correspondent, wrote sourly of “*de facto* Army rule in
Kashmir”, among a multitude of other Indian failings compared to the
striking successes of the Chinese, Herrenvolk associates of the West.

For an antidote and restorative turn to Fidel Castro, who told his *Atlantic
* magazine interviewer Jeffrey Goldberg that the Iranian Government should
understand the consequences of theological anti-Semitism. “I don’t think
anyone has been slandered as much as the Jews. I would say much more than
the Muslims... they (the Jews) are blamed and slandered for everything. No
one blames the Muslims for anything. The Jews have lived an existence that
is much harder than ours. There is nothing that compares with the
Holocaust,” said Fidel.

The late Nahum Goldman, Jewish patriarch extraordinary, in a newspaper
article in 1979, a few years prior to his death, referred to the generosity
of democratic and Communist nations towards the Jewish people after the
defeat of Nazi Germany. He wrote: “To illustrate this, I quote the talk
which Benes (the Czech leader and former President) had, on Chaim Weizmann’s
(first President of Israel) and my request, with Stalin during the Second
World War, asking for Russian support of a Jewish state. Stalin then
answered him: ‘We know what the Jews suffered during the war and we will do
our best to repair it’. ” And so it came to pass that the USSR voted for the
creation of the state of Israel at the United Nations in November 1949.
There is no good reason for Left-wing amnesia.

At the conclusion of a recent visit to Russia, the Israeli Defence Minister
Ehud Barak told his hosts in Moscow: “We know the truth: The state of Israel
would not exist if the Red Army had not defeated fascist Germany.” Russia
and Israel have signed a landmark defence accord. Such news items do not as
a rule find favour with Western agencies.

The writer and journalist Patrick Cockburn, a man of the Left, as it
happens, writes: “The persecution of Christian communities across the Muslim
world has escalated rapidly since the start of the wars in Afghanistan and
Iraq.” The Christian population in West Asia has declined, he said. Mr
Cockburn related the horrific case of a Pakistani Christian family, in the
Punjabi town of Gojra, burned to death on the false rumour that that a local
man had set fire to a copy of the Quran.

Zaid Hamid, a Pakistani defence analyst, much given to ranting at
Zionist-Hindu conspiracies on television, roared recently of Pakistani
nuclear retaliation against Israel and India, should either nation dare
attack Pakistan. With floods and suicide bombers wreaking havoc, why should
any country wish to undertake this unnecessary expense?

“A whiff of grapeshot” was Napoleon’s prescription for unruly mobs. It
doesn’t require genius to bring the Kashmir jihadis to heel, a firm hand
will do. Remember Shakespeare’s words: “Be bloody, bold and resolute.”