By Nasiruddin Haider Khan
Translated from Hindi by TwoCircles.net
By writing this I am taking the risk of being labeled by my friends. Some will try to put me into one stereotype mould or another. This is a risk worth taking for the questions that I have on my mind.
After every bomb blast or terrorist incident, security “experts,” analysts and media channels repeat similar things that people accept as the gospel truth. However, I have many questions and doubts that need to be cleared before I can accept the explanations given by these “experts.” Maybe these are not questions. Maybe I am just curious or have some doubts in my mind.
Q1. Why is it, that even after receiving information about impending bomb blasts, security agencies are unable to stop them?
Q2. How is it that, only minutes after a blast has occurred, security agencies are able to find the names and locations of the people responsible as well as their links and organizations?
Q3. How is it that security agencies that find major clues soon after a blast, are unable to reach any conclusions in their investigations of the Malegaon, Samjhauta Express, or the Mumbai Train explosions even after months have passed, during which time scores of young lives are destroyed inside prison cells for years.
Q4. Even if one believes that there is some organization behind these blasts that is doing it in the name of Islam… then why are there explosions in Hyderabad, Varanasi, Malegaon and what are the people responsible for those attacks trying to achieve?
Q5. Kashmiri militants want to liberate Kashmir by causing explosions there. Do these terrorists want to liberate Hyderabad and Malegaon?
Q6. When militancy was at its extreme in Kashmir, even then there were Islamic militants. Why didn’t they conduct attacks in the rest of India then? What has changed that they are able to do it now?
Q7. Terrorist organizations, i.e. Al-Qaida, Jaish-e-Mohammad and others like them do all this work and chose to work anonymously? Why? These organizations want people to be afraid of them. They are not legally registered organizations or follower of law… then why would they be afraid of taking responsibility of their actions?
Q8. Why is it that after every blast only people of one religion are arrested?
Q9. Why are only Muslim organizations expected to condemn attacks after any terrorist activity? So the Ulema, Muslim organizations are in the forefront of condemnation. What about the Hindu (not Hindutva) organizations, Shankracharyas and Gurus? Are they also expected to issue statements? Are Muslims living under the shade of fear that they are forced to issue statements of condemnation?
Q10. Why Muslims are not able to easily believe the result of an investigation or arrests? Why have they lost faith in the state?
Q11. Independent teams that investigated blasts in Nanded and Malegaon have pointed to some organizations… why aren’t security agencies looking at those organizations? The truth of the attack on the RSS headquarters is also out, then why isn’t anyone investigating at these organizations?
Q12. A bomb that was being made in the house of the slain BJP leader in UP that was allegedly supposed to kill an MLA, accidentally exploded, destroying the whole house. In Pratapgarh, another bomb exploded which was a pressure cooker bomb … so, it seems that it is not difficult to make a bomb or that it is work of a particular community… Just imagine, if any Muslim was found to be involved in any of these incidents then what would have happened?
Q13. How many of us know about Deoband, Jamiat Ulema-e-Hind, Tablighi Jamat, Jamat-e-Islami, SIMI, Jamat Ahle Hadith?
Q14. How many of us attempt to know about those youths who were arrested just because they know Arabic, or they traveled with the Tablighi Jamat, they study in a Madrasa, or they started taking more interest in their religion… or simply their names connect them to a particular religious community.
Q15. If some youth of a particular religion are involved in terror activities then what went wrong in this country that is encouraging them to move over to the wrong side of the law…. Only the lust of money is not enough for this… why did all this not happen 15 years ago…when terrorism in Punjab and Kashmir was at a peak.
Violence can never be justified in any situation. If we really want to capture the culprits of these blasts then only independent and proper investigations can do the job. The blame game will not help. Putting members of a religious community under suspicion will not help either. Don’t label an entire community as guilty… this is not beneficial to that community and is not going to help the country. We need to find the answer as to why these incidents have started happening in different parts of India all of sudden in last 10-15 years.
(If you want to have a look on Hindi version of this text please visit www.dhaiakhar.blogspot.com )