By TCN News,
New Delhi: In an address to Intelligence Bureau, Home Minister P. Chidambaram equated Jihad with terrorism and said that its objective is war against unbelievers.
Chidambaram uttered highly objectionable statements against Jihad addressing IB officers in Delhi while delivering 22nd Intelligence Bureau Centenary Endowment Lecture on Wedenesday in Delhi.
He said that Jihad is a kind of war that emerged after the end of Cold War in 1989. He termed Jihad as “a war or struggle against unbelievers” completely distorting the meaning of Islamic principle of Jihad. Home minister added that Jihad is waged by a number of groups that owe their allegiance to Islam and said that “Jihad employs terror as an instrument to achieve its objectives” which is “directed against all” and usually claims innocent people as its victims.
Curiously, Chidambaram made a distinction between Crusades and Jihad terming the former as “a conventional war” while Jihad uses terrorism as instrument to overthrow the established authority.
Giving sole credit to Jihad for inventing terrorism, Chidambaram who is responsible for security and peace in all of India, said that the tactics of the jihadis have been copies by militants belonging to other groups including Hindu militants. He did not identify the Hindu groups.
In his 40 minute speech which had a number of announcements regarding restructuring of security agencies P. Chidambaram did not offer any guidelines on how to stop illegal detention and harassment of innocents by anti-terrorism squads.