Why blame poor Badruddin Azmal only - if he opens his mouth he may perhaps find his Zanazah (funeral procession) taking place the next day --thanks to these terrorists. One should see the movie "Drohkaal"
http://www.indolink.com/Film/drohkaal.html (story details)
or even "Mudra-rakshsh" by Habib Tanveer --to see how ruthless this game is and how complex --in Indian subcontinent's context over centuries.
Umesh
PS: I saw Drohkaal in Delhi's Regal (?) theatre in its heart Cannaught Place - at a time when bomb blasts appeared routinely in Delhi - in buses, train crossings and even a cinema theatre nearby -in 1996 http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0178392/plotsummary
Ram Sarangapani <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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THE REALITY MIRROR
Bikash Sarmah
On Sunday, Asom Director General of Police (DGP) Deepak Dutta told PTI that the ULFA was ''planning a major attack in retaliation to the killing of six of its cadres in any of the districts of Kamrup, Baksa, Nalbari and Barpeta.'' Nothing so shocking to hear this, given the known ULFA retaliatory mode. What, of course, is a reminder of sorts is that the DGP did not rule out the synergy between 'our boys' and the Pakistan-based Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT), an Islamic terror group that has proved many a time its distaste for a 'Hindu' India. More important, the DGP said that the LeT was planning to attack the Guwahati railway station. Why would it not? After all, without first terrorizing the indigenous Asomiyas in Asom, the likes of LeT would not annex and Islamize the State. Call it a Pakistani design or a Bangladeshi dream, the threat is real, given Asom's suitability in at least three ways: that 'secular' Asom leaders would not offend the religious sensitivity of illegal Bangladeshis who are also pampered as 'minorities' (Hindus can go to hell!); that our 'revolutionary' boys need shelter in Bangladesh to fight the Indian state our motherland and so the LeT modules in Bangladesh are to be overlooked for the sake of a xonar Asom; and that there is a 'minorities'-centric political front called the AUDF that is yet to give its opinion on the gradual annexation of Asom by Bangladeshi nationals and jihadis. Add to this the 'secular' clamour to bend the immigration law of the land so that all illegal Bangladeshis may be accomodated in Asom on humanitarian ground without anyone having to bother about the fact that very soon the indigenous Asomiya's condition might be worse than that of the ousted Kashmiri Pundits Kashmiri Hindus.
It does not shock us when the AASU says that 14 fundamentalist organizations are active in the State. Why should not these organizations be active in a State that seems to have signed a divine contract to embrace all the dumped illegal Bangladeshis or the ones who would intentionally crowd the State, backed by forces in Bangladesh that would annex Asom? One is, however, surprised as to what stops the AASU from naming all the 14 fundamentalist organizations so that we may know what religion the fundamentalists belong to! This is not to say that we do not know what religion they might belong to. All it means is that the man on the street has the right to know the make-up of these 14 fundamentalist outfits and their genesis that will automatically unfold as soon as the names are made known to ordinary citizens. After all, ordinary citizens must have the privilege to know how the vitals of their State are being eaten into. And they must be given sufficient time to search for a better place to live in free from the concept of jihad as worked on by the LeT breed. But one must thank the AASU for having had the guts to say that the fundamentalist outfits established their roots in Asom long back and their design (not designs, but a design to annex and Islamize Asom) found a favour in foreign nationals (read illegal Bangladeshis). The point is simple: if illegal Bangladeshis have no qualms about helping the jihadi outfits, where does the humanitarian argument stand? It is just a nefarious and sinister design to reduce the indigenous Asomiyas to minority in their own land, and to throw them out later. And this, we need to tolerate because we are a secular nation!
So as secular living beings, how are we supposed to react to the arrest of a Muslim United Liberation Tigers of Assam (MULTA) commander Nur Islam in Guwahati on Tuesday? Nur Islam had been living in the city in the guise of a rickshaw-puller since last three years. One wonders how many such rickshaw-pullers are rendering their services to the people in the city? The other day, a lady from a respectable family told me: ''Here is a city where illegal Bangladeshis, who pull rickshaws, can now boast of MULTA commanders in their midst, and may even threaten or blackmail us.'' Her fear is real, poor Asomiya lady! And her religion seems to be her biggest curse: Hinduism. Now what is this MULTA doing? The same old answer: it is helping the Islamic forces, backed by Bangladesh and the notorious Pakistani ISI, so that an Islamic state could be in place in Asom. That MULTA has a synergy with jihadi forces in Bangladesh is clear from the fact that a group of about 15 MULTA activists recently had been to Shillong on their way to Bangladesh. Surely, these MULTA men would holiday in Bangladesh, the holiday package being: learn jihad in Bangladesh and enjoy Asom. Despite all this, the Congress-led Asom government has not said anything worthwhile. How would it? Do not we know that there is a race between the ruling Congress and the AUDF to be the champion among the messiahs of the 'minorities'? Will not harsh words against MULTA or the evil Bangladeshi design erode illegal vote banks? And will it not offend the religious sensitivity of the 'minorities'? So the best option is to stay quiet as if nothing has happened, and as if the fear of annexation of Asom by Bangladesh is a making of 'unsecular' columns like this. This is exactly how the people of Asom have been befooled for years together. And now they are to meekly surrender to the inevitable. They might, given the passivity all around us.
The crime that 'secular' India commits is the way it fails the secular spirit by overlooking the fact that there is a complete disconnect between terrorism (this is what jihad seems to be all about, though it means ''holy war'') and secularism. When the nation has the privilege of having to be led by politicians like Mulayam Singh Yadav who has given a clean chit to the Students' Islamic Movement of India (SIMI) in his zeal to woo Muslim votes in Uttar Pradesh, and our very 'own' Badruddin Azmal who has chosen to hibernate even in the wake of the LeT threat and the MULTA story in Asom, what transpires is that the nation may well be wished away in order to sustain a venomous pseudo-secular brand. Nor does one understand the silence of the State's so-called regional force, the AGP. Is it too shocked over the matter that it needs time to recover and speak to the media? Where is the Opposition the AGP again to ask the government to convince the public of its the level of preparedness ? Clearly, the AGP too is in the race as to how one should not and never hurt the religious sensitivity of the 'minorities'. The biggest problem, as this column has stressed many a time, is that of a power-hungry political class whose stupidity stems from the fact that it blends the concept of religious sensitivity of Muslims in a Hindu-dominated secular country with variations of tenor against terror perpetrated by Islamic terror groups,whether big shots like the LeT or the evolving ones like MULTA, let alone the strategic fight against terror. No wonder, Asom is in the scheme of things because just one Kashmir cannot satiate the jihadi greed. So Asom should be a Kashmir prototype with an Islamic Bangladesh along with the ISI to back the experiment of throwing the Asomiyas out of Asom. To conclude, one must be also happy about the silence of an indigenous political front, the BPPF! Where is that promise of indigenous assertion? Does the BPPF realize that it is a part of the ruling dispensation in the State, and that it must be seen ruling the State in a manner an indigenous front should rule? By this, one means a BPPF that would compel the Congress to act tough on jihadi outfits in the State, and that would ask the party to tell the indigenous people of the State the steps the government would take to protect them from the imminent jihadi onslaught. Or is it too much to expect from a political party? (The writer is the Consulting Editor of The Sentinel)
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