DEEPAK CHOPRA'S DELUSION
In his interview with CNN on November 26 (Larry King Live), Deepak Chopra
presented his naïve view that "real" Muslims would never carry out terrorism in
the name of "Allah." Deepak Chopra is, I think, entirely wrong when he attempts
to expose the "root cause" of Jihadi terrorism. The discombobulating force of
his views is compounded by the inaccuracy of his false arguments. It is absurd
that Deepak Chopra's ire is primarily directed against Hindus, the main
targeted victims in the most recent Mumbai terrorism. Is such topsyturvy
blame game necessary? In his interview, Chopra was condescending towards the
Hindus, the victims of Jihadi terrorism. He misses something rather important
in his blanket accusation of Hindus. In his delusion, Deepak Chopra forgot the
fact: If Muslims were more pluralistic, accepting, tolerant, and nurturing
like Hindus, terrorism might indeed have been a thing of the past or would
never have taken birth.
Chopra's delusional thinking that Muslims will never carry out terrorism in the
name of Allah simply flounders on the cruel facts of present and historically
recorded reality. Chopra is simply in total denial about the dark side of
Islam, and hence he is a less than credible commentator on Islamic
fundamentalism. He has a fervent, unquestioning faith in Islamic fascism, which
he refuses to subject to critical examination.
Suppose, for a moment, Chopra's delusional dream was to come true and Islamic
fascists, in the name of establishing global peace, were to dominate the world,
would that end Jihadi terrorism? Certainly not. Chopra has totally ignored the
fact that Jihadi terrorists can and have inflicted terroristic violence on
other Muslims as evidenced in the recent political history of Pakistan. There
is no evidence that Chopra has shown any interests in preserving, protecting
and promoting peace, freedom, tolerance and coexistence among mutually
distrusting world communities. His assertions of how educated moderate
Muslims function in democratic societies cast serious doubt on his arguments
that their commitment to peace is to be taken for granted when they promote
Islam as a religion of peace. It is well established that prejudice,
discrimination, and murderous hostility against non-believers are shaped by
age-old Islamic education. Gross simplifications about Islam, its brutal past,
exclusion of Jihadi violence and terrorism from the history of Islam will
simply misguide the ill informed gullible public. It will simply misdirect and
confound those seeking pragmatic solution for Islamic terrorism.
The question of the future role of Islam in democratic nations, and even in
China, is far too important and complex to leave it only to the Islamic
fanatics or to their cohorts. There is a real need to deal with the ultimate
cause of global Jihadi terrorism: "Islam and its reliance on scripturally
justified and rewardable violence against the non-believers. "
Chopra's pro-Jihadi arguments reveal his fundamental misunderstanding of the
nature of Islam and Islamic terrorism. His highly selective discussion of
Hinduism in particular is peppered with outrage and indignation which many of
the Islamo- fascists will probably share and be delighted to quote with glee.
Of course, most Hindus find many parts of his discussion puzzling, perhaps
appalling. Chopra seems to think that criticizing Hindus more loudly, while
ignoring and condoning Jihadi terrorists will persuade Muslims to be more
tolerant and, of course, appease them. Sadly, Chopra is wrong in his
assumptions. For the gullible and credulous, it is the confidence with which
something is said that persuades them rather than the logic and evidence
offered in its support. Yet, the fact that Chopra relies so extensively on
rhetoric rather than the evidence that would otherwise be his natural stock in
his "medical trade" clearly indicates that something is wrong with his
arguments. He needs to take "Logic 101" course in a junior college to
understand the meaning of the word "fallacy."
Chopra, and other paid or corrupted Islamic agents outside the fold of Islam
will never address these basic questions: How come Jihadi terrorism continues
in India for more than a millennium? Why Hindus and Jews are targeted for
Jihadi slaughter for more than a millennium? Who were the Jihadi terrorists'
accomplices? Who manufactures and supplies the high-tech arms and devices that
they carry and who finances them? How could Jihadis commit such heinous crime?
Who are their inside informers and guides and who provides them with the maps
and transportation besides "google"? Who harbors them, trains them, and
provides them the safe haven? What could have been done by the educated
moderate responsible conscientious Muslims themselves since or before 9/11 to
prevent such barbaric Islamic terrorism? Could such brutal Islamic terrorism
happen again in India? What can such Jihadi terrorism tell us about the type of
Islam that they, the terrorists, believe in? What is the role and
responsibility of the Indian politicians, intellectuals, and the media to
maintain a balance and objectivity in the present climate without instigating
more discontent and adding fuel to fire, in any conflict, like some other media
are systematically doing outside India? How come the Pakistani flags went up
in some neighborhoods of Mumbai during the 60 hours of terrorists' rampage?
Where do these unpatriotic people in India draw their strength from to get by
with such treason? Where are the gunmen that now cannot be accounted for,
hiding? Who hides them and where do they disappear and how? Which countries
do they communicate with on their cell phones? Are their leaders outside
Pakistan and may be strung out as far as even on the East or West Coast of
Africa? Do they have a globally spread out network in addition to cells all
over the world, including India? Is the forensic evidence securely guarded by
the Indian government once the terrorists and their equipment is captured from
the crime scene, or does it fall into the hands of unscrupulous people and what
kind? How is it that explosives are found days after the attack on the crime
scene? Who are the insider helpers of the terrorists?
In seeking resolution to find an answer to Jihadi terrorism, it seems necessary
for concerned citizens to collect as much realistic information as possible
from such diverse fields of knowledge as philosophy, religious literature,
forensics, sociology, economics, history, cultural geography, psychology,
government, intelligence agencies, banking industry, etc., that has bearing on
the subject from different sections of the world population including honest
and sincere educated Muslims who are more loyal to their country than to Jihadi
Islam, of course, after ensuring their security clearance. This will enable
the public to link together historic information to a coherent foundation for
answering the question "How Islamic terrorism could continue in India? And,
how one could put a stop to it? Is there a true pragmatic peaceful solution to
put an end to this evil? Or, is there a need to have a strategy to deal firmly
with terrorism sooner than later?
Let us skip the rhetoric of bogus intellectuals like Chopra and cut to the
reality slicing through his romantic fallacies. It is much less simple than
Chopra's psychobabble –but it might actually help us address the real issues of
Jihadi terrorism we face every day. Chopra's failure to distinguish between the
closed, rigid, non compromising, imperialistic war mongering, divisive, and
intolerant Islamic paradigm in contrast to the tolerant, all inclusive,
systemic, pluralistic and open-ended, open-minded Vedic paradigm makes it
difficult for him to understand one of the most dangerous pressing problems of
today: Jihadi terrorism. This problem, if not resolved, may lead to more
destruction than water-shortage, global warming, AIDS, "surgical wars," Bird
Flue, or other epidemics as well as other major threats to life perceived by
the world population.
People like Chopra who suffer from "Hyper Compulsive Secular Disorder" ("HCSD")
suffer from denial, cognitive disorder and delusional thinking. They call
Hindus "communalists. " The reality is that the intolerant, imposing,
aggressive, imperialism of mostly cohesive Islamic world population covertly
and sometimes openly condoning and pampering Jihadi terrorists even when
convicted of crime is indicative of a viciously stronger "communal" instinct
among the Islamists compared to one ever manifested among the divided
multifaceted fragmented Hindus. Another interesting phenomenon to watch among
the Islamists is their propensity to organize themselves to promptly scream
that they are the victims and distort the facts to show "how", after they
inflict untold misery and massacres on others. People like Chopra are in the
wrong. These wrongheaded secular addicts like Chopra are showing the obvious
and predictable result of "addiction." And, things aren't going to get any
better until they stop clinging to their Hyper Compulsive Addiction to their
own form of idiosyncratic blinded "secularism" and start addressing the source
of their problems. They are contributing to the problem of Jihadi terrorism
rather than attempting to provide a pragmatic solution to eradicate it.
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