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India, Jihad's Permanent Battleground
by Srdja Trifkovic
Teams of heavily armed terrorists carried out seven coordinated attacks in
India's financial capital "Mumbai" (Bombay) on Wednesday evening and early
Thursday morning. Over 120 people were reported killed by Friday morning and
over 300 wounded, with the final toll likely to rise once the ongoing hostage
crisis is ended. Similar attacks by Islamic terrorists occur with grim
regularity in India (see Timetable at the end). The disputed province of
Kashmir notwithstanding, militant Islam sees the second most populous country
in the world as a piece of "unfinished business": having been ruled by Muslims
once, it cannot legitimately revert to Dar al-Harb.
The attacks represent a massive intelligence failure on part of the government
in New Delhi. Even India's business capital is now seen as a soft target for
Jihadist terror, yet the ruling Congress Party continues its old habit of
minority appeasement and automatic insistence that the problem is confined to
an unrepresentative extremist fringe aided from abroad (i.e. Pakistan). This
attitude indicates common ideological roots of India's political and media
elite and its Western role model. Both are supine, secularist and leftist to
boot.
Now that the jihadists have targeted two luxury hotels and a top-tier
restaurant frequented by visiting foreigners, now that they have brought their
holy war to India's upper crust and their Western business partners, the
country's elite class should wake up to the fact that India has a Muslim
problem. That problem is fundamentally the same in each and every country in
the world with a substantial Muslim minority. It would be there even if the
government in Islamabad and its semi-rogue agencies like the ISI were to
terminate all support for Islamic terrorist groups active across the
Subcontinent (which will never happen, of course). The attacks remind us
that global Jihad has India in its sights, no less firmly today than in the
early centuries of the expansion of Islam's bloody borders.
Prior to the Muslim invasions which started in the 8th century India was one of
the world's great civilizations. It matched its contemporaries in the realms of
philosophy, mathematics, and natural science. It was a richly imaginative
culture, one of the half-dozen most advanced civilizations of all time. Its
sculptures were vigorous and sensual, its architecture ornate and spellbinding.
Muslim invaders began entering India in the early eighth century, on the orders
of Hajjaj, the governor of Iraq. Starting in 712 the raiders, commanded by
MuhammadQasim, demolished temples, shattered sculptures, plundered palaces,
killed vast numbers of menit took them three days to slaughter the inhabitants
of the port city of Debaland carried off their women and children to slavery.
After the initial wave of violence, however, Qasim tried to establish law and
order in the newly conquered lands, and to that end he even allowed a degree of
religious tolerance. Upon hearing of such practices, his superior, Hajjaj,
wrote back:
You go on giving pardon to everybody, high or low, without any discretion
between a friend and a foe. The great Allah says in the Kuran[47.4]: "O True
believers, when you encounter the unbelievers, strike off their heads." The
above command is a great command and must be respected and followed. You should
not be so fond of showing mercy, as to nullify the virtue of the act.
Henceforth, grant pardon to no one of the enemy and spare none of them, or else
all will consider you a weak-minded man.
In a subsequent communication, Hajjajreiterated that all able-bodied men were
to be killed, and that their underage sons and daughters were to be enslaved.
Qasim obeyed, and, on his arrival at the town of Brahminabad, massacred
thousands ofmen.
Qasim's early exploits were continued in the early eleventh century, when
Mahmud of Ghazni "passed through Indialike a whirlwind, destroying, pillaging,
and massacring," zealously following the Kuranic injunctions to kill idolaters,
whom he had vowed to chastise every year of his life. In the course of
seventeen invasions, in the words of Alberuni, the scholar brought by Mahmud to
India,
Mahmud utterly ruined the prosperity of the country and performed there
wonderful exploits, by which the Hindus became like atoms of dust scattered in
all directions, and like a tale of old in the mouth of the people. Their
scattered remains cherish, of course, the most inveterate aversion toward all
Muslims.
In the aftermath of the invasion, in the ancient cities of Varanasi, Mathura,
Ujjain, Maheshwar, Jwalamukhi, and Dwarka, not one temple survived whole and
intact. In his The Story of Civilization, Will Durant lamented the results of
what he termed "probably the bloodiest story in history." He called it
a discouraging tale, for its evident moral is that civilization is a precious
good, whose delicate complex order and freedom can at any moment be overthrown
by barbarians invading from without and multiplying from within
. [E]ternal
vigilance is the price of civilization. A nation must love peace, but keep its
powder dry.
Islamic invaders broke and burned everything beautiful they came across in
Hindustan, displaying, as an Indian commentator put it, the resentment of the
less developed warriors who felt intimidated in the encounter with a more
refined culture. The Muslim sultans built mosques at the sites of torn down
temples, and countless Hindus were sold into slavery.
As far as the invaders were concerned, Hindus were kafirs par excellence. They,
and to a lesser extent the peaceful Buddhists, were not "of the book"
"protected," like Jews and Christians, provided they submit to dhimmitude but
at the receiving end of Muhammad's implacable injunction against pagans: "Kill
those who join other gods with God wherever you may find them."(Kuran, 9:5-6)
The mountainous northwestern approaches to Indiaare called Hindu Kush, "the
Slaughter of the Hindu," a reminder of the days when Hindu slaves from Indian
Subcontinent died in the harsh Afghan mountains while being transported to
Muslim courts of Central Asia. The slaughter in Somnath, the site of a
celebrated Hindu temple, where 50,000 Hindus were slain on Mahmud's orders, set
the tone for centuries.
The Buddhistswere the next to be subjected to mass slaughter in 1193, when
MuhammadKhilji also burned their famous library. By the end of the twelfth
century, following the Muslim conquest of their stronghold in Bihar, they were
no longer a significant presence in India. The survivors retreated into Nepal
and Tibet, or escaped to the south of the Subcontinent. The remnants of their
culture lingered on even as far west as Turkestan. Left to the tender mercies
of Muslim conquerors and their heirs, they were systematically destroyed,
sometimesas was the case with the four giant statues of Buddhadestroyed by the
Taliban in Afghanistanin March 2001as late as the first year of the third
millennium.
That cultivated disposition and developed sensibility can go hand in hand with
bigotry and cruelty is evidenced by the example of FiruzShah, who became the
ruler of northern Indiain 1351. This educated yet tyrannical Muslim ruler once
surprised a village where a Hindu religious festival was celebrated and ordered
all present to be slain. He proudly related that, upon completing the
slaughter, he destroyed the temples and in their place built mosques.
The Moghul emperor Akbaris remembered as tolerant, and only one major massacre
was recorded during his long reign (15421605), when he ordered that about
30,000 captured Rajput Hindus be slain on February 24, 1568, after the battle
for Chitod. But Akbar's acceptance of other religions and toleration of their
public worship, his abolition of poll-tax on non-Muslims, and his interest in
other faiths were not a reflection of his Islamic spirit of tolerance. Quite
the contrary, they indicated his propensity for free-thinking experimentation
in the realm of religion that finally led him to complete apostasy. Its high
points were the formal declaration of his own infallibility in all matters of
religious doctrine, his promulgation of a new creed, and his adoption of Hindu
and Zoroastrian festivals and practices.
Things were back to normal under Shah Jahan (15931666), the fifth Mogul
Emperor and a grandson of Akbarthe Great. Most Westerners remember him as the
builder of Taj Mahal and do not know that he was a cruel warmonger who
initiated 48 military campaigns against non-Muslims in less than 30 years.
Taking his cue from his Ottomanco-religionists, on coming to the throne in 1628
he killed all his male relations except one who escaped to Persia. During his
reign, in Benares alone 76 Hindu temples were destroyed, and Christian churches
at Agra and Lahore were demolished. At the end of the three-month siege of
Hugh, a Portuguese enclave near Calcutta, he had 10,000 inhabitants "blown up
with powder, drowned in water, or burnt by fire." More than 4,000 were taken
captive to Agra where they were offered Islam or death. Most refused and were
killed, except for the younger women who went to harems.
The massacres perpetrated by Muslims in Indiaare unparalleled in history. They
arebigger in sheer numbers than the Holocaust, or the massacre of the
Armeniansby the Turks; more extensive even than the slaughter of the South
American native populations by the invading Spanish and Portuguese.
Major recent attacks by Islamic terrorists in India:
March 12, 1993: 257 killed and more than 1,000 injured in 15 co-ordinated bomb
attacks in Bombay. The blasts were orchestrated by an Islamic group headed by
Dawood Ibrahim.
February 14, 1998: 46 people were killed and more than 200 injured in 13 car
bombs in the city of Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu. The attacks were blamed on the "Al
Umma" Islamist group
October 1, 2001: Militants belonging to Jaish-e-Mohammed, a Kashmiri group,
attacked Jammu and Kashmir Assembly complex in Srinagar, killing 35 people.
December 13, 2001: Attack on the Indian Parliament complex in New Delhi led to
the killing of a dozen people and 18 injured. Four members of the
Pakistan-based Islamist group Jaish-e-Mohammed were later convicted for their
part in the plot
September 24, 2002: 31 people killed, 79 wounded at Akshardham temple in Gujarat
May 14, 2002: Islamic attackers killed more than 30 people in an Army camp near
Jammu.
March 13, 2003: A bomb attack on a commuter train in Mumbai killed 11.
Aug. 25, 2003: Twin car bombings in Mumbai killed at least 52 people and
injured 150. Indian authorities blamed the Kashmiri Islamist group
Lashkar-e-Taiba
July 5, 2005: Attack on the Ram Janmabhoomi complex, the site of the destroyed
Babri Mosque at Ayodhya in Uttar Pradesh.
Oct. 29, 2005: Three explosions in busy shopping areas of south Delhi, two days
before the Hindu festival of Diwali, killed 59 and injured 200. Islami Inqilabi
Mahaz (Islamic Revolutionary Group) claimed responsibility, but authorities
blamed Lashkar-e-Taiba
March 7, 2006: A series of bombings in the holy city of Varanasi killed at
least 28 and injured over a hundred. Indian investigators blamed Pakistan-based
Islamic terrorists.
July 11, 2006: Seven bomb blasts on the Mumbai Suburban Railway killed over 200
people. Police blamed Lashkar-e-Taiba and Students Islamic Movement of India.
Sept. 8, 2006: At least 37 people were killed and 125 were injured in a series
of explosions near a mosque in Malegaon, Maharashtra. The Islamic Movement of
India claimed responsibility.
Aug. 25, 2007: Forty-two people killed and 50 injured in twin explosions at a
crowded park in Hyderabad by Harkat-ul-Jehad-i-Islami (HuJI).
May 13, 2008: A series of six explosions in Jaipur killed 63 people and injured
more than 150.
July 26, 2008: Serial explosions in the western Indian city of Ahmedabad killed
45 people and injured more than 150. The Indian Mujahideen claimed
responsibility.
Sept. 13, 2008: Five bomb blasts in New Delhi's popular shopping centers left
21 people dead and more than 100 injured. The Indian Mujahideen claimed
responsibility.
And yet, The New York Times manages to produce a long reports on the attacks
without mentioning the word "Muslim" or "Islamic" even once!
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