By Dr. Subramaniam Swamy
July 14, 2011
The terrorist blast in Mumbai on July 13, 2011 requires a decisive soul
searching by Hindus of India. Hindus cannot accept to be killed in this Halal
fashion, continuously bleeding every day, till the nation finally collapses.
Terrorism, I define here as the illegal use of force to overawe the civilian
population to make it do or not do an act against their will and well-being.
There are about 40 reported and unreported terrorist attacks per month in the
country. That is why the recent US National Counter-Terrorism Centre
publication A Chronology of International Terrorism states: ‘India suffered
more terrorist acts than any other country’.
While the PM thinks that Maoists’ threat is most serious, I think Islamic
terrorism is an even more serious existential threat. If we did not have today
the present Union
Home Minister, PM, and UPA chairperson, then Maoists can be eliminated in a
month, much as I did with the LTTE in Tamil Nadu, as a senior minister in 1991,
or MGR did with the Naxalites in the early 1980s. Islamic threat to the nation
is different.
Why is Islamic terrorism our number one problem of national security? About
this there will be no doubt in anyone's mind after 2012. By that year, I expect
a Taliban takeover in Pakistan and the Americans to flee Afghanistan. Then,
Islam will confront Hinduism to ‘complete unfinished business’. Already the
successor to Osama Bin Laden as the Al Qaeda leader has declared that India is
the priority target for that terrorist organisation and not the USA.
Fanatic Muslims consider Hindu dominated India as "an unfinished chapter
of Islamic conquests". I may be recalled that all other countries
conquered by Islam became 100% converted to Islam within two decades of the
Islamic invasion. India is the exception. Undivided India in 1947 was 75% Hindu
even after 800 years of brutal Islamic rule. That is jarring for the Islamic
fanatics.
Let us remember that every Hindu-Muslim riot in India since 1947, has been
ignited by Muslim fanatics — if one goes by all the Commissions of Inquiry set
up after every riot. Even the Gujarat riots were triggered by the brutal
killing of 56 women and children by setting fire to a rail coach in Godhra.
By today’s definition these riots are all terroristacts. Muslims, though a
minority in India, still have fanatics who dare tolead violent attacks against
Hindus. Other Muslims of India just lump it, sulk or rejoice. That is the
history from Babar’s time to Aurangzeb. There have been exceptions to this
apathy of Muslims like Dara Shikoh, in the old days, or like M J Akbar and
Salman Haidar today who are not afraid to speak out against Islamic terror, but
still they remain exceptions.
*Blame the Hindus*
In one sense, I do not blame the Muslim fanatics for targeting Hindus. I blame
us Hindus who have taken their individuality permitted in Sanatana Dharma to
the extreme. Millions of Hindus can assemble without state patronage for Kumbh
Mela completely self-organised, but they all leave for home oblivious of the
targeting of Hindus in Kashmir, Mau, Melvisharam and Malappuram and do not lift
their little finger to help organise Hindus. For example, if half the Hindus
vote together rising above their caste and language, a genuine Hindu party will
have a two-thirds majority in Parliament and Assemblies.
The secularists now tout instances of Hindu fanatics committing terrorist
attacks against Muslims or other minorities. But these attacks are mostly state
sponsored, often by the Congress itself, and not by Hindu ‘non-state actors’.
Muslim-led attacks are however all by ‘non-state actors’ unless one includes
the ISI and rogue elements in Pakistan’s army which are aiding them, as state
sponsoring.
Fanatic Muslim attacks have been carried out to target and demoralise the
Hindus, to make Hindus yield that which they should not, with the aim of
undermining and ultimately to dismantle the Hindu foundation of India. This is
the unfinished war of 1,000 years which Osama bin Laden talks about. In fact,
the earliest terror tactics in India were deployed in Bengal 1946 by Suhrawady
and Jinnah to terrorise Hindus to give in on the demand for Pakistan. The
Congress party claiming to represent the Hindus capitulated, and handed 25 per
cent of India on a platter to Mohammed Ali Jinnah. Now they want the remaining 75
per cent.
*Forces against Hindus*
This is not to say that other stooges have not targeted Hindus. During the last
six decades since Independence, British imperialist-inspired Dravidian movement
led by E V Ramaswamy Naicker, in the name of rationalism tried to debunk as
irrational the Hindu religion, and terrorised the Hindu priestly class, ie, the
Brahmins, for propagating the Hindu religion.
The movement’s organisational arm, the Dravida Kazhagam (DK), had venerated
Ravana for 50 years to spite the Hindu adoration of Rama and vulgarise the
abduction of Sita, till the DK belatedly learnt that Ravana was a Brahmin and a
pious bhakta of Lord Shiva too. Abandoning this course of defaming Ramayana,
the DK have now become stooges of the anti-Indian LTTE which has specialised in
killing the Hindu Tamil leadership in Sri Lanka. Of course the DK has now been
orphaned by the decimation of the LTTE.
*Civil war situation*
In the 1960s, the Christian missionaries had inspired the Nagas. The Nagas also
wanted to further amputate Bharat Mata by seeking secession of Nagaland from
the nation. In the 1980s, the Hindus of Manipur were targeted by
foreign-trained elements. Manipuris were told:give up Hinduism or be killed. In
Kashmir, since the beginning of the 1990s, militants in league with the
Pakistan-trained terrorists also targeted the Hindus by driving the Hindu
Pandits out of the Valley, or killing them or dishonouring their women folk.
Recognising that targeting of Hindus is being widely perceived, and that Muslims
of India are largely just passive spectators, the foreign patrons of Islamic
terrorists are beginning to engage in terrorist acts that could pit Muslims
against Hindus in nation-wide conflagration and possible civil war as in Serbia
and Bosnia.
Muslims cannot be divided into ‘moderates’ and ‘extremists’ because the former
just capitulate when confronted. Recently, Pakistan civilian government
capitulated on ‘kite flying’ and banned it because Taliban considers it as
‘Hindu’. Moderate governments of Malaysia and Kazhakstan are now demolishing
Hindu temples.
*Collective response*
Hence, the first
lesson to be learnt from recent history of Islamic terrorism against India, and
for tackling terrorism in India is that the Hindu is the target and that Muslims
of India are being programmed by a slow reactive process to become radical and
thus slide into suicide against Hindus. It is to undermine the Hindu psyche and
create fear of civil war that terror attacks are organised.
And hence since the Hindu is the target, Hindus must collectively respond as
Hindus against the terrorist and not feel individually isolated or worse, be
complacent because he or she is not personally affected. If one Hindu dies
merely because he or she was a Hindu, then a bit of every Hindu also dies. This
is an essential mental attitude, a necessary part of a virat Hindu (for fuller
discussion of the concept of virat Hindu, see my Hindus Under Siege: The Way
Out Haranand, 2006).
Therefore we need today a collective mindset as Hindus to stand against the
Islamic terrorist. In this response, Muslims of India can join us if they
genuinely feel for the Hindu. That they do, I will not believe, unless they
acknowledge with pride that though they may be Muslims, their ancestors are
Hindus.
It is not easy for them to acknowledge this ancestry because the Muslim mullah
would consider it as unacceptable since that realisation would dilute the
religious fervour in their faith and also create an option for their possible
re-conversion to Hinduism. Hence, these religious leaders preach hatred and
violence against the kafir i.e, the Hindu
(for example read Chapter 8 verse 12 of the Quran) to keep the faith of their
followers. The Islamic terrorist outfits, e.g the SIMI, has already resolved
that India is Darul Harab, and they are committed to make it Darul Islam. That
makes them free of any moral compunction whatsoever in dealing with Hindus.
*Brihad Hindu Samaj*
But still, if any Muslim does so acknowledge his or her Hindu legacy, then we
Hindus can accept him or her as a part of the Brihad Hindu Samaj, which is
Hindustan. India that is Bharat that is Hindustan is a nation of Hindus and
others whose ancestors are Hindus. Even Parsis and Jews in India have Hindu
ancestors. Others, who refuse to so acknowledge or those foreigners who become
Indian citizens by registration can remain in India, but should not have voting
rights (which means they cannot be elected
representatives).
Hence, to begin with, any policy to combat terrorism must begin with requiring
each and every Hindu becoming a committed or virat Hindu. To be a virat Hindu
one must have a Hindu mindset, a mindset that recognises that there is
vyaktigat charitra (personal character) and a rashtriya charitra (national
character).
It is not enough if one is pious, honest and educated. That is the personal
character only. National character is a mindset actively and vigorously
committed to the sanctity and integrity of the nation. For example, Manmohan
Singh, our prime minister, has high personal character (vyaktigat charitra),
but by being a rubber stamp of a semi-literate Sonia Gandhi, and waffling on
all national issues, he has proved that he has no rashtriya charitra.
The second lesson for combating the terrorism we face today is: since demoralising
the Hindu and undermining the Hindu foundation of India in order to destroy the
Hindu civilisation, is the goal of all terrorists in India we must never
capitulate and never concede any demand of the terrorists. The basic policy has
to be: never yield to any demand of the terrorists. That necessary resolve has
not been shown in our recent history. Instead ever since we conceded Pakistan
in 1947 under duress, we have been
mostly yielding time and again.
*Bowing to terrorists*
In 1989, to obtain the release of Mufti Mohammed Sayeed’s daughter, Rubaiyya
who had been kidnapped by terrorists, five terrorists in Indian jails were set
free by the V P Singh’s government. This made these criminals in the eyes of
Kashmiri separatists and fence sitters heroes, as those who had brought India’s
Hindu establishment on its knees. To save Rubaiyya it was not necessary to
surrender to terrorist demands.
A worse capitulation to terrorists in our modern history was in the Indian
Airlines IC-814 hijack in December 1999 staged in Kandahar. The government
released three terrorists even without getting court permission (required since
they were in judicial custody). Moreover, they were escorted by a senior
minister on the PM’s special Boeing all the way to Kandahar as royal guests
instead of being shoved across the Indo-Pakistan border.
Worse still, all the three after being freed, went back to Pakistan and created
three separate terrorist organisations to kill Hindus. Mohammed Azhar, whom the
National Security Advisor Brijesh Mishra had then described as “a mere harmless
cleric”, upon his release led the LeT to savage and repeated terrorist attacks
on Hindus all over India from Bangalore to Srinagar. Since mid-2000, Azhar is
responsible for the killing of over 2,000 Hindus and the attack on Parliament
on December 13, 2001. Omar Sheikh who helped al-Qaeda is in jail in US custody
for killing US journalist Daniel Pearl, while the third, Zargar is engaged
today in random killings of Hindus in Doda and Jammu after founding
Al-Mujahideen Jingaan.
This Kandahar episode proves that we should never negotiate with terrorists,
never yield. If you do, then sooner or later you will end up losing more lives
than you will ever save by a deal with terrorists.
*Moment of truth*
The third lesson to be learnt is that whatever and however small the terrorist
incident, the nation must retaliate—not by measured and ‘sober’ responses but
by massive retaliation. Otherwise what is the alternative? Walk meekly to death
expecting that our ‘sober’ responses will be rewarded by our neighbours and
their patrons? We will be back to 1100 AD fooled into suicidal credulity. We
should not be ghouls for punishment from terrorists and their patrons. We
should retaliate.
For example, when Ayodhya temple was sought to be attacked, this was not a big
terrorist incident but we should have massively retaliated by re-building the
Ram temple at the site.
This is Kaliyug, and hence there is no room for sattvic responses to evil
people. Hindu religion has a concept of apat dharma and we should invoke it.
This is the moment of truth for us. Either we organise to survive as a
civilisation or vanish as the Persian, Babylonian, and Egyptian civilisations
did centuries ago before the brutal Islamic onslaught. For that our motto
should be Saam, Dhaam, Bheda, Danda.
*Poverty is no factor*
What motivates the Islamic terrorists in India? Many are advising us Hindus to
deal with the root ‘cause’ of terrorism rather than concentrate on eradicating
terrorists by retaliation. And pray what is the root ‘cause’?
According to bleeding heart liberals, terrorists are born or bred because of
illiteracy, poverty, oppression, and discrimination. They argue that instead of
eliminating them, the root cause of these four disabilities in society should
be removed. Only then terrorism will disappear. Before replying to this, let us
understand that I have serious doubts about the integrity of these liberals, or
more appropriately, these promiscuous intellectuals. They seek to deaden the
emotive power of the individual and render him passive
(inculcate ‘majboori’ in our psyche). A nation state cannot survive for long
with such a capitulationist mentality.
It is rubbish to say that terrorists who mastermind the attacks are poor. Osama
bin laden for example is a billionaire. Islamic terrorists are patronised by
those states that have grown rich from oil revenues. In Britain, the terrorists
arrested so far for the bombings are all well-to-do persons. Nor are terrorists
uneducated. Most of terrorist leaders are doctors, chartered accountants, MBAs
and teachers. For example, in the failed Times Square New York episode, the
Islamic terrorist Shahzad studied and got an MBA from a reputed US university.
He was from a highly placed family in Pakistan. He certainly faced no
discrimination and oppression in his own country. The gang of nine persons who
hijacked four planes on September 11, 2001 and flew them into the World Trade
Towers in New York and other targets were certainly not discriminated or
oppressed in the United States. Hence it is utter rubbish to say that terror is
the outcome of the poverty terrorists face.
If we accept the Left-wing liberals argument, does it mean that in Islamic
countries, the non-Islamic religious minority who are discriminated and
oppressed can take to terrorism? In the Valley, where Muslims are in majority,
not only Article 370 of the Constitution provides privileges to the majority
but it is the minority Hindus who have been slaughtered, or raped, and dispossessed.
They have become refugees in squalid conditions in their own country.
It is also a ridiculous idea that terrorists cannot be deterred because they
are irrational, willing to die, and have no ‘return address’. Terrorist
masterminds have political goals and a method in their madness. An effective
strategy to deter terrorism is therefore to defeat those political goals and to
rubbish them by counter-terrorist action. How is that strategy to be
structured? In a brilliant research paper published by Robert Trager and
Dessislava Zagorcheva this year (‘Deterring Terrorism’ International Security,
vol 30, No 3, Winter 2005/06, pp 87-123) has provided the general principles to
structure such a strategy.
*Goal-strategy*
Applying these principles, I advocate the following strategy to negate the
political goals of Islamic terrorism in India, provided the Muslim community
fail to condemn these goals and call them un-Islamic:
Goal 1: Overawe India on Kashmir.
Strategy: Remove Article 370, and re-settle ex-servicemen in the Valley. Create
Panun Kashmir for Hindu Pandit community. Look or create opportunity to take
over PoK. If Pakistan continues to back terrorists, assist the Baluchis and
Sindhis to struggle for independence.
Goal 2: Blast our temples and kill Hindu devotees.
Strategy: Remove the masjid in Kashi Vishwanath temple complex, and 300 others
in other sites as a tit-for-tat.
Goal 3: Make India into Darul Islam.
Strategy: Implement Uniform Civil Code, make Sanskrit learning compulsory and
singing of Vande Mataram mandatory, and declare India as Hindu Rashtra in which
only those non-Hindus can vote if they proudly acknowledge that their ancestors
are Hindus. Re-name India as Hindustan as a nation of Hindus and those whose
ancestors are Hindus.
Goal 4: Change India’s demography by illegal immigration, conversion,
and refusal to adopt family planning.
Strategy: Enact a national law prohibiting conversion from Hindu religion to
any other religion. Re-conversion will not be banned. Declare caste is not
birth-based but code of discipline based. Welcome non-Hindus to re-convert to
the caste of their choice provided they adhere to the code of discipline. Annex
land from Bangladesh in proportion to the illegal migrants from that country
staying in India. At present, northern one-third from Sylhet to Khulna can be
annexed to re-settle the illegal migrants.
Goal 5: Denigrate Hinduism through vulgar writings and preaching in
mosques, madrassas, and churches to create loss of self-respect amongst Hindus
and make them fit for capitulation.
Strategy: Propagate the development of a Hindu mindset (see my new book
Hindutva and National Renaissance, Haranand, 2010).
India can solve its terrorist problem within five years by such a deterrent
strategy, but for that we have to learn the four lessons outlined above, and
have a Hindu mindset to take bold, risky, and hard decisions to defend the
nation. If the Jews can be transformed from lambs walking meekly to the gas
chambers to fiery lions in just 10 years, it is not difficult for Hindus in
much better circumstances (after all we are 83 per cent of India), to do so in
five years.
Guru Gobind Singh has shown us the way already, how just five fearless persons
under spiritual guidance can transform a society. Even if half the Hindu voters
are persuaded to collectively vote as Hindus, and for a party sincerely
committed to a Hindu agenda, then we can forge an instrument for change. And
that ultimately is the bottom line in the strategy to deter terrorism in a
democratic Hindustan at this moment of truth.
*About the author:
*Subramanian Swamy* Janata Party President is a Professor of Economics and a
former Union Cabinet Minister*
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