A nation riding on killer bicycles
By M. Burhanuddin Qasmi
Terror struck us yet again — this time in the pink city Jaipur. Till Wednesday evening, the unofficial toll was 90 killed, and with over 200 injured. It was 7:30 pm, 13th May, prime time for shopping when daytime temperature was above 40 degree. Markets were bustling but within minutes everything was shattered and it was chaos all-around India's one of beautiful tourist places.
The first blast took place at 7.20pm on Tuesday in the crowded Johari Bazaar and within 15 minutes at least seven more blasts occurred in adjoining areas. The blasts were of medium intensity in the walled city whose residential areas are heavily Muslim populated.
The bombs were mostly planted on bicycles like in Malegaon but rickshaws and cars were also used in Jaipur to cause maximum damage.
World capitals from Washington to Paris, London, Dhaka and Islamabad condemned the attacks.
Government officials and some corporate media house are usually quick to blame Muslim militants based in Pakistan or Dhaka for such attacks, which have plagued India in recent years.
Almost all social, political and religious leaders of the country offered sincere condolences to the victims of the dastardly act and some urged upon the state and central governments to take all possible measures for the proper compensation and rehabilitation of the survivors.
What is it going on here, one wonders! The fact of the matter is, it sounds, as if the whole Indian nation is riding on killer bicycles. From Malegaon in Maharashtra to the courts in UP and now Jaipur in Rajasthan, everywhere, the poor man's vehicle- bicycles are affectively used as bomb.
These cowardly acts of terror have become a sore on the body politic of Indian democracy. The current global and local politics in the shape of religious polarization is intensifying the acts of terror, more so in India. The panic side of the story is that prevention of these acts has been politicized by the vested interest. Some claim that the present government is soft on terrorism and result is an increase in these terror acts. They forget that even during the NDA regime the frequency and intensity of these acts was similar. "These acts of terror have deeper political causes", observe intellectuals including Ram Puniyani, secretary All India Secular Forum.
In the past investigating agencies seem to have overlooked the case of two Bajrang Dal activists getting killed in Nanded in April 2006 while preparing bombs. And arguably they also did not heed to the narco-analysis of one of the survivors of the Nanded episode who said that now 'we Hindus should also do the acts of terror'.
A Mumbai daily newspaper Urdu Times reported (18 April 2008) about Malegaon police raid in a patho-laboratory which is situated in basement of a private hospital and recovered revolver, RDX and fake currency note of one thousand rupee. Police have arrested 3 terrorists Nitish Ashire (20) Sahab Rao Sukhdev Dhevre (22) and Jitendar Kherna (25). The last one is the owner of Smith Pathology Laboratory which is situated at the basement of More Accident Hospital of Camp Area. One pistol, 5 live RDX, 3 used RDX, four fake notes of one thousand rupee, Laptop computer, Scanner, 5 thousand cash rupees and 2 mobiles were recovered during the raid, detailed the newspaper.
On 24th February 2008, bomb blasts occurred in the RSS office and the Bus Stand in Tenkasi, Tamil Nadu, one of India's southern states. The media carried big stories about the blasts. The Sangh Parivar organised demonstrations in various parts of the state, demanding the arrest of Muslim ‘terrorists’, who according to them had committed the crime. However the Tamil Nadu police acted sensibly. A special team led by Mr. Kannappan, DIG, Tirunelveli range made a thorough investigation and arrested 3 persons S Ravi Pandian (42), a cable TV operator, S Kumar (28), an auto driver, both from Tenkasi, and V Narayana Sharma (26) of Sencottai, all Sangh Parivar activists. The last accused had assembled 14 pipe bombs in the office of Ravi Pandian, revealed in some media reports.
In the recent blasts the police have launched a massive hunt, as the first lead toward the culprits, for a woman who allegedly promised Rs.100,000 to a rickshaw puller to carry out the terror attacks.
"We are looking for a woman, identified as Meena, who tried to lure a rickshaw puller, Vijay, to carry out the attacks," a police officer said on the condition of anonymity, according to a report in the press.
Vijay, allegedly a resident of Mumbai, said before Ajtak camera, "Stop the lady (Meena) or she would explode bombs at Katwali". By that time a bomb was already exploded at Katwali area. Vijay was detained just hour after the Jaipur blasts who also told the police that Meena lives near one of the blast sites.
In the light of the above revelations the reinvestigation of all the blasts which took place in different parts of the country ought to be done without preoccupation. In most of the blasts cases, there is a feeling in certain areas that mechanically the investigating agencies put certain outfits as accused to ease their work and booked sometimes innocent persons instead of the real accused.
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M. Burhanuddin Qasmi is editor of Eastern Crescent and director of Mumbai based Markazul Ma'arif Education and Research Centre. He can be contacted at manager@markazulmaarif.org





SRINAGAR: National
SRINAGAR: National Conference president Omar Abdullah has accused Muslims of being mute spectators at the time of exodus of Kashmiri Pandits from the Valley in the 1990s.
"It's so easy to say that we will lay down our lives to bring Kashmiri Pandits back to the Valley and I appreciate the sentiment as I am sure the Kashmiri Pandits reading it will. Pity that sentiment was missing when our mosques were being used to drive these people out," Omar said in his blog on the official website of his party.
"None of us was willing to stand up and be counted when it mattered. None of us grabbed the mikes (microphones) in the mosques and said 'this is wrong and the Kashmiri Pandits had every right to continue living in the Valley," he said.
"Our educated, well-to-do relatives and neighbours were spewing venom 24 hours a day and we were mute spectators either mute in agreement or mute in abject fear but mute none the less.
"And talking about mosques -- what a great symbol of mass uprising they proved to be. While I can't claim to have lived through it I have enough friends who did and they tell me about the early 90's where attendance was taken in mosques to force people to pray," Omar wrote.
Questioning the spontaneity of processions taken out in 1990, Omar said people were forced out of their homes to participate in "mass uprisings" against "Indian occupation" and the same enforcement committees went from door to door.
my only question to Muslims
my only question to Muslims in India is what stopped them from going to Pakistan in 1947 ? India would have been much greater and better. If not for the sangh parivar muslims would have killed all of us the way they killed during there "mughol saltanat" . I was never an extremist but the way you guys are attacking us we have no option but to annihilate all muslims and I agree with the fact 'we Hindus should also do the acts of terror'. the fact is u have converted a peaceful country into something worse then Afghanistan . all your article are pro muslim and I dont see an iota of nationalism in it.
Yes during NDA attack happened but not to this degree and i wish they back again and teach all terrorist a lesson Jai hind.
ever heard of naxalites?
ever heard of naxalites? they have killed more Indians in one year than all these terror attacks that are being blamed on Muslims. So what are you doing about that?
use your brain and don't follow the propaganda of hindutva groups. they have never loved India and they never will. Simple proof none of Hindutva group leaders even went to prison during freedom struggle.
turkaanaam bahu moorkhaanaam means a muslim is mindless in
ei kashif stop ur mischievous argument, that naxals killed more people than muslim jihadis. when hindus are suffering due to islamic terrorism, u comments are adding insult to injury. yes naxals killed people but who are they? they were never common people. they were police men, people who were supporting the cause.and in stray incidents they might have killed innocent people. they never planted bombs in shopping malls,or near temples, or in parks. like mulim jehadis. cowardly jehadis are killing innocent hindus planting bombs in public places. there is wide gulf of difference between a naxal and jehaadi modus operandi. in telugu there is a proverb when a person is crying that his hut is on fire, a stranger comes to him and asks him for amatch box to lit his cigar. like wise when hindus are suffering due to islamic terrorism u are reminding us of naxalism. and even ur argument that islamic terrorist killed less than naxals does not hold ground. since the unholy islamic invasions of kings from arab countries from 10th century.to upto today,if we start counting the casualties among both communities hindus and mulsims. the statistics would scaring to intolerant muslims. and the death toll would 10 crore hindus brutally killed and more than five crore hindus forcibly converted to islam whose descendants are modern day bangladeshis, indians, pakistanis mostly. dont dig for facts the whole world is vexed of islamic terrorism. a hindu might show a reactionary vengence against amuslim. but never for life time. but a jehadis ideal is to bring all non muslim elements to islam by hook or cranny. he is always for islamic state and hindu blood who according to him an infidel, an idolator , an anthropomorphist. mr kasif i will tell the germ of terror is in quran and the tragic utterances of mohammed. if is because of mohammed and quran that we hindus are suffering. sophists like the islamic scholar zakir naik can not defend quran no longer from being busted. u have to understand that hinduism does not believe neither one god principle nor hundred god principles. it emaphasises the principle called loko binna ruchihi which means religion according the psyche of the individual. and as his personal approaches to religion such as whether he worships an idol or doesnt worship, he is a monotheist or a poly theist , or an a theist ,or a henotheist. this things dont matter. what matters is spirituality . monotheism has long departed from india and hinduism. go and study vivekananda books regarding the difference between hinduism and world religions. and the books of zakir naik which would instill u to become a terrorist and commands u to destroy more statues if there are like the bumiyan buddha statues.
chathrapathi, first learn history.....
I haven't heard an idiot like you in my life, I think you live in your own fantasy, and make all you own stories, and all your numbers about how many are converted ...blah,blah...... shame on you, you know you are writing false statements, but for some other Hindus migh think these are correct, and people like you are resposible for these terrorist attacks( I also say those you kill innocent people are not muslims, it's all indian govt propaganda, whereever there is a blast attach it to muslim, even if the bomb is in a mosque, attach it to muslims, how the hell muslim can kill mosque going muslims????)
If muslim rulers forced hindus to convert to islam, then today no hindu would have been there in Hindustan....( Hindustan = India+pak+bangla), and the languge we all speak is hindustani, the HINDU is invented by muslims, before muslims came to India, you didn't even had a name for your religion, you were following a false religion created by Brahmins to allow them to rule with mind games, since Brahmins are the cowards they can't win a kingdom with military strenght, so they started all these mind games, but mashallah Muslim rulers showed the correct path to millions of people, all are willig reverted to Islam.... I can go on and on ......but there is no point explaning to a foolish propagandist....
muslim terrorist abdul hindus were butchered under islam.
behold mr abdul. u called me an idiot . but u cannot call my statementsfallacious regarding hindu killings under islamic rule since 12century do have a solid proof. before coming to that u made uncanny comments on the native religious practices of india which we call hinduism and hindus its followers collectively. ur comments that our religion had no name which is of no importance. a religion that is eternal and bases its principles on dharma does not need a name. any thing that takes name and form shall perish. islam is also not the name of ur religion because if was never peaceful since its untimely birth under mohammed (god save his soul). i can also talk alot on that i m leaving it there. a tree is known by its fruits, if islamic preaches peace why u people arenot peaceful, i m talking regarding hindu andmuslim conflict, not a christian, muslim conflict, if u dont like hinduism or the idolatrous practices, use ur mouth to say that not ur sword. but unforturnately arabs and afghan kings who invaded northern territories of india, after conquering those lands didnot spare either natives or their religion. there itself was laid the germ of hindu muslim conflict. before these invading kings hindus and newlyislamised arabs had anice relationship regarding religious views. hindus gave their mathematics, the idea of zero, which they inturn gave to europeans. that was the only golden periods of harmony that is two hundred years after the birth of islam. u should alsoknow that hinduism or any religious beliefs are not a handiwork of brahmansim or brahmins. hindu society was organised and the responsibility of carrying the religious heritage was given to a sect of people who became brahmins. mr abdul the world is advancing if hindus are not advancing there is no problem because a hindu wouldkeep his views with him only and does not try to proselytise others to join him like the evangelist christians. but if a muslim doesnt advance and still is in medieval slumber. either the world is destroyed due islamic fanaticism or the world shall destroy u. this is the thing u have to decide. regarding hindu deaths under despotic muslim leaders is a fact. during bangladesh war pakistani mulsim army killed thirty lakh bangalis out of whom 25 lakhs were hindus and out of one crore bengali refugees that were pushed to india 80lakhs bengalis were hindus.this is a fact fact fact, amen. this isa shame upon u and upon islam and mohammed and upon quran.it was a genocide.in kashmir the story is thesame. all the hindu pandits were driven out. beware i am also leaving it here. dont thing im a sophist or a false arguer like the islamic scholar zakir naik. dont also think that hindus were cowards it is hindus that stood the mughal empire uptil aurangazeb. if hindus are still alive in india it is not that muslims kings were tender to hindus.they were the ravening wolves.it was due to some organised struggle of hindus during muslim,rule.that we survived. i am prophesising that if ur islamic fundementalism carrys on like this soon islam would be an archeological specimen in just five hundred years.
Read History Again....
Chatrapati,
Islam is the true way of living, it doesn't condone innocent killings, and most of the terrorists groups in India are HINDU groups like Assam gorilla, Andhra Naxalites, Tamil LTTE..(Which even killed our PrimeMinister Rajiv Gandhi), I dont understand your ideology, just by writing all false statements here, what do think everyone will believe you....no never, let the truth prevail, if you have mental stabilty answer these questions, else I pray to Allah to bestow some mental balance on you :-)
1) Muslim rulers ruled Hindustan for around thousand years, how come there are still 80% Hindus living in India?( if they really killed Hindus, today there wouldn't have been a single HIndu alive. What do you think, did anyone could fight with might Mughal armies, if they wanted kill, they would have dome it in oneday.....)
2) HIndus never retaliated Aurangajeb, it was Sicks you had created an army to fight with Auragajeb, Sick movement started for political purposes, ended up with new false releigion. If aurgajeb wasn't there, there wouldn't have been sikh releiogion today:-)
3)Zakir Naik is a world renowed orator, top class cristian/Hindu/Jew priests argue with him and accepts the truth, you should wath Zakir naik debating with one Hidnu swami in ffront of 1 lack audinace, the famous swami didn't have word to argue with zakir, who speaks only truth and nothing else....hate mogoreres like you will perish if you dont change propogating the false claims
o god teach abdul who already lost mind by being amuslim
to mr abdul the fool, im also praying god to atleast show u the problems associated with monotheistic faith like islam though not cure ur mental illness. i will also answer to three questions posed by u. before answering that i want to bring toyour light that u are already in severe mental illness. because you are a comparing a social conflict with that of a religious conflict that is hindu and mulsim conflict. i will enligten u so that uwould atleast come out of your utter ignorance. firstly, the naxalites, the assami gorilla and the ltte , are those out fits that have nothing to do with religion. they are either fighting for an ideological cause, for some independent states. you argument that they are hindus the readers will laugh at u if they read both of our articles because they are internal problems of a country. they neither bombed mosques or churches to say that they are hindus. in pakistan especially in north west frontier province and in baluchistan there are certain muslim tribe lords who still believe in an independent state from pakistan.and also sunnis kill shias where and when they like either in pakistan or in iraq under sunni saddam. just like the proverb revolution eats its own children islam is eating its own children great example is iraq daily we hear news about iraqi sunni terrorists killing through bomb explosions. does that mean that i should say that all sunni muslims in iraq and pakistan are terrorists. according to ur argument if naxals are hindus then all sunnis are muslim terrorist. and also india is successfully dealing with these elemnts in controlling them. and lets come to biggest debate why hindus are in majority despite islamic butchery of hindus for centuries. 1. what a dud u are to supres the fact that muslims king either mughals or nawabs or sultan killed and ravaged millions lives of hindus. it is as though you were supporting hitler that he hadnt killed jews other wise today we wouldnt have jews today. your muslim kings did kill hindus in large number. i have already studied the demographic distribution of hindus before islamic invasion. hindus were living as far as the easter parts of iran that is beluchistan , nwf province, whole of pakistan , the great hindu king dahir fought against them and lost the battle. after he lost the battle entire hindus were butched in a mass genocide and the remaining lot were absorbed into islam and as slaves. you go dig any part in pakistan u would see the remains of a hindu civilisation destroyed by islam.u really are adud and dude too hindus were peace loving people they never had communal violence till the advent of arab invaders. hindus took some time to organise themselves to understand that it was a civilisational clash. and finally that islam was foreign to india andhindus . the very vijayanagara empire was to brought into existence to vanquish the onslaught of unpeace ful islam and protect hindu dharma in south india during thirteenth century. the whole india was full of hindus and muslim killed and forcibly converted as many hindus asthey could . but the native culture and ethos repulsed islam and kept struggling with it . and great hindus kings sacrificed their lives for native cause and culture. some of them were chathra sal the rajputs, jats , all hindu sikh gurusnotably guru govind singh, u study history first the great mughal empire stood on the shoulder strenght of loyal hindu rajputs.as the religious intolerance mounted to its peak durign the ..... reign aurangazeb who didnt even spare shia s of south india. there were hundred of hindu revolts against him and finally the islamic domination came to an end in india. the argument that hindus are still a majority hence muslim kings never killed does not hold good because in a forest if we see the buffaloes are in majority than lions does that mean that buffaloes were never eaten by their past ancestorial lions. foolish. u study the muslim chronicles they would tell u how systematically hindus were buthchered during the reigns of delhi sultanate and during the raids of taimur the lame.china is the most populous country does that mean that japanese didnot kill chines during the second world war .they killed more than one crore chinese for their empire building in the south east asia. in the same way u argument has no sound basis . 2. the second argument that hindus never fought against aurangzeb does not hold ground. sikhism is an offshoot of hinduism. in hinduism a spiritual aspirant can choose aguru as his spiritual master like wise many people chose nanak as their guru and the very gurus were hindus govind sing, arjun dev, teg bahadur, etc. aurangzeb laid jaziya on hindus, destroyed somanath temple, kasi viswantha temple, butchered kashmiri hindu pandit , proselytised hindu sikhs, uprooted shia kingdoms and rightly owned as the islamic fanatic of his own times.killed his own brother darahshukov for his hindu lineance. also come to know that only the higher officials were muslims during mughal empire and the majortity of other were totally hindus and mughal empire fell because they lost the support of hindus and especially hindus. 3.if half knowledge peoplelike zakir naik can get acclaimed you and i can also get acclaimed if we stick to your own arguments.you also dont know that india is the master of intellectual debates. what is the use of one lakh audience and one innocent hindu guru who knows only spirituality than argument.as there are many ignorants in the world than learned people. zakir naik is yet another mad blind scholar of that medieval text quran.if i start questioning him who always keeps combining science and islam., he would keep his head in an unwanted place. his arguments are totally false because mohammed prophet fussing about his revelations were false. is this science mohammed marrying a rich old lady who was nearly twenty years older than him. is this a widow reform movement. no definitely it is a debauchery of human civilisation. instead of marrying her he should have got adopted to her. such is islamic nature of debate. if they marry four wives they say widow reform movement.mohammed deranged ideas of god which he falsely acclaimed that they were by god too dont hold good . he was not at all disciplined in his spiritual trainning by any other guru. so today we see as many sophists like zakir naik treading the same ignorant pathof mr mohammed from arabia who was totally responsible for the mayhem of non muslims till today. islam is the cancer sitting in the belly of the world. dont worry it shall be removed by the intellectual debates of a hindu like me who knows that religion is apersonal and not a social affair andthat it varies with person to person as the saying goes loko binna ruchi, and yath bhavam that bavathi. jai hind.
1. Muslim rulers ruled
1. Muslim rulers ruled Hindustan for around thousand years. You can see the result - creation of Pakistan, Bangladesh and communal problems in India. 1000 years is not enough for an ancient culture to be decimated.
2. Aurangazib and Sikhism - Read History well and the teachings of the sikh gurus.
3. Zakir naik, no doubt is an intelligent man. Religious theology needs intelligence to discuss. There are enough intelligent hindus who can debate with Zakir naik. Intelligence does not equate with "Truth". "Truth" is an absolute concept and is extremely difficult to conceptualize. I have seen Zakir Naik avoid questions, which were difficult to answer even for an intellectual like him, as he has limited the intellectual capacity not only of himself, but also his followers, by teaching that Islam is the truth.
Hope I have helped you to start to think, rather than be blind-folded.
Close your eyes, calm down, slow your breathing and then.........Ask yourself the question, "Who am I"?..........It is a very deep question......You will realize that answers are not easy.....Ask Zakir Naik the same question........."The truth" cannot be confined to any religious book, be it of the muslims, christians, hindus, buddhists, jews etc..........
what blame ? leT is muslim
what blame ? leT is muslim organization , people who attacked on the parliament were muslims , people who attacked on akshadham were muslimes , dawood is muslim , huji is muslim organization . It does not matter if none of Hindutva group leaders even went to prison during freedom struggle but hindus did .
Naxals can be controlled if u educate them but muslim even if they get education they will kill people .