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 terrorist acts. 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*
(Courtsey-DNA-Mumbai)
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