Ghulam Muhammed
Tarek, I find so many similarities in conditions prevailing in the US post-9/11 and in India post Babri Masjid Demolition and the Bombay Riots followed by Bombay Blasts in 1992-93.
I have lived through the period, just as you are a witness in these troubled times. You will be surprised how Indian police and communal elements in Indian government hounded Muslims, religious or irreligious and murdered them and their families. Only their names had to be Muslims. Rioters went through voters lists and other local directories to single out Muslim names and go hunting. Famous liberals, who swore they never went to any Masjid all their lives, had to face the brutalities of the mobs as well as the communalized police.
I must admit that Left liberals, especially in English media, were in the forefront of fighting these communal crimes. And some of them are still resolutely fighting communalism.
However, it is only now, 20 years later, the real face of Hindutva terror has been exposed through the single-minded professional work of Anti-Terrorist Squad Chief Hemant Karkare, (who was among the first shot dead in the 26/11 carnage in Mumbai), that Hindutva terror group were identified and exposed. A long list of Muslims who have been incarcerated in the intervening years, due to no fault of theirs except carrying a Muslim name, are still to be released. The persecution rate of all Muslims in jail is less than 10% or even less.
I find the same persecution of innocent Muslims being callously inflicted in the aftermath of 9/11 and simple minded people like you with a chip on their shoulder, are making their work so much easier. Go through Google under police encounters in India. They shoot first and brand the victims terrorists. I see the pattern emerging in the USA. And there is no organised group of civil libertarian who can challenge the bona-fide of such summary executions. People like Tarek Fateh are so engrossed in their own war, they are not aware what is happening in their own backyard.
I have lived through the period, just as you are a witness in these troubled times. You will be surprised how Indian police and communal elements in Indian government hounded Muslims, religious or irreligious and murdered them and their families. Only their names had to be Muslims. Rioters went through voters lists and other local directories to single out Muslim names and go hunting. Famous liberals, who swore they never went to any Masjid all their lives, had to face the brutalities of the mobs as well as the communalized police.
I must admit that Left liberals, especially in English media, were in the forefront of fighting these communal crimes. And some of them are still resolutely fighting communalism.
However, it is only now, 20 years later, the real face of Hindutva terror has been exposed through the single-minded professional work of Anti-Terrorist Squad Chief Hemant Karkare, (who was among the first shot dead in the 26/11 carnage in Mumbai), that Hindutva terror group were identified and exposed. A long list of Muslims who have been incarcerated in the intervening years, due to no fault of theirs except carrying a Muslim name, are still to be released. The persecution rate of all Muslims in jail is less than 10% or even less.
I find the same persecution of innocent Muslims being callously inflicted in the aftermath of 9/11 and simple minded people like you with a chip on their shoulder, are making their work so much easier. Go through Google under police encounters in India. They shoot first and brand the victims terrorists. I see the pattern emerging in the USA. And there is no organised group of civil libertarian who can challenge the bona-fide of such summary executions. People like Tarek Fateh are so engrossed in their own war, they are not aware what is happening in their own backyard.
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