Terrorism and India
Rediff.com poses a very pertinent question, “Is terrorism becoming as common as a case of theft?” in its well-documented essay with an outrageous title, “In India, we don’t catch terrorists“!
Read the complete article by clicking on the link above. Sad reading indeed.
State terrorism meted out to Taslima Nasrin
Hindustan Times reports:
Before leaving India on Tuesday, exiled Bangladeshi author Taslima Nasrin said the treatment meted out to her by the Government of India was nothing less than “cold-blooded state terrorism to drive her out of the country.
Taslima said she is planning a lecture tour where she would speak about her days inside a room with no view and also how she was “treated like an animalâ€. In a no-holds barred interview, Taslima said that the rulers were as crude as those who are despised because of their religious fundamentalism. She said she was deprived of human rights and tortured by the Centre.
“And to expose the mask of this government, which was out to kill me, I will paste all that I experienced on my website,†said Taslima.
Relieved that her “house arrest in a free country†was ending, Taslima said that she would write and tell the world about her harrowing experience in the State of the World Forum, where she has been invited to speak by the former USSR President Mikhail Gorbachev.
Amnesty International and International Human Rights Organisation have also approached her to narrate her nightmarish experience in India, she said. Taslima said she is planning a lecture tour where she would speak about her days inside a room with no view and also how she was “treated like an animalâ€.
“Fundamentalists do not torture you to death. They just finish you off. But the Indian Government slowly pushed me towards death. My terrible experience has shattered all notions about a secular and democratic India,†Taslima Nasrin told the Hindustan Times.
“For 20 years, I have been hitting out against fundamentalism. There has been no physical attack on me. But India, when it failed to break me psychologically, destroyed me physically by denying treatment to an ill person,†added Taslima.
She pointed out that her own country Bangladesh had driven her out in 1994 but did not inflict psychological or physical trauma that could lead to the heart and eye diseases. For that matter, Taslima said in Kolkata too, the state government did not impose a ban on her movement.
Talking about her dilemma and frustrations, she said she would very soon write in international dailies on how a handful of hooligans made the Centre to toe its line and punish an author. The political parties of India are so secular that they were scared to defend a person who is anti-Islam, she said.
Taslima’s six-month residential permit in India is expiring in August.
She said that before its expiry she plans to return here. “Just to check whether I can stay in Kolkata. If denied I will pack up and leave India for good.â€
Not so happy Valentines Day!
This was the day (14th Feb.) when 70 innocent lives were lost to Jehadhi terrorism in the year 1998 at Coimbatore, State of Tamil Nadu, India.
The victims of bomb blast still await justice while the accused are cosily lodged in jails, provided with all sorts of comforts.
In a telling video posted in Youtube, a father who lost his only son in Coimbatore bomb blast describes how he was made to work as a hospital assistant to the very person who was accused of being the mastermind behind the blast.
You may watch these videos before rushing to the festivities associated with Valentines!
http://youtube.com/watch?v=h1MjvhrebAo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oqjl_FGdC7A
http://youtube.com/watch?v=2WFqxnvBvk0
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sJ8Rg-rRWes
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VzHbyvejy0I
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CsBXDH0hKco
Rogues Gallery of Terroristan
These are the men who hold the world hostage, hiding somewhere in Pakistan:
(Pictures and story courtesy: Hindustan Times)
What’s al-Qaeda’s take on the iPhone?
I stumbled upon a very interesting paradigm on Ipod in an article by By Jefferson Alberry II in The Register. Here is an excerpt:
In-depth analysis In a fortnight during which just about everyone on the planet, excluding naturally those in a coma or temporarily indisposed up some tributary of the Amazon, has offered their two bits’ worth on the launch of Apple’s iPhone, it comes as a bit of a surprise that al-Qaeda has dismally failed to contribute to the brouhaha.
We should add that Afghanistan’s fun-loving Taliban have also maintained a resolute silence on the matter, but since they’re violently opposed to absolutely everything, except hanging people from construction cranes and blowing up giant Buddhas, it can be taken as read that they consider the device an insult to Islam.
Click here to find out more!Quite how Ozzie bin Laden views the paradigm-redefining iPhone remains, therefore, a mystery. It’s possible his organisation has been too busy working itself into a tizz over the Salman Rushdie knighthood announcement to consider the matter, but we’re certain al-Qaeda has enough righteous indignation to throw two simultaneous strops.
So, the options are as follows: al-Qaeda is so angry about the iPhone’s inflated pricetag, lack of user-changeable battery and 3G capability that it is planning something really big; or Ozzie’s sidekick Ayman al-Zawahir has been stunned into reluctant admiration by Apple’s audacious UI and crisp-as-a-Baghdad-winter-morning MP3 playback.
Read the rest of the story here.
Terror in the United Kingdom
It is a matter of shame for every patriotic Indian that the terror network which has masterminded and executed a series of bombings and attempted bombings in UK recently has emanated from India. For years our political leaders have been crying from housetops that India is free from the sin of exporting terrorism. Now that myth has been amply exploded. It is high time the powers that be in India wake up to the realities and start acting decisively before things reach a point of no return.
The collection of essays on this subject in the popular magazine Outlook sums up the situation like this:
The Bangalore connection urgently highlights the flawed manner in which Islamist terrorism is perceived and projected by the Indian national leadership, and the counter-productive tyranny of political correctness and undercurrent of apologetics that dominates the perspectives of India’s feeble intelligentsia.
The essays written by well-informed and non-partisan and politically-savvy persons of eminence like K.P.S.Gill, B.Raman etc., can be read from this Outlook Dossier.
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