02 September 2006

How Safe Are We?

Well i have to be very carefull, as im expressing this sentiment of mine, for im walking over the double edge sword as i see whats happening all around us. The issue i like to raise is for the Mohammedan community of our country. I start to feel how safe do they really are in our country. For just immediate after the mumbai local train blast. Our close ally(really) US president call our's PM expressing his condolence over the incident and questions what gurantee do we have for a nation consisting of more than 130 million muslims not one is linked to Al-Qaeda. For the fact the the terrorism in whole world today is slowly linked with Islamic Fundamentalism, so called Axis of Evil also lies in the region, where this community dominates. And slowly for every untoward incident occuring in our country, this community is being looked up as the cause for the entire incident. Slowly the western outlook of terrorism being associated with this community is slowly being imprinted into our psyche. Though we are aware Islamic terrorist was always linked to only kashmir valley, where the reason was political conflict and not religious conflict. But every where around the country, there are not enough evidence to point out that violence carried out is associated with islamic community, say in Assam(ULFA), Andhra pradesh(Naxalites). But it looks the view point of every average hindu indian suggest that when ever violence is inflicted onto the society, we try to search for islamic link behind them. This clearly becomes evident during police investigation this community that is targeted the most. War against terror is war against the mind. Terorism can grow only in that soil that is being under-watered and under-nourished. Lets look at the statistic of how many muslims are there in arm force, police, bureacracy, and there are also religiously backward in terms of national literacy( 5 % below national literacy). And when government tries to make a commitee to study there constitution in main frame of our society, we all accuse them of creating communalism.
So if indian muslim is not absorbed into the society, with no bias, no feeling of outsider. Then he will surely remain in the periphery of development. Allowing for no room to breed terror. So its very important that care been taken, that the western thought process of associating terrorism with islamic fundamentalism, should not be allowed to enter our psyche. So next time we see a bearded man with cap, lets not look at them with suspicious look, rather allow them to enter the main frame of our society wholeheartedly.

1 comment:

Hemant Dixit. said...

It is surprising that irrespective of 60 yrs of independance and globalization; muslims still are not part of mainstream.
I personally feel that some efforts must be taken by Muslims considering present scenario.
They have to change their image of being fundamentlist and conservative by appropriate actions.