Japanese have once again proved their pragmatism and national mettle. Japanese courts dismissed a plea asking the Japanese police to stop profiling Muslims in their country, on grounds of national security and national interests. Is it any wonder that Japanese society could rebuild and rearm into the third most powerful economy in the world in mere three decades of being nuked and defeated in World War II? They have again shown courage and honour by putting their own security and national interest before nonsensical post-modernist political correctness — and have defied the Muslim apologetics.
Law enforcement mostly ignored the case. One of the few public statements they made came at a United Nations human rights committee hearing on the matter in 2014. An official from the National Police Agency said “details of information-gathering activities to prevent future terrorism could not be disclosed,” but that “police collected information according to the law.” Some have defended the surveillance of Muslims, including Naofumi Miyasaka, a professor at the National Defense Academy of Japan. He describes the data leak as “the biggest failure in the history of Japan’s counter-terrorism” because it would have hurt the ability of law enforcement to gather intelligence on potential threats through “mutual trust and cooperation between police and informants.”
Compare this to the present-day supposedly nationalistic government of BJP, which has banned various sites which expose Islam and its Jihad and the real side of Muslims from Indian viewers. For example, the Department of Telecommunications has blocked the site islam-watch.org for hurting Muslim feelings — i.e. for exposing Muslim society and Muslims for what they really are on the inside. Indians should learn from the Japanese on what nationalism looks like. What BJP advocates is not nationalism but Baniaism and mercantile sellout of national and Hindu interests under the garb of development. It is high time that BJP stops fooling Hindus around with mere sloganeering and “Jumlebaazi.”
Does education breed terrorism? The simple and non-politically-correct answer is yes. The politicians around the world are busy selling the snake oil that poverty and low education is behind the rise of Muslim terrorism around the globe. But the facts and actions of very well-to-do and educated high-profile terrorists do not support their claims. There are plenty of examples to show that education among Muslims increases the number of terrorists as well as their sophistication. For example:
Osama Bin Laden — son of a billionaire and earned an engineering degree according to some sources
Ayman Al-Zawahiri — born in an upper middle-class family and was a surgeon in the Egyptian army
Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi — PhD in Islamic studies
These are the top masterminds, but even the foot-level soldiers who engage in suicide bombing are usually fairly educated as well, including the Students Islamic Movement of India (SIMI) and Indian Mujahideen (IM). Peter Bergen and Swati Pandey looked at the education profile of terrorists involved in high-profile terrorist attacks like 9/11 and Bali bombings and found that most of them had decent or high education.
Source: Bergen and Pandey
These attitudes towards terrorism are reflected even better in a detailed study by Krueger and Maleckova done on Palestinian suicide bombers. Based on rigorous sample data, they find evidence for higher support for terrorist activities among educated Muslims. This can even be seen in places like Palestine, where labourers and craftsmen — the poorest in Palestinian society — support terrorism significantly less than those who are educated. Claude Berribi, in his 2003 study, found that most of the suicide bombers were educated and had a high percentage of those who went to some university.
Alen Krueger, who served under Obama as Assistant Secretary and can be expected to be politically correct while giving out the results of his studies, had to say this on the matter of terrorism:
The evidence suggests that terrorists care about influencing political outcomes. They are often motivated by geopolitical grievances. To understand who joins terrorist organizations, instead of asking who has a low salary and few opportunities, we should ask: Who holds strong political views and is confident enough to try to impose an extremist vision by violent means? Most terrorists are not so desperately poor that they have nothing to live for. Instead, they are people who care so fervently about a cause that they are willing to die for it.
— Alen Krueger
Why does this phenomenon occur? It is simple — the poor are usually less fanatical about religion because they don’t have a full stomach with which to contemplate the idea of Jihad against the kafirs. They are usually more worried about their daily food which is hard to come by. So it is usually the middle and upper class Muslims — free from the need to fight starvation — who can think about religion and culture. Sure, poor Muslims do go out and engage in riots as a pack of hyenas scavenging on their group mentality, but it is the middle class which helps them do it and engages in terrorist activities across the world.
The rich Muslims need to prove their Muslim identity, which results in ensuing conflict with their national and cultural identity — and they become more and more radical, emulating the example of their Prophet. This is the reason why middle-class Muslims act like Arab wannabes throughout the world and are the biggest supporters of Jihad. And of course, seeing how British and French Muslims are 30 times as rich as Indian Muslims, shouldn’t France and Britain have Islamic pestilence 30 times lower than India? But none of the research shows that — and the prevalence of Islamism among British and French Muslims is not any lower compared to Pakistani and Bengali Muslims. Doesn’t this blow up the whole “poor Indian Muslim terrorist” narrative of the secular and leftist Indian idiots?
Although support for terrorism is high all across the entire Muslim world, the support that terrorists have among educated Muslims is particularly worrying. This might seem counter-intuitive to many who have heard the lies and propaganda about education solving terrorism, but for any rational mind it would be very obvious and logical. The truth of the matter is, any Jihadist attack requires a massive amount of technological mastery to pull it off. A common poor Muslim peasant will not be able to work with and successfully explode sophisticated bombs, nor would he have access to or ability to use the high-tech gadgets needed to co-ordinate the attacks.
Most terrorist attacks happen due to intelligence lapses — meaning that most terrorist attacks slip through intelligence agencies which are themselves very well equipped. To launch an attack, terrorists need a high level of sophistication to slip through the intelligence network. Operating this equipment requires reasonable technical skills which the uneducated poor usually lack. Also, unlike the poor, the middle-class Muslim doesn’t have to worry about feeding his family, which leaves him free to rush and die for the cowardly Jihadist acts in the name of their psycho god.
Indians are just waking up to the menace of Islamic terrorism and have been thoroughly brainwashed by the media into believing that the source of Muslim extremism is poverty and lack of education. But the studies above clearly show that more educated Muslims will only make the problem even more severe. The educated Muslims will be more inclined to use violence to attain the political aim of Dar-ul-Islam in India. Jinnah, who was a barrister at the time of independence, very well defended the rapes and murders unleashed by the Muslim League on Direct Action Day. One should not expect it to get any better in the future.
The list of Indians travelling to Syria to fight on the side of ISIS has been going up for some time. If you carefully look at the education and social background of these wannabe toilet-cleaners (oops — Jihadis!) of ISIS, you will realize that all of them come from well-to-do families and have higher education. Mehdi Masroor Biswas, who was handling a pro-ISIS handle on Twitter, was a Bangalore-based engineer.
So while India’s leaders might try to sell the snake oil that everything will be fine once all Muslims are educated, it is only going to get worse as they learn better bomb-making skills in government-funded engineering schools. The large number of well-educated European-bred ISIS terrorists, born to second or third generation immigrants, should open the eyes of secular Indians that their fate would be no different. Indians can pretend that Islamism and terrorism will suddenly vanish through economic growth, but it is just wishful thinking. If anything, the arguments and data presented above only show that the real Islamic threat to India will only worsen as economic growth picks up and Indian Muslims become wealthier to wage war for their barbaric ideology without worrying about daily bread and butter.
The myth of “Peaceful Indian Muslim” is carefully nurtured and sustained by the fake secularism practised in India. Whenever there is an attempt by anyone to uncover this veil, there are liberals who come up with fancy theories like Islamophobia to prevent the enlightenment of Muslim masses. What can be more sad than even a well-read, intelligent person feeling that telling this truth amounts to “making Muslims feel persecuted.” Well, if a person holds wrong ideas he needs to be confronted one day or the other. Would you also say that arresting rapists is incorrect because it amounts to singling them out? As a civilized society there is a red line that no one is allowed to cross. Gloating over the massacre of kafirs is not a civilized idea to espouse, and people need to confront those who do it instead of finding excuses.
Unless Indian history textbooks tell their students about the atrocities perpetuated by Muslims on Dharmics, they will continue to look at that atrocious period as their “glorious past” — and the more they romanticize it, the more difficult they will find it to come to terms with contemporary realities. It is THIS dissonance which leads to terrorism. The killing of Hindus by Muslim invaders was not a glorious act and those who romanticize it are not civilized people.
So how to fight against this ideological terrorism? The answer is education — and not just school education but political education of the masses. The idea should be propagated on all information channels until it becomes common parlance. The reason Muslims take to terrorism is because they feel they lived a glorious past where they could kill Hindus, in contrast to the lacklustre life they are living now where they have to abide by the rules of the land instead of being rulers. Unless there is a concerted effort to challenge and defeat this idea, India will always face an existential threat from Muslims. Admission of Muslim atrocities should become the mainstream quintessential Indian thought. There are so many museums in Germany and Japan depicting the atrocities committed by their ancestors on innocent people. Every year Hollywood comes out with half a dozen movies showing how bad the Holocaust was. This is the template that India should follow. There should be museums depicting the atrocities instead of making Bollywood movies and books that eulogize Akbar and Tipu Sultan.
What ordinary Indians want is not something extraordinary. They simply want closure similar to the one that Germans and Japanese got when they admitted their mistakes. You can sing a thousand songs in the praise of moderate Indian Muslims, but the proof of the pudding is in the eating.
The very fact that Hindus aren’t allowed to claim Ram Mandir is a testimony to the fact that Indian Muslims don’t adhere to a more evolved and tolerant form of Islam. Ram Janmabhoomi is to Hindus what Mecca is to Muslims — there can be no negotiation on this. Hindus have already forgotten the demolition of 40,000 temples by Muslims, but if they cannot budge on even one temple then there is no chance for reconciliation. If a case is being made that Indian Muslims are more reconciliatory in nature, where is the evidence?
Celebrating that Indian Muslims are better than the rest of their ilk is a relative and subjective benchmark. From time to time we must ask ourselves whether this “relatively good” is “good enough.” A woman journalist in Mumbai was hounded into exile by the same peaceful Muslims for reposting the Charlie Hebdo cartoon while reporting about it. Now, this act might be committed by a group of 5,000 people but the thought process is not an outlier. Same goes for the thousands — 15,000 people — who thronged the funeral of their “martyr” Yakoob Memon.
The deeper you go into the rabbit hole of Muslim extremist nexus, sooner or later you will realize that it is mainstream Islam — not a fringe, not a sect, not a twisted individual — but mainstream Islam which is responsible for all problems. One can draw artificial lines to separate them into moderates and extremists virtually speaking, but the crux of the matter is that until you are willing to admit that an ideology which at its core preaches that “everyone who disagrees with us is an enemy,” this problem will never be solved.
Like the Afghan intel chief Amarullah Saleh once said: “You will keep killing the guys in the outer circle for years and patting yourself on the back but the problem won’t be solved until you have the resolve to confront the guys in the inner circle who are running the show.” He was taunting the US for killing low-level commanders in Afghanistan but not confronting Saudi Arabia. Fake seculars are doing the same by drawing a dichotomy between gun-wielding terrorists and non-gun-wielding “peaceful chaps.” Terrorism is not about weapons — it is about ideology.
Being ruthless and killing people is not the recommended path. It is actually the “head in the sand” syndrome of fake liberals which will lead India into a civil war by not acknowledging the problem. A better way is to give closure on the atrocity issue. Include lessons of anti-Hindu atrocities in history books so that both Hindus and Muslims become aware of it and have a sense of national context instead of building their own personal victimhood narratives. Muslims claim that the Babri incident was wrong, but don’t want to concede that their co-religionist invaders captured and destroyed Hindu temples. This intellectual subversion is unacceptable. There is a need to have a frank discussion where people can put everything on the table so that everyone knows each other’s history and empathizes with the other before pointing fingers.
The more the rights of Hindus the state curtails, the more Hindu anger it will fuel — the eruption of which will lead to incidents of violence, which will lead to further radicalization and polarization on both sides. The constitution mentions secularism; it is about time that Hindus taste it too. Hindus have only been smelling it from afar while Muslims relished the entire cake of secularism.
To put it in short: India needs to take concrete steps to trash the Hindu narrative and Muslim narrative and adopt a common and reconciliatory national narrative which is acceptable to both parties — only then can people find closure and achieve peace. Otherwise these issues will keep flaring up.
There is a beautiful thesis about the fundamental difference between India and Pakistan which can be summarized in one line: “the story of Pakistan is the story of the state of Pakistan, and the story of India is the story of the people of India.” It holds true for the modus operandi of all Muslim states. The moment its citizens ask for some human rights or even basic things like water and schools, the state says “the nation is under threat and you are asking for things? You are not a true Muslim!” That is how Muslim states keep the dreams of their population suppressed. The very definition of a “true Muslim” has been fundamentally crafted in such a way that the individual is supposed to selflessly sacrifice for the survival of the Ummah dream — and because of this feudal definition, the individual will never have any rights for himself. This feudal system will eventually collapse, no doubt about it. But will the Indian state ever tell this real story to Indian Muslims and aid them in bursting this bubble?
