FIGHT TERROR AT THE FUNDAMENTAL LEVEL WHERE FUNDAMENTALISM ENSUES
Islamic terrorism has a theological basis and must, thus, be countered ideologically as well. Else, radicalisation will continue as it done throughout history whenever circumstances have been propitious for its flourishing.
The Partition of undivided India is the most glaring instance of what may happen to a nation if this ideological war is not won. What we today see in the world everywhere in the name of jihad has been witnessed throughout Islamic history and we, Hindus, have paid the worst price for it with a thousand year brutal subjugation climaxing in dismemberment of our motherland. Tens of millions of Hindus have died in Islam's thousand year old occupation of India, our temples plundered, desecrated and destroyed, mosques built in their places, our universities and libraries burnt down, our cities ravaged, our women molested and carried away as loot in war, our men enslaved and sold, entire masses of Hindus force-converted to Islam and our civilisation brought to its knees by the sword. Such has been the history of Islamic occupation in India and the sad saga of Hindus continues even today in Kashmir from where they have been driven out en masse and rendered refugees in their own country.
Thus, to win this war against what is euphemistically called terror but what in reality is the global agenda of political Islam, implies that we have to arm ourselves in the knowledge of the very scriptural texts the jihadi outfits claim to be their authoritative inspirational source and we have to defeat such philosophy at its very root rather than indulge in surface pruning of inessentials that are but the effects of the deeper toxic causes. At the very outset we must acknowledge the fact that these terrorist activities have this scriptural basis that is fundamental to them and not mere decadent interpretations of the same. Only then may we work towards successful ideological combat of these texts that form the foundation of terror and, so, effectively eliminate Islamic terror from the face of the earth.
Written by Sugata Bose
Photo : Aurangzeb Alamgir, the epitome of doctrinaire intolerance of Islam unleashed on the Hindus for 49 years of his reign.
Islamic terrorism has a theological basis and must, thus, be countered ideologically as well. Else, radicalisation will continue as it done throughout history whenever circumstances have been propitious for its flourishing.
The Partition of undivided India is the most glaring instance of what may happen to a nation if this ideological war is not won. What we today see in the world everywhere in the name of jihad has been witnessed throughout Islamic history and we, Hindus, have paid the worst price for it with a thousand year brutal subjugation climaxing in dismemberment of our motherland. Tens of millions of Hindus have died in Islam's thousand year old occupation of India, our temples plundered, desecrated and destroyed, mosques built in their places, our universities and libraries burnt down, our cities ravaged, our women molested and carried away as loot in war, our men enslaved and sold, entire masses of Hindus force-converted to Islam and our civilisation brought to its knees by the sword. Such has been the history of Islamic occupation in India and the sad saga of Hindus continues even today in Kashmir from where they have been driven out en masse and rendered refugees in their own country.
Thus, to win this war against what is euphemistically called terror but what in reality is the global agenda of political Islam, implies that we have to arm ourselves in the knowledge of the very scriptural texts the jihadi outfits claim to be their authoritative inspirational source and we have to defeat such philosophy at its very root rather than indulge in surface pruning of inessentials that are but the effects of the deeper toxic causes. At the very outset we must acknowledge the fact that these terrorist activities have this scriptural basis that is fundamental to them and not mere decadent interpretations of the same. Only then may we work towards successful ideological combat of these texts that form the foundation of terror and, so, effectively eliminate Islamic terror from the face of the earth.
Written by Sugata Bose
Photo : Aurangzeb Alamgir, the epitome of doctrinaire intolerance of Islam unleashed on the Hindus for 49 years of his reign.
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