TERRORISM – THE GLOBAL MENACE

With the spread of Islamic terrorism across the world, with the number of militant organizations mounting up and with the number of victims on the increase alongside loss of lives and destruction of properties equally affected are the innocent Muslims the world over. Each innocent Muslim is being looked up with suspicion, hatred, revenge, what not, all sorts of bitter feelings. Many such innocent Muslims are being subjected to grilling for hours, tortured and even incarcerated for no fault of theirs. We can very well come to the conclusion that number of terror organizations being sprouted like amoeba are increasing and correspondingly the number of casualties too. An eye for an eye approach, the Islamic countries’ ruthless policies of dealing the ‘criminals’ with maximum punishment such as caning, stoning, hanging in public places, gunning down after summary trials, sometimes without any trials are mind-boggling, to say the least. Why the Muslim diaspora albeit with exceptions as I had mentioned adhere to extreme steps, mind you, Muslim terror elements care not the good or bad in the society, when they plunge into action, what they aim at are causing maximum destruction of properties and lives irrespective of caste, creed or religion. That is why many prominent persons in society hold the opinion that terror knows no barriers, it transcends boundaries.
Recently in Australia an Indian doctor Mohammed Haneef who was imprisoned for about two weeks and after determined pressure by human rights activists released by the Australian authorities upon coming to the conclusion that he was not in anyway related to terrorism, tendered apology to him and along with it as compensation handed over a substantial sum for the range of the moment action on their part 2-3 years back.
During the regime of George W Bush Jr. as US President, the number of Muslims who were numerous, the number of Muslims who were incarcerated in Guantanamo jail numerous, those who were subjected to extraordinary renditions numerous, as he was a bête noire of Muslims. The blood-chilling punishment meted out to the innocents ones resulted in them turning to militancy, thus increasing the number of terror elements. Kind of Gordian knot, in a sense. To wipe out terrorism from the face of earth not all an easy task, now that it has spread to almost all countries as the terror elements are dare-devils, they care not the repercussions they fear not death. Quran teaches love, harmony, universal peace, sympathy and empathy but I wonder after going through it on a daily basis and performing ‘namaz’ five times a day what actually prompts certain elements deviate from the teachings of Allah I am sure most of them imbibe wrong messages by a section of elders especially after committing a heroic deed and in that process if they are met with a suicidal end, in the heaven they are awaited with maximum luxuries in the company of seventy pretty women and all sorts of comforts as blessings from Allah, the Almighty.
With this teaching very well engraved in their mind, they proceed with full conviction and commit maximum atrocities.
But by singling out the Muslim terror elements like Al-Quaida, LeT, Jaish-e-Mohammed, Hizbul Mujahideen, Harkat-ul-Mujahideen I am not turning away from other terror groups like Saffron groups and a few guerilla groups in certain Latin American countries, remain thorns in the flesh of such nations.
It is pathetic that while on the one side the world is poised for quantum jump in the fields education, science and technology, nuclear research, skilled labour, on the other side the animal instincts in human beings are growing non-stop out to destroy all that we have achieved, still achieving in various fields.
On New Year Eve in Egypt two suicide bombers blew up themselves near a Coptic Church in Alexandria, where Christians are a majority killing 21 people, all innocents, which led to a massive flare-up among the Christians of the area , which led to clashes with security forces in the process injuring many persons.
Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak was reported to have vowed that his country would see that the head of this poisonous snake called terror is cut once and for all from the soil of Egypt. Only four months back in an another attack that also near a Church about 49 persons were killed and many others injured. In the African country of Nigeria on the New Year Eve in another suicide bomb attack four people got killed.
Besides these suicide bomb attacks, in North Waziristan, the frontier province of Pakistan-Afghan border 19 people were killed in a missile attack. The fact that even after the conveyance of New Year messages across the world in fact 2011 is the continuation of 2010 to believe that all kinds of violence is likely to come to an end in the New Year is nothing but foolishness as everyone knows. Such is our destiny.