Senseless Attack on Mumbai :Some Unanswered Questions?

by Latheef Farook

(December 02, Colombo, Sri Lanka Guardian) Is the senseless attack on
Mumbai and the heartless killings of innocent people on Thursday 27 a
pretext to unleash a campaign to slaughter Muslims as it was done in
the aftermath of the 9/11 events in New York and Pensylvania? The ever
growing Washington . London , Tel Aviv and New Delhi axis buttress
this fear.

Will the Hindu extremist forces, which hijacked Indian politics under
the umbrella of Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh, RSS, unleash, yet another
anti Muslim pogrom or prepare the ground to invade and turn Pakistan
into another Iraq ?

These are some of the questions lingering the minds of Muslims all
over in the aftermath of the Mumbai carnage last week. This fear
emanates from the fact that this exactly what happened in the
aftermath of the 9/11 events in New York when the most detestable US
President George Bush, backed by disgraced British Prime minister Tony
Blair, unleashed a global campaign demonizing Islam and Muslims to
implement their evil designs.

Since then almost every independent inquiry into the WTC attack came
to one conclusion. And that was neither Al Qaeda nor any other Muslim
had anything to do with it”. However, the evil forces behind this
tragedy had done the damage .They continue the anti Muslim campaign
unabated hand in glove with Europe, Russia, India , China and with the
active collaboration of Arab dictators. The pro Jewish Western media,
which remains an integral part of Western war machine, has been in the
forefront in selling the myth that Muslims promote terrorism.

As expected, even before a suspect was captured the Western media
joined by the Indian media, began involving Islamic militants to
mislead people all over.

First, an unknown group called Deccan Mujahedeen was blamed. The
question is how such a sophisticated, well coordinated ,simultaneous
and multiple attack was planned and executed by such an unknown group
without being detected by the Indian intelligence services?

Within hours, Lashker e Taiba ,fighting Indian rule in Kashmir , was
accused. Then the Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh accused a group
based in a neighboring country- obviously meaning
Pakistan .Traditionally Indian governments blame neighboring Pakistan
or Bangladesh and swiftly arrest members of banned Students’ Islamic
Movement of India, SIMI, for attacks on Indian soil .Singing the
chorus the United States too accused Lashker e Tayeba.

Condemning this as a beastly act, Indian Muslim leaders demanded that
the perpetrators be brought to justice while observing that such a
massive attack that requires a lot of preparation, material and
logistic support, could not take place without the connivance of some
high placed power or backer. They urged for all to rise above
politics, face this threat in unity and refrain from using it for
petty political ends.

They also requested the authorities not to rush to any conclusion as
it was routinely done in the past, but to patiently probe taking into
account the various local and foreign powers, including foreign
intelligence agencies, which may benefit from this chaos and
insecurity.

However, this statement failed to draw the attention of Indian and
foreign media.

By the time, the only surviving suspect, wearing a red thread around
the wrist, a Hindu tradition, was taken into custody the media managed
to brainwash people that it was the Muslims who were behind these
attacks.

During the past few months, there has been a spate of bomb explosions
in different parts of India and the police, as a rule, suspected,
arrested, tortured and even killed Muslim youths.On September 29,
there was a bomb blast in Malegaon that claimed six lives.

In this connection, five people were detained by the Anti Terrorist
Squad ,ATS, in Pune. The detained five included two army officers ,one
of them a Major (Retd) Prabhakar Kulkarni , heading the Bhonsala
Military School and College run by the Central Hindu Military
Education Society, and three Hindu activists -Sadhvi Pradnyasingh
Thakur, a so called female saint, Shivnarayansing Kalsangram and Shyam
Sahu. They were blamed for a series of deadly bombings in Malegaon in
September, which were initially blamed on Muslim militants.

The arrest of especially the female saint Sadhvi, with close links to
Hindu extremist forces, alarmed the BJP and other Hindu extremist
parties.

Hemant Karkare, Maharashtra Anti-Terrorism Squad ,ATS, chief,was about
to disclose these Hindu militants’ involvement in the recent bombings
in India and he came under severe criticism by the Hindu extremist
forces including the BJP.Indian media reported on November 27 that
Hemant Karkare had received death threats days earlier over his plan
to unravel the Hindu terrorist cell. The Press Trust of India news
agency reportedly received phone calls on November 26 threatening to
blow up within days the residence of Karkare known for his discipline
and integrity.

The unanswered question is why would the terrorists, if as alleged
they were Muslims, kill Karkare who was about to expose Hindu
terrorism? The irony is that all three ATS officers, Hemant Karkare,
DIG Ashok Kale and encounter specialist Vijay Salazar, were eliminated
during last week’s attack on Mumbai.

In another development journalist and human rights activist Amrish
Mishra have accused Israel’s secret service agent Mossad and the RSS
for the attack on Mumbai. Moreover, they attacked the Taj Hotel, a
precious heritage building which reminds the Mogul rule in India which
the Hindu extremists, who wanted to wipe out all traces of Islam and
Muslims in their drive to set up a Hindu Raj in India , hate.

Describing the attack as grave as the killing of Mahatma Gandhi and
the demolition of Babri Masjid, Mishra claimed that the killing of
brave ATS officers who could have shown the real face of the saffron
terrorism created suspicion. Besides the starting of the firing from
Nariman House where substantial numbers of Jews live, showed that this
was an anti-national act of terror involving Mossad’s hand, because
this kind of attack is just not possible by RSS alone. it was the
joint 'effort' of Mossad and RSS.

Mishra clearly saw in the TV that Hemant Karkare was wearing the
helmet for the confrontation and was shocked to hear after half an
hour that he was killed. After the attack, some miscreants had come on
the road with saffron flags chanting anti-Muslim slogans but people
drove them out.
Those who are very much in touch with the situation did not seem to
believe that these attacks are the handy work of any Muslim terrorist
organization because they know the forces behind these attacks.

Talking to TV channels, many pointed out that the number of Jews
started to increase at Nariman House arousing suspicion forcing them
to lodge a complaint with the police which failed to take any action.
They believe that this tragedy could have been averted had the police
acted on the complaint. Besides people around the area had stated
that, on Wednesday night Jews at Nariman House had purchased and
stocked food stuff and even liquor from a local store. It is highly
unlikely that a Muslim, let alone a ‘Mujahid’, and especially one
politicized enough to carry out such an attack, would consume liquor
in normal life, let alone hours before his inevitable ‘martyrdom’.

India is one country, which managed to maintain good relations with
Israel ever since its inception while showing a friendly face to the
gullible Arab dictators. These ties between Zionist Jews and
especially the RSS, bonded together by their inherent hatred towards
Muslims, flourished since the two countries established diplomatic
ties following the signing of late PLO Chairman Yasser Arafat’s sham
of Oslo Peace Agreement with Israel.

According to Mishra the heroic death of Hemant Karkare has left the
BJP-Shiv Sena combine with eggs on their faces. On Friday, Narendra
Modi, BJP's poster-boy chief minister and Hindutva mascot, paid lofty
tributes to Karkare and other senior cops who lost their lives in the
counter attack. However, before his death on duty, Karkare and his
colleagues at the ATS were at the receiving end of almost a slanderous
attack not only by BJP and Shiv Sena leaders, but also by several
Sangh Parivar organizations for the ongoing ATS probe into the
Malegaon blasts.

In fact, it is worthy to recall that few months ago there was a deadly
attack against the US embassy in the Yemeni Capital Sanaa. As expected
Muslims were accused. However, the Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh
later disclosed that the attack was linked to Israeli intelligence
service-Mossad.

Few simple rational questions to think about this attack were;

Can anyone in the world remember or worry about the case against Hindu
terrorist cell, which was unveiled by Maharashtra 's ATS chief Hemant
Karkare? Now it is successfully diverted. Isn't it?
Where is Karkare now? Wasn't he wiped out from this world by the
terrorists at the initial stage of this Drama?
Why didn’t Indian forces or any media show a single dead body of
terrorist during the first two days?
How can the so-called "foreign terrorists" continue to fight for more
than two days without worrying about the stock of the weapons? They
had been blasting, shooting and setting fires here and there. Did they
bring such a large quantity of military hardware?
If so, how did they bring such a large quantity of weapons for this
attack? Wasn’t it amazing that they had been getting enough weapons
just as if somebody was supplying the ammunition stock to continue the
attack successfully?
Wouldn’t it any one believe that this kind of barbaric killings can
only be done by groups motivated by ultra-racism such as RSS, VHP and
the Israeli military?

Explaining the grim situation faced by Indian Muslims Jaipur based
human rights activist Kavita Srivastava , President of the Rajasthan
chapter of the Peoples' Union for Civil Liberties said;

“Muslims are being readily branded as terrorists, and soon after the
blasts large numbers of innocent Muslims were wrongly suspected as
terrorists, arrested and interrogated by the police, and many of them
were subjected to cruel torture. The police somehow automatically
assume that Muslims were responsible for the blasts, without having
any proof. Almost a fourth of those who died in the Jaipur blasts were
Muslims,although Muslims account for just about a tenth of the city's
population.

Anti-Muslim bias in agencies of the state is mounting today. Just one
instance of this is how some of the Muslims picked up by the police
were asked if they believe in the Quran or in the Indian Constitution,
this ridiculous question reflecting the entirely erroneous notion that
a religious and observant Muslim somehow is a traitor or a potential
traitor to India.

And then there is the media. They simply parrot the police version of
any Muslim whom it picks up as a terrorist, and when it is found that
this person is innocent and is subsequently let off, the media chooses
not to say anything about it. So, in this way, the image of large
numbers of Muslims is being deliberately tarnished. Many of them have
lost their jobs because of this, and are tainted in society for the
rest of their lives although they have nothing to do with terrorism. -
Sri Lanka Guardian

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