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http://www.countercurrents.org/india-sikand311005.htm
Delhi Bomb Blasts And
The Lashkar's Jihadist Agenda
By Yoginder Sikand
31 October, 2005
Countercurrents.org
Responsibility for last week's deadly bomb blasts in Delhi has been claimed
by a little-known outfit the Islami Inqilabi Mahaz ('Islamic Revolutionary
Front'), said to be sponsored by the Pakistan-based Lashkar-i Tayyeba.
Ruthless terror is the hallmark of the Lashkar, fired as it is by an irrepressible
hatred of non-Muslims, whom it sees as, by definition, anti-Islam.
The Lashkar is the armed wing of the Markaz Dawat wal Irshad ('Centre for
Invitation and Instruction'), an organisation affiliated to the Ahl-i Hadith sect,
which follows a version of Islam almost identical with that of the Saudi
Wahhabis. It is today the single most powerful militant outfit operating in
Kashmir. Its involvement in Kashmir goes back to the early 1990s, when
Pakistan began patronising radical Islamist outfits to counter the influence of
the Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front which had inaugurated the armed
uprising against Indian rule. The Front's agenda of an independent and
secular Kashmir was clearly not to the liking of the Pakistani establishment,
who saw in radical Islamist outfits a more reliable ally, with their opposition to
Kashmiri nationalism and their advocacy of Kashmir's union with Pakistan. In
setting up the Lashkar the late Abdullah Azam a close aide of Osama bin
Laden, then associated with the International Islamic University, Islamabad,
also played a key role. Funds for the organization are said to have come
from Saudi Arabia and Pakistan's secret services agency, the Inter Services
Intelligence.
Like other radical Islamist outfits, the Lashkar sees Islam as a perfect, all-
embracing system. Islam is said to govern all aspects life in the form of the
shari'ah. For the establishing of an Islamic system an Islamic state is seen
as necessary in order to impose the shar'iah as the law of the land. If such a
state were to be set up and all Muslims were to live strictly according to 'the
laws that Allah has laid down', then, the Lashkar argues, 'they would be able
to control the whole world and exercise their supremacy'. Since Muslims
throughout the world are members of a global ummah, the Lashkar insists
that there should be a single global Islamic state with one Caliph ruling over
all the faithful.
The struggle for the establishment of the Islamic state can take various
forms, peaceful as well as violent. Islam, the Lashkar says, is 'a religion of
peace and harmony', and seeks to 'eliminate mischief and disorder, and to
provide peace, not only to Muslims but also to the entire humanity'. However,
it stresses, Muslims are commanded to take to armed struggle, or jihad, to
defend their co-religionists suffering from the oppression of others. As the
Lashkar sees it, such a situation is said to prevail over much of the world
today. While jihad in defence of Islam and of Muslims labouring under
oppression is presented as a liberation struggle, it is also seen as a means
for Islam to 'prevail on this earth', for Islam is seen as the only true religion.
Armed jihad must continue, the Lashkar insists, 'until Islam, as a way of life,
dominates the whole world and until Allah's law is enforced everywhere in the
world'. Since Islam is meant for all peoples, the Islamic State must
spearhead a movement to spread Islam all over the world, so the Lashkar
believes. In the course of this struggle, it is expected that it will encounter
conflict with other states and their ideologies. The conflict can be resolved
through peaceful diplomacy, but, if that fails, then, the Lashkar argues, the
only course left open is armed jihad. In this sense, the Lashkar believes,
jihad is 'the foreign policy' of the Islamic State.
The subject of armed jihad runs right through the writings and
pronouncements of the Lashkar and is, in fact, the most prominent theme in
its discourse although it has traditionally not been included as one of the 'five
pillars' of the faith. Indeed, the Lashkar's understanding of Islam maybe
seen as determined almost wholly by this preoccupation, so much so that its
reading of Islam seems to be a product of its own political project. In the
writings and speeches of Lashkar spokesmen jihad appears as violent conflict
waged against 'unbelievers' who are said to be responsible for the oppression
of the Muslims. The Lashkar claims that 'There is so much emphasis on this
subject that some commentators and scholars of the Quran have remarked
that the topic of the Quran is jihad'.
The global jihadist programme of the Lashkar presents itself as a
'liberationist' project, basing itself on widespread feelings of discontent and
suffering among many Muslims. 'All Muslims', the Lashkar believes, are
oppressed today, by such 'enemies' as the Hindus, the Jews and Christians.
'Wherever you look, you will find that non-believers are everywhere trying to
enslave Muslims and destroy them', it argues. Hence, it says, Muslims must
form a 'solid bloc' to defend themselves from these 'enemies', and if all
peaceful means fail they must resort to armed jihad for their liberation. This
Muslim bloc, it suggests, should be led by both Pakistan and Saudi Arabia,
and have its headquarters at Mecca.
The Lashkar sees jihad as the secret of Muslim power in the past when much
of the known world was under Muslim rule, and it is argued that when Muslims
'abandoned jihad and other injunctions they began to degenerate'. In
Lashkar discourse, jihad is projected as a religious duty binding on all
Muslims today. Thus, it is claimed that the prevailing global situation warrants
all Muslims to be involved in some way or the other in jihad against
non-Muslim 'oppressors'. In this grand enterprise there are different roles for
different people to play. Muslims are promised that they would receive great
rewards, both in this world and in the Hereafter, if they were to actively
struggle in the path of jihad. Not only would they be guaranteed a place in
Heaven, but they would also 'be honoured in this world', for jihad is, according
to a Lashkar spokesman, also 'the way that solves financial and political
problems'.
The Lashkar sees its involvement in the armed struggle in Kashmir as only
one stage of a global jihad against the forces of 'disbelief', stopping at
nothing short of the conquest of the entire world. As Qari Abdul Wahid, former
amir of the Lashkar in Indian-administered Kashmir, puts it, 'We will uphold
the flag of freedom and Islam through jihad not only in Kashmir but in the
whole world'. Likewise, Nazir Ahmed, in-charge of the public relations
department of the Markaz, the Lashkar's parent body, declares that through
the jihad that the mujahidin have launched in Kashmir, 'Islam will be
dominant all over the world, Inshallah (God willing)'.
In Lashkar discourse the conflict in Kashmir is seen not as a territorial dispute
between India and Pakistan, but as nothing less than a war between two
different and mutually opposed ideologies: Islam, on the one hand, and
disbelief, on the other. This is portrayed as one chapter in a long a struggle
between the two that is said to have characterised the history of Hindu-Muslim
relations for the last 1400 years ever since the advent of the Prophet
Muhammad. The Prophet is claimed to have singled out India as a special
target for jihad, or so the Lashkar insists. 'Whosoever will take part in jihad
against India', Lashkar leader Muhammad Ibrahim Salaf claims that the
Prophet had declared, 'Allah will set him free from the pyre of hell'.
The Lashkar sees the roots of the Kashmir problem as lying in its Muslim
rulers having been replaced, first by the Sikhs and then by the Hindu Dogras
through British assistance. With India (the 'Hindus') having taken over
Kashmir in 1947, a long reign of bloody terror is said to have been unleashed
on the Kashmiri Muslims. This is seen as a direct and logical consequence of
the teachings of Hinduism itself, because, it is alleged, 'the Hindus have no
compassion in their religion'. Hence, the Lashkar argues, it is the duty of
Muslims to wage jihad against the 'Hindu oppressors', for, it insists, 'it is the
Hindu who is a terrorist'. All Hindus are tarred with the same brush, described
in such essentialist terms as 'terrorists', 'traitors', 'cowards', 'enemies', etc..
Thus, Lashkar chief Hafiz Muhammad Saeed declares, 'In fact, the Hindu is a
mean enemy and the proper way to deal with him is the one adopted by our
forefathers, who crushed them by force. We need to do the same'.
India is a special target for the Lashkar. As Hafiz Muhammad Saeed argues,
'The jihad is not about Kashmir only. It encompasses all of India'. The
Lashkar sees the jihad as going far beyond the borders of Kashmir and
spreading through all of India. The final goal is to extend Muslim control over
what is seen as having once been Muslim land, and, hence, to be brought
back under Muslim domination, creating what the Lashkar calls 'the Greater
Pakistan by dint of jihad'. Thus, at a mammoth congregation in November
1999, Hafiz Muhammad Saeed declared, 'Today I announce the break-up of
India, Inshallah. We will not rest until the whole of India is dissolved into
Pakistan'. On the same occasion, Amir Hamza, senior Lashkar official and
editor of its Urdu organ, ad-Da'wa, thundered: 'We ought to disintegrate
India and even wipe India out'. Those who take part in this anti-Indian jihad
are promised that 'Allah will save [them] from the pyre of hell', and 'huge
palaces in paradise' await those who are killed in fighting the 'disbelieving
enemies'.
If indeed the Lashkar was behind the Delhi blasts, it indicates that these
bombastic anti-Indian and anti-Hindu appeals of the Lashkar are no empty
rhetoric and that it is deadly serious about its designs of exporting terror
beyond Kashmir into the rest of the country, inflaming Hindu-Muslim conflict
and making the solution to the Kashmir dispute even more intractable.
Off Topic, calling all gardners, I couldn't pass this one by and not share it.
I use coke and spoiled cooking oils in a narrow mouthed large coke bottle, to trap bugs with, you will be amazed how many crawl in and die.
Coke is also a good cleaner for corroded battery cables and will loosen stuck bolts and the nuts on them.
granny.......
http://www.countercurrents.org/glo-vidal091104.htm
Things Grow Better
With Coke
By John Vidal
09 November, 2004
The Guardian
Indian farmers have come up with what they
think is the real thing to keep crops free of bugs.
Instead of paying hefty fees to international
chemical companies for patented pesticides, they
are reportedly spraying their cotton and chilli
fields with Coca-Cola.
In the past month there have been reports of
hundreds of farmers turning to Coke in Andhra
Pradesh and Chattisgarh states.
But as word gets out that soft drinks may be bad
for bugs and a lot cheaper than anything that
Messrs Monsanto, Shell and Dow can offer,
thousands of others are expected to switch.
Gotu Laxmaiah, a farmer from Ramakrishnapuram
in Andra Pradesh, said he was delighted with his
new cola spray, which he applied this year to
several hectares of cotton. "I observed that the
pests began to die after the soft drink was
sprayed on my cotton," he told the Deccan Herald
newspaper.
Coca-Cola has had a bad year in India.
Other farmers in Andra Pradesh state accused the
company of over-extracting underground water
for its bottling plants and a government
committee upheld findings that drinks made in
India by itself and PepsiCo contained
unacceptable amounts of pesticide residue.
But Mr Laxmaiah and others say their cola sprays
are invaluable because they are safe to handle, do
not need to be diluted and, mainly, are cheap.
One litre of highly concentrated Avant, Tracer and
Nuvocron, three popular Indian pesticides, costs
around 10,000 rupees (£120), but one-and-a-half
litres of locally made Coca-Cola is 30 rupees. To
spray an acre would be a mere 270 rupees.
It is clearly not Coke's legendary "secret"
ingredient that is upsetting the bugs. The farmers
also swear by Pepsi, Thums Up, and other local
soft drinks.
The main ingredients of all colas are water and
sugar but some manufacturers add citric and
phosphoric acids to give that extra bite to human
taste buds.
Yesterday a leading Indian agriculture analyst,
Devinder Sharma, said: "I think Coke has found
its right use. Farmers have traditionally used
sugary solutions to attract red ants to feed on
insect larvae.
"I think the colas are also performing the same
role."
The properties of Coke have been discussed for
years. It has been reported that it is a fine
lavatory cleaner, a good windscreen wipe and an
efficient rust spot remover.
Uncorroborated reports from China claimed that
the ill-fated New Coke was widely used in China
as a spermicide.
Yesterday a spokesman for Coca-Cola in Atlanta
said: "We are aware of one isolated case where a
farmer may have used a soft drink as part of his
crop management routine.
"Soft drinks do not act in a similar way to
pesticides when applied to the ground or crops.
There is no scientific basis for this and the use of
soft drinks for this purpose would be totally
ineffective".
http://www.countercurrents.org/comm-gatade220805.htm
See RSS, Think Al
Queda!
By Subhash Gatade
22 August, 2005
Countercurrents.org
The RSS may call itself a cultural organisation,
but an established US think tank has virtually
equated it with Al Queda and some other outfits,
terming them "new religious movements (NRMs)
that have also emerged as sources of violence". ..
The report titled "Exploring Religious Conflicts"
says "NRMs can be found in Hinduism (the RSS),
Israel ( Gush Emunim), Christianity ( the US
based identity movement) and Islam, including Al
Queda, a global network with a transcendent
vision that draws support in the defence of
Islam"...
For the RSS, the adverse comment comes close
on the heels of the Virginia based Terrorism
Research Centre (TRC) declaring it a terrorist
organisation and lumping it with a number of
Jihadi and secessionist outfits.( Report by S.
Rajagopalan, Hindustan Times, delhi, dated 11 th
August 2005)
I
The recent report on 'religious conflicts' by the US
think tank RAND Corporation has definitely
brought a fresh spate of bad news for the
beleagured RSS which is passing through one of
its worst crisis since its inception. Ruthlessly
tearing apart its well cultivated and projected
image that it is a 'cultural organisation' the said
report virtually equates it with Al Queda and some
other outfits, terming them "new religious
movements (NRMs) that have also emerged as
sources of violence".
Labelling the RSS as "an ultra Hindu nationalist
movement" it clearly states that the RSS
espouses a "strong and militant religious
philosophy based on exclusivity and hate",
blames it for violence directed at Muslims and
Christians and reiterates that it remains a threat
to the idea of India as a secular state.
For the RSS, the report has been so devastating
that despite a section of the media going public
with the inferences of the study and its critics
raising the temperatures further, none of the
media savvy spokespersons of the Parivar have
dared to comment on it. It appears that the
Sangh bosses have preferred to adopt the much
tested maun vrata a vow of silence over this.
Looking at the genesis of this study which has
emanated from a conservative think tank which is
very close to the US establishment , the maun
vratam seems to be the best option before them.
Gone are the days when the RSS and its men,
which are part of the plethora of organisations
which it has built, were patting themselves on
their backs for effecting a paradigm shift in its
relation vis-a-vis the USA. Now forget paradigm
shift, within a span of a few months this is the
third time in a row that the Parivar and its men
have received rebukes either at the hands of the
US establishment itself or through those
institutions/peoples who are working closely with
it. It was only last September that the Virginia
based 'Terrorism Research Centre' a leading think
tank specialising in terrorism studies with due
help from the US government, declared RSS as a
terrorist organisation and lumped it with a
number of Jihadi and secessionist outfits. The first
quarter of this year witnessed the denial of visa to
Narendra Modi, the poster boy of the Sangh
Parivar which rather stopped him from going to
US for luring Non resident Gujaratis to invest in
the state. And now comes the RAND study which
tells us to have a relook at the commonalities
between RSS and Al Qaeda and the danger they
like many of their ilk present before humanity.
II
Formally the RAND Corporation may call itself a
'..nonprofit institution that helps improve policy
and decision making through research and
analysis' but nobody can deny the umbilical chord
which unites it with the US establishment. A
product of the cold war competition with USSR
and founded in the period of Mccarthysim in US
polity when intellectual witch hunt was at its
peak, the institution has down the years carved
out a niche for itself as a very reliable
conservative 'thinktank' for the US establishment.
May it be the Korean war or for that matter the
Vietnam (mis)adventure of the USA or the
present preoccupation of the Bush led
establishment towards 'war against terror' RAND's
policy recommendations have been reflective to
service to power and in the most recent period
has turned its attention to bring about “a
reformation in the Muslim world.”
A mere perusal of the present study 'Exploring
Religious Conflicts' makes it clear that it is
basically a summary of the workshops hosted by
the RAND National Security Research Division
with due financial help from the CIA. The
introduction makes it clear that it has been
undertaken to 'assess religious motivations in
international politics, what may cause violence
with religious roots and how states have sought to
take advantage or contain religious violence.'
Looking at the mess in which the US finds itself
today especially in middle east, a mess of its own
making, the present study suggests some ways
out. There is no denying the fact that the bulk of
the 84 page report brought out by RAND is mainly
focussed on this present preoccupation of the US
establishment namely the 'war against terror' or
Islamic extremism.
Interestingly although funded directly by the CIA,
the conclusions of the study are at variance with
the way the Bushes, Cheneys or the Rumsfields
have viewed the unfolding situation before them.
The world very well knows how the neo cons have
reformulated rules of US engagement in world
politics and have discovered the rule of
'preemptive strike' supposedly to contain the
'rogue states'. The present study frankly states
that the use of military force to combat cosmic
war could be counter productive. It cautions the
US from even aspiring to the military destruction
of the opponent, even in the long run. It advises
the U.S. policymakers to try to adjust their mental
map of relations with the Islamic world from one
based on a historic sense of “conflict” to thinking
of relationships along a continuum that
encompasses a wide range of issues.
It is worth noting that while the present report
suggests restraint, two of the earlier reports
brought out by RAND very much resonate with
the neo cons thinking. The report issued in March
2004 entitled "Civil Democratic Islam : Partners,
Resources and Strategies" written by some Cheryl
Benard recommended a civil war among the
various parts of the Muslim community with a
hope that the end result will be that those who
support the US world view would prevail through
its help. The 600 pages report issued in December
2004 entitled “ US strategy in the Muslim World
after 9/11 suggests that Sunni, Shiite and Arab,
non-Arab divides should be exploited to promote
the US policy objectives in the Muslim world.
Ofcourse to put the things in proper perspective
the study under discussion namely 'Exploring
Religious Conflicts' also discusses similar
'potential new religious movements (NRMs), even
violent ones, apart from those spawned by
Islamic radicalism.' and notes that if Islam has its
Al Qaeda, Christianity has US based identity
movement, Jews have Gush Emunim and
Hinduism has its RSS ( Rashtriya Swayamsevak
Sangh). According to the study ".Sometimes
referred to as cults, NRMs have two defining
characteristics – a high degree of tension between
the group and its surrounding society and a high
degree of control exercised by leaders over their
members. There is a discernible proliferation of
NRMs across the global landscape. While they
have gotten most attention in the richer
countries, they are found everywhere, including
countries of the Third World and the Middle East."
Coming to the RSS the ultra Hindu nationalist
movement it says it "..[e]spouses a strong and
militant religious philosophy based on exclusivity
and hate. After the assassination of Gandhi in
1948, the movement was banned for a few years
by the Indian government because of its acts of
violence and terrorism and its exhortation to
followers to resort to terrorist methods in the
promulgation of its religious ideas. In the 1990s,
under the government led by the Bharatiya Janata
Party (BJP), its role and influence in India grew
and continues to grow even today. During the
BJP’s tenure in political office....the RSS
continued to gain momentum and was engaged in
violence, particularly against what it viewed to be
threats against the Hindu state, namely Muslims
and Christians. .."
III
For layperson it may appear incomprehensible
this sudden 'dawning of wisdom' upon the
western world especially the USA vis-a-vis RSS. It
may appear puzzling to them that why till date
sharing the vision of 'anti communism' as a glue
the US and its think tanks have suddenly woken
up to the danger the RSS presents to India's
secular state.
The reasons are not far to seek. But before
delineating the possible reasons one needs to
note that these changes in the evaluation of the
RSS vis-a-vis US establishment are of a short
term nature. Strategically speaking the USA has
always looked towards the RSS as a force which
can counterbalance the communist forces in the
unlikely event that the democratic experiment
fails in India prompting greater intervention by
the reds in the polity. One can remember the
early 50s study of the Communist Movement in
India done by Overstreet and Windmiller which
was done at the behest of the CIA where they had
even put forward this hypothesis and had
underlined that RSS would act as a bulwark
against the Communist movement.
- The need for tactical or short term changes in
the evaluation of the RSS has arisen because of
the Iraq-Afghanistan imbroglio where the USA
finds itself in a mess of its own making. As the
present study makes it clear that the "..[U]S
foreign policy in the Middle East, particularly its
strong and unswerving support of Israel and its
current war against terrorism and “Islam,” have
made the United States an object of hate. ..the
United States is perceived as evil and out to
destroy Islam; it therefore must be fought in
order to defend the faith."
One route open before the US regime it to shed
its 'anti Islam' image is to make friends with
moderate Islamic regimes may it be Pervez
Musharraf led Pakistan or Hosni Mubarak led
Egypt. The second option before it is by
distancing itself from groups, organisations which
cherish ideological hatred towards Islam or detest
Muslims as a community. Definitely the RSS
which wears its anti minority image on its sleeve
and has no qualms in rationalising pogroms of
Muslims or breaking of mosques serves the
purpose well.
There is no doubt that a major factor which has
prompted the USA to undertake this reevaluation
is the recent changes in the Indian polity namely
the exit of a government led by the Sangh Parivar
diehards. And despite a long history of support
provided by the Sangh Supremos namely the
Golwalkars and the Deorases in times of cold war
and despite the fact that Vajpayee-Advani led
regime had unilaterally offered it support when
US launched its 'war against terror' The US
government and its affiliated institutions lost no
time in recalibrating their evaluation of the RSS.
If Virginia based TRC ( Terrorism Research
Centre) called RSS as a 'terrorist organisation' (
September 2004) and lumped it together with 31
other jihadi and secessionist organisations like the
Hizbul Mujahideen and the Jaish-e-Mohammad
operating in India , the US government itself
denied a visa to the poster boy of Sangh Parivar
Narendra Modi when he wanted to meet the Non
resident Gujaratis to appeal to them that invest in
Gujarat. And the latest dressing down has come
at the hands of RAND report which has equated it
with the likes of Al Qaeda. Indeed for a self
proclaimed cultural organisation, this hatrick of
sorts of a different kind within a span of mere ten
months, must be a world record.
The public opinion inside the US or for that matter
other western countries also created its own
pressure on the respective governments. We are
aware that apart from the international level
human rights organisations visiting Gujarat in
2002 to seek more details, many a teams from
western countries themselves visited Gujarat
state when the world at large became aware of
the pogrom undertaken by the nazi loving Parivar
people. People also knew how the ascendance of
BJP at the centre has also seen unleashing of
attacks against the Christians all over India. The
tragic burning of Graham Steins and his two sons
by criminals owing allegiance to the Hindutva
ideology had been witnessed by the world.
Many a business delegations also visited the
'model laboratory of Hindutva' namely Gujarat to
ascertain the safety of their invested capital. It
was clear that a state which could attract enough
capital because of its infrastructure and related
facilities suddenly saw drying up fresh
investments after the carnage 2002.
Ofcourse the important role played by the civil
society organisations inside USA especially the
role of the secular diaspora from south asia in
influencing the public opinion cannot be denied.
The important role played by them in highlighting
the Gujarat genocide which officially saw killings
of mainly 2,000 Muslims organised with due
connivance of the BJP led state machinery or the
way they led a massive campaign inside USA
where they exposed how by utilising the US
Corporate Philanthropy the Sangh people have
been channelising millions of dollars to Hate
groups in India also created an impact. (Times of
India, Nov 22, 2002).The Project Saffron Dollar
launched by intellectuals, students and other
professionals compelled many a respectable US
companies to even stop funding the innocuous
looking funding arm of the Sangh linked IDRF
(India Development and Relief Fund)
The secular activists also demonstrated the
sameness of the Hindutva inspired groups in USA
with the other fanatic groups as far as modus
operandi is concerned. They showed how a very
popular Hindutva web site'Hindunity.org' (
www.hindunity.org) engages itself in venomous
propaganda against minorities and has even
prepared a 'hit list' of individuals, organisations
which are opposed to the anti human agenda of
the Parivar. They also brought to the notice of the
authorities the close connection between the
Hindutva groups and Zionist groups and how they
have been coordinating their activites. When the
Hindutva.org website was compelled to
discontinue its operations by the service provider
because of its venomous postings, a zionist group
came forward to host it. Although in his famous
book 'We and Our Nationhood Defined' the RSS
supremo Golwalkar has supported Hitler for his
experiments in ethnic cleansing by targetting the
Jews his followers were found to be enjoying the
good company of the Zionists without any
reservation. The only common thing which
connected these groups is their common hatred
towards Islam.
IV
Prof Ram Puniyani had written an article 'Is RSS
A Terrorist Organisation' (Countercurrents.org
2 June 2005 ) immediately after the Terrorism
Research Centre's categorisation about the RSS
that it is a 'terrorist organisation' made headlines.
In this article he explained the indoctrination
work of RSS which goes on twin tracks, namely
physical and bauddik (mental) one.
He explained :" It is the latter which motivates its
progeny to incite people to take up arms and kill
the ‘other’, the ‘enemy’ in the ruthless fashion.
The anatomy of a riot, violence, is very interesting
and complex both at the same time. How the
average dalit, adivasi, worker with empty stomach
and non existent future is mobilized as the foot
soldier of RSS agenda, is something social
scientists have to explain. RSS pracharak may be
at the same time sitting and giving a quiet
discourse on Hindu values, Hindu rashtra while
RSS ideology will grip the section of population to
unleash violence, to kill the innocents. It does
achieve the political goal of consolidation of
section of Hindus behind RSS; it does make them
come back to power or strengthen its power. The
definition with which we began was killing of
innocents for power or political agenda is
terrorism. And that’s precisely what RSS work
does. "
Contrasting between the Ladens or the AK 47
wielding terrorists and the RSS volunteers he
rightly says that he may appear to be apostle of
quietness. According to him to get the minorities
beaten and killed without taking up the arms
oneself this is the wiliest and cleverest part of the
RSS operation. And he righly concludes "The
violence is leased out by clever social and
psychological manipulation. In that sense AK 47
may miss the target but a mind poisoned and
initiated by Hate ideology propagated by RSS will
come out as violence some time or the other, here
or there, it’s just a question of time. Culture, the
cloak of this organization is the most subtly
disguised cover for the terrorist goals of this
organization."
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1513041/posts
"ASIO: Terrorists have their sights on us"
Herald Sun ^ | 1st November 2005
Posted on 10/31/2005 7:20:38 PM PST by naturalman1975
ON THE NET...
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"Jihad Comes to Small Town USA: Part 6"
LauraMansfield.com ^ | October 31, 2005 | Laura Mansfield
Posted on 10/31/2005 2:45:20 PM PST by AmericaUnite
Jihad Comes to Small Town USA: Part 6 by Laura Mansfield
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"Satellite phones giving terrorists the edge"
The Times of India ^ | Tuesday, November 01, 2005 10:14:15 am | Vishwa Mohan
Posted on 10/31/2005 9:14:25 PM PST by CarrotAndStick
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ctober 31, 2005
Fourth night of riots in Paris
"A police union spokesman says a Paris suburb is seeing 'civil war.'" More on the Muslim riots in Paris from Reuters, with thanks to all who sent this in:
BOBIGNY, France (Reuters) -- Interior Minister Nicolas Sarkozy on Monday defended his tough crime policies against claims they helped increase tension after a fourth night of rioting in a Paris suburb in which tear gas was fired into a mosque.
It was not clear who had fired the tear gas and Sarkozy, addressing police officers, vowed to find out what had happened.
Youths hurled rocks and set fire to cars in the northeastern Clichy-sous-Bois suburb of the French capital, where many immigrants and poor families live in high-rise housing estates notorious for youth violence.
French television said six police officers were hurt and 11 people arrested in violence partly fueled by the incident at the mosque.
"I am, of course, available to the Imam of the Clichy mosque to let him have all the details in order to understand how and why a tear gas bomb was sent into this mosque," Sarkozy told about 170 police officers at the Seine-Saint-Denis prefecture in Bobigny, the local authority which oversees Clichy-sous-Bois.
He also met the president of the Muslim community for the Clichy area.
The violence began four days ago among residents of Clichy-sous-Bois over the deaths of two teenagers believed to be of African origin who were electrocuted while fleeing police.
Posted at October 31, 2005 11:52 AM
http://mcbwatch.blogspot.com/2005/10/it-doesnt-add-up.html
Saturday, October 29, 2005
"It Doesn’t Add Up"
On KGO.com, radio news:
3 alarm fire in Mission District, a large propane tank exploded and also smaller ones, in an apartment house, the cause is said to be "unknown".
There was a minute ago, an alert that said it was a 500 gallon propane tank.
Thanks to God, no one was hurt.
Damage to the adjoining building also.
Several months ago, the same happened, except at the time I heard it on the news, no one owned the large tank or knew how it got there.
I think it is the story at the top of the first search, says large structure fire, but it crashed me.
http://www.google.com/search?client=googlet&q=3%20alarm%20fire%20in%20Mission%20District%2C%20California
Black Panther turns himself in:
http://news.google.com/news?client=googlet&q=3+alarm+fire+in+Mission+District,+California&sa=N&tab=wn
Thanks Cindy. The new TM will be up tomorrow at some point.
That's fine nw.
Another version of the Mission District explosion, the first one, this is the San Francisco area.
http://news.google.com/news?client=googlet&q=Propane+tank+explosion&sa=N&tab=wn
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&ie=ISO-8859-1&client=googlet&q=unknown+cause+of+Propane+tank+explosion&btnG=Search
http://www.google.com/search?client=googlet&q=Propane%20tank%20explosion
http://www.washingtontimes.com/upi/20051028-011807-7623r.htm
UPI
"London bomber buried in Pakistan"
Oct. 28, 2005 at 1:26PM
ARTICLE SNIPPET: "The remains of a British-born suicide bomber involved in the July 7 London bombings were buried at an Islamic saint's shrine in Pakistan.
The funeral for 22-year-old Shahzad Tanweer, one of four bombers who blew up a subway train killing seven, was held in the village of Chhotian Kota in Pakistan where family relatives live, the Independent reported. Tanweer was born in Bradford, England."
Delhi Bomb Blasts And
The Lashkar's Jihadist Agenda
Thanks for posting this granny. This is a must read for all. This group is related to the Lodi CA cell (only a few have been arrested). Since 2000, THOUSANDS of Pakistanis have settled in LODI.
TM FLASHBACK:
Lodi case points to new style of jihadist training
The Argus, CA - Jun 21, 2005
... The groups themselves — Harkat-ul-Mujahedin, or HuM; Jaish-e-Mohammed; and Lashkar-e-Taiba ... who has been connected to some of the detained men in the Lodi case ...
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Fifth night of unrest in Paris suburb
Sify ^ | Nov. 1, 2005 | AFP
Posted on 10/31/2005 9:59:08 PM PST by FairOpinion
Clichy-sous-Bois (France): Police fired tear gas canisters and rioters hurled Molotov cocktails as violence hit a poor Paris suburb for the fifth straight night in unrest that officials said on Tuesday had also spread to neighbouring towns.
The local prefecture said that the levels of violence in the troubled suburb of Clichy-sous-Bois were lower than on previous nights.
However, 12 people were arrested in the town, which has a large Muslim community, during a night in which a Molotov cocktail was thrown at a police station and 11 cars and trashcans were torched.
Tensions have been running high between police and gangs of youths in Clichy-sous-Bois, northeast of Paris, since the accidental death by electrocution last Thursday of two teenagers.
Many of the youths targeting police were angry at the deaths of two youths, aged 15 and 19, who were electrocuted after they scaled the wall of an electrical relay station and touched a transformer.
The local public prosecutor, Francois Molins, said the boys thought police was chasing them, but authorities denied that was the case.
The launching of a tear gas grenade at a mosque late on Sunday threatened to further escalate the troubles.
Police fired more tear gas overnight on Monday to disperse around 100 youths involved in a standoff with some 50 officers near the mosque.
In another worrying development, Monday night was the first time that the unrest was reported to have spread to neighbouring areas of the Seine-Saint-Denis region abutting Paris.
Just after midnight in nearby Montfermeil, the municipal police garage was set ablaze and two cars destroyed, a prefecture spokesman said.
Elsewhere in the towns of Sevran and Aulnay-sous-Bois police were subjected to "stone-throwing" gangs but there were no injuries, according to the local prefecture. Small fires were also lit in the towns.
Interior Minister Nicolas Sarkozy—who has implemented hard-line urban security policies in his bid to be a conservative candidate in France's 2007 presidential elections—visited the administrative headquarters responsible for the suburb.
Sarkozy, who is also leader of France's ruling UMP party, vowed to wage a "war without mercy" on crime in the Paris suburbs just a week before the rampages.
The minister said Clichy-sous-Bois and the surrounding area would be the first to try out his latest initiative: cameras on police patrol cars to capture suspects' actions.
Asked about the tear gas grenade at the mosque, he admitted that it was of the type used by anti-riot police, but cautioned "that does not mean that it was fired by a police officer."
The families of the two boys killed snubbed Sarkozy's invitation to meet with them, and called the tear gas incident "disrespectful".
"We are asking for calm, we are asking for justice and we are asking for the riot police to leave," Siyakah Traore, brother of one of the victims, told a press conference at the mosque.
Among those detained since Thursday were four minors, who were to be brought before a children's court judge on Tuesday.
Another magistrate on Monday ordered three young men to jail for two months.
Boy, you are quick! :)
Dangerous Bacteria Found In South Bay Air
CBS 5 ^ | Oct 31, 2005
One of the Centers for Disease Control's top five biological terrorism agents, the
tularemia bacteria,
has been detected in air monitors in San Jose but public health officials do not believe it is the result of any type of terrorist attack.
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