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Maulana Masood Azhar’s Terrorism

Early life

Azhar was born in Bahawalpur on July 10, 1968 as one of ten siblings although some sources list his birth date as August 7, 1968 as the third of 11 children. His father, Allah Bakhsh Shabir, was the headmaster at a government-run school, and his family operated a dairy and poultry farm. Azhar studied at the Binori mosque in Karachi, where he became involved with Harkat-ul-Ansar. After he suffered injuries in the Soviet-Afghan War, Azhar was chosen as the head of Harkat's department of motivation and became an editor for the Urdu-language Sad’e Mujahidin and the Arabic-language Sawte Kashmir.

Azhar later became the general secretary of Harkat-ul-Ansar and visited many international locations to recruit, to raise funds and to spread the message of Pan-Islamism. Among his destinations were Zambia, Abu Dhabi, Saudi Arabia, Mongolia, the United Kingdom and Albania.

Activities in Somalia

Azhar confessed that in 1993 he traveled to Nairobi, Kenya to meet with leaders of al-Itihaad al-Islamiya, an al-Qaeda aligned Somali group, who had requested money and recruits from Harkat-ul-Mujahideen (HuM). Indian intelligence officials believe that he made at least three trips to Somalia and that he also helped bring Yemeni mercenaries to Somalia.^[4]

Arrests and Releases

In early 1994, Azhar traveled to Srinagar to ease tensions between Harkat-ul-Ansar's feuding factions of Harkat-ul-Jihad-al-Islami and Harkat-ul-Mujahideen. India arrested him in February and imprisoned him for his terrorist activities with the groups.

In 1995, foreign tourists were kidnapped in Jammu and Kashmir. The kidnappers, referring to themselves as Al-Faran, included the release of Masood Azhar among their demands. One of the hostages managed to escape but the rest were eventually killed.

In December 1999, he was freed by the Indian government in exchange for passengers on the hijacked Indian Airlines Flight 814 (IC814) that had eventually landed in Kandahar, Afghanistan, which at the time the Taliban controlled. The hijackers of IC814 were led by Masood Azhar's brother, Ibrahim Athar. Once Masood Azhar was handed over to the hijackers, they fled to Pakistani territory despite the fact that Islamabad had earlier stated that any of the hijackers would be arrested at the border. The Pakistani government also previously indicated that Azhar would be allowed to return home since he did not face any charges there.

Shortly after his release, Azhar made a public address to an estimated 10,000 people in Karachi. He proclaimed, "I have come here because this is my duty to tell you that Muslims should not rest in peace until we have destroyed America and India."

 Masood Azhar's outfit Jaish-e-Mohammed carried out a string of deadly attacks against Indian targets, including the attack on the Indian parliament in December 2001 that brought India and Pakistan to the brink of a full-scale war.

Soon after the Indian parliament attack, Masood Azhar was detained for a year by Pakistani authorities in connection but was never formally charged. The Lahore High Court ordered an end to the house arrest on 14 December 2002, much to the fury of India. 

On December 7, 2008, it was claimed that he was among several arrested by the Pakistani government after a military raid on a camp located on the outskirts of Muzaffarabad in connection with the November 2008 terror attacks in Mumbai. Some reports indicated that he had been placed under house arrest in Bhawalpur. Pakistan's government denied it had arrested Masood Azhar and said it was unaware of his whereabouts

Masood is known to be deeply involved in some sort of recruitment drive in the Kashmir valley, making 'Fidayeens' or 'human bombs' out of young boys through his venomous propaganda speeches.

Swami Ramdev and Muslims

While Maulana Masood exhorts Muslims to destroy India, Swami Ramdev praises Muslims for their sacrifices for India’s freedom and even advices them to substitute ‘Om’ with ‘Allah’ while performing Yoga. No wonder, in their turn, Muslims of India issue a fatwa to Muslims not to sing Vande Matram. Hindu swamis are still singing the old song of all religions being equal while Muslims maulanas are out to destroy Hindus! Educating Muslims in spirituality is too important a business to be left to brave politicians like Uddhav Thackeray (who told Muslims, who refuse to sing Vande Matram to go to Pakistan) alone. It is time that the swamis became aware of the Muslim jihad and tried to turn the tide. Swami Ramdev has an excellent opportunity to welcome those Muslims who recite ‘Om’ and eventually reabsorb them in Hinduism. It is better than teaching Islamized Yoga to thousands who would remain fanatic Muslims.

In case Swami Ramdev makes the usual modern mistake of differentiating between extremists and ‘moderates’, he better know that the moderates support the political demands of extremists a hundred percent. They also want Chechnya, Palestine and Kashmir to belong to Muslims exclusively! And they would wait to take over the world by demographic means.

Bringing back Muslims to Hinduism

India has already been robbed of Afghanistan, Pakistan and Bangladesh. It is the duty of the present generation to ensure that no more of this holy land secedes from India. One way is ensure that all children are exposed to Hindu culture. It should be compulsory in all elementary schools to teach Ancient History of India and the basic Hindu Philosophy as revealed in the Bhagwat Gita. Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan, the man American authorities say is responsible for the worst mass killing on a U.S. military base on 5^th November 2009, proves the point that Muslims, briught up with teachings of Koran alone can never be loyal to any country. Left to their own devices, they would issue a fatwa on ‘Om’ chanting, shout ‘Allah – u – Akbar’, aim and shoot to kill as many ‘infidels’ as possible.

 Another way to ensure the integrity of our country is for Hindu saints to be more like Chaitanya Mahaprabhu and Swami Shraddhanand. Haridasa Thakur, born 1451 or 1450, was a prominent Vaishnava saint, instrumental in the early appearance and spread of the Hare Krishna movement. He is considered to be the most famous convert of Chaitanya Mahaprabhu from Islam. Only some ninety years ago Swami Shraddhanand had spearheaded a successful Shuddhi movement to bring back converted Indian Muslims back to Hinduism. That the project of Shuddhi is workable is proved by a comment on a pictorial article by Ali Khalaf  entitled Islam’s Gifts to the World. The comment, in unedited form, follows:

yes koran is a gift to world like aids and swine
written by yes koran is a gift to world , October 16, 2009

yes koran is a gift to world like aids and swine flu frm u filthy arabs. if it wins it will be due to the stupidity and politican correctness of us kafirs. but islam=falsehood will lose,and truth will win. each day i see more and more muzzie leaving islam.
i am ex-muslim from india,and i have myself helped over 500 muzzies leave islam. i left islam in 1992 when no one even thought of being an ex-muzzie. when i struggled for ppl to see the real face of hate=islam till 2001 i cud hardly get 5 ppl to leave islam. from 2003-4 after ffi-isw r launched the rate has accelerated. and in last 1 yr alone over 300-350 ppl have left islam by my effort alone. and these ppl r also helping others leave islam. so domino effect is starting and it will accelerate till hate based ideology of judeo-christianity/islam is destroyed,and humanity prevails.
so we can safely say that islam will be destroyed by ex-muslims. u have tortuted and killed our forefathers, nowwe will take revenge on u f-ing arabs and muhamed-pigs. islam will lose for sure,and we ex-muslims will make it loose. we will ensure that islam looses,and people like u r slaughtered inthe streets,or converted away from pisslam.
u threaten to use voilence so will ,we will use yr ways to eliminate u and convert world to kafirism=truth=humanity again. better to worship mother india than to worship fake imaginary allah.

vande bharat mataram

With great respect I submit that the modern great Hindu saints follow the path shown by Chaitanya Mahaprabhu and Swami Shraddhanand. And this Shuddhi movement would be so different from the jihad of maulanas which calls for killing of the infidels. Far from sowing seeds of discord, it might lead to self-realization of some lost souls.

FROM BIN LADEN’S UNTRUTHS OF BUTCHERING IN KASHMIR AND ASSAM TO TRUTH OF EDUCATING MUSLIM CLERICS BY RSS LEADERS

 Osama Bin Laden is both - one of the CIA's most wanted men and a hero to many young people in the Muslim world. An immensely wealthy and private man, Bin Laden` was granted a safe haven by the then Afghanistan’s ruling Taliban Movement in the nineties. During his time in hiding, he called for a holy war against the US, and for the killing of Americans and Jews. He also set up Islamic training centres to prepare Taliban soldiers to fight.

His power is founded on a personal fortune earned by his family's construction business in Saudi Arabia. Born in Saudi Arabia to a Yemeni family, Bin Laden left Saudi Arabia in 1979 to fight against the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. The Afghan jihad was backed with American dollars and had the blessing of the governments of Saudi Arabia and Pakistan. He received security training from the CIA itself. While in Afghanistan, he founded the Maktab al-Khidimat (MAK), which recruited fighters from around the world and imported equipment to aid the Afghan resistance against the Soviet army. Egyptians, Lebanese, Turks and others - numbering thousands in Bin Laden's estimate - joined Afghan Muslims in the struggle against an ideology that spurned religion.

After the Soviet withdrawal, the "Arab Afghans", as Bin Laden's faction came to be called, turned their fire against the US and its allies in the Middle East. Bin Laden returned to Saudi Arabia to work in the family construction business, but was expelled in 1991 because of his anti-government activities there. He spent the next five years in Sudan until US pressure prompted the Sudanese Government to expel him, whereupon Bin Laden returned to Afghanistan and used his millions to fund attacks against the US. According to the US, Bin Laden was involved in at least three major attacks before 2000 - the 1993 World Trade Center bombing, the 1996 killing of 19 US soldiers in Saudi Arabia, and the 1998 bombings in Kenya and Tanzania. He is part of an international Islamic front, bringing together Saudi, Egyptian and other groups. Their rallying cry is the liberation of Islam's three holiest places - Mecca, Medina and Jerusalem.

Bin Laden's organization is very different from the groups that carried out bombings and hijackings in the past in that it is not a tightly knit group with a clear command structure but a loose coalition of groups operating across continents. It is believed that Bin Laden's associates operate in over forty countries - in Europe and North America, as well as in the Middle East and Asia.

In February 1998 bin Laden and several leading Muslim militants declared the formation of a coalition called the International Islamic Front for Jihad against the Jews and Crusaders to fight the U.S.  Member organizations included Al Qaeda, the Egyptian Islamic Jihad led by Dr. Ayman al-Zawahiri, the Egyptian Islamic Group, and organizations engaged in Kashmir and Bangladesh. Bin Laden was appointed to head the Front’s council (shura). The militants signed a fatwa (religious opinion) outlining the Front’s ideology and goals. The fatwa was published in a London-based Arabic paper, Al Quds Al Arabi; it called on all Muslims to “kill the Americans and their allies - civilians and military,” wherever they may be.

In October 2000, Al Qaeda bombed the U.S.S. Cole, an American guided-missile destroyer at Aden, Yemen, killing 17 American servicemen. It committed its most devastating attack on September 11, 2001, when 19 Al Qaeda operatives hijacked four passenger planes and drove two into the Twin Towers in New York City and one into the Pentagon; a fourth plane crashed in rural Pennsylvania. Nearly 3,000 people were killed in the attack.

In a speech given three months after 9/11, Bin Laden uttered complete untruths when he claimed: A nation of 1,200 million Muslims is being butchered from its east to west every day in Palestine, Iraq, Somalia, the south of Sudan, Kashmir, the Philippines, Bosnia, Chechnya and Assam.

The few outsiders who have met Bin Laden describe him as modest, almost shy. He rarely gives interviews. He is believed to be in his 50s, and to have at least three wives.

In an interview between Al-Jazeera television correspondent Tayseer Alouni and Osama Bin Laden that took place in October 2001, Bib Laden admitted it was easy to link his statements to what happened in America on 9/11.  He said: We incite because incitement is our [unintelligible – presumed ‘right’] today. God assigned incitement to the best of all mankind, Mohammed, who said, "Fight for the sake of God. Assign this to no one but yourself, and incite the faithful." Bin Laden then recited verses from the Quran which can be guessed to be the following verses from Surah 8 – Al Anfal:

59. And let not those who disbelieve think that they can outstrip (escape from the punishment). Verily, they will never be able to save themselves (from Allâh's Punishment). 60. And make ready against them all you can of power, including steeds of war (tanks, planes, missiles, artillery, etc.) to threaten the enemy of Allâh and your enemy, and others besides whom, you may not know but whom Allâh does know. And whatever you shall spend in the Cause of Allâh shall be repaid unto you, and you shall not be treated unjustly.

65. O Prophet (Muhammad)! Urge the believers to fight. If there are twenty steadfast persons amongst you, they will overcome two hundred, and if there be a hundred steadfast persons they will overcome a thousand of those who disbelieve, because they (the disbelievers) are people who do not understand.  

“This is a true response. We have incited battle against Americans and Jews. This is true.” Admitted Bin Laden unhesitatingly.

Alouni then revealed to him that some Arabs had supported US position against him and “the Saudi interior minister warned people against you, and against what you say, and against what you do and the path you follow. What's your reaction to his statement?”  Bin Laden responded: Bush divided the world into two: "either with us or with terrorism." Bush is the leader; he carries the big cross and walks. I swear that every one who follows Bush in his scheme has given up Islam and the word of the prophet. This is very clear. The prophet has said, "Believers don't follow Jews or Christians." Our wise people have said that those who follow the unfaithful have become unfaithful themselves. Those who follow Bush in his crusade against Muslims have denounced God. [Bin Laden recites verses from the Quran on same subject.]  An educated guess is that he recited verses 88 and 89 of Surah 4 An -Nisa which say: 88. Then what is the matter with you that you are divided into two parties about the hypocrites? Allâh has cast them back (to disbelief) because of what they have earned. Do you want to guide him whom Allâh has made to go astray? And he whom Allâh has made to go astray, you will never find for him any way (of guidance). 89. They wish that you reject Faith, as they have rejected (Faith), and thus that you all become equal (like one another). So take not Auliyâ' (protectors or friends) from them, till they emigrate in the Way of Allâh. But if they turn back (from Islâm), take (hold) of them and kill them wherever you find them, and take neither Auliyâ’ nor helpers from them.

When asked if he had a message for the viewers of Al-Jazeera, Bin Laden said in part: Everyone that supports Bush, even with one word, is an act of great treason.... They show you the injured and the dead, and they shed tears, but no tears are shed for our women and children killed in Palestine. Are they not afraid that one day they get the same treatment? [Bin Laden recites verses from the Quran on same subject.] May be he recited verse 93 from Surah 4 which states: 93. And whoever kills a believer intentionally, his recompense is Hell to abide therein, and the Wrath and the Curse of Allâh are upon him, and a great punishment is prepared for him.

 He added: The Europeans are free, but when they side with the Jews, that their [unintelligible]. I tell Muslims to believe in the victory of God and in Jihad against the infidels of the world. The killing of Jews and Americans is one of the greatest duties. [More Quranic verses.] These could be verse 51 of Surah 5 and verse 193 from Surah 2: 51. O you who believe! Take not the Jews and the Christians as Auliyâ, they are but Auliyâ' to one another. And if any amongst you takes them as Auliyâ, then surely he is one of them. Verily, Allâh guides not those people who are the Zâlimûn (polytheists and wrong­doers and unjust).

193. And fight them until there is no more Fitnah (disbelief and worshipping of others along with Allâh) and (all and every kind of) worship is for Allâh (Alone). But if they cease, let there be no transgression except against Az-Zâlimûn (the polytheists, and wrong-doers, etc.)

 Bin Laden went on: Remember the saying, "If they want to exile you, they can't exile you unless it is written by God." Don't ask anyone's opinion when it comes to the killing of Americans, and remember your appointment with God and the best of the prophets. [More Quranic verses.] Perhaps here he was reciting verse 33 of Surah 5: 33. The recompense of those who wage war against Allâh and His Messenger and do mischief in the land is only that they shall be killed or crucified or their hands and their feet be cut off on the opposite sides, or be exiled from the land. That is their disgrace in this world, and a great torment is theirs in the Hereafter.

As far as Pakistan siding with the crusaders, Bin Laden said in conclusion, our brothers in Pakistan and their actions will facilitate our attack on the coalition of crusaders. Everyone supporting America, even medically, is considered renouncing Islam. Our brother in Pakistan should react pretty quick and strong in order to praise God and his prophet. Today, Islam is calling on you to act quickly.

[Quoting the farewell speech of Mohammed] "Oh, Islam, oh, Islam, there is no other god than God, and Mohammed is the prophet of God."

This interview with Tayseer Alouni clearly demonstrates that Bin Laden’s actions are wholly guided by Quran. Whereas Hindu Gurus spread peace, love and non-violence as taught in Upanishads, Muslim maulanas spread terror, hatred, and violence from the verses of Quran. It is a pity that political leadership in India – and the West – does not recognize this as the root problem from which emanates Islamic terrorism. Once this problem is understood Barrack Obama – and Manmohan Singh – can concentrate on persuading maulanas to modifying violent Quranic teachings in madrassas. Armed Forces can then be used to destroy the Terrorist Training Camps to which many Quran- reciting students graduate.

Many in the world, including some Indians, think that the core issue of contention between India and Pakistan is Kashmir. Let them beware that as soon as India surrenders Kashmir, Assam will become the ‘core issue’ between the two countries.

Till such time the political leadership awakens from their sleep, the RSS has to shoulder the responsibility of keeping the Islamic terrorism in control by educating the Maulanas and Muslim youth on the meaning of life which is love, peace and bliss of self-realization. This is an initiative, I am happy to note, that has already been undertaken by the former Rashtriya Swayamsewak Sangh (RSS) chief K.C. Sudarshan, who in an unprecedented move drove down to the Shia scholar and All India Muslim Personal Law Board (AIMPLB) member Maulana Hameedul Hasan’s residence at Lucknow. "The aim of the meeting was to find ways to bridge the Hindu-Muslim divide that arose primarily on account of prevailing confusions about each other's religious beliefs," Hasan said. "We have succeeded in breaking the ice and I am sure we will be able to resolve various issues that give rise to avoidable tensions between the two communities."

3. THE JOYS OF SURRENDER:  TERMINATION OF A BARGAIN WITH ALLAH 

In his book The Shade of Swords M.J.Akbar has entitled the second chapter ‘THE JOYS OF DEATH: A BARGAIN WITH ALLAH, and begins it with quotation of two verses of Quran:

‘Ye are the best of peoples evolved for mankind, enjoining what is right, forbidding what is wrong, and believing in Allah.’                                                                                      [Verse 110, Surah Ali Imran.]

‘Allah hath purchased of the Believers their persons and their goods; for theirs [in return] is the Garden of Paradise. They fight in His Cause and slay and are slain: a promise binding on Him in Truth, through the Law, the Gospel, and the Quran. And who is more faithful to his Covenant than Allah? Then rejoice in the bargain which ye have concluded: that is the achievement supreme.’         [Verse 111, Surah 9, Al Tawbah}

What follows is an extract of an account of invasion of Pakistan by Indian Army in 1971.

By November, nearly nine million refugees from East Pakistan were on Indian soil, a majority of them Hindus. For good reason. Lieutenant Colonel Aziz Ahmad Khan, then commanding officer of 8 Baluchi in his disposition to the Hamoodur Rahman Commission stated, ‘General Niazi (who had taken over Pakistan’s Eastern Command) asked as to how many Hindus we had killed. In May, there was an order in writing to kill Hindus.

The 4th December morning saw Indian forces ready for battle with the Pakistanis, who were by now well dug in and waiting for the Indian assault. The Indian forces easily outnumbered the Pakistanis by a ratio of about 2:1. However, according to conventional infantry wisdom, an attacking Army requires a three-is-to-one superiority in numbers to attack. India did not have that. Besides General A.A.K.Niazi, was determined merely to delay the Indian advance. For, in this war, the real battle was against time. The longer it took the Indian to secure their limited objectives, the greater the probability of the United Nations intervening to stop the war and affect a stalemate. Pakistan was confident that a stalemate was all that the Indians could get. Towards this strategy, General Niazi, had fortified the towns and approaches to the East Pakistani heartland and had boasted before the war began that should hostilities begin, he would take the battle inside India.
                                                                                                                                                        The brief given by the Indian Army chief, General Maneckshaw, to the Eastern Command was very limited. The aim was to occupy only two areas of East Pakistan - Chittagong and Khulna - so that an interim Bangladeshi government could be established. The capture of the whole of East Pakistan was not even conceived. A major problem was the geography and terrain of East Pakistan. Three major rivers - the Brahmaputra, the Ganga and the Meghna - divided East Pakistan into four natural regions. Each of the rivers was major ones - all of them wider than any European river. Each sub-region was further divided into several pockets cut by smaller rivers and their tributaries. The idea that an attacking army could bridge these, fight the enemy and then take territory, all within a couple of weeks, was ludicrous.

Lt. General Aurora's Chief of Staff, Major General Jacob, however, felt that Dhaka was the geo-political centre of Bangladesh and therefore any campaign to be successful had to capture Dhaka". "We realized that any campaign to be successful had to be swift. The United Nations was putting great pressure on us and also the Russians had indicated that they did not want to exercise their veto any more," Jacob explained. "Therefore any campaign had to be quick. We realized that Niazi was going to fortify the towns and defend them in strength. We therefore decided not attack any towns but bypass them using subsidiary tracks to get to our objective: Dhaka."

At the same time, in the privacy of his headquarters at Dhaka, Lieutenant General A A K Niazi was acquiring a notorious reputation for sexual immorality and indulgence in the smuggling of paan from East to West Pakistan. He had trained himself for these operations as GOC Sialkot, when he was friendly with Shamini Firdaus who was running a brothel, and as GOC and martial law administrator, Lahore, with his connections with one Saeeda Bukhari of Gulberg, Lahore, who also ran a brothel under the name of Senorita Home. Nor was this sort of military activity confined to tension-ridden East Pakistan. Brigadier Hayatullah ‘entertained’ some women in his bunker in the Maqbulpur sector of West Pakistan on the night of 11–12 December 1971, when the Indian army was shelling his positions.

For his subsidiary task – defence of East Pakistan – Niazi catered for the conversion of important border towns into fortresses. Other places were to be made strong points. Troops deployed on the border would fight till they were ordered to withdraw to their allotted fortress, which would be defended ‘to the end’. Niazi thus used up all his resources to cover the whole border and kept no reserve in hand – just as he had learnt not to keep brothels in reserve – to influence battle in any sector. He then sent a message to the chief of staff in Rawalpindi on 28 November 1971: ‘Reassure that all ranks by the grace of Allah are in high morale… we are at the highest state of readiness to teach a lasting lesson to Hindustan should they dare cast an evil eye on our sacred soil.’

While fighting a holding action in the West, India instead of casting an evil eye on East Pakistan, swallowed it within twelve days. The Indian air force wrote off the Pakistan air force in Bangladesh by 6 December. Naval blockade had become effective a day earlier as the Indian army advanced towards Dhaka. II, III and IV Corps of Indian army bypassed the Pakistani fortresses, avoided obvious routes of approach, attacked main communication centres, and gave no chance to the enemy to reorganise once the battle was joined.

Major General Farman Ali, adviser to the East Pakistan governor now saw Niazi falling apart; Niazi came to see the governor and cried loudly. The Chinese were supposed to help by activating NEFA and Americans by sending the US Seventh Fleet. None appeared on the horizon and Niazi proposed a ceasefire on 14 December 1971 to the Indian army in the manner he would have brought his connections with Saeeda Bukhari and Shamini Firdaus to a close. But Manekshaw demanded a surrender on 15 December. The next day it was all over. The speed of the operations surprised the world and would have elicited admiration from even Caesar. A country larger than Greece was conquered from an army that claimed to be the finest in the world.

Within 6 days of the war, Indian troops were deep inside East Pakistani territory and moving fast. At any rate, by the seventh day of the war, the Pakistani Army High Command, headquartered in Rawalpindi, was in a complete panic. General Niazi surrendered to Lieutenant General Jagjit Singh Aurora on 16 December 1971 himself and 90,000 prisoners of war.

In his book The Shade of Swords MJ Akbar mentions the heavy defeat of Pakistan by Indian Army not at all. All that he does is to write an entry in the Glossary under ‘A Relevant Calendar’ which follows. 1971; Pakistan is partitioned; Bangladesh is born. Yet this man writes with great pride the events connected with raids on Somnath by Mahmud Ghaznavi and Babar’s victory over Rana Sangha. He glosses over the lost opportunity of his co-religionists from Pakistan to gain Garden of Paradise by violating their bargain with Allah!

Every belief creates certain attitudes. Attitudes govern our actions. Our actions can thus be traced to our inmost beliefs about ourselves and the world around us. If those beliefs are erroneous, our actions will not be in tune with the universal dharma. For instance, the beliefs in the duality of self and other, of eternal heaven and hell, victors and vanquished, white forces and dark forces, create the attitudes that we must be on our guard, and are justified in giving injury, physically, mentally and emotionally to those whom we judge as bad, pagan, alien or unworthy. Such thinking leads to rationalizing so-called righteous wars and conflicts. As long as our beliefs are dualistic, we will continue to generate antagonism, and that will erupt here and there in violence. It is sickening to note that the belief system stemming from Quran not only justifies violence but makes its even moderate adherents to record only selective History!

The great resources that America and NATO allies are spending on building Iraq, Pakistan and Afghanistan should be diverted to re-educate population of those countries in human values and respect for all life. Those countries should also be persuaded to change their Islamic constitutions and become secular. India should also not fall in the trap of separating moderate Muslims form fanatical ones. Rather, it should endeavour to remove the Quranic teachings which induce erroneous beliefs.