Where our Hearts are not Afraid of the Terrorist into such an India lead us Lord...

Lately, a Muslim brother said to me, "Sir, there is no place for terrorism in Islam." I liked his assertion. He is so confident that Hindus, Jains, Buddhists, Christians, Jews, Sikhs, and Atheists did all the terror attacks in the world until now. We must acknowledge such people's knowledge of others' knowledge and their confidence in their ability to convince others of what they believe is true. I wish what he said was true. However, if you take the sheer data of how many Muslims committed Terrorism and what their percentage is in this matter when compared to other religious communities, you would be left astounded. More than ninety-nine percent of all terrorist attacks in the world were the gift of Islam.

 

Still, he defends the people of his religion brazenly. This conversation happened immediately after a group of terrorists brutally killed twenty-eight people in Kashmir in front of their spouses and children. A woman witness described the graphic details of the massacre in Hindi. She said, "At first, the terrorist asked the Hindus to raise their hands. Then, he separated Hindu males from Muslims. After this, he asked people's names and checked their private parts to confirm they were non-Muslims. He told them to recite the Islamic creed. Those who failed to do so, he shot them point blank and patiently waited until they all died."

 

I told the Muslim social media friend who was asserting that there is no place for Terrorism in Islam, "How many more lies would you want us to believe? Was Hamas a terrorist group? What did they do? How was it different from what these terrorists did in Kashmir? If there were no place for Terrorism in Islam, Muslims would have done no Terrorism until now. But now we have so many terror attacks, as you were pointing out in other posts, that only fools will believe that Islam has no place for Terrorism. Can you Show me 10-20 terrorist attacks done by any Hindu Lashkar or Taliban? We don't need more proof of Terrorism in Islam.

 

Muslim people perpetrated almost all terror attacks across the world in the name of Allah. It is like a brothel telling the world, "There is no place for prostitution in our brothel. Look, there are so many little boys and girls in our brother, and none of them do prostitution." Then, he started accusing Modiji of allowing such terrorist attacks to happen under his nose. He was pointing at the failure of the Indian government to curb such attacks. All the while, I was wondering about the failure of Islam to curtail such tendencies among their followers. He showed me two lists. The first list was about terror attacks that Muslims successfully carried out when Congress was in power. The second list was the list of Islamic terror attacks after Modiji became the Indian Prime Minister.

 

His point: Modiji could not stop these terror attacks. So, Modiji is not better than the Congress party's Prime Ministers. Therefore, Hindus must choose Congress, not Modiji. It is like a mischievous child telling other students to select one teacher over the other as the class teacher because he could do less mischief when she was in charge. I asked him to tell me about the identity of the following people. Who carried out those attacks? Who supported them financially? Who trained them? Who gave them weapons and reasons from the Quran, filled them with hatred, and made them kill hundreds of Hindus? The answer: The people of the Peaceful Faith. I told him that whatever list he was showing contained attacks that Muslim people did on others in this country. 

 

Such lists to sway the voters to vote for Congress when the whole Indian state is writhing in pain are like a list made by a mischievous child about which teacher is more conducive to their mischief. It's like the mischievous child telling other students, "I could do more mischief in a particular teacher's period than when the other tutor was in charge." What does it show? It shows the arrogance of the mischievous child who still thinks that the teacher, not him, is responsible for all the mischief he did. His confidence was such that he believed he could continue to fool all people all the time. 

 

Honestly, it doesn't matter to us when your terrorists did more mischief, before Modi or after Modi. Our problem is the mischief –the cold-blooded killings– they did without any inhibition in our country. Every Hindu is afraid even to write like this about the truth they all know in their hearts. They are afraid of being labeled as a Sanghi or a Bhakt. They are afraid of being targeted by Muslims in their locality, community, office, or friend circle. They are afraid of the so-called secular parties who would accuse them of getting killed but never point out the religion of the killer. If their leaders openly denounced the religion of the killer, there would be more restraint among people of that community in becoming terrorists.

 

Whenever somebody points out to a Muslim online the attacks they did on innocent Hindu and Christian people in this country, invariably, they come up with Nathuram Godse, who killed Mahatma Gandhi. Strangely, they never wonder or ponder that they have no other example of a Hindu man doing such dastardly things. I ask them the following questions. Was Mahatma Gandhi an ordinary civilian or a political leader? Were Nathuram's actions motivated by political motives or religious motives? Did Nathuram kill any other person who was with Mahatma Gandhi on that day in that temple? And how many Nathurams killed Muslims for following Allah?

 

I am not defending or glorifying Nathuram's self-defeating actions. I am pointing out that what he did was for political reasons. It was a political assassination, like the killings of Martin Luther King Jr, Indira Gandhi, Rajiv Gandhi, and many others. It was not a terrorist attack, nor was it done in the name of a religion or God. Nathuram did not fire on the unarmed Hindus in the Birla temple after confirming their religious or political identities. Moreover, the Supreme Court of our country punished him. What about your terrorists? Who will punish these miscreants for killing unarmed, innocent civilians who have no power to change any of the Waqf Amendment laws? Will Islam do it?

 

When Modiji came to power, Amir Khan and his wife were visibly afraid on live television. They said they feared to live in India. It has been ten years; nobody has attacked Mr. Amir Khan. Instead, Hindu people loved him more. He made millions more in India through his fantastic Bollywood movies; most of his fans are Hindus. But that is not my condition right now. I am afraid in my own country, the country of my birth where I lived all my life among Muslims and Christians. Why must a Christ-follower from a Hindu family be scared in India? There are many factors, but the worst is that I speak and write the truth I and anybody can see. I fear that some bad Muslim may attack me in broad daylight. Muslim people would classify him as a bad Muslim only after the attack. Until then, he remains one of them.

 

Nobody can know who is a good Muslim and who is bad until they carry out such attacks. When will the Muslim community own these attacks done by Muslim people? How long will they keep hiding under their cliched slogan, "Terrorism has no religion?" If Terrorism has no religion, why are all the Terrorists caught in such heinous acts Muslim? We envision a future India where the terrorists would be afraid of attacking civilians, not the other way around. We want a country where "our mind is (really) without fear, and our heads are (truly) held high." A nation where anybody of any religion would think twice before doing or supporting a terror attack. We pray that God would fill the hearts of the terrorists with so much fear that they won't dare to lift a weapon to kill the innocent.

 

Even as I write this, Pakistan's Prime Minister Shabaz Sharif, a great Muslim, has praised the attackers in Kashmir as Freedom fighters. Similarly, Pinarayi Vijayan and Shashi Tharoor praised freedom fighters like SinWar of Palestine after the October 7th attack on Israel's civilians. What's the difference between this freedom fighter and that freedom fighter? We cannot see! Therefore, don't try to fool people all the time. Instead, question the Islamic community and its inability to question, condemn, and remove elements of terror from Islam. I wonder how or which God can be happy by shedding the blood of innocent, unarmed civilians who came to visit a mini Paradise on Earth. 

 

Were the attackers in Kashmir Freedom Fighters (Good Muslims) or Terrorists (Bad Muslims)? Shabaz Sharif calls these terrorists freedom fighters. But Indian Muslims call the Kashmiri Attackers terrorists. A few months ago, Shashi Tharoor called Hamas terrorists freedom fighters. Nas Daily, an Arab Muslim of Israel, called Hamas terrorists. Muslims call these radicals freedom fighters when they are outside their country. But when the attackers target people of their own country, the freedom fighter suddenly becomes a terrorist. What's up, people? You all say, "Terrorism has no religion," but almost all terrorists seem to have only one religion and one God. Don't get me wrong, or read my message out of its original context of the Palgham terrorist attack. I am not saying Islam is wrong. I am also not saying Islam is right. Many Muslims read the same Quran and Hadith but never become terrorists.

 

My point is that, for some reason, almost all the terrorists are coming from Muslim families. As my good old friend pointed out, all religions are essentially good. No religion teaches people to take innocent lives. But there are bad people in every religion like there are bad children in every family. Even so, primarily, it is the responsibility of the family to correct the bad child, not of the school. If the family opts for corrective measures, there may be fewer casualties because of the child's evil actions. So, I request that the Islamic family that teaches people to care for the hungry and the weak to avoid such bad apples from emerging. Otherwise, the schools (governments) would use stringent measures to bring this under control.