Finding enemy will help India too

Submitted by kamekish (India), Jun 20, 2008 at 22:35

India is facing regular attacks since independence. Riots had been the part of the Indian social and political lives. But we have not been able to identify problems. We have fought open war with neighbors, but we have not been able to identify the enemy. If you can't name your enemy how can you defeat it? You have said it so aptly.

9/11 occurred in USA and world started talking about terror. India's long awaited dream to get the attention of the super power for its helplessness became true. The war on terror started. But, War on terror is wrong. How can USA and Pakistan fight together without defining enemy? Today when American thinkers are in search of enemies, I am excited to find Indian enemies too.

What is terror? Terror is a weapon as Bush called the war a ‘struggle against ideological extremists who do not believe in free societies and who happen to use terror as a weapon to try to shake the conscience of the free world.'

Free world is the human need and this has to prevail soon.

If terror is a weapon, how can anyone win a war on terror? How can you win a war on a weapon? Thanks to Daniel Pipes, you raised this question. You emphasized the importance of defining enemy. Will USA be able to define its enemy? It may help us and may help India.

After 7/7, Tony Blair claimed the enemy as ‘a religious ideology, a strain within the world-wide religion of Islam." But the search to find the name of the enemy continues.

Bush used the terms like Islamic radicalism, militant jihadism, Islamo-fascism etc but failed to give name to enemy. Subsequently, he received criticism and backtracked. But Bush has done great job by attacking on Afghanisthan and Iraq. I am waiting when it attackes Iran too.

Islamism is a radical utopian version of Islam. Can we call Islamism or Islamists as enemy?

Islamists are adherent of a well funded, widespread, totalitarian ideology and are attempting to create a global Islamic order that fully applies the Islamic law (Sharia's).

Is Islamic law an enemy of the modern society?

But many people are openly working for Sharia's law in many part of this world including in India. There is no restriction or guilt conscious in using or implementing such law.

If I analyze the world scenario of last century, I find that Islamic terrorism is other form of fascism or communism. Because of Islamic mentality, fascism and communism worked for most part of the last century. But once they did not deliver results, it is dying its own death. Fascism and communism are extinguishing quietly and getting replaced by globalization, will Islamism vanish like these?

At present, it appears as an aggressive ideological movement. But, it has meager future.

Like Cold War peaceful collapsed, Islamism will die on its own burden. Islamism will extinguish with some human bombs.

The question comes how can educate, moderates and modern Muslims help these Islamists to end. Certainly as you suggest, it can be achieved through Western support.

For the growth of humanity in any part of the world, there is only hope and that is from West.

This alone holds the potential to modernize Islam to terminate the threat of Islamism. But how many moderates are ready to accept these western supports?

Because of appeasement (India has been using since long time), many people either from Muslims or non-Muslims, are unable to find the way towards modernization and remain in search of the solutions in ever increasing complex lives.

For Indians who are busy in deciding whether Nuclear Deal is good or not, reservations should be done or not, how to handle party created inflation etc. finding the enemies is a remote thinking. Like USA has categorized 'war on terror, or global warming etc. will find the enemy of the peace of the world.

As an Indian, we do not have time to think on new line, we wait for data, knowledge and ideas from other developed and conscious people. Like USA has given us Microsoft, Google, Globalization and mobiles, we hope that USA will give us some solutions for maintaining peace and progress.

Daniel has responsibility to name enemy.

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