Jihadi Terrorism: Ridiculous Explanations, Complex
Solutions
Dr.
Babu Suseelan
2005/12/02
Terrorism has existed for
centuries. The world has witnessed colonialism, slavery, crusades,
inquisition, holocaust, witch burning, destruction of ancient cultures by
invading Islamic warriors and missionaries, communism, world wars,
chemical warfare, guerilla war, and the cold war.
Millions of people perished and several ancient civilizations
vanished.
Communists, Nazis, and Fascists
resorted to terrorism. They differed from Islamic terrorism in that they
were motivated by political agenda.
The fall of the
Berlin
Wall signaled the end of the cold war and a sign of relief. But today,
terrorist groups with the ideology of hate exist in different countries
with different hue and color. They are engaged in murder, looting,
kidnapping, beheading, hijacking, suicide murder, bombing and other
criminal acts for personal, political and religious gains.
India
lost over 73,000 lives due to Jihadi terrorism over the last decade.
Israel, the only democratic country in the Middle East lost several
hundreds of innocent children, women and men due to terrorism perpetuated
by Islamic Hizballah, Hamas, Al-jihad, and Al-Qa’ida terrorists. Islamic
terrorist groups have slaughtered thousands of innocent people in Algeria
(Armed Islamic group, Harakat Ul-Mujahindian) Kashmir, India (Lashkar e-Trayiba,
Jaise-Mohamed), Uzbeckistan (Imu-Islamic group), the Philippines (Abu
Sayyaf group), Aden (Islamic Army of Aden), Egypt (Muslim Brotherhood),
and Afghanistan (Taliban). Several Islamic terrorist groups are actively
engaged in kidnapping, beheading, murder and bombing in
Pakistan
,
Bangladesh
,
Indonesia
,
Malaysia
,
Chechnya
,
Sudan
and
Nigeria
. Since 1990, several Islamic terrorist incidents were reported from Aden,
Yemen (1992, 2000), New York City (1993), Mogadishu, Somalia (1993),
Manila, Philippines (1995), Paris, France (1994, 2005), Riyadh, Saudi
Arabia (1995, 1996), Dar-ea-Salaam, Tanzania, Nairobi, Kenya (1998), Port
Angeles, Washington (1999), Amman, Jordan (1999, 2005), London (2005),
Strasbourg, France (2000), New York City, Washington, D.C, Pennsylvania
(2001), Paris and Brussels (2001), Madrid (2002), Kabul, Bali (2005),
Godhra, Gujarat, India (2002) Ayodhya, India (2005) and New Delhi, India
(2005). In
India
,
Israel
, and
Iraq
kidnapping, beheading, suicide murder, and bombing by Muslim terrorists
are a daily occurrence. Jihad
terrorist attacks are not limited to military targets. They use violence
against innocent children, women and men. Jihad terrorism and its variety,
including bombing, suicide murder, beheading, hijacking, kidnapping and
assassination can now be seen all over the world. These violent extremists
subvert democracy, civil government, secularism, and social progress and
tear apart economic stability. In each case of terrorism, the
fundamentalists with hard-core, rigid, dogmatic Islamic ideology were
involved. Their origins,
ideology, development, tactics and agendas are religiously legitimated
based on Islamic worldview. These Islamic terrorist’s devilish acts of
unimaginable hatred are designed to send tremors of alarm, fear and a
warning throughout the civilized world.
World wide terrorism-related
casualties increased to 805 in 2005 from 233 in 1999. The terrorist groups
often differ in their motivations, objectives, ideologies and level of
criminal activity. Several narco terrorists and politically motivated
terrorist groups exist in different parts of the world. Western nations
were successful in eradicating several terrorist criminal gangs like Black
Panther, Symphonies Liberation Army, FLNA in the US, Shining Path Maoist
guerrilla Group in Peru, Marxist Guerrillas in Columbia, Tapa Marus in
Argentina, Bader-Meinhof in Germany and Red-Brigade in Italy with brute
police and military action.
The destruction of the World Trade
Center by Al-Qa’ida terrorists on September 11, 2001 signaled the start
of a new response to global terrorism.
Western nations have taken significant civil and judicial steps
including intelligence gathering, prosecution of terrorists, disruption of
funding flow for terrorists, and several counter terrorism activities.
These bureaucratic counter terrorism measures are complicated,
responsibilities are poorly defined, and targets are ambiguously selected.
Most of these actions are disconnected and have no impact in deterring
Islamic terrorism that is being waged in different parts of the world. We
need more. The policy of hit and run and selective identification and
counter measures are ineffective. We need a coordinated, well planned and
effective global war on Islamic terrorism.
PHONY ROOT CAUSE THEORIES
Islamic terrorism is a complex
subject. The terrorism field is loaded with international and national
experts, each claiming special knowledge of the subject that have roused
so much controversy while continuing to be misunderstood by so many. There
are phony liberals marketing mindless root causes of Islamic terrorism
including Western, Israeli interference in the Middle East, rapid social
change, poverty, economic deprivation, poor toilet training, low
self-esteem, need for affiliation, dysfunctional family, lack of education
and so forth. And of course, these are psychological excuses. The
misguided leftists and armchair speculators miss the point. Where do they
fit in? This phony, liberal
root cause theorists are like an old farmer who for the first in his life
sees a big blue whale on the seashore and says, “I see it, but I don’t
believe it”. The pseudo
liberal social scientists are being imbued with ethereal, pre-fabricated,
utopian ideas, which are too far divorced from reality. While the excuse
industry promote faulty root cause theories, Jihadi terrorists are engaged
in kidnapping, gratuitous beheading, looting, killing, bombing, airline
hijacking, suicide murder, car bombing, and gruesome murder of innocent
infidels all over the world. These pseudo liberals, communists, and
Islamist have no clue on the true nature of Jihad terrorism. The butchery
of Jihadi terrorism is explained to social causes and “understandable”
Islamic grievances. It fails to distinguish between the legitimate use of
social protests and terrorism. It
seems phony liberals have a buoyant love affair with irrational Islamist
defense mechanisms. They usually shed crocodile tears for the innocent
victims. It is clear that what Jihad terrorists are doing in the name of
Islam is destructive, counter productive, we think so, why aren’t
leftists liberals and Islamists able to realize the dangers of Jihad
terrorism?
In a civilized world, we cannot
function if we believe in phony explanations for Jihad terrorism. Wide
spread irrationalism and uncritical acceptance of unjustified root cause
theories peddled by Communists and liberals will have serious consequences
for everyone. Such flimsy explanations and mental misdirection would
paralyze us. Civilized, peace-loving people would be wise to check out
Jihad mindset and criminal behavior in proper perspective.
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