India blasts: Hunt down terrorist sympathizers

By John Cheeran
Terrorist attacks are not new to India.
Mumbai, India’s financial nerve center, is the city most ravaged by attacks carried out by Jihadis.
Yesterday evening Jihadis struck in Mumbai. As I write this, death toll in the Mumbai train blasts has risen to 190 and 500 others are still fighting for their lives in various hospitals.
It is no secret that there is a wide network of sympathizers for Muslim fundamentalists in India. Whatever the wooly secularists aver to the contrary, it is the truth.
And now Jihadi’s have ensured that by targeting only the first class compartments of these rush hour trains, their silent sympathizers, who hardly travel by first class in India, escaped the carnage.
So Jihadi’s have carried out the latest round of terrorism in Mumbai with enough research so that their support base remains intact.
Terrorism in India has already entered a new phase.
It would be naive to believe that terrorism is exported to India from Pakistan and Bangladesh. There are terrorists amidst us in India, and it seems, there is no need for recruiting the willing martyrs from outside of India to carry out such dastardly attacks.
If anyone in the Indian intelligence and defence establishment thinks that carrying out such operations require great resolve, courage, technical know-how and support of foreign hand, then they are hugely mistaken.
Caches of RDX are floating all over India now.
In Maharashtra alone in the last 30 days huge quantity of explosives were seized but Police failed to follow it up to its ultimate destination. Even in Kerala, where Jihadi supporters have no reasons for their classic grievances on any count, caches of explosives were seized from the so called places of worship and market places. Kerala’s state government is yet to give an explanation to the public on this dangerous development.
To plant explosives in India’s teeming market places, crowded commuter trains and other people friendly places is child’s play to those who are driven by hatred of Kafirs.
There will be more such attacks in Mumbai and elsewhere in the days to come. It is impossible to placate a section of people who believe they are inheriting paradise by eliminating their class enemies.
Ruthless crackdown on the sympathizers of Jihadis is the only way to root out terrorism. In the past, courts in India have let free many Jihadi sympathizers, as in the attack on Parliament, and such instances have emboldened the fifth columnists.
In India now you have to be your own deliverer.
It is always wise to keep a watch on your surroundings. Trust can take a back seat now so that we should not lose this war on terror.