What does this should do with us in India? More than most ‘liberals’ are ready to confess. There are Indian politicians of ‘liberal’ disposition who’ve been shrill of their calls for on social media that the bombing of Gaza cease now. They have been backed by liberal intellectuals who discover it arduous to sentence Hamas terrorism. It is due to this supposedly liberal worldview that jihadism has unfold like a virus via Muslim communities throughout India. It manifested itself most lately within the assist Muslim ladies received after they demanded the right to wear hijab in colleges and schools. It turned out that the ladies who began the protest had been linked to the jihadist Popular Front of India whose worldview is similar as Hamas.

This outfit has now been banned however the Islamism that gave it beginning continues to unfold via Muslim communities throughout the nation. It is backed overtly by those that see themselves as liberals and leftists. When I’ve requested my very own liberal mates why they don’t condemn Islamic fundamentalism as strongly as they do Hindutva, they at all times keep away from answering the query. Something related is now taking place all around the world. If Osama can all of the sudden change from being monster to hero, all of us should be fearful. It is not about Hamas and Israel, it’s now a struggle of concepts.

Just earlier than sitting down to put in writing this piece, I used to be cruising social media and stumbled on a video of an American Muslim addressing a crowd in New York. In this video he says loudly that there’ll solely be true peace on the earth when everybody has been transformed to Islam. He then shrieks ‘La Illaha Il Allah, Mohammad ul Rasool Allah’ and orders his viewers to chant with him. The query actually is why Muslims of his type ever depart their ‘Islamic lands’ and construct new lives in London and New York. Their concepts could be seen as piety in a Muslim nation however are seen as terrorism in secular and democratic international locations.

Next week marks one more anniversary of our personal 9/11 that we name 26/11. As somebody who lives in Mumbai, it’s a date imprinted in my thoughts, however most Indians have forgotten this date and forgotten that the ten killers who got here from Pakistan justified the killing of harmless individuals on the grounds that India had dedicated atrocities in Kashmir. The killer who shot individuals lifeless after dragging them to the rooftop of the Oberoi Hotel mentioned this to a Turkish couple whose lives he spared. Their lives had been spared, he advised them, as a result of they had been Muslims and so his brothers.

Hindus, westerners, and Jews had been honest recreation so far as Allah’s warriors had been involved. So, on these two horrible days in Mumbai, within the final week of November 2008, they had been hunted down and shot lifeless. Torture was reserved for Jews held captive within the Jewish Centre who suffered horribly earlier than lastly being killed. The sort of non secular fanaticism that teaches younger males that killing non-believers is sanctioned by Allah have to be crushed however as an alternative of this taking place in our personal secular land, jihadism is fueled by assist from those that name themselves liberals.

It is this type of poisonous liberalism that allowed jihadist concepts to unfold in India lengthy earlier than 9/11. I bear in mind seeing magazines with Osama’s face on their cowl on a visit in Coimbatore simply after an try was made to kill L Ok Advani at a public assembly. When I requested reasonable Muslim mates why Osama was seen as a hero, they mentioned he was preventing for Allah in opposition to the ‘evil western world’ and this made him a holy warrior. How ironic that he has grow to be a hero as soon as extra within the eyes of younger individuals bred within the very world that he got down to destroy. How ironic that our personal liberals and leftists might find yourself on his staff as a result of they refuse to simply accept that jihadism is terrorism.