Author: C I Issac
Publication: Vijayvaani.com
Date: July 4, 2009
URL: http://www.vijayvaani.com/FrmPublicDisplayArticle.aspx?id=661
Kerala is well known for its excellence in the fields of universal literacy,
sex-equality, population control, etc. Above all, its natural beauty and peaceful
coexistence of various religious groups is the envy of the rest of the land.
That is why it is known to the world as God's own country.
Now these attributes are under serious threat.
Communism and Islamic Jihadi movements have come together to abort the age
old traditions. Kerala's 580 km unchecked coastline is a main attraction to
Jihadis. For immediate monetary benefits, the Communist leadership is functioning
as in the days of Quit India in 1942; they are eager to exalt and equate the
notorious Islamic fanatics with Mahatma Gandhi and other national heroes who
dedicated their life for communal harmony and peaceful social coexistence.
This is the general scenario of Kerala at
present. Kottayam is a small town in Kerala which, since the 15th century
has been a hub of religious assortment. The Hindu Raja of the time invited
Christians and Muslims and allowed them to settle here. When the British came
in the 19th century, they started printing, development of Malayalam prose,
opening of colleges, popularization of formal education, women's education,
introduction of modern literary genres, etc in Malayalam from here.
That is why Kottayam became the seat of the
earliest Malayalam journals and dailies. In 1848, the Kottayam press brought
out its first Malayalam journal, Jananikshepam, and in 1887 its first newspaper,
Deepika. Since then, Kottayam has maintained its predominant position as the
publication hub of Kerala. It houses India's largest circulating vernacular
daily with more than 1.7 million copies. Now the control of this newspaper
has fallen in to the hands of Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) through a 'love jihad'
which is the centre of this exposition.
For more than a decade, the situation of Kerala
has been gradually and steadily deteriorating due to political and economic
factors. The political aspect is the birth of votebanks. The Communists in
the early 1950s started building votebanks. This was later copied by the Congress
and all other major and minor political parties. Now it has become watchword
of political culture in Kerala.
Another aspect was coalition politics, which
bequeathed status and dignity to Muslim and Christian political parties in
the state's political process. And communalism acquired legitimization. In
the administration, communal elements acquired a strategic position. The flow
of foreign remittances strengthened the Muslim and Christian communities economically.
The importance of overseas employment changed the outlook of native Christians
and Muslims. They trained their young ones to acquire a well placed job outside
India, which reduced the national commitment of the younger generations considerably.
Any slight change in the outlook of the international
communities was immediately reflected in Kerala's social scenario. Thus the
phenomenon of globalization firstly reflected in Kerala more than any other
place in India. Nuclear families, abandonment of primary production (cultivation
of food crops), urbanization, introduction of luxuries of life, became popular
in Kerala. Now Kerala itself has emerged as a single big metro; in the high
speed globalization process, several of its people are struggling to survive
and those who failed to carry on found solace in suicide. Thus Kerala became
the 'cape of suicides' with an annual turnout of more than 12,000 lives.
The other side of Kerala's socio-economic
and political life is the acquired predominance of anti-national forces. One
side is the large scale conversion of Hindus through Christian missionary
activities and Jihadi enterprises. The two ventures have now become all powerful
due to votebank politics of the last three decades.
The recent parliament election legitimized
and exalted Islamic terrorism in the state by the two belligerent coalitions.
From police to bureaucracy, all agents of governance are now functioning in
accordance with the whims of these religious leaderships. Under the compliance
of the political will of the state, several Pakistani sponsored terrorist
groups function. LeT-like organizations have penetrated into the vital and
strategic centers of social life. From Hawala money to ISI counterfeited Indian
rupees are circulating without any check.
Strategic and key centres of the state are
now owned by henchmen of Jihadi enterprises. On one side, Christian missionaries
are peacefully discharging the Christianization process of Kerala. On the
other, Islam is using the 'four tactics' such as 'love jihad' to the cult
of bomb. The mysterious disappearance of teenage girls and boys from educational
institutions is very common. After three or four months such boys and girls
return home as wedded Muslims!
Behind these disappearances, a Jihadi auxiliary
group sponsored/promoted love affairs (love jihad). Jihadi agencies are extending
all types of help to Muslim boys and girls to love non-Muslims and convert
them to Islam. A Hindu Nair named Pranesh, a member of a LeT team of four
who masterminded a plot to assassinate the Gujarat Chief Minister, was killed
in a police encounter on 15 November 2004 at Ahmedabad; he had converted to
Islam and was renamed Javed and was the earliest prey to this 'love Jihad.'
Usually parents of missing boys and girls
lodge complaints with the police. Under the unseen control of religious minorities,
particularly of Islamic terrorists, the police and civil administration perform
as mere scarecrows. Is 'love Jihad' an international strategy of contemporary
pan-Islamic enterprises?
It has now extended to business magnates'
homes. On 20 December 2008, Kottayam witnessed a Pakistani Indian wedlock.
A newspaper magnate's grandson went to London for higher studies, and fell
in love with a Pakistani girl. The boy converted to Islam and married the
girl in Pakistan. According to Indian intelligence sources, she is an agent
of LeT. That is why three Central ministers, under the advice of the Intelligence
Bureau, stayed away from the marriage at the last moment, when solemnized
at the Orthodox Church at Kottayam.
Finally, the Government of India denied visas
to the Pakistani team that was to accompany the bride. Under the influence
of the newspaper magnate, visas were granted only to the family of the bride.
A member of this business house represents our National Security Council Advisory
Board, which could be the attraction for LeT. The godfather of this business
firm was once honoured with a Padma Award by the Centre, and the newspaper
magnate has a major hold over public opinion in Kerala.
Behind this marriage, LeT has marvellous designs.
Now the newspaper is reluctant to publish news derogatory to Pakistan. Recently,
a cartoonist who had served meritoriously for thirty years left the news paper.
It is said three of his cartoons were consecutively rejected by the editorial
board on grounds of lampooning Pakistan. This is attributed to the influence
of the Pakistani bride. Jihadi groups run a dozen journals and dailies in
Kerala. And now they have acquired control over the largest circulated Malayalam
daily through a marriage alliance - a pointer to the destiny of tomorrows'
Kerala.
Even though Central ministers from the Congress
and Muslim League dodged the marriage function at the last moment, state leaders
of the ruling and opposition parties graced the occasion. Com. Binoy Viswam
(minister), K M Mani, Ramesh Chennithala (KPCC president), and others actively
participated and courageously posed for photographs with the bride and groom.
News of the marriage was published almost all Kerala newspapers, but other
than Janmabhoomi, all dailies kept mum on the vital issue of LeT control of
the largest circulated Malayalam daily - an amazing irony.
The marriage of two souls is natural. But
its threat to our national security and peaceful coexistence is inexplicable.
Once, a British lady courted the Chief Editor of a national newspaper and
that totally transformed the character of the daily into an anti-Hindu and
anti- national one. In Kerala, Jihadi elements are still penetrating several
spheres of strategic importance.
This can be seen in the state's criminal investigative
scenario. Jihadi related criminal cases are not properly investigated. An
annual Hawala transaction of 4 billion is going on smoothly. Sufia, wife of
hardcore terrorist Abdul Nasser Madhani, hatched the conspiracy to hijack
and put fire to Tamil Nadu State Transport Corporation's bus from busy NH
47 near Cochin, demanding the release of her husband from Coimbatore jail;
but has not been booked by Kerala police so far. More than a dozen bomb blasts
have taken place in northern Kerala from 2001 to 2009; two dozen Hindu youths
were slaughtered in this decade for religious reasons. The police failed to
investigate these incidents properly because of political interference. Behind
all these incidents international Islamic Jihadi involvement is very clear.
But police failed to unearth it.
Now the Pope and the Pan-Islamic enterprises
are targetting India. Islam is penetrating not only through the conventional
"Sword and Koran," but through several unnoticeable channels of
ordinary business of life - Islamic banking, or marriage alliances with big
business houses as in the days of the monarch Akbar, or through enterprises
of Foreign Direct Investment. Be careful, the enemy is at the doorstep. "Uthishtatha
Jagratha".
- Author's note: This article is based on
the reports of Janmabhoomi daily, Kottayam, 16 & 19 March 2009.
The author is a retired Professor of History, and lives in Trivandrum