Arindam Bannerjee
Half truths seem to have become quite a rhetorical
weapon in the hands of terrorists and their supporters - consider the odd
case of half-liar K. Sidharth who writes in http://www.countercurrents.org/ind-sidharth130706.htm
"It cannot be excluded that yesterday's
atrocity in Mumbai was organized or facilitated by agents provocateurs working
for one of India's intelligence agencies or that elements within the security
forces allowed the terrorist attack to take place, with the aim of panicking
the public into accepting increased repressive powers for the state. It is
also possible that the Mumbai bombings were the work of Hindu supremacist
fanatics bent on stoking up anti-Muslim violence." - so, apparently he
wants us to believe that the Indians did it.
[Note: apparently, even the ideologues at
countercurrents.org could not stand the putrid thinking enshrined in Sidharth's
article - so, they removed it, today]
Let's analyze this fictional hypothesis, a
little.
Sidharth-babu starts with an attempt to absolve
the LeT of possible linkages to the massacre in Mumbai. His approach - raise
doubts about LeT's involvement.
(a) First question the LeT's capabilities
thru " if Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) was the author of the coordinated bombings
in Mumbai, it would represent a new level of technical sophistication"
- no mention of LeT's apparent global organization, association of Pakistani
nuclear scientists with the LeT, support from Pakistani terrorist agencies
such as the ISI or any other source of help - no need for any analysis, when
you can always blame the Indians.
(b) The other trick - a deliberate piece of
insipid logic as in 'LeT could NOT have done it, since they have not shown
this level of sophistication before, but the Hindu supremacists could surely
have done this, in spite of the fact that they have never done been accused
of any similar terrorist attack'. I'm sure the "Hindu supremacist"
groups have spread mindless violence in places, but systematic terrorist attacks
on buildings, trains, schools - not much prior art on that. So, why doesn't
the question of "technical sophistication" apply to Hindu supremacist
groups - ah! that would spoil Sid's odious diatribe, wouldn't it?
(c) Then of course the big one - the LeT themselves
said, they didn't do it. "A spokesman for the organization has denied
it had anything to do with yesterday's terrorist attacks in either Srinagar
or Mumbai.. According to the Hindu, LeT representative Dr. Abdullah, condemned
both attacks as "inhuman and barbaric" in a telephone call to several
media organizations in Srinagar. "Blaming the LeT for such inhuman acts
is an attempt by the Indian security agencies to defame the freedom struggle
in Jammu and Kashmir," claimed Ghaznavi". So, now we have come down
to giving credence to some dude called Ghaznavi, from a jihadi organization
that proudly excels in killing women and little children. Of course "Ghaznavi's"
credibility is not hurt by the "Killing Hindus is the way forward"
mantra spun by LeT's uber-jihadi Hafiz Sayed [reported by Daily Times, Lahore]
In Sidharth's make believe world - he would
rather give credence to a bunch of trans-national habitual rapists and child-murderers,
than dozens of different Indian security agencies; raise doubts about some
Pakistani jihadi group, while ignoring the possibility that the same lack
of technical sophistication excuse may apply in a much greater way to, as
he calls them, Hindu supremacist groups.
But, lest you judge him by his true intentions,
he prefaces his charade by a weasel word or two, as in "Lashkar-e-Taiba
and other Islamicist terrorist groups opposed to Indian control over Kashmir
have repeatedly staged attacks on civilians and perpetrated communalist atrocities".
But, let's look at K. Sidharth's bag of twisted-statements
a little further..
"Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), seized
on a terrorist attack on India's parliament, .to threaten war on long-time
arch-rival Pakistan, which it accused of supporting the LeT" - so, the
Pakistan supporting the LeT becomes an accusation thrown out by the BJP -
not a fact, backed up by evidence.
Isn't it strange then that the LeT openly
runs a terrorist-breeding farm in a luxurious 190 acre layout in Lahore, with
the full connivance of the all-controlling terrorist army of Pakistan? Maybe,
recent developments like, Pakistan's refusal to join in the ban of the JuD
[the front-organization of the LeT] would have convinced Sidharth - but, then
again mentioning such facts would hardly facilitate the truth-distortion exercise,
that K. Sidharth has undertaken, under the guise of searching for the perpetrators
of terror.
Other interesting twists include "In
an attempt to force Pakistan into making major concessions, India's government
kept a million troops in battle formation near the Pakistan border for almost
a year" - now what concessions would this be - that Pakistan stop killing
women and children in India!!
Ever wonder, why would a rabid commentator
use phrases like "force Pakistan into making major concessions".the
reason becomes clear.
Sidharth the liar, it seems, is thrilled about
something: "the Congress Party-led UP government has-at least thus far-leveled
no accusations of Pakistani involvement in either the Mumbai or Srinagar terror
attacks"
Ah! - so apart from bashing sundry Hindu organizations
and shifting the blame on to the Indians, he's really happy that Pakistan
has not been blamed - I mean, what could be worse than blaming good ole' Pakistan.
The problem is
(a) Pakistani complicity in cross-border
terrorism is something that other Muslim states like Afghanistan have openly
been decrying for a few years now
(b) Pakistani involvement in terrorism in
India has been described by reputed news sources across the world - in fact,
Pakistani enthused killings in India have cost at least 1300 lives every year
for the last decade and a half
(c) Pakistani involvement in almost every
international terrorist act of the last decade has been quite well documented
- from 911thru the Cole Bombings, the London bombings to terrorist attempts
in US, UK, Singapore and Mali.
For heaven's sake - Pakistan is a country
where 44% of the people support suicide bombings in some form. Furthermore,
it was the Pakistani PM himself who linked Pakistan to this massacre by broadly
hinting that such terrorist acts would not stop until Kashmir was resolved.
Yet in his misdirected blame game, Sidharth nauseatingly avoids mentioning
possible Pakistani complicity; this dude's sympathies certainly do not lie
with the victims of the tragedy.
Unfortunately for Sidharth - he's too stupid
to do a good job of hiding the target of his sympathies..better luck next
time.
