Hindu
Extremists Disguised As Muslims Behind Mumbai Blasts?
By IndianMuslims.info
Staff
27 July, 2006
IndianMuslims.info
Mumbai
serial blasts have once again put Indian Muslims in the dock as the
mainstream print and electronic media as well as the police was swift
to name Muslim outfits – Lashkar-e-Taiba and SIMI (Students Islamic
Movement of India) – for their alleged hands in this ghastly crime
and cast aspersions on the loyalty, patriotism and peace-lovingness
of common Muslims in the country. And the police, which has been more-often-than-not
dubbed communal, biased and having hand in glove with Hindu extremists
during communal flare-ups, started detaining Muslim youth without any
proof or justification whatsoever soon after seven serial blasts rip
a Mumbai suburb train on the Terrible Tuesday, July 11.
The entire Urdu vernacular
press all through the week covered the ferocity of the blasts, editorially
condemned and demanded stringent action against the perpetrators and
planners of the crime, carried statements by Muslim organisations, and
articles and letters, all condemning it in one voice and calling upon
the Government to stop indiscriminate detention of Muslims in Maharashtra
and some other places like Hyderabad before any investigation as there
might be Hindu fascists belonging to the Sangh Parivar behind the blasts.
The Inquilab of July 13 reported
that the Mumbai police was after two Lashkar activists Zebuddin Ansari
and Zulfiqqar alias Fayyaz, but on July 15 the paper added the name
of one SIMI activist Raheel to this list, for their alleged hands in
the blasts.
The Siasat and the Munsif
of July 19 reported that the Government of Andhra Pradesh categorically
denied the involvement of any person in the state in the Mumbai incident.
In an edit-page article “Bomb
Blasts do not Prove Muslims Terrorists” (the Rashtriya Sahara,
July 18), journalist Zafar Agha has come down heavily on Prime Minister
Manmohan Singh for strangulating the voice of reason raised by Union
Ministers Arjun Singh and A.R. Antulay. Citing Indian Express of July
13, he reveals that in a Cabinet meeting discussing Mumbai blasts these
Ministers held the Hindu extremists, who want to defame Muslims, responsible
for these blasts. The HRD Minister Arjun Singh based his argument on
a report
on the so-called attack on RSS headquarters submitted by
a retired judge of Mumbai High Court who had come to the conclusion
that the Sangh Parivar itself was behind this ‘attack’.
While A.R. Antulay cited another report which showed Hindu extremists
disguised as Muslims (to defame them) making
bombs in Nanded in April.
Mr. Agha has questioned Prime
Minister’s displeasure at this revelation and advised the Manmohan
administration to initiate deep probe into the incident; for Hindu extremist
organisations are most likely to be found involved therein.
“U.C. Bannerji Report
has proved that Muslims had not set ablaze the Sabarmati Express at
Godhra but Narendra Modi rather the entire Sangh Parivar not only blamed
the Muslims for the fire but perpetrated genocide of Muslims in the
whole Gujarat as well. With this case at hand, if Abdur Rahman Antulay
and Arjun Singh pointed their accusing fingers towards the Sangh (for
its involvement in Mumbai blasts), what sin was it after all?”
writes the seasoned journalist.
The same issue of the Sahara
editorially questions the temerity of the BJP to demand expulsion of
Arjun Singh and A.R. Antulay from their posts in respective ministries
for making “very irresponsible statements about Mumbai bomb blasts.”
The paper says the party has left out one more name viz. that of Union
Minister for Water Resources Saifuddin Soz; in fact these three Ministers
had expressed the possibility of Hindu fascist organisations behind
the blasts, in the said Cabinet meeting.
“The question is: what
was the need to make such haste without any investigation and deep probe?
How far is it proper and justified to declare without any investigation
and probe that bomb blasts were exploded by Muslims? Was it not the
duty of those who make utmost haste in holding Muslims responsible for
everything bad and dreadful, to take notice of the news item published
in The Telegraph and some other newspapers, in which it was reported
that when the Bharat Suraksha Yatra of Shri L.K. Advani entered Maharashtra
(on April 6, 2006), some young activists of Bajrang Dal were caught
making bombs the same day, and meanwhile explosion of a bomb ripped
apart the body of a BD activist Himanshu. This was the activist from
whose house the police later seized the clothes (pathan suits) usually
worn by Muslims, skull caps and many kinds of counterfeit beards. This
they did with the idea to stage-manage bomb blasts and their Muslim-looking
attire and make-up would lead the needle of suspicion to Muslims and
they would eventually get only them (Muslims) arrested. It is very necessary
to deal with the Nanded incident in its right perspective, and it is
also necessary to know why the Mumbai blasts occurred only three months
after it,” runs the Sahara editorial.
The Qaumi Awaz (July 18),
in its editorial entitled “Need for Strict Measures” writes:
“In extraordinary circumstances extraordinary measures have to
be taken. This is the time the Government at the Centre crushed with
an iron hand all those elements that are trying to break political unity
and social cohesion. The stability and freedom of the country is at
stake. In these circumstances it is necessary to take strict measures
against the enemies within.”
The Sahara and the Hindustan
Express covered Shahi Imam Jama Masjid Delhi Maulana Syed Ahmed Bukhari’s
special address after Asr prayers on July 17. Maulana Bukhari said:
“We severely condemn Mumbai blasts but the bid to accuse Muslims
is unbearable.” Calling the naming of Lashkar and SIMI soon after
the blasts “fantastic,” he pointed his accusing fingers
towards Shiv Sena, Bajrang Dal, BJP and RSS. He further said that equating
terrorism with Islam and Muslims is utter injustice.
“Today an environment is being created in which every Muslim sporting
beard is looked at with doubt and suspicion,” he lamented.
The Express (July 18) front-paged
a 5-column human interest story telling the readers the ordeal Rehan
Ahmed Sheikh, his wife and two children had to face for 15 long hours
at Mumbai airport. An accountant in the Moscow branch of an Andheri-based
medical company, Rehan had rushed from Moscow to attend the funeral
ceremony of his elder brother Ejaz, who was one of the victims of Mumbai
blasts. He had been grilled for hours together about what look he had
adopted, why he sported beard, which organisation he belonged to and
what his activities were, etc.
In a letter to the editor
of the Sahara (July 18), Muhammad Tariq Iqbal of Khanquah Faridiya,
Kako, Bihar writes: “This is a deep conspiracy; efforts are being
made to divert our attention somewhere else…. There seems to be
involvement of some white-listed organisations behind this incident.”
The question is whether the
Manmohan administration will gather courage and guts to order a crackdown
on the Hindu fascist organisations if some really deep probe proves
their hands in this heinous crime against humanity. Let’s wait
and watch to know the answer.
Also Read
Fact Finding
Report On The Attack
On RSS Head Quarters
Fact Finding Report
Terror
Attacks: More To It Than Meets The Eye
By Ram Puniyani