http://peacetimes.net/2008/07/terror-strikes-again-this-time-its-ahmedabad/ Sat, 28 Jan 2012 10:14:33 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://peacetimes.net/2008/07/terror-strikes-again-this-time-its-ahmedabad/comment-page-1/#comment-6 shruthi kumar Wed, 13 Aug 2008 11:52:00 +0000 http://tomschavo.wordpress.com/2008/07/27/terror-strikes-again-this-time-its-ahmedabad/#comment-6 Ofcourse it is an open game of the politicians. I wonder why they think indians are fools? or are we really fools? Ofcourse it is an open game of the politicians. I wonder why they think indians are fools? or are we really fools?

]]> http://peacetimes.net/2008/07/terror-strikes-again-this-time-its-ahmedabad/comment-page-1/#comment-5 Anonymous Wed, 13 Aug 2008 11:10:00 +0000 http://tomschavo.wordpress.com/2008/07/27/terror-strikes-again-this-time-its-ahmedabad/#comment-5 Terrorist attacks in Ahmedabad” (July 29), which the blasts were carried out in states, ruled by the BJP and most likely, done by people with animosity to the BJP. Clearly, you failed to look at the other side of the coin. These attacks were carried out just days after the central government won the confidence motion in Parliament and the BJP failed in its attempt to bring down the government. With some of its MPs crossing the floor, the party looked farther away from gaining power in the center than ever before. However, these blasts have given a breath of fresh air to the ideologically crippled party and have put Congress on the defensive. <br/>Whoever was behind the blasts are well-wishers of the BJP, not enemies. Another round of xenophobia and victimization of Muslims will start very soon and will be kept up till the elections. God alone knows how many more shady organizational names like Indian Mujahedeen will be bandied about in the media to keep alive this paranoia.<br/>In all recent terrorist attacks in India — Jaipur, UP or elsewhere — Muslims were arrested, Muslim names played up in the media and then acquitted. No one took any notice of how the lives of these innocent people were destroyed, a black mark was put against their names and how many were killed in the so-called encounters charged as terrorists, to be told after years that they were innocent? The Indian government itself, in reply to a question from Brinda Karat in Rajya Sabha, conceded that the previous blasts could have been the handiwork of the Sangh Parivar. All of this makes some of us wonder if this was another fraud perpetrated to wrest the control of the central government and then slowly turn India into a Hindu state where there is no place for tolerance and minorities. <br/>The government should conduct an inquiry and exemplary punishment should be meted out to the guilty. Terrorist attacks in Ahmedabad” (July 29), which the blasts were carried out in states, ruled by the BJP and most likely, done by people with animosity to the BJP. Clearly, you failed to look at the other side of the coin. These attacks were carried out just days after the central government won the confidence motion in Parliament and the BJP failed in its attempt to bring down the government. With some of its MPs crossing the floor, the party looked farther away from gaining power in the center than ever before. However, these blasts have given a breath of fresh air to the ideologically crippled party and have put Congress on the defensive.
Whoever was behind the blasts are well-wishers of the BJP, not enemies. Another round of xenophobia and victimization of Muslims will start very soon and will be kept up till the elections. God alone knows how many more shady organizational names like Indian Mujahedeen will be bandied about in the media to keep alive this paranoia.
In all recent terrorist attacks in India — Jaipur, UP or elsewhere — Muslims were arrested, Muslim names played up in the media and then acquitted. No one took any notice of how the lives of these innocent people were destroyed, a black mark was put against their names and how many were killed in the so-called encounters charged as terrorists, to be told after years that they were innocent? The Indian government itself, in reply to a question from Brinda Karat in Rajya Sabha, conceded that the previous blasts could have been the handiwork of the Sangh Parivar. All of this makes some of us wonder if this was another fraud perpetrated to wrest the control of the central government and then slowly turn India into a Hindu state where there is no place for tolerance and minorities.
The government should conduct an inquiry and exemplary punishment should be meted out to the guilty.

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