ROOTS OF TERRORISM: SYMPOSIUM ON ROOTS OF TERRORISM IN WASHINGTON, D.C.
>From Narain Kataria
Organiser, India
June 5 2006
Hindus suffered maximum brunt
A Symposium on “Roots of terrorism” was organised by America’s Truth
Forum in Washington, D.C. last month. It was attended by prominent
and highly-placed scholars and experts on Islamic Studies. Most
of them were celebrities and frequent guests on national TV and
Radio Stations. Dr. Babu Suseelan, a Psychologist and Director of
Addiction Research Institute, PA and Board Member of Indian American
Intellectuals Forum (IAIF) presented his viewpoint in a forceful
manner.
The symposium was well attended by about 400 intellectuals and US
opinion makers; majority of whom were Jewish and Christian Americans.
IAIF members too were present in a sizable number. This was a rare
occasion for IAIF members to interact with American mainstream
personalities and exchange the Indian viewpoint openly on the menace
of terrorism. It was, probably, for the first time that the presence
and scholarship of Hindu Americans was recognised and appreciated
by renowned global experts on counter-terrorism. Surprisingly, many
of these well recognised experts on counter-terrorism did not know
enough about the terrible atrocities perpetrated on peaceful Hindus
by the Islamic invaders and rulers.
Dr. Babu Suseelan explained that it was absolutely essential for the
world to understand the deadly ideology that successfully transforms
the simple human beings into deadly suicide bombers and terrorists.
He said that we cannot deal with the problem of terrorism until and
unless we completely comprehend the ideology which extols the virtues
of killing and preaches hate, incites violence and enjoins on its
followers to instill terror in the hearts of those who do not believe.
Many of the Islamic injunctions make the co-existence of Muslims
with any other people almost impossible. That is the reason why
Muslims have been in a state of perpetual war wherever they live,
be it Afghanistan or Iraq, Chechnya or Sudan, Kashmir or Thailand,
Indonesia or Bangladesh, Philippine or Spain, USA, UK, or India.
It is vital to understand that Islamic menace exists because of
liberal’s habitual tolerance of intolerance. Their tolerance of
intolerance is not tolerance. This type of pathological tolerance,
sobering sympathy for Jihadists and stony indifference to victims is
immoral and barbaric.
Tracing the history of India, Dr. Suseelan pointed out that the
Afghanistan was once Hindu and a part of the original India of that
time. In 1947, Pakistan too was forcibly carved out of the Indian
Territory by Islamists. Now, feverish efforts are on by all Islamic
nations to wrest the Indian Kashmir from the Hindu India. Threats
of violence, loot, murder and rape of Hindus-all familiar tools of
terrorism-have become a routine thing in Kashmir today.
Some of us mistakenly believe that terrorism in the world began from
9/11/2001. This assumption is based on ignorance, lack of historical
background and devoid of factual data. For example, India has been
experiencing terrorism for hundreds of years. Even the so-called
Moghul King ‘Akbar-the-Great’ had killed 30,000 to 40,000 innocent
Hindus in one day.
It is common knowledge in India that 14,000 young Hindu girls had to
burn themselves in fire in a city named Chittor in a western sate of
Rajasthan in India when Hindu soldiers were not able to defend the
honor of their womenfolk against the barbarian Islamic forces.
Timur-the-Terrible ordered his soldiers to kill 100,000 Hindu prisoners
in one day. Tuzk-i-Timuri, the book written by his historian records
‘In a short span of time all the people in the fort were put to sword,
and in the course of one hour the heads of 10,000 infidels were cut
off. The sword of Islam was washed in the blood of the infidels.’
Almost entire world knows that six million Jewish people were murdered
by Nazis. It is also known that 1.2 million Armenians were butchered
by Turkish Muslims.
Will Durant, the celebrated author of ‘The Story of Civilization’
has said that “The Islamic conquest of India is probably the bloodiest
story in history.” Anwar Shaikh, a Pakistani Muslim scholar of repute
settled in UK, in his book ‘This is Jihad’ says that “The Muslims
must fight non-Muslims. Mr. Koenraad Elst, the Belgian scholar and
Indologist says that there is a place in Afghanistan called The Hindu
Kush, which means the slaughter of Hindu.
At present, Hindus are under siege in India. Muslim population there
is rising with leaps and bounds. There are 162 million Muslims living
in Pakistan. There are approximately 150 to 160 million Muslims in
India; Bangladesh has another 147 million Muslims. Roughly one-third
of the world’s Muslim population lives in the Indian sub-continent.
This is a very frightening scenario for India.
Enlightened audience in the high-profile Symposium was horrified and
shocked at the information provided and profusely applauded Dr.
Suseelan time and again. Later, many groups invited him to speak on
television, radio, and in their meetings.
These were some of the luminaries who participated in the Symposium:
R. James Woolsey, former Director of CIA, Dr. Paul Williams, former
Consultant to FBI, Dr. Bruce Tefft, a founding member of the CIA’s
Counter Terrorism Center, Dr. Andrew Bostom, Editor of “The Legacy of
Jihad”, Joe Kaufman, Investigative Journalist for Frontpage Magazine,
Robert Spencer, Director of Jihad Watch, David Horowitz, President of
the Center for the Study of Popular Culture, Walid Shobat, a former
PLO functionary, Brigitte Gabriel, a former anchor for world news in
the Middle East and a prominent Arab-American journalist, Dr. Harvey
Kushner, a noted author, lecturer, professor and internationally
recognized authority on terrorism, Kenneth Timmerman, a nominee for
the 2006 Nobel Peace Prize.
(The writer is President, Indian American Intellectuals Forum,
New York.)
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