From the mailbox: Prafull Goradia on 2nd phase of jihad

jan 13th

interesting comments echoing what several people have been saying about economic warfare against india. this is something that the marxists are also pursuing, no doubt on the instructions of their chinese godfathers/minders.

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Dear Rajeev,

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"Second phase of jihad in India

The target of Islamists, as witnessed in Bangalore, will now be educational
institutions of non-Islamic cultures, says Prafull Goradia

The terrorist firing at the Indian Institute of Science in Bangalore marks
the opening of phase two of a world war between Islamist radicalism and five
civilisations - Christian, Hindu, Jewish, Buddhist and Chinese. Five
continents provide the battlefields. How long South America would be
unaffected remains to be seen. The continent already has four million Muslim
immigrants.




Until Bangalore, the targets of attack were mostly common people. The attack
on World Trade Centre and Indian Parliament aimed more at national prestige.
For the first time, in Bangalore, science and education were the target.
Going by the logic of the Islamist ideology that the radicals follow, this
development was overdue.



No ideology is at once more consistent and comprehensive than the one
inaugurated by Prophet Mohammad. Once one accepts that there is no God other
than Allah, the river of His message spreads to every corner of human life
and yet flows on faultlessly until it makes a delta of most parts of the
world. The non-acceptance of any alternative God makes it impossible for the
non-believer or kafir to attain salvation. Paradoxically, therefore, the
more a momin or a pious Muslim cares for a particular kafir, the more he is
anxious that he converts.



In line with this conviction. Prophet Mohammad exhorted his followers to
ensure that at least a majority of human beings become Muslim by qayamat or
doomsday. Supplementary to religious conversion was the Prophet's appeal for
men to marry women "who will love their husbands and be very prolific, for I
wish you to be more numerous than any other people" (Mishkatu'l Masabih or
Hadith). This means woman is meant only for man's enjoyment and procreation.



It is this vision of Mohammad that makes Islam opposed to secular education.
In India, we recall how on the morrow of Lord Macaulay's well-known minutes
on education, the ulema advised Muslim youth to avoid Western science and
English education. After the mutiny of 1857, this appeal became louder.



Until 1780, Muslims had monopolised all the important positions of state,
reported Sir William Hunter in his book, The Indian Musalman. He published a
table showing the distribution of senior officers in the Bengal of a century
later. Of all the gazetted jobs, 1,338 were held by Europeans, 681 by Hindus
and Muslims had only 92 positions. Of these, 67 were either deputy
collectors or munsifs. There was hardly any engineer or accountant. The
situation was not incidental. It was the result of a campaign against
Western education.



A major reason for Muslims to be attracted to Partition was that they would
be professionally outclassed by Hindus, Christians and Parsees in an
undivided India. They knew they were distinctly less educated. It was not
that the ulema and other leaders were not aware of this. Yet, instead of
encouraging the youth to join secular schools and colleges, they let the
boys be largely consigned to madarsas. And, the girls were made to stay at
home.



A dedicated Muslim prefers his women folk to remain unread, except in
religious texts. The belief is that an educated mother could prove a hurdle
in the path of the Prophet's desire for prolific procreation. An
unemancipated wife would be amenable to producing many children. Moreover,
she would not spontaneously realise the importance of educating her
children. Secular education should equip the person to question, a
phenomenon which could lead to doubting the validity of the final message of
the Prophet. If Islam is to be preserved and promoted in its pristine glory,
questioning would be undesirable. Which is why ijtehad or reinterpretation
has been discouraged by the ulema for the past thousand years.



Not tolerating any pretension to an alternative and an amended vision is a
part of the same motive. The excommunication of Mirza Ghulam Ahmad and his
followers, called Ahmadiyas or Qadianis, was in line with this intolerance.
Since Osama bin Laden launched his jihad, it was in the nature of things
that secular education would be sooner, rather than later, a prime target of
attack. Frightening common people or attacking even prestigious institutions
maybe sufficient for a beginning or as an alaap, but the pickup or chalti
must consist of triumphs over the civilisational treasures of the opponents.



The engine of a civilisation is surely its science, education and intellect.
The triumphant play of muscle was an earlier phase of advance. The
subsequent leaps of progress came from technology, of which today's Islamic
countries have very little original or creative. In fact, for the greater
part of its history, Muslim rulers have flourished on the gains of conquest
and the exploitation of natural resources. Borrowing considerably from
Greece and Rome, the early Khalifas, especially the Abbasids based in
Baghdad, brought in creative splendour. This, however, did not last long,
except in a few spheres like architecture.



The 20th century was marked by the Islamic world receiving an enormous petro
bonanza. More so after the boom in petroleum prices took place since 1973.
As a result, large tracts of West Asia are resplendent with pomp and luxury.
But how much is the techno-economic contribution? Its absence is the result
of discouraging secular education and Western science.



In this new phase of the war, the targets would be the engines of
non-Islamic cultures in many parts of the world. The bugle blown in
Bangalore could be ignored only at the cost of enormous damage".