The biggest danger in this situation comes, to my mind, from Muslim leaders and leader writers in Urdu newspapers, who are apparently in a state of denial. They are almost unanimously complaining that the media and the police are not prepared to even consider the possibility of Hindu terrorist groups like Bajrang Dal being involved though the modus operandi clearly seems to point to them. But the irony seems to escape them that they are themselves not prepared to even consider that a Muslim group, indigenous or otherwise, supported by Pakistani outfits or otherwise, may be behind these attacks that may very well be what the e-mail purportedly sent by the so-called Indian Mujahideen sent to several media outlets claims: Revenge of Gujarat. This does not augur well for the Muslim community and the country at large.
It is time, as C. M. Naim also points out in his response to the e-mail, the Ulema took a pro-active stand. But in my view, they need to go beyond denunciations of terrorism per se. Everybody knows by now that the Holy Quran is against senseless killings of the kind we see in these terrorist attacks. I would like to refer, if I may, to a rather longish article I had written following Darul uloom Deoband’s anti-terrorism convention in Deoband earlier this year, asking them to introspect and debate some necessary questions.
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