HARSH REALITIES

I was born in such a topology. I have always been around muslim friends ...in my neighbourhood,at my school,in playgrounds and every where.I never saw any of them as a different cluster,not as individuals with different perspectives about any thing that I or for that matter any other person had.Sameer, Afzal bhai, Shoaib, Aftab, Afsha and Asma ansari, Mohsin, Abdulla, Faaroq and many of my friends were very dear to me as anyother one was. In no contrast were they known as muslims except by religion,they were normal students or residents or what ever. I still remember all my muslim friends cheering Indian cricket team when they were playing against pakistan in 1996 worldcup semis.Well, I should say that I am proud to be said by them as their friend.They say they are Indians first before being born as a muslim.you can't deny the blood dripping in the nerves with patriotism when you listen to those words.But now,most of the pennings by scribes and the media worldwide specially in the west are portraiting the muslim community as barbarian and ill emotic. I don't find any of the muslims( specially in INDIA) around me with any strong feelings to spread terrorism.We were told that no Indian was part of Al-Qaida and that almost always the leadership of groups responsible for domestic terror came from outer borders may be PoK or stil farther. All that was roughly true. So how come we suddenly find ourselves hemmed in by, as one top official put it, "concentric circles" of terror with in our country. Because as those pronouncements were being made, a quiet radicalisation of a few Muslim minds in non-conflict areas of India has happened and gone unnoticed. And to the point while our intelligence agencies are realising that,and trying to take on the enemy in this global, asymmetric war, the foot soldiers confronting them are young boys from the most unlikely hinterlands of India. What happened here? The easy answer is that frustrated young Muslims are being brainwashed and lured with dollars arranged for, by extreme Wahabi and Salafi groups and passed through agents in Dubai, Doha or Qatar or ISI operatives in Nepal and Bangladesh,making them corrupt with sentimental attachments conflicted in their minds for driving their families. Most of the movies in INDIA too depict the same,but the harsh realities are very much different, in denail to those happy endings which we watch in theaters.their lives lead them no where after finding themselfs trammeled in worst situations.But Still ,there are many Muslims led organisations and helping bodies striving to eradicate the terrorism from its root in INDIA and make this place a happy home for every one to live in,and urging other INDIANS not to look at every musalmaan as a terrorist.That is true.Touchwood!!!. I too want to see the brotherly hood growing among all INDIANS. We are all INDIANS,irrespective of our caste creed,religion or any differences, fighting against all external voids trying for coercion of nationalistic differencess and instilling fear and panic by creating mahem with uncivilian terrorist activities in our counry. I will try my part for sure,long live Indians ........Meera BHARATH mahaan.