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Statistics since January 2004-March 2007 show that of the 4,000 odd persons killed in terrorist violence in India, show that 41 per cent died due to Islamic terrorists, 27 per cent due to left-wing extremists such as Maoists and Naxalites in 14 states of the nation, and 20 per cent due to fatalities from insurgencies in the Northeast. There is some evidence of coordination and networking of these terrorist outfits with Al-Qaeda and LTTE. This means that India now faces a Terror Incorporated International, and hence terrorists activities in other nations affect such as Nepal, Afghanistan and Sri Lanka, even Iraq, India’s national security and long-term national interests.
There is an another perfidious angle to Islamic terrorism confronting India. The large Muslim population of India is being sandwiched between the accusation that they are not cooperating with the law and order forces in exposing the sleeper terrorist cells living in their “Mohallas” (neighbourhood), and the ire of the terrorists against India’s Muslims for not enthusiastically contributing to the terror goal of establishing a Darul Islam in India by violence and securing capitulation. Hence, the terrorist are now targeting Islamic centres or population as in the bombing of the Malegoan’s Masjid, Hyderabad’s Mecca Masjid, Delhi Jama Masjid and the Samjautha Express train. External Islamic terrorists are targeting Indian Muslims in order for them to become cannon fodder in the destabilization of Indian civil society. Such targeted attacks to radicalize Muslims is also part of terror strategy. On 26 August, 2007 Hyderabad again intnessed in horror 34 dead, some of them Muslims in two bomb explosions in a drama venue and a restaurant. The nation has had enough make-up calls. We can wake up those in authority who are sleeping, but not those who are feigning sleep in the name of secularism.