Are terrorists true followers of Islam?

IT STARTED out as a normal evening except that it wasn’t to end like the way it did. The five serial blasts across the capital rocked the hearts of Delhites. The two blasts in Greater Kailash-M block market might not have taken lives, but what those did was to bring terrorism to our doorstep.




Watching the news reports on television, I could feel a sense of impotent anger overtaking me; which I am sure is shared by all the Delhites. What is the government doing? Of what use are meaningless platitudes to the people who lose their loved ones in these acts of terrorism? I saw that the blasts were being described as ’low intensity’. How does one decide that? If the number of people dead are less than 20 or 50 or 100? How does it help a mother who lost her only child if the blasts were of low intensity? Will it make her grief any lesser?


It is extremely unfortunate that in a country of over a billion people we have yet to produce strong leaders who can put a stop to this outrage of public lives in India. Our country is repeatedly bruised while all of us stand by helplessly and watch. I have grown up hearing that India is a very tolerant country. India is very secular. India believes in talking things out. TILL WHEN? The day is not far when each family would have lost at least one member to terrorism.

Is that what we are waiting for? How long is this "soft" approach to continue? Is there anyone with any answers to these questions? Or are we supposed to quietly accept that our children will be bred on a diet of violence, bloodshed and terror?


The television channels were kind enough to show us the email that the culprits behind blasts had sent minutes prior to the bombs went off. The first line read: "In the name of Allah...." I couldn’t bring myself to read anymore. Where in the Holy Quran does Allah sanction murder? No supreme power (be it Allah, be it Ram or be it Sai Baba) has ever sanctioned killing. In a country where so many religions co-exist, we are being forced to accept that some religions are pro-killing, which is a gross insult to the very concept of religion. Terrorism is getting emboldened with each passing day. Fear is a constant companion, no matter where one stays. Families are destroyed, lives brutally extinguished.