Is a Modi-fied India preparing to launch a psychological warfare on the Muslim community, particularly those belonging to the Sunni sect living and dying for the nation for ages? Some recent developments points to such conclusion being possibly true.
Notwithstanding Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s reassuring words about Indian Muslims during a recent television interview, the nasty vilification campaign launched by the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) against Madrasa education, particularly in the border state of West Bengal and a top security official’s rant about an IS-Al Qaeda conglomerate design to destabilize India has helped create an aura of suspicion successfully.
Majority of Hindus and even a section of the Muslim community have started believing that indeed Madrasas, known for their great contribution to Indian society in pre and post-independent India, have become safe haven for terrorists. But then, little did the unsuspecting citizens realize that this methodical dissemination of selected information about alleged terror links with Islamic educational institutions is part of a larger game plan of India’s strategic intelligence community, seeking a meaningful role in what is known to the general public as Operation Hornet’s Nest — a joint Israel-West classified strategic intelligence mission whose primary aim is to tinker with the political landscape in the Middle East as per exigencies of the prevailing circumstances. Besides, this systematic effort to push the Muslim community to the wall perfectly fits into BJP’s ultimate political objective of making the minorities electorally irrelevant.
How can one forget BJP’s prominent parliamentarian Sakshi Maharaj’s ridiculous allegation that Madrasas in the country produces anti-India militants? If we minutely scrutinize India’s post-terror attack response force, NSG, chief J.N. Choudhury’s assertion of global militant outfits receiving active assistance from like-minded domestic groups and individuals for launching devastating terror attacks, the secret design to defame the minority community gets exposed further. How else can such a senior functionary, who does not even receive any classified intelligence input officially, come out with such revealing conclusion? Are we to presume that he was tipped-off by some source privately?
Above all, will Choudhury or the Indian government have the guts to explain why such alleged unlawful activities always takes place under the very nose of India’s myriad intelligence agencies?
What intrigues many is the sudden spurt in deceptive anti-Muslim propaganda activities in the country in recent days. Is there a link between what is going on presently and National Security Adviser (NSA) Ajit Doval’s quiet meeting with US security officials? What was the urgency that made Doval stay back even as Prime Minister Modi returned from his official trip to the United Nations? Knowledgeable sources believe that it was all about negotiating New Delhi’s possible engagement in secret strategic operations that are planned and executed outside public glare.
That the cacophony over possible IS-Al Qaeda threat to India is more propaganda than real can be proved by three simple facts. Firstly, Al-Qaeda’s new Indian franchisee Qaedat Al-Jihad, led by Asim Umar, is actually a toothless organization comprising of incompetent foot soldiers, incapable of causing harm to India’s core strategic interests. Their very first mission in Karachi had ended in dismal failure. Secondly, there is something fishy about the highly publicized story of three masked men waving IS flag in Indian-administered Kashmir after Friday prayers. A province, whose people are yet to recover fully from the flood havoc, surely has no time to encourage such activities. Thirdly, the Syrian government has explicitly denied the report of any stray groups of Indian youths fighting for the IS either on their soil or Iraq contrary to Indian intelligence claim.
The big question is why would a shrewd Modi want to create an aura of mistrust inside the country when he is apparently so desperate to improve India’s global standing? Surely, Modi knows that a volatile domestic environment can derail his ambition of making India a global manufacturing hub. A nation at war within cannot expect the international business lobby to invest lavishly. And yet Modi is strolling down that suicidal path of involving India into hegemonic power play and introducing minority-apartheism. Experts believe the calibrated propaganda to control peoples’ mind is just a small part of a larger plan to create provocative agents that provide Indian State the justification to heckle Muslims.
And Modi and his NSA Doval, it seems, has a grand plan to make India the principal pawn in the strategic armory of those who have exploited the unfortunate divide in the Muslim world effectively. In a foolish attempt to reframe India’s strategic goal, the top political leadership has in fact exacerbated the xenophobic trait existing within the nation’s multi-cultural societal structure.
The Islamic Ummah and Muslim religious leaders must keep a close tab on the innumerable black sheep — especially clandestine operatives working under non-official cover who gets converted to Islam for operational reasons — responsible for giving a bad name to a great religion like Islam. But unless those invisible terror-masters in intelligence agencies disown their blood-hungry disciples, peace will remain ever elusive.
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