If the new armies of God have found cheap and innovative ways to launch jihad on Indian soil, it should force analysts to look for these perpetrators — both designers and executors of terror — in the folds and crevices of that soil itself. The theatre of this asymmetric war isn't Kashmir alone and nor are all strings being held in Dubai and Pakistan, although these might still be the places from where the Wahhabi virus of hatred has been imported from only to be injected in several pockets across India.
It's tempting to see the terror attacks in Ahmedabad and the botched ones in Surat as a reprisal for the Gujarat riots, which were essentially an organised pogrom against the Muslims of the state. But that prism projects a format, which although easier to comprehend, is only part of the larger picture which involves a complex global net of terror. And dismissing the larger picture now will lead to huge prescriptive errors.
As the world came to terms with 9/11, India had taken some solace in the fact that there were no serious jihadis being manufactured on its soil. Gunslinging foot soldiers came from across the border, had clearly identifiable Pakistani tags and their minds had been transformed in camps across the border, our official analysts had maintained.
http://newageislam.com/home-grown-armies-of-god/radical-islamism-and-jihad/d/404
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