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Islam,Terrorism and Jihad

That Bogus Debate

By Ajai Sahni

Exaggerated (and often distorted) reportage by a hysterical media on the Delhi encounter and the arrests across the country had created the irrational expectation that the spate of arrests and the 'neutralisation' of the SIMI-IM network would somehow spell the end of the succession of terrorist attacks that had been inflicted at apparently diminishing intervals over the past months and years -- but the flower market bombing has, unsurprisingly, put paid to that rather quickly.

Investigators are still to identify the perpetrators of the latest bombing, but it should be abundantly clear that, despite the body blows inflicted on the SIMI-IM networks, this organisation's capacities are yet to be entirely extinguished. Moreover, the various other Pakistan-backed Islamic terrorist groups that have operated -- separately and in tandem, often with SIMI -- to execute numerous terrorist attacks across India, show no signs of any significant decline in capacities or loss of support from their state sponsors in the neighbourhood -- Pakistan and Bangladesh. Under these circumstances, there is little reason to believe that recent police successes will have any permanent impact on the Islamic terrorist acts across India.

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