"I've been trying to say this since 7/11 but you worry me. I wish you didn't. I wish when I walked down the streets of this country that I love, that your color, appearance, dressing, make-up, and cultural bearings still blended with the beautiful human landscape we enjoy in this country.
But you don't blend in anymore. I notice you, and it worries me. I notice you because I can't help it anymore. People from your homelands, professing to be Muslims, have been attacking and killing my fellow citizens and our friends for more than 20 years now. I don't fully understand their grievances and hate but I know that nothing can justify the inhumanity of their attacks.
On July 11, yet again, thirteen MUSLIMS traveled in suburban trains, like thousands of bombayites, kept their sinister luggage, pressure cookers and tiffin boxes, stuffed with RDX and explosives on the racks of the train compartments and simple left . . . vanished to let hundreds of proud fathers, loving sons, wise grandparents, elegant daughters, best friends, favorite coaches, fearless public servants, efficient workers, honest family men and women and children's mothers die in the blasts.
The Pakistanis Celebrated, The muslim jehadis were overjoyed as was most of the muslim world. So I notice you now. I don't want to be worried. I don't want to be consumed by the same rage and hate and prejudice that has destroyed the soul of these terrorists. But I need your help. As a rational Indian, trying to protect my country and family in an irrational and unsafe world, I must know how to tell the difference between you, and the Muslim terrorist.
How do I differentiate between the true Muslim-Indians and the Muslims in our communities who are attending our schools, enjoying our parks, and living in OUR communities under the protection of OUR constitution, while they plot the next attack that will slaughter these same good neighbors and children? The events of 1993, July 11th and hundreds of such events in between changed the answer. It is not my responsibility to determine which of you embraces our great country, with ALL of its religions, with ALL of its different citizens, with all of its faults. It is time for every Muslim in this country to determine it for me.
I want to know, I demand to know, and I have a right to know whether or not you love India. Do you pledge allegiance to its flag? Do you proudly display it in front of your house, or on your car?
Do you pray in your many daily prayers that Allah will bless this nation, that He will protect and prosper it? Or do you pray that Allah with destroy it in one of your stupid "Jehads" ? Are you thankful for the freedom that only this nation offers you in this continent? A freedom that was paid for by the blood of hundreds of thousands of patriots who gave their lives for this country? Are you willing to preserve this freedom by paying the ultimate sacrifice? Do you love India? If this is your commitment, then I need YOU to start letting ME know about it.
Your Muslim leaders in this nation should be flooding the media at this time with hard facts on your faith, and what hard actions you are taking as a community and as a religion to protect India. Please, no more benign overtures of regret for the death of the innocent because I worry about who you regard as innocent. No more benign overtures of condemnation for the unprovoked attacks because I worry about what is unprovoked to you. I am not interested in any more sympathy...I am only interested in action. What will you do for India - our great country -- at this time of crisis, at this time of war?
I want to see Muslims waving the INDIAN flag in the streets. I want to hear you chanting "Allah Bless INDIA." I want to see young Muslim men enlisting in the Indian Army instead of just featuring in the CRIME LIST of every police station in the country. I want to see a commitment of money, time, and emotion to the victims of this butchering and to this nation as a whole. The CBI has a list of over 400 people they want to talk to regarding the Bombay Suburban Trains Bomb attacks. Many of these people live and socialize in your Muslim communities. You know them. You interact with them. You know where they are. You even idolize them for fuck's sake.
Hand them over to us, now! But I have seen little even approaching this sort of action. Instead I have seen an already closed and secretive community close even tighter. You have disappeared from the streets. You have posted armed security guards at your facilities, your residents and at the places where they hide.
You have threatened lawsuits. You have screamed for protection from reprisals. You have screamed hoarse about Biased treatment towards your community by the people we that have entrusted to find the culprits. You have used every resource, every loophole, every concession that has been accorded to you by our constitution to escape the inconvenience of enquiry into your real motives.
The very few Muslim representatives that HAVE appeared in the media were defensive and equivocating. They seemed more concerned with making sure that the Indian government proves who was responsible before taking action. They seemed more concerned with protecting their fellow Muslims from violence directed towards them in India and abroad than they did with supporting our country and denouncing "leaders" and "supporters" like Dawood, the ISI, Pakistan, LeT, and other terrorist outfits like it in PoK (the name says it all, Pakistan OCCUPIED Kashmir), and by implication, the Al-queda and the Islamist terrorism around the world as such (including the Palestinians, the passive supporters of Islamist Jehad, Hezbollah, Nasarallah, Iran, Syria and the Arab-muslim terrorist syndicate that wanted to annihilate Israel). If the true teachings of Islam proclaim tolerance and peace and love for all people then I want chapter and verse from the Koran and statements from popular Muslim leaders to back it up. What good is it if the teachings in the Koran are good and pure and true when your "leaders" are teaching fanatical interpretations, terrorism, and intolerance and your religious (????) followers are lapping it up like brain washed zombie robots, a herd of animals ??
It matters little how good Islam SHOULD BE if large numbers of the world's Muslims interpret the teachings of Mohammed incorrectly and adhere to a degenerative form of the religion. A form that has been demonstrated to us over and over again since the last 50 years. A form whose structure is built upon a foundation of hatred, violence, death, and suicide. A form whose members are recruited from the prisons around the world. A form whose members (some as young as five years old) are seen day after day, week in and week out, year after year, marching in the streets around the world, burning effigies of presidents, burning the Indian flag, shooting weapons into the air. A form whose members convert from a peaceful religion, only to take up arms against India, the country of their birth. A form whose rules are so twisted, that their traveling members refuse to show their faces at airport security checkpoints, in the name of Islam.
Do you and your fellow Muslims hate us because our women proudly show their faces in public rather than cover up like a shameful whore? Do you and your fellow Muslims hate us because we drink wine and liquor with dinner, or celebrate Diwali, Christmas, and also Eid ? Do you and you fellow Muslims hate us because we have befriended Israel, and connect to the ONLY CIVILIZED AND INTELLIGENT DEMOCRATIC NATION in the entire Middle East?
And if you and your fellow Muslims hate us, then why in the world are you even here? Are you here to take our money? Are you here to undermine our peace and stability? Are you here to destroy us? Are you here to suck on our resources like parasites? If so, I want you to leave. I want you to go back to your desert sandpit where women are treated like rats and dogs. I want you to take your religion, your ideas, your beliefs, your friends, and your family back to your Islamic extremists, and STAY THERE! We will NEVER give in to your influence, your retarded mentality, your twisted, violent, intolerant religion.
We will NEVER allow the attacks of July 11, or any others for that matter, to take away that which is so precious to us: Our rights under the greatest democratic constitution in the world. I want to know where every Muslim in this country stands and I think it is my right and the right of every true citizen of this country to
demand it. A right paid for by the blood of thousands of my brothers and sisters who died protecting the very constitution that is protecting you and your family. I am pleading with you to let me know. I want you here as my brother, my neighbor, my friend, as a fellow Indian. But there can be no gray areas or ambivalence regarding your allegiance and it is up to YOU, to show ME, where YOU stand."
"Until then . . you worry me . . . "
Arjun Arya.
Proudly Indian.
