On the Monday morning of March 29, 2010 at 7.56 am local time, the commuters on the busy Moscow metrorail service were in for a nasty shock. A female suicide bomber exploded a bomb tied to her body. 40 minutes later, another suicide attack on the same line in the same fashion woke Moscow to a terrible day of shock and dismay. Estimates confirm that 38 people died and more than 60 badly injured, to say nothing of the mentally injured, those innocents who’ll carry the memories of that fateful day to the rest of their lives. In exactly 42 minutes, another crime against humanity was committed adding another page to the thick and growing book of Islamic terror. Muslim Chechen rebels claimed responsibility which was anyway suspected by Russian authorities. What shocked the people with conscience all over the world was the photograph released by Russia portraying the innocent looking female suicide bomber. Jannat Abdurahmanova, aged 17 was already a widow of another Chechen terrorist. What prompted this baby faced girl to commit such an atrocity on the scores of women and children against whom she presumably didn’t have a grudge? What ideology, what religious principle, what social pressure made her do it? The world must sit and take notice.
Victims of terror
Proponents of terror
It is totally unacceptable and erratic to accuse the entire Islamic community as the cause of terror. Some people do, and they are as much misguided as the terrorists themselves. The silent majority of Muslims are against terror which disgraces their religion as well as themselves. But, we are struck by their silence. Practically no outrage against such violence is raised from that community, making people suspect that they too are in connivance with the extremists. Remember what Martin Luther King once said – “In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends”. Yes, why our friends are silent? The Muslim clergy, which is notorious for issuing Fatwahs for the elimination of people who insulted the religion (whether true or imagined) are breathtakingly silent on this issue. There is death warrant in the form of fatwah against Salman Rushdie (for writing a novel), Taslima Nasreen (for writing a novel), Kurt Westergaard (Danish cartoonist) and several others, but none against Osama bin Laden, Aiman al Zawahiri (Second in command in Al Qaeda), Doku Umarov (Chechen terrorist leader) and hundreds of others. Failure to oppose may be construed as condoning by the unsuspecting public.
Silence of the moderates are indeed alarming. Why are they so?
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