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Written by Sankar Ray 11 Nov 08 (http://asiasentinel.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1537&Itemid=174)
Hindus and Muslims demand an eye for an eye in an escalating cycle of violence
A year before his death in 1964, Jawaharlal Nehru remarked that "The danger to
Recently, for instance, a young 'sadhvi,' or Hindu woman monk, Pragya Singh Thakur, who rechristened herself as Sadhvi Purnachetnagiri, was arrested by Maharashtra anti-terrorism police in connection with the killing of six and injuring of six at a mosque on September 29 at Malegaon, 280 miles from Mumbai. She was alleged to be a frontline leader of Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad, the student wing of India's opposition Bharatiya Janata Party and, according to the anti-terrorism chief, owned the motorcycle used in the blasts, which took place at Bhikku Chowk in central Malegaon, just outside the sealed office of the banned Students Islamic Movement of India.
There are also disturbing signs that the Hindu militants have connections to
Purohit is said to have been one of the founders of the radical Hindu group Abhinav Bharat at
According to police, the sadhvi was a member of Jai Vande Mataram Jan Kalyan Samiti, another openly anti-Muslim and anti-Christian Hindu terrorist group based in
Although the two organizations issued denials that she was working with them, security forces intercepted 400 minutes of phone calls between them. Two others were arrested and accused of helping to plant the bomb. Two more who were detained are believed to have divulged the names of collaborators.
What is being dubbed "reverse terrorism" by Hindus seeking to get even with earlier blasts perpetrated by Islamists is a worrisome escalation in the cycle of revenge that began with the
"Federal security personnel have been struggling to find out where and who taught the activists bomb-making amid unconfirmed reports that training camps have been created along patterns set by the Taliban or al Qaeda,'' said a senior officer of Maharashtra Police.
Bal Keshav Thackeray, the chief of Shiv Sena, an openly anti-Muslim political party and an ally of the BJP, issued a statement defending Sadhvi and the other suspects, ridiculing the BJP and other organizations for disowning the woman.
In a high-pitched editorial in the Shiv Sena mouthpiece Samna, Thackeray condemned terrorism that "weakens the country and we regret the loss of life in the
Ominously,
The distinctive feature of militant Hindu phenomenon is gang rape, which was widespread during the
The late Professor I K Shukla, a tireless worker against communalism from all sides, coined the term "saffro-Nazis" to describe the saffron-clad Hindu rightists as a growing threat.
'"I am glad that sociologists like Sharit Bhowmik (head of labor studies at the Tata Institute of Social Sciences) saw through the game plan of the saffro- Nazis functioning under various names," he wrote in an email to Asia Sentinel prior to his death. "
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