Terrorism in India and Statistics of America

Terrorism in India and the Statistics of the America.
It is shocking to note that India lost the maximum life due to terrorism after Iraq and that calls for a critical analysis of the data and statistics for an urgent action plan. The data is collected from the American government site http://wits.nctc.gov/ and not from any neutral and unbiased International agencies like United Nation hence requires critical analysis. U.S is at self waged war and had persistently spread the lies, as part of its war propaganda. Who can forget its explicit lie in the UN Assembly about the Weapon of Mass Destruction, to give a veneer of legitimization to its illegal invasion of Iraq? Lastly but Most importantly the U.S. has its own policies and priorities that are altogether different from India.

The site, in its Methodology section itself admits caveats: "The data provided on the website consists of incidents in which sub-national or clandestine groups or individuals deliberately or recklessly attacked civilians or non-combatants (including military personnel and assets outside war zones and war-like settings) . Determination of what constitutes a terrorist act, however, can be more art than science; information is often incomplete, fact patterns may be open to interpretation, and perpetrators' intent is rarely clear.
Moreover, information may become available over time, changing initial judgments about incidents.
Users of this database should therefore recognize that reasonable people may differ on whether a particular incident actually constitutes terrorism or some other form of political violence.”
The study of this report exposes the manipulation with the words to target and defame a religion. In a Perpetrators Characteristics column they describe ULFA, PWG NLFT, Maoists (Naxalites), LTTE ( Guilty of killing our Prime Minister) and other Terrorist Organizations with Hindus and Communists as Secular Political/Anarchist but uses Islamic Terrorist for Militancy in Kashmir. (For reference http://wits.nctc.gov/RunSearchQuick.do)

Worldwide Number of Incidents, Dead, Wounded, Hostage, and Total from 1/1/2004 to 08/25/2007 Grouped By Perpetrator Characteristic.
Perpetrator Characteristic Incidents Dead Wounded Hostage Total
Christian Extremists 81 731 339 214 1,284
Environmental/Anti-Globalization 9 0 2 0 2
Islamic Extremist (Shia) 253 596 1,889 307 2,792
Islamic Extremist (Sunni) 3,012 11,125 24,801 915 36,841
Islamic Extremist (Unknown) 391 1,401 5,002 320 6,723
Jewish Extremist 4 5 28 0 33
Neonazi/Fascists/ 1 0 6 0 6
Secular Political/Anarchist 8,257 8,554 13,314 52,781 74,649
Tribal/Clan/Ethnic 188 1,058 537 227 1,822
Unknown 20,299 28,537 57,336 3,168 89,041
Total: 32,495 52,007 103, 2 54 57,932 213,193

In the above table, the site has reported that Secular Political Anarchist and Unknown Terrorist have killed 37, 091 and victimized 1, 63,690 people worldwide. Whereas Muslim Extremists killed 13,122 people and victimized 46,356 people. Interestingly, the report kept out the U.S. invasion of Iraq, and Israeli attack on Lebanon due to their Methodology of war zone or war like settings but reported the resistance of Iraqis and Afghanis as Islamic Terrorism. If we include more than 6 lakhs killings of innocent civilians in Iraq and thousands in Afghanistan by the U.S. and consider insurgency in Iraq as a political violence then the figure will be different or in fact will be the opposite.

One would laugh at the figure of the Jewish Extremists because the Israeli Zionists have killed hundreds of children and women in Lebanon and in Palestine which went unreported or could be in the unknown or Political Anarchist column, who knows?
Making the data more doubtful, at the end of the analytical report the site says: “There may be multiple victims, facilities, or perpetrators involved in a single incident. Therefore, incidents may appear to be counted more than once when summed by victims, facilities, and/or perpetrators.”

These findings expose how the statistics can be prepared and presented to serve U.S. hegemony.

In India nearly 70% of the Terrorist incidents are reported in Jammu and Kashmir. Ulfa, Maoists and Unknowns have caused the remaining damage to India. The site has also reported the incidents of Saudi Arabia, Nepal and Sri Lanka, Nigeria, sometimes, where no Indian is hurt in the Indian Column and thus causing Exaggeration. So, it concludes that the Problem of Jammu and Kashmir in the north, Ulfa in the east and Maoists, in the central and southern India, are the real causes of the Terror.

It is a known phenomenon that the U.S. Media and Agencies are creating a Global Prejudice against Islam and Muslims and our media and some politicians are toeing their line which is creating acute sense of victimization among nearly 150 million Indian Muslims and their situation is well known through the Sachar Committee report.
Therefore, our national media should refrain from following the U.S. line of motivated analysis and should be cautious while using their Database or information because they are hell-bent on fabricating propaganda-infused statistics to serve their own exclusive political interest. We as Indians should see our own National Interest and not fall prey to their Machiavellian machinations.

Secondly, No religion in the world preaches Violence or Terrorism so we must stop blaming any religion and our media should not use the word Islamic Terrorism. Terrorists are terrorists and not Hindus, Muslims, and Christians. Everybody is affected by a Terrorist act and they don't discriminate on the basis of religion. All over the world it is the Politics of Injustice that is creating the Unrest among the people and not the religion.
Finally, the more recent and repeated Blasts in our country should be dealt extensively with by The Central Cop or Mechanism, as proposed by the experts in the leading newspapers.

Ansari Mohammed Rehan