Mumbai Blast Confessions
The Times of India reports that Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has received information from the security services that two jihadists arrested in connection with the Mumbai train bombings have confessed.
The two members of the jehadi suicide squad were arrested by security forces from central India, most probably from Madhya Pradesh, and have since provided significant details about the Mumbai mayhem as well as the larger anti-India terror campaign that ISI [the Pakistani intelligence service] has assigned to favourite jehadi gang, Lashkar-e-Taiba. The arrests are described as "a significant catch".
Jihadist terror in India is extremely important, when placed in context. The Islamists and their apologists in the West prefer to link the actions of the Jihadists to the history of western imperialism and colonialism. The problem with that line of argument is that it does not work for India. Do the Hindus have an extensive history of aggression and expansion at the expense of their Muslim neighbors? No, the Indians suffered (far more and far longer) at the hands of the West than have the Arab or Iranian regions of the Islamic world. In fact, it was the Muslims who invaded the subcontinent and spread Islam, not the other way around.
The fact that Islamists and Jihadists also strike at Hindus in India (and Hindus and Christians in Pakistan) is indicative of the broader goals of the Islamist movement and the fact that the past actions of the West are tossed about as a means to divide rather than to explain the true motivations of the Jihadists. Kashmir provides a convenient and immediate excuse for action in the sub-continent. But it is nothing more than that.
