The message of last week’s events is thus unmistakable. The threat that jehadi terrorism—which is but another name for fascism feeding on a perverse misinterpretation of Islam—poses to India and to the rest of mankind is real. It must not be belittled. It is mainly the responsibility of pious Muslims, who believe in Islam’s core teachings of peace and universal brotherhood, to confront the extremist mindset that supports terrorism. At the same time, both non-Muslims and Muslims must jointly confront, in non-violent and democratic ways, the war-mongers in Washington who, in the guise of the war on terror, are desperately trying to preserve America’s weakening hegemony over the world.
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