I post them in order to shed light on the very fact that terrorism is not a Muslim phenomenon.
But, that it is used as an ongoing tactic by many ethnicities, nationalities, members of different faiths, liberation movements, and most effectively by nation states.
The first report deals with an act of terrorism that was perpetrated by Hindus against India's Muslim minority.
The second report deals with an act of terrorism that was perpetrated by the Sikh's against India's Muslim. But, the message of the bombing was directed towards the Indian state and a Hindu party.
But, notice how the label "terrorism" was deliberately excluded from both reports, and the label "violence," was inserted in its place.
This is due to the act of "terrorism" is being exclusively reserved to desribe the actions of a fringe element of Muslims, and no one else:
1. Indian Muslims Vent Anger After Mosque Bomb Leaves 11 Dead:
By Omer Farooq in Hyderabad
Published: 19 May 2007
Independent
A bomb ripped through a historic mosque as Friday prayers were ending in southern India, killing at least 11 people and wounding nearly three dozen. Two other unexploded bombs were defused by police.
...The bombing and ensuing clash between worshippers and police raised fears of wider Hindu-Muslim violence in the city, which has long been plagued by communal tensions - and occasional spasms of religious bloodletting.
...Mr Reddy called the bombing an act of "intentional sabotage on the peace and tranquillity in the country". He said that one bomb went off at around 1.30pm local time and that police soon afterwards found and defused two other bombs.
The bomb, made of a stick-grenade packed into a metal pipe, was detonated by a mobile phone attached to the device, said the state's police chief, Mohammed Abdul Basit.
...About 10,000 people usually attend Friday prayers at the mosque and the blast sparked a panic. "I was very close to the spot of the blast," said Abdul Quader, a 30-year-old who sustained slight injuries to his legs.
"As soon as prayers ended, we were about to get up, there was a huge deafening blast sending bodies into the air," he continued. "People started running helter-skelter, there was such confusion. People were bleeding, running around in a very bad condition."
...The explosion immediately drew comparisons with the bombing of a mosque during a Muslim festival in Malegaon, in western India, on 8 September 2006, which killed 31 people.
2. Indian Troops Sent To Quell Sikh Unrest:
By Bruce Loudon,
South Asia correspondent
19may07
TheAustralian
THOUSANDS of Indian troops were rushing to north Indian states last night to tackle the most serious Sikh uprising in decades.
The deployment came as a bomb tore through one of India's oldest and biggest mosques, killing five people and wounding 24 others as thousands of worshippers attended prayers.
The bomb was thought to have been placed inside a water tank in the southern city of Hyderabad's historic Mecca mosque. Two other devices were defused following the explosion.
...The unrest is believed to have a political dimension linked to elements of the Khalistan movement for a Sikh homeland that set the region ablaze more than 20 years ago, as well as controversial support by the sect for the Congress party in a recent state assembly election.
...Up to 25,000 Sikhs armed with swords and bricks were said to have surrounded a DSS campus near Salabetpura, in Punjab, as police and troops tried to separate them. At Sirsa, in Haryana state, tens of thousands of DSS were said to have mobilised to face down an advancing column of Sikhs determined to attack them.
...Reports claimed that supporters of a Khalistan independent Sikh homeland who were behind the storming of Sikhism's holiest shrine, the Golden Temple in Amritsar, in 1984 and the subsequent assassination of Indira Gandhi were in the vanguard of the attacks on the DSS.
But the immediate cause of the upsurge in communal tensions is an ultimatum from Sikh leaders to the state Government in Punjab to take action against the DSS for alleged anti-Sikh activities.
This follows fury after the leader of the DSS, Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh, appeared dressed as revered Sikh guru Gobind Singh in a newspaper advertisement.
It sparked two days of fierce clashes between DSS and Sikh followers.
Analysts equated the upheaval with similar clashes between the Nirnkari religious sect and other Sikh organisations in 1980.
Those clashes are regarded as the starting point for 15 years of violence and militancy in Punjab and Haryana.
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