Urging the Centre to beef up internal security following increased terrorist activities involving Indians, the CPI(M) on Thursday said the Centre should ?extend all co-operation to the British and international authorities in cracking down on terrorism.?
However, the party, while echoing the sentiments of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, cautioned against any move to blame one community for the acts of terrorism.
?In fact, the motivated attempt to link terrorism to any particular religion or faith only makes the task of fighting terrorism all the more difficult. It needs to be repeated that terrorism is a crime that knows no religion or country,? the CPI(M) said in an editorial in People?s Democracy.
?Such terrorist attacks not only need to be condemned and to bring the perpetrators to book, more important is to device the correct methods to tackle such activities. We have repeatedly said state terrorism and individual terrorism feed on each other. Tackling such individual terrorist attacks through an intensified degree of state terror is not merely counterproductive but keeps the clock of terrorism ticking,?the editorial added.
Claiming that the US-led global war on terrorism makes the terrorist menace more vulnerable, the party asked the authorities to look for terrorists rather in Western Universities than in madarsas and slums. ?The fact remains that US imperialism and its allies like Britain have created a world of greater vulnerability to the terrorist menace?.
Scholarly work has shown that those credited with masterminding five major international terrorist attacks between 1993 and 2005 have all had university education and none of them attended a madarasa.
It is, therefore, an uncharitable class bias to look for terrorists in backward areas or slums alone. In fact, modern western universities appear to have a greater correlation with terrorism than madarasas,? the editorial said. ?It is also important not to create an environment where terror can take root,? it added.
It has also warned the Centre to take the developments in Pakistan seriously. ?Pakistan?s proclivity to indulge in cross-border terrorism is common knowledge. The developments in India?s neighbourhood and the environment provided for terrorist outfits continue to buttress terrorist threats.