Abhijit Speaks :

Dear Jihadis (as you claim yourself to be),

I have been refraining myself from writing for quite a while about your misdemeanours. However, I think, the time has certainly come to write to you about what I generally think about your Jihad. Before I move any further let me accept, as far as purely religious thoughts go, I have one of the highest regards for the religion of Islam, so don’t be confused about that.  Now let’s come to some questions I have about your Jihad and possible suggestions of how you should go about achieving (that may sound somewhat preposterous, still..)

First, let us all know what your agenda is – that is if you have any agenda. Lets for the arguments’ sake we assume that your agenda is to make the entire world follow the path to the Kingdom of Allah. Personally, I won’t have objections about this agenda and I don’t have. But I do have serious reservations about your way of trying to achieve it through the use “terror” as we’d shortly see, what you “consider” as terror is not beyond a noise. So having accepted this agenda, you should set your path to achieve that goal and allow yourselves some time to achieve it, it won’t happen overnight, which some of you might be tempted to believe. The times are not same as the times of prophet so assuming what worked in the times of prophet to work now is naive at best.

First about your purported acts of “terror”. Let’s look at recent bombings in Bangalore/Ahmedabad and Delhi. How many people were killed in to-to due to your acts of terror? say about 200. In these three cities the number of people killed in road accidents will not be substantially smaller than this or the number of “innocent” people killed because a rich druken brat runs over poor people sleeping on footpath (for lack of any reasonable house) will be somewhat same (in short your risk-reward is not favourable). He is set free, runs “television reality shows” and you poor people have to hide from the government, face the wrath of general public. I think at best you are doing injustice to yourself and your cause. This is further aggrevated by the fact that it doesn’t even create terror. People continue to do their jobs, life returns to normal in the “spirit of the city” and there is a general public apathy. Worse, still you and your keen become vulnerable to arrests and government attrocities. Is it helping at all? A substantial act of terror would be one where the number of deaths caused by acts of terror are higher than that of a serious natural calamity. You are simply no where near to that. Friends, you gotta think over it. What you did (assuming you really did it) on 9/11 was a reasonable act of terror. Even then what did it achieve anything? Nothing… Before, I go further, I might want to add something that I just recalled, the number of people killed due to your acts of terror, is not even a fifth of the number of suicides some farmers committed due largely to the apathy of the Government and the same Government is chasing you (or will atleast show it will chase you!)

Does this mean it is the end of the world for your cause? No, provided you are willing to consider some humble suggestions that I’d shortly offer

I agree that America is your #1 enemy (or atleast there is a popular belief about it being so.) However someone being a #1 enemy should not be disregarded for his qualities. Have you seen how americanized most of the world is – How did it achieve that through acts of terror? Well yes, but as a terror disguised behind a beautiful name of “democracy/freedom etcetra.” So there’s something you can learn from Uncle Sam, which I am afriad you are failing to learn time and again. No I am not saying open your version of McDonalds or Coke on every nook and corner of the world, there’s a substantial entry barrier for this, but there are other things that should be tried -

First you should have a marketing department akin to Hollywood, that’d showcase to the world how great your agenda is,  How some american (or an infidel) can become a popular hero in your version of Hollywood and later goes on to become head of the State (I agree this might be against your conventional wisdom, but friends these are not the times to trust the conventional wisdom). You’ve to show the path to Kingdom of Allah is a dream path and generally create all the paraphernelia that should be associated with such marketing departmet like Gossip magzines etcetra. Remember for something to stick, it should be bombarded again and again in a manner people like it.

Second, embrace technology – Look at the Koreans – they are virtually sweeping the world with their cell phones (I bet some of the cell-phones that you might be using to “plan” your acts of “terror” will be Korean.) So while Samsung and LG continue to be desirable Brands, you continue to be social outcastes, hiding in caves in God forsaken (albeit beautiful) places. or even go east further, look at the Japs and how they took revenge for the Atom Bombs (but be careful don’t end up being Japs).

Third , identify your strengths and play to your strenghts – One observation that I have might help. Some of your people are gifted with art. Why’d you not consider playing this to your strength. Create your version of a Rock Culture (it does not have to emulate the present one or doesn’t even have to have  a Woodstock festival) but it should have drug abuse (which might be against Islam, so we can spare that) and promiscuous sex (this is important!!!!). That’d get far many converts to your thinking and you can certainly leverage the following then.

Finally, I might offer, learn to be patient to achieve what you’ve to achieve, it takes time. I am re-iterating it becuase some early success might distort your vision and you’d end up being the victims of your own success (remember Japs?)

This is all I have to offer.