Gagan wrote:Rudradev wrote:These are well organized and effective campaigns that have made ZH rubbish like "Hindutvavadis killed Hemant Karkare on 26/11"... a subscribed opinion even among mainstream Indian Muslims.
That is not a ZH assertion. The die was cast when Colonel Srikant Purohit and a certain sadhvi were blamed for the Samjhauta blasts.
The ATS accused the Colonel and the Sadhvi of perpetrating the Samjhauta blasts, and this story was certainly carried widely by the Indian media.
However I am not aware of any Indian media... in fact, of anyone except Zaid Hamid and the Shrilleen Mazari types... taking that canard forward to declare that Hindutvavadis committed the 26/11 attacks as a cover for the murder of Malegaon investigator Hemant Karkare. That particular lie is 100% Paki in origin and conveyed entirely through the agency of people like Zaid Hamid.
And yet, it has found resonance among sections of the IMs. It was expressed to me as a personal belief by an educated, middle class IM gentleman who I don't think of as a SIMI type at all. Yet it isn't from the Indian media that IMs are picking up this version of 26/11...so it must be from ZH or other Paki sources.
I am aware of the propaganda that goes on in India amongst the IM at the behest of SIMI / ISI etc. It is more along the lines of Ummah is one, one allah, no nations only one muslim nation etc.
There is a lot more to ISI/SIMI propaganda directed at IMs, than general abstractions about pan-Ummah nationalism. There is a well organized, systematic process of indoctrination beginning with tapping into immediate and local grievances (such as a particular communal riot)...carrying on to vetting of candidates by spotters, increasing the degree of proximity with the inner circle and finally exhortations to actual participation in Jihad for those candidates identified as the most motivated.
As an example:
http://islamicterrorism.wordpress.com/2 ... n-muslims/
ZH is a firefly, who will burn bright, and the Pakistani army propaganda machine will make merry while he burns bright. His target audience is interal pakistani youth. Gazwa-e-hind is purely targetted at the youth in pakistan, IM might not necessarily find resonance with that line of thought. His other rants on RAW conspiracy, Bangladesh creation, the next war in Panipat, and Pakistan radio from New Delhi are bouncers that IM will be hard pressed to understand or digest.
IM are not monolithic. Most IMs may find ZH's views hard to digest but those who are susceptible to radicalization by SIMI propaganda, would have no problem accepting ZH's "Mughalistan" and "Khorasan" fantasies as preferable to an Indian state they have come to regard as anti-Islam.
Regardless I do believe that there is no point blacking out Zaid Hamid on BRF. It won't stop his message reaching those Indians who might be radicalized by it, but it will make us less aware of the day-to-day propaganda angles being pursued by the TSPA/ISI for whom ZH is a mouthpiece.
