Today we are witnessing a playback of the events of the pre-September 11th period. The time when Muslims were simply butchered, tortured, disgraced, massacred, mortified and God knows what else. The hatred that started at the end of Afghan-Russia war, gained momentum by the events of Gulf war, fired by the massacres of Bosnia, increased by the destruction of Chechnya, fueled by the forced mass migrations of the Kosovar Albanians, Intensified by the horrors of Dagestan and again Chechnya and of course kept up by the constant violations and destruction of Palestinians and Kashmiris, brought the 9/11 carnage.

Now what is common among all the above mentioned events that produced such hatred which

The hatred in the whole Muslim world changed into sympathy on September 11th. Everyone was appalled at the scale of destruction. That day was perhaps the only day in the history that brought us all together. Nobody cared if he was Christian, Jew or Muslim. Every one felt the same sense of loss as the Americans. But the accusations that started soon after the tragedy were themselves a tragedy. The very essence of Islam and its validity came under intense fire. Never before in history, had Christianity and Judaism had ever come under so much scrutiny as Islam. Islam was portrayed as the religion of terror. This propaganda (that is what I call it) destroyed the trust and the friendship that had began to build up between the Muslims, Christians and Jews.

Then the whole episode of massacres, destruction and migration began and once again the victims were Muslims. I don’t blame the western governments for tightening their securities because we would have done the same thing. When your neighbour gets robbed, you also watch your doors. But the point that I want to make

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