Mustafa Khan

Democracy cannot work if one man's terrorist is another man's freedom fighter or protector. Neither a Narendra Modi nor a Nasser Madani. The former had assimilated the Nazi Gestapo or Getheime Staatspoleizi

Ajit Kumar Doval KC is a central civil servant of the IPS cadre serving as the fifth and the current National Security Advisor to the Prime Minister of India, with the precedence equivalent to Cabinet Minister.

The riots have underscored once again the role of politicians in fanning communal tensions and the failure of the police and the administration to contain the violence in time and prevent it from spreading.

In India itself, there is a growing realization that the present regime under PM Narendra Modi has gone too far in the wrong direction. Changing the status of Kashmir was a fault line capable of creating serious seismic repercussions.

Modi's rule is enduring in its ruinous import on the Indian Muslims. Never before had Indian Muslims been subjected to worse than any beastly treatment one can think about. On account of what? As Pakistan is a conjoint another half of the colonial product of the British empire.

During his regime as the Chief Minister, Modi trashed the laws of India and its Constitution and got away. To help him in this huge work of manslaughter, the RSS, VHP, Bajrang Dal, and many other groups were involved - writes Mustafa Khan from Maharashtra, India.

Regardless of the increasing number of organized violent attacks by far-right, non-Islamist militants across the globe, Western policy and scholarly discourse on terrorism remain excessively focused on violent extremism in Muslims. South Asia is no exception.

The situation has now changed with the Taliban coming to power in Afghanistan and Modi's audacious agenda to crush Muslims for demanding their own way of life and not be daunted! The time of reckoning is at hand!