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    A Terrorist
    A Terrorist
    A Terrorist
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    A Terrorist

    By Raja Sharma

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    The entire town was stunned when his friend’s pictures were flashed on the TV screens, and then newspapers wrote all sorts of adverse things against him. They were trying their best to prove him a terrorist.

    People were talking everywhere and everyone had his own surmises and arguments. Generally, people love adding details from their side and in no time a minor incident becomes a major event. This is the power of crowd mentality.

    “It is unbelievable. Isa’s son Musa was a terrorist!”

    Isa was a very simple weaver from the middle class locality of the town.

    Thank God the old man had passed away long before his happened.

    “All these Muslims are terrorists!” said Mishraji, thus blaming the entire Muslim community. He did not realize what he had said and what its consequences could be.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRaja Sharma
    Release dateSep 2, 2011
    ISBN9781465919342
    A Terrorist
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    Raja Sharma

    Raja Sharma is a retired college lecturer.He has taught English Literature to University students for more than two decades.His students are scattered all over the world, and it is noticeable that he is in contact with more than ninety thousand of his students.

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      A Terrorist - Raja Sharma

      A Terrorist

      By Raja Sharma

      Copyright@2011Raja Sharma

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      Chapter 1: A Terrorist

      Part One

      It was like it had happened yesterday because everything is so fresh in mind. He had tried to persuade himself many times that past could not be altered but he was actually not ready to listen to the voice of his heart. He remembered everything.

      The entire town was stunned when his friend’s pictures were flashed on the TV screens, and then newspapers wrote all sorts of adverse things against him. They were trying their best to prove him a terrorist.

      People were talking everywhere and everyone had his own surmises and arguments. Generally, people love adding details from their side and in no time a minor incident becomes a major event. This is the power of crowd mentality.

      It is unbelievable. Isa’s son Musa was a terrorist!

      Isa was a very simple weaver from the middle class locality of the town.

      Thank God the old man had passed away long before his happened.

      All these Muslims are terrorists! said Mishraji, thus blaming the entire Muslim community. He did not realize what he had said and what its consequences could be.

      ‘Mirror’ had printed the news on front page. It had the heading ‘Terrorism Raises its Head in Town’. The editor had used Musa as a pretext and written a long editorial about terrorism and its spreading wings. The editorial claimed that most of the Islamic Madrasas were the training schools for terrorists. In such places, young boys were educated about ‘Jihad’ under the veneer of religious teachings. The editor said that this minority community was blackmailing the political parties in India.

      When he read this report, he was naturally surprised because he knew Musa very well and he knew that Musa could be anything but not a terrorist. Musa was his bosom friend and they had studied together. They used to share everything with each other. He was sure that there was some mistake.

      Such relations are gradually lost into oblivion because of other pressing requirements in life. Marriage, business, political beliefs, and social responsibilities very often take us away from our childhood friends.

      Yes, Musa was a Muslim, and, perhaps, that was the only point that spoke eloquently against him and indicated that he was a terrorist.

      He was from a Hindu family and he had been conditioned to treat Muslims as untouchables. But, Ramesh never saw any difference. The only physical difference he found was that his Muslim classmates, boys, had circumcised penis. Through history he had come to know that during the reign of Emperor Aurangzeb, millions of Hindus were forced to adopt Islam as their religion if they wanted to save their heads. Some of them were lured to adopt Islam for monetary rewards.

      Ramesh remembered how angry faced Mr. Rastogi, their Hindu History teacher, used to be while describing the atrocities committed by the Muslim rulers. Though he never said, it was quite obvious that he did not like Muslim boys in his class.

      What added to his fury was the timing of the daytime Azan which echoed from the nearest mosque right at that time when he would be ready to start his class. Allah Ho Akbar! was the phrase he hated the most. He would say to the students, "Children, look their Mullah is giving Azan. The Muslims in this

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