There are two types of animals -- those who eat other animals and those who do not.  These two type of animals cannot live together.  That's why in zoos, the  meat-eaters are in separate cages from the non meat-eaters.  The non meat-eaters may live peacefully with one another.  But even if a single meat eater is introduced in the group havoc results.  In fact, even different types of meat-eaters are not kept together for their own security.  Similarly there are two types of religions -- those who seek to convert and eventually eliminate other religions, and those who are happy with their peaceful ideologies. Secular means equal protection to every religion. In secular state, every religion should live peacefully and also let other people live peacefully as well. There is no  point having a secular state where one religion eventually gobbles up every other religion.  But the predatory religions by their own definition go against this basic requirement of secularism.  For the zoo of secularism to work, these two types of religions cannot be mixed. 

The Muslim and Christians, who are predators of other religions behave like meat-eaters. Muslims are  murderers of several Sikh and Hindu bus drivers, of several Hindus who were beheaded by terrorists, the many soldiers killed in explosions, and the small Hindu children blown up in a grenade attack.  Vajpayee makes a major miscalculation when he imagines the terrorists to be good Muslims. They are not. They are bloodthirsty barbarians who couldn't care less about religion. For instance, it is the same medieval thugs who have killed 100,000 Algerians -- nominal Muslims massacring other Muslims -- in the last few years. Their very way of murdering people -- how can you stand to cut off another human being's head, that too that of a non-combatant civilian? -- speaks volumes about their mental makeup. 

We are not dealing with normal human beings who harbor sentiments such as compassion and love. Many of them,  are criminals. It has been reported recently  somewhere a news item  about how Pakistan is rounding up the toughest murderers and lifers from its jails and offering them (a la the old film, Dirty Dozen, if memory serves me right) a pardon and plenty of money for becoming terrorists in J&K. What is the point in appealing to these people's religious sentiments? 

Similarly,  there are a lot of Afghan teenagers among these terrorists, and they have known nothing but war. If they are literate at all, they have learned nothing about the world other than the doctrine of 'holy warfare' and the notion that all 'infidels' are to be killed. Many of them have never known a mother's affection (or even known any women), being war orphans brought up in Islamic seminaries in Pakistan. They are coarse, cruel children with AK-47s who believe they are invincible Islamic warriors. There has been a series of alarming reports about the products of these 'universities of terrorism' in the US media. 

Then there are the truly doctrinaire ones, those for whom the capture of land is paramount: the mullahs of the Wah'abi-Deobandi school of Sunni extremists and their Saudi paymasters.  These hard-core ideologues couldn't care two hoots about the Muslims of Jammu and Kashmir over whom they weep copious crocodile tears. After all, they don't care one bit about the Muslims of neighbouring Xinjiang being brutalised by the Chinese. 

Just as the Pope and his minions and other fundamentalist Christians wish to convert the world to Christianity, these Muslim fundamentalists -- the villains of the piece -- wish to capture all the land in the world. Land-grab is their motivation. The residents, they believe, can be 'persuaded' to become Muslims once they control the territory. They have trusted ways of 'persuasion': these usually involve fire and sword.

It is this motley crew that Vajpayee is hoping to bring to the negotiating table. Truly noble and all that, and of course, there might be wheels within wheels, with the Americans applying pressure and the Bharatiyas caving in  as usual.  This is a ridiculous tactic. Let us understand the enemy -- he is a barbarian. Let us not judge him by our civilized standards of fair play. He considers this show of the other cheek a weakness, and he despises you even more than he did before, if that were indeed possible. Peace is not his goal. 

Prime Minister Vajpayee spoke a while ago about insaniyat, an Urdu word apparently meaning humanity, as the cornerstone of his approach to Jammu and Kashmir. It seems there is  close relationship between insaniyat and 'insanity' interestingly Freudian. It is insanity to offer peace to someone with the instincts of a raging bull. It seems Vajpayee has become insane for dealing with predatory religions.  No Asian country wants to let Pope visit  their country, but Vajpayee provides all kinds of facilities for the visit of Pope in Bharat where he openly declares in Delhi that he wants to devour all the Asian people, especially the Hindus of Bharat.  Vajpayee provides Hindu money to Muslims for making haj to Mecca, where they are taught to become  more determined to devour all non-Muslims.  Vajpayee keep making unilateral cease fire declarations, thus making easy for predatory Muslims for killing Hindus and Bharatiya military men. 

The alacrity with which Pakistan has jumped on this unilateral cease fire initiative strengthens the conviction of many people that it is a bad deal for Bharat.  China, too, has made positive noises about it. Therefore, it seems the intent is merely for the terrorists to take a breather, regroup, build up their strength in the winter months, and attack even more ferociously in the spring. It stands to reason: whatever the Bharatiya  peace makers say, 'holy war' in J&K is critical to the Pakistani army: how else are they going to justify their perks and privileges? They can never give up on J&K. 

Once 'Father' Anthony Fernandes returned to the Hindu fold after 12 years as Christian, becoming the first priest to reconvert.  In October 2000, Fernandes, a Konkani, had publicly criticized missionary activities.  He has demanded that Bishops appointed by Rome should be derecognised.  Dubbing the diocese as "Papal Mafia", he has urged an investigation into the property under the Diocese and Bishops which, he said, was being misused. He has also alleged rampant discrimination within the church. 

The unworthy leaders of Bharat are not understanding the fundamental fact  how to deal with predatory religions.  The predators either have to change, or must be left out for the good of everybody or be destroyed permanently for the good of the rest of the society.  It is written in the Hindu religious texts  that one of the earliest icons of the subcontinent is the Indus-Sarasvati image of the Goddess Slaying the Buffalo Demon, mahishasura-mardini. These terrorists are today's implacable buffalo-demons; let us not do the Chamberlain thing of trying to appease them. It won't work, as it didn't work with the Nazis and the Chinese. Brutes only understand brute force.  Predatory religions need to be dealt severely and preferably be destroyed completely. 

The only other alternative is to de-claw and de-tooth the predatory aspects of all predatory religions, thereby fundamentally changing their nature. This happens in U.S.A., where Muslims cannot slowly slaughter animals at home for Eid, Muslims cannot have multiple wives, break idols or slay the idol worshippers etc. as prescribed by the Koran. 

When will Bharatiyas have the guts to enforce same and humane laws for every religions. The  unworthy leaders of Bharat increase the appetite of predatory religions by sacrificing the Hindus and providing them Hindu money for their nefarious activities..