Terror has been at our door-step in Kerala, lucky to have been spared of a massive disaster so far

By O.J.George

Thadiyantavida Nazeer and Shahaz are hogging the headlines about their terrorist activities in many parts of India and possibly elsewhere.

For quite some time, Keralites were under the blind belief that the most literate State would not foment terror. Neither would it harbour terror.

Reports about the activities of some of its youth speak about heinous terrorist links.

We may have come across names like CAM Basheer, Thadiyantavida Nazeer, Shahaz etc in this connection. Perhaps there may be other players. Who knows?

Now Kerala Police is scrambling to get at Thadiyantavida Nazeer and Shahaz who are under the custody of Bangalore Police as they brought them from Meghalaya.

All these quizzings are possible only because the Bangladesh Government has been kind enough to hand them over to the Indian police. Thanks to Sheikh Hasina, daughter of Mujibur Rahman.

Pehaps some more advantages against terrorism are on the way with regard to ULFA, whose leaders are being handed over to India, albeit one leader fled to China.

Reports say Thadiyantavida Nazeer etc are protégés of PDP leader Abdul Nazer Madani during the ISS days. ISS had a quiet burial, but some of the activists seem to have strayed to worse forms of terrorism.

LeT, al-Qaeda varieties are working against the human race, too much of distaste for human existence, misanthropes.

Bus burning, Kozhikode market blasts, Ernakulam collectorate blast, personal killings, covert terrorism training in the border with Kottayam and Idukki districts and all speak about messy happenings in God’s own country.

One way or other, the deleterious ways have to be dealt with.