[Reader-list] No monolithic opinion in the community. Jamia Shootings.

[shakeb ahmed]

Dear all and Mehmood
 
Thanks for reminding once again that the opinion within the community about what happened in Batla House is not monolithic. Its of utmost urgency that all reading should understand this fact in toto. But at the same time lets push 'this understanding' into a bit more heretic and maybe better-bigger orbit. 

The big question the people residing in the immediate vicinity are asking is this - couldnt the boys have been forced to 'surrender' by cordoning off the area? Why did Killing become the utmost need of the moment while live militants could have been a brilliant source of information that no fool would like to let go? With no easy access out of the complex, cordoning the building-complex and using public address system to warn them could have been more appropriate! Aah but maybe that would have involved less bravado, sound, and fury if that has to be the prerequisite to make such operations credible-to-converted and fly beyond the disturbing questions which nevertheless are crawling back into their rightful seats!

But then THE MAIN THINGY, let's return to more interesting facts about surely why the opinion within the area cannot be monolithic to begin with. Yes it never can be and nor should be! Opinion cannot be monolithic also because not to loose sight of the fact that the populace of the area is not monolith in itself. Isn't it phenomenally divided on the lines of class, ideas of cultural grooming, and the numerous geographical identities of the largely migrant nature of people who loosely make up this pocket of Delhi? How many times, a number of people belonging here voice in the course of each progressing day how many a section of this no-monolith are highly irritable undesirable good-for-nothing scum we can happily do without?..isn't that the rigormorale many indulge here in the so called unperturbed times where we could comfortably indulge ourselves in a-little-hate-for-my-neighbor? I am not awestruck, jumpily surprised, if the similar sentiment as
 mentioned in preceding lines does at times seizes many into a blindness at moments of crisis like now, and subsequently there might be a temporary loss of the sense of questioning the circumstances in which certain triumphant state operation get carried out. 
It's also true that a sizeable number of Muslims are so fed up of these Bomb Attacks and subsequent caricaturing of them enmasse that their anger has the sublime potential to fold back on itself making me worry if they don't end up doing the police's job on their own (and its very desirable these days!!!). There are defeaning demands these days to all having a muslim identity whether by name or practices: "why cant they identify and hand over the bad elements amongst themselves"... Aha just for the reason that I am slighty more incompetent at enforcing sweeping force than the police my elected leaders provided me for the job. Gosh how a lot of taxes I pay I dream would go into making a competent and fair law enforcing agency, and how I am having sleepless nights over the demands that now I dig into my pocket and spend my hard earned money into buying faux uniforms, shrill sirens and hard-red alarm lights for my car, and get on the job of 'hunting the bad
 amongst my own'!