Communalism and Terrorism are interlinked, challenges in controlling them
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Communalism and Terrorism are interlinked, challenges in controlling them
Communalism and Terrorism are interlinked, challenges in controlling them
Communalism and terrorism despite having distinguishable definitions and have different contents shows similar pattern of regularity which can be termed as 'form.' In short, both take the form of violence of various natures as the consequence; unleashing fear and hatred in the minds of the people. Both are inter-linked to each other and cannot be seen as two set of different phenomenon independent of each other. This is particularly true in the Indian context today and is very much relevant.
What communalism, in common parlance, does is that religion (most commonly) or language, caste, ethnicity, etc. is used by its propagators as a means to achieve desired political goals. While terrorism is a phenomenon in which unjustifiable criminal acts are committed by terrorists to provoke a state of terror in the general public to achieve any targeted goal(s). Terrorism often uses the languages of religion, ethnicity, a particular ideology, etc. to justify terrorist acts in India. Thus, most of the religious fundamentalism based terrorist attacks in India has more or less finds its connection with communal-riots that often targets minorities. Hence terrorism seems to be an appropriate tool to retaliate against those communal mongers and seemingly supporters by those who had become the worst victims of communal-riots and communalism and yet hadn't given deserved justice.
What precedes what is a matter of debate, however, the circular reasoning that communalism and terrorism are inter-linked and goes in a cycle is a well-established fact that can be explained by relevant examples.