Indian Mujahideen, the enemy within by Shishir Gupta

'The solution (against home grown Islamic terrorism) particularly in India, lies not with religious clerics, but economic development, good governance, better infrastructure, more security and superior investigative tools that avoid harassment of the innocent at the end of law enforcement agencies. It is the harassment, bullying and insecurity that sowed the seeds of home grown jihad, with external forces ever ready to nurture the poison ivy and encourage it to strike its own people. '
The above statement above in the preface of the book can be perfectly applicable to Pakistan or if you chose to go a bit further to Afghanistan or to any bloody country with a strong mixture of radical religionism with bad economic conditions. The issue is the author's prejudice towards Pakistan which he has tried to counter at times but failed to do so in my opinion. On numerous occasions when profiling home grown terrorists he has used terms like 'managed to get a job in US as a lecturer' demonstrating his surprise as if implying, 'how as a Muslim could he find such a job so easily in the US? In India he would have to struggle first.'
The other question which the author does not consider is the fact that most of his profiled terrorists came from good university educational backgrounds before being radicalised, immediately raising the obvious question as to why? Why would potential engineers or doctors or pilots risk a potential safe and secure life in order to throw everything away to practice airguns?
This book is clearly written by a journalist who has not really done a lot of 'investigation' apart from a cleaner cut and paste job from police files. It reads like a dossier prepared for the Indian government which refuses to look into causes as to why so many minority Muslims seemed to be so easily being led to a suicidal career of Jihad?
On the other hand I am thankful to the author who has spelled out the depth of the Hindu paranoia against global jihad. One wonders why the Indian government has not shared its concerns with the other governments in the network like UAE, Bangladesh, Nepal and Saudi Arabia along with Pakistan.
The book was a waste of good time.