The "isms" and the "ists"

The title of the blog seems to be very strange and if you are wondering what I am up to this time then don’t worry "your ideas would get clear here on".
I was just relaxing and watching “The BUCK STOPS HERE” a talk or debate show hosted by Barkha Dutt a senior journalists. The topic was Ajmal Kasab court trial. There were lot of distinguish personalities who were throwing a lot of ideas and thoughts, interpretations, conclusions and Barkha was catching everything and collating them together for the viewer to analyze and ponder on it.
Some basic jargons, if I dare say to that language, which was spoken in the show, was terrorists, fundamentalists, Islamists, communalists, fascist, racist, extremist etc. As I was hearing them speak and most of the related shows on even other issues in India we often hear similar verbose to the one above. The point I am making here takes us to the title of the blog, rather makes half of the title i.e. THE “ISTS” part of it.
What I wanted the distinguished guests to tackle or speak about is THE “ISMS” behind every such “ISTS” i.e. for example when we speak about terrorists then what about Terror”ism”. If we are speaking about Extremists then why don’t we speak about Extremism and so on………
From what as a English language student I understand is a Terrorists or any “…ISTS” is completely dependent on the “…..ISM” that motivates and propels the individual to become an “IST” of that nature.
The very notion above is good enough, to make us realize what we have to do in order to achieve what we wish to. For example we want to end Terror then finishing terrorists is not going to solve the problem. We have to work towards solving TERRORISM. If the “ISM” ends then the motivations that propels people to kill so many also is killed. The base on which this game is played is no more the motivation.
If I look at myself and see what today can propel me to be a part of a plan to kill so many innocent people, it would need immensely high level of motivational talk aided with proofs, images, statistics, fundamentals which would then create a high amount of emotional turbulence in me and I would want to take revenge by whatever means being made available to me. Basically I want to revenge whether if it’s the right way or wrong its immaterial for me. Such a high motivation is generated in people like Kasab which is very dangerous. The basic point is there are some people who has something with them which can create Kasabs. This again boomerangs a question onto us that have we done something wrong which is being used against us. Is the onus on us here rather than them???
I mean there could be more than what we see here. The motivational facts would be false but not entirely. There would be some strong reasoning which we are overlooking and/or missing something to this whole issue of Terrorists and their Terrorism. We have over these years, failed to understand their problem or the motivation that they provide to people like Kasab to go and create such carnage.
Here I am not justifying what Kasab did but I am saying there is more to it than mere act that he has performed. By hanging him, we can only revenge what he did but I think that neither makes our lives secure nor guarantee that there would be no more of such attack.
Did our government, we as people tried implementing, learnt from what inspired him to kill so many hapless people. Forget that did we try to understand the “ISM” behind the “ISTS” in Kasab. There could some starch realities, some mistakes we would have done that has reaped us the crop called Kasab. Are we even contemplating such a thing?
If we assume that Kasab was motivated from outside India and we as a nation can’t do much about it then what about the Maosits, Naxals or BODO. They are the locals and not someones who came from outside. Did we ever try to de-alienate the local people from the insurgent groups? Where are these groups of terror getting recruits from? They have a steady flow of recruits, which is a proof that they have something to tell and motivate people to join them. They can’t sustain by making people join them by force for such a long time. This motivation given to people is the root of the “ISMS” that has created the “ISTS”.
Any ill “ISMS” should be tackled and the problems have to be nipped in the bud, neutralize the motivations that make up the “ISMS” whether its Terrorism, Pessimisms, casteism, Racism etc….. we try to change individual and make him, bring him on other side of the “IST” spectrum but fail because the “ISMS” remain in the background and the change is therefore superficial.
The danger lies in the “ISMS” that we knowingly/unknowingly create due to our vested interests and not the “ISTS” that come up later. The “ISTS” are only the immediate consequences of the “ISMS” and they don’t die till the time “ISMS” exists. We can only prevent and feel lucky that we did not fall prey to the Consequence like Kasab this time but this does not guarantee any future setbacks to us.