Why does Islamism deserve an apology?

Now Mani Ratnam wants to make a film on Muslims portraying them in a ‘positive’ light. He wants to name the film Azan- or the muezzin’s call for prayers. My question is when was the last film we made where we showed Muslims in a ‘non positive or negative’ light. If the villain was a Muslim, then you’d have a balancing character who would be Muslim, good, courageous, and if he isn’t all that big a star, then he would die mid-way in a show of bravery that would make Mahabharata’s Abhimanyu look pale.
Just recently we sat through such pseudo-secular shit in Karan Johar’s ‘Kurbaan’. The kind where Islamism is justified as a rectifying process against the oil greed of the United States.
However does any religion sanction such mindless violence as we saw on 26/11or 7/11? I don’t think so.
But the problem with Muslims can be summed up in a Malayalam saying which goes something like this- religion is like underwear. You wear it, it is comfortable, you show it, it is vulgar.
Now Muslims worldwide and India especially have ventured into an area of style that is commonly a preserve of Superman. They want to wear their underwear right above their pants. And damn anyone who tells him that it is a style that suits people from Krypton best.
Let us go back to the oil argument. Some groups have a problem with US presence in the gulf, especially in the cradle of Islam- Saudi Arabia.
But when the Americans landed there several decades ago, it was to help the Arabs get a better life from the black gold that flowed beneath the vast arid sand. The US did a good job with it and Arabs managed to create entire kingdoms where standards of living- financially mind you not socially- matched the best of the west. The US also profited but that is expected in a fair transaction. Would you pay more for your grocery if you realised the shop-keeper needed fast cash to get his daughter married? In business what it is worth is what you give.
Now Afghanistan. Well the US went there but only after the Mujahids took up arms against the Godless Russians and only when the US was assured the Mujahids would be with them to fight the demon of communism. Come to think of it what the Godless Russians were trying to do in Afghanistan might have been the best thing for them, eradicating a public God from a land where every breath, smile, tear, woman, man, camel and goat belonged to the will of God.
The US soldiers are still there fighting the same Mujahids who they once armed. Of course the demon of communism has been replaced by the ‘Satanic’ Godliness of America.
The vast majority of US military presence is after 9/11. What was that all about? Why America? For what it was doing in Iraq and to Muslims worldwide? Iraq asked for it after it took over Kuwait. An oil cartel led by a crazed Saddam would have seen you using you car just once a year at best. That needed to be downed and the US did it.
I’m sure the US President who will call back all US troops from the various Muslim theatres of war- and still ensure there would be no 9/11 ever again on US soil- would beat the hell out of the opposition in any election.
But the problem is no US president would be ever able to guarantee it. Because Islamism is no longer about right or wrong, it is about the madness of a group of demented souls who think medieval Arabia was the only place and system God created prefect. Democracy, secularism, progress, dynamism, human rights and equality as fruits of a constant churning of human minds in the pursuit of something better is alien to these Islamists. It is not the essence of Islamic teachings that they care about but the very word that they are written in. That kind of dementia has no place in this world.

We Indians I think started off their journey in 1947 thinking we will build a nation where religion and caste would gradually melt away and a huge mass of people who believed in common good would come up. A nation where God was a private being within the confines of your heart and where law and the Constitution became our religion. Where man was free to choose no God if he so wanted and where a woman was as equal to any man in whatever work that she chose to do.

Ideals very tough to follow for sure but what the heck we could still try for it. In that scenario a group of people who think as Muslims, who want to eat like Muslims and dress like Muslims should have no place in this system. I think the only way forward for India is to start a movement that would destroy religion- Hinduism, Islam or any other- so thoroughly that not a soul would ever be able to tell the difference between a man who goes by the name Jatashankar Pandey or Mohammad Shahabuddin.

Religion needs to be confined to the dustbin ASAP. And in that process, chicken-hearted pacifists and apologists have absolutely no place either.