Bhaskar
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Godhra suggest India is not Free
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03/27/02 at 04:02:39 » |
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Godhra, 'secular' 'progressives' and politics
As usual, during the bloodbath in Gujarat, the Nehruvian
Stalinists in the English-language media showed their cowardice
and bigotry by blaming the Hindus for all sorts of real and
imagined faults. It never strikes them that the non-Hindus of
India could possibly be anything other than victims oppressed by
"cruel, medieval, casteist Hindus:" never mind that such Hindus
exist largely in their hyperactive imaginations.
The Nehruvians twisted themselves into pretzel-logic in their
eagerness to justify the unjustifiable: the carnage that was set
off by the usual suspects, that is, Muslims with links either to
Pakistani subversives or to the Congress party. The difference
between the two groups is vanishingly small when it comes to
pressing forward Muslim demands. Consider some implicated as
suspects in the Godhra incident according to BJP sources, as
reported by The Indian Express of March 5:
Mehmud Hussain Kalota, convener of the Congress district minority
cell and president of the Godhra municipality
Salim Abdul Ghaffar Sheikh, president of the Panchmahal Youth
Congress
Abdul Rehman Abdul Majid Ghantia, a known Congress worker
Farroukh Bhana, secretary of the district Congress committee
Haji Bilal, a known Congress worker
Yet, the grave provocation of Muslims deliberately burning alive
Hindu women and children did not lead to a communal conflagaration
in India in general. Can you imagine what would have happened if,
say, black rioters had torched a trainload of white commuters in
New York City? The entire country would have been in flames. Or,
more to the point, if a bunch of Muslims had set fire to a
Greyhound bus in Los Angeles? I can guarantee this: every Muslim
in the country would have been rounded up and sent to a
concentration camp (probably Guantanamo Bay these days), just like
the Americans did to the Japanese during World War II.
Yet, nothing like this happened in India. Things were more or less
normal. So here are some headlines we did not see in the 'secular'
'progressive' English media of India, and which we, indeed, will
never see:
In the midst of the communal disturbances in Gujarat, thousands of
Muslim office-goers in Tamil Nadu went about their normal lives
West Bengal's many Islamic madrassas functioned without
hindrance
In Hyderabad, no Hindus attacked Muslims even in Hindu-dominated
areas
Thousands of Muslim mosques all over India, outside Gujarat, were
unharmed and untouched by violence
120 million Muslims all over the country went to work, prayed,
went to the movies, ate at restaurants without being molested by
Hindus
And why is it that this was possible in India? Can you imagine the
situation in reverse in Pakistan? That is, if a Hindu mob
massacred 58 unarmed Muslim pilgrims, would the life of a single
Hindu in Pakistan (of the handful that apparently live there, a
rapidly decreasing number as their women are kidnapped and
converted to Islam regularly) be in the least bit safe? In 1992,
after the Ayodhya incidents, most Hindus in Pakistan were forced
to take on Christian names like John and Joseph just to be allowed
to live.
Do note that, according to India Today magazine, the Muslim mob
came equipped with crowbars to pry open the closed shutters of the
S-6 coach, a reserved women's coach, which is also in keeping with
known modus operandi, to cause maximum offense (I had not heard
about the abduction of young women until I read Varsha's piece. I
wonder where they are now.) Not to mention Molotov cocktails,
quantities of kerosene, containers of acid, country-made bombs and
so forth.
I am sure rediff.com's own Dilip D'Souza, whose heart bleeds
constantly for anybody who is not a Hindu, would consider the
train attack an excellent example of peaceful democratic dissent.
I am looking forward to Anand Patwardhan making a movie about
Hindu violence in Gujarat, while coyly omitting to mention the
burning alive of Hindu pilgrims. Muslims massacring Hindus -- ah,
but that is just business as usual: wink, wink, nudge, nudge,
"boys will be boys."
It is because of Hindu tolerance that the conflagration in Gujarat
did not extend to the rest of India. It behooves the English media
-- so quick to denounce Hindus in such harsh and unfair terms --
to remember this. Pakistan made a big show -- eyes firmly on such
friendly media as the UK's Guardian newspaper and The New York
Times -- of "protecting" Hindu temples in Karachi during the
Gujarat troubles. Why don't the Marxists ever wonder why it was
not necessary to "protect" mosques in India? Or why there is a Rs
350 crore Haj subsidy when no Muslim country gives such
largesse?
The problem in India is not the Muslims or Christians, it is the
brown sahibs, Marxists and fellow-travelers in the media and the
self-proclaimed 'intelligentsia.' These are the self-aggrandising
monsters, spawned by the Jawaharlal Nehru University and sustained
by shameless cronyism, who have hijacked the discourse in India to
Orwellian Stalinist levels of bizarreness: war is peace. Murder is
love. Pilgrims are terrorists. Terrorists who murder pilgrims are
poor, oppressed, misunderstood, downtrodden minorities.
There is a concept of 'dhimmitude:' an extension of the Oslo
syndrome where a hostage develops an unreasoning attachment to the
captors.
It is known that everybody reading this mail are guys with no idle time.But please think
once and decide whether India ever Got Freedom!
TRUE FREEDOM!
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Raj1
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Re: Godhra suggest India is not Free
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04/13/02 at 11:16:54 » |
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This is an interesting piece of article. You should appreciate the free indian media rather than cursing it. Since you mentioned something america, I cannot but help you one incidence in America on september 11th that burned some 5000 (my math is weak, is it higher than 68?) human beings alive. Supposedly the attackers were muslims. Guess what there are still muslims outside jail there. How many muslims were killed in revenge ? In one such incidence some bigot like you killed some immigrants. You know what? he got a death sentence lask week.
Nobody in right mind will support what happened in Godhra. But is it not rational to say we will go after those who were behind that henious act? Hang those who were involved in the massacre or their supporters. But why slaughter those who have nothing to do with it? What about those women and children in some part of Gujarat that were burnt alive too?
Lastly, I do not think you should compare ourselves with the idiots with which we share our western border. That is definitely not one country that is thumping towards progress. |
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Shah Alam
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Re: Godhra suggest India is not Free
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04/23/02 at 03:23:21 » |
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I feel we should build mutual trust with Hindus by rejecting the politicians like Mulayam Singh and Co, who are simply pampering the illerate Muslims against the Hindus and creating a bad image of the Muslim Community as a whole. |
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