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Secular hypocrites working against Hindus

Secular hypocrites working against Hindus

Author: M.V. Kamath
Publication: The Free Press Journal
Date: March 14, 2002

Hundreds of senior editors, journalists and academicians marched to  the Parliament on Monday in solidarity with the victims of the  communal carnage in Gujarat, demanding that the Government should  stop the violence immediately" says a report in The Telegraph. (5  March). The only trouble is that it was not the government that  started the violence. Some one else did. And our intellectuals do not  want to face up to that fact.

This was noted by none other than J. Jayalalitha, the new Chief  Minister of Tamil Nadu who in a statement said that "it is saddening  and strange that when acts (like the torching of the Sabarmati  Express) are perpetuatedagainst the minorities, all political leaders  rush to condemn, but when the majority community is attached "not a  single political leader" condemns it. The point must be made that the  Ahmedabad riots and killings followed the Godhra carnage and did not  precede it, but that, apparently does not register on our  secularists. The focus in the entire English media is on Ahmedabad.  The reaction of our secularists to the Godhra killings in which over  58 people were killed including 25 women and 14 children has been muted. Consider what happened when Graham Staines and two of his sons  were torched by tribals, in Orissa. All hell broke loose. The VHP,  the Bajrang Dal and the BJP were damned. Never mind if subsequently  the Wadhwa Commission in its report ruled out their involvement, but  Hindu bodies got a bad name. These 25 women and 14 children in the  Sabarmati Express had done no harm to anyone. Their husbands and  parents were not engaged in any missionary activities. And just like  the Staines trio these 39 - not three - unfortunates were burnt  alive. There is not a word of condemnation  from minority leaders.  One can only imagine what the outcry would have been if those torched  were Muslims or Christians.

To press home the alleged viciousness of Hindus the American weekly  Newsweek (March 11) quotes "graffiti on a wall on the outskirts of  Ahmedabad where more than 400 lives have been lost in Hindu-Muslim  clashes" that says: "Learn from us how to burn Muslims". One can be  sure that none of our secular intellectuals would raise their voice  against Newsweek. After all those burnt in Godhra were Hindus,  weren't they? They are the majority community in India, aren't they?  So what is there to complain about?

The secular media virtually justifies the killing of the Kar Sevaks  allegedly because they "raised slogans". In a secular India, Hindu  lives are expendable. It is always the Hindu who is in the wrong.  Consider the case of the rape of nuns in Jhabua. It was again  established to be an intra-tribal and intra-Christian affair. But the  secular media and the minorities blamed the Hindu and the RSS. Or  take the case of Catholic Church being vandalised in Bangalore. It  was attributed to the Bajrang Dal. It was only when an unheard of  Muslim sect was discovered to have been behind the crime that the  chant of hatred against the Hindus stopped. No apology was ever given  by minority leaders, let alone the secular media. Hindus are soft  targets. BJP workers are regularly murdered in Kerala by the  communists. Indeed a few months ago a BJP school teacher was hacked  to pieces in front of school children right in the class. There was  no hew and cry.

On March 3 The Hindu reported that "two RSS workers were hacked to  death by suspected CPI(M) activists at Melur, near Palayad under the  Dharmadom police station limits". Hacked to death. It couldn't have  been an easy death. The men must have screamed in agony. But do these  murders affect anyone? They are RSS workers, aren't they? Deserve to  be killed, don't they? And consider what the CPM government is doing  in West Bengal. Says a report in TheTelegraph )5 March), a Kolkata- based secular paper: "After its unsuccessfulattempt to dictate terms  to the Ramakrishna Mission-run primary schools three years ago, The  state government is now threatening to impose its writ on  institutions run by Christian missionaries. Around 10 such schools  in the city, followed by several in the districts, find themselves in  the line of fire for not abiding by the government's directive to  employ teachers appointed by the CPM-controlled primary councils. The  provident fund and other post-retirement benefits of the headmistress  of Ushagram School in Asansol have been blocked by the government  after the institution refused to employ a teacher appointed by the  Burdwan District Council". It is a long story of harassment. Imagine  what a shindig would have been raised if a BJP government  tried to impose party-oriented teachers on Christian mission schools.  There would have been screams of 'saffron tyranny'. If the communists  attempt to undermine missionary hold in their own schools hardly any  notice is taken of it. Of course, if there is a Maoist rebellion in  Nepal or in the heart of India that is dismissed as just one of those  things. The proletariat, one must know, has the right to kill. In  Nepal 48 soldiers, 75 policemen, four civil servants and one civilian  were killed in cold blood by Maoists but the story died the next day.  How can Maoists be wrong? They are revolutionaries, aren't they? And  revolutionaries have the right to kill, don't they?

On March 3 The Times of India woke up to the fact that two tableeq  Jamaat preachers from Kashmir had come to twin towns of Godhra and  Dahod earlier in December 2001 to make provocative speeches, forcing  the seven mosques in Dahod to put up sign boards saying: "Outsiders  shouldn't come to the mosques. Delivering provocative speeches is  strictly prohibited".

That bit of information never saw the light of day in any newspaper.  Even news agencies apparently had never heard of Dahod and what has  been going on there. So much for our news agencies and media  reporting.

There is something sick with our secular media that calls for  explanation. Ayodhya has been deliberately seen as a point of  explosion when even such a respectable person as justice Ram Jois,  former Chief Justice of the Punjab and Haryana High Court has pointed  out in an article that the Ram Janmabhoomi Nyas is the undisputed  owner of the 43 acres of land near the Babri Masjid site and that it  is on this undisputed land that the VHP proposes to start  reconstruction of the Ram Temple to fulfil the aspirations of the  People. That point is deliberately disregarded. It does not  serve the intentions of our secularists bent on damning the BJP and  the VHP. Again and again the point is made that there is no evidence  of a temple having been demolished by Babar's general in Ayodhya to  build a mosque on the site, when every evidence points to that. There  is, for example, the statement made by the Deputy Superintendent  Archaeologist (Madras Circle), K. K. Muhammad (Indian Express) 15  December 1990 that said: "I can reiterate this (i.e. the existence of  the Hindu temple before it was displaced by the Babri Masjid) with  greater authority - for I was the only Muslim who had participated in  the Ayodhya excavations in 1976-77 under Prof. Lal as a trainee. I  have visited the excavation near the Babri site and seen the  excavated pillar bases.

The JNU historians have highlighted only one part of our findings  while suppressing the other. I often wondered why Prof. Lal is  keeping quiet about it while JNU group went on a publication spree".  Muhammad was to add; "Ayodhya is as holy to Hindus as Mecca is to  Muslims; Muslims should respect the sentiments of their Hindu  brethren and voluntarily hand over the structure for constructing the  Rama Temple". Everyone keeps saying that they will respect a Supreme  Court judgement. But when is that going to be delivered? in March  2103 - a century later? Judgement can be delivered in ten minutes  flat. All the evidence is there and only the blind can ignore it. But  why are our courts silent? Are they afraid to speak out lest they  offend the secularists? Are they afraid of a Muslim backlash if the  truth is told? And who believes the Muslim leaders when they say that  they will obey a Supreme Court order? Did they obey such an order  following the judgement given in the Shah Banoo case?

Besides, one is tempted to ak: what is so special about the Babri  Masjid that tears should be shed over its demolition? Masjids are  routinely demolished even in Saudi Arabia and in Pakistan to make way  for development.

On 22 February The Asian Age carried this item: "Some 12 unauthorised mosques were demolished in different sectors of Islamabad on  Wednesday. The operation was jointly carried out by the Capital  Development Authority, Islamabad Territory administration, district  auqaf department and the Islamabad police. Official sources told Dawn  that these mosques were razed as part of its ongoing drive against  illegally constructed mosques and madaris in Islamabad... The  mosques' management committees tried to protest during the operation  but no untoward incident as reported". The Babri Masjid was imposed  on the Hindu people of Ayodhya by a conqueror to show who was the  ruler, and it had no legal or moral sanction. It could have been dismantled and subsequently rebuilt at VHP cost but the Muslim  community would not hear of it. They had the backing of the  secularists to whose pig-headedness must be attributed what has  happened since then.
 


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