Author: Tarun Vijay
Publication: The Pioneer
Date: November 18, 2008
URL: http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/Opinion/Columnists/Why_are_Hindus_angry/articleshow/3726631.cms
In Srinagar, a Muslim women's organization
- the Dukhtaran-e-Millat - vows to impose the strict Islamic code on women
through violence and declares that it is in the interests of women. The leader
of this outfit, Asiyah Andrabi, was jailed several times for working against
the nation and for being a conduit for money to jihadi groups who used that
help to kill Hindus and create disaffection among people against India. The
US State Department Report of 1995 held a Dukhtaran-e-Millat activist responsible
for a parcel bomb blast at the BBC office in Srinagar in which one person
was killed and two injured.
The DeM has recently been linked to certain
money laundering cases. Andrabi was booked under POTA (Prevention of Terrorism
Act) for receiving ISI money through hawala channels. Whenever she speaks
against India, there is no emotion or any sense of regret.
She was never subjected to a narco test nor
did the media feel anything bad about her. Instead, women's groups interviewed
her, called her the "new face of Muslim feminism", and glossy magazines
splashed her interviews with a tinge of revolutionary romanticism.
For Indian seculars, the Srinagar crowd working
against India brings added fizz, a thrill and a heroism that has to be "understood"
rather than condemned. Serious academic columns are published saying that
if they are so passionately and aggressively pursuing separatism, why shouldn't
we give the Kashmir valley to them?
It's only when a lady monk is killed in Kandhamal
or arrested in Nashik and appears to be wearing saffron rather than green
that expressions become stern, the law becomes the guiding force, narco tests
are immediately ordered and before anything can be even remotely established,
the person is pronounced guilty. No women's organization comes out openly
to say she is a woman and hence the police must protect her honour and religious
obligations at all cost.
Her father says she is innocent. No one gives
any importance to that statement.
She cooperates during the narco test and nothing
incriminatory is proved. The police say she practices yoga, hence the narco
test didn't work.
The bike, the RDX, the targets - nothing is
proved. Yet, she is tortured in police custody.
The women's commission that swung into action
when an item girl used it to get cheap publicity and hot assignments maintains
a studied silence.
The Human Rights Commission remains unfazed
and the red sirens of the Marxist class look the other way. They had been
demanding a pardon for Afzal although the Supreme Court convicted him. But
the issues involved were of secular nature; hence they had to speak.
Nobody still knows what Pragya actually did
or didn't do. She has to be severely dealt with just because the colour she
wears is not registered as secular in the government's registry of protection
where rapists, extortionists and scandalous criminals get a cabinet berth
and a murder accused jailbird becomes a chief minister for being on the correct
side politically.
First they said an army officer used 60 kg
of RDX to blow up the Samjhauta Express. Then the denial comes; no RDX was
used, it was ammonium nitrate, oh no perhaps IEDs. Then the Mecca Masjid blasts
are linked with Malegaon, then the Hyderabad police issue an official statement
that nothing has been found to link the two. The motorbike, the disfigured
numbers on the chassis, the absconding person, the real mastermind, the saffron
terror guru ... Remember when the Kanchi Shankaracharya was arrested, what
kind of charges were levelled against him? Rape, murder, financial fraud and
womanizing. And women came foreword to issue statements about how they were
"lured". What happened afterwards? Even "nothing" won't
convey the nothingness of the entire plot.
But the damage to the great seat of Hindu
reverence had been done.
After Kanchi and the Kandhamal murders, a new tool in form of Hindu terrorism
has been crafted to make the Batla House terror gang happy.
Not a single Hindu will ever condone terrorism.
It's not in our genes. Our blood group in this matter is different. If someone
does it he is guilty of doing an un-Hindu act. Anyone caught and proven guilty
must be severely dealt with. But why humiliate a majority community that defines
the character of the nation for election gains?
Words, cacophony, a celebrative secular media's
new 24-hour preoccupation - lynch the saffron, light the party fire.
Just one incident and look how Batla House
terrorism, Jamia's protective belligerence, Assam blasts, Pakistani flags
carried in Bodo areas by Muslim infiltrators, the Ram Setu destruction and
affidavits that humiliate Hindus, everything got under cover. Only the newly
manufactured "Hindu terrorism" is reigning in the national debate
as a new fashion statement.
The invention of "Hindu terrorism"
helped the government get out of a defensive shell and be extraordinarily
active to crack a whip against "bad elements".
It had never displayed this action-oriented
thrill when the Delhi blasts occurred or the Jaipur blasts claimed more than
60 lives. No Maulana was arrested or caricatured in the media as the bloody
green terror guru or ghastly Islamic terrorism.
No, they said, terror has no religion hence
these blasts, though done with a holy book surrounded by AK47s, and long quotes
from it to justify the blasts and the killings of Hindus shouldn't be sourced
to religion. These must not be explained away as Islamic terror, but just
the work of some misguided people who are giving a bad name to a peaceful,
brotherly way of worship.
Fine.
But when they see saffron, everyone loves
to tie them with the speeding bus of law enforcement and constitutional propriety
and beat them black and blue to prove a secular manliness of dhimmitude variety.
Pragya says she was tortured in police custody
but no one took any notice of that. Why?
Even the most dreaded women criminals have
been accorded human rights protection. Pragya is no criminal, she doesn't
advocate violence against the state, she is not a traitor, she doesn't impose
any kind of obscurantist code on women nor does she use acid, like Andarabi,
to make other women fear her dictates. She has not said she is out to kill
others to bring about any kind of religious order. But she is tortured and
no one says it a gross violation of human rights. Is she not to be given the
protection that every woman is entitled to?
Those who write against the nation, insult
our heritage and support secession, get applauds and awards. But those who
die for the nation and protect the civilisational flow are tortured in police
custody.
That's the brevity and power of a state that's
in reality headed by a woman and is being actually run by another.
More than 60,000 Hindus have been killed by
Islamic jihadis, in the name of their religion and not a single Hindu stood
up to say: Enough is enough, I will now see the wicked are punished and innocents
are protected.
There is a list of more than 200 Hindu temples razed or desecrated in the
Kashmir valley. No Hindu Kashmiri vowed to establish a Hindu terror group
to take revenge because the state apparatus has failed to provide them safety.
Seema, a six-year-old girl, was found lying
unconscious in a pool of blood in Doda when Islamic terrorists came to her
house in the thick of night at 2.30 am, woke up her father, mother and her
11-year-old brother, killing them after brutal torture. They used big knives
to cut them into pieces.
Still no Hindu terror group was formed to
teach them a lesson.
A two-and-a-half-year old boy who was crying
for milk as his mother was shot dead by Islamic terrorists in Wandhama attracted
the attention of the jihadis and the bullets silenced him too.
Even then, Hindus didn't become terrorists.
The great socialist leader Ram Manohar Lohia
use to say - India has three dreams - Ram, Krishna and Shiva. The abodes,
the principal temples of the global Hindus dedicated to these three dreams
of India were destroyed and desecrated by Islamic invaders. Go to Google and
see how the Shiva temple in Kashi has been turned into a mosque in such a
style that the pillars of the old Hindu temple remain clearly visible to show
Hindus that here was once the temple they used to worship, which has been
converted into a mosque.
Yet for the last four centuries no Hindu has
turned a terrorist to take revenge in Kashi.
Now when elections are underway, the government
is in shambles showing utter unworthiness to govern and protect patriotic
people. Suddenly every single person arrested for terrorism is a saffron,
a Hindu and nothing is appearing on the channels or in Sunday magazine features
except the "grave danger of Hindu terrorism" and the army getting
the saffron "tilak" of terror.
Even the Ghaznis, Ghauris and Abdalis haven't
done so much of character assassination of a majority community as this government
has done just to garner a few Muslim votes.
Is it fair?
Will it not create a reaction among those
who have been chanting mantras of global peace and fraternity and praying
for the welfare of all, irrespective of faith or colour? Pushed to a corner,
restricted from crying and blackholed like the Jews during the Nazi regime,
will it not be a bit too naive to expect that Hindus will remain silent and
offer their necks for the secular sacrificial ritual of election gains? Their
temples are bombed, their children are killed, their property is looted, their
orchards are burnt, their motherland is disfigured and assaulted, yet the
state declares a war on their sensitivities, the media muffles their voice
and bans all for a for them to express their views. On the contrary, it shows
the victims as aggressors, humiliating them in the eyes of the real attackers.
Nature abhors such Siberian gags. Peace is
strengthened by justice alone.
The way Pragya has suddenly become a hero
must make sane people sit up and take note of the wave passing through the
Hindu heartland. Tsunamis don't send advance emails before they strike.
- The author is the Director, Dr Syamaprasad
Mookerjee Research Foundation.