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Let the Hindus Beware!

Let the Hindus Beware!

Author: H.V. Seshadri
Publication: Organiser
Date: November 3, 2002

Introduction: what connection is there between some incident somewhere in the world and the Muslim mobs indulging in aggression on Hindus, their property, religious places and destroying public property in our country. No, there is no connection, no logic, no local provocation whatsoever. In fact, none of these are needed. Mostly, the local Muslim politician provokes his religious henchmen for such acts, evidently for further strengthening his extremist hold upon them.

This happened, I believe, some 30-35 years back. A book, Religious Leaders, by Thomas and Thomas was published in Europe. And what happened next was Muslim riots that broke out in our country-in Bombay and elsewhere. As usual, the rioters began attacking Hindus, torching their shops and destroying public property.

Again, now one Baptist church minister, Jerry Falwel, it seems, made some adverse comments about Prophet Mohammed in a recent television interview in New York. Soon enough, on Friday (11.10.2002) dagger wielding Muslim rioters came out on the streets in Sholapur, Maharashtra. Papers described it as a major riot leaving eleven dead and 125 injured and at least 20 shops gutted in arson. A couple of Navaratri Pandals were damaged-one of them right in front of a police station! A BJP leader's house was also attacked.

In between these two, how many similar incidents took place, I do not know. One may wonder, what connection is there between some incident somewhere in the world and the Muslim mobs indulging in aggression on Hindus, their property, religious places and destroying public property in our country. No, there is no connection, no logic, no local provocation whatsoever. In fact, none of these are needed. Mostly, the local Muslim politician provokes his religious henchmen for such acts, evidently for further strengthening his extremist hold upon them. And his flock follows him like robots. But why should they at all fall a prey to such power-mad politician's machinations? The obvious reason, one feels, is that they are already indoctrinated; the Holy Quran, the local mullah or maulvi must have told them, commands them as to how to behave towards the kafirs. Neither the politician who is cocksure about his flock's implicit 'faith' in him nor his flock need any further logic.

When our Constitution was framed, both Pt. Nehru and Sardar Patel had waxed eloquent that the 'minority ghost' had been laid to rest forever, never to raise its head again in free Bharat. In fact, when a Muslim League member's demand for separate electorates was rejected outright, he remarked that such a step would entail the loss of younger brother's love. To this, Sardar Patel had cut him short by replying, "Do not speak of the younger brother's love, we have seen enough of it."

And we know only too well how "the younger brother's love" crystallized in Muslim League had been manifested prior to and during the gory partition days. Now, the mantle of the League's leadership of the Muslim masses has been, it seems, taken over by the 'secularist' parties. The very first test vis-à-vis whether Sardar Patel's cutting remarks denoted any radical change in the attitude of Congress-the then all-round ruling party in the country-came about sooner than expected. And to the great relief of the Muslim leaders they very soon found that there was no such fear. The incident in early fifties bears repetition if only because it sets the key- note of the trend of political leadership of the 'secularist' brand in free Bharat. Congress had gone in for alliance with the 'younger brother' Muslim League in Kerala to defeat the Communists at the Assembly elections, which was due to take place shortly. When the pressmen queried Pt. Nehru whether the Congress was justified in joining hands with such a notoriously fanatic communal party which had caused the partition of the country he had replied, "The present League is a new one and not the old one." But to his great misfortune the then League's President Mohommed Islamil issued a statement on the very next day that the "present League is the same as the old one"!

At the level of riots also the fanatic Muslim leadership found soon enough that the Government was bending backwards to accommodate its aggressive anti-Hindu tactics. The police would invariably restrict or change the routes of Hindu religious processions avoiding Muslim majority areas or mosques on the roadside.

How the hold of local Muslim political leadership is crucial in all such matters also became evident just last year in Bangalore. A nearly 40,000 strong RSS swayamsevaks' camp was held on the northern outskirts of the city. About half of that number was to pass through a locality densely populated with Muslims. The city police commissioner Shri Sangliana, a very able impartial IPS from Mizoram, tried to dissuade the RSS leadership from passing through that locality. On his part, he knew well enough that the RSS men would never indulge in any provocative slogan or act on their part. However, the local Congress MP Zaffar Sherif, who had earlier visited the camp during its preparatory days, came to the rescue of the police and assured that there would be absolutely no trouble and the RSS route march could safely pass through that locality. (Shri Sherif says with pride that he had attended the RSS shakha in his home town, Chitradurga in Karnataka.)

But the question is: Do we find such sober Muslim political leadership at present all over the country? Of course, "No". In that case, is there really any other alternative except to deal with rabidly fanatical politicians and the localities that harbour such jehadi groups with such a firm hand that it must serve as a never-to-be-forgotten lesson for them? Evidently, this must be done by the law-enforcing authorities, irrespective of the political colour of the local ruling party. But in the present state of affairs, do we really find such strictly impartial law-enforcing police force able to keep itself aloof from political interference? The emphatic one word reply is "No". Under these circumstances, if the Hindus honestly feel pained at heart and wish to live in honour and security, they will have to bear the responsibility of en-bloc opposing such political parties in any kind of future election and not falling into the political trap of appeal to caste or sect or any kind of favour by such parties. On the contrary, if they fail in this primary test of a living society, it will be at the cost of their lives and property and sanctity of their holy religious places. Let them beware!
 


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