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May-10-2009
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This is apropos of Siddharth Varadarajan Where silence prevails, justice will not [The Hindu ] The newspaper has long been known to be an impotent lapdog of degenerate commie propaganda. In a recent article, its editor N Ram was glorifying the annihilation of Tibetan culture, society and civilization by the Chinese on the pretext of saving them from serfdom while on a Chinese govt. sponsored trip to Tibet. The moral vacuity of a news editor who tomtoms obvious Chinese propaganda machinery as the paragon of objectivity reminds us of a similar starry eyed communist in USSR who glossed over Stalin"s Gulags even as he "eloquently" fought the fascists.
Mr Vadarajan uses the classic goebbesque subterfuge of repeating lies, and at best half truths and presenting them as accepted facts. The crux of his article is summarized below;
1. Modi or no Hindu leader has apologized for the Godhra riots
2. Sri Sri Ravishankar directed attention on Kashmiri Pandits but never on Godhra and Kandhamal victims
3. Muslim leaders issued fatwas against terrorism but Hindu leaders did not
There are other palpable lies which are employed by the classic subterfuge of putting words into the mouth of non existent witnesses. No man in the right mind would attribute post-godhra riots to avenge Kashmiri pundits when the immediate provocation was the burning of kar sevaks supposedly by 2000 Ghanchi muslims.
i. Nevertheless, Mr Vararajan sinful sophistry is explicit when he complains against Modi"s "unwillingness" to apologize for so called Gujarat massacre. Any apology is an open admission of guilt and subscription to the nefarious theories of "state sponsored genocide" when over 1/3rd of the victims in the riots were Hindus. No proof of Modi"s involvement in the riots has ever surfaced. Instead, secular mythmakers from "The Hindu" justified the train burning by suggesting a provocation of molestation of a non existent Muslim girl, Arundhati Roy"s invention of horrifying rape stories of Ehsaan Jaffri"s daughters which she later retracted when it was revealed they were not even in Gujarat during the riot, all without battling an eye lid, Teesta Setelvad nailed in the SIT report for having invented victims who were dead months before the riot out of natural causes or cooked and spicy stories of a ripped off foetus were found to be fake. Indeed, communal riots are not new to India but these journalists created an atmosphere of paronia, hate and Muslim victomhood which was liberally exploited by Islamist terrorist groups. Now who has blood in his hands?
ii. The second accusation against Sri Sri Ravishankar also smacks of malice. Since 1989, more than 5 lakh Kashmiri pundits have been rendered refugees in their own lands. They have also lost over 5000 of their brethren. Yet, in that 20 yr period their case was conveniently shelved and their minority status in the valley was brushed aside even as Muslims in the valley were consistently appeased and imaginary cases of human right violations by the army concocted by the same "secular" mythographers. In fact, there has been no dearth of books which have demonized Kashmiri pundits and ignored their paramount cultural contribution to the state and their rightful place as the indigenous people of the valley. In contrast, there is a thriving cottage industry operating on fraudulent Godhra and Kandhamal studies in both national and international universities. Hence, the attempt to draw parallels between post Godhra, Kandhamal and Kashmiri Pandits by Varadarajan is criminal subversion of the pandit"s right to self determination who have become victims of a jihadi conspiracy. In case of Godhra and Kandhamal, there was a preceding communal conflict and grave provocation by agents claiming to act on behalf of minority community. The riots that ensued had victims from both sides. There were Hindu relief camps operating in Godhra and Kandhamal within days of the riots which was a mathematical impossibility in case of Kashmiri Muslims who had armed mercenaries on their side. Finally, the so called internal displacement in post-Godhra Gujarat and Kandhamal was restored to normal order within months. Can we say the same for the Hindu Kashmiri pundits who have no hope of returning to the valley? While the Orissa govt. made elaborate voting arrangements for Kandhamal refugees, Kashmiri pundits were brutally lathicharged at Anantnag for desiring to exercise their franchise.
iii. Islam is a centralized religion. Therefore, the entire social outlook of its followers is controlled by a reactionary ulema. But when Mr Varadrajan praises the same forces of obfuscation and bigotry for issuing so called "fatwas against terror", he is making a complete fool of himself. I ask Mr Varadrajan to point towards a specific unconditional apology issued by the ulema till date. Have they apologized for the destruction of over 300 temples in Kashmir between 1986-1989? Have they apologized for the intentional displacement of Kashmiri pundits and the abuse of their women in the heyday of the Kashmir crisis? Have they or even any secularist condemned the burning of innocent Hindus in the Godhra train carnage. Instead, fatwas which instantly degenerated into America and police bashing were the order of the day. "No Muslim can be a terrorist" and "all Muslims are innocent" was the base ingredient of the anti-terror fatwa. Conspiracy theories of the Urdu press which have recently been exposed in a new book point towards a systematic attempt at undermining the Indian state. Therefore, Ulema Council Chairman, Maulana Amir Rashadi in a typical conspiracy theory alleged that, "The UPA governments have been acting under pressure from Mossad, which has been acting in coordination with the Sangh Parivar and targeting the Muslim community. All the terror attacks in the country have been carried out by them. Karkare exposed them and brought out this naked truth. So they killed him." When Mr Antulay openly peddled these conspiracy theories in the national parliament he was only dancing to the tunes of his Muslim votebank. Similarly, Christian missionaries openly encourage confrontation by claiming it is their god-given duty to convert the Hindu infidels.
iv. Finally, Mr Varadarajan also does not know the difference the organizational difference between Hinduism and Islam. The latter encroaches the public sphere and every Muslim is expected to don the ranks of a Ghazi to defend his religion. He is expected to mould himself through authoritative traditions of Hadith as close as possible into the man whose human rights record was controversial at best. Since Hinduism is more a way of life than belief, hence it provides automatic agency to the individual to make decisions which do justice to his conscience. The role of priestly intermediaries is exclusively restricted to the private sphere of ritual.
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