Reclaiming India : Times of India
None should say Omar is not allowed in Jammu. Let him come, listen and speak. Like any other Indian should feel free to visit Kashmir or any other part of the nation. He is welcome to visit my home even if he denies me a piece of land in Kashmir. Why should a few words uttered by him make me change my Indian-ness? If he spoke in Parliament as a Muslim, asserting his Islamic identity, let denial of land to Hindus be his Islam and my Hinduness must keep my nation as a free democracy where difference of opinion is a natural phenomenon unlike Islamic countries. I had listened to Omar Abdullah when he was in Vajpayee's cabinet and felt he had great potential to be an influential Indian leader. He spoke for India and brilliantly too. Now, if he has chosen to be just a regional one, it's his choice. But he must stop to think why he can own a bungalow in Delhi or Bangalore and at the same time deny that privilege to a fellow Indian in Kashmir? Kashmiri Muslim leaders would like to enjoy the fruits and liberties of a Hindu majority democracy but vehemently deny that to Hindus in their area of influence. Why? When they are in a minority they crave and get special privileges. But once a majority, every single right to be at par is refused to other minorities. It's the same phenomenon all over the globe. A direct consequence of turning Wahabi. Wahabi intolerance and separatism is poisoning Muslim brotherhood too. A brilliant report in TOI elaborating how Wahabi elements are gaining ground in the small towns of Gujarat and the softer, humane version of Islam, the Bareilevi school, which is resisting their aggressive expansionism makes an interesting reading and gives a frightening picture of the inter-communal strife within Muslim society. Kashmir is predominantly Sunni and Wahabi. Hence the intolerance that denies even the basic features of Kashmiriyat. And see what the de-Indianised intellectuals wrote on the front pages in Delhi's newspapers: "All over a piece of land!" Really? Then why are the Indian soldiers defending a barren piece of dead snow in Siachen? Or what's that piece of cloth known as the Tricolor? Is it worth dying for? Jammu is witnessing a mass patriotic uprising, unprecedented till now. It's a Second Ayodhya enveloped in the Tricolour outshining the 1952 Praja Parishad movement, which demanded one flag, one constitution and one head of the state. Dr Syama Prasad Mookerjee was martyred for this cause in the jail of Sheikh Abdullah, grandfather of Omar. The situation hasn't changed in the last 56 years. It has in fact worsened. Such a mass movement goes beyond the controls of any party or organisation. For the last 20 days, the roads are empty and markets closed. The sudden eruption of protests has seen grandfathers and grandsons and mothers and grandmothers ringing bells against Muslim separatism and shouting at the top of their voice: "Har har Mahadev". Such a protest by every single member of families who had never come out for a public demonstration can't be engineered. It's an uprising, a spontaneous expression of anger accumulated in the last five decades of misrule by people of suspect loyalties. The Doctor's Association, Bar Association and Govt. Employees Association, Sikhs, Gujjar-Bakkarwal Muslims and Congress MLAs defying their party, the Hotel Association and every single sect of Hindu society have joined and supported the movement.
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See RSS, Think Al Queda!
Subhash Gatade August 24, 2005
Tags: hindutava , RSS , communalism
The RSS may call itself a cultural organisation, but an established US think tank has virtually equated it with Al Queda and some other outfits, terming them "new religious movements (NRMs) that have also emerged as sources of violence". ..
The report titled "Exploring Religious Conflicts"
says "NRMs can be found in Hinduism (the RSS), Israel ( Gush Emunim), Christianity ( the US based identity movement) and Islam, including Al Queda, a global network with a transcendent vision that draws support in the defence of Islam"...
For the RSS, the adverse comment comes close on the heels of the Virginia based Terrorism Research Centre (TRC) declaring it a terrorist organisation and lumping it with a number of Jihadi and secessionist outfits.
( Report by S. Rajagopalan, Hindustan Times, delhi, dated 11 th August 2005)
Labelling the RSS as "an ultra Hindu nationalist movement" it clearly states that the RSS espouses a "strong and militant religious philosophy based on exclusivity and hate", blames it for violence directed at Muslims and Christians and reiterates that it remains a threat to the idea of India as a secular state.
For the RSS, the report has been so devastating that despite a section of the media going public with the inferences of the study and its critics raising the temperatures further, none of the media savvy spokespersons of the Parivar have dared to comment on it. It appears that the Sangh bosses have preferred to adopt the much tested maun vrata a vow of silence over this. Looking at the genesis of this study which has emanated from a conservative think tank which is very close to the US establishment , the maun vratam seems to be the best option before them.
Gone are the days when the RSS and its men, which are part of the plethora of organisations which it has built, were patting themselves on their backs for effecting a paradigm shift in its relation vis-a-vis the USA.
It was only last September that the Virginia based ’Terrorism Research Centre’ a leading think tank specialising in terrorism studies with due help from the US government, declared RSS as a terrorist organisation and lumped it with a number of Jihadi and secessionist outfits. The first quarter of this year witnessed the denial of visa to Narendra Modi, the poster boy of the Sangh Parivar which rather stopped him from going to US for luring Non resident Gujaratis to invest in the state. And now comes the RAND study which tells us to have a relook at the commonalities between RSS and Al Qaeda and the danger they like many of their ilk present before humanity.
Coming to the RSS the ultra Hindu nationalist movement it says it "..[e]spouses a strong and militant religious philosophy based on exclusivity and hate. After the assassination of Gandhi in 1948, the movement was banned for a few years by the Indian government because of its acts of violence and terrorism and its exhortation to followers to resort to terrorist methods in the promulgation of its religious ideas.
If Virginia based TRC ( Terrorism Research Centre) called RSS as a ’terrorist organisation’ September 2004) and lumped it together with 31 other jihadi and secessionist organisations like the Hizbul Mujahideen and the Jaish-e-Mohammad operating in India , the US government itself denied a visa to the poster boy of Sangh Parivar Narendra Modi when he wanted to meet the Non resident Gujaratis to appeal to them that invest in Gujarat. The tragic burning of Graham Steins and his two sons by criminals owing allegiance to the Hindutva ideology had been witnessed by the world.
Join Rumor Spreading Shop (RSS)
and take India 10 centuries back in time where there was all tribal mentality around
and let the flag of fascist, rogue , brainwasher brahmanism aloft
‘Sangh Parivar is destroying Hindu civilisation’
http://churumuri.wordpress.com/2008/09/17/sangh-parivar-is-destroying-hindu-civilisation/
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