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Who is Responsible for Godhra Carnage ?
Saurabh Shah, Vishwa
Hindu Samachar, April, 2002
In the train passing through Godhra, instead of burning the
Ramsewaks returning from Ayodhya, suppose there were Hajees and the
Hindus had thrown kerosene dipped burning rags etc inside the
compartments closed from outside ? Suppose the BJP Govt. in
Gujarat had refused to carry out the mass funeral of those
62 dead bodies which were totally charred and had refused to burry all
those 62 dead bodies ? Then those ignorant, stupid or pseudo-secularist
boys and girls working for the English newspapers would have raised a
hue and cry, but after the Godhra carnage their laps tops remained
silent. Few of the English newspapers are deliberately ignoring this and
some have chosen to criticise this episode only in a few typical words
like ghastly and dastardly act and stating “The construction of Ram
Mandir with effect from 15th March : Cause of incitement of
Muslims”. Merely saying this can they undertake such merciless acts
against the Hindus. As if this would not suffice, to put salt on their
wounds, they write that while investigating those responsible for the
Godhra episode, the Govt. should take precautions that the minority
community is not unnecessarily harassed. They have used the phrase witch
hunting. Whenever the police goes searching and apprehending the muslims
communalists, there pseudo-secularists of the English newspapers, deter
them “Be cautious” when you touch our minority community brethren. In
the release of these muslim criminals responsible for the 1993 bomb
explosion in Mumbai, the newspapers most vehemently opposed the
ordinance like TADA which was in fact inevitable in national interest.
The same pseudo secular newspapers once again instead of exposing those
muslim leaders who are responsible for the Godhra carnage, they are out
to criticise and irk the Hindus, “How dare you talk about construction
of Ram Mandir.”
Ram Mandir at Ayodhya is a non issue. The pseudo-secular
newspapers as well as the TV people, who have become the puppets in the
hands of politicians, especially the muslim politicians and Mulla
Mulayamsingh like other shameless polititians, have made out a very
serious issue out of it. The more they oppose Ram Mandir the more are
the Hindus enthused. Let there be or let there be not construction of
Ram Mandir. What difference does it make to pseudo-secularists or
Muslims ? In this case by construction of Ram Mandir Hindus would not be
in exultation and without construction of Ram Mandir Hindu religion is
not going to be in danger. As stated earlier Ram Mandir is a non issue.
Then what is the problem ? Not one, there are many problems. The biggest
problem for any Government is its policy of the appeasement of minority.
If one speaks about the hypothetical example of starting a train for Haj
Pilgrims, we know the Govt. of India is already giving financial help
together with various extensive concessions to muslims very liberally. I
am not entitled to any of these for pilgrimage to Shrinathji. You do not
get any while travelling to Samet Shikhar. We have to spend from our own
pockets. We wish that even they pay from their pockets. If the Govt. of
India is a government of the Hindu Nation then it should offer financial
assistance or subsidy not only for Shrinathji pilgrimage but for
pilgrimages to all Hindu pilgrim places. You say
India is not a Hindu
nation but a secular nation constitutionally, then the partisan bend
towards any one religion by offering assistance/subsidy for Haj must
cease. If however the subsidy for Haj is to continue, then Vajpayeeji,
instead of keeping that orange strip in the tri colour flag, it should
be converted into total green colour, which will expose the reality of
Bharat in the world. Then whether you live in Bharat or
Pakistan
or Saudi Arab, for you it will be just the same.
The dispute is not of Ram Mandir. The dispute is about the
effect of that instigation to their community which the muslim leaders
resort to. After all how long should the Hindus tolerate it ? The answer
to the burning of 62 Hindus can certainly not be in burning 620 muslims
because after that 6200 Hindus followed by 62,000 muslims. Murder for
Murder – can this logic ever see its end ?
If you desire to see the end of this, then the deplorable
partisan attitude of saying that the Muslim blood is blood and the Hindu
blood is water must end. Such attitude by your Govt. sitting in
Delhi, by you
politicians and by the English newspapers you read in toilet must be
abandoned.
The pseudo-secular mentality of such boys and girls
reporters of the English newspapers, who have entered the field without
proper base, has proven very harmful for all. They have tried to elevate
those advocates, pleading cases of the muslim criminals in the jam
packed courts, to the level of the Christ the protector. To
unnecessarily to irritate the Hindus and to shower sympathy on the
muslims is the hypocritical secularism of these people.
One thing must be understood very clearly. Which is the
birth place of the Hindu religion ? Is it
Hindustan or some
other land ? That land on which the Hindu dharma, Hindu Darshan or Hindu
way of life and culture have developed and have prospered, on this very
land followers of other religions lived peacefully and happily, which is
the measure of tolerance of Hindus. But when the secularists try to
crush these and the Hindus oppose it, this is termed as communal then
perhaps that tolerance of the Hindus is taken for granted. The Hindu
tolerance is being put to test. When you accompany me to a Lassi shop
and you do not take Lassi it just does not matter, but if you try to
open a liquor bottle there and take it to your mouth, that is not
correct. You must know that it is a Lassi shop. The liquor den is on the
other side.
The principles of the Islam do not go well with the Hindu
thought. The Hindus believe in many Gods. You can worship whatever you
believe in. Islam believes in a single God. Not only that, howsoever we
may keep repeating that Ishwar and Allah are names of the same God, yet
the Islam does not recognize the Gods of other religions. Those
followers of religions other than Islam are insulted by calling them
with a wretched, insulting and dirty title as Kafirs. Kafir, as per
Islam, is the one who does not admit the rule of Allah, Kafir is a
nonbeliever, Kafir is a secular, Kafir means he who hides the facts or
the truth (lier), Kafir is the one who disbelieves the dictates of the
God, Kafir that is traitor. Kafir that is ungrateful, Kafir who
obstructs or harms religious works and therefore the one against whom
one has to fight. All these meanings of the word Kafir have been taken
from various acknowledged Urdu dictionaries.
That religion whose moulavis instigate their people against
the Kafirs, surviving in Bharat, who try to destabilise the country by
striking at its very roots, if their followers constitute the vote banks
of our country and therefore they are being wooed – which direction
will our national policy go, is anybody’s guess. A living example of
this has been available through a latest episode. Godhra is just one
small instance but what is the aim of this policy ? Just try to imagine.
Unless uniform code is adopted for all and without deleting article 370
which offers special status to
Kashmir, the future of Bharat is in danger.
It is entirely because of the obstinacy of muslim leaders
and the pseudo-secularists for not allowing the Ram Mandir to be
constructed, that the Godhra carnage took place. They should better give
up this obstinacy. They ought to remember that this is the birth place
of the country’s religion. They should better remember this. They should
desist from meddling into religious sentiments of others, protect their
own religion and step calling those who do not worship Allah with
insulting cheap abuses like Kafir. Then and then only everybody in
India can live
in peace and harmony.
And the last thing ! Those who do not have any background
of the culture of this nation, or the Hindu way of life, those who do
not have adequate experience, those immature boys and girls who dabble
in reporting for the English newspapers can not be taken very seriously.
Those who without having deeper knowledge of music, start finding fault
with Pt. Jasraj and where he went wrong in singing his notes and thereby
try to prove their importance through rubbish discussions, then one has
to understand that their capacity is nothing beyond those standing at a
pan shop and discussing Vividh Bharati songs. They can not be taken
seriously.
Ladies and gentlemen, everybody is well aware of the
dangers of religious pursuit. What they call fanaticism will ruin this
nation. There is not an iota of doubt in this. If I have to choose on
one hand religious frenzy and on other hand testing of tolerance, Sarva
Dharma Samabhava and peace then naturally I shall choose the option to
live peacefully with the followers of all religion by rejecting the
first option. But if suppose you are required to choose between the
Hindu religious passions and the muslim religious passions then ? The so
called secular news papers publish cartoons showing, half necked, long
haired, ash smeared sadhu sitting on the benches in the Sansad, I would
like to say that rather than seeing the Imams, Maulanas and Maulavis, I
would any time prefer to see the sadhus there. Why ? Well, supposing you
know repairing of TV and you are confronted with a TV and a fridge –
what would you select ? You will certainly choose the one which you can
repair. What, where and how much is wrong in Hindu religion, as a Hindu
I know it fully well. I also believe that any efforts to bring about
improvement in those will bear fruits. Only because I have an
acceptability amongst the Hindus. They would certainly not drive me away
by calling me a Kafir.
A warning to those with pseudo-secularists mentality,
before printing this editorial anywhere else, take utmost care to bring
out each single context, preceding and following sentences, and the
essence of each paragraph clearly brought out. Please be aware of the
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