Sri Aurobindo on how to deal with the Muslim problem.

Sri Aurobindo on how Hindus should deal with the Muslim problem. Present excerpts from his words from 1906 to 1940 (Courtesy Gautam Dey)

In an earlier part we had shared Maharshi Aurobindo’s views on Gandhi. We now present Aurobindo’s views on how the Hindu community must deal with Muslims. These are excerpts from book ‘India’s Rebirth’ that contains his thoughts at various points of time. 

Excerpts are verbatim from the book, format is when spoken and matter.
September 4, 1906 - Partition Bengal
“The idea that by encouraging Muslim rowdyism, the present agitation may be put down, is preposterous and those who cherish this notion forget that the bully is neither the strongest nor the bravest of men, and that because the self-restraint of Hindus, miscalled cowardice, has been a prominent feature of his national character, he is absolutely incapable of striking straight and striking hard when any sacred situation demands this.
Not has it been proved recently, that the mild Hindu is so absolutely helpless and incapable of defending his rights and liberties as he is painted by his foreign enemies.”
June 19, 1909 - Hindu Muslim
“Of one thing we may be certain, that Hindu-Mahomedan unity cannot be affected by political adjustments or Congress flatteries. It must be sought deeper down, in the heart and in the mind, for where the causes of disunion are; there the remedies must be sought.”
September 4, 1909 - Muslim problem
“Every action for instance which may be objectionable to a number of Mahomedans is now liable to be forbidden because it is likely to lead to a breach of the peace, and one is dimly beginning to wonder whether the day may not come when worship in Hindu temples may be forbidden on that valid ground.”
April 18, 1923 - Hindu-Muslim unity
“(Sri Aurobindo :) I am sorry they are making a fetish of this Hindu-Muslim unity. It is no use ignoring facts; some day the Hindus may have fight the Muslims and they must prepare for it Hindu-Muslim unity should not mean the subjection of the Hindus. Every time the mildness of the Hindu has given way.
The best solution would be to allow the Hindus to organize themselves and the Hindu-Muslim unity would take care of itself, it would automatically solve the problem. Otherwise we are lulled into a false sense of satisfaction that we have solved a difficult problem when in fact we have only shelved it.”
May 18, 1926 - Khilafat
“Take the Hindu-Muslim problem: I don’t know why our politicians accepted Gandhi’s Khilafat agitation. With the mentality of the ordinary Mahomedan it was bound to produce the reaction it has produced: you fed the force, it gathered power and began to make demands which the Hindu mentality had to rise up and reject. That does not require Supermind to find out, it requires common sense. Then, the Mahomedan reality and the Hindu reality began to break heads at Calcutta. (Refers to the riots in Calcutta the previous month).”
June 29, 1926
“If it is India’s destiny to assimilate all the conflicting elements, is it possible to assimilate the Mahomedan element also?
Why not? India has assimilated elements from the Greeks, the Persians and other nations. But she assimilates only when her central truth is recognized by the other party, and even while assimilating she does it in such a way that the elements absorbed are no longer recognizable as foreign but become part of herself. For instance. We took from the Greek architecture, from the Persian painting, etc.
The assimilation of the Mahomedan culture also was done in the mind to a great extent and it would have perhaps gone further. But in order that the process may be complete it is necessary that a change in the Mahomedan mentality should come. The conflict is in the outer life and unless the Mahomedans learn tolerance I do not think the assimilation is possible.
The Hindu is ready to tolerate. He is open to new ideas and his culture has got a wonderful capacity for assimilation, but always provided that India’s central truth is recognized.”
August 1, 1926 - Muslim problem
“The attempt to placate the Mahomedans was a false diplomacy. Instead of trying to achieve Hindu-Muslim unity directly, if the Hindus had devoted themselves to national work, the Mahomedans would have gradually come of themselves….
This attempt to patch up a unity has given too much importance to the Muslims and it has been the root of all these troubles.”
May 28, 1940 - Gandhi’s attitude to Muslims
“Have you read what Gandhi has said in answer to a correspondent? He says that if eight crores of Muslims demand a separate State, what else are the twenty-five crores of Hindus to do but surrender? Otherwise there will be civil war.
(A disciple:) I hope that is not the type of conciliation he is thinking of.
Not thinking of it, you say? He has actually said that and almost yielded. If you yield to the opposite party beforehand, naturally they will stick strongly to their claims. It means that the minority will rule and the majority must submit. The minority is allowed its say, “We shall be the ruler and you our servants. Our hard [word] will be law; you will have to obey.” This shows a peculiar mind I think this kind of people are a little cracked.” June 21, 1940 – Kashmir
“In Kashmir, the Hindus had all the monopoly. Now if the Muslim demands are acceded to, the Hindus will be wiped out.”
November 28, 1940 - Gandhi’s Ahimsa
“Something in him takes delight in suffering for its own sake. Even the prospect of suffering seems to please him… It is the Christian idea that has taken hold of him.
The English are not quite wrong when they say that the Indian must settle their own differences. The Lucknow Pact has become a big political blunder. The Mahomedans, they want to rule India.”

General Elections and Whatsapp Wars

In the run up to the general elections in India, for at least about a year, a phenomenon

everyone has noticed, and many have been involved in (including me!) is what I am calling “whatsapp wars”. In the many whatsapp groups of which almost all middle class Indians are part, the more political minded ones have engaged in fairly heated arguments, and in many cases, separation and end of friendships. I too left my engineering group permanently, and my relationships with a few of my neighbors / batchmates / acquaintances have pretty much ended. I have known many others in similar situations. In fact, the phenomenon was even reported in the mainstream media sometimes.

What really happens that makes people, otherwise friendly, to start hating each other with such intensity? And what should people do to moderate things? Are relationships more important, or are political biases masquerading as principles and values more important? Having been a part of it a few times, I have some thoughts around these questions, and I thought of putting them down and sharing with some folks I know and perhaps care about.

First lets see what happens – a “Right Wing” (called RW, but not really right winger in the classical sense) Hindu Nationalist pro – Modi person posts something that a secular / liberal person, or rather, one who believes he is one, finds highly objectionable. The number of occasion when the reverse happens are relatively few. Now once objection is raised, a complaint is lodged with the admin of the whatsapp, usually with a threat to quit the group. The admin, who is usually anxious to maintain the group integrity, goes to the offender and requests him to moderate. At times, this leads to behavior change if only temporarily. Other times, the damage is permanent and someone or the other leaves the group.

This is usually the cycle. I found some of the batchmates of one of my colleges too foul mouthed. Not because of their views, but because of the language they used – one of them, in reply to something I posted just said “you are scum”, I quit the group. I was willing to put up with political views, howsoever extreme, but not this kind of outright personal abuse. I, by the way, am a right winger myself, a strong supporter of Modi. On other occasions, I have caused people to quit one of my groups, though thankfully never permanently. I derive some solace from the fact that even those who went to the extent of quitting the group because of my views later acknowledged that I was never uncivil.

To me, it is always a source of distress when this kind of a “separation” happens. Sure enough, some of our views will be considered extreme by someone or the other and vice versa. But personal abuse, threats, demands to silence, that is something I never am able to come to terms with. However, like with everything else, I did endeavor to understand why this happens, and here is what I think goes on:

With me, things on whatsapp group have always gone out of control only on one issue – the nature of Islam. There is something about this matter that some people, instead of responding to a comment with a counter – logic, as they usually do in other matters, simply go ballistic and try to silence me and some others with similar views. On every other matter, I can write the most provocative message, and it will at most elicit a frown and someone pointing out why I might be wrong. On Islam, the outrage of secular / liberals is palpable instantly. Of course, they claim they are upset by the tone of religious discrimination. But that does not explain extreme emotion. Why, for instance, won't they answer me with some logic? Why won't they first show me how exactly I advocated discrimination (I don't think I ever do), rather than demand belligerently that I be silenced.

There is an answer to this. I will lay that out before you. But to start with, I will tell you a very small episode from my life that is analogous to the overreaction of political partisans on whats-app, and illustrate the phenomenon more clearly.

I had a very good friend some 35 years back. In fact we are still connected and he is still a good friend though we have not met for decades. We were the sort of friends who pulled each others' legs with impunity, fully assured that we will remain friends even after taking liberties with each other. I am going to call this friend Markos. He is a Keralite Christian and a really good human being.

As it happens, Markos had a tendency which in my mind was a minor flaw. I did not at all care that he had it. But something interesting happened when I used it to pull his leg once.

Markos liked to pretend that he liked art movies. I thought he really did not enjoy the boring insipid fare that passed for high art. I thought he was just putting on an appearance of liking them, just to come across as a sophisticated guy who liked high art. So what happened when he saw one of these flop movies and came back and told me “I really liked the movie”. I was the wise guy and shot back, full of mischief: “You only think you liked the movie”. I would not do that with anyone but a close friend like Markos. And how do you think Markos reacted? He ceased to be a dear friend instantly! He absolutely went ballistic! He raved and ranted against me and started pointing out every flaw he noticed in me since we first met a few years previously.

I was taken aback of course. I protested that I was only having some fun at his expense. But he was not soothed. He continued his tirade for quite a while more. I did not react after this. After a few days, as it happens with youngsters, our friendship was back to nearly normal.

Moral of the story: If someone fools himself about something, and you point it out, he will go berserk on you.

Now back to Islam and whatsapp groups.

Those secularists who read these thoughts of mine will again burn with rage, but I am certain that they go ballistic because some RW guy reminded them that they are fooling themselves about the nature of Islam. Let us look at some beliefs they hold, or rather, fool themselves that they hold about Islam:

1. Islam is a religion of peace

2. Islam is just like any other religion

3. Muslims are just like other people, they should be seen as such

4. A demographic change has no implication for peace in society

5. Most Indian Muslims feel no loyalty for Pakistan

6. Most Indian Muslims feel loyalty to India

I can list several more.

It is immaterial here how true these assumptions are. Of course, I believe much in these assumptions is false. But that point is not central here. The central point is – deep down the secularists also believe these assumptions are mostly false. It is just that they won't admit it to themselves. In fact, they go to great lengths to continue to lie to themselves. They never examine the whole matter with any rigor. Because they are afraid of what might come out if they did.

Like Markos fooled himself that he liked the movie, they too fool themselves.

And then, when someone brings home to them about the self – deception, they go ballistic!

What is the way out of it then? And when I discuss this final part, I will even admit the possibility that my analysis might be faulty. But first let me proceed on the assumption that it isn't.

If indeed they admit the possibility that they might be engaging in self – deception, they owe it to everyone, including themselves, that they thoroughly study the subject. Islam is the number one political issue in the world. It literally takes thousands of lives every year. In extreme cases, such as when ISIS ruled parts of the world (supported, I might add, by a “mainstream” nation) women were raped and sold like cattle! If mankind is faced with something so horrifying, then every thinking person must have full knowledge of the roots of the problem. No one has to believe people like me, though I do think we spent a lot of time and energy studying it. But they must do it for their own sake if nothing else. It is not an innocuous matter like a boring art movie that can be left alone.

Assuming I am wrong (very unlikely IMO). Then they must answer why they react with such fury when the subject comes up. After all, no one ever sees this kind of fury when similar statements are made about Hindus for instance. In fact, they themselves engage in fairly offensive commentary about other religions, particularly Hinduism, and at most get a rebuttal from some RW guy. No one ever demands to silence them. Moreover, I would like to see at least one common assumption held by “anti – Muslim bigots” (which is how they describe anyone who puts question marks on Muslim behavior) proven false by them clinically and rigorously. Not responded with outrage, rhetoric and non – sequitur.

Is Sam Pitroda Crazy?

Sam Pitroda has put his foot in his mouth thereby giving the BJP a huge stick with which to be beat Congress. A statement of that kind made three or so weeks away from general elections seems suicidal. This begs the question – Is he crazy?

The simple answer is NO. He is not crazy or suicidal (politically). So what explains the outburst? A “cui bono” analysis is needed here. A lot of peaceniks and left wing loonies will talk about peace even over dead Indian bodies. Guys like Sudheendra Kulkarni, Judge Katju or the entire aman ki asha brigade are repeat offenders of this. But they can afford to say it and get away with it because they do not have to face the voters. Pitroda is very closely associated with Congress and knows what he says has political ramifications for Congress especially the Gandhis. So on whose behalf did he make the statement?

Twitter handle @DrGPradhan has my support despite being reviled by many twitteratti on the right. I consider him as a fellow Modi supporter. For me that is enough. One thing he harps on is an active cooperation between 10 JP and Pindi. On the face of it, both have a common enemy – Narendra Modi. But the theory of cooperation between ISI/Pakistan and the grand old party of India, even to avid Congress haters, may seem a bit farfetched. It would seem too much. But it is this context, Pitroda’s intentions can be explained.

Imran Khan is an isolated man. His plans for Pakistan’s economy lie in tatters. He looks weak in front of the public and knows can be made a sacrificial goat by the army. He knows that there is no talking to Modi sarkar without giving them what they want (and he can’t acquiesce to those demands because the army would not let him). The only thing he can do is influence the Indian voters through his proxies. First attempt was through JeM who carried out the Pulwana attacks. They had hoped for a Manmohan Singh like response which would lead to Modi’s electoral loss. Instead they got the Balakot attack which totally changed the security paradigm in South Asia forever.

So Imran reached out to his other proxies and asked them if somehow public opinion can be changed in the favor of Pakistan. In face of Indian media’s inability to do so, that responsivity fell on Congress. Enter Sam Pitroda who though he was close enough to Congress be taken seriously but removed enough to not damage Congress. Maybe what he said could have been worded better but evern as it was, it would’ve worked with anyone except Modi. Unfortunately, Modi is such skilled politician that he turned it around and made it all about nationalism. Boom! What was supposed to be a favor for a friend across the border has now become a millstone around the neck of the very people Pitroda was supposed to protect.

Maybe, just maybe, Gaurav Pradhan's worst case scenario is correct and 10 JP and Pindi really are connected.

Peace Was a Possibility

Imagine a Scenario.

It is after 25th Dec 2015. PM Modi’s visit to Pakistan is over. A strong and allegedly a hawkish Indian leader touched the Pakistani PM’s mother’s feet. The symbolism screams peace.

PM Sharif decides a radical turnaround of decade old policies. Realistically assesses friendship with China. Looks back at history and realizes that long lasting peace can only be possible when negotiated between strong leaders (the old edict of Roman Emperor Hadrian (AD 76–138) "peace through strength or, failing that, peace through threat). Sharif decides to abandon the failed strategic depth policy in Afghanistan and leaves the hapless Afghans to their own devices. He then, safe under the nuclear umbrella, puts J&K on the backburner and negotiates mutually beneficial trade deal with “Baniya (a common Pakistani invective for Hindus) Modi and turn the South Asian Subcontinent around. Modi becomes the new Reagan and Sharif the new Gorbachev.

Imagine that. How many lives would’ve been saved? How much profit would’ve been made? Every economic initiative of Sharif and then Imran Khan would have yielded dividends.

But it did not. Fueled by a false sense of security and superiority, terror attacks continued Modi kept getting pushed into a corner until Pulwana attacks. It then led to Balakot attacks and now Pakistan and their army stands naked in front of the world and worse in front of their own people. The money from Saudi Arabia is now being spent on defending Pakistan and the infrastructure help from China has now become an easy target.

Pakistan has had all kinds of advantages in the past. It is their intense Hindu hatred which has destroyed all those advantages and continues to destroy any and every opportunity they get. Balakot attack has destroyed the myth of Pakistani army as their only functioning organization. Modi gave them the biggest opportunity for peace in their short history. Instead of taking advantage of that, they are standing over the ruins of Balakot and any hope for betterment of their unfortunate country.

Irrelevant Activism Of Indian Communists

Back in 1998 I was working around Howrah in an MNC. As a person from UP, I used to wonder if I needed a VISA to be there. I had not felt so out of place in the hinterlands of United States. On my train rides north of Howrah, I saw abandoned factories and their skeletons, reminder of the good days gone by. In the factory I worked, workers on an average got 72 days of vacation yearly. They would go on strikes at the drop of a hat. A simple visit to the bank was a painful reminder of how dysfunctional a state was West Bengal.

I took a train ride to a place called Falacata up north. When I reached there, what I found was a small place, no more than a tehsil. A visit to the market place in the evening was quite an eye opener. It was a small place. Three shops at the most, this was not a place of significance. It catered to the tea gardens nearby. The looks of this place told me that most people there were struggling to make ends meet and did not know or cared for places outside of West Bengal if not Falacata itself.

I saw a three story building which proudly displayed a banner on the topmost part. Someone painted this banner at that height, a testament to the effort it must’ve required. It was written in Hindi so I understood it. Translated into English, it said: “Free Black Activist Mumia Abu Jamal”. It was quite a shocker. I doubt if too many people there knew who this guy was. Since I had spent some time close to Philadelphia in the US, I had heard of this guy. Abu Jamal had shot and killed a police officer Daniel Faulkner. Subsequently, he was sentenced to life in prison without parole. Abu Jamal became quite a cause celebre in the US attracting liberals from all walks of life. But the guy despite of their best efforts, never got out.

Had I not stayed close to Philadelphia, I would not have known about this guy. People in the Midwest of US have not heard of this guy. But somehow, in a Podunk town of Falacata, there was someone who went to considerable effort to put up that banner. Now remember, there is plenty in WB to fight, causes to protest, injustices to stand up to, employment and healthcare to demand and yet Mumia Abu Jamal took precedence over all those issues.

That’s the nature of Indian communist. Their activism is NEVER about things that matter but about symbols, perceived enemies, exerting power from behind the scenes (without any responsibility) and of course freebies. In many ways they are like Muslims who rate their neighborhood, city, state and nation well below Ummah. For an Indian communist, Marx, Lenin and Mao are more important than any national issue or hero. If the man on the street wants a temple in Ayodhya, they suggest a hospital. When Ram Chandra Bhartiya wants name of Aurangzeb Road changed to a national hero, they mock them while naming streets in Kolakata, Tripura as Lenin Sarani or Marx Sarani.

People of India finally caught a break in 2014, when they elected Narendra Modi as PM. He is democratically challenging every status quo and bringing about meaningful changes. He is taking away power form irrelevant activists who lead one kind of life and espouse entirely the opposite. The Indian communist is afraid of Modi. The Indian communist is afraid of the no-longer-afraid voter. Hopefully, we are seeing beginning of the end of a failed murderous ideology and its murderous grip on states like West Bengal and Kerala.

Casteism: Rise Above or Sink With It

Any system that pits one human being against another is evil. It is against all laws of this world or the other. My co-blogger is a Tamil Brahmin while I belong to one of the non-descript kind of castes. Both of us abhor the system. We are nation first kind of Hindus.

We have written on the topic often and from different point of view. The most recent violence at Bhima-Koregaon is very upsetting and is forcing us to write again on the topic. Interacting with other on twitter using our handle @NetHindu1 we see that discussion on this sensitive issue tends to bring out the worst in all of us. Dalits are playing the victim card (and rightly so). Brahmins are bragging about their ability, reach and influence despite of smaller numbers. Other upper caste members are complaining about reservation. It is downright ugly. Fissures are turning into chasms. We as Hindus are playing right into the hands of Leftists, urban naxals and jihadis who are very effectively using morons like Jignesh Mewani. All you have to do is to read the twitter page of this jihadi Shehla Rashid and see what I mean.

Hindus have always fallen prey to the divide and rule ploy that is the only piece of history that matters here. Who collaborated with whom in what war is old news and often does not take into account local and selfish factors of that time is not doing us any good except these “I am smarter than you and know more history than you” arguments. Clearly, we irrespective of our castes are not learning anything from history.

I am of the opinion that if you pit two people who are identical in every aspect, they will still try to find a way to exert their superiority over the other. I have seen that in India and I have seen here in the US. An ocean away, people still make Polish or Italian or Irish jokes even though they are multiple generations away from the old country. One-upmanship is a human phenomenon. Hindus are made it more structured and killed for it.

The choice in front of as Hindus is: are we going to rise above casteism and take back our country from Naxals and Jihadis or stay beholden to either our pride or victimhood, stay divided and lose the war to the “Bharat tere tukde honge” jihadi gang. Pakistanis are probably rubbing their hands in glee at this windfall due to our stupidity.

What can we do? All of us need to realize our collective responsibility. Dalit leadership needs to be taken into confidence and reassured by upper caste leaders. They need to realize that joining hands with Jihadis will result into mass forced conversions as seen in Pakistan. Our political leadership needs to crackdown one the naxal-jihadi nexus, go after their funding and pre-emptively keep them out of potential hotspots i.e. better than our current Home Ministry is doing.

After reading these people on twitter, sometimes I feel that I don’t know as much as them. But I do know that we have a serious problem. A solution, more practical than finger pointing needs to be found. Our future depends on it.
An article we had written on collective responsibility can be read at.

https://nethindu1.blogspot.com/2011/01/religious-coversion-and-our.html

Modi, Yogi and Fadnavis: Comparing the CMs

Back in 2013, Sanjay Singh in an article absolutely worth reading again said:

More than anyone else, Togadia himself should be acutely aware of his own and the VHP’s near complete irrelevance in Gujarat today. This has been reflected during the last two assembly elections that Narendra Modi won. The VHP’s cadre base has shrunk and Togadia is struggling hard to stay afloat in the state.

Even today, PM Modi gets accused by the far right Hindus as betraying their causes. The fact is that Modi is an India first kind of Hindu which means he puts nation first and his faith second. Of course this does not mean he shies away from a proud public display of his faith. Thanks to him, Yoga is an international phenomenon with Saudi Arabia embracing the practice. This is just one of the example.

His India first attitude gets displayed by his passion of keeping peace at all cost which is essential for prosperity. This approach has earned him a different variety of invectives but clearly he could care less. After the post Godhra massacre riots (his inexperience let him down). But after that, as we all know, there was NO incidence during his tenure as CM or after him. He went after the troublemakers hard despite of their affiliations. VHP was sidelined and Jihadis were dealt with decisively. This is a man who places a lot of dividend in peace because it IS important for prosperity. As a CM, he was second to none.

Now as we all can see UP CM Adityanath is probably the second most popular person in BJP. A mahant of the Gorakhnath mutt, he is completely unapologetic about his faith and the way he practices it. If you rise above the media din and smear campaign launched against him by these so called conservatives, you will see that underneath the saffron robe is a pragmatic man who is fair (as Muslims in Gorakhpur will tell you) and is inspired greatly by Narendra Modi. A report in Economic Times says the following:

Adityanath aims to model the investor summit on Vibrant Gujarat, the popular biennial investor summit started by Modi in 2003. Adityanath had a morning meeting with ten of the country's prominent bankers, including State Bank of India chairman Rajnish Kumar, Central Bank of India chairman Rajeev Rishi and Dena Bank chairman Ashwani Kumar among others, inviting them to open regional offices in the state.

Adityanath spoke of planned reforms and investments in infrastructure, civil aviation, food processing, tourism, film making and the dairy industry. He said the state government is bringing reforms in labour laws and scrapping as many as 1,200 obsolete rules.

It is therefore no surprise that the UP CM puts great importance on law and order. The following was said in an NDTV report:

According to data released by the UP Police, between March 20 and September 18, there have been 431 encounters, in which 17 criminals were killed; two policemen died and 88 were injured; so far, 1,106 criminals have been caught.

In a sort of a prequel to the debacle at BhimaKoregaon, proactive action at Saharanpur and the eventual arrest of Chandrashekhar Azad of Bhimsena controlled what could have been a disaster.

On one hand the Yogi is creating tourism hotspots in UP and on the other inspecting homeless shelters for adequate protection against the cold. Just like Modi, this is a one man army.

Now Yogi inherited possible the worst state in the entire union unlike Devendra Fadnavis who got this plum job as CM of arguably the most prosperous and economically robust state. All he has to do is maintain.

However the coolest first couple of any of the states in India have tried their best to be a Not-Modi-Not-Yogi CM. Destroying Hindu run budget schools by implementing RTE, aiding the “Be Santa” campaign (clearly ashamed of their Hindu roots), absolute Muslim appeasement. Of course the worst is the latest debacle in BhimKoregaon where urban naxals and jihadis ran amok under the garb of dalits to open up really old wounds with the ultimate aim of dividing Hindus along caste lines for the benefit of Congress. All Fadnavis had to do was to be proactive like Yogi Adityanath and all this could have been avoided. Instead he and his wife are more in news because of their love for dogs and picking up fights with RW twitteratis.

Fadnavis needs to emulate Modi and Yogi in proactive governance and maintain a strong law and order in a state that is so much easier to govern than UP. He needs to govern his state like Modi and Yogi – with firm hand and respecting everyone. The algorithm for good governance is there. All he and others have to do is to conform to it with sincerity without abandoning your faith.

The following are the references used:

//economictimes.indiatimes.com/articleshow/62214138.cms?
utm_source=contentofinterest&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=cppst

https://www.ndtv.com/india-news/1-encounter-every-12-hours-up-cops-have-new-strategy-for-crime-control-1752487

http://shankhnaad.net/nation/public-sphere
/item/506-the-anti-hindu-stature-of-maharashtra-cm-devendra-fadnavis

Major Gogoi, General Pershing and Tactics To Win Wars

History is replete with examples of dirty tricks used to win or even gain an upper hand in wars, conflicts even business deals. One such example is from the Moro rebellion in Philippines when the Moros were carrying out suicide attacks against the American forces. There is some debate about whether General Pershing ordered the following or turned a blind eye but this is what is agreed in an article in Time magazine (respected leftist source):

In 1941, TIME ran a letter to the editor from a soldier named J. R. McKey who had served with Pershing in the Philippines decades before. In the letter, McKey describes using pigs in burials to deter Muslim insurgent activities, but does not ascribe the act to Pershing.

McKey wrote, "U.S. soldiers ... had a pretty good cure for juramentado [Moro swordsmen] activities. Knowing the horror of the Mohammedan for any contact with swine, and particularly with its blood, these American roughnecks, when they had killed a juramentado, held for him a very public funeral. The body of the defunct bad man having been deposited in the grave, a pig was brought, stuck, its blood sprinkled freely over the D B M, the dead pig thrown in with him, and the burial completed."

Some reports do say that Pershing was engaged in burying Muslims with pigs or throwing pig's blood on them. According to the History News Network, a Chicago Daily Tribune article from 1927 describes Pershing sprinkling prisoners with pig's blood, then setting them free to warn others of being doused with the blood. "Those drops of porcine gore proved more powerful than bullets," the article wrote.

Christopher Capozzola, a history professor at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, also cited an incident in which Pershing brought a pig's head to a ceasefire negotiation with a Muslim leader.


Wars and conflicts should not happen in an ideal world but they do. If one can use out of the box thinking in ending wars then it should be considered a win-win. Loss of life is irreversible. Everything else can be settled by peaceful negotiation.

The stone pelting in J&K (without going into a detailed discussion of the how and the why) is clearly a Pakistani funded operation and these stone pelters are like daily wage workers for the ISI. China has outsourced their anti-India operation to Pakistanis who then have sub-contracted it out to these unemployed youths who ideally should be in schools like the rest of the angry, scared and frustrated young Indians instead of taking on a professional army.

We all saw what Major Gogoi and his troops did. Tying an Indian youth to the front of the jeep, trussed up like an animal. I am quite sure that this poor guy was scared for his life. For the observers, it invoked different feelings. For some it was an outrage and others a “paying back in the same coin” event. But no sensible Indian can really brag about it.

Having said that, the one thing that is getting lost in the story of fear and outrage is that no lives were lost, no one was hurt- neither the stone pelters nor the soldiers. From that perspective (loss of life being an irreversible reaction), it was a damned good day and Major Gogoi (who must’ve done this out of frustration) must be commended and supported for this.

The left on the social media is latching on to a statement by retd. Lt. Gen. Panag. First and foremost, the Lt. Gen. is an Indian citizen who has the right to speak his mind and should not be abused. But his being in the army should not put him above criticism either.

Civility in Indian political discourse was lost long time ago. But critics of Maj. Gogoi’s tactic should appreciate that no lives were lost because of him and that is and should be the crux of the story.

Relevant urls:

http://time.com/4235405/donald-trump-pig-blood-muslims-story/

http://www.businessinsider.com/6-mind-blowing-tricks-used-during-war-2014-9

Demographic Change - Wakeup or Perish

Islamic Invasion Of India: The Greatest Genocide In History


https://themuslimissue.wordpress.com/2015/08/31/islamic-invasion-of-india-the-greatest-genocide-in-history/

Religion of Peace

Some fundamental questions to the religion of peace.

If Islam is a religion of Peace, why are governments spending billions defending us from its followers?
Why is it that Islam has  moderate and radical followers?
Why do followers of Islam scream "Allah Uh Akbar" while committing heinous crimes?
How does Jihad, in Islam, become a passage to Heaven for its followers?

Modi, Jaitley, Swamy Conundrum

This is one of the most interesting subplots in our politics of the recent times. I have tried to explain the behavior of the men involved to my friend Swamy with little success until the much ballyhooed reshuffle (a real damp squib). I think I know what’s going on. Let’s go over a little about the three men.

The PM: Anyone who has ever read this blog knows that we are bhakts and damned proud of it. He is a true karmayogi, a visionary and a true leader. He has his ways of working which has served him well so far. To question his political acumen is like showing a lamp to the sun.
A novice to the cruel and corrupt world of Delhi politics, he needed a man like Arun Jaitley who made himself indispensable to the PM (especially with Advani lurking in the background and loyalties of Swaraj, Gadkari et.al. up in the air). As per Madhu Kishwar, Modi always takes a couple of years to study the landscapes and then make informed decisions. In the interim he needs men who can show him around even if they are wheelers and dealers.
The PM also kept the RSS at bay during his tenure in Gujarat. Global economy and a diverse population often demands an all-encompassing vignette.

Arun Jaitley: After a very impressive initial career in politics (ABVP, youth leader in BJP’s infancy), he began to practice law and did well for himself. A consummate Delhi-wallah, he became an insider who had friends across the board. In fact, no matter who won at the center, Jaitley remained relevant. He has not won a single general election and has always came through the Rajya Sabha. In the Modi-Advani fight, Jaitley chose well. His ability to navigate the murky waters of Delhi politics made him indispensable to the PM.

Subramanian Swamy: A brilliant economist, well read, tenacious and a person of unimpeachable integrity is somewhat of a modern day crusader whose quest for justice is only matched by his inability to control his temper. He has a tendency to undo a lot of good by making loose statements. We are huge admirers of his.

RSS: Of course the story remain incomplete without the most important character. A truly patriotic organization whose members are true sons and daughters dedicated to Mother India. RSS is led by elders who could use a refresher course in global economy and technology.

BJP needs RSS to win elections. If that was not clear enough, it became more so in the recent Assam win and a strong showing in the Red Islamic Republic of Kerala. RSS members are going to play an extremely important role in upcoming elections. Modi needs RSS. Of course ten lost years of UPA 1&2 show that RSS need Modi for India to remain faithful to the cultural nationalism espoused by them. But the way Modi sidelined RSS during his tenure in Gujarat makes the RSS elders wary of him. These elders have this need to keep an eye on Modi. These elders also do not trust and like all the members of Modi Sarkar. It is clear to all but the politically blind that Swamy does not like Jaitley and what he stands for. Jaitley represents and has greatly benefitted from this corrupt ecosystem where mutual back-scratching is the norm and helping the ideologically opposite commonplace. In fact because of the extreme rot that has set in national politics, it was our fervent belief that an outsider like Modi would clean it up. So when we saw his dependence on Jaitley, we justified it by saying that Modi needs him for a short duration. But Jaitley has gone from strength to strength despite of non-performance and some really dubious stands. In fact other than Modi and Amit Shah, no one would miss Jaitley if he were to retire tomorrow. It is in this light that one can see Swamy’s role who clearly is there to help the RSS elders see Jaitley out. In fact that has earned Swamy millions of fans in the BJP.

I have often tried to figure out what Jaitley brings to the PM’s table. He has no voter support. Any lack of ground level success cannot possibly endear him to the BJP cadre. His record as FM has been lackluster. He has not been able to get any concessions from the Congress as it was visible in those washed out Rajyasabha sessions. So why does the hardest working PM in our history suffer this man? I guess somehow, Jaitley has proven his loyalty to the PM who clearly stand by those who have been loyal to him. Another thing that could be at play here is that the more RSS pushes the PM the more rigid his stand becomes. We hope for the nation’s sake, that the mutual need does not deteriorate into a mutual destruction.

To his credit, Swamy has be unequivocal in his support to the PM who in turn has been very diplomatic. Swamy quest for justice and bringing political criminals to justice can only benefit the PM’s Congress-mukt Bharat campaign. While the PM may not have needed the RSS in Gujarat, the same does not hold on the national lever where he really needs them. The corrupt Delhi ecosystem HAS to be cleaned up for the BJP to reclaim its ideological terra firma. Modi Sarkar could really use a dynamic Finance minister who can work as hard as the PM. We need a law minister who is not related to a Congressman. For all this to happen, if the PM has to sacrifice couple of his men then it is for the good of the nation and his possible second term. After all, this is for the greater good which is what the PM wants out of the RSS elders.

The Ishrat Jehan Conspiracy - Congress Exposed

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JNU, Jadavpur Should Be Privatized

The recent incidents at JNU are different things to different people. To the leftist liberals, media, Communists and various India baiters, it was an assault on freedom of speech. While that is true, these people ignore the responsibility that comes with that freedom. Death threats, screaming fire in a crowded place, destruction of property or the country for that matter are not protected even in the freest of all societies. Therefore calling Narendra Modi fascist, “Maut ka Saudagar”, murderer etc. is permitted but calling for destruction of the private or national property which includes the nation itself are not protected.

On the other hand, we have the man in the street struggling with day to day issues of life. To this man J&K is low on his list and Afzal Guru was a terrorist, convicted and hung by a liberal government. This man sees the terrorists attack and kill our young soldiers. He sees soldiers dying on glaciers to protect the nation. To this person, food, shelter and safety means everything. To this man, the farmer, the soldier and contributors to the economy (workers and job-creators) mean more than the ideals of a terrorist like Afzal Guru.

Please do the following exercise. Ask the following question to the man in the street: Would you rather have an Engineering college like IITs, Medical colleges like AIIMS or liberal arts colleges like JNU? What do you think the order of preference would be? What kind of an institution does a man on the street want funded by his tax money?

American Ivy league universities have defended the rights of JNU students. Let us talk about these universities. Harvard is a bastion of left wing liberalism and model liberal arts institution. The likes of Noam Chomsky (he is at MIT) run riot at that place. The authority of the US government establishment if routinely flaunted. Columbia University hosted Ahmadinejad. Professor Pete Singer at Princeton University defends the right of parent to kill their children. However, these universities also produce great legal minds, leaders – political and business and extraordinary scientific discoveries. And they do it all without any money from the taxpayers. Since these institutions are private, they can do whatever they want of say what they want as long as they are being “responsible (no death threats or destruction of private or public property including the country)”. After all the American in the street may be disgusted by Professor Pete Singer but he can’t object to it because Singer is not on public payroll.

It is this distinction that makes JNU and Jadavpur University the hated places they are today. Their hero, Umar Khalid is doing a PhD in a subject that makes him unemployable anywhere except another institution like JNU – perpetuation of meaninglessness. Imagine a scenario. Khalid, Kanhaiya Kumar et.al. are protesting and calling Narendra Modi every name in the book. They are berating every institution in India. They are even mocking Hinduism (like Aamir Khan did in PK) but are not espousing division and destruction of the nation. Also imagine that JNU is privately funded. Do you think that there would be any outrage against JNU?

I think time has come to defund non-productive institutions where career PhD students take around close to a decade to finish their degree (which are of no economic value to the taxpayer) while on public largesse. They want to study philosophy or art then let them find leftist billionaires like an Indian George Soros and fund JNU or Jadavpur Univ. Let them become the Ivy League universities of India – productive, innovative and economically viable. Let them produce wealth creators who in turn donate large sums of money to their alma mater. After that JNU students can protest all they want (of course they still cannot espouse sedition).

Before some eager beaver jumps up and raises the point of educated Engineers who have studied on government dole and are working abroad, let me come to the defense of these engineers. Most of them send large sums of foreign currency home, create business opportunities for Indian companies and (increasingly) bring technical and business knowhow back to India. Even the worst of these guys contributes more to the Indian economy than a typical JNU student.

We have lots of welfare organizations in India. Every government department hires way more people than they ever need. Helping them that way is still more productive than pumping money in institutes where students are taught no life skills. To use an old cliché, they are fed fish but not taught how to catch a fish. It is time to let these institutions free. Free them of the government shackles. Let them be free to think. Let them become self-sufficient. Let them become Harvard and Princeton of India. Yes. Let them become private organizations.

SALUTE THE TRUE NATIONALISTS

DIL SE NIKLEGI NA MARKAR BHI WATAN KI ULFAT,

MERI MITTI SE BHI KHUSHBOO-E-WATAN AAYEGI!

Ashfaqullah Khan