A very perverted combination of political correctness and expediency is causing the leaders of the current Indian administration to raise the bogey of Hindu Terrorism. It seems that Swami Aseemanand has confessed to being the mastermind of the Samjhauta Express blast. Long time ago, we had handed over a guy who had stolen some money form our hostel. We saw what the policemen did to him. Half an hour more and the guy would have confessed to the JFK assassination. But I digress.Mr. Swapan Dasgupta says that they are using Hindu terror to grab headlines. I think they are using the Hindu Terror to change the headlines from 2G and innumerable other scams and problems. Anyone can see that the Manmohan Singh government is in a hole that they cannot dig themselves out of! So comes the knight in shining armor, Digvijay with his claims for Hindu terrorism armed with unsubstantiated phone records.
In words of Mr. Dasgupta - The US investigators have claimed, based on inputs from sources in Pakistan, that it was a Lashkar-e-Tayyeba squad under Arif Usmani that had carried out the blasts. This was an important basis for the UN Security Council decision to brand the LeT a terrorist organisation, a decision that has international ramifications. Does Aseemanda's testimony overturn these conclusions?
So obviously someone is lying. I will leave it up to you to decide who benefits from these lies because that is the liar.
Of course, this does not absolve all the Hindus of criminal activities. Nathuram Godse did assassinate Gandhi. But despite of their best effort, the Congress led government could not pin the blame on the RSS. Nathuram was a lone wolf. Like the assassins of Indira Gandhi or RFK or attacker on Ronald Regan, Godse was a product of his own ideology. He DID not mirror the society.
This point has been brilliantly raised by one of my favorite writers, Ayaz Amir. A Pakistani, Mr. Amir does not like India. He, however, is bestowed with a unique vision of his own country. He writes a piece every Friday. Last week, in the aftermath of the Salman Taseer assassination, he wrote: Any lone ranger can kill Martin Luther King or Robert F Kennedy. It was a Hindu bigot, guided by the highest of motives (according to his way of looking at the world), who shot and killed Mahatma Gandhi. Pakistan’s tragedy is that its holy zealots are not lone rangers but products, and now the instruments, of a mindset 30 years in the making: from Gen Ziaul Haq’s era and the time of the first Afghan ‘jihad’ down to the present, a mindset totally at odds with what gullible fools like us take the idea of Pakistan, as first mooted in 1947, to be.
Please read his article so you can see that I am not taking this out of context. You will also see that he is not exaggerating either. The assassin, Mumtaz Qadri has a fan following on facebook (i.e. people with access to Internet who can log in and read in English rather than illiterate Jihadis).
As much as the current Indian government would have you believe that Hindus are as capable as Pakistanis and their brethren of carrying out terrorist activities, they are wrong. Hindu society is not conducive to extremist thinking. In fact most people are of the self-flagellating kind, who would blame themselves for all the evil in the world. More than Catholics, we are prone to turning the other cheek. Our capability to absorb punishment is second to none. How else could we have up with one incapable government after another! No Sir!! If there are any lone wolf Hindu extremists, they are not product of the system. They are a result the reaction to the votebank and appeasement politics of our pseudo secular establishment.
I really hope that the politicians do not continue on this dangerous path of accusing Hindus for their own benefits.
Of course, this does not absolve all the Hindus of criminal activities. Nathuram Godse did assassinate Gandhi. But despite of their best effort, the Congress led government could not pin the blame on the RSS. Nathuram was a lone wolf. Like the assassins of Indira Gandhi or RFK or attacker on Ronald Regan, Godse was a product of his own ideology. He DID not mirror the society.
This point has been brilliantly raised by one of my favorite writers, Ayaz Amir. A Pakistani, Mr. Amir does not like India. He, however, is bestowed with a unique vision of his own country. He writes a piece every Friday. Last week, in the aftermath of the Salman Taseer assassination, he wrote: Any lone ranger can kill Martin Luther King or Robert F Kennedy. It was a Hindu bigot, guided by the highest of motives (according to his way of looking at the world), who shot and killed Mahatma Gandhi. Pakistan’s tragedy is that its holy zealots are not lone rangers but products, and now the instruments, of a mindset 30 years in the making: from Gen Ziaul Haq’s era and the time of the first Afghan ‘jihad’ down to the present, a mindset totally at odds with what gullible fools like us take the idea of Pakistan, as first mooted in 1947, to be.
Please read his article so you can see that I am not taking this out of context. You will also see that he is not exaggerating either. The assassin, Mumtaz Qadri has a fan following on facebook (i.e. people with access to Internet who can log in and read in English rather than illiterate Jihadis).
As much as the current Indian government would have you believe that Hindus are as capable as Pakistanis and their brethren of carrying out terrorist activities, they are wrong. Hindu society is not conducive to extremist thinking. In fact most people are of the self-flagellating kind, who would blame themselves for all the evil in the world. More than Catholics, we are prone to turning the other cheek. Our capability to absorb punishment is second to none. How else could we have up with one incapable government after another! No Sir!! If there are any lone wolf Hindu extremists, they are not product of the system. They are a result the reaction to the votebank and appeasement politics of our pseudo secular establishment.
I really hope that the politicians do not continue on this dangerous path of accusing Hindus for their own benefits.
The Dasgupta article can be read at: http://dailypioneer.com/309363/Using-‘Hindu-terror-to-grab-headlines.html
The Ayaz Amir article can be read at: http://www.thenews.com.pk/TodaysPrintDetail.aspx?ID=24369&Cat=9&dt=1/7/2011
The Ayaz Amir article can be read at: http://www.thenews.com.pk/TodaysPrintDetail.aspx?ID=24369&Cat=9&dt=1/7/2011
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