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A rejoinder: Terrorists and their apologists; India Is Another Israel
A Kashmiri woman crying over her dead - killed by Indian Army
By Dr. S.M. Rahman
Imtiaz Alam, editor of South Asian Journal, in his over-enthusiasm, has projected India as the peace-loving nation – by implication a great proponent of ‘Ahinsa’ and ‘non-violence’, and that it is the perfect ‘model’ in South Asia, as all its neighbors are at peace with it, except Pakistan, which is notorious, brutish and nourishes hatred and antipathy against it and is perpetually engaged in acts of terrorism in Indian Held Kashmir (IHK) and several other on-going insurgencies. The article appears, as if it was an Indian writer, quite proficient in art of propaganda and has used “card-stacking technique” of projecting only the positive elements and completely ignoring the dark realities that constitute the major truth.I would say that silence could be the best answer to the ‘grandiose’ ideas he has of the ‘Indian society.’ With respect to the plight of the Muslims in India, I would expect the writer to read the book (if not read already),‘The Passive Voice’ by K.L. Gauba. He was a Muslim Congressite and against Pakistan’s creation, who migrated to India after the partition. This book though written a bit earlier, exhaustively covered the sad plight of the Muslims, as to how they were being discriminated against for employment in civil services, including police besides the armed forces. I distinctly remember that he mentioned about one Muslim scholar, a PhD from Banaras Hindu University who was serving as dispatch rider in one of the civil departments in Delhi. What has happened consequently is even more agonizing. I will not go into the recent surveys, suffice it to say that their plight is even lower than that of Dalits. Asra Nomani, one of the most liberated Muslim women and exceedingly pro-western, in her write-up has depicted the miserable plight of Indian Muslims, who are at the bottom of social hierarchy.
In one of the surveys in 1980’s, there were around 10,000 castes In India. Barun Mitra has written in an article India gone backward on castes. He is the director of liberty Institute – a think-tank in New Delhi and his article was published in India (reproduced by daily Nation, Pakistan, dated May 20, 2010). He writes: “Bhimrao, Ramji, Ambedkar, who chaired the committee that drafted Indian Constitution, was forbidden to touch water pots – as he was from a lower caste. Barely 40 years ago in New Delhi, it was not uncommon to find Brahman teachers, refusing to eat or drink if they were served by lower castes.”
I shall narrate one instance of one of my own students at Rajshahi University, Department of Psychology (former East Pakistan), who after the emergence of Bangladesh had gone to India for his doctorate in the University of Allahabad. When he had visited Lahore for a conference, he met me with incredible love and affection. When I asked him as to what were his experiences in India, he said, “one of the very shocking one was that, when I had submitted my thesis for the approval to the Professor (my supervisor), there was some errors to be corrected. He offered his pen, but to his bewilderment, the full Professor of the University refused taking pen from a Muslim as it would pollute him.” So the ‘myth of India’ which was so arduously created through the Indian media during the days when Bangladesh had not come into being, I thought that myth was eroded from his mind. There were many other ‘experiences’ which did not match with the ground realities. I am not touching much about the massacre of Muslims in Gujrat. How were they chopped off like carrots and radish? It is indeed very painful to recall the Ayodhiya episode of demolishing the historical Muslims mosque. Besides Muslims, Dalits, even Christians were not spared. How a Pope along with his family members were burnt alive inside the car at Orissa. Several other incidents of raping of Christian nuns and their killing, have come to light.
Over five lac soldiers in the IHK are not playing kabaddi? The atrocities being committed on their part are the worst instances of crime against humanity. If some radical Muslims reacted to such mega killings of over 80,000, the so called liberals tend to dub them as “terrorists”, completely forgetting that ‘state terrorism’, which is at the root of ‘radicalism’, and essentially reactive in nature. Every self-respecting citizen has a right to defend his freedom. Not to do it, is servility, which is repugnant to the adherents of Islamic faith. They will die rather than surrender. This is exactly what Afghan resistance is about. They may be fanatics, fundamentalists, whatever, but give them the credit that they served as iron force against the contemporary Super Powers, former Soviet Union and now the USA, the empire builders. Invasion of countries like Iraq and Afghanistan are blatant acts of aggression. Killing of millions of Muslims in Palestine, Kashmir, Afghanistan and Iraq are nothing but crimes against humanity, if justice at all prevailed in the World Order.
– No community is safe at the hands of Indian State Machinery -
If Kashmir issue were resolved Pakistani society would emerge as a paradise of peace. It has no extra territorial ambitions as India has. No doubt, there are differences among the Islamic faith just as there are so many denominations in Protestant faith, leaving alone the broad division between the Catholics and the Protestants. Allah has never designed the world for a monolithic order. The dignity of diversity is to be preserved. The miscreants, who are committing acts of terrorism, are essentially trying to fan divisions between Muslims. This is an age old strategy of balkanizing Muslims and atomizing them into as many splinter groups as possible. This is to break their unity. The terrorists are fully equipped with sophisticated weapons, which our police force does not possess. Where from are they coming? Who is funding them? These are the questions to be resolved through a well deliberated counter-terrorism strategy achieved through a broad consensus among the political parties.
Ironically, a ‘construct’ of ‘conspiracy’ has been created as a propaganda gimmick, in order to discredit any hypothesis/idea which is likely to be proven factual. It is a strategy of camouflaging facts and realities. There is thus a ‘big conspiracy’ against the so called ‘conspiracy theories.’ It is much easier to dismiss a reality by simply saying: “Ah! It is one of those ‘conspiracy theories.’ The terrorists, who are rampant in Pakistan, are not ‘Taliban’. Pakistani Taliban or Punjabi Taliban are some of the semantic manipulations to defame Pakistan as if it were an abode of radicals, fanatics and ‘terrorists.’. India on the other hand is free from such menace. That there are fissiparous trends in 17 or more Indian states is very shrewdly concealed. What about the Naxellites? They are overly active in quite a number of states, and that they are gaining in strength. India is finding it difficult to contain them. Were Indian forces not involved in fanning Tamil separatism in Sri Lanka?
Pakistan’s radicalism is a post 9/11 phenomenon. The society, otherwise was relatively quite peaceful, adhering to the middle –of-the-road approach to Islamic ideology. Unfortunately, General Ziaul Haq in order to perpetuate his hold, produced radical forces to fight against the former Soviet Union. USA patronized them and when the Red Army had left Afghanistan, USA quite callously abandoned the freedom fighters. If a national government comprising representatives of Pakhtuns, Tajiks, Uzbeks and other minorities would have been formed, Afghanistan would not have been in the state of chaos as it is . The fault is entirely of USA, which covertly wanted it to be fragmented through warlordism.
The “terrorists”, operating in Pakistan are no a ‘monolithic entity. These are those who during the Soviet war were radicalized by the inept policy of Ziaul Haq and later on the reactions against Pervez Musharraf’s very naively conceived policy of pleasing the US government by propounding the so called ‘enlightened moderation’, what actually meant, was to sheepishly adopt the western values, not realizing that Muslims could be very modern, yet they maintain the core values of their faith, which gives them their real ‘identity’ and respect among the comity of nations.
Now about the “Strategic Depth’, which is a straight forward concept to achieve attitudinal harmony between Pakistan, Iran and Afghanistan, as very natural regional allies. A well deliberated geopolitical strategy has to be conceived creating mutual trust and harmony so that under conditions of peace, these countries reinforce each other’s prosperity through trade and cooperation and under crises, they act similarly as EU countries do. If any of the countries in EU, is attacked by an adversary, “it would be taken as if it were an attack on EU”, that is collectively they would protect each other. Why should it be a taboo for the Muslim countries, that they should not forge a ‘cohesive mutual paradigm of inter-existence.’? “Strategic Depth is never a narrow concept of “physical depth”, but a depth of security in all its dimensions. It is based on trust and a firm commitment to honour the dignity and identity of each other. No amount of propaganda can deter these countries to ultimately converge on a collective paradigm, which provides ‘strategic security.’ Too much voice is being raised against a legitimate concept – ‘Strategic Depth’ – as some one rightly said: “The higher the voice, the smaller the intellect.”
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Being a muslim born in India, I know exactly what you are talking about. Muslims cannot buy an apartment in any good society in mumbai and other cities across India. Take the case of an Indian muslim actress named Shabana Azmi who has acted in many hollywood movies and also in the 1st lesbian movie in India (if this is how westren world defines freedom and being modern), even she was not allowed to buy a property in a Hindu dominated society, the reason being that she is a muslim. I can talk endlessly about the atrocities committed on Muslims in India but muslim being people who are usually at peace and not violent ignore it. Had it been any other race, India would have been in civil war by now with such a strong population of muslims around 250million!!
Interesting exposé by Dr Rahman about the horrible caste system in India, the destabilisation of Pakistan ‘n the situation of Muslims in Kashmir. What he doesn’t mention is that Israeli Mossad is very active in the region ‘n acts as counsel ‘n trainer for the Indian army and Intel agency, in how to deceive and stage False Flag Ops both in Pakistan ‘n Afghanistan, to advance the Israeli agenda in the region, incl. prospection about setting up a Financial HQ in India, should Wall Str-FED be ousted from USA.
1) There is ONLY one RACE: The HUMAN ONE together with many ethnical or religious-cultural groups. 2) The conflicts in Palestine ‘n Kashmir are about LAND GRAB, financial-economical-political power. That’s the way they should be focused upon. Religions are often use by the POWER BROKERS to divide ‘n rule the local population, same as ethnic divisions.
I fully agree with what has been written in this Article.
I Live in Indian Occupied part of Kashmir.
The Indian Army is more than a state sponsored terrorist organisation.
there are some 700,000 Indian troops in Kashmir making it the highest militarized zone of the world with military civilian ratio as 20:1 .
INidan army kill innocents in the name of fighting militants. some 80,000 people have been killed in two decades. Just visit Eidgah graveyard in central part of srinagar where thousands of such persons are buried. some 10,000 people are missing after being arrested by Army. they have apparently been killed while in custody. An unknown number of women have been raped by Indian troops.
Just visit a village called konan poshpora where some 53 women were raped by Indian army few years back in just one night.
In short i can say India is neither a democratic nor a secular country. It is just like Israel.
“A time will come when Communism will fear for its survival in Moscow, Capitalistic democracy will tremble for its safety in Washington and New York. … The objective of Islamic Jihad is to put an end to the dominance of the un-Islamic systems of government and replace them with Islamic rule, Islam intends to bring about this revolution not in one country or in a few countries but in the entire world.”
Syed Abul A’ala Maududi
i know what muslim had done in india ?
who did godhra and killed innocent children and woman in the train ?
You talk about mardangi and then kill woman and children ?
who put bombblast and all ? all were muslims then how can any indian would trust them. ?
if muslims were not respected in india then who is abdul kalam ?
who is shahrukh khan,salman khan,saif and amir, dilip kumar, all were muslim.
is any pakistani hindu is anywhere in pakistan as such post ?
Godhra train burning was done by hindu terrorist and blamed muslims for it. Read on Tehelka.com for the special investigation conducted by it. Even during the day the incident happened, investigation proved that the train was burned from inside and not one karsevak(the hindu terrorist who were coming from some temple died) but innocent people died and the train was delayed by 24 hrs, so muslims can no way plan such an attack even if they wanted to. Although you dont mention what was the outcome of Godhra??? 2000 muslims murdered including woman raped again and again and a pregnant mothers stomach was opened and the unborned featus hanging on top of a trishul(hindu terrorist weapon similar to a spear).
ATS cheif Hemant Karkare during his investigation found out that most of the blast were muslims where muslims were blamed earlier but was in fact done by hindu terrorist group called Abhinav Bharat. Dont try to pretend that you dont know anything or hide the facts!!!
Abdul Kalaam is muslim by name sake, most of the the stuff that he practices is actually hindusim. Anyways, president of India are just a dignified host for foreign dignataries nothing more, they dont have any powers!!!
Acting in movies by some muslim named actors doesn’t mean muslims are thriving in India.
Get your facts straight Mr. Brahminist
faiz,
ek baat bata, 1000 rule kar rahe ho..jabardasti mandir ko todte ho…
agar macca ko kisine toda to tum kya karte ho..?
but agar ram mandir ko toda to justified ..sahi hai…
1993 blast kya hindu ne karvate the….
2008 mumbai blast kya hindu ne karvye the….
7/11 blass kya hindu ne karvaye the…..
bar bar indians ko kafir bolte ho….india ka namak khate ho firbhi…
kitne hinudu ko convert kiya hai islam main….ya talwar dikhakar ?batao yaar.
rape tum log karte ho hum nahi…
Respected Mayur,
Mughals ruled more than 700 years. When they rule what was their strength? may be 5% Do you think the 5% can demolish the prayer places of 95%? It is rediculous.
Your arguement was outdaed arguement and there is no justification. Historically there is no proof for that.
Let us take your message may be correct. The ancient temple in india were only porno display places. mother and son could not go together, father and daughter can not go together, brother and sister can not go together to temples. What they see was absurd pornographic postures. May be these type of temples have been demolished.
95%hindus were working under 5% mughals have demolished the temples.
Again, most of the blasts in India was carried out by hindu extremists and blamed on Indian Mujahideen, a non existing outfit created by hindu extremists. These hindu extremists deeply routed in Indian military, police, Intelligence authority customs and all govt. governmental organisation. They simply blame muslims. catch some innocents and huiliate Islam. This game will get over soon and your hypocracy will be exposed.
agar tum logoko pawor de diya na to tum log sabko convert kardoge.
aur muje maszid main nahi jana..i dont have any dis-respect to isla,
I do respect Allah as my god but not its followers
Mayur, Dont think others are fools. You do respect Allah the Almighty but dont obey what He says.If you respect Allah The Almighty then you should understand what he says. Dont pass on any message to others without verifying its truthfulness.
abey teri maki chut…why the hell i should follow what allah says.
tu alaah ko maan….mereko kyo bol raha hai sale kamine…
teri maaka bhosda…..
A bunch of lies from a Pakistani – calls for rebuttal. Anecdotal evidence can prove anything for one day to any one – but Kashmiri Muslims in many international surveys have sided with India and for their own prospects. Not withstanding all of above crap there are 200 million muslims in India ( 25% more than in Pakistan) and they would rather be here than any other place – by own choice. If they ever migrate – it might be to western countries or Dubai but never Pakistan – now also called “Kabristan” or graveyard.
In the recent terror attack on Mumbai( 26/11) the bodies of dead terrorists were not accepted in any Islamic cemetary – peoploe know now what eternal human values are
Both Brahminism and Zionism are based on cruelty and racism against the followers of other religions. The hatred towards Islam and Muslims – is the common bond between Hindutva and Zionist Jews. Muslims ruled India for over 1,000 years – but due to their tolerance – they’re still in minority. Muslim countries which gave sanctury to the persecuted Jews in Europe – their descendents have paid the kindness by occupying Muslim-majority Palestine and forced over five millions of them to live as refugees.
Here is a recent racist law passed by Hindu jealots….
Holy Cow, really!
http://rehmat2.wordpress.com/2010/07/11/holy-cow-really/
This a article is filled with lies to malign India’s Image.Some Pakistani’s have posted wrong Information regarding treatment of Indian muslims. Its a usual propaganda by Madrassa educated Pakistanis. upon getting a Internet connection they posts anti india messages all over the web.
meanwhile Indians like me go to work and enjoy quality time with our families.
Pakistanis have inferiority complex regarding their identity to an extent that they claim they are Indians when asked in western countries.
Muslims In India are pampered lot. they enjoy Muslim laws.
Kashmiris dont even have to pay taxes, they are enjoying their meal with Indian peoples money. Infact Kashmiris will be in big trouble if Indian army is withdrawn from the valley.
If they join Pakistan, they know their free lunch and dinner will stop, as whole of Pakistan is fed by American charity.
so Pakistanis here in this forum should see their standing in front of the world, and realize that they are nothing but dispensable insects in a gutter. The day India gets angry, pulling the flush wont take time.So I appeal to all anti Indians here to stay in their limits, that is in their gutter.
Its over for Pakis, wikileaks has exposed everything. Pakis have been caught pants down. hahahahahaahahah.
HAR HAR MAHADEV!!!