Editorial for BP
Blasphemy in Denmark – Looting, Burning and Fatwas in India
Some Muslims in Denmark took offence and met with the Prime Minister. There were discussions between a group of Imams and the government and separately between a group of enlightened Danish Muslim citizens and the government. Although there was resentment at the blasphemy, there was no violence, no demonstrations, and no calls for death sentence on the cartoonists and the editor and publisher.
Months afterwards in February 2006 Muslims in a number of countries around the world, in Indonesia, Pakistan, Egypt, Afghanistan, France, Belgium, England….demonstrated, burnt the Danish flag and gave calls for boycott of Danish goods. And in India, in Hyderabad, on Friday the 17th of February, immediately after the mid-day prayers Muslim masses rushed out of the mosques, charged into Hindu shops, looted them, burnt some and also vandalised cars. Earlier, a call for denunciatory demonstration was given by Majlis Ithehadul Muslimeen (MIM), the successor to the notorious Razakarist movement before the Police Action in 1948 against the Nizam. A Muslim Minister in the secular Samajwadi party’s government in UP announced a prize of Rs. 51 crores for any one who kills the cartoonist and the Editor/Publisher in Denmark. The Shahi Imam of Delhi says that such a prize for the killer is absolutely alright.
The demonstrations of Muslims everywhere in the world against the cartoons in Denmark and the violence and vandalism and criminal incitement to murder by the Muslim Minister in secular India raise questions of whether the residents Muslims here are law abiding citizens of a democratic, secular republic or they are a special species of human beings, not bound by any laws of the country in which they live but owing allegiance to a transnational community whose laws and whose norms of civil life and behaviour are totally different from the rest.
Within our country, one Fida Maqbul Hussein, a notorious and incorrigible painter drew pictures of Hindu Goddess Saraswathi in the nude and of Bharat Mata in an outrageous manner. The sentiments of hundreds of millions of Hindus in the county and elsewhere are outraged but Hindus did not go on rampage anywhere and attack and loot Muslims’ properties. No Muslim organization including the MIM in Hyderabad condemned the blasphemy committed by the Muslim painter in regard to Hindu Gods and goddesses. On the other hand, communists, secularists, champions of freedom of expression condemned the few Hindus who raised protest demonstrations and called them fascist and communal. These gangs were unconcerned about the sentiments of Hindus outraged by a Muslim painter. The country took it calmly but now these champions of freedom of expression, secularists and Muslim organizations are on the rampage denouncing the Danish cartoonists and the editor of the journal. The President of the Islamic Republic of Iran issued a public call for the annihilation of Israel a member state of the UN. That very President also said that the Holocaust of Jews perpetrated by Nazi Germany is canard. The Marxists, Communists, their fellow-traveling intellectuals, secularists, are dead silent about the pronouncements of the Islamic President of Iran .
So it appears that freedom of journalistic and artistic expression is for people of particular faiths and ideology only; and they are justified and free to indulge in violence and desecration and destruction if their sentiments are offended. The fact, that those who incited the mob violence against Hindus in the old city of Hyderabad while demonstrating against the cartoonists in Denmark (and they are not Hindus) was not arrested for long shows that the Congress government is complicit with the enemies of Hindus in India. The Chief Minister (who belongs to another exclusivist proselytizing, self-righteous minority) had gone to the extent of having a resolution condemning the cartoonists and Denmark in the Legislative Assembly of Andhra Pradesh. The Sonia Maino-directed government represented to the government of Denmark against permitting such blasphemy by Denmark. None of these forces ever condemned the blowing to pieces of the world famous Buddha statues in Bamiyan, (Afghanistan) by the Taliban. The Shahi Imam of Delhi publicly proclaimed that the destruction of the Buddha statues in a Muslim country like Afghanistan was quite in order. All these show to what extent India has become a captive to disintegrating forces with the help of whom alone the Congress(I) is able to capture power. It is not accidental that for the first time in the history of independent, secular India a Muslim Leaguer (whose party in the 1940s rioted for the division of this country on the creation of the Islamic states of Pakistan (and Bangladesh) is a minister, holding not an ordinary portfolio but External Affairs itself so that India will be subordinated to the interest of the Islamic countries. With every passing day the danger to India’s integrity, its governance and its security increases and therewith the peril to Sanatana Dharma and Hindus. If we don’t recognize and organize to defend and disarm these evil forces, we will perish. (856 words).