Editorial for BP
Magnanimity, Innocence or Dhimmitude
The Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh is a Christian. The Director General of police of the state of Andhra Pradesh is a Muslim. The external affairs minister of India is a Christian. And so is the minister for defence. A Muslim Leaguer is a Minister of State for Foreign Affairs! The President of India is a Muslim but is looked upon by Muslims in this country as a non-Muslim. We had Muslims as Chief Ministers of predominantly Hindu states like Maharashtra, Rajasthan, Bihar and Assam. In the 2/3rd majority Muslim state of J & K, in the more than 50 years no Hindu or Buddhist (together 35%) became the Chief Minister; in the Christian majority states of Meghalaya, Mizoram Nagaland no Hindu could ever become the Chief Minister. In the Punjab (48% Hindu no non-Sikh Hindu had ever been the Chief Minister). In the Hindu majority Kerala, (we don’t know how long the majority it will last, as it has come down from 69% in 1951 to about 51% by 2006 ) a Christian was become the Chief Minister. Is there a parallel to this – the mainstream community volunteers to be ruled by minorities?
Many Hindu scholars and saintly persons say that Hinduism is so great a system of beliefs and practices and way of life, so tolerant, so comprehensive, so inclusive that it would never die. Of course, this oft-repeated belief and faith is so wrong. Hinduism is more or less wiped out in one third the area of what was Bharat. In the Islamic states of Pakistan and Bangladesh carved out of India, there is no Hindu culture surviving, even in the ‘composite’ form. Hindus are living a miserable life, with hardly any positions in government or in civil society. Here in what remains as India, Bharat is a dirty word. A venerable lady professor (a Vyas from the Marxists Madrassa, known as Jawaharlal Nehru University, when questioned on the All India Radio asserted that there are no Bharatiyas; we are all Indians and not Bharatiyas. Today it is such Bharat-denigrating and denying Marxist intellectuals and party men that are the indispensable props of the Sonia-led UPA government. For the first time in post-partition Independent India, a Muslim Leaguer is in the cabinet. And he is leading a delegation of twenty Muslims at government expense to Saudi Arabia to get the good will of Muslims the world over at the Haj pilgrimage! No Hindu can get Saudis’ and Moslems good will that we crave!
A number of India’s political parties are embracing Islam in the name of 'secularism'. Leaders and Chief Ministers give Iftaar parties at the expense of 'secular' state, even as none of them is given a Diwali or a Sri Ram Navami party by any Muslim of any consequence. Sri Ram Vilas Paswan, a 'secular' warrior has not stopped at a declaring and campaigning that only a Muslim should be the Chief Minister of Bihar. He has now organized a Dalit and Minorities International Conference in Delhi on the 27th and 28th December 2006 and got it inaugurated by the puppet Prime Minister of India Sardar Manmohan Singh, with another 'secular' warrior Sri V P Singh as the Chief Guest! He brought together experts on dalit and minority affairs from India and abroad as well as political leaders! What for this combination of dalits and Muslims and against whom is this? We may recall that Mohammed Ali Jinnah, leader of the partition of India-demanding, Pakistan-creating Muslim League included a Harijan Jogindernath Mandal from East Bengal in the Muslim League complement of ministers in the Interim Cabinet of the Government of India, in 1946-47. After the creation of Pakistan, Jogindernath Mandal was made a Minister in the Pakistan Government. But he and Hindus including the Harijans were so badly treated and humiliated that he fled to India and died an ignominious death. The patronage of dalits by Muslims and vice versa is to divide and destroy Hindus.
At the meeting of the National Development Council, Sardar Manmohan Singh made the shocking statement that minorities; that is Muslims, should have the first and major share in the development programs. He was widely criticized but unfazed by this criticism, he once again declares that “his (Sonia’s) government was committed to redressing imbalances and eradicating inequities that the Muslim Community was facing”. He and his party are not concerned with why he (and many 'secularists' and communists like Kuldeep Nayar, I K Gujral, Jyothi Basu, Buddhadeb Bhattacharya, Faiz Ahmed Faiz) had fled from Pakistan and took refuge in India; why 350,000 Hindus had been ethnically cleansed from India’s, Moslem-majority Kashmir. He is not prepared to acknowledge the fact that the backwardness of Muslims is self-imposed and that Hindus of this country owe them nothing in view of their elders and their parents having asserted that they were not a part of this nation and got 1/3rd of the land of India, more than the 25% population they were before 1947, for Islamic Pakistan (and Bangladesh). While all Hindus and Sikhs and Buddhists were more or less expelled from Pakistan and Bangladesh, here Moslems have proliferated from under 10% to over 15%. The large family size, preference for madrassas and Urdu education and non-encouragement of education for the girl child are the main reasons for their poverty and unemployability. Instead of advising them and see that they limit their families and take to modern education, the Congress party and ‘secularists’ are showering more and more largesse upon them to mention but a few. 120 Urdu medium residential schools at a cost of Rs.2000 crores; over Rs 5,600 cr for Muslim welfare in the 11th Plan, recognition of madrassas certificates as equivalent to a University degree, Rs. 400 cr subsidy for Haj pilgrimage, numerous Muslim commissions are some of the most obnoxious measures of the Congress and 'secularists’ keep Muslims separate and ask Hindus to pay for all this. This is nothing but restoration of the hated jijia (tax on Hindus who did not convert to Islam) that Muslim rulers imposed on Hindus in the medieval times. Wonder is Hindu, mostly the regional parties are competing among themselves and with the Congress to solidify the Muslim vote bank, treat them as a separate nation and pay for this separatist nation by taxing the Hindus.
The increasing activities of the jihadi terrorists and the open demand that those terrorists who have been caught and tried and sentenced should not be hanged is one more hateful act of 'secular' Hindus in inviting the Muslim noose round this nation and embracing self-enslavement. The elements of a war of the jihadi-minded and their silent supporters exactly is like the Direct Action that was launched by the Muslim League in 1946 to terrorise Hindus, especially the Congress to accept the division of this country and to concede that Muslims are not Indians but a separate nation.
Hindus must seriously ponder over the self-surrendering activities among their political vote-mongers, most of whom are not looking beyond their life time, having sent their children for education in the US and for eventual settlement there. The fate of the terrorized Hindus would be either to convert to the alien faiths or reconcile themselves to be ruled by non-Hindus with themselves having nominal power which can be exercised only by the consent of the minorities.