Sandeep bhai,
I could not have wished more for things to be as simple as portrayed by you. Muslims are innocent and the non-muslims (including Hindus and chritstians) the world over are after them. The non-muslims the world over are planting bombs in regions as far separated as the US, the middle east (Israel), Africa (Egypt, Somalia, etc)), South East Asia (India, Afghanistan etc), Far east (Indonesia (Bali)) and not the muslims. With customs as old and rudimentary as ‘Eye for an Eye and a Tooth for a Tooth’ still being followed all across the muslim world with fervour, what more can one expect. Places like Dubai (UAE) are islands of reason and sanity in a sea of muslim nations which are characterised by violence and bloodshed. Kindly go through the recently conducted surveys across the western world where a sizeable proportion of the community surveyed justified acts of violence in the name of their religion which was considered more supreme, important and quintessential than life of an innocent. As far as muslim friends are concerned, I have had quite a few but I am still to come across one who truly and sincerely detests acts of violence in the name of religion.
To set the record straight, no train full of muslim passengers was ever burnt, it was the other way round. Train full of Hindu pilgrims including innocent women and children was burnt to ashes at Godhara without the slightest of compassion or mercy. You don’t have to first become a victim of that mindless violence to see the real picture – hate campaign spread by the muslims in this country. If the majority of the muslim community had been peace loving you would not have had terrorists attacks in Kashmir, Delhi, Rajasthan, Gujarat, Delhi, U.P., Karnataka, Assam, West Bengal (I may still be missing quite a few states). Kisi ne sahi kaha hae, jab jaago tab savera – it seems Hindu community’s savera is still far away, only hope that the community survives till then.
Nobody including me is in favour of exterminating the muslim community, but we need to have innocents all across the world facing the music of Islamic fanaticism draw up a line and say enough is enough, not beyond this point. However, if one still wishes to keep his or her eyes closed despite the muslim terrorist attacks shouting aloud over the rooftop, then no point or counterpoint can be productive enough to spend time on.
Jitender bhai,
As far as your point over the pandits is concerned – no doubt, malpractices have existed in the past and still continue. However, we should at the same time, despite the fact that superstition was spread by a small percentage of the pandits, give them credit for having kept the flag of Hinduism and its associated traditions flying high. It does not seem plausible to me that one can hate one’s religion just because the keepers of his places of worship are corrupt. Faith is much deeper than that if one actually is faithful enough. Faith in one’s faith is unshakeable, though not to the extent of killing innocents as in the case of muslims. Hindus like Christians have transformed themselves over the centuries but the same is yet to be seen in Muslims, though it does not even seem to be a distant reality.
As far as killing of Christians is concerned, the same is detestable to the extent possible. Losing of any innocent life be it of a person of any faith is deplorable. However, these are random and rare incidents which were fuelled by the killing of the 86 year old VHP monk Swami Laxmanananda Saraswati in Orissa. These acts against Christians have till now not been adequately proven to have been perpetrated by any Hindu organisation. You are right - the contributions of Christian missionaries in spreading education and cannot be underplayed. However, why does anybody need to convert to Christianity to get those benefits if community service is the actual and only motive of the missionaries? Why does one need to convert to Christianity and proclaim that Christian God is better than Hindu God as has happened in Orissa and Karnataka? And who knows, these acts could even have been perpetrated by some anti-national elements including muslims to bring bad name to Hindus and divert the national attention off of their cowardly acts after Delhi blasts.
Hindus have been turned into second class citizens in their own country with so much of focus and privileges being extended to the minorities (mainly to the muslims). You can destroy a 1000 temples (also the samudra setam) without giving a damn about it, but the government and the pseudo-secularists get frozen in their tracks even on the thought of breaking a mosque for development of that particular land. We have had 2 muslim presidents in the past and one muslim who is the Vice president of India at present and yet they are crying foul and charging the country of discrimination. No better example of ungali pakad ke pauncha pakadna than this. But we will still keep our eyes and ears closed because we are secular and all that that is mentioned in our constitution. How many times does this country need to be divided on religious lines. Earlier Pakistan and now Kashmir. But mind you, it would not be separation this time– it would be nothing short of large scale ethnic cleansing of Hindus after that and unfortunately unlike muslims, the common Hindu does not have too many options (places) to pursue as there are no Hindu countries. Hindus were spread out at one point in time from the middle east to the far east including Indonesia and Malaysia and today because of its philosophy of Sarv Dharm Sambhaav, they are confined just to India and Nepal.
Please hit us on the left cheek and we will forward the right one for you to oblige…
