Islam's 3 great Satans-USA,Israel&India

[Guest guest]

Francois Gautier

A world upside down

Once you start seeing from the right inner perspective, you will

notice that the world appears upside down, as if people were walking

on their head," often commented the Mother of Pondicherry. And

indeed, if you look at the world today, in this inauspicious

beginning of November 2001, what do you see?

 

Without a doubt, modern politics is the torchbearer of expediency,

shortcuts, and falsehood. Since the terrorist attacks of September

11, all world leaders seem to be rushing to Pakistan, to pay

obeisance and offer unlimited support to President Pervez Musharraf,

an unelected leader of an Islamic country that has made jihad a

national enterprise. Of course, they come with their arms full of

goodies: rescheduling of loans, waiving of sanctions, billions of

dollars in credit, which will serve to buy weapons, a sizeable

fraction of which will end up aimed against the third great 'Satan'

of Islam after the United States and Israel: India.

 

And then, as an afterthought, they hop on to India, to give the ever-

smiling Atal Bihari Vajpayee a moral discourse on how he should

behave himself and make friends with Islamabad, regardless of the

fact that Pakistan keeps arming, training, sheltering and encouraging

Kashmiri separatists to kill innocent Indians. Is that not a world

turned upside down?

 

The American war on Afghanistan also looks completely wrong: you do

not win a war by bombing from the safety of supersonic planes flying

10km above the ground. There is nothing much left to bomb in

Afghanistan anyway, except a few innocent civilians. You do not fight

terrorism with terrorism, as Bush is doing, by using Pakistan

to 'neutralise' the Taleban which Islamabad created. You do not bomb

on the one hand while feeding civilians on the others. Not only are

leaders always a product of their people, as Hitler and Germany amply

demonstrated, not only does a nation always pay for its own past

karma, as the Dalaï Lama constantly reminds us, but many of these

refugees are probably supportive of the Taleban.

 

You do not think that by killing one man -- Osama bin Laden -- you

will eliminate Muslim fundamentalism, which is today a world

phenomenon. You do not ignore a huge pro-Western democracy -- India --

which has been the butt for centuries of bloody and terrible Muslim

invasions and today fights a lonely battle in Asia against Islamic

fundamentalism. You do not enrol the help of China, as many Western

leaders are trying to do. China is probably the Taleban's biggest

investor and friend and a known enemy of India. It has only one goal

today: to diminish the United States as a superpower so that it can

spread its hegemony first in Asia -- Taiwan, Tibet, the Spartley

islands, parts of India -- and then on to the world.

 

It is true that the United States remains a beacon of goodwill and

freedom on our planet, but because of materialism, they have lost

their kshatriya spirit which they demonstrated during the First and

Second World Wars, when they twice saved Europe from the German

hegemonic spirit. Today, they show not only the inability to fight

and sustain casualties, but a fear that borders on paranoia.

 

Is India faring better? Not at all. What do we see today in India?

Instead of seizing upon this opportunity to strike at terrorism and

take bold steps against Muslim fundamentalism, which the world would

have, if not approved, at least not condemned, its leaders are just

mouthing the eternal empty threats, which do not frighten anybody

anymore, or coming out with the most obvious platitudes, such as the

prime minister declaring on October 30 that "we will fight terrorism

with tourism", at a time when everybody knows tourism is in the

dumps!

 

Muslims in many parts of India are showing their support to the

Taleban and Afghanistan by rioting on Fridays after the prayers,

burning cars and public property, attacking the police, as has been

the case in Malegaon, Maharashtra. All over the world today, a spade

is called spade when it comes to Muslims manifesting their support to

fundamentalism. But what happens when it occurs in India? Newspapers

such as The Hindu or The Indian Express report it briefly,

saying "one community attacked another" or label it "communal" riots.

What communal riots? Are we going to make the Hindus responsible for

Muslims burning cars and rioting? Poor Hindus! One newspaper [The

Hindu] even brought up the Ayodhya factor in its October 30 coverage

of Malegaon!

 

Is it not the world upside down? The whole issue is also about Indian

journalism, which devotes pages when it comes to attacking its own

culture, or lambasting the "saffronisation" of India, but reports in

only a few lines and without adverse comment, the fact that 800

Muslim-owned hotels in Mumbai, including five-stars, have decided to

boycott American and British products "to show that we no longer

tolerate the attacks on innocents in Afghanistan" [The Indian

Express, October 31, page 9]. Is it not the world turned upside down?

 

On the external front, India tolerated the terrible mutilation of its

soldiers by Bangladeshis early this year so as not too embarrass the

government of the "friendly" Sheikh Hasina, which was facing an

election. Unfortunately, she lost by a big margin and the unfriendly

Begum Khaleda Zia is now in power, with the consequence that once

more a massive pogrom against Hindus has taken place, with women and

girls raped, innocents killed and a new exodus of Bangladeshis to the

already overcrowded and sensitive Northeast. But what does the

government do? Nothing, except sending Brajesh Mishra to Dhaka. It

would be enough for Delhi to close the tap of the Ganges water for

three days to bring Bangladesh to its knees and thus protect the

innocent Hindus of Bangladesh. But no, India is eternally obsessed

with appearing goody-goody and has learnt no lesson from its

perpetual humiliation at the hands of Muslims and Chinese.

 

Does not the BJP understand that it was voted to power on the

promises of radical changes in the country and a government that

would respect the aspirations of the 850 million Hindus, who feel

they have been cheated, despised, neglected, hounded, ridiculed by 45

years of Nehruvianism?

 

But the BJP has been too busy looking "secular" and making useless

moves such as the bus trip to Lahore, or the Agra summit, both of

which failed because of Pakistani intransigence, to do anything. What

about the changes in the Constitution, the privatisation of Indian

Airlines and Air-India, the cutting down of the arrogant and useless

VIP security or the whittling of the bureaucracy? Nothing! Do they

not realise that they are going to be hounded out of power at the

next election and that India will be back to square one? That today

may be their last chance to make good their pledges?

 

Do they not realise that no country in the world has any respect for

India? That Japan sends an ex-prime minister, whom Vajpayee should

never have received himself, to ask India to "exercise utmost

restraint". Or that France, towards which India has made so many

overtures in the last few years, is only sending its external affairs

minister now (he will, of course, also visit Pakistan).

 

The Mother of Pondicherry was right: every time you open a newspaper,

if you look closely, you will notice that the world is walking on its

head and that if it keeps doing so a little longer, it will totally

lose its balance and lead us to pralaya.