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NEW INDIAN EXPRESS, March 2, 2002

Commenting on the roasting alive of 60 persons inside the Sabarmati Express in

Godhra in Gujarat, she said, ‘it is saddening and strange that when such acts

are perpetrated against the minorities all political leaders rush’ to condemn.

But when the majority is attacked ‘not a single political leader’ condemns it.

She rubbed it in further. ‘It is not as if crime is a crime only if it is

committed against the minoriies, and not so if it is committed against the

majority community.’ She is also a politician. She is all set to become the

Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu again. That is Jayalalithaa. >Indeed a stunning

admonition of the secular pack by one from within. She has exposed and shamed

the entire political class by this single statement. She has shown courage to

speak out on the malaise in our secular polity. But the malaise runs deeper. It

is not confined to politics. It extends to the entire secular class. And a large

intellectual class. It is founded on pseudo-intellectualism and

pseudo-secularism that presently form the foundation of the public discourse.

Let us analyse this in its full dimension. >The reaction of Indian seculars to

the gruesome killing of over 58 persons in the train in Godhra was predictable.

>From the Star TV, for which anti-India campaigns are a hobby, to every small

English newspaper, virtually it is the dead, that is, ‘the Ramsevaks’, who have

provoked the mob to kill them. Their thrust: ‘The Ram Sevaks shouted

provocative, abusive slogans’. So goes their report. ‘The local people in the

Muslim dominated Godhra got irritated’. This virtually rationalizes the rest.

It means this: ‘Yes roasting of a hundred men, women and children is

unfortunate, wrong, condemnable, but inevitable’. That is, the Ram sevaks

invited it upon themselves. >Look at the first facts. The Sabarmati Express

stops in Godhra for just three minutes. In three minutes a large mob of

thousands of people cannot gather. It has to be a planned attack. From what the

Home Secretary of Gujarat says and the news reports a common thread emerges.

>First, when the train approached Godhra, some people had thrown stones at the

train. At this point there was not question of any provocative slogans being

heard by anyone. Because, from a moving train nothing decipherable can be

heard. >Second, as soon as the train started moving out of the station, after

its three minutes stay, some one – unknown-- pulled the chain and stopped it.

It is said that it could be the handiwork of an attacker who had got in to the

train is not ruled out. The train stopped near the signal point. It is unlikely

that passengers who were being stoned would stop the train to invite being hit.

Particularly when the train consists of women and children. They would only

like the train to move away as fast as possible from the place. So the

miscreant who stopped the train could not be the victim. It could only be the

attacker. >Third, as soon as the train stopped the mob did the rest. They

rained stones on passengers. One of the coaches was doused with kerosene and

petrol and set on fire. The fire, say reports, spread to more compartments.

Many passengers jumped out. But those who could not, some 25 women and 15

children, were burnt to death alive. >The sequence establishes not a

spontaneous outburst as the seculars in the media attempt to make it out. It

does establish a premeditated plan to attack the train. The secular media

virtually rationalizes the killings. >Imagine it was the other way round. The

passengers were Muslims, the attackers Hindus. All hell would break have broken

loose. ‘Secularism dead’, ‘Hindu fundamentalists, blood thirsty Bajrang Dal

goons on the rampage’. ‘National shame’. There would be a national shut down.

Leaders after leaders and Parties after parties would troop towards Godhra and

Ahmmedabad. There would have been global condemnation. The nation as a whole

would have stood condemned. >As chance would have it those killed were only

Hindus, irrelevant to secular India. If a Christian church in thatched roof

were attacked, Christian governments in the west to US would pounce on us.

Thousands of captive school children would go on procession in town after town

in India and raise hell. If it were Muslims the entire Muslim world would

converge on us. Because the burnt were Hindus there is no such danger of any

one protesting too much. Even more fortunately, those killed were after all Ram

sevaks, Hindu bigots. After all those who attacked them had enough justification

because the Ramsevaks were provoking them. So no one was at fault, except those

who provoked their own death. Like a victim of rape having invited it upon her.

>Compare Godhra carnage with what happened when some tribals torched Stains and

his children in Orissa. Hell broke loose. The entire country was set upon and

came to a halt. ‘Hindu Fundamentalists’ ‘RSS-VHP-Bajrang Dal’ goons have

snuffed out a great social worker, shouted the secular megaphones-- the media,

leaders and parties. Thanks to the media in India and missionaries the entire

world abused India as a country. >Then came the report of the Wadhwa commission

on the Stains murder. The former Supreme Court judge ruled out the involvement

of RSS or VHP or Bajrang Dal. He also held Stains responsible for effecting

conversions, which was disliked by the local tribals. The findings completely

falsified the concoctions of the secular media and the minority religious

leaders. But the damage had been done. We were projected as a nation of

religious bigots. Not a single word of regret from the media, which destroyed

the nations image in its enthusiasm to finish off the Hindu movements. >The

same was the case in Jhabua rape. It was established to be intra-tribal and

intra-Christian affair. But the secular media and the minorities blamed the

Hindus and RSS. And forever project us as a nation whose hobby is raping nuns.

Even after the truth was established the secular media would not report it much

less express regret. >Every such concocted charge demeaned India and destroyed

its brand. All thanks to the despicable role of the seculars in the media and

the minority religious leaders. Christian nations of Europe who had in the past

baked over 9 million women as witches and eliminated over 140 million native

Americans to create the present Christian US – a historic fact which Bill

Clinton recalled in the wake of the World Trade Center attack as what is

haunting the US even now-- are advising us about religious harmony. >So unlike

the Jhabua Rape, and the hyped Stains murder, the killing of a hundred Hindus

will fortunately not dirty the honour of India. For, those women and children,

who had been reduced to ashes alive in Godhra, are not Christians or Muslims.

So the nation’s name will not be tarnished. No one outside India will ask a

question, as fortunately there is no Hindu nation in the world. No one will ask

a question for they happen to be not just Hindus, but also Ramsevaks. Their

right of existence is lost once they provoked the attackers. So even after

being torched alive, the Ramsevaks will have to share the blame for their

death. >This is the real face of secularism as practiced in India, of the

secular media, of the secular leaders and of the secular polity. This is what

the Ayodhya movement questioned. It is not just a movement for a temple. A

temple could not integrate the Hindus as it has done. It is far more. Thanks to

this the nation woke up to the pseudo among the seculars. But still the pseudo

masquerades as the real. Perhaps the Ayodhya movement will continue as long as

the very notion of secularism --and who is the real secular and who is the

pseudo-- is not defined, only to question it. If Gujarat is on fire today, and

the country witnessing fits of communal outburst the secular class has to own

its own share of blame. >Jayalalitha has implicitly condemned the entire

secular class, not just the political leaders. Rightly. Will they be shamed

into accepting the truth? > > >http://hindunet.org/saraswati

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