Inhumane Depravity of Secularism

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>Shame on Secular

>Fri, 1 Mar 2002 20:59:40 -0800 (PST)

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>Here is a thoughtful piece by Gurumurthy. Please pardon me if this happens

>to be a repeat posting. It is well worth reading a second time and passing

>it on to your friends! Dhanyavaad. Kalyanaraman

>Madam, will they be shamed by your blunt words, that is, the truth?

>S. Gurumurthy. 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?

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