Murder by pen

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Murder by pen

Each time there is a disaster, atrocity, or something else which

tears at the fabric of humanity, there is news reporting on the

matter. Technological advances mean that news flashes round the globe

at an ever faster rate, and with a variety of sources from which one

can pick: newspaper, television, satellite television, radio, and

Internet. This information is useful, but control of it can shape the

way millions think. In theory nothing is restricted, in practice the

flow of that vital news has incredible influence on how we perceive

the world. Things move thick and fast, being outdated by seconds. So

while we might now know of things that were once hidden or

inaccessible except to the few privileged, other facts remain hidden,

ignored or even deliberately shut out of sight. It was said that the

pen is mightier than the sword. Well now the computer keyboard and

data exchange is mightier than the pen, typewriter, and outdated

newspaper journalistic prowess. The might of modern technology in

influencing thinking is far greater than can be imagined. Early cine

reels brought home the true horror of military life in the trenches

of World War I. Television made Vietnam a front room reality.

Satellite television beamed its information into areas hitherto

excluded form 'modernity'. Now the Internet let's us look behind

headlines to uncover further details according to our own wishes. But

is it so free? What if there has been deliberate shutting out of

human degradation as severe as any that a sick mind can commit? What

if a tragedy unfolding as these very words are being read was

shielded form public view, even from the all seeing eye of the modern

media colossus?

 

 

 

This is no mere fantasy, Orwellian nightmare or conspiracy theory.

The Hindus of Bangladesh are suffering complete extinction in their

own ancestral lands. Rape, abduction, murder, pillage, slave markets

are the fate of those who cling to the indigenous culture of this

poor South Asian country, always in the news when Monsoon floods and

cyclones hit, but never mentioned when the tragedy is man-made, the

result of decidedly un-modern bigotry and fanaticism. Yet just over

the border, in the much larger neighbour of India, the all seeing

media releases a torrent of abuse on the Hindu majority of that

country. Reading about India one can be easily led to think that this

longest surviving post-colonial democracy is on the brink of

dictatorship that reminds one of the very worst plagues that ravaged

twentieth century Europe in the form of the Third Reich. But is this

true? How accurate is this picture? Why are alternative viewpoints

not aired? In Hindu majority India you will find a diversity

unrivalled on any country on earth, and an amazing acceptance of

different cultures, all this among grinding poverty, unequal wealth

distribution, and government corruption at the highest levels. There

is the potential to be lifted out of decades of outdated Stalinist

state planning, failed socialism and bankrupt Marxist intellectualism

into the new Asian tiger. But again the cellular vomit that the media

unleashes on India prefers to ignore this and concentrate on some

imaginary Hindu fascism. Why is this? It is because India is a

majority Hindu country, and Hindus are not considered equals. Every

time and place has its scapegoats, convenient punch bags onto which

one can release life's fruitarians. In the 1950s USA it was the

blacks, in Nazi Germany and Soviet Russia the Jews, in imperial Japan

the Koreans, in 16th century Europe innocent women condemned as

witches, and now it is the turn of the Hindus. The genocide of many

people has been thoroughly researched and documented. One thinks of

the death camps of wartime Europe, the native Australians, the utter

inhumanity of Rwanda. Even in the face of extreme opposition it has

been possible to do this, such as the Armenian genocide, still

strenuously denied by Turkey, and the gulag slave system which was

the hallmark of Communism, no matter what excuses trendy Leftist

academics try and manufacture, about as high in quality as one of the

East German cars produced by Marxist economics. Yet with Hindus,

nothing. Not a word on Bangladesh, but plenty on the supposed Hindu

fundamentalism in India, at Godhra and Ayodhya to name but two

places, when Hindus were the target of the very fanaticism that they

are accused of. So the media has manufactured bizarre conspiracy

theories reminiscent of Mein Kampf to explain that the Hindus

deserved it all along. Hence there should be no surprise when the

media ignores the final solution to the 'Hindu problem' in

Bangladesh. Hindus are only mentioned when it is time to defame them,

mocking their culture, stealing it for cheap MTV videos or

celebration of repressed sexuality in western culture, to blame them

for the very terrorist ideology of which they are the ignored

victims. Yes when it comes to defaming and poking fun at religion and

culture, then Hindus are the very first names the media thinks of.

But when it comes to human rights abuses, then silence, shutdown, it

is pitch black. The flow of information ensures it remains so even

when the Brahmaputra delta becomes clogged up with the blood, corpses

and hacked off limbs of the Hindu victims of Bangladesh's very own

Auschwitz. This time we cannot repeat what was uttered in 1945, we

cannot say that we did not know. Just as in 1945, we know only too

well, but ignore it and do nothing.

 

In a rational and secular world, it is healthy to question long held

beliefs, especially if they seem outdated and to actually hamper the

progress of humanity. But when it comes to the vast pantheon of

sacred ideas, Hinduism constantly receives the dirt end of the stick.

In the past 3 years alone the number of times this has happened is

horrendous. Want to use graphics to sell pens, use Hindu gods. Want

to deify a famous soccer player and his consort, use Hindu imagery.

Want to express repressed and persecuted sexuality, use Hindu sacred

marks. Want to sell music, defame Hindu sensibilities. Hindu culture

has been plundered to satisfy the raw sensuality, materialism and

consumerism of modern society in way no other belief system has. At

least Christianity, Islam, Judaism, and Buddhism are allowed the

right to defend themselves. But not Hindus. If one ever defends

Hindus from consumerist plunder, Leftist intellectual warfare, and

physical violence the label of Nazi, fascist and fundamentalist is

immediately pinned on that person. This is defamation on an

incredible scale from which there is no escape. In Bangladesh Hindus,

which try and defend themselves are called Nazis, bent on massacring

the Muslim majority of that country, and the Christian and Muslim

minorities of its neighbour India. What proof is there of this.?

There needs to be no proof. Any mention of the word Hindu in a

political context is almost always in a most negative light, the

ultimate taboo which makes the Hindu a political leper in any

country. When western nations try and defend themselves against

terrorism, they are elevated as the guardian angels of human rights

and democracy. When Hindus do the same in Bangladesh, Pakistan, and

India, they are denounced as Nazis. How dare they, these insolent

dark skinned primitives, with their superstitious beliefs, preserving

the longest tradition of democracy in the developing and ex-colonial

world, how dare they have the audacity to stand up to terror. This is

the cry by all sections of the media who rely on one source for this

narrow interpretation of facts. That source is the alienated, Leftist

elite of India. How ironic is this? Marxism, the ideology which put

half of Europe and much of Asia under a dark cloud for half a

century, which still refuses to expire in some parts of the world,

and incidentally gave mental nutrition that was necessary to give

birth to the very Nazis the Left so often sees in every opponent, is

the source of information for western journalists reporting from

South Asia, who betray their senses, intellectual capabilities, and

the very objective standards that news media is meant to bring to the

ignorant masses. Without any evidence at all, even in the UK and US

Hindu charities are denounced as Nazi organisations, fundamentalist

Hindus who want to destroy all non-Hindus in their midst, fomenters

of communal riots in Gujarat state. Where is the evidence for all

this? Defence against terrorist attack is normally applauded but here

the western media goes beyond the standards of the most debased

minds. The attack on charities, burning alive of Hindu pilgrims,

violation of Hindu sacred sites, all are justified as only Hindus are

the victims of all this.

 

Even the most tiny and isolated of indigenous peoples have their

advocates in the media who urge protection of their interests. In the

modern myth of the Noble Savage, we are urged to stop the consumerist

exploitation of these peoples, such as the Amazonian Natives. They

are said to have retained a primeval link with nature, which we

modern sin our material obsessions have lost. Yet they bypass the

fact that Hindus have the longest unbroken link of civilisation

known. Hindus are depicted as bloodthirsty monsters, intent on

unleashing carnage on scale hitherto unknown. In myths and conspiracy

theories of the most incredible proportions that would put the occult

dabbling of Rudolf Hess into the remit of rationality, the very same

reasons we are urged to protect the Amazonian Indians, we are urged

to look at Hindus in the worst possible light.

 

That is not to say there is some sort of mass conspiracy, just a

blanket lack of objective journalism, reporting and research on very

basic issues. The media is powerful, sophisticated and knowledgeable

enough to avoid these errors. Yet until Hindus themselves make the

first steps to correct these mistakes, nothing will change. The de-

politicisation of the Hindu mind is the source of the tragedy and

lack of fight back. Defamation and slander with allegations of being

fundamentalist, Fascist, Nazi and superstitious should hold them back

no longer. When one examines only a few basic issues, including the

antiquity of Hindu culture, the evidence of western archaeological

techniques in verifying the age of Vedic civilisation and destroying

the racist Aryan Invasion Theory, the fact that Hindus have suffered

only the latest rounds in a long series of genocides in 1945, the

facts speak for themselves. It is only a matter of time before the

Hindu mind is fully decolonised and re-politicised and the truth will

be known.