Another misadventure by the dregs to create communal tension and riots has miserably failed. Visits by secular rahul and Kejri have drawn cropper. Poor guys. Ground support for modi in bihar is on a swell because of these devious misadventures. Any amount of throwing abuses on modi is sure to help him in his development agenda for bihar.
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Dadri lynching: India should hang its head in shame
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When a mob did certain atrocities, the innocents around will be trapped and caught in the mess. The criminals will conveniently escape.
The police atrocity on an innocent hindu boy, is also to be condemned.
Tit for tat, equating 1:1 in communal clashes are all silly things; no sane person will think like that.
The police atrocity on an innocent hindu boy, is also to be condemned.
Tit for tat, equating 1:1 in communal clashes are all silly things; no sane person will think like that.
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What is the amount of compensation paid to both the lives.....???
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In Narendra Modi’s India, is a cow’s life worth more than a Muslim’s? Sadly, the answer seems to be yes.
In late September, a Hindu mob in the northern Indian town of Dadri killed Muhammad Akhlaq, a 50-year-old Indian Muslim, for allegedly consuming and storing beef. In August 2014, Hindu extremists killed a Muslim man in North India after police charged him with the crime of slaughtering a cow. And in March 2015, a news video showing a Muslim man tied with a noose, beaten, and forced to praise the Hindu deity Ram went viral. The man’s crime? Buying and selling cows.
Of the aforementioned attacks, the attack on Akhlaq was the most galling. Union Minister Mahesh Sharma, one of the few top officials in Modi’s ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) government to comment on Akhlaq’s killing, described it as an “unfortunate accident.” But it was murder. A mob, made up in part by members of an organization called Save the Cow, rushed toward Akhlaq’s home, smashed his skull with his wife’s sewing machine, and dragged his corpse outside. Interviewed after the attack, few of the men showed remorse.
“We are more attached to the cow than our own children,” Inder Nagar, a Save the Cow member and the local state secretary of the BJP youth wing, told the New York Times.
Hindus regard the cow as an object of reverence and many see its consumption as an abomination. After Akhlaq’s murder, BJP legislator Raja Singh tweeted the sections from the Hindu text the Vedas that mandates killing people who slaughter cows. In many Indian states, including Akhlaq’s Uttar Pradesh, slaughtering a cow is illegal (though large numbers of Hindus, Muslims, and others flout this law). In recent speeches, Modi has condemned the “widespread murder of our cows.” But since taking office as prime minister in May 2014, he has never directly condemned the killing of Muslims.
Modi’s political allegiance is clear. He spent decades with the RSS, or the National Volunteer Organization, a major Hindu chauvinist movement that admires fascism and seeks to transform India — a nation of 1.25 billion people that is roughly 14 percent Muslim — into a Hindu polity. And the BJP, which Modi has been a part of since 1985, is the political arm of a network of Hindutva, or Hindu fundamentalist, groups that want India to be a Hindu state.
In the months leading up to the May 2014 election that swept Modi to power, some pundits in India and abroad imagined that the country was poised to elect Modi 2.0: a center-right pragmatist who would prioritize economics above ideology and lead India to a united, secular future. Some in the United States described Modi as India’s Ronald Reagan. Others fashioned him as a libertarian railing against “red tape-ism” and governmental overregulation and inefficiency. Strikingly, even Bollywood star Mallika Sherawat jumped on the Modi train — whose influential passengers were mostly business tycoons and Hindutva activists — and described Modi as “smart, progressive, and often misunderstood.”
Believing that Modi would become a pragmatist once elected, however, proved to be a devastatingly huge mistake. In his first post-election speech in the Lok Sabha, India’s lower house of Parliament, Modi railed against the “1,200 years of slave mentality” afflicting India: a reference not only to the 200 years of British rule, but the 1,000 years of Muslim rule that predated it. Since he has taken office, incidents of communal violence — violence perpetrated across caste, ethnic, or religious lines — have been increasing. According to Indian government statistics, communal violence in India rose 30 percent in the first six months of 2015 from the same period last year, and of the 51 people killed during that period, 31 were Muslims.
http://foreignpolicy.com/2015/10/09/modi_india_cow_hindu_muslim_bjp_murder_violence/
In late September, a Hindu mob in the northern Indian town of Dadri killed Muhammad Akhlaq, a 50-year-old Indian Muslim, for allegedly consuming and storing beef. In August 2014, Hindu extremists killed a Muslim man in North India after police charged him with the crime of slaughtering a cow. And in March 2015, a news video showing a Muslim man tied with a noose, beaten, and forced to praise the Hindu deity Ram went viral. The man’s crime? Buying and selling cows.
Of the aforementioned attacks, the attack on Akhlaq was the most galling. Union Minister Mahesh Sharma, one of the few top officials in Modi’s ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) government to comment on Akhlaq’s killing, described it as an “unfortunate accident.” But it was murder. A mob, made up in part by members of an organization called Save the Cow, rushed toward Akhlaq’s home, smashed his skull with his wife’s sewing machine, and dragged his corpse outside. Interviewed after the attack, few of the men showed remorse.
“We are more attached to the cow than our own children,” Inder Nagar, a Save the Cow member and the local state secretary of the BJP youth wing, told the New York Times.
Hindus regard the cow as an object of reverence and many see its consumption as an abomination. After Akhlaq’s murder, BJP legislator Raja Singh tweeted the sections from the Hindu text the Vedas that mandates killing people who slaughter cows. In many Indian states, including Akhlaq’s Uttar Pradesh, slaughtering a cow is illegal (though large numbers of Hindus, Muslims, and others flout this law). In recent speeches, Modi has condemned the “widespread murder of our cows.” But since taking office as prime minister in May 2014, he has never directly condemned the killing of Muslims.
Modi’s political allegiance is clear. He spent decades with the RSS, or the National Volunteer Organization, a major Hindu chauvinist movement that admires fascism and seeks to transform India — a nation of 1.25 billion people that is roughly 14 percent Muslim — into a Hindu polity. And the BJP, which Modi has been a part of since 1985, is the political arm of a network of Hindutva, or Hindu fundamentalist, groups that want India to be a Hindu state.
In the months leading up to the May 2014 election that swept Modi to power, some pundits in India and abroad imagined that the country was poised to elect Modi 2.0: a center-right pragmatist who would prioritize economics above ideology and lead India to a united, secular future. Some in the United States described Modi as India’s Ronald Reagan. Others fashioned him as a libertarian railing against “red tape-ism” and governmental overregulation and inefficiency. Strikingly, even Bollywood star Mallika Sherawat jumped on the Modi train — whose influential passengers were mostly business tycoons and Hindutva activists — and described Modi as “smart, progressive, and often misunderstood.”
Believing that Modi would become a pragmatist once elected, however, proved to be a devastatingly huge mistake. In his first post-election speech in the Lok Sabha, India’s lower house of Parliament, Modi railed against the “1,200 years of slave mentality” afflicting India: a reference not only to the 200 years of British rule, but the 1,000 years of Muslim rule that predated it. Since he has taken office, incidents of communal violence — violence perpetrated across caste, ethnic, or religious lines — have been increasing. According to Indian government statistics, communal violence in India rose 30 percent in the first six months of 2015 from the same period last year, and of the 51 people killed during that period, 31 were Muslims.
http://foreignpolicy.com/2015/10/09/modi_india_cow_hindu_muslim_bjp_murder_violence/
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UP Police is likely to initiate action against BJP functionaries for instigating the mob on September 28, the Monday when 50-year-old ironsmith Mohammed Akhlaq was lynched to death and his son Danish gravely injured.
According to reports, police are checking call details of named accused and their supporters to find whether they were in contact with people outside Bishada village, during or after the incident. "We have come across certain numbers which show that calls were being made to people outside the village when the incident took place," said a senior officer supervising the investigations. Sources said police are avoiding immediate action against BJP leaders as it can escalate tension in Dadri.
Aware that any such move could add to the politically surcharged atmosphere, the UP government does not seem to be in a hurry to book the BJP leaders. DIG Meerut Ashutosh Kumar said action will be initiated against Union minister Mahesh Sharma, BJP MLA Sangeet Som and BSP leader Naseemuddin Siddiqui for violating Section 144 of CrPC. "A challan report will be filed under Section 188 of the CrPC for these leaders for violation of prohibitory orders." They had visited Dadri after the attack. Earlier, SP (rural) Gautam Budh Nagar, Sanjay Singh, had also recommended action against these them.
Senior police officers in Lucknow confirmed that probe is underway to establish if Dadri killing was a result of a conspiracy and who all were involved in it. "Cops are collecting evidence about the exact sequence of events. We are looking into all possible aspects of the crime, including involvement of the accused and if there was any conspiracy that led to the murder," Kumar told TOI.
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/...s-under-UP-cops-lens/articleshow/49294806.cms
According to reports, police are checking call details of named accused and their supporters to find whether they were in contact with people outside Bishada village, during or after the incident. "We have come across certain numbers which show that calls were being made to people outside the village when the incident took place," said a senior officer supervising the investigations. Sources said police are avoiding immediate action against BJP leaders as it can escalate tension in Dadri.
Aware that any such move could add to the politically surcharged atmosphere, the UP government does not seem to be in a hurry to book the BJP leaders. DIG Meerut Ashutosh Kumar said action will be initiated against Union minister Mahesh Sharma, BJP MLA Sangeet Som and BSP leader Naseemuddin Siddiqui for violating Section 144 of CrPC. "A challan report will be filed under Section 188 of the CrPC for these leaders for violation of prohibitory orders." They had visited Dadri after the attack. Earlier, SP (rural) Gautam Budh Nagar, Sanjay Singh, had also recommended action against these them.
Senior police officers in Lucknow confirmed that probe is underway to establish if Dadri killing was a result of a conspiracy and who all were involved in it. "Cops are collecting evidence about the exact sequence of events. We are looking into all possible aspects of the crime, including involvement of the accused and if there was any conspiracy that led to the murder," Kumar told TOI.
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/...s-under-UP-cops-lens/articleshow/49294806.cms
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A mob of about a 100 people had attacked Mohammad Akhlaq's house on the night of September 28. Of them, 10 have been named in the FIR. These 10, Akhlaq's family could identify that night in the chaos, when, to make matters worse, there was no electricity and an inverter was doing the job.
Police have so far arrested eight, and the UP government is talking of charging them under the harsh National Security Act, which will ensure they can be detained for up to 12 months. Now, it seems, parents of a few of the accused are putting gentle pressure on the Akhlaq family to withdraw their sons' names from the FIR.
Akhlaq's younger brother Jaan Mohammad told TOI, "Two women and one man, whose sons are arrested in the case, have approached me claiming that they are innocent." "I was not present at the spot when the attack took place. My niece and nephew were in the house at that time. My nephew (Danish) was critically injured. My niece (Sahista) identified the accused and named them in the FIR. How can I know if a person is innocent or not? Let the police investigate the matter," he said.
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/...-drop-names-from-FIR/articleshow/49294907.cms
Police have so far arrested eight, and the UP government is talking of charging them under the harsh National Security Act, which will ensure they can be detained for up to 12 months. Now, it seems, parents of a few of the accused are putting gentle pressure on the Akhlaq family to withdraw their sons' names from the FIR.
Akhlaq's younger brother Jaan Mohammad told TOI, "Two women and one man, whose sons are arrested in the case, have approached me claiming that they are innocent." "I was not present at the spot when the attack took place. My niece and nephew were in the house at that time. My nephew (Danish) was critically injured. My niece (Sahista) identified the accused and named them in the FIR. How can I know if a person is innocent or not? Let the police investigate the matter," he said.
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/...-drop-names-from-FIR/articleshow/49294907.cms
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The BJP has, meanwhile, distanced itself from the MLA's Dadri visit. Laxmikant Bajpai, state chief of the party, said, "Sangeet Som should not have gone there. But now that he has visited Dadri, it was done in his personal capacity. The party had nothing to do with it."
Som is no novice when it comes to controversy. His academic degree, it was alleged, was fake. His father was booked for assaulting a brick kiln worker. During the Muzaffarnagar riots of 2013, the National Security Act was slapped on him for allegedly inciting crowds to riot.
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/...it-firm-backs-him-up/articleshow/49294046.cms
That is the difference between
Som is no novice when it comes to controversy. His academic degree, it was alleged, was fake. His father was booked for assaulting a brick kiln worker. During the Muzaffarnagar riots of 2013, the National Security Act was slapped on him for allegedly inciting crowds to riot.
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/...it-firm-backs-him-up/articleshow/49294046.cms
That is the difference between
and Prime Minister Modi (keeping a known criminal in power).
The cartoon is an excellent one.
A person can not ride on two horses at a time;
Not practical on two galloping horses; that too, when each one gallops in opposite direction.
It makes quite impossible for the rider.
One horse (Fringe Group) is in retrograde pasture; the other one (development) is forward moving pasture.
It implies in certainty that the rider would fall down.
Both the horses portrayed seeing the viewer with a different facial expressions.
The four legs of the development horse indicate a stand still pasture ; The four legs of the Fringe group horse in galloping pasture indicate a possible tilt in it's side.
Many more interpretations could be given as per the thematic appreciation of the viewer
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Modi riding on two horses will, most probably leave the standstill development horse and will go any which way the fringe group horse takes him, because it is thanks to the enormous ground work (foot work and 'threatening people' work done by the fringe groups plus RSS, VHP etc., that he has become the PM (and not merely/mostly because of his own oratory or tireless election meetings conducted). He may, if very lucky, complete the five-year term, just as Bajpai did (before completing his five year term because he thought the "India shining" slogan would secure for him another full term) and lost miserably not to return for ten long years!
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[h=1]Hindus extend helping hand for wedding of Muslim girls in Bishada[/h]
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Bishada resident Hakeem, who till a few days ago was toying with the idea of shifting the wedding venue outside the village in the wake of the beef rumours that saw a man being brutally beaten to death, is now all smiles as villagers have ensured security for the family celebrating the marriage today.
Hindu families are all set to welcome the bridegroom and their families and are busy making preparations for food and tent.
Hakeem was earlier planning to shift the marriage venue out of the village due to the tense situation in the village after 50-year-old Iqlakh was beaten to death and his 22-year-old son Danish was critically injured by a mob which barged into their house on the night of September 28 following rumours that the family had consumed beef.
However, after Hindu families extended support he decided against doing so. SDM RK Singh said situation in Bishada is slowly returning to normalcy.
Source: http://www.deccanherald.com/content/505788/hindus-extend-helping-hand-wedding.html
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தாத்ரி சம்பவத்திற்கு பிறகு பிசாதா கிராமத்து இந்துக்கள் செய்த நல்ல காரியம்
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இந்த சம்பவத்தை அடுத்து பிசாதா கிராமத்தைச் சேர்ந்த ஹக்கீம் என்பவர் தனது இரண்டு மகள்களின் திருமணத்தை வேறு ஏதாவது ஊரில் நடத்தலாம் என்று திட்டமிட்டார். இந்த பதட்டமான சூழலில் இந்துக்கள் தனது மகள்களின் திருமணத்தை சுமூகமாக நடத்தவிட மாட்டார்கள் என்று அஞ்சினார். ஆனால் அவரே ஆச்சரியப்படும் அளவுக்கு ஒரு சம்பவம் நடந்துள்ளது.
பிசாதா கிராமத்தைச் சேர்ந்த இந்துக்கள் ஹக்கீம் மகள்களின் திருமணத்திற்கான ஏற்பாடுகளை செய்துள்ளனர். டெண்ட் அமைப்பதில் இருந்து உணவு தயாரிப்பது வரை அனைத்து பணிகளையும் இழுத்துப் போட்டு செய்துள்ளனர். இந்து சகோதரர்களின் இந்த செயலால் ஹக்கீம் மிகவும் மகிழ்ச்சி அடைந்துள்ளார்.
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Those who have taken a solemn pledge to uphold the Constitution in parliament and assembly, the PM,HM,CM,et al should resign forthwith.
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Modi finally speaks about the incident - defensively.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi, in an interview to Kolkata-based Bangla language newspaper Anand Bazaar Patrika, termed the Dadri incident ‘dukhad’ (unfortunate) and questioned the logic behind blaming the Central government for the incident.
He said the Dadri incident and the banning of Pakistani singer Ghulam Ali's concerts were regrettable, but asked if it “is it fair to blame the Centre?”
Mohammad Akhlaq was beaten to death by a mob which suspected him of having stored and consumed beef. Several members of the BJP are among the suspects in the case.
‘Always practiced secularism’
The Prime Minister said that the "BJP had always practiced secularism in any situation where there have been differences; the party has never supported anyone involved in such incidents."
Prime Minister Narendra Modi, in an interview to Kolkata-based Bangla language newspaper Anand Bazaar Patrika, termed the Dadri incident ‘dukhad’ (unfortunate) and questioned the logic behind blaming the Central government for the incident.
He said the Dadri incident and the banning of Pakistani singer Ghulam Ali's concerts were regrettable, but asked if it “is it fair to blame the Centre?”
Mohammad Akhlaq was beaten to death by a mob which suspected him of having stored and consumed beef. Several members of the BJP are among the suspects in the case.
‘Always practiced secularism’
The Prime Minister said that the "BJP had always practiced secularism in any situation where there have been differences; the party has never supported anyone involved in such incidents."
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Dadri lynching: Kiren Rijiju backs Modi, says 'law and order a state subject'
Minister of State for Home Affairs Kiren Rijiju on Wednesday backed Prime Minister Narendra Modi's assertion that the Centre has had no role in the Dadri lynching incident or even the cancellation of proposed musical programme of Pakistani Ghazal singer Ghulam Ali.
"The law and order is a state subject. When we feel that an incident is serious, we seek a report from the state government and accordingly issue an advisory. But, to indict the Centre for incidents taking place in a state is wrong, Prime Minister Modi has said the correct thing,"said Rijiju. Prime Minister Modi has said that he or his party BJP does not support incidents like the lynching of Mohd. Akhlaq at Dadri in Uttar Pradesh on beef rumours or even the cancellation of proposed musical programme of Ghulam Ali.
Read more at: http://www.dnaindia.com/india/repor...di-says-law-and-order-a-state-subject-2134758
Minister of State for Home Affairs Kiren Rijiju on Wednesday backed Prime Minister Narendra Modi's assertion that the Centre has had no role in the Dadri lynching incident or even the cancellation of proposed musical programme of Pakistani Ghazal singer Ghulam Ali.
"The law and order is a state subject. When we feel that an incident is serious, we seek a report from the state government and accordingly issue an advisory. But, to indict the Centre for incidents taking place in a state is wrong, Prime Minister Modi has said the correct thing,"said Rijiju. Prime Minister Modi has said that he or his party BJP does not support incidents like the lynching of Mohd. Akhlaq at Dadri in Uttar Pradesh on beef rumours or even the cancellation of proposed musical programme of Ghulam Ali.
Read more at: http://www.dnaindia.com/india/repor...di-says-law-and-order-a-state-subject-2134758
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[h=1]Dadri lynching: Bengal writers, intellectuals seek President's intervention[/h]
"We are horrified at the callous lack of support and apathy of the state in finding and bringing the culprits to justice. The stifling atmosphere of fear and uncertainty is fatal to the freedom of expression that is at the heart of our shared lives, and it is for the restoration of this common fabric that we urge you to intervene," the letter said.
Among the 94 personalities who have signed the letter are poets Sankha Ghosh, Nirendranath Chakraborty, economists Ashok Mitra and Amiya Bagchi, theatre and film actor Kaushik Sen, authors Nabaneeta Deb Sen, Bani Basu, Shirshendu Mukherjee, Samaresh Majumdar, theatre maestro Rudraprasad Sengupta and painter Wasim Kapoor.
Citing the killing of rationalists Narendra Dhabolkar and M M Kalburgi, and the lynching of Muhammad Akhlaq at Dadri for allegedly consuming beef, they said that the freedom of expression and choice were under threat.
"We appeal to you to take firm and immediate steps to combat this well-planned conspiracy to endanger Indian democracy," they said.
http://www.deccanchronicle.com/1510...-bengal-writers-intellectuals-seek-presidents
"We are horrified at the callous lack of support and apathy of the state in finding and bringing the culprits to justice. The stifling atmosphere of fear and uncertainty is fatal to the freedom of expression that is at the heart of our shared lives, and it is for the restoration of this common fabric that we urge you to intervene," the letter said.
Among the 94 personalities who have signed the letter are poets Sankha Ghosh, Nirendranath Chakraborty, economists Ashok Mitra and Amiya Bagchi, theatre and film actor Kaushik Sen, authors Nabaneeta Deb Sen, Bani Basu, Shirshendu Mukherjee, Samaresh Majumdar, theatre maestro Rudraprasad Sengupta and painter Wasim Kapoor.
Citing the killing of rationalists Narendra Dhabolkar and M M Kalburgi, and the lynching of Muhammad Akhlaq at Dadri for allegedly consuming beef, they said that the freedom of expression and choice were under threat.
"We appeal to you to take firm and immediate steps to combat this well-planned conspiracy to endanger Indian democracy," they said.
http://www.deccanchronicle.com/1510...-bengal-writers-intellectuals-seek-presidents
It is quite true that law and order is a state subject. For example even during Godhra riots centre could not come in and do anything. If center was in charge, why was Modi blamed as CM of Gujarat. Now CM of UP should be blamed then.
The only thing the center can do is dismiss the state government and impose President's rule. Now that Indira Gandhi is gone, that is done only in exceptional circumstances. Otherwise half the state governments would have to be fired.
The only thing the center can do is dismiss the state government and impose President's rule. Now that Indira Gandhi is gone, that is done only in exceptional circumstances. Otherwise half the state governments would have to be fired.
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Last week Prime Minister Narendra Modi had strongly amplified President Pranab Mukherjee’s message of tolerance being the bulwark of Indian civilisation. He has now followed up that message with a more explicit condemnation of Mohammad Akhlaq’s lynching in Dadri. He has called that episode as well as the opposition to Pakistani ghazal singer Ghulam Ali “sad and undesirable”, also categorically stating that “BJP and the government at the Centre do not support such incidents”.
If last week the PM had extolled Hindus and Muslims not to fight each other but to fight jointly against poverty, this time he has gone a step further and specifically addressed the distressing incidents causing the current unease. BJP president Amit Shah has also made similar comments on Dadri in election interviews and the Union home ministry has instructed states to be vigilant against communal forces. Yet, several issues remain of concern.
For instance, the PM has asked as to what role the Centre had in either the Dadri or Ghulam Ali episodes, instead accusing the opposition of “politics of polarisation” and of seeing “minorities as vote banks”. At a time when all parties are opposing communalism by labelling each other as communal, this is not much of a solution. Modi is right that law and order is a state issue. On Dadri, Uttar Pradesh’s ruling Samajwadi Party, the state police and leaders like Azam Khan have much to answer for. But it cannot be denied that messaging from the Centre has been mixed, with various leaders making irresponsible statements, adding to tensions instead of calm.
Accusing opponents of communalism and pseudo-secularism would carry more weight if BJP leadership reined in its party men and even punished those who act irresponsibly. To name just a few, Union culture minister Mahesh Sharma who called the Dadri lynching an “accident”, MLA and Muzaffarnagar riot-accused Sangeet Som or the MLAs who beat up an independent fellow MLA in the Jammu & Kashmir assembly for hosting a beef party all merit rebuke. Will any action be taken against them by BJP or the government? The PM’s appeal for harmony and condemnation of the Dadri lynching are welcome. But to everyone in India and abroad concerned about a climate of growing intolerance, the real test is stopping the attacks on personal liberties.
http://blogs.timesofindia.indiatime...&utm_campaign=TOInewHP&utm_medium=Widget_Stry
If last week the PM had extolled Hindus and Muslims not to fight each other but to fight jointly against poverty, this time he has gone a step further and specifically addressed the distressing incidents causing the current unease. BJP president Amit Shah has also made similar comments on Dadri in election interviews and the Union home ministry has instructed states to be vigilant against communal forces. Yet, several issues remain of concern.
For instance, the PM has asked as to what role the Centre had in either the Dadri or Ghulam Ali episodes, instead accusing the opposition of “politics of polarisation” and of seeing “minorities as vote banks”. At a time when all parties are opposing communalism by labelling each other as communal, this is not much of a solution. Modi is right that law and order is a state issue. On Dadri, Uttar Pradesh’s ruling Samajwadi Party, the state police and leaders like Azam Khan have much to answer for. But it cannot be denied that messaging from the Centre has been mixed, with various leaders making irresponsible statements, adding to tensions instead of calm.
Accusing opponents of communalism and pseudo-secularism would carry more weight if BJP leadership reined in its party men and even punished those who act irresponsibly. To name just a few, Union culture minister Mahesh Sharma who called the Dadri lynching an “accident”, MLA and Muzaffarnagar riot-accused Sangeet Som or the MLAs who beat up an independent fellow MLA in the Jammu & Kashmir assembly for hosting a beef party all merit rebuke. Will any action be taken against them by BJP or the government? The PM’s appeal for harmony and condemnation of the Dadri lynching are welcome. But to everyone in India and abroad concerned about a climate of growing intolerance, the real test is stopping the attacks on personal liberties.
http://blogs.timesofindia.indiatime...&utm_campaign=TOInewHP&utm_medium=Widget_Stry
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[h=1]Who should really be hanging their head in shame?
[/h]A sane non-hindutva voice
Tufail Ahmad is a former journalist with the BBC Urdu Service and Director of South Asia Studies Project at the Middle East Media Research Institute, Washington DC. The following is a column by him on October 16, 2015
http://indiafacts.co.in/indian-secularism-is-colour-blind-2/
People are angry at the murder of Muhammad Akhlaq in Dadri over allegations that he ate beef. Some say they are angry at Akhlaq’s murder, while others say they are angry at the murder of the cow. Some people are angry at the cancellation of Pakistani ghazal singer Ghulam Ali’s show of 9 October in Mumbai due to the Shiv Sena’s threat, while others are angry at Pakistani actors and singers being invited in India.
On 23 June, Pakistani police killed a boy after he posed for selfie with a toy gun in Faisalabad, but Pakistani people did not protest. But if a Palestinian child is injured in firing by Israeli police, there are global protests by leftists and journalists file numerous outraged reports.
When the U.S. launched the war in Iraq, there were protests across the world by anti-war activists. When Saudi Arabia launched the current air strikes on Yemen, anti-war activists went to sleep. Pakistani army regularly kills people in Balochistan, but Pakistanis do not rise up. In India, secular journalists who claim they are concerned about human rights do not get angry when victims are Hindu.
Secular journalists who are angry at Akhlaq’s killing adopted total silence on a number of murders recently. ….In March, a Hindu man was abducted and murdered in Hajipur of Bihar for marrying a Muslim girl. Last June, a man was lynched to death near Eluru in Andhra Pradesh. A mob killed a man in Bhandup West area of Mumbai in June.
Secular journalists’ colour-blindness prevents them from seeing these murders: they do not get angry; they want Muslims to be murdered; only then they speak up. Indian secularism has tasted the Muslim blood.
Indian secularism is not only colour-blind, it is also half-Pakistani.
Secular leader Arvind Kejriwal, the chief minister of Delhi, spoke with Ghulam Ali after his show was cancelled and will host him in Delhi. Secular leader Akhilesh Yadav, the chief minister of Uttar Pradesh, organised Ghulam Ali’s show in Lucknow.
But Kejriwal and Akhilesh didn’t invite our own Oscar-winning musician A. R. Rahman when his music show of 13 September in Delhi was cancelled due to a fatwa by the Barelvi group Raza Academy. Secularism does not like Indian Muslim singers; it does not like Indian writers like Salman Rushdie. Mamata Banerjee, another secular leader, supported Ghulam Ali, saying music has no international boundaries but she will not support Taslima Nasreen, the Bangladeshi writer.
Indian secularism is truly Pakistani, not even a quarter-Bangladeshi.
Indian secularism is also counter-nationalist: secular lawyers turned out at midnight before the Supreme Court to save the life of convicted terrorist Yakub Menon but remain silent on death sentences of common Indians.
Secular journalist Nikhil Wagle wrote: “Without secularism, India is a Hindu Pakistan.“ Indian secularism is not even Indian: it is incomplete without eating beef. It loves to eat beef because Pakistanis eat beef. It is essentially Pakistani. It aligns with Pakistanis.
In 1947, our people thought that they could give away a piece of India’s territory to buy permanent peace. The secular government of Manmohan Singh came close to conceding a part of Kashmir to Pakistan in talks with General Pervez Musharraf, the architect of arguably the largest jihad in modern times in Kargil. Indian secularism is without sex, without consummating with Pakistan.
In his landmark book “On War”, German military strategist Carl von Clausewitz observed: “War is the continuation of politics by other means.” The reason Indians do not want Pakistani singers here is because Pakistan is practically in a state of war against India for nearly seven decades.
Through television and social media, common Indians can understand Pakistan’s war by other means. Pakistan has not formally declared a war, but Indians have grasped the obvious fact of our times that we are in a state of war because Pakistan continues to send jihadists into India. Aamir Khan’s movie Sarfarosh showed us that Pakistan sends arms dealers posing as ghazal singers.
In 2012, the secular Congress government did not allow Salman Rushdie to speak in Jaipur because secularism is in an incestuous relationship with Islamists. Mamata Banerjee does not support Taslima Nasreen because the West Bengal CM is in league with Islamists in the state.
Kejriwal’s secularism is in open alliance with Islamists. In 2013, Kejriwal visited Bareilly to meet Islamic cleric Tauqeer Raza Khan to seek Muslim votes. Last year, he sent Alka Lamba to meet Imam Bukhari’s brother to seek Muslim votes. In 1986, Rajiv Gandhi’s secularism surrendered before Islamic clerics in the Shah Bano case. Indian secularism is incomplete without its ideological cohabitation with Islamists.
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Tufail Ahmad is a former journalist with the BBC Urdu Service and Director of South Asia Studies Project at the Middle East Media Research Institute, Washington DC. The following is a column by him on October 16, 2015
http://indiafacts.co.in/indian-secularism-is-colour-blind-2/
People are angry at the murder of Muhammad Akhlaq in Dadri over allegations that he ate beef. Some say they are angry at Akhlaq’s murder, while others say they are angry at the murder of the cow. Some people are angry at the cancellation of Pakistani ghazal singer Ghulam Ali’s show of 9 October in Mumbai due to the Shiv Sena’s threat, while others are angry at Pakistani actors and singers being invited in India.
On 23 June, Pakistani police killed a boy after he posed for selfie with a toy gun in Faisalabad, but Pakistani people did not protest. But if a Palestinian child is injured in firing by Israeli police, there are global protests by leftists and journalists file numerous outraged reports.
When the U.S. launched the war in Iraq, there were protests across the world by anti-war activists. When Saudi Arabia launched the current air strikes on Yemen, anti-war activists went to sleep. Pakistani army regularly kills people in Balochistan, but Pakistanis do not rise up. In India, secular journalists who claim they are concerned about human rights do not get angry when victims are Hindu.
Secular journalists who are angry at Akhlaq’s killing adopted total silence on a number of murders recently. ….In March, a Hindu man was abducted and murdered in Hajipur of Bihar for marrying a Muslim girl. Last June, a man was lynched to death near Eluru in Andhra Pradesh. A mob killed a man in Bhandup West area of Mumbai in June.
Secular journalists’ colour-blindness prevents them from seeing these murders: they do not get angry; they want Muslims to be murdered; only then they speak up. Indian secularism has tasted the Muslim blood.
Indian secularism is not only colour-blind, it is also half-Pakistani.
Secular leader Arvind Kejriwal, the chief minister of Delhi, spoke with Ghulam Ali after his show was cancelled and will host him in Delhi. Secular leader Akhilesh Yadav, the chief minister of Uttar Pradesh, organised Ghulam Ali’s show in Lucknow.
But Kejriwal and Akhilesh didn’t invite our own Oscar-winning musician A. R. Rahman when his music show of 13 September in Delhi was cancelled due to a fatwa by the Barelvi group Raza Academy. Secularism does not like Indian Muslim singers; it does not like Indian writers like Salman Rushdie. Mamata Banerjee, another secular leader, supported Ghulam Ali, saying music has no international boundaries but she will not support Taslima Nasreen, the Bangladeshi writer.
Indian secularism is truly Pakistani, not even a quarter-Bangladeshi.
Indian secularism is also counter-nationalist: secular lawyers turned out at midnight before the Supreme Court to save the life of convicted terrorist Yakub Menon but remain silent on death sentences of common Indians.
Secular journalist Nikhil Wagle wrote: “Without secularism, India is a Hindu Pakistan.“ Indian secularism is not even Indian: it is incomplete without eating beef. It loves to eat beef because Pakistanis eat beef. It is essentially Pakistani. It aligns with Pakistanis.
In 1947, our people thought that they could give away a piece of India’s territory to buy permanent peace. The secular government of Manmohan Singh came close to conceding a part of Kashmir to Pakistan in talks with General Pervez Musharraf, the architect of arguably the largest jihad in modern times in Kargil. Indian secularism is without sex, without consummating with Pakistan.
In his landmark book “On War”, German military strategist Carl von Clausewitz observed: “War is the continuation of politics by other means.” The reason Indians do not want Pakistani singers here is because Pakistan is practically in a state of war against India for nearly seven decades.
Through television and social media, common Indians can understand Pakistan’s war by other means. Pakistan has not formally declared a war, but Indians have grasped the obvious fact of our times that we are in a state of war because Pakistan continues to send jihadists into India. Aamir Khan’s movie Sarfarosh showed us that Pakistan sends arms dealers posing as ghazal singers.
In 2012, the secular Congress government did not allow Salman Rushdie to speak in Jaipur because secularism is in an incestuous relationship with Islamists. Mamata Banerjee does not support Taslima Nasreen because the West Bengal CM is in league with Islamists in the state.
Kejriwal’s secularism is in open alliance with Islamists. In 2013, Kejriwal visited Bareilly to meet Islamic cleric Tauqeer Raza Khan to seek Muslim votes. Last year, he sent Alka Lamba to meet Imam Bukhari’s brother to seek Muslim votes. In 1986, Rajiv Gandhi’s secularism surrendered before Islamic clerics in the Shah Bano case. Indian secularism is incomplete without its ideological cohabitation with Islamists.
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Naina_Marbus
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On 1 October, secular gossip columnist Shobhaa De tweeted: “I just ate beef. Come and murder me.” The question also is: Will she draw a cartoon of Prophet Muhammad at the Gateway of India?
In a tweet dated 4 October, secular journalist Sagarika Ghose wrote: “Citizens of India, we need a campaign like Je Suis Charlie. Hold your head high and say ‘I am a beef eater’.” The question is: Will secular journalists draw the same cartoon in front of Delhi’s Jamaa Masjid?
The outrage is not about beef or cartoon. Indian youths are concerned over secularism’s double standards; they will support your right to eat beef if you are willing to draw a cartoon, even from your kitchen. The secular NDTV, supported by Aircel, began Save Our Tiger campaign. Why not a Save the Cow campaign?
India is a great nation. Its reality is this: Bollywood actor Aamir Khan makes the movie #PK in which Hindu god Lord Shiva is locked up in a bathroom and threatened, but he cannot make a movie on Prophet Muhammad. This is the imbalance in our national conversation that threatens India’s social cohesion. It is fostered by journalists.
India is witnessing the emergence of fascism from newsrooms, a movement of totalitarian ideas that divides us in order to win. Indian journalists are beaten up by Indians in New York or Dadri for their double standards. On social media, they are being called pimps and presstitutes, bimbos and bazaaru media because they sell their souls for a bungalow or a Rajya Sabha seat.
This secular fascism, in league with Islamic totalitarianism, wins by dividing us, but police must deal ruthlessly with any Indian who takes law into their own hands.
In a tweet dated 4 October, secular journalist Sagarika Ghose wrote: “Citizens of India, we need a campaign like Je Suis Charlie. Hold your head high and say ‘I am a beef eater’.” The question is: Will secular journalists draw the same cartoon in front of Delhi’s Jamaa Masjid?
The outrage is not about beef or cartoon. Indian youths are concerned over secularism’s double standards; they will support your right to eat beef if you are willing to draw a cartoon, even from your kitchen. The secular NDTV, supported by Aircel, began Save Our Tiger campaign. Why not a Save the Cow campaign?
India is a great nation. Its reality is this: Bollywood actor Aamir Khan makes the movie #PK in which Hindu god Lord Shiva is locked up in a bathroom and threatened, but he cannot make a movie on Prophet Muhammad. This is the imbalance in our national conversation that threatens India’s social cohesion. It is fostered by journalists.
India is witnessing the emergence of fascism from newsrooms, a movement of totalitarian ideas that divides us in order to win. Indian journalists are beaten up by Indians in New York or Dadri for their double standards. On social media, they are being called pimps and presstitutes, bimbos and bazaaru media because they sell their souls for a bungalow or a Rajya Sabha seat.
This secular fascism, in league with Islamic totalitarianism, wins by dividing us, but police must deal ruthlessly with any Indian who takes law into their own hands.
It is a simple logic that media columnist always want stay in the centre of focus of any burning issues.
Who said eating beef is secular?
There is no such person as secular columnist or secular journalist.
Journalism has become the art of exploiting the environment and columnism is fueling the burning issues.
Columnists / journalists should be straight forward & neutral.
Naina_Marbus
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In sum:
Secular journalists... wait for Muslims to be murdered; only then they speak up.
...Kejriwal and Akhilesh didn’t invite A. R. Rahman when his music show of 13 September in Delhi was cancelled due to a fatwa by the Barelvi group Raza Academy. Secularism does not like Indian Muslim singers; it does not like Indian writers like Salman Rushdie.
Mamata Banerjee, another secular leader, supported Ghulam Ali, saying music has no international boundaries but she will not support Taslima Nasreen, the Bangladeshi writer.
...secular lawyers turned out at midnight before the Supreme Court to save the life of convicted terrorist Yakub Memon but remain silent on death sentences of common Indians. ...
Indian secularism ...is incomplete without eating beef. It loves to eat beef because Pakistanis eat beef.
Indian secularism is incomplete without its ideological cohabitation with the people of the Abrahamic faith.
Secular journalists... wait for Muslims to be murdered; only then they speak up.
...Kejriwal and Akhilesh didn’t invite A. R. Rahman when his music show of 13 September in Delhi was cancelled due to a fatwa by the Barelvi group Raza Academy. Secularism does not like Indian Muslim singers; it does not like Indian writers like Salman Rushdie.
Mamata Banerjee, another secular leader, supported Ghulam Ali, saying music has no international boundaries but she will not support Taslima Nasreen, the Bangladeshi writer.
...secular lawyers turned out at midnight before the Supreme Court to save the life of convicted terrorist Yakub Memon but remain silent on death sentences of common Indians. ...
Indian secularism ...is incomplete without eating beef. It loves to eat beef because Pakistanis eat beef.
Indian secularism is incomplete without its ideological cohabitation with the people of the Abrahamic faith.
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Naina_Marbus
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According to Taslima Nasreen in The Times of India:
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/...ssent-Taslima-Nasrin/articleshow/49425201.cms
Most secular people are pro-Muslims and anti-Hindu. They protest against the acts of Hindu fundamentalists and defend the heinous acts of Muslim fundamentalists.
[FONT="]Politicians appease Muslims for votes in India. Muslims get so much favour that angers many Hindus. It is true that sometimes Muslims get tortured only because they are Muslims. But it happens to other religious community too. In Canning, a Hindu village in West Bengal, was burnt down by Muslim fanatics in 2013. If Muslims were brutally persecuted in India, they would have left India for neighbouring Muslim countries like Hindu minorities have been leaving Bangladesh and Pakistan since Partition.
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http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/...ssent-Taslima-Nasrin/articleshow/49425201.cms
Most secular people are pro-Muslims and anti-Hindu. They protest against the acts of Hindu fundamentalists and defend the heinous acts of Muslim fundamentalists.
[FONT="]Politicians appease Muslims for votes in India. Muslims get so much favour that angers many Hindus. It is true that sometimes Muslims get tortured only because they are Muslims. But it happens to other religious community too. In Canning, a Hindu village in West Bengal, was burnt down by Muslim fanatics in 2013. If Muslims were brutally persecuted in India, they would have left India for neighbouring Muslim countries like Hindu minorities have been leaving Bangladesh and Pakistan since Partition.
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