{"id":25131,"date":"2015-02-11T19:53:29","date_gmt":"2015-02-12T01:53:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/drishtikone\/?p=25131"},"modified":"2015-02-11T19:57:20","modified_gmt":"2015-02-12T01:57:20","slug":"delhi-elections-is-self-righteous-anti-hindu-bigotry-the-new-normal-for-indian-secularism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/drishtikone\/2015\/02\/delhi-elections-is-self-righteous-anti-hindu-bigotry-the-new-normal-for-indian-secularism\/","title":{"rendered":"Delhi Elections: Is Self Righteous Anti-Hindu Bigotry the new normal for Indian Secularism?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

On December 6, 2010, a book titled<\/a> \u201c26\/11 : RSS ki Sazish\u201d (26\/11: Conspiracy by RSS) written by Aziz Burney, who is the Editor-in-Chief of Urdu Sahara newspaper was released by Congress General Secreatary Digvijay Singh<\/strong> on in Delhi. \u00a0The book is about the attack by Pakistani terrorists on Mumbai which went on for 3 days \u2013 from November 26, 2008 to November 29th, 2008 \u2013 killing 164 people and wounding at least 308. \u00a0Targets were specifically picked up by the terrorists for maximum psychological impact and damage to certain communities. \u00a0For example, Leopold cafe, a place frequented by Westerners was attacked. \u00a0So was the Nariman House Jewish community centre! Within hours, the conversations between the terrorists and their Pakistani handlers were intercepted and recorded. \u00a0One of the terrorist \u2013 Ajmal Kasab \u2013 was caught alive thanks to the courage of a police constable. \u00a0He revealed the details of his handlers \u2013 including Hafeez Saeed in Pakistan. \u00a0Despite the various loony extremist and fringe elements in Pakistani media making it a \u201cconspiracy of the Hindu zionists (sic) \u2013 Pakistani Government and the top media group Dawn admitted that Ajmal Kasab indeed a Pakistani. \u00a0Not just that, Dawn TV went on to show how all the terrorists apart from Kasab \u2013 who were killed \u2013 were from Pakistan. \u00a0In fact the particular villages and towns to which they belonged were also revealed!<\/iframe><\/p>\n<blockquote>Ajmal Kasab<\/span><a style=\"color: #0b0080;\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/2008_Mumbai_attacks#cite_note-Terrorist.E2.80.99s_name_lost_in_transliteration-17\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">[17]<\/a><\/sup>\u00a0disclosed that the attackers were members of Lashkar-e-Taiba,<\/span><a style=\"color: #0b0080;\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/2008_Mumbai_attacks#cite_note-18\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">[18]<\/a><\/sup>\u00a0among others.<\/span><a style=\"color: #0b0080;\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/2008_Mumbai_attacks#cite_note-NYT-2008-12-03-19\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">[19]<\/a><\/sup>\u00a0The\u00a0<\/span><a style=\"color: #0b0080;\" title=\"Government of India\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Government_of_India\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Government of India<\/a>\u00a0said that the attackers came from Pakistan, and their\u00a0<\/span><a style=\"color: #0b0080;\" title=\"Agent handling\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Agent_handling\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">controllers<\/a>\u00a0were in Pakistan.<\/span><a style=\"color: #0b0080;\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/2008_Mumbai_attacks#cite_note-NPR-2008-12-03-20\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">[20]<\/a><\/sup>\u00a0On 7 January 2009,<\/span><a style=\"color: #0b0080;\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/2008_Mumbai_attacks#cite_note-TIME08JAN2009-21\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">[21]<\/a><\/sup>\u00a0Pakistan\u2019s Information Minister\u00a0<\/span><a style=\"color: #0b0080;\" title=\"Sherry Rehman\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Sherry_Rehman\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Sherry Rehman<\/a>\u00a0officially accepted Ajmal Kasab\u2019s nationality as Pakistani.<\/span><a style=\"color: #0b0080;\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/2008_Mumbai_attacks#cite_note-22\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">[22]<\/a><\/sup>\u00a0On 12 February 2009, Pakistan\u2019s Interior Minister\u00a0<\/span><a style=\"color: #0b0080;\" title=\"Rehman Malik\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Rehman_Malik\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Rehman Malik<\/a>\u00a0asserted that parts of the attack had been planned in Pakistan.<\/span><a style=\"color: #0b0080;\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/2008_Mumbai_attacks#cite_note-23\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">[23]<\/a>\u00a0<\/sup>(Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/2008_Mumbai_attacks\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\" rel=\"nofollow\">Wikipedia<\/a>)<\/p><\/blockquote>\nIt is therefore indeed interesting that the General Secretary of Congress \u2013 a title within Indian National Congress which is at the highest level \u2013 was not just acquiescing to the conspiracy theory of the extremist Islamic loony fringe of Pakistan, but fully backing it up in an official capacity! \u00a0The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vijayvaani.com\/ArticleDisplay.aspx?aid=1560\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\" rel=\"nofollow\">salient points<\/a> made in the book are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The BJP and the RSS are responsible for 26\/11 attack in Mumbai.<\/li>\n<li>ATS chief Hemant Karkare was about to disclose many facts regarding Malegaon blast in which he was expected to expose many sadhus and saints including the BJP and the RSS. In fact, Karkare was not killed by AK-47 but by the service revolver of the police. RAW and Home Ministry are investigating the role played by the Gujarat ATS in Karkare\u2019s murder case. Karkare was killed by Hindutva-minded police officials and people from the Chota Rajan gang<\/li>\n<li>Mossad and CIA had assisted the Sangh Parivar in the attack carried out in Mumbai<\/li>\n<li>Post 1993, all attacks in the country is the result of the nexus between the RSS and Mossad<\/li>\n<li>The Congress is suspecting the involvement of the BJP in the Malegaon blast other than the RSS and Bajrang Dal<\/li>\n<li>The RSS and Israel are trying to make India unstable (p. 190)<\/li>\n<li>In order to make India a Hindu nation, such blasts are being carried out (p. 219)<\/li>\n<li>While the RSS is distributing \u2018Trishul\u2019 to youths and women, the Bajrang Dal is providing training to people for making bombs and causing blasts. The VHP had planted bombs in several mosques in Maharashtra to explode them (p. 584)<\/li>\n<li>The RSS and VHP are trying to defame Muslims by forming terrorist organizations like Indian Mujahideen and Islamic Security Force. Indian Mujahideen was not involved in the bomb blasts in Assam. Bajrang Dal is a dubious organization and Indian Mujahideen is the code name of it. Editor of Communalism Combat Teesta Setalvad mentioned in a report that the CBI is trying cover up Hindu Terrorism and Batla encounter was fake (p. 597)<\/li>\n<li>Election Commission of India must consider banning the BJP to contest elections<\/li>\n<\/ul>\nIf one looks at the above points, one realizes that this was unabashedly a Hate Campaign<\/em> against the Hindu community and the Opposition Party of that time \u2013 Bhartiya Janata Party (BJP) as well as its associates \u2013 that was attempted by the author and the Congress General Secretary. \u00a0By equating Hinduism in totality with RSS and BJP, and attacking Hinduism, and by association implicating BJP, Congress was running a whole religious community down! Given the vitriolic against the Hindus while cloaking the basic and inherent narrative\u00a0as an attack on a political opposition party (clearly to argue plausible deniability) one wonders \u2013 Is Anti-Hindu Bigotry in India being sold in the cloak of Political opposition?<\/strong> \u00a0For, the inherent hatred against the common \u201cculprits\u201d \u2013 i.e.; Hindus, Jews and Americans \u2013 in the Islamic Terrorist Narrative across the world is too well known by now. \u00a0As is the instrument of Conspiracy Theories. \u00a0By juxtaposing the Big Three \u2013 Idolaters (Hindus in plain English), Jews and Americans \u2013 Islamic Extremists the world over instantly assign a Victimhood status to themselves and therefore, any act of terror is henceforth justified. So, in the process of recruiting and training and justifying the Islamic Terror, two ingredients are paramount \u2013 Demonizing the \u201cBig Three\u201d and Self-assignment of Victimhood. \u00a0Conspiracy theories achieve both. \u00a0Congress did all of them and escaped the media wrath unscathed \u2013 without any explanation or questioning! \u00a0Such is egregious levels of media double standards! Alarmingly, the very people in India who forward the Islamic Extremist and Terror Narrative are considered \u201cSecular\u201d. \u00a0In fact, not only do they get the certificate of Secularism \u2013 but with that comes an unlimited right to express outrage at anything that is related to Hinduism \u2013 customs, Priests, rituals, Scriptures, language (Sanskrit), and Gurus or Teachers \u2013 in a way that really is structured to denounce Hinduism by association. A critical question that one needs to ask and ponder upon given the above episode and the continued free pass given to Digvijay Singh, the Congress General Secretary and the Party itself<\/p>\nAAP Victory in Delhi \u2013 an Open Invitation to Anti-Hindu Bigotry cloaked as Secularism<\/strong><\/p>\nIn the recent Delhi elections, the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) was pitted against the incumbent BJP. \u00a0While AAP seeked the blessing and a special Fatwa by the main Mullah of the influential Jama Masjid mosque to vote for them, it was considered a communal act if any Guru with a large following even expressed any level of agreement with the ruling party. \u00a0None of the Gurus asked their supporters to vote for any party mind you.. unlike the Mullah of the Grand Jama MAsjid mosque. \u00a0But the Fatwa was somehow a \u201cSecular\u201d act in the increasing hypocritical political debate and landscape of India. What seemed like clear double standards and bastardization of the whole concept of Secularism prior to the Delhi Elections, became even more outrageously bigoted when AAP one. \u00a0This small representation of the election results has become common sight on many AAP supporters and self-appointed Secular people on Social Media. <a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/356\/2015\/02\/swastika.jpg\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-25133\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/356\/2015\/02\/swastika.jpg\" alt=\"swastika\" width=\"480\" height=\"246\"><\/a> Intelligent cartooning skills of the artist are more than well matched by his\/her unridled Anti-Hindu bigotry! Here is why:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Swastika is probably one of two most sacred symbols in Hinduism. \u00a0It represents the Universal balance and oneness of the Existence. \u00a0No Hindu ritual, prayer, temple or new undertaking is complete without a Swastika!<\/li>\n<li>Swastika has nothing to do with BJP \u2013 the party that lost to AAP! \u00a0It is NOT something that BJP uses in any of the political works or undertakings.<\/li>\n<li>Swatika\u2019s construction is considered to be its most important aspect. \u00a0If done wrong it is not only inauspicious but also derogatory. \u00a0That is why, when Hitler used the symbol facing left, it was considered to be a bad omen by the Hindus. \u00a0In each of the quadrants, there is a dot to balance the form. \u00a0The artist, to demonstrate his form of a man, has chosen to distort Swastika.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\nWhat one fails to understand is \u2013 When did political hatred for your opponent party become a good excuse to mock a religious symbol of the Hindus?<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/356\/2015\/02\/khanda.png\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-25134\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/356\/2015\/02\/khanda-150x150.png\" alt=\"khanda\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\"><\/a>It gets more interesting because one of the partner parties of BJP also fielded candidates in Delhi \u2013 who incidentally lost. \u00a0That party is an avowedly Sikh party \u2013 the Akali Dal, unlike BJP, which has explicitly declared itself a National party working for all and having Muslims in important posts. \u00a0So the obvious question is \u2013 how come the Sikh symbol of Kanda was left out of those being chased out? \u00a0If one wants \u2013 turning the kanda around, and using it creatively \u2013 one can have a Sikh being chased out as well. The obvious question given the three issues with the use of Swatika (and Swastika alone!) is \u2013 was the Delhi Elections an elections against the Hindus? \u00a0Because the celebratory illustrations \u2013 so righteously shared by many on social media \u2013 does suggest so! 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