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NCERT justification for Minoritism in Indian polity

-NCERT Textbook, Political Theory, Std-11, Chapter 8 (Secularism), Pg:122-123

“Consider that a film is being shown in an auditorium on the first floor. The auditorium is accessible by a staircase. Everyone is free to buy a ticket, go up the stairs and see the film. Or, are they? Is everyone really free? Suppose that among avid film-goers are some old people, some who have recently broken a leg and others who have long been physically challenged. None of them can really climb up the stairs.

Do you think it would be wrong if a lift or a ramp was provided for people in wheel chairs? Doing so enables them to achieve exactly what others routinely procure through the staircase. Yet, this group in minority needs a different mode of getting to the first floor. If all spaces are structured in such a way that they suit only young, able-bodied persons, then some category of persons will forever be excluded from a simple benefit such as watching a film.

To make a separate arrangement for them is not to accord them any special treatment. It is to treat them with the same respect and dignity with which all others are being treated. The lesson is that minority rights need not be nor should be viewed as special privileges.”

What’s the Actual Truth?

‘Leftists are past masters at using genuine victims and anecdotal evidence to further their agenda of splintering people into warring groups and then claiming to be the only ones who know what is fair for every group and to be the only ones capable of delivering that “fair share ” and keeping peace.

So “minority rights” are not subject to vote, but private property is fully subject to vote so that 51 people can come together and vote themselves the wealth of the remaining 49. …..

Coming back to minority Rights.
As far as Fundamental Rights are concerned, they are Rights of individuals and not of groups, and Constitution protects Fundamental Rights, not group Rights.

Secondly, how can a Secular State deal with religious groups? This is the basic premise of a secular State that the State shall deal with individuals, not with religious groups.

So provide lifts for handicapped individuals by all means, but do not identify the beneficiaries by their religions.’

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Ok, I concede that Narendra Modi is a good orator, but so was Hitler. His supporters credit him with creating a business friendly environment in Gujarat which has placed the state on a high growth trajectory. Then how come I saw some urchins while driving on the roads of Ahmedabad? Why is malnutrition so high? Why does Gujarat not have beautiful scenery like Switzerland? The fact is, the growth is neither inclusive nor sustainable, and I’m not even bringing the 2002 riots into the equation.

Some say Modi has a proven track record as a leader and an administrator. That may be so but such statements cannot be taken at face value – he is neither a Nehru-Gandhi scion nor a handpicked nominee of the first family. Therefore, we must examine every aspect of his personality with a magnifying glass and highlight egregious character flaws. Let me list a few that some of my left-liberal (or is it pro-Congress?) colleagues may have left out:

His date of birth: Modi was born on 17th September, 1950. Now, one doesn’t have to be a historian to tell you that he was born a good three years after India became independent and months after India became a republic. This clearly highlights some traits in him – his selfishness, intolerance and his disdain for the Constitution of India.

Being born a good three years after independence indicates his unwillingness to fight for the country and inability to make any sort of sacrifice for fellow Indians. More importantly, he did not want to be born till Pakistan was formed so that India had a smaller population of Muslims to deal with – a clear indication of his intolerance. Not only that, his birth many months after the Constitution came into force clearly shows that he didn’t want to have any part to play in framing of an Indian Constitution that safeguards the cultural and religious interests of the minorities.

His place of birth: Why was Modi born in Gujarat when he could have been born in any other State? I will tell you why. Look at the map of India and now look carefully at Gujarat. It looks like a mouth – a shark’s mouth. And it is facing our brotherly nation of Pakistan. It clearly shows Modi’s barbarianism towards his brothers, that he is willing to gobble anyone that comes in his way.

But Gujarat didn’t exist in 1950 and it was the state of Bombay, some of you fake-intelligentsia might say. But that is a clear indication of his divisive politics. It just took him 10 years after his birth to split the great state of Bombay and form the state of Gujarat in 1960.

Now look at our map again. It looks like a human body. Now look again, this time carefully. Where is the right hand? While the left hand that represents NE India looks like it is warmly trying to reach out to the neighbours, the right hand that represents Western India is missing. That is because Modi’s Gujarat ate away the hand that feeds it. That is why Gujarat doesn’t have iron ore for steel, coal for power or diamonds to sparkle.

Physical masculinity: Modi often proudly refers to his 56 inch chest. It is clear indication of a man living his life away from reality that he is boasting about his chest while 99% of Gujarat is suffering from malnutrition where as the average malnutrition in India is about 9%. And his preaching of the benefits of Surya Namaskar is directly responsible for size-zero figure of Gujarati woman. His big chest and permanent beard are also clear indications of his misogyny. A man who never shaves can never be trusted with safeguarding the rights of women.

He did not say that power is poison: The most striking image from after the Gujarat Assembly elections last year was that of Modi sharing mithai with his mother. Lost in the euphoria of his victory, most of you missed out the finer aspects of that moment. His mother did not look too happy with Modi’s victory. There were no tears of joy, no poignant words of advice such as ‘Power is Poison’ to humanize the moment. It is known to all that whenever a son is about to get power, his mother cries and says ‘Power is Poison’. But not Modi’s mother. Why? Is it because she knows poison cannot affect an already poisonous man? I will let the readers decide.

Unhealthy obsession with Yoga: Modi never misses an opportunity to proclaim his love for Yoga. But he should have kept it personal. But, no sir. NO, NO, NO! He had to go ahead and conduct a yoga camp for the IAS officers of his State where they were lined up in front of him and made to perform Surya Namaskar. Not withstanding the feelings of minorities towards Yoga and Surya Namaskar, he was clearly making the IAS officers bow down to him on the pretext of doing an asana. Who does he think he is? The Sun God? Once again, clear indication of his authoritarianism.

Bowing down to foreign powers: He often proudly speaks of the reception he got in Japan. It was learnt through reliable sources that he repeatedly bowed to greet them. Now some of you might take the easy route and say it is a tradition in Japan. But he is Modi. And that means there is more to it. It clearly shows he is willing to bow down to foreign powers. It is a sign of his willingness to sell away our country to foreign investors.

Lack of sleep: Modi claims he only sleeps four hours a day. Now seriously, what kind of man sleeps only four hours a day? You don’t need to be a psychologist to observe that he is clearly man with a disturbed conscience. It was learnt from reliable sources that Modi used to sleep 8-10 hours a day before 2002. You don’t need to be from CID to infer that Modi’s insomnia began after the 2002 riots.

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Nathuram Ghodse is often a misunderstood character. He is referred to as a Hindu fanatic. It is often hard to understand Godse because the Government of India had suppressed information about him. His court statements, letters etc. were all banned from the public until recently. Judging from his writings one thing becomes very clear – He was no fanatic. His court statements are very well read out and indicate a calm and collected mental disposition. He never even once speaks ill about Gandhi as a person, but only attacks Gandhi’s policies which caused ruin and untold misery to Hindus. Another interesting point to note is that Godse had been working with the Hindu refugees fleeing from Pakistan. He had seen the horrible atrocities committed on them. Many women had their hands cut off, nose cut off, even little girls had been raped mercilessly. Despite this Godse did not harm even single Muslim in India which he could easily have. So it would be a grave mistake to call him a Hindu fanatic.

Let us start by studying the motive behind Godse’s act. By seeing the nature of the assassination in public space and Godse’s act of turning himself over to the Police, we can see that Godse did not do this for personal reasons. He very well knew that he would be hanged and his name would be disgraced as Gandhi was considered a saint. And again Godse could have ran away and escaped punishment. But he did the reverse. He called a police officer and courted arrest. Before we proceed it would be wise to understand the backdrop of the assassination.

The central government had taken a decision — Pakistan will not be given Rs 55 crores. On January 13 Gandhi started a fast unto death that Pakistan must be given the money. On January 13, the central government changed its earlier decision and announced that Pakistan would be given the amount. On January 13, Nathuram decided to assassinate Gandhi.

Nathuram Godse was a learned man, very sharp and intelligent – editor of “Agrani” (one of the most famous newspaper of that time – with Nana Aapte). In his last editorial of “Agrani” which he changed overnight – he said “Gandhi must be stopped – at any cost” and he justified why Gandhiji’s assassination was not only inevitable but also a delayed action, sth tht shud’ve happened LONG AGO.

In Nathuram’s words – “ I don’t refute Gandhi’s theory of non-violence. He may be a saint but he is not a politician. His theory of non-violence denies self-defence and self-interest. The non-violence that defines the fight for survival as violence is a theory not of non-violence but of self-destruction.The division of the nation was an unnecessary decision. What was the percentage of the Muslim population as compared to the population of the nation? There was no need for a separate nation. Had it been a just demand, Maulana Azad would not have stayed back in India. But because Jinnah insisted and because Gandhi took his side, India was divided, in spite of opposition from the nation, the Cabinet. An individual is never greater than a nation.

In a democracy you cannot put forward your demands at knife-point. Jinnah did it and Gandhi stabbed the nation with the same knife. He dissected the land and gave a piece to Pakistan. We did picket that time but in vain. The Father of our Nation went to perform his paternal duties for Pakistan! Gandhi blackmailed the cabinet with his fast unto death. His body, his threats to die are causing the destruction — geographical as well as economical — of the nation. Today, Muslims have taken a part of the nation, tomorrow Sikhs may ask for Punjab. The religions are again dividend into castes, they will demand sub-divisions of the divisions. What remains of the concept of one nation, national integration? Why did we fight the British in unison for independence? Why not separately? Bhagat Singh did not ask only for an independent Punjab or Subhash Chandra Bose for an independent Bengal?

I am going to assassinate him in the open, before the public, because I am going to do it as my duty. If I do it surreptitiously, it becomes a crime in my own eyes. I will not try to escape, I will surrender and naturally I will be hanged. One assassination, one hanging. I don’t want two executions for one assassination and I don’t want your involvement, participation or company. (This was for Nana-Apte and Veer Savarkar as they were against ghandhi’s policies too, Godse wanted to assassinate gandhi all by himself and took promise from Nana Apte that he will continue helping Veer Savarkar in rebuilding India as a strong free nation.)

On January 30, I reached Birla Bhavan at 12 pm. Gandhi was sitting outside on a cot enjoying the sunshine. Vallabhbhai Patel’s granddaughter was sitting at his feet. I had the revolver with me. I could have assassinated him easily then, but I was convinced that his assassination was to be a punishment and a sentence against him, and I would execute him. I wanted witnesses for the execution but there were none. I did not want to escape after the execution as there was not an iota of guilt in my mind. I wanted to surrender, but surrender to whom? There was a good crowd to collect for the evening prayers. I decided on the evening of January 30 as the date for Gandhi’s execution.

Gandhi climbed the steps and came forward. He had kept his hands on the shoulders of the two girls. I wanted just three seconds more. I moved two steps forward and faced Gandhi. Now I wanted to take out the revolver and salute him for whatever sacrifice and service he had made for the nation. One of the two girls was dangerously close to Gandhi and I was afraid that she might be injured in the course of firing. As a precautionary measure I went one more step ahead, bowed before him and gently pushed the girl away from the firing line. The next moment I fired at Gandhi. Gandhi was very weak, there was a feeble sound like ‘aah’ (There are proof that Gandhi did NOT say “Hey Raam” at that time – it’s just made up stuff ) from him and he fell down.

After the firing I raised my hand holding the revolver and shouted, ‘Police, police’. For 30 seconds nobody came forward and I scanned the crowd. I saw a police officer. I signalled to him to come forward and arrest me. He came and caught my wrist, then a second man came and touched the revolver… I let it go…”

Rahul Gandhi’s tragic disconnect with reality

Scene 1: Sunday January 20th, Jaipur, Congress Chintan Shivir

“Ek taraf hum desh mein shanti banane ki koshish kar rahe hai, minorities per jo har waqt injustices hote hai woh bhi dekha jaaraha hai… lekin abhi beechmein humare paas yeh report aagaya hai, investigation mein, ke Bharatiya Janata Party ho, ya RSS ke ho, unke jo training camps hai, woh Hindu terrorsim badhane ka kaam dekh rahe hai”

[On the one hand we (Congress led-UPA Government at the Centre) are trying to maintain peace in the country, we are also looking into matters of injustice towards minority communities that occur all the time. But now, meanwhile, we have received reports through investigations that both BJP (India’s main Opposition party) and RSS (world’s largest voluntary organisation) are running training camps aimed at increasing Hindu terrorism (sic)… ] — India’s Home Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde, addressing some 1,200 odd Congress party delegates in Jaipur.

This speech was beamed live to the world by assorted news channels present in Jaipur. The Indian Home Minister had just accused India’s democratic opposition party of being a terrorist outfit. By one stroke of genius, the Indian security establishment had told the world at large that Islamic terrorism was probably just a mirage and that the world should be more worried about Hindus who are committing all the terror activities on Indian soil (and probably elsewhere).

Let us try and understand the gravity of the situation. Imagine, if Theresa May, the British Home Secretary were to announce that the Labour Party was running terror camps and it was a terrorist organisation. Or, try and imagine if Thomas E Donilon, National Security Advisor to US President Barack Obama, were to announce to the world that the Republican Party was a terrorist organisation. There would be absolute outrage across the world. Such accusations without substantial proof would be considered an affront to the very basic principles of democracy.

What happened after the Indian Home Minister’s outrageous assertions? The world at large hardly took notice, except for Pakistan, which was jumping with joy. In India there were some murmurs about ‘the choice of words’ employed by the HM, but aside from that the editorial class and the intellectual brigade actually tended to agree that BJP was a terror outfit! The next day, the Congress actually reasserted that both BJP and RSS were Hindu terrorist organisations.

What does this tell us? It tells us how lax we are about our security, how the world will never again take us seriously and how all the human suffering due to genuine Islamist terrorism for so many decades now stands whitewashed. The next time there is a 26/11 type attack on Indian soil, the world will not listen to our protestations about cross-border terrorism emanating from Pakistan and would instead tell us to arrest BJP/RSS activists!

Yes, Hafiz Saeed congratulated the Indian Home Minister! His stand, that he was innocent all along and it was RSS/BJP who were responsible for all the terrorism on Indian soil stands vindicated today by the OFFICIAL position of the Indian Government.

Scene 2: Monday January 21, Prayag, on the banks of Sangam

A congregation of some 3000 odd Sadhus has reached the banks of Sangam very early in the morning for the holy dip. In this group are Sadhus belonging to Shirshasanis, who even sleep in a standing position by resting their heads on a vertical pole. While meditating, they stand on their heads. This is a very unique path to Nirvana and it has been practised for many centuries now. As per their belief, they can never let their entire vertical bodies to touch mother Earth. But this year they are facing a great difficulty in the Kumbh Mela.

As the Sadhus enter the Sangam, they find themselves standing in less than knee-deep water. It is customary to take a full-body dip in the water to complete the shahi snan. It is very difficult to take a full dip in these low water levels even in a squatting position. Therefore, many a times these days, the sadhus lie down on the riverbed to complete the parikrama, which goes against the ethos of Shirshasanis. The water in Sangam is also quite dirty and does not flow as freely as it did in the past — it is mostly stagnant water.

Uttar Pradesh Government is only releasing 2,500 cusecs of water into the Sangam during the festival. Tirth Maryada Rakhsa Samiti (TMRS) has been agitating for many days now against this decision of the UP Government. TMRS is agitating not only in Allahabad and Lucknow but also in Haridwar, requesting the Governments of UP and Uttarakhand to release more water into the Ganga for the Kumbh Mela. Members of TMRS have requested audience with the Chief Secretary of UP, Javed Usmani, but he has refused to meet them.

This year in Prayag, more than 100 million people are expected to take a holy dip in the Sangam. How will a paltry 2,500 cusecs be able to meet the demands of such a mass of humanity? Is the demand for more water by Hindu pilgrims an unjust one? It is not as if the Maha Kumbh is an annual event like a Haj (which, by the way, still gets Government subsidies), it is not even a quadrennial event like an Olympic or a Cricket World Cup. A Maha Kumbh is the largest human gathering in the world that only occurs once in 12 years.

Scene 3: January 18, Additional District and Sessions Court, Deeg, Bharatpur (about 100 miles from Congress Chintan Shivir):

Ashok Kumar Jain, the additional District and Sessions Court judge of Deeg, Bharatpur, declares Jalis Khan, the chief of Bharatpur’s Kaman Panchayat Samiti, as an absconder in the much publicised abduction and gang rape case of 2010. Khan happens to be the husband of Congress MLA Zahida Khan, who, as luck would have it, is also the general secretary of All India Mahila Congress, the apex body of female congress members in India.

This court decision ought to have been an important news item for an India that is still reeling under the impact of the Delhi gang rape and brutal murder of a 23-year-old woman. News media in India has been relentlessly highlighting, for many days non-stop, rape cases and societal reactions to rapes. Everybody from the Sarsanghchalak of RSS, Mohan Bhagwat, to spiritual guru Asaram Bapu has been targeted by the media for their insensitivity. In such a scenario, this gang rape by the husband of Congress party’s women’s wing’s general secretary could potentially be the biggest breaking news in 24/7 India.

To make matters even more convenient, there was a Congress Chintan Shivir (brainstorming session) happening just some 100 miles away from Bharatpur, the scene of the crime and the court judgement. A large posse of media personalities, journalists, news editors, reporters, cameramen and news anchors are all camped nearby in order to cover the Congress brainstorming session and report the news back to India. All these media personalities might very well have started salivating at this news of a gang rape verdict in a court just 100 miles from where they are currently located. This could produce compelling news packages and also get great TRPs. It could also potentially overshadow the Congress Chintan Shivir.

Over the next 5 days — including the 3 days of Congress Chintan Shivir — till today, there has been not a single mention on the gang rape case of Bharatpur in the media. Not one panel discussion, not one ‘nation-wants-answers’ debate, not one high-moral lecture by news anchors, not one editorial page outrage about a political rape and not even a single condemnation tweet. There is almost total secular silence on the entire matter, as if all of this had happened somewhere in Siberia. The same media which was outraging against mere statements, terming them insensitive, has maintained total silence on this actual act of debauchery!

In these 5 days, the braveheart of Delhi died all over again, each time with the same pain, the same agony and with the same questioning eyes asking: “Why this deathly silence?”

India unwired and disconnected

Sunday is a day when most news anchors in India are generally on a holiday (a rule that was not broken even after Delhi went berserk last month after the gang rape). It was on this day that Rahul Gandhi made his speech to the gathering at the Chintan Shivir. Every news anchor and journalist worth his salt cancelled their Sunday holiday and had hours of TV discussions/debates about the ‘momentous speech’ by the young prince.

Every nuance was appreciated, every teardrop was analysed. One could possibly even hear a sigh from certain news anchors. It was hailed as ‘India’s Obama moment’. Later, unconfirmed reports suggested that many journalists were actually crying when Rahul delivered his speech.

Lutyens’ Dilli, which did not shed a tear for all those homeless people dying in the Delhi winter, nor for the rape victim of Jalis Khan, was in tears listening to the dynastic sob story of power politics. This is the disconnect that India has been cursed with by an overarching secularist construct.

A molested policewoman writes an angst-ridden poem and there is condemnation across the nation for it might ‘hurt the sentiments’ of the rioters of Azad maidan. Two Armymen are killed and their bodies are mutilated by India’s mortal enemy and Indian journalists justify it by accusing our own Army of engaging in even worse behaviour. Our Home Minister proclaims to the world that Hindus are terrorists and that Muslims and minorities are suffering gross injustices in India. One must seriously wonder which India these media persons and Congress leaders are talking about. The one that we all live in?

Meanwhile, at the Sangam, the sadhus and pilgrims are still struggling to take a holy dip in knee-deep water in the cold winter mornings. if faith can move mountains, then it can possibly alter India’s Karmic cycle as well.

Tailpiece

“My father was a brave man,” says Rahul Gandhi with feeling, “The hospital was dark, it was green and very dirty… as we entered, people were shouting, they were very angry. It was the first time in my life that I saw my father cry,” avers the young scion of India to his audience, explaining the scene of his grandmother’s death. Rahul then goes on to describe how his father (the then Prime Minister elect) went on to address the nation on TV/Radio despite his emotional loss. He is trying to educate congressmen about ‘hope’, using his own personal tragedy as an analogy.

Just a few hundred metres away from the scene that Rahul Gandhi so evocatively describes (as a dirty green hospital), men and women were being butchered in broad daylight. Hundreds of young Sikh boys were witnessing the beheading of their fathers and the gang raping of their mothers. Their India was as disconnected then, as it is now. In those dark days when India lost all its hope, Rahul Gandhi discovered hope. That hope, built on the dead bodies of thousands of Sikhs, has come back to haunt India in 2013

-NitiCentral

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The myth of ‘Hindutva terror’

PLEASE PLEASE go thru this very excellent article…and do share and tag ur friends in this one. We never ask you to do so…but please surely spread this one,as much as possible..Hindus should unite against these evil ‘Khangressi’…Take pride in Being a Hindu and stand united!

India is home to nearly 18 per cent of the world’s population. That’s a huge chunk of humanity in one country. Of this, nearly 82 per cent are Hindus. So naturally, it is a nation with a Hindu identity, irrespective of whether people with more “secular” outlook accept it or not. If Turkey can be called a Muslim nation and Germany a Christian nation, India is for sure a Hindu nation that functions in the form of a democracy.

Background:

Unfortunately India is one of the biggest victims of terrorism in the 21st century world. Interestingly, it has become very fashionable over the past 4 to 6 years to flash Hindutva “terror” or Saffron “terror” at the drop of a hat. Hindutva, is essentially an ideology which is pro-Hindu, and Saffron is a colour most associated with Sanatana Dharma, or Hinduism as the world labels it. Many people bring “Hindu terror”, “Hindutva terror” or “Saffron terror” into political and media discussions to score brownie points with the generally Hindu-despising crowd out there — the so-called secular people, communists, and some ‘friendly neighbours’ of who have a big stake in projecting Hindus in bad light.

Since Islamic terror or Muslim terror has been so much in news this century, some people felt obligated to bring in an “equal-equal” balancing act to emphasise their own secular credentials. Of course it would be stupid to say that there are no bad people who are Hindus. They exist. There are criminals, rapists, murderers and much worse people who happen to be from practicing Hindu family or just have a Hindu name. But ‘Hindutva terror’ or ‘Hindu terror’ is mostly meaningless as hardly any Hindu would go out and commit terrorism for the glory of the Bhagavad Gita or for attaining heaven for the sake of Krishna or Durga, or cite a Vedic mantra before blowing up a group of people. Hindu criminals surely exist, but Hindu ‘terror’(of the Islamist variety) is mostly imaginary. I have never come across an act of Hindutva ‘terror’ that killed even 100 people (that’s 0.8 per cent of the number of global terror victims in 2011) anywhere in the world in one incident. You can leave a comment below to educate us if you find this claim false.

Now let’s go beyond our opinions and claims. Let’s get some hard statistics from credible reports. Beyond the studios of some select media houses, does Hindutva ‘terror’, so fondly peddled by our neo-intellectuals, even exist? If it exists among 15-18 per cent of the world’s population, shouldn’t it be a very visible form of terror in international reports and news items? That too when India itself features among the 6 most terror-affected countries in the global ranking?

I found one very credible and internationally accepted report on the previous year’s terrorism statistics. I was actually hoping to see a lot of ‘Hindutva terror’-related information from this comprehensive world report on terrorism in 2011. To my shock, there was not even a single mention of ‘Hindu’, ‘RSS’, ‘Sangh’, ‘Saffron’ and other labels that Indian media regularly feeds us. There were 16 mentions of India in this 33-page comprehensive report, but not ONE mention of the word ‘Hindu’! I checked and rechecked, just to ensure that I was not missing something.

How did this happen?

How come the world’s most comprehensive report on terrorism from 2011 does not have a mention of  even one terror incident involving ‘Hindutva’ or ‘Hindu’ which many politicians and mediapersons don’t seem to stop talking about in India?

2011 Global Terror Statistics:

You can download and read the entire report here from the official National Counter Terrorism Center website in USA. (Click here to download the PDF report)

After failing to find any mention of ‘Hindutva’ terror, I then extracted some key numbers that I hope Indian media stalwarts will read through and get a larger, global perspective. There were over 10,000 terrorist attacks in 2011, affecting nearly 45,000 victims in 70 countries and resulting in over 12,500 deaths. That’s a very large number of people getting affected, even though the number of attacks were fewer compared to 2007.

India features among the six countries most affected by terrorism in 2011. In Afghanistan, 3,353 people died due to terror attacks in 2011. Iraq saw 3,063 deaths, Pakistan saw 2,033, Somalia saw 1,101, Nigeria saw 593 and India saw 479 victims. These are purely terrorism-related deaths, and do not include deaths in religious / sectarian wars like in Syria where more than 20,000 people have died in 2011 itself. The war-torn Afghanistan, the unstable Iraq, and the very likely imploding Pakistan together account for 64 per cent of the terrorist attacks in the world during 2011. India’s most volatile neighbour Pakistan, with a long history exporting terrorism, saw an increase of 8 per cent in terror attacks compared to 2010.

Now let us come to religious demographics. I am not sure this even deserves mention, but something needs to stand in contrast to all the ‘Hindutva’ bashing in Indian media.:

1.      In 2011, 56 per cent of the world’s terrorist attacks (5,700) were by Sunni Muslims. 70 per cent of the worldwide deaths were also OF Sunni Muslims.

2.      Effectively, out of the 12,533 terror victims in the world in 2011, 8,886 were killed by Sunni Muslim extremists.

3.      There were 279 suicide attacks in the world during 2011. Sunni Muslims conducted 93 per cent of these attacks.

4.      Out of 12,000+ killed by terrorists in 2011, 6,418 were civilians. 755 were children. Nearly 90 per cent of terror victims, with their religion identified, were Muslims.

Amazing! What will the ‘secular’ columnists, who made a living bashing ‘Hindutva terror’ do now? Not ONE mention in the world’s most comprehensive report of Hindu ‘terror’. Not to mention the fact that an overwhelming majority of terrorists listed happen to be Muslims, whom these folks hesitate to highlight, thanks to their ‘equal-equal’ reporting mission. Is it time for them to get back to their ‘terrorism has no religion’ cliche?

2011 Indian Terror Groups per the Global Report:

Since India unfortunately figured in this list, it was necessary to dig deep into incidents involving the country, to find out who in India was killing that many people. According to the report, the top non-Muslim terrorist groups in the world were FARC from Columbia (carried out 377 attacks in 2011), CPI-Maoist in India (351 attacks), NPA-CPP of Philippines that struck 102 times and PKK of Turkey (carried out 48 attacks).

Here were the only 3 Indian terror organisations featured:

1.      Communist ideology holding Communist Party of India – Maoist.

2.      Indian Mujahideen, the terror outfit that is alleged to have links with Students Islamic Movement of India (SIMI), for which the incumbent Foreign Minister of India Salman Khurshid was a legal voice.

3.      Harkat ul-Jihad Islami (HUJI).

Inference:

The summary of the report is pretty clear. It’s unfortunate for India that it did figure as the sixth most terror-affected nation on this planet. However, even though Hindus form 15 to 18 per cent of the world’s population across dozens of countries, with an overwhelming majority in India, they had zero mention in the comprehensive world terror report for 2011. Not only was there no mention of the word ‘Hindu’ itself, all other related labels like ‘Hindutva’, ‘RSS’ etc. were absent as well. Among the three Indian terrorist outfits featured in the global report, two were Islamist and one was Communist. Ironically, it is the advocates of these very same ideologies that have been trying desperately to project to the world the imaginary idea of ‘Hindutva terror’ and the huge danger it poses to humanity.

I hope India’s top politicians, their speechwriters and media editors read this report carefully. Perhaps they would do better by getting back to the ‘terrorism has no religion’ cliche instead of discrediting themselves by peddling the non-existent ‘Hindutva Terror’.

WHO made this dumb ‘shit’de home minister?eh?cheap vote bank minority appeasement politics? SHAME ON YOU!! ******e
Be mum on real terrorism and start talking about imaginary ones!

JAI HIND…JAI SHREE RAM!

Brillianr article on How Media Twisted and turned the Bhagwatj’s statement…#Share Let everyone else know about it!!I dont know the gentleman who wrote it…but Kudos to him!

My dictum that the Indian English media is a whore with none of the ethics of a whore has been proven correct again. And so the latest proof of its venal whoredom happens to be a barefaced lie, a shameless hoax, which in the pre-Internet era would’ve gone unnoticed. Perchance that it was noticed, its exposure would’ve been buried by everybody starting with the gatekeepers all the way up to the CEO of the brothel. And this piece would’ve never been written.

That the media crossed all limits was proved by Radiagate. But when you abandon shame just once, you only want to better your previous record. I suppose it’s like drug addiction but I really don’t know. You need to ask Barkha Dutt, et al. The latest entrant into this Media Hall of Shame happens to be Asian News International (ANI), whose doctored and heavily editorialized reportage of RSS Chief Mohan Bhagwat’s speech at Indore on 6 January 2013 was portrayed as the actual view of the Sarasanghachalak. In other words: lying.

Of course, predictable consequences followed. The English media spontaneously erupted in simultaneous multiple orgasms nationwide. Here’s a sample from the uber spinmeister NDTV, which spun an already-twisted report (by ANI) as follows:
‘Women meant to do household chores’: another shocker from RSS chief…right-wing Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh’s (RSS) chief Mohan Bhagwat has done it again…

But what did Mohan Bhagwat actually say? Thanks to Newslaundry for the loose translation (the original Hindi transcript is here):

[Mohan Bhagwat] was commenting on the Western model of modernity. And in that context, he was articulating his view of their view. Get it? He said in the “modern” interpretation of marriage (not his), women are bound by contract to serve their husbands. He also said that husbands were bound to look after their wives. Much like women are supposed to look after household chores and keep their husbands satisfied, men are expected to provide for their wives and look after them, as per the modern version of the marriage contract. And if either the wife or husband didn’t manage to do so, the dissatisfied party breaks the contract and contracts a second or third, as per the modern version of the marriage contract. Get it?

Notice how it was reported. And how quickly it went viral in the media. Notice also how RSS spokesperson Ram Madhav’s defence of Mohan Bhagwat was carefully buried under layers of paragraphs by these news-twisters. Typical. Spit and run journalism thrives on this to survive. Moreover, since the RSS chief is himself directly involved, it’s the Golden Chance for journalists and reporters to inject more poison into the already toxic reporting.

However, what they didn’t bargain for is the avalanche of outrage that steamrolled against them on Twitter and elsewhere online. For once, these RSS-blood-baying news hounds were forced to lick their wounds. Even the normally giggly, dumb high-school girl like Old Monk Boy’s wife was forced to apologize.

That the English media vampires hate the RSS because of their Maculayite background is just a partial explanation. The truthful explanation is the fact that they are people with no integrity. You present them with mountains of evidence to the contrary, yet they chose to willfully ignore it. Their hatred of the RSS is not irrational. It is depraved. And like all hatred, it is rooted in fear.

The depravity begins with how they have historically characterized the RSS, again, taking a leaf out of Nehru’s book. The fact that the media has consistently ignored the exemplary social work that RSS has done since its inception is a measure of the media’s intentionally blinkered vision. It’s as if the RSS exists only to foment violence and make the ultra-pampered minorities shiver in their shoes. It’s as if the RSS is just waiting for tomorrow to declare India as a dreaded Hindu Rashtra complete with doomsday visions of unchecked tyranny and violent repression. But this kind of branding has indeed served the media well. The mention of RSS evokes derisive ridicule and laughter in large pockets of urban India today. And this ridicule isn’t based even on a cursory study of the RSS’ stellar contribution throughout its existence. The naked lie accepted as gospel truth, is actually handed down second hand by third-rate writers with a spurious agenda to push.
Yet, what is the actual record of the RSS?

Name a natural calamity. Floods, earthquakes, tsunamis…RSS workers reach the affected spot first and dive right in to help the victims. They care nothing for their own comfort, eating little and sleeping even less. They ask nothing in return unlike the Christian missionary vultures whose ugly soul-trading was on full display during the 2004 Tsunami that hit India. Yet what does the media report? Nothing. They simply bury the story of the work done by the RSS. What does that show? That the media is aware of the good work but chooses only to report some statements made by the RSS that are perceived to be regressive or inflammatory. If this doesn’t show a lack of integrity, what else does?

But perhaps the greatest strength of the RSS is its staggering number of voluntary workers or karyakartas. These are people who give up everything in life to serve the nation. They go where the RSS orders them to go and undertake any task, however arduous. And thousands of these karyakartas are qualified, intelligent and competent enough to earn six figure salaries had they not opted to serve India. Yet they go out to remote locations, to places where people desperately need help or to serve the nation in numerous other ways. They train and educate other people’s children by willingly forgoing the opportunity to start their own families. They put even their lives at risk in places like the violently Stalinist Kannur, Kerala. Indeed, I’ve even stopped reading news that reports the death of yet another Swayamsevak in that morbid State. Yet they are undeterred, and tirelessly lead such a near-ascetic life of national service propelled by the only hope that their efforts will bear fruit some day in the form of an India that had once led the world in high culture, refinement, arts, philosophy, and material riches.

It is this commitment that has earned it the goodwill and a firm place in the hearts of millions of Hindus (and thousands of non-Hindus) worldwide. A goodwill that has sustained and remained in tact over seven decades and continues to grow. It is this goodwill that unleashed the torrent of rage on social media yesterday against ANI and likeminded media charlatans. It is this goodwill that has made the RSS the largest network of its kind in the world. Name just one other voluntary organization in the world which has this awe-inspiring network of people dedicated only to serve a nation. Just one. What’s more, the kind of harassment meted out by the Dynasty to RSS at regular intervals, the kind of atrocities perpetrated against RSS workers by various Congress and Communist Governments would have broken the back of a lesser organization. The Emergency was truly the darkest period in the life of the RSS. An organization with even 1/10th of the RSS in terms of size, network, and influence in any other country would’ve reacted very differently. Yet how did the RSS respond? Its then Sarasanghachalak instructed the karyakartas to forgive Indira Gandhi and the Congress party because “after all, they are one of our own. They are fellow Indians.”
And yet, what kind of sick minds find humour in vulgar descriptions of the effects of wearing “khaki shorts? The same Newslaundry that chided ANI & co for motivated reportage of Mohan Bhagwat’s speech also says this:

Bhagwat – whose main sin appears to be that he wears khaki bermudas despite the effect the vision might have on unsuspecting viewers

How would the reporter feel if I wrote something similar about the panties his/her mother or sister wear? Would he/she write the same thing about his father’s bermudas or whatever other shorts? Oh! I’ll write that in all good humour, of course. But knowing this breed, they’d say “ah! I knew you’d say this kind of stuff about my mother and sister.” This kind of response is the direct outcome of shamelessness becoming the norm. But I digress.

But yet, what kind of moral and mental pollution prompts the media sleazebags to depict nuns and fathers and brothers as saints—the actual parasites on the ground who prey on unsuspecting non-Christian souls and lead to civil wars—while they portray the genuine and selfless workers who serve the nation as dreaded goons?
One answer to all these questions is just one word: fear. The media fears the RSS. Here’s a vast organization made entirely of voluntary workers intent only on serving the country that has stood its ground amidst severe adversities and which takes the most strident criticism in its stride. Here’s an organization which has sustained for more than seven decades and despite best efforts, hasn’t budged or accepted defeat much less been broken. Courts have consistently taken its side. Every effort to tarnish its reputation has failed. All these are eminently plausible reasons for someone to fear its moral strength.

But look at the record of the lives, behaviour and character of the selfsame media men and women who’ve demonized RSS both through force and fraud. There’s nothing but filth there. From putting out doctored news reports, from making crass accusations, from indulging in vulgar jokes, there’s no depths of depravity the media has plumbed where the RSS is concerned. Even if we overlook this, what’s the kind of ethics and professionalism the media has displayed? Radiagate? Openly campaigning for the Congress party? Land grabbing? Paid news? Killing stories? Calling for the “sudden removal” of Narendra Modi?  What is the wager that these guys can’t lead the lifestyle of Mohan Bhagwat for even half a day? And yet they occupy some kind of a self-righteous moral high ground and criticize the RSS and Bhagwat. What world do they live in? More importantly, what bizarre nightmare are we living in, to tolerate this all-round sickness?

Everybody has the right to criticize the RSS but such criticism must be rooted in truth, honesty, and a thorough knowledge of what it stands for. But then we have a media that’s incurably allergic to such concepts. Whatever be the ideological or intellectual failures of the RSS, they are patriots of the highest order and their record of national service is both unparalleled and unbeatable anywhere in the world. And I say this as an outsider.
No wonder the media is full of people like the likes of Old Monk Boy who can’t sleep without alcohol.

Rajdeep, CNN-IBN Join Gujarat Election Campaign

Lying is considered a moral offence. Sometimes a lie is even considered healthy if it saves someone or contributes to a good cause; which is why if you look up all our laws there isn’t one against lying. It’s an offence to lie only under oath in a hearing. This is the greatest protection under which our news media thrives and makes its living. As Howard Beale would tell you: “TV is not the truth, it’s an amusement park….We lie like hell”. In an earlier post I mentioned Vikram Chandra of NDTV lamenting the degeneration of news. Following the arrest of ZeeNews editors in an extortion case we had more soul-searching in the media. Who else but Rajdeep Sardesai could have tweeted: “I guess journalists are more feared today, but sadly less respected. We are more arrogant, less ethical. Gnight”. (Nov 28) More feared? Nobody fears or respects journalists anymore, that’s the reason Jindal group screwed the morons from Zee. Rajdeep’s channel also has the brand name IBNLive but he might remember that it often earns the nickname CNN-IBNLies. So on Nov 28 RS once again does a show “Is the media facing a serious credibility crisis”?

Any introspection has to begin with the What and Why media got to where it is. You will find nothing of that sort in RS’s show. Among the panellists were N. Ram, Shekhar Gupta and Vinod Mehta. These three gentlemen have quite a lot answering to do on their own. Who is introspecting? Gupta says editors and editorial intervention should be restored and that on TV the anchors and editors are rolled into one. Sort of judge, jury, and prosecutor all rolled into one. Gupta probably refuses to accept that there are no more editors. There are only “Editorialists” whose job is to “swing” public opinion for political pursuits. And it’s even more rewarding when it comes to Gujarat and elections in Gujarat. Over a decade our news channels have distributed some of the biggest lies about the state and about Narendra Modi. They have been exposed again and again but never learn. So, all the introspection that RS frequently attempts is poor theatre at best. Consider this ruling by an American court with respect to Fox News who appealed a verdict against them:

“In February 2003, a Florida Court of Appeals unanimously agreed with an assertion by FOX News that there is no rule against distorting or falsifying the news in the United States… During their appeal, FOX asserted that there are no written rules against distorting news in the media. They argued that, under the First Amendment, broadcasters have the right to lie or deliberately distort news reports on public airwaves”. There! You see, that applies to Indian media too. The Fox case was actually against reporters hired by them and not enemies. Lying, falsifying reports, distortion are not crimes. This gets even better when it comes to Gujarat. So, in keeping with the tradition of the last decade CNN-IBN first sends out the Social Genius, to Gujarat on a mission to find out the condition of Muslims in the state. Then on November 29 RS runs a show on why Muslims are being ignored by BJP in the state. CNN-IBN has well and truly joined the election campaign.

Throughout her journey in Gujarat Sagarika let out some very Bimboesque tweets which have so come to represent her mind and her thinking. And such a moron is going to pass off her petty opinions as a great work of research. That’s CNN-IBN for you. Those opinions aren’t aired yet. They are going to be aired today afternoon and are quite predictable. And what exactly is Rajdeep’s problem? That the BJP hasn’t given a ticket to any Muslim candidate although they form 9 or 10% of Gujarat’s population! Yes, he is that naïve. He, being Numero Uno in political analysis, doesn’t understand the basis of selecting candidates and feels ticket distribution should be on the basis of population. That Hindus can’t represent Muslims as they do in many other constituencies in India or vice-versa. That only Muslims can represent themselves and no one else. It’s because of channels like Rajdeep’s that there is an entire site dedicated to media lies. Don’t laugh, it’s really called TVNewsLies and here are excerpts from their deception statement:

“Today’s establishment media practice very little journalism and they devote minimal resources to reporting actual news… They spend most of their resources to create a false reality for the public while they distract you from the most important issues facing our world. For all practical purposes you can safely say that the reality portrayed by the establishment media bears little resemblance to the actual world in which we live… An easy way to think of this is that the people in the establishment media are holding up an orange for you to look at while they tell you that it is an apple…. Lies come in many forms. Partial truths, selective facts, out of context quotes and information, partial historical perspective and out right misrepresentation of facts. It is easy to manipulate the public. If you become aware of the methods of deception you are better prepared to sift through the propaganda for the few facts that are actually made available by our broadcast our news media”.

RS seems to have little problem with the massive appeasement policies of various govts including the GOI towards the Muslims. He has problems only when Muslims in Gujarat aren’t given tickets for the election by the BJP. It never bothered him that all the MPs from Delhi are Hindus voted by Muslims too from a party that indulges in Muslim-appeasement. Election tickets are a political issue. Tickets are issued also based on political manoeuvres of the opponents. The most condemned politics in recent times, even in the media, has been the politics of caste and religion. Rajdeep seems to still live in an era of Madhavsinh Solanki’s KHAM theory in Gujarat. The theory that made Gujarat voters dump the Congress. But fairness to the population or fair representation is hardly Rajdeep’s motive. The simple motive is to trash BJP and Narendra Modi any way he can; which is what he has been doing the last ten years. He either wants apologies from Modi or portray Muslims as being discriminated against in Gujarat. This, at a time when even Muslims are beginning to acknowledge they have suffered more at the hands of other parties.

During the HT Summit in 2007 Rajdeep asked probably the dumbest question a host could ask. He asked Modi if Gujarat’s development reaches its entire people or only the Hindu majority. Modi responded by asking if water flows in the Sabarmati does it cater only to 90% or to all the 100% whose lives depend on that water. Rajdeep also used that occasion to reiterate the “Mass murderer” tag for Modi. He also used the term “Hero of hatred” to describe Modi. With all this animosity and hatred within him, on what grounds does Rajdeep even consider himself morally fit to question any decision of Modi? But hell, its election season and he has to do his bit for the campaign against Modi. And Muslims have been such a phenomenal tool for the media just as they are for certain political parties.

And if that wasn’t enough there is Shweta Bhatt, wife of Sanjiv Bhatt, who will now contest on a Congress ticket against Narendra Modi in Ahmedabad. Excellent! Nothing wrong with that. She is the wife of the “Super cop”, the “top cop” and the “whistle-blower” so touted by the media. On Rajdeep’s very channel Sanjiv Bhatt called Modi a “common criminal”. So thrilled was CNN-IBN that they kept playing that sound-bite over and over again. The SIT on Gujarat riots rejected claims of Bhatt and yet the media kept backing him. The whole world suspected then that Sanjiv Bhatt was nothing more than a Congress stooge. Some of his affidavits were even reported to be drafted by a reporter from TOI, Manoj Mitta. But Rajdeep and his colleagues suspected nothing. Must be all those emails Bhatt was sending him. After all, he is Numero Uno when it comes to political analysis. And this guy talks about Muslims in Gujarat? Pathetic!

As far as I know, and I know with a certain authority too, that Muslims in Gujarat are much better off than in many other states in India. The few streets and gullys that CNN-IBN and other channels show in their reports are not unique to Muslims. These can be found in other communities too in Gujarat where the poor live. Poverty hasn’t disappeared from India and it hasn’t totally disappeared from Gujarat. But guess what, at every opportunity CNN-IBN will be there to rake up old wounds under the garb “Gujarat Muslims: A new narrative”. The title is as deceptive as it possibly can. The manner in which both Sagarika and Rajdeep have been screaming about Muslims are nearly attempts to divide a state on religious lines and sowing seeds of communal disharmony. It can also amount to provoking Muslims with fears where there are none. Is there nothing else about Gujarat other than Muslims? Should that be the only factor that should decide elections? Has Rajdeep ever asked why there has never been a Muslim Nobel winner from India? Surely, day isn’t far off when he blames Modi for that too.

Someone did give an answer to the Social Genius on her journey of malice. Asifa Khan, a Congress member who recently joined BJP, told her: “A foot soldier from BJP is doing much better than a Congress MLA or Congress MP would have done”. I don’t think Rajdeep is going to hunt for a deep explanation why Congress is held in such contempt in Gujarat. Truth might be that the conditions of Muslims in a Muslim-ruled J&K maybe far worse than Gujarat. I doubt CNN-IBN or the Social Genius is going to do a show on that. As for the moronery of the husband-wife duo what says it better than Akhilesh Yadav, whose six months in charge of UP have seen 9 communal riots being their Indian of the year nominee? A bunch of bigots whose hatred for Modi and prejudice against Hindus have often coloured the vision of CNN-IBN. This isn’t the first time.

And then Rajdeep wonders if media is facing a credibility crisis. The problem for him, as also many other media celebs, is that they haven’t been able to juggle their work of putting out the bare minimum news with facts and that of their political agenda. Rajdeep, Sagarika and CNN-IBN have just joined the election campaign in Gujarat. It’s your guess which team they are rooting for. Right behind them is Headlines Today too. It’s only begun. Few months ago when Rajdeep was being asked by Twitterati to report on the Emergency anniversary on June 25 he hit back with a question. He asked if the same Tweeple will remember Babri anniversary on December 6. He’s in luck! This time December 6 is just around the eve of Gujarat elections. Someone will be there to exploit it for added impact in Gujarat. Guess who??

-Media Crooks

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