RE:He was a criminal/terrorist
by Mike Gandhi on Mar 31, 2007 04:50 PM Permalink
PARIVAR'S MANUFACTURED MYTHS
The sangh parivar%u2019s manufactured myths are perhaps best epitomised in the story that appears in various forms in most Vidya Bharti school texts, and is directed at innocent children. It needs to be quoted: %u201COn witnessing Guru Teg Bahadur%u2019s staunch defense of his faith the Emperor Aurangzeb grew red with anger. This was the same Aurangzeb who had Matidas cut through with a saw, Bhai Dayaldas thrown into a vessel of boiling hot oil, and Satidas wrapped in cotton and burnt alive%u2026Even in the last moments of his supreme sacrifice his pride in being a Hindu shone clearly on his face%u201D. (Sanskar Saurabh, Part 2, meant for Class 4). Children are then led to believe what most other texts also claim %u201Cthe Muslims came to India with the sword in one hand and the Quran in the other%u201D%u2026 %u201CNumberless Hindus were forcibly converted to Islam on the point of the sword%u201D, and so on.
Millions of children have been brought up on such staple %u201Cintellectual%u201D diet since Independence, and it is truly the privileged that have escaped part of this vast multitude. The Parivar seeks to convert them as well through the overhaul of the entire educational set up, and through its political campaigns today personified in the rabid anti-minority speeches of the likes of Modi, Togadia and Singhal. These speeches play on these myths ad nauseum to render the political climate violent, and while the majority of the Indian people may not be willing participants in any envisaged fascist take over, on the other hand many democratic and secular people carry the myth of forcible conversions in the innermost recesses of their minds, and are not able to counter this malicious propaganda
