Anyway, my 2p on the article: I can empathise partially at least with the policemen. Considreing how our judiciary works, it can be frustrating if criminals can walk the streets with impunity. I mean, so many of them are ministers! But on the other hand, can we really subvert the law?
We should stop looking at the whole incident from the prism of Hindu/Muslim relations. The police took the laws into their own hands, and killed a man who, by all accounts, seems to have been rather a lowlife. The only place where his religion plays a role of any importance is how he was classified a terrorist; this I believe was made possible because he was a Muslim.
But the same thing would have been done to a Hindu extortionist under the same circumstances. Okay, he may not have been called a terrorist, but the police would have thought of something else - or never mentioned it at all.
Case in point: Anybody remember the Rajan murder case in Kerala from the days of Emergency? I guess Mallus on these forums would remember. This engineering student was picked upf rom his hostel room, branded a naxalite, and his body has never been found. The man behind it all - a Congress home minister named Karunakaran - still lives happily on (unless I haven't heard the good news yet).
RE:My 2p
by rajesh bhaskar on May 04, 2007 06:29 AM Permalink
warrier hope you are not recently married to a muslim. where is your righteous indignation when thousand of hindu killed in kashmir everyday, the same hindu are getting killed or forcefully converted in pakisthan and bangla. in hindu populus why we need to be secular and appease minorities. any muslim can create a mosque anywhere in the world , why not millions in UAE unablet to their own worship place. do you know recently malasia is named as ialamic republic from secular
