It is time to start this debate. Now that Gujarat is slowly getting back to normalcy. Today many are clueless why the Indian media is obsessively anti-majority _ that is, anti-Hindu. But here is the clue. ``It is no wrong'' says the editor of a popular English magazine, ``to jettison the parameters of objective journalism and being partisan on the side of the victims.'' It does sound noble.
But its implications are far-reaching. It is not just a clue, far more. An admission. This came when the `secular' establishment had to rationalise its totally one-sided reporting on the Godhra massacre and on the Gujarat riots.
Did the secular establishment apply this rule _ of being partisan on the side of the victims _ to the roasting of Ramsevaks, women and children included, at Godhra, and take their side. No. It was the other way round. Nearly the entire secular establishment, the media included, virtually rationalised the mass roasting of the Ramsevaks.
The seculars' voice is the loudest, the shrillest in the country. What the seculars did in millions of words in thousands of journals and newspapers is difficult to capture in a few hundred words here. So the next best proof is the testimony of one of the approvers from the secular ranks as to what the seculars did. The Editor of one of the largest English newspapers _ -a paper, which did as much damage as any other, in reporting on Godhra _ and a secularist himself had an open introspection in the front page of the paper
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by birju on Jun 15, 2008 05:47 PM Permalink
There is something profoundly worrying,in the response of what might be called the secular establishment to the massacre in Godhra.''
On how the secular establishment reacted to the Godhra massacre, he said ``every non-BJP leader on TV and almost all of the media treated the massacre as a response to the Ayodhya movement.'' That is, the victims, Karsevaks, themselves, had provoked the Muslims to burn them.
``If a trainload of VHP volunteers had been attacked,'' like in Godhra, after the demolition of the Babri masjid in December 1992, he argued, ``that would still have been wrong, but, at least one could have understood the provocation.''
But, at Godhra, ``there has been no real provocation at all,'' he said. ``And yet,'' he wrote, ``the sub-text to all secular commentary is the same: the karsevaks had it coming to them.'' ``Basically,'' he continued, ``the secular establishment condemns the crime; but blames the victims.''
That the victims were Hindus is enough to change the conduct of the secular establishment. It establishes that the secular rule of standing by the victims will not apply if the victims were Hindus. A different test will apply to them - that is, whether the Hindu victims perished by their own wrongs.
The editor asked whether we said that ``the US had it coming when the Twin Towers were attacked last year?'' The secular India never attributed the attack to the Muslims' resentment of US policies. He said ``we didn't even consider whether t
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by Albert Adibadla on Jun 15, 2008 05:55 PM Permalink
WHAT WERE THE HINDU JIHADI'S DOING IN THE TRAIN?? FULLY DRUNK AND SHOUTING ABUSES AND GOING TO AYODHAYA FOR BJP TERRORISM???
IF THEY WERE LAW ABIDING CITIZENS THEY SHOULD HAVE STAYED HOME..
WHAT WERE THE MUSLIM JIHADI'S DOING? SHOUTING ABUSES AND FIGHTING WITH HINDU JIHADI'S AND BURNING THEM?? BOTH OF THE LAW BREAKERS DO NOT DESERVE TO LIVE...
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by birju on Jun 15, 2008 05:49 PM Permalink
Another question. ``When Graham Staines and his children were burnt alive,'' he asked, ``did we say that Christian missionaries had made themselves unpopular by engaging in conversion, and so, they had it coming? `No', he said, 'of course, we didn't.''
He then put the most poignant question. ``Why then are these poor karsevaks an exception? Why have we de-humanised them to the extent that we don't even see the incident as the human tragedy that it undoubtedly was and treat it as just another consequence of the VHP's fundamentalist policies?'
So, for Hindus, not the rule of standing by the victim, but the rule of who is at fault will apply. Secular India will not see the why of it, when it condemns the Word Trade Center attack or the Stains murder. But for Godhra, it will seek, even invent, reasons as to why it was inevitable for the victims to die. Why do they do it? Simple. The victims are Hindus.
Why this double standard in Godhra? ``The answer, I suspect,'' said the editor, ``is that we are programmed to see Hindu-Muslim relations in simplistic terms: Hindus provoke, Muslims suffer.''
Being a trained journalist, the editor uses a very sophisticated word, ``programmed.'' What it really means is this: being disposed to lie, to prevaricate, by premeditation. This programming always blames the Hindus as provocateurs and defends the Muslims as victims. This formula is the standard norm of secular India.
One cannot dismiss the secular pack as just another ver
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by kraft on Jun 15, 2008 05:53 PM Permalink
In India "Secularism" is the most Commercialised Word. For 60 Years the Congress Party and it's various Avtars [like VP.Singh and other sundry Leaders] and the Socialists/Communists had understood that Using the word "Secularism" they can do good Political Busines next only to the Dynasty! So they have "Doctored" versions of "Secularism", distorted History to suit their cause, Lies,etc. TRUTH has been the biggest casualty. The day the major communities start seeing things in the proper perspective these "Seculars" will have to close their Political Shops and run for cover! It is needless for me to add that "Seculaism" is the last resort of Scoundrels.
