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Mohan Lal Gupta (Ontario, Canada)
Demolition Of So Called Babri Masjid
When the Babri Masjid was demolished, there was only one comment
all over the world that Hindu militants have destroyed the mosque
in Ayodhya, thus hurting the feelings of Muslims of the whole
world without understanding the real cause of such an incident.
Following the Ayodhya incident, Hindus and Bharat bashing became a
fashion with all Muslims of the world and many Sikhs as well,
irrespective where they were living, even may be living in Bharat,
Muslim countries or in western countries.
One could possibly make an objective understanding of the
developments at Ayodhya on December 6, 1992 through an editorial
in the old issue of KESARI magazine (26th May, 1908) of Lokmanya
Tilak titled "The true meaning of bomb explosion" which
was widely acclaimed in those days. It said, "Those who
wielded power remained unresponsive to public opinion. Due to
their obduracy, Bengali youths lost their balance and the mob
exploded. The responsibility for the developments on Ayodhya on
6th December 1992 should squarely be placed on the thoughtlessness
and adamant attitude of the powers that be."
The government must remember the advise of Spencer. He said when a
man cannot see a ray of hope in the surrounding situation, his
thinking power deserts him. When the government constantly ignores
public opinion, it is no longer possible for the society to keep
its equilibrium, senseless incidents like bomb explosions take
place. In such a situation, the government should behave like a
wise person and bring about proper changes in the administration.
Most Hindus were fed up with the congress party's pampering of
Muslims for their vote. All Muslim demands are readily met by the
congress party and pseudo-secular politicians even at the cost of
national interest of Bharat. The most glaring act by the congress
party was the unprecedented legislation that retroactively
overturned a supreme court ruling in favour of a poor old Muslim
woman Shah Bano, seeking the most elementary alimony rights from
her husband in her old days. The supreme court verdict was made
null and void by the congress party just to appease the Muslims.
Bhartiya Muslims are governed under a separate Muslim civil code
based on the Koran, which it is argued, not only alienated Muslims
from the main stream, but is also unfair to other communities of
Bharat. All reforms get stalled, primarily because of Muslim
opposition and the Congress party's fear of losing Muslim votes
should those suggested reforms be implemented. Many Muslim
countries do not observe prophet Mohammed's birthday as a holiday,
but it has been made a holiday in Bharat, although Bharat is a
Hindu majority country.
In Bharat, a Muslim can have four wives while many Muslim
countries do not allow more than one wife at a time to its
citizens. Bharat even passed a "Places of Worship" act
in 1992 in favour of Muslims. Already there are many general and
educational laws and Minority Commissions in Bharat for favouring
Muslims. Many laws discriminate against the majority Hindu
population.
In Bharat there are special laws for Muslims that exempt them from
the general laws of the country like marriage, divorce or property
which are applicable to the rest of the population. This leads to
the subjugation and total slavery of Muslim women and causes
isolation of secular Muslims like Salman Rushdie.
The Muslims are the largest minority community of Bharat, roughly
12 percent or 100 million strong and control the swing of votes in
all the elections. The congress party always almost exclusively
try to guard its hold on the Muslim vote bank. Over the years more
than 20 million Bangladeshi Muslims have entered Bharat illegally
and they have been provided ration cards and Bhartiya citizenship
to create vote banks for congress, communist and pseudo-secular
parties.
Many countries of the world do not have 100 million people as its
population. Such a strong community should never be considered a
minority community and no special concession be available to such
a large community.
The congress party which was the ruling party for most of the
formative years of Bharat, almost fifty years since independence
has been following the policy of chasing short term gains with the
appeasement of sectarian and parochial elements, whether they be
Muslims, Christians, tribals, Communists, Sikhs or the numerous
castes and sub-castes. Different quotas were fixed for different
communities which caused rivalries amongst communities. Sometimes
it caused a backlash of majority Hindu community.
After the demolition of Babri Masjid, in all the Muslim countries,
wherever there were Hindu temples, they were destroyed and Hindu
population was harassed, murdered or converted to Islam. There was
no justification for Muslim countries like Iran, Pakistan,
Bangladesh and Afghanistan to harass their minorities or allow the
demolition of their places of worship. There is no scarcity of
riots, terror and assassinations instigated by Muslim extremists
in these countries as their mission is of Islamising the infidels
and ruling the world by Koran. Therefore to pickup Bharat as if it
was the only country where communal riots need world attention, is
myopic.
Hindus have blamed Hindus, Muslims have blamed Hindus and even the
western world has blamed Hindus. Meanwhile Muslims are indulging
in similar acts of violence in Pakistan, Bangladesh, Afghanistan,
Iran and other countries. In these countries Hindu temples have
been destroyed in the wake of Ayodhya incident. Does the whole
blame lie with one community i.e. Hindu community for starting the
trouble.
The periodic conflicts between Hindus and Muslims from time to
time have many origins, some of which are socio-political kind and
some are of a socio-economic kind and most of which go back deep
into history. Bharat forgets and forgives. It recoils only in
violence only in self defence and will always do so. It never goes
for conquests or proselytisation. If one really wants to know how
tolerant and secular Hindus are, ask the Jews and Zoroastrian of
Bharat. In the book, "Indian Jews in Israel" (published
by the Israeli Consulate General in Bharat) it is written that,
"Throughout their long sojourn in Bharat, nowhere and at no
time were (the Jews) subjected to the intolerance,
indiscrimination or persecution."
Hindus believe in not only in universal tolerance but also accept
all religions as true and valid religions and therefore respect
all religions. The ordinary Muslims should get together and should
talk about their future. Bharat is their country as much as
anybody else's. Can they live happily and peacefully by making
Hindus their enemies in Bharat? How long can any army protect a
community or a mosque?
The solution is not in the army, it is in the realization that the
majority community can also have genuine grievances and it is
incumbent upon the minority to appreciate that grievance and work
with the majority to redress them in a fair manner. It is high
time for the Muslim populace to take its destiny into their hands,
rather than let the mullahs decide it for them. Some secular
Muslims are already asking for such a change. These secular minded
Muslims should appeal to Bhartiya Muslims, that they should now
awaken to the truth regarding Ramjanam-bhoomi and other Hindu
shrines where Muslim structures and motifs are superimposed on
Hindu temples and other buildings.
Shri Mukhtyar Abbas Naqvi, President of the Bhartiya Muslim Yuba
Sammelan once told what is happening in the Muslim world. He said
that the first mosque of Islam, built by none other than the
Prophet himself has been demolished by the Saudi government and
converted into a royal palace. In another instance, Naqvi pointed
out, some time ago Muslim fundamentalists pulled down Mohammed
Sahib's house to erect a club building. The third instance quoted
by Naqvi pertained to the site Jannat-Ul-Baqi where many a great
Islamic personage including the daughter of Prophet Mohammed were
reposing, awaiting qaymat (judgement day). That haloed spot was
levelled with American collaboration to put up a five star hotel.
Ayodhya was not a dispute between Hindus and Muslims. The so
called mosque was built by an invader and the fact that he
happened to be a Muslim is irrelevant. The structure was an
assault on Hindus and therefore on Hindutva. There can be no Hindu
society without Hindutva.
What the Karsevaks (volunteer workers) did at Ayodhya was
"merely to demolish a symbol of alien arrogance and
simultaneously to overturn the ingrained Hindu mindset of
defeatism, masquerading as moral superiority." Hinduism is
not a proselytising religion and Hindus are not in the habit of
destroying other people's places of worship. Even in Bharat, no
other mosque was touched, while hundreds of Hindu temples were
destroyed and Hindus were driven from neighbouring Pakistan and
Bangladesh.
Ayodhya temple has to be liberated and can only be done by defying
the government, not a secular government but a pseudo-secular
government that was itself a party to dispute. It is ridiculous
that a party that was itself party to a dispute wanted to be an
arbiter in such matters. A state that can interfere in religious
and similar ecclesiastical matters cannot be secular one and as
long as Bharat does not have secular state in the real sense and
therefore a genuine secular government, the Hindus have to take
matters in their own hands for the very survival of the Hindu
society depends on defending Hindutva.
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