Ramnarayan Gopalkrishnan
How Muslim Fundamentalists Celebrated Ramazan in Karnataka

Like every year this year too the fundamentalist Muslims were in a festive mood during the month of Ramazan. The celebrations typically include a display of their utterly ignorant and intolerant attitudes, desecration of Hindu Gods and Goddesses, causing violent communal riots, going on looting rampages, suppression of freedom of speech and condemnation of everything non-Islamic. And to top it all each mullah then proclaims emphatically that violence is prohibited for Muslims during the month of Ramazan.

The focus of Ramazan celebrations this year was Karnataka. During the celebrations the Muslim mobs burned copies of New Indian Express, asked for the banning of Dante's Inferno, desecrated a Hindu idol by putting a garland of slippers on it, caused riots and injured countless innocent Hindus.

Dante's Inferno - an anti-Islamic book?!
In the New Year's day edition of the New Indian Express, journalist T.J.S. George wrote the following in an article titled, The millennium is dead... Long live the millennium:

"So pervasive was the equation between the orient and evil on the one hand and between Europe and virtuousness on the other, that the stereotypical notions found their way into great literature. Dante should suffice as example because his Inferno, composed in the first decades of the 14th century, is so profound a fixture in the literate world's consciousness. Dante had no doubt that Prophet Mohammed's eventual place was in hell but in the eighth of nine circles of hell, that is so close to the very bottom where Satan himself dwells."

This and other quotations from Dante about the condition of Mohammed in hell incensed the Muslim community so much so that without utilizing their brain cells even for a fraction of a second they formed a mob and started demanding punishment for T.J.S. George and editors of New Indian Express.

The mob of Muslims started gathering in front of the newspaper's office at around 2 P.M. on Sunday. Over time the mob swelled to the strength of 1,000 men. The mob performed both the assar and magrib namaaz on the road in front of the newspaper office causing traffic delays and inconvenience to other civilians. They also broke their fast on the road. But the day was not over yet and festivities were just beginning. Many Muslim religious leaders were seen exhorting and inciting the mob by reciting passages from the Quran. It did not take long for the mob to gather itself into a frenzy. While all this was going on the police just stood and watched.

A New Indian Express truck carrying 74 rolls of newsprint was soon set on fire. It is at this time the police started taking action. They used lathicharge and teargas to disperse the mob, however now it was already too late. The crazed mob was in no mood to have their festivities spoiled by the police. They threw stones causing businesses to shut down. Cameras of two journalist photographers were snatched from them and the photographers were themselves mercilessly beaten up.

The Express management was forced to issue an apology in their Sunday edition for "hurting" the feelings of the Muslim community. On the same day a team of Muslim "intellectuals" led by the Jamia Masjid Imam went to the New Indian Express office with a memorandum seeking action against Mr. George and a personal apology from him. When the express management said that it had already apologized the "intellectual" Muslims said that they were not satisfied with a simple apology and they wanted Mr. George arrested.

Some of these fundamentalist Muslims even went to the police commissioner T. Madiyal asking him to arrest Mr. George for his deliberate attempt to hurt the sentiment of the Muslim community. The police commissioner later on meekly told journalists that he was considering making a case against Mr. George under Section 153(a) of the Indian Penal Code, which deals with inciting communal violence! Ah, the ways of the "secular" Congress government! Now it is forbidden for a journalist to quote from Dante's Inferno on account that he/she might anger the Muslim community. However, it is quite alright for the Mullahs, Maulanaas and the Maulavis to exhort the Muslims to cause riots while the police just stands and watches. After all, the Muslims are not governed by the Indian Law. They have the Islamic Sharia!

Anees Khan, leader of the Muslim mob which burned down the New Indian Express truck and injured at least two journalist photographers told newspersons that he would
file a case in the high court seeking a ban on Dante's book. "Since Dante's book speaks ill of the Holy Prophet, we want a ban on his book," Khan said.

"Most of the protesters here do not know who Dante is and what book he has written. But we are angry with the New Indian Express because it has carried comments objectionable to Muslim society," Khan further stated.

Khan and his fellow brainwashed Muslim fundamentalists need to take off their blinders. If they do so they will see that Mr. George's article actually criticizes Dante! It was not intended to insult Islam or Mohammed! The stupidity and narrow-mindedness exhibited by these Muslim fundamentalists is at times mind boggling.

Hindu idol garlanded with slippers
What is a good Ramazan celebration without insulting the Hindus and desecrating their Gods and Goddesses? Yes, Ramazan is just not Ramazan unless the Muslim fundamentalists indulge in some kind of barbaric acts against the Hindu community. This time the Muslims chose the town of Chikmagalur in Karnataka. Here an idol in a Hindu temple was garlanded with slippers. When the Hindu community found out about this they were angered, however they did not resort to violence. Instead, a peaceful procession was carried out by Bajrang dal and a few other Hindu Groups on the eve of Hanumant Jayanti protesting against this desecration.

The procession was joined by a Muslim crowd who claimed to be supporters of the Hindus. The so far peaceful procession soon became violent when the Muslims in the crowd started throwing stones and slippers at the idol in a temple located at the Hanumanthappa Circle. The same Muslims who claimed that they had come out to support the Hindus turned against them. Many innocent Hindus were injured. A farmer returning home after selling milk was stabbed in the chest by the crazed Muslim fundamentalists. Some police officials and other civilians including a young girl were also injured either through stab wounds or by stones which were hurled at them. Businesses and transportation in the area came to a grinding halt. As usual the police officials did not do anything until the situation got completely out of hand. No doubt, the police commissioner is considering the arrest of the Hindu participants in the procession for inciting communal tension!

Conclusion
It is disgusting to see that the Congress administration in the state just tags along behind the Muslim fundamentalists by allowing them to disrupt normal life and suppress freedom of speech. If it is not the celebration of Ramazan then it is Eid-ul-Fitr or Mohammed's birthday and many times no occasion is necessary to indulge in barbarous activities for the Muslim fundamentalists. Just look at Jammu and Kashmir. It seems like in that state the Islamic terrorists celebrate Ramazan and Eid-ul-Fitr everyday.

Why should Mr. George of New Indian Express be arrested? Why should Dante's Inferno be banned? Why are we letting our country being overrun by a bunch of intolerant, barbaric hate mongers who call themselves Muslims? Is India an Islamic country? Why does India have two sets of laws - one for the Muslims and one for the rest of the people? These are the kinds of questions that every Hindu should ask himself/herself. The answer is clear. If Hindus do not stand up and fight for their rights, their self-respect and their freedom then they will either soon be killed or forced to lead a humiliating life under the Islamic Sharia.

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