[Reader-list] Hindu terrorism in Jammu

[Shivam Vij शिवम् विज्]

Dear TaraPrakash,

See my response to Shuddha's response on this, in which I write:

"However in the case of "Hindu terrorism" I want explain my intent. On
this list and elsewhere even non-violent protests in the Valley are
resulting in the Valley's Muslims being called 'terrorists'. The
problem here is not one of vilification, but that once you have
labelled someone using violence for political purposes a terrorist you
have explained away everything there was to explain. The condemnation
of violence becomes the condemnation of politics.

"It was to that sort of loose usage of the word "terrorists" that I
was rhetorically responding to - meaning to say, that if 'Hindu' mobs
use violence, then that too, should be brushed aside as "terrorism".
Instead, we have been sold the "Jammu is burning" line as if someone
from outside Jammu had set it on fire."

best
shivam

On 8/23/08, TaraPrakash <taraprakash at gmail.com> wrote:
> Shivam and all. Shivam seems to have fallen prey to the hindu/muslim binary
> and seems to have decided to join the right side of the slash.
>
> You are losing objectivity. You are homodgenizing and communalizing,
> RSSizing. Please come back to the standards you are known to uphold.
>
> Regards
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Shivam Vij शिवम् विज्"
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> Sent: Friday, August 22, 2008 5:47 AM
> Subject: [Reader-list] Hindu terrorism in Jammu
>
>
> >
> > Jammu: Protesters attack Congress leader
> >
> > 22 Aug 2008, 0045 hrs IST,TNN
> >
> http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/Jammu_tense_protesters_attack_police_station/articleshow/3389045.cms
> >
> >
> > JAMMU/SRINAGAR: There was no let up in violent protests against the
> > revocation of forestland transfer to the Amarnath Shrine Board on
> > Thursday, as senior Congress leader and former J&K deputy chief
> > minister Mangat Ram Sharma had a narrow escape when protesters
> > attacked him at Bhagwatinagar in Jammu. ( Watch )
> >
> > SSP S D S Jamwal said Sharma was attacked while he was visiting a
> > doctor with his grandson. "Protesters attacked his vehicle with rods
> > and stones," he said. Sources said a cop saved Sharma from the
> > rampaging mob and whisked him away on his scooter. Raising
> > anti-Congress, PDP and NC slogans, the protesters set three cars in
> > Sharma's cavalcade on fire. "Later, the mob also torched a nearby
> > police nakka," a police officer said.
> >
> > Sharma has been at the receiving end of the Amarnath protesters; mobs
> > have twice attacked his house in Jammu's upmarket Gandhi Nagar
> > neighbourhood. Day curfew, meanwhile, was lifted from Jammu and
> > Udhampur districts, while it was relaxed for varying periods in other
> > areas of the province. Curfew was reimposed in Jammu after violent
> > protests on Wednesday, the third and final day of Shri Amarnath Yatra
> > Sangarsh Samiti (SASS)'s 'Jail Bharo Andolan'.
> >
> > Authorities relaxed curfew for three hours in Kishtwar town, the scene
> > of communal clashes on August 12 that left two people dead and several
> > others injured. "Curfew was relaxed for 11 hours in Samba," a senior
> > official said.
> >
> > A large number of people turned up for Samiti's scheduled "funeral
> > ceremony of Union government" programme in Jammu. Reports from across
> > Jammu region said similar processions were carried out "to register
> > protest against Centre's silence over the Jammu agitation".
> >
> > The Valley remained largely peaceful for the third consecutive day,
> > after 10 days of violent street protests against the alleged economic
> > blockade left at least 22 people dead.
> >
> > Police resorted to teargas shelling and mild baton charge to disperse
> > protesters at Munawarabad in old Srinagar. "The protesters were trying
> > to march towards United Nations Military Observers' office," an
> > official said. He said no one was hurt in police action.
> >
> > Students continued to boycott classes and took to streets. "The
> > indiscriminate use of power proves that New Delhi wants to suppress
> > Kashmiris," Rafiqa Akhtar of prestigious Women's college said. She
> > said college students' protests prove that even youth are against
> > "imperialism".
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