[Reader-list] THE RIGHT VIEW - A secular protocol - Tarun Vijay

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THE RIGHT VIEW - A secular protocol

Tarun Vijay - The Times of India
11th October 2008

 Patience is the key that defines facilitating others' survival more than
your own. Earth, mother we call her, symbolises that element of life.
 She lets the barbarian exploit her boons and the bliss, and waits for a
millennium to show she is angry.

Indian society, which believes in the values of the civilisational flow so
painstakingly preserved and handed over to us, is being subjected the same
kind of test of patience by the forces that represent the colors of Roman
and Arab ancestry.

Like history can't be understood through secondary or tertiary sources,
original references have to be consulted, watershed incidents in a nation's
life have to be analysed through original events. Hence after
Meenakshipuram, the forced exodus of Kashmiri Hindus, Godhra and Kandhmal
murders, its now the turn of Bodo Hindus in Assam to face Muslim attacks.

So far 40 Hindus have been reported killed and 76,000 people have left their
villages out of fear and taken refuge in 32 state government camps in
Udalguri and Darrang. Twelve villages have been burnt. In Jhakuapara village
the gaon budhaa (village head) was burnt alive along with his mother and
sister. It all began after local Hindus resisted the forcible occupation of
their lands by Muslims. The area has suddenly seen Bodo Hindus reduced to a
minority and a spurt in the activities of the All Assam Minority Students
Union (AMSU), SIMI, All Assam Muslim Chatra Parishad and Muslim Students
Association (MUSA). Now, having burnt Hindu villages and forced them to
flee, Muslims are occupying the villages vacated by Hindus.

The Assam United Democratic Front (AUDF - Badruddin Ajmal's Muslim Political
Party) MLA Rasul Haq Bahadur and AAMSU president Abdul Aziz have been
demanding a separate autonomous area for the Muslims in lower Assam. The
recent violence is considered as a 'warming up' exercise' to chase away
Hindus from their traditional hamlets.

Saw any report or interviews of the victims or front page 'shame' editorials
condemning the roasting alive of Hindus, or making them refugees in their
own land? Got any call from Vatican or admonishment from Paris? Sorry, the
victims happened to be Hindus so we can devote our space and time on matters
more earthly like ICL cricket and red alerts in the stock exchange.

Hate sells. The more you add poison to it, the more you get elevated on the
scales of leadership and fame. They say terrorism is the main issue. But do
you think any one wants to fight it? All that appears on the list are a few
ghastly pictures of the terror-struck common people, a few 'good' slogans,
emotional lines of poetry and the election plank is ready. Greed,
intolerance, revenge and bigotry of the secular kind have taken centrestage
to constitutionalise a hate regime that thrives on disrobing India of her
unique characteristics. Anything that defines that uniqueness is under
assault and like a colonial dispensation; this has become a business of
profit and comfort. Grants, awards and fellowships are reserved for those
who yield and say yes to the secular protocol that defines India as a
non-Hindu entity, using terms like 'shackled in the old', 'outdated',
'obscurantist Brahmanism' and 'weird ritualism which makes the practitioner
rigid, backward looking' and 'pot-bellied, unintelligent creature with a
tuft'.

The sultans of this secular protocol define an assertive Hindu as
anti-women, anti-minority (read Muslims and Christians), Hindi chauvinist,
having a fossilized vision that tries to revive a dead language like
Sanskrit, worshipper of snakes, rats, cow, phallus, trees, who uses cow
urine, cow dung for various purposes including medicine. They light fire and
throw some herbs to please gods, who are elephant-shaped, and use peacocks,
oxen and owls as their vehicles. They have to be civilized. And to do that
they get grants from the ministry of culture.
>From the Germans and Dutch.

The contemporary seculars use exactly the same language and show identical
concern as was used and shown by the British when they urged the Christian
missionaries to civilise the Hindu savages a hundred years ago.

In 1913, British forces under Major Hamilton shot dead 1,500 Hindu Bhil
freedom fighters who had waged a struggle under the leadership of a great
reformist, Govind Giri, a disciple of Swami Dayananda. Having performed this
act of "valour", Major Hamilton invited the church to start work amongst the
Bhils to "give them the divine message". He made the following appeal to
Rev. D.G. Cock of the Presbyterian mission, Neemuch: "Against my wishes, I
ordered police to fire on the innocent persons. Knew and loved them for
years together.

Really it was a sad experience of my life. You go there and do work which I
could not do for them. Their hearts have broken. Give them divine message. I
want to do something and I know the best one will be to establish a mission
centre." (Planting a mission among the Bhils of south Rajasthan', in man and
Life, vol 10, pp 77-96).

Fifteen hundred innocent Bhils were killed. And the British officer asks the
Church, almost as an order, to go and work among them. First physical
annihilation, then organizing efforts for disrobing them of their culture
and religion.

And they are the adorable icons of the contemporary secular.
Hindus, medical doctors, MDs, law graduates, IITians,MBAs, working among
tribals to help them get better education never finds a place of honour or
even a mention in the passing. Because they preserve the culture and
indigenous traditions. In secular protocol, only those who dispossess Hindus
of their identity are eligible for enlisting.

Hence converting tribals to Christianity is acceptable, preserving their
culture is not. An assault on a nun is deplorable; a murder of a lady Hindu
monk is no news. Burning alive of Hindu Bodos finds a brief mention, burning
alive of non-Hindus deserve a front page editorial. Post Godhra, Kandhmal,
and Mangalore, Hindu symbols like Trishul must be turned into symbols of
'Hindu terrorism'.

Post 90s till this date, jihadi symbols like crossed rifles in the backdrop
of Koran or a jihadi killing infants or a NSCN activist in Nagaland
demanding Nagalim for Christ, must not be used as symbols of hate because
that's against secular tenets.

It's a universally accepted norm of the secular fraternity. Have you ever,
anywhere seen a jjhadi's barbaric face as a symbol of terrorism? The only
face you might have seen shows a Muslim tailor with folded hands, a Hindu
"goon" with a saffron headband, a trishul terrifying the minorities. Even
the Maoists are never depicted as barbaric goons who have killed more than
12,000 Indians so far and government has to set up a special cell in the
Ministry of Home Affairs to tackle the left extremism problem. They are
seculars, hence can't be depicted as terrorists.

Recently I saw a magazine depicting Jesus crucified on a trishul .
Even if for the sake of argument one may say some Hindus are indulging in
such activities which these seculars find bad, is their depiction of a Jesus
crucifixion on a trishul to convey their dismay and disapproval acceptable
and responsible behavior? Do they think the trishul is the sole property or
the patented symbol of the kind of Hindus they despise? What about those
Hindus who do not vote BJP or support Bajrang Dal? Do they all belong to a
non-Trishul order of faith?

Depicting and institutionalizing the trishul as a hate symbol is acceptable
behavior for the secular. What about the cross of the separatists in
Nagaland who kill and maim non-conformists? And the two AK-47s around the
Koran used by terrorist groups? Has any one; any secular, journalist, leader
or human rightists ever used such symbols to depict bloodthirsty aggressors?

A subservient media, a colonized mindset, a "manageable" pen – this is all
that is needed to clothe a secular protocol.

It's a protocol that directs them to bury and subvert the truth. When the
killers of Swami Lakshmananada were arrested, the news was filtered and
published in a muffled way. Only in one newspaper did I see a statement
that pointed towards Christian involvement in the ghastly murders. Maoist
leader Sabyasachi Panda admitted to a group of media persons that "it is a
fact that Christians form the majority in our organisation. Our supporters
in Rayagada, Gajapati and Kandhamal also belonged to the Christian
community". According to him, Saraswati was killed because he did not pay
heed when the Maoists' warned him to end his anti-Christian activities.

Anyone condemned the confession?

This secular protocol insults a police officer even in death, humiliates his
family in grief, reinstates a teacher involved in the attack on Parliament,
demand a ban on Hindu organizations without any proof or court order, but
comes out on the streets seeking freedom for a terrorist sentenced to death
by the highest court of the land.

The secular protocol accepts permissiveness and exploitation of women as
acceptable smart behavior; opposition to sex in Meerut parks was booed as
"moral policing", "they" were dubbed anti-environment and as consuming more
and conserving nothing. This protocol is anti-family values – it turns homes
into serais by legitimizing 'live-in' relations, it is anti-societal
stability – which rejects institutionalised relationships, replacing them
with discount coupons of pleasure trips, likes to invest in old age homes
rather take care of parents. (So much power this secular protocol has
wielded that the state felt compelled to make a law to punish children who
do not care for their parents). It supports gay marriages as a mark of human
advancement and abhors the only institution that has sustained global
societies – motherhood, as a symbol of women's slavery.
Having done that, it organizes seminars on the fall in civility and ethics.

They love to say they are not Hindus but 'humans' and when it comes to
making profit they are in the forefront to sell Hindu songs and bhajans .All
those media houses who love to deride Hindutva as a house policy, do not
hesitate to make millions by selling Sanskrit mantras, bhajans, kirtans, in
CDs and VCDs, and present the same dramas they deplore as "mythological"
called Ramayana and Mahabharata, to increase TRP ratings. They are the same
seculars who had opposed such Ramanand Sagar serials during the 90s, saying
"such mythological dramas" helped fan the flames of the Ayodhya movement,
which was, in their eyes, anti-minority.

When it comes to lucre and power sharing and a good berth after life,
everyone comes closer to the forces representing Rama's side. So not a
single secular would say he should be buried after death and no Sanskrit
mantra be chanted because it's a dead language of deplorable Brahmins. So a
sense of personal profit, here or after life, makes them to protect and
support a Hindu character. If votes too begin flowing to their boxes this
way, they, and not the BJP, would be the first to build Ram temple at
Ayodhya.

That's the moral of their secular protocol.

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