[Reader-list] Help with a phrase

[Lalit Ambardar]

This is no ignorance but a syndrome. Quite typical of those who refuse to see or hear any thing that doesn’t suit their senses or their uni-track ideological persuasions or personal interests. Anyway here is the update.
 
 “Azadi- bara- e- Islam” (freedom through Islam) is just an improvised version of those more familiar provocations  like “hum ko kya chahiye- azadi, azadi ka matlab kya- la ilah e ilallah” (what do we want-independence, what dose independence mean- la ilah e ilallah) and “yahan kya chalega –Nizam e Mustafa” (what will rule here- Nizam e Mustafa) etc.etc. (it is hoped ignorance is not feigned about these as well) often resorted to by the Kashmiri pan Islaimists seeking secession of Muslim majority Kashmir valley from India.
 
This one ‘azadi bara e Islam’ was raised recently when the Kashmiri pan Islamists exhibited rabid intolerance against the allocation of a mere 100 acres of land for temporary facilities along arduous Amarnath pilgrimage route by none other than that senior Islamist who also attempted to seek exclusive leadership rights in his favour from the zealots much to the annoyance of the other contenders. He is the guy who was airlifted in a state owned aircraft from Ranchi jail to Mumbai for treatment not long ago. Oh, yes he is also seen in that ‘devotional’ film ‘Jashn e azadi’ consoling the wailing relatives of dead militants & justifying their martyrdom citing holy scriptures.
 
 What is so particular about the period 2003-2008?Yes, this is the period  when tourism has picked up in Kashmir,  property values have gone up – properties left by exiled Hindu Pandits usurped & sold & resold on premium- you have malls & above all you see all those terror commanders who should be tried for crimes against humanity going around as politicians ( makeover courtesy same self acclaimed unitrack liberal mindset).
 
And what about the period 1989-90, when the process of ethnic cleansing of Hindu Pandits was launched? By the way, there was this rabid one then “asy gasce Pakistan- batav rocs ta batnev san” (we want Pakistan- along with the Hindu Pandit women but without the Pandit men) or that killer one “Raliv, galiv, ya caliv” (join, perish or flee). These were some of the rants along with the then freshly acquired AK47s that were used against the beleaguered Hindu Pandits. Doesn’t suit the senses so feign ignorance. Or is it that ‘devotional’ films are not expected to show gory pictures of brutalities committed by the protagonists.

 
And yes, it is heartening to know that ‘frozen turbulence is finally being referred to albeit selectively to suit the senses.
Regards all
LA

> Date: Wed, 15 Oct 2008 12:55:54 +0530> From: kaksanjay at gmail.com> To: reader-list at sarai.net> Subject: [Reader-list] Help with a phrase> > Since this List is fast emerging as a one-stop resource on all things to do> with Kashmir, I wonder if someone could help with a phrase that I've started> encountering quite frequently in posts here: 'azadi bara e islam' (freedom> through Islam), presumably as a slogan raised in/about Kashmir.> Since this is not a slogan that I've heard in Kashmir in the period 2003-08,> and or even encountered (oops! bad word) in my reading of old classics such> as Jagmohan's "My Frozen Turbulence", I would really like to know what the> provenance of this phrase is.> Is this a recent slogan in Kashmir? Is it an old one?> With all thanks for the help> Sanjay Kak> _________________________________________> reader-list: an open discussion list on media and the city.> Critiques & Collaborations> To subscribe: send an email to reader-list-request at sarai.net with subscribe in the subject header.> To unsubscribe: https://mail.sarai.net/mailman/listinfo/reader-list > List archive: <https://mail.sarai.net/pipermail/reader-list/>
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