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[Taha Mehmood]

Dear Rajen,

I think you are absolutely correct. RSS do not hate Muslims. RSS is a
mere name of an organization. A name is incapable of showing any
emotion against or for any social group.

However, lets us revisit some of the pearls of wisdom which were
uttered by great thinkers, which many contemporary members of RSS
simply love to read.

I would like to regard Veer Vinayak Damodar Savarkar as one of them
and I am sure you will join me, in this acknowledgment.

This is what  Veer Vinayak Damodar Savarkar, had to say about so
called, 'Religious Bigotry of Indian Muslims'-

" It is useless to declare only the Muslim league as communal. It is
not news, it is a reality, that the entire Muslim community is embed
in the spirit of communalism'

 [ Rana, B.S. 2004. Veer Vinayak Damodar Savarkar, p127 ]

Then there was venerable Guruji. Whose love for Muslims was legendary.
This is what Madhav Sadashiv Ggolwalkar aka Guruji had to say about
followers of Islam in India:

They [Muslims] have also developed a feeling of identification with
the enemies of this land. They look to some foreign lands as their
holy places. They call them selves Sheikhs and Sayeds...They still
think they have come here to conquer and establish their kingdoms. So
we see it not only as a change of faith and as a change of national
identity. What else it is, if not treason, to join the camp of enemy,
leaving the mother nation in the lurch.

[words of Guruji- as cited in, Basu, T. 1993. Khaki Shorts and Saffron
Flags. p28 ]

Here's another account of goodness of Gurujee with respect to Muslims.
I take the honor and privilege of citing the text below, directly from
the official website of the BJP. We all know of course, how members of
the BJP has time and again shown to every one, how much they care
deeply about Muslims. The text below relates to what many members of
the BJP like to call its core philosophy, which goes by a rather fuzzy
name called- Integral Humanism.

The text pertains to a lecture delivered to many thousands of patriots
by venerable Pandit Deendayal Upadhyaya, on April 22-25, 1965. Here
Panditjee, is trying to tell us about, distinctions about individual
versus society and as a way of illustration, cites a conversation
which, according to Upadhyaya jee,  happened between Shri Vinobaji and
the Sar Sanghachalak of Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh, Shri Guruji,

-Let me give you an illustration. Once during a conversation between
Shri Vinobaji and the Sar Sanghachalak of Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh,
Shri Guruji, a question arose as to where the modes of thinking of
Hindus and Muslims differ. Guruji said to Vinobaji that there are good
and bad people in every society. There can be found honest and good
people in Hindus as well as in Muslims. Similarly rascals can be seen
in both the societies. No particular society has a monopoly of
goodness. However, it is observed that Hindus even if they are rascals
in individual life, when they come together in a group, they always
think of good things. On the other hand when two Muslims come
together, they propose and approve of things which they themselves in
their individual capacity would not even think of. They start thinking
in an altogether different way. This is an everyday experience.
Vinobaji admitted that there was truth in this observation but had no
reasons to explain it.-

[ Upadhyaya, D.D. 1965. integral Humanism. Individual versus Society.
url-  http://www.bjp.org/content/view/444/396/  ]

Such was the clarity of TRUTH that Vinobaji did not even think about
reasons for explaining it.

Javed, considering the above thoughts, I sincerely feel you must
reconsider your comments. Rajen is absolutely correct in my opinion.
RSS does not hate Muslims or Christians. People associated with the
RSS merely think that Musilms are traitors, Muslims are communal,
Muslims are divisive as a community. But of course that does not mean,
they HATE Muslims. Hate, I think, is a particularly strong word to
define a relationship you see. For the time being, I think, I would
rather go by Karan Johar's insightful words, 'kuch rishtyon ka naam
nahi hota, woh bas hoteain hain'

Warm regards

Taha