[Reader-list] Crime and No Punishment: Malegaon Blast Accused Get a Respite

[Murali V]

Jinnah was and is responsible for the current state of affairs and I hope
you would go into  the statements of the creator of Pakistan.
Regards,
V Murali

On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 10:25 PM, Javed <javedmasoo at gmail.com> wrote:

> Dear Taha and others
> I actually don't care about RSS hating or loving any one. My main aim
> of this post was to show how our judiciary and police is so biased. On
> one hand so many Muslim youth are being arrested and killed in
> encounter deaths in the name of terrorism, but the accused of the
> Malegaon blast are relieved on flimsy grounds. I remember that even an
> investigative journalist like Praveen Swami (who keeps inventing new
> intricate modus operandi of "Indian Mujahideen" and so on) accepted in
> his rare essay that the Hindu terrorism exists and the Malegaon blast
> was just a tip of the iceberg.
>
> So, my question is: why this prejudice by the judiciary?
>
> J
>
> On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 8:40 PM, Taha
> Mehmood<2tahamehmood at googlemail.com> wrote:
> > 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
> >
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