[Reader-list] RSS worried over use of term 'Hindu terror'

[Javed]

Now that they are so worried, why don't they stop using the word
"Islamic terror".
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RSS worried over use of term 'Hindu terror'
PTI, Aug 1, 2010, 06.12pm IST

NAGPUR: A rattled RSS has voiced worries over the usage of the term
"Hindu terror" and appealed to all Hindu social and religious leaders
to work to remove the blot of a terror tag given by some to the
religion.

RSS ideologue M G alias Baburao Vaidya alleged that the term of Hindu
terror was being used to woo Muslim votes in the country in an attempt
to defame Hindus.

"The word Hindu terror has earned its place in the media and no one
knows who invented it. Though somebody gives credit to NCP president
Sharad Pawar, others say it was Congress General Secretary Digvijay
Singh who has coined the concept," Vaidya wrote in his weekly column
in a local Marathi daily.

Vaidya admitted that Abhinav Bharat and Sanatan Sanstha, a Goa based
right wing Hindu organisation, have been accused by the government of
involvement in violence and some arrests made. But, he noted that none
of the accused have been convicted by the courts till date.

Those who had earlier claimed that terrorism has nothing to do with
religion were now giving "Hindu terror" tag to the Hindu community to
justify that terrorism was not just restricted to Islam but also to
other religion (Hinduism), he said.

Vaidya called upon all religious and social leaders to take initiative
to remove the terror blot on Hindus.

"Swami Vishweshatitha of Uddipi, Dr Pandya of Gayatri Parivar, noted
Yoga Guru Baba Ramdev and Dayanand Saraswati of Coimbatore should tell
the government to take steps to ensure that Hindus are not defamed,"
he said.

"Should we call it Congress terror when 3000 Sikhs were massacred in
Delhi during 1984 when riots broke out after the assassination of
Indira Gandhi," Vaidya asked.

Vaidya's comments came agaisnt the backdrop of a leading RSS
functionary Ram Madhav's reported remarks that the RSS's image could
be "sullied" by the propaganda on Hindu terror.

The spotlight has turned to Hindu terror in the months since the 2008
Malegaon blasts.

Madhav has said that discussions are underway within the top brass of
RSS on how to come up with a "coherent response" to the charges
against Hindu groups.

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