The recommendation of the Justice Ranganath Mishra Committee set up to a vicious agenda to evaluate the requirement for reservation on the basis of religious belief, has shocked the whole nation when it came with the idea for providing 15% reservation to minorities, amidst which 10% to be given to Muslims and 5% to other religious minorities groups, in both Union and State recruitments. If that was not all, the Committee has further recommended that people irrespective of their religious belief should be given Scheduled Casts/Tribes/OBC status, that means, if the Report is implemented, we’ll soon find a double benefit for minorities (read Muslims and Christians) while applying for a Government Job. First, they will apply through their quota being SC/ST/OBC and if that is not enough they will find themselves through by virtue of the proposed quota of 15%.
There has not been a single editorial in newspapers against such recommendation which thoroughly against the spirit of the Indian Constitution. The quantum of silence maintained by the media is easily understood as everyone has a vested interest either in terms of money in form of advertisement or power in form of influence. But why we, Hindus, are keeping mum? Have we become so coward that we say a wrong a wrong? Is not our inertia making ourselves more vulnerable day by day? We lit thousands candles in the street to commemorate the murder of our friends and families but why cant we throw away those people who are responsible for such murders in the same candle inferno?
The recommendation of the Justice Ranganath Mishra Committee set up to a vicious agenda to evaluate the requirement for reservation on the basis of religious belief, has shocked the whole nation when it came with the idea for providing 15% reservation to minorities, amidst which 10% to be given to Muslims and 5% to other religious minorities groups, in both Union and State recruitments. If that was not all, the Committee has further recommended that people irrespective of their religious belief should be given Scheduled Casts/Tribes/OBC status, that means, if the Report is implemented, we’ll soon find a double benefit for minorities (read Muslims and Christians) while applying for a Government Job. First, they will apply through their quota being SC/ST/OBC and if that is not enough they will find themselves through by virtue of the proposed quota of 15%.
There has not been a single editorial in newspapers against such recommendation which thoroughly against the spirit of the Indian Constitution. The quantum of silence maintained by the media is easily understood as everyone has a vested interest either in terms of money in form of advertisement or power in form of influence. But why we, Hindus, are keeping mum? Have we become so coward that we say a wrong a wrong? Is not our inertia making ourselves more vulnerable day by day? We lit thousands candles in the street to commemorate the murder of our friends and families but why cant we throw away those people who are responsible for such murders in the same candle inferno?
There is no denial of the fact that we are emotional and that often make us to overreact on things – be it loosing a cricket match or loosing our relatives in a bomb blast. The next day we out rightly criticize our political system and people who run it on and off the media and demand for a change but the very next day we go back to our usual life forgetting everything and convinced that nothing will happen again just to be proved wrong.
There are thousand reasons to blame U.S of A for promoting and nurturing terrorism at one point of time but it is also a fact that the action U.S of A initiated against the terrorism, since it was struck on 09/11/2001 on its own soil which cost them only 3000 human lives, has resulted no occurrence of terror act on its home soil. Whereas, we, Indians, have been the worst receiver of organized and state sponsored terrorism and already lost more than 1 million people but still our Government has done nothing to forcibly uproot the menace except lip service.
The leaders are scared if they initiate any concrete action against terrorism that would unearth some embarrassing questions. It is a fact that most of the terrorists belong to a particular community namely Muslim. Our leaders may teach us a lesson that no religion preaches terrorism but study of Islam establishes that it promotes terrorism. We, Hindus, never approach our leaders to explain us the meaning of jihad and kafeir or the difference between dar-ul-habab and dar-ul-Islam. Once confronted with such odd questions we console ourselves that only the uneducated Muslim youths are attracted to terrorism forgetting the worlds most wanted criminals Bil Laden and Md. Atta were civil engineers. It is true that un education is a major problem in Muslim society but that is only half truth if we don’t consider that a major chunk of Muslims still prefer Islamic education than main stream education and that too only for their male children as education for women is barred in Shariyat Law.
In Shah Bano case in 1985, the Supreme Court judgment was reversed by the then Govt. to appease the Muslim community. And the saga did not end there, only a few months back, the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of India passed a judgment certifying nude portrait of the Hindu goddess Saraswati made by M. F. Hussain as a work of art. The Chief Justice did not even bothered to think how on earth Hussain got such a perverted idea of portraying the goddess is such a way whereas in every single sloka dedicated to Devi Saraswati she is all white dressed. This was not the first time Hussain did so, earlier he also portrayed Bharat Mata having intercourse with the lion. The so called connoisseur of art Hussain never dare to portray a image of Muhammad as he knows what would be his fate once he does that but our Hindu Chief Justice was incapable to understand or deliberately passed the judgment hurting the sentiments of millions of Hindus only because Hindus are soft target and they don’t react. With due respect to the chair, I challenge Mr. Balakrishnan to send his wife to M. F. Hussain for another piece of “art” and let that portrait be displayed in a public gallery so that we people may also enjoy the real art.
The credibility of the judiciary went further lower in eyes of the Hindus when on 16/11/2009 a Division Bench of the Calcutta High Court comprising Justice Pinaki Chandra Ghosh Justice S. P. Talukdar (both namely Hindus) validated the marriage of a minor Hindu girl Anita Roy who fled with a Muslim boy Sairul Sheikh and later for married after converting to Islam without the consent of her parents. The Court observed that in spite of the minor age of the bride, the marriage was legal under Muslim Personal Law. The stupendous judgment was music to the ear of the Muslim youth and a severe blow to the parents of girl. Being, myself, a student of law, I can not refrain myself from asking that the marriage could be valid under Muslim Personal Law once the girl is converted to Islam but what made the Court not to take into cognizance the fact that the conversion, of the minor girl, itself was done without the consent of her parents and that is totally illegal and even un-Islamic. Islamic scholar Dr Syed Ali Tawfik Al-Attas on 12/06/2009 in an interview to The Star Online said that “converting a child to Islam is actually forcing him to accept the burden of responsibility, while Allah did not command such a burden be placed on the child who had not reached the age of maturity”. He further added that “a child not reached umur baligh (age of maturity) cannot be burdened with the responsibility of accepting something he does not understand as his faculties of reason are still immature. Therefore, it is unreasonable to say that one can simply convert a child”.
I do not think Hon’ble Judges of the Division Bench was not aware of this fact but rather they were very much of the mindset that quashing the anticipatory bail plea of Sairul Sheikh, as done by the Berhampore court, would put them with a so called communal tag which may cost them at time of promotion. That is why they simply passed the judgment and legalize the marriage forgetting the observation made by the Hon’ble Division Bench, comprising Justice M. P. Thakkar and Justice B. C. Ray of the Supreme Court in the Collector, Land Acquisition, Anantnag versus Mst. Katiji and others. They Bench observed – “…….it must be grasped that judiciary is respected not on account of its power to legalize injustice on technical grounds but because it is capable of removing injustice and is expected to do so.” Now, can the Hon’ble Juctice of the Calcutta High Court claim they did justice to the parents of the girl and could they do the same thing had girl been from a Muslim family and the boy from a Hindu one? And, mostly, what would they do had that happen to their own girl child? Should they sit back and utter legal rhetoric?
Dear Hindus, the time has come when we should come out of hibernation otherwise it will be too late. Remember, we have got no oversees savior like Muslims and Christians have. If, we are to survive, we have to survive at our own strength. The RSS and its so called parivaar, which, once, we believed to be a genuine Hindu organization has cheated us and played with our sentiments in its effort to grab power. The dream of parampujya Dr. Hedgewar, the founder of RSS, has been let loose by the present RSS leadership who are desperate to help BJP which feels shame to be known to be a Hindu party. The drama and high peach dialogue by RSS leaders at a convention at Rajgir and change of baton in BJP central leadership in New Delhi are mere display of symbolic action so that the cadres of the organization can be fooled for a further period of time. They did the same when Vajpayee was the Prime Minister. They shifted all the blame to him and claimed everything would be as per plan once Advani swear in. The lie did not last long and thanx to the Jinnah episode Advani lost his chair only to be restored again. Now, this new drama of change in leadership has started and they are so busy with it that they can not even spare some time to speak for Hindus whose rights are being planed to be curtailed every time at each corner of the nation. So, my friends, we can not afford any more waste of time. Its now or never. We must stand and blow the killer punch to every attack on our identity. Forget what the law says, forget what the leaders say….do what your conscience says. Remember, the judgment of the Mr. Balakrishnan and the Calcutta High Court Division Bench has proved that even judiciary is vulnerable to the mighty force of Islam. Lets take a oath in the name of Bharat Mata that we will not tolerate any further abuse of our culture and nationality and people found guilty for it should be sent for an appointment to their respective Gods and the onus will be on their Gods whether to show mercy or not.
