Cynical Nerd makes a telling statement in this entry on the Varanasi bomb blasts: the secular media gets a violent orgasm only when their pet “minorities” are hurt, otherwise it’s business as usual. Which hammers home again, the point that Hindus have no human rights and Hindu places of worship are meant only to be milked for what they’re worth. When the incident–the current one for example–is too “weighty” to ignore, they write a feel-good editorial in the tone of look-we-condemned-too. Here for example, from the SpIndian Express is today’s edit.
Not a single word condemning the blasts, or the Islamic terrorist scum responsible for it, that’s right: not a single word. Imagine the same writer writing about Modi or any Hindu organizations; she’d have gone berserk….wait, she has in the past.
There is no way anyone can tell whether Modi is a normal mortal, or just a block of igneous rock… Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi has proved that he has an uncommon stomach for tragedies, other people’s tragedies, that is.
There are of course, other “articles” in the same vein, equal in ferocity. But the blasts? Think nothing of them, we’ve got used to it: a few ten/hundred/thousand Hindus getting killed is by now routine.
Which only underscores what I wrote yesterday:
We have Mir Jaffar Mulayam Singh as Chief Minister who still pampers the Fatwa Haj Minister, he of the 51-Crore-reward fame.
The “Minority” government at the Centre which actively supports shedding the blood of the infidels (they’re so many, why should we bother if a few thousand die?)
Our fellow-soldiers in India provide rock-solid defence for our Pious Deeds–make no mistake, these worthies are very powerful people.
I realize that I’d forgotten to add a–perhaps the most–crucial point: the media’s wholehearted support to Jihad of all hues: Green/Red/White (read: Missionary).
You might argue that the media hasn’t said a word favouring these acts. That’s exactly the point: silence means acquiescence.
There are exceptions like the Pioneer for example but their existence has been overwhelmed by the biggies almost all of whom are secular. Here is the Pioneer edit on the Benares bomb blast, reproduced in full.
Assault on faith
The Pioneer Edit Desk
Tuesday’s terror attack in Varanasi is of a piece with the belligerence of Islamists that is becoming increasingly frightening in the absence of any attempt by the UPA Government or its fellow ’secularists’ to crack down on those who preach and practice hatred. Ever since the Congress came to power at the head of the UPA regime, it has not only allowed a free run to rabid Muslim fundamentalists but also taken a series of retrograde measures in the guise of promoting minority welfare and protecting Muslim rights.
Cheered by its ’secular’ allies and friends, including Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mulayam Singh Yadav, the Congress embarked on its journey of unabashed minorityism by dismantling the Prevention of Terrorism Act; by doing so, it successfully sent across the message to jihadis that after six years of fightback when the BJP-led NDA was in power, India had once again become a soft target and they could kill and maim without any let or hindrance.
Subsequent actions of this regime have only reinforced the popular perception that it is not interested in carrying the war against terrorism to its logical conclusion; on the contrary, it is happy to see jihadis spread their tentacles across the length and breadth of the country in the mistaken notion that this establishes the secular credentials of the Congress and its allies.
The fallout of this dangerous policy of appeasing those who subscribe to Islamist extremism and believe in the jaundiced ideology of Osama bin Laden is there for all to see. Beginning with the audacious attack on the Ram Temple in Ayodhya last July, they have demonstrated their ability to strike at targets of their choice and at a time of their choosing. The bombings in Delhi on the eve of Diwali last year were as much aimed at creating terror in the nation’s capital as at mocking at Hindu sentiments.
Similarly, the bombings in Varanasi, especially at Sankat Mochan Temple a week before Holi, serve the dual purpose of demonstrating the might of militant Islam as well as seeking to drive fear among Hindus. In a sense, the bloodshed in Varanasi is an extension of the macabre display of Muslim rage last Friday in Lucknow and in Hyderabad a fortnight earlier. In both places, Hindus were targeted by mobs who had been allowed to gather to protest against the cartoons of Prophet Mohammad published in Jyllands-Posten, a little known Danish newspaper, and US President George Bush’s visit to India.
There have been other manifestations, too, of the recrudescence of ferocious Islamism and its attendant violence, a lighter shade of which was witnessed during the Satanic Verses and Shah Bano controversies. The terror strike at Indian Institute of Science in Bangalore and the recent blasts at Kozhikode in Kerala show that the jihadis are steadily expanding the area of their operation. The public declaration of bounty by a Minister in the Uttar Pradesh Government for any faithful who is able to murder the Danish cartoonists who lampooned the Prophet and the impunity with which the ulema have been issuing outrageous fatwa that fly in the face of the law of the land prove that the Government is not concerned.
Instead, it continues to pay lip service to the need to fight terrorism while appealing for communal amity in the face of grave provocations like the assault on Varanasi which is a living symbol of Hindu faith and India’s civilisational history. The Congress is sowing the wind for a fistful of Muslim votes; the nation shall have to reap the whirlwind and pay the price for the UPA Government’s folly.
In sharp contrast to what the secular fundamentalist Pamela Philipose says–that the incident is about “criminality” and shouldn’t be confused with “communalism.” Let it be known that this act is an attack on Hinduism: people were murdered precisely because they were infidels. If the intent was merely to create terror, the Soldiers of Allah could choose a hundred other places in Benares.
Tags: Commentary, Indian Politics, Media Watch, Pseudo Secularism Hall of Shame, Terrorism & Pakistan, Weblogs
wonderful writeup, sandeep
our oh-so-secular english media is always trying to create “secular atmosphere” in the country, where the rights of minorities would be “protected”.
if this senseless pandering is not stopped, the situation would soon become like that in Assam, where the large nos. of illegal Bangladeshis are being courted by the Congress for their votes. One can only imagine the state of the country under the “secular, peace-loving” muslims.
Is there one democratic Muslim majority country which is “secular”, where Hindus have the same rights as Muslims ? The total disregard for Hindu lives is indeed shocking. The English language media had a similar reaction over the Godhra train carnage (which the secular Lalloo is trying to prove was an accident).
God save this country whose people are utter hypocrites and practice double-standards in the garb of secularism.
[...] Sandeep lambasts the media for its ‘cautious attitude’ and its rather weak reaction towards the blasts in Varanasi. He points to the differing reactions of the broadsheet journalist, Pamela Philipose (whom he calls ’secular fundamentalist), on both the blasts in Varanasi and the riots in Gujarat [...]
50 people in Delhi, 20 in Varanasi and God knows how many more to come. The Indian Blogosphere comments on this mass murder: Die #$* Infidels!, Terrorists attack Varanasi, Caught in the cross-fire, Bomb blasts in Hindu holy city,What the Varanasi attack really is
Has it occured to you, Sandeep, that the reason the media is playing down the minority angle in the Varanasi blasts is because they don’t want the issue to flare up and Gujarat-like riots to take place all over the country? Of course, everybody knows the blasts were almost to a certainty caused by some Muslim funadamentalist group, but what do you think the chances are that if that was screamed down from the roof-tops, your Muslim neighbour would be killed at his doorstep?
Or is it that you want to see large-scale riots all over the country? Because that is certainly what would happen if it were hammered into people that look, some Muslims got into a temple and killed a lot of Hindus.
For once the media is behaving responsibly and not fanning a fire, and you accuse them of minority appeasement. And comparing this to condemning the Gujarat riots is really juvenile.
And no, the same logic does not apply, because in Gujarat, the state government had done enough to ensure that no matter how much the media ‘instigated’ them, the Muslims wouldn’t have had the courage to go on a rampage.
You say: “There are exceptions like the Pioneer for example but their existence has been overwhelmed by the biggies almost all of whom are secular.” Oh yes, they are, and proud of it too. What would you have them be?
Marauder’s Map,
So what are suggesting is covering up.
For you it is immaterial how any Hindus are killed.
Yes this is secularism.
some Muslims got into a temple and killed a lot of Hindus.
Some Muslims did get into a temple and kill a lot of hindus. that is the truth. why are you unable to handle it?
I am not unable to handle it. I am just afraid that the kind of people who go around slitting people’s throats because they belong to a certain religion may be unable to handle it, especially if the media goes around hammering it into them. Which is what you are suggesting they should do. You would call that responsible journalism, no doubt.
don’t use your paranoia, and your bigotry, as excuse for stifling truth, Marauder. Truth does not goad people to kill, falsehood does. the reaction to godhra was precisely because people were fed the falsehood that the blame for the burning of the train goes to Hindus. which enraged them instead of pacifubg them. the more falsehood you spread, the more lies you spread, the stronger the hindu reaction will be when it comes.people like you and the eng lang media are not saving anybody’s throats, in fact you are endangering them. much of the acrimony in india can be attributed to the lies spread by media, not the result of truth.
There’s a difference between gujarat riots and the varanasi blasts, we all understand that I guess.
I am assuming we all agree that the gujarat riots happened in connivance with the administration.
There’s a difference.
I don’t agree. In Gujarat riots as many as 250 Hindus were killed. This could not have happened if there was connivance with the administration. Modi govt’s police , to ‘prove’ their ’secular’ credentials, targeted Hindus indiscriminately.
A good example of govt-rioter collusion is ‘84 anti-sikh riots. Not a single police shot was fired. Army was called in after 3 days. And not a single ‘rioter’ died.
Marauder,
Thanks for dropping by to comment.
>>Has it occured to you, Sandeep, that the reason the media is playing down the minority angle in the Varanasi blasts is because they don’t want the issue to flare up and Gujarat-like riots to take place all over the country?
In turn, has it occured to you Marauder, that this same media went with its full artillery against Modi? You also need to recall the fact that not only Muslims were killed in the riots but more than 200 Hindus too. This fact is cleverly, deliberately hidden by the media. My point about the secular media rests on its hyprocrisy.
>>Because that is certainly what would happen if it were hammered into people that look, some Muslims got into a temple and killed a lot of Hindus.
Really? Till what point do you advocate keeping mum? Here’s a hypothetical situation: suppose you beat me up repeatedly at every occasion/opportunity and I take in my stride. What’d you think, obviously? That my tolerance/turning the other cheek is my weakness. If I decide at some point that I’ve had enough and begin to strike back, you’ll label me “violent,” “communal” and all the other nice things in circulation today.
This is precisely what’s happening.
I urge you earnestly to pause and reflect on the history of Hindu-Muslim encounters, pre and post independence. You can trace the genesis of each riot to provocation from Islam’s soldiers. Right from Swami Dayananda Saraswathi who was thrown into the river to the Moplah rebellion to the Partition riots to “communal clashes” in a little-known town called Sidhpur in Gujarat in the ’70s over a temple dispute to the Parliament attack to the present bomb blast, every instance of violence from the Hindu end has only been a consequence of Muslim provocation. You might argue violence isn’t the recourse and I agree. But when almost the entire government machinery stands behind the perpetrators of such acts, what is one to do? Observe the reaction of the government post the Parliament attack. Full of (an idiot’s) sound and fury signifying nothing.
Returning to the media show me one responsible coverage that has in the past 20+ years highlighted the plight of Kashmiri pandits? Or the plight of Hindus in Pakistan and Bangladesh who’ve been physically reduced to a minority? The local papers there on the other hand, aren’t I’m sure, bothered about concepts like “secularism” and minority rights.
>>because in Gujarat, the state government had done enough to ensure that no matter how much the media ‘instigated’ them, the Muslims wouldn’t have had the courage to go on a rampage.
So do you mean to imply that if the state government hadn’t “done enough,” Muslims would’ve surely gone on a rampage? Applying this logic to the Hindu side is condemned as “communal” and “fascist.”
>>For once the media is behaving responsibly and not fanning a fire..
Which means you agree that the media has fanned fires earlier? Ayodhya, Modi, etc. Right. You probably, inadvertently summed up the essence of the Indian media. Fan fires when it suits them eh?
>>I am just afraid that the kind of people who go around slitting people’s throats because they belong to a certain religion may be unable to handle it, especially if the media goes around hammering it into them. Which is what you are suggesting they should do.
Indeed. Let’s forget that it was the terrorists who murdered people and hail the media for asking all of us to voluntarily blindfold ourselves and pretend that reality would go away if we closed our eyes. Right. Responsible journalism.
In parting I’d refer you to the reaction of the US after 9/11. The Congress unanimously okayed Bush to go after Bin Laden for they know the value of a nation’s security/soverignity. And contrast the reaction of the worthies I wrote about in my previous post on this issue: hell, they claim it was the BJP’s handiwork! And the media instead of condemning such blatant nonsense decides to keep mum. The nation’s soverignity is at stake but they prefer to look the other way because it’s after all Hindus who were killed.
Excellent response Sandeep. Brilliant.
People like Marauder belong to he fashionable-liberal-elitist-arm-chair jholawalas who have all the sermons reserved for Hindus.
On a side note, not a single so called ’secular’ guy has come out against this crime. Aurndati Roy, the poster girl of secularism is hiding somewhere in kerela. Shabana Azmi and Teesta are obviously not to be seen. Kuldeep Nayar is in deep slumber Praful Bidwai is more worried about Iran. And i am sure Saeed Naqvi must be contemplating another fiction to back some up his thoery that BJP was behind the crime.
B.Raman says we will be playing in hands of terrorists if we oppose. Ya right!. The muslims are so sensitive and touchy that we cannot even protest now.
Even before the blood of the dead has dried,Outlook and NDTV have started playing dirty politics - implying in their very first report that BJP is making “political capital” of this tragedy.
Unbelievable. And to think that most of them were born Hindus. What an array of unbelievably shallow pathetic individuals. Lowly scums.
Parimal,
You’re truly a communal scum. What’d India be without this galaxy of secularists? Shame on you for supporting the retrograde fundamentalists.
But thanks. Your observations are spot on. None of your lowly scums have any ideology except money.
Wait a second. The ways you guys are going on about the media ’supressing the truth’ and ‘keeping mum’, it would seem like the bomb blasts themselves have been brushed under the carpet! Whereas, for the last three days, it’s got front page coverage in all national dailies! Only thing is, they are not highlighting the obvious fact that Muslim terrorists were responsible (and even this fact is not being supressed, the killing of the man supposed to be thought froma terrorist organisation was widely reported). Are you telling me the nation is unaware of which broad group was responsible for this, that they think Martians did it or something?
Parimal: BJP IS making political capital out of this story. As Congress would have done. As all political parties do. When a tragedy strikes, it’s not about how we can get together and save the day, it’s always about how we can blame the government. That’s the sad truth about politics, anywhere.
As for celebrities not jumping into the fray, what would you have them do, for heaven’s sake? GO after terrorists with a gun? Or appeal to their better nature, which obviously does not exist? Here you are making the logical fallacy of equating a terrorist act with a human tragedy like rioting, which involves the common man on the street.
Anyway, I withdraw from this debate. You can very well continue your self-congratulatory discussion without a secularist, liberal jholawala, I think. Good day, and good luck.
Marauder
You and secular media will hold some credibility if it judged all the incidents with same criteria.
As it is you don’t
physical security in public places - the media is gunning at the wrong issues. And after all this, they innocuously wonder if they are under attack from the ‘establishment’. Well, they are certainly underattack from the Army of Davids , well we don’t have the size yet, but we are hopeful of getting there.
Sandeep are you seriously comparing Varanasi’s terorrists with Modi, saying they are equals? Modi was our man - and he betrayed us. He is responsible for the killing of 2,000 Indians in Gujarat. Modi used his fascism in democratic politics. The terorrists are misguided enemies; Modi is a guided missile of hatred, and it’s of our own making.
The Marauder’s Map, you are afraid that if media writes about muslim fundamentalists role in varanasi blasts, there would be riots. Then why did the media write about danish cartoons, which also resulted in riots in lucknow and varanasi? Shouldn’t they have behaved responsibly then, and refrained from writing about those cartoons?
Shivam Vij, guess in whose mind is hatred really? Modi was elected with an overwhleming majority after the voters were consistently fed the propaganda that Modi is a Nazi.
Second, terrorists are not misgudided enemies. The choice of your words reveals your own prejudice. They are very much guided enemies. One ‘guide’ they have is their own scripture, which rewards them for killing the infidels. Which is why they are targeting temples. eventhough targeting mosques would even more easily accomplish their alleged objective of fomenting communal tensions.
It is these terrorists who are of our own making. We have fomented a climate in which to talk of terrorism as “misgudedness” or as reaction to “injustice” is not only fashionable, but opposition to such talk is shouted down as ‘hate’ and ‘communalism’. No wonder the terrorsits are feeling emboldened.
To Shivam Vij
The terorrists are misguided enemies
Sure misguided people who slit babies throats. how do we guide them? Let us negotiate with them. Maybe they do not have opportunities. Let us give them some.-Reserve seats for the minorities so that people do not become terrorists.
Do they feel that their religion is under siege?
Let us keep them under retrograde laws so that fatwas are issued by mullahs that are more appropriate in the 7th century.
There are more problems - our foreign policy - we are getting close to US that has invaded Iraq and afghanistan. This has antagonised many misguided people. Let us tailor our foreign policy to pacify these misguided people. Damn the nations interests. Let us go back to talking about Palestine, Anti -US etc. This should pacify the misguided people.
Maybe the lucknow riots could be prevented if the Hindus had shut down their shops in protest. But you see they are fascist and fundamentalist.
I ead in your blog about the Shiva phallus and how the entire secular order will be displaced just because an RSS type did not agree with your world view.
Long live Secularism. Modi should be damned for all genrations to come. The congress has apologized for 1984 massacre of Sikhs. So they should be absolved.
By now if the sarcasm button on your browser is not flashing, please ignore this post. I agree with your world view.
I read Pamela’s editorial but haven’t been able to access the other links that you posted. (I hate the Indian Express web site - it is the worst of the bunch). All the newspapers that I saw carried a condemnation in their edits, so I am not sure how you determined that the “media” did not condemn the blasts. If it is using Cynical Nerd’s link taken at a “snapshot” in time, then the criteria for deciding that the “media” did not condemn the blasts is flawed.
The difference between the Pioneer edit and the other edits is that the other “media” have not chosen to play up the Muslim link although all news reports reported factually correct information regarding the killing of the Lakshar terrorists.
I just don’t see how you can defend “silence means acquiescence”. Are you issuing a statement in your blog for every rape and killing? I did not see a condemnation of rape in this article. Does that mean you support rapes?
Let it be known that this act is an attack on Hinduism: people were murdered precisely because they were infidels. If the intent was merely to create terror, the Soldiers of Allah could choose a hundred other places in Benares.
This attack was an attack on Indians - innocent women and children that should not go unpunished. Our nation is built on a simple, yet lofty idea - that people of different religions, languages and cultures can live together peacefully in a democratic country with respect for each other. The moment this idea fails, India fails as a nation. So the people were murdered not because they were infidels, but ,because they could count on certain people to turn communal and incite the Hindus to riot, killing the Muslims. In that one respect, there is no better place than Benares.
Looks like DRam did a transmigration of his soul, entered into the minds of Islamic terrorists, and deduced that they did not want to target ‘infidels’, but only ‘Indians’. How is he so sure? Is he so chummy with Lashkar that he knows their terrorist cadre like the back of his palm?
Why does truth induce severe palpitations in DRam’s knee? If terrorists wanted to incite communal riots, bombing a mosque is the easiest way out. Riots are bound to follow. But they didn’t choose that route. Look at the ant-cartoon fracas. If cartoons published in Denmark could lead to the killing of Hindus by ‘protesters’ in Lucknow, imagine the bloodbath that will follow if a Muslim place of worship is targeted in India. Yet, knowing fully well as to what would give maximum bang for their buck, terrorsits bombed a temple and they killed Hindus. Why? Horror of horrors: Could the terrorists have a soft corner for Muslims and mosques? Could that be because the terrorsits are Muslims? Worse yet: Could that be because according to the terrorists’ doctrine, killing a practising Muslim is sinful whereas killing practising infidels fetches rewards, inclduing 72 houris and “boys like pearls”? Oh wait. DRam is gonna tell us, with his intimate knolwedge of the Lashkar mindset, that no, these poor terrorist vermin don’t really believe that they get those houris:, they are only fighting for freedom; 72 houris is all just Hindu-Zionist propaganda, right?
Why do these hard questions make the likes of DRam very uncomfortable?
By the way, the simple idea that our wonderful nation is built on all religions coexisting peacefully is working for the most part. Hindus, Jains, Sikhs, Buddhists and Parsis ARE living peacefully with each other. But Muslims are fighting Buddhists in Ladakh!!
If terrorists wanted to incite communal riots, bombing a mosque is the easiest way out.
How would you know? It appears to me you have “transmigrated” your soul with that of the Lashkar cadre. So that is why the BD/RSS/VHP targetted the Babri Masjid.
If cartoons published in Denmark could lead to the killing of Hindus by ‘protesters’ in Lucknow, imagine the bloodbath that will follow if a Muslim place of worship is targeted in India
If Modi was denied Visa why was a Pepsi warehouse burnt?
But what “bloodbath” followed the destruction of Babri Masjid? By your token, we should have seen a lot more casualities.. on the ratio of the Gujarat riots - 200 Hindus to 800(?) Muslims all over the country. But that did not happen.
When the “media” reports that the LeT was behind the bombing, I scarcely think they are referring to some misguided “Hindu” fundamentalists.
Yet, knowing fully well as to what would give maximum bang for their buck, terrorsits bombed a temple and they killed Hindus.
I think you are contradicting yourself here. The “maximum bang for their buck” is achieved when the terrorists have managed to get both Hindus and Muslim communities to riot and turn on each other, not when they just kill members of their rival community.
DRam is gonna tell us, with his intimate knolwedge of the Lashkar mindset, that no, these poor terrorist vermin don’t really believe that they get those houris:, they are only fighting for freedom; 72 houris is all just Hindu-Zionist propaganda, right?
Nope you just did. After all, you seem to know “why” they bombed the temple.
Why do these hard questions make the likes of DRam very uncomfortable?
“Hard” questions? No “hardly” questions.
Hindus, Jains, Sikhs, Buddhists and Parsis ARE living peacefully with each other. But Muslims are fighting Buddhists in Ladakh!!
After the Hindus burnt the Sikhs in the 1984 riots, they started living with them “peacefully”. And the Buddhists are fighting the Hindus in Sri Lanka and the Muslims in Thailand.
DRam,
“I think you are contradicting yourself here. The “maximum bang for their buck” is achieved when the terrorists have managed to get both Hindus and Muslim communities to riot and turn on each other, not when they just kill members of their rival community.”
Communal incitement is a secondary object, primary object is to dispatch infidels to the maker.
“After the Hindus burnt the Sikhs in the 1984 riots, they started living with them “peacefully”. And the Buddhists are fighting the Hindus in Sri Lanka and the Muslims in Thailand. ”
1984 riots were handiwork of Secular “Congress”, Hindu “BJP” saved sikhs.
Srilanka conflict is an ethnic conflict not a religious one.
In thailand it is Muslims who are killing buddhists, buddhists are just defending themselves.
“If Modi was denied Visa why was a Pepsi warehouse burnt? ”
Last time I checked Modi was not from Denmark, I have yet to see Hindus rioting and killing for Denmark.
How would you know? It appears to me you have “transmigrated” your soul with that of the Lashkar cadre
How do I know!? Do you read? Did you read what I wrote? Actually you don’t even need to read what I wrote. Commonsense and a knowledge of current affairs will do.
For instance: several temples were destroyed in J&K. No serious consequences. Security forces surrounded Hazratbal to flsuh out terroritsts: protests all over India.
Babri mosque: a defunct structure being used in fact as a temple. Destroyed. Riots and killings all over India.
Somewhere somebody paints prophet “offensively”. Riots and killing in India.
If Modi was denied Visa why was a Pepsi warehouse burnt?
Indians protesting against American action against an Indian. I don’t necessarily agree with the manner of protest, but what have Danish cartoonists got to do with India? And why are Hindus being killed in “protest” against Danish cartoons?
But what “bloodbath” followed the destruction of Babri Masjid? By your token, we should have seen a lot more casualities.. on the ratio of the Gujarat riots - 200 Hindus to 800(?) Muslims all over the country. But that did not happen.
What are you smoking friend? Every incidence of communal trouble in India is blamed on that destruction of Babri masjid by your pals the Marxist-Islamist mediawallas. Ask them, don’t rely on my word.
The “maximum bang for their buck” is achieved when the terrorists have managed to get both Hindus and Muslim communities to riot and turn on each other, not when they just kill members of their rival community
Precisely, which is what they achieve when they enrage the Muslim faithful; not the Hindus. Look at the reactoin to cartoons published in Denmark. Muslims in India riot and kill!
“Hard” questions? No “hardly” questions.
Supposed to be a smart comeback, I guess.
After the Hindus burnt the Sikhs in the 1984 riots, they started living with them “peacefully”.
No, no, no, the very secular congress workers, who are a big friend of Muslims, killed Sikhs. Incidentally, the media is a big friend of this sikh-killing congress party too.
And the Buddhists are fighting the Hindus in Sri Lanka
nonsense
And who are the muslims living peacefully with in which part of the world?
“the secular media gets a violent orgasm only when their pet “minorities” are hurt, otherwise it’s business as usual”
Probably because the majority has it’s own voice.
here. A brief post by Nitin. A must read by Greatbong, and when I say must it means must. Expectedly usual bunch of secularists are either silent or coming up with this. Another Update: Sandeep hasexpressed his frustation with the “secular media”. The priest of secularism has spoken. The message, “While India needs to take all possible steps to hunt down the terrorists and to secure our people, we must understand the likely nature of these provocations and not create an excuse for
I agree.
There is a tendency in English Media to play down violence against the Hindu Majority.
However, as a card carrying member of the English Media, and having been involved peripherally in the television coverage of the event, let me rise to my channel’s defence.
We said very clearly on CNN IBN
#1
Islamic Terrorists were responsible for the attack based on initial reports.
#2
It was an attack at the very heart of Hinduism
#3
According to the government, the Lashkar E Tayyabba were responsible
#4
The need of the hour is that peace and calm be maintained … and we drove this point home repeatedly.
#5
The attack needs to be condemned by everybody … (and then we went and found people from all religions … and especially Muslim leaders)
#6
Various people were asked pointed questions about support for Islamic terrorism (like the Hurriyat, who incidentally condemned the attack)
#7
Appeasement as a policy was addressed both in stories and in various studio chats.
But through it all … we did not paint a bullseye on every Muslim in the country … and unfortunately, I am left with the feeling that that is exactly what you would have wanted us to do.
Here’s the difference between Gujarat and Varanasi:
Varanasi was a planned attack by a group of terrorists.
Gujarat — it all started with a horrible tragedy: people dying in a burning train. What made it worse was the government’s role is saying the town’s muslims were reponsible for the attacks. They did this without ANY proof. And then made it worse by fanning hatred.
And maybe you will find it in you to hate the act of fanning hatred as much as you do appeasement. They are two sides of the same coin.