The Hollow Din of Muslim Victimhood
Thursday, 22. January 2009 - 12:09 PM
A friend forwarded this news report about a blind Muslim techie (notice the words: blind, Muslim) unable to get a house for rent in Calcutta’s middle class localities. A well-meaning secularist, he qualified his email with death-knellish terms such as “increasing ghettoization,” “communal divide,” “marginalization,” “segregation,” “unfair discrimination,” “anti-Muslim prejudice,” etc.
Mohammed Asif Iqbal, 32, is a braveheart. The visually impaired youth from College Street has battled the odds to make it as an information technology (IT) consultant with a multinational company in Sector V and be hailed as a role model by former President A.P.J. Abdul Kalam.
But there is one battle that even Asif cannot win — that against the growing prejudice against his community in the so-called cultural capital of the country.
When he went house-hunting in Salt Lake this month, he was denied accommodation just because he was a Muslim. Deeply disturbed by the communal profiling and discrimination he faced, Mohammed Asif Iqbal poured his heart out to Metro…
Isn’t this a familiar story? Recall Shabana Azmi’s similar but fierce outpouring a few months ago? With some justification, all right-minded Indians are up to their proverbial neck with this constant hollering that Indian Muslims are persecuted. This blog’s archives contain plentiful material to show why this din is akin to shouting at the top of your lungs in an empty well.
This din would have some chances of being credible only if the Muslim community looks within and embarks on urgent reform. Each time there’s a terror attack, the entire Muslim community doesn’t issue an unqualified condemnation. I won’t even go into the standard secular response. Instead, some Imams and Mullahs and assorted leaders say the “attacks are “un-Islamic.” This is a bit of contradiction. Allah’s soliders a.k.a terrorists swear by Allah and the Prophet and Islam before (and after) every attack. There’s no doubting their religious honesty. When you show this to the “un-Islamic” proponents, their standard response is ready: the terrorists follow an extremist version of Islam. Which means their version of Islam is incorrect. In which case, why should these selfsame Imams take to violence when Taslima writes what they perceive as “insulting?” Is this their definition of “peaceful version of Islam?”
More importantly, when decent-looking, seemingly-middle class Muslims have taken places for rent and later went out and bombed our cities, what message does it send to the owners of those places? When this happens on an average of once every six weeks in a span of two years, God-fearing, law-abiding house owners will certainly resort to the said profiling. The question whether this kind of profiling is right or wrong takes a secondary place here: no amount of logical argument or goody-goody communal harmony preaching will eliminate fear, which is at the root of such “profiling.” The onus of eradicating this fear lies with the Muslim community.
Isn’t it funny how our media highlights these sob stories (with utmost respect to the “victims” of profiling) but carries nary a story on the plight of the hundreds of Hindus who’ve been bombed out of existence or permanently handicapped?
22. January 2009 - 2:49 PM
The news report claims:
>>But there is one battle that even Asif cannot win — that against the growing prejudice against his community in the so-called cultural capital of the country.
To make a claim like this without evidence is actually an act of prejudice and verbal violence against the community that the author of the report does not name: Hindus. This bigot is claiming that this person called Asif could not rent a house in a Hindu neighborhood because the evil Hindus were prejudiced against hapless Muslims. Does he have any evidence to show that the Hindus acted out of prejudice?
22. January 2009 - 3:13 PM
This must mean you endorse Moslems blowing this third world nation up. I agree.
22. January 2009 - 3:49 PM
I guess we must accept the fact that there is a problem with communal profiling, and thats surely not good. Its not good for India, which means its not good for me and its not good for you.
And its really not a problem which only the majority can solve, it has to start the minority community. Most of the world think of nazism when we think of germany. Not because the whole world has a contorted view of germany, its because of what the germans did. Like wise yes a profiling has started against the muslim community but that can be stopped only when an effort is started by the community, then i guess the world will follow.
22. January 2009 - 5:32 PM
>>>> in the so-called cultural capital of the country.
I wonder if Kolkata is still the cultural capital after all these years of Bangladeshi terrorist infiltration and Communist/Marxist rule
22. January 2009 - 6:35 PM
On the uissue of renting out to the M, why doesnt the cult(ural) kapital’s breeding heart fib-erals rent to the desi M?? Are they only renting to the holy M from across the border? Like rent-a-voting-mujahid?
BTW, not sure if anyone wants to rent Zohail, except Sandeep of course
22. January 2009 - 6:41 PM
NOTE :
I am not a “pseudo-secularist”, so I am speaking out honestly.
I assume the author of the original mail talks about a true incident. (not Sandeep, the original author of the mail)
I feel it is sad that somebody is not getting an apartment because he is from a particular religion. If I were at his place I would have felt equally frustrated. Now, my question to the media who is projecting all such issues is “Is it happening with all religions (minorities- Sikhs, Parsis etc)? or is it happening with only a particular religion?”. If it is happening with only one religion “Why is that?”.
To all Pseudo-Secularist,
You might be neglecting facts because of your business or political interests. But don’t expect the same from common people.
Whether you admit or not, knowingly or unknowingly all of us use the ‘principles of statistics’ at every point of decision making in our life.
Even if you are a casual reader of news papers, you might have noticed many of the recent incidents in which Muslim youths were named
in connection with extremist movements. It doesn’t mean that all Muslim youths are extremist. But people tend to link the religion with
the behavior of some of its believers. People tend to be defensive thinking “Why to take risk?”. To add fuel to the fire, the main stream
Muslim community didn’t come up to send a strong message to the extremist elements. I would like to cite a small example of Jamia Nagar
(Delhi) encounter.
1) The police sources reported that 2 of the suspects managed to escape into the crowd while the police officers were performing the
search/encounter operation. Why didn’t the crowd grabbed them and helped the police? Does it mean that they don’t believe in police,
criminal justice system and ultimate in the democratic government?
2) The crowd were openly protesting at the encounter spot claiming that the students are innocent. Is that not sending a wrong message to
the people? I don’t think police officers will just go and shoot whomever they dislike. If at all they do something like that will they
be spared by the system?
3) There was an inspector who lost his life, still there were cooked up stories from different quarters saying that it was a false encounter.
Definitely anything can happen in your imagination but all those wont work in real life.
I am not saying that all other religions are free from extremism, but always think about the scale. Let’s accept facts and truth rather than closing our eyes (for whatever reasons it may be). I believe, one wont be able to correct himself unless he realize the mistake. Dare to discuss plain facts rather than pushing things aside. I do have good friends who are Muslims and I never felt that they are extremists. But considering the facts, I am tend to believe that there is something which links Islam and extremism. And as far as they are not made to realize that they wont be able to get rid of that. And this is the point why I hate pseudo-secular politicians who blindly neglect facts for their political benefit.
22. January 2009 - 8:23 PM
Here is a very good reason, not to rent to muslims
First step,
muslim rents or buys a house in a hindu neighborhood
Soon he starts halaling goats and cows
Next, members of the crime mafia move in
Next, illegal bangladeshis move in
Next, ISI agents move in
Hindu women get eve teased and kidnapped by muslim
No go zones start
Hindu processions get stoned
Next as numbers increase, muslims go on riot over
Danish cartoons and kill some kafir hindus
Oh and dont forget 1946 Direct Action Day in Kolkata
by these so peaceful muslims
Soon hindus move away
Thats how every muslim ghetto is formed
and if you dont want a muslim ghetto in your neighborhood,
it is safer not to rent to muslims
BTW, hindus are not able to rent in muslim areas too
Now thanks to excessive evangelism, hindus are not renting to
xtians too
So in ultra-liberal, ultra-commie, ultra-secular Kolkata
all these Left front hindus are really BJP inside
Now what will it take to get them to actually vote for BJP
23. January 2009 - 1:54 AM
You’re right on Subramaniam, except you forgot the part where they move into your neighbourhood, multiply like rats (bedroom Jihad), plant mosques that ruin peace by screaming out five times a day to a fictional god, and also mad-rassas. That means each day their kids get a good brainwashing against infidels and they come and steal and rob from Hindus, cos ofcourse they live and behave like rats, feeding off of others, since they are too busy to work in honorable jobs, and even if they wanted to they wouldn’t have the skills, as the only thing they learned in the madrassa was to memorize the war manual and hate infidels.
23. January 2009 - 1:58 AM
And to top it off, the Congress, besides reserving seats in universities for the “minorities” now recognizes the madrassa certificates as being equal to the CBSE!!!!
Here is the story.
23. January 2009 - 2:40 AM
Calcutta is no exception.. this has started happening in Surat too.. Shantanu’s blog had a commenter about this.
We can only cross our fingers that such events prompt both Muslims and Christians (referring to Subramaniam’s post) to reform their outlook. However pandering to the ills of these two communities by media and politicians will only make matters worse.
23. January 2009 - 4:05 AM
I am puzzled. Doesn’t Kolkata have any muslim localities? Why didn’t Asif think to try and get accomodation in a Muslim neighborhood? Or is it that he didn’t want to live an overcrowded muslim locality?
At the very least I am guessing he didn’t want to rent in a posh locality, which probably don’t discriminate based on religion but do have association rules against parading his identity and trying to foist his belief on his neighbours!
23. January 2009 - 10:47 AM
Old stuff. They’ve been playing this “victim” role for a long time.
A personal request to Sandeep, could he write a coherent and logical series of articles about what should be our (as in “Hindus”) attitudes towards a religion like Islam ?
So far, the responses I’ve seen from people include one of the following:
a. Gandhian approach 1: Islam is a young religion (1400 years!!): Let them continue, they’ll eventually come around.
b. Gandhian approach 2: We must convert the Muslims by love. We must give them whatever they want (including our homes, our nation etc), let the flag of Islam replace our constitution, they’ll see our heart and let us (whatever is left) live in peace eventually.
c. Well meaning secular approach: Islam is a religion just like Hinduism. Now I don’t know what’s written in their book, but surely, since all religions are peaceful and essentially preach the same stuff. I prefer to look the other way when confronted with all that is happening now and all that has happened in the past.
d. Sickular/commie approach: Islam is secular. Hinduism is communal. Islam can do no wrong. Hindus are to blame for every evil in this world. Now don’t be a naughty communalist. You know those blasts and killings never happen. Here, read this (insert: Das Kapital/Arundhati Roy’s latest fecal deposit etc) and soon you’ll see things the way I do.
Any others you can think of ?
(Would like to know your e-mail id. You can mail me if you so wish).
23. January 2009 - 10:57 AM
“This must mean you endorse Moslems blowing this third world nation up. I agree.”
I too have denied entry into a management institute just because of my radical views. Now I have the sanction to blow up the entire community of the upper caste interviewer.
23. January 2009 - 11:57 AM
A little more on this…
I read the Telegraph article. It seems to me that some of these Hindus were actualy apologetic about this and tried to shift the blame on “neighbours will not like it” etc.
It shows us what a bunch of pathetic cowards we Hindus are.
These bourgeouse (sorry for the Commie term) Hindu landlords should clarify their own stance against Islam and so-called secularism.
Our meekness and the fact that no one speaks out against Islam is the reason why we are butchered.
1000 years of history still haven’t taught us how to protect ourselves. We deserve whatever is happening to us.
23. January 2009 - 1:40 PM
Anon:
“Now I have the sanction to blow up the entire community of the upper caste interviewer.”
I guess you will now embark on a ‘fact-finding’ journey to show that upper-castes engaged in the same sort of violence as Islam over a thousand years and converted many of your caste forcibly to the ‘upper-castes’ (cant stop laughing!).
23. January 2009 - 7:04 PM
Kedar, you too have sanction to blow up an entire community, if you were aggrieved at any stage of your life. You are welcome to join the club!!!
The only condition is you have to proclaim your victim status.
23. January 2009 - 9:02 PM
There is another class of victimhood, called “victimhood by proxy”. This type of victimhood is claimed by commies. They become more Muslim than the Muslim himself, and bleat on and on endlessly about Muslim victimhood. The reason commies resort to proxy victimhood is slightly complicated:
1) they need to claim victimhood to commit aggression
2) but they are on shaky ground to claim it for themselves, what with the victimization their own bloodthirstiness perpetrated being a matter of historical record
3) and also because they are reduced to a fringe, incapable of killing and intimidating on a large scale all by themselves
4) so they borrow Muslim victimhood to go on the offensive.
23. January 2009 - 10:49 PM
Muslims see hindus as kafirs, as evil, as genocidal (when hindus themselves are the victims, in reality), they see us as people whose culture needs to be wiped out. They see Awrangzeb and Babur as heroes. Akbar, who raped and killed a little less in his old age, is a great “secularist”.
We will not put up with this kind of murderous, delusional behaviour anymore. If muslims see this as a part of a growing anti-muslim feeling, they should know:
Yes, it is. Get used to it. You cannot run around spreading hatred for Hindus is every which way, you cannot worship mass murderers of Hindus, and still bleat to be treated as equals. Every damn muslim around the worled counts how many muslims are being mistreated. No matter a thousand fold more Hindus get mistreated. No. Only muslims matter.
If the fruits of the tree you have sown are bitter, you should have thought twice before sowing the damn tree, no?
Go back to your Hindu roots. Become Hindu, like the 21,000 Indian muslims did last month. Then all this imported homicidal-whining disease will go away. Same goes for “Christians”.
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