Put the %@%! Kafirs in Their Place!
Monday, 8. June 2009 - 4:46 PM
The latest proof of how Aurangzeb’s magnificient legacy is perpetuated (link thanks Barbar Indian) with eager zest by the Taliban. Think of it, the name Taliban is rather appropriate especially when it is spoken in the same breath as Aurangzeb.
In May, dozens of Sikhs living in the Orakzai agency were forced to move out after the Taliban demanded Rs50 million as jazia, or security tax, from them… Less than a month later, the tax net has spread wider, to the Khyber agency tribal area. The Sikhs, Hindus, and Christians there have been told by the Taliban-backed Lashkar-e-Islam (LeI) to pay jazia in exchange for ensuring their security in the area…The LeI commander has publicly announced that Sikhs and Hindus will be free to live anywhere in the area after paying this protection tax.
Predictably, none of the big media houses featured this alarming development. I take it that they’ve still not emerged from their drunken stupor post their party’s recent electoral victory. A simpler explanation prevails: they couldn’t care less if a trainload of Hindus were burned right inside India (sounds familiar?).
To that extent, we owe thanks to DNA for featuring this. But look mummy, how DNA spins this.
DNA defines Jazia as security tax. Exemplary political correctness. Defining jazia as security tax clinically severs the obvious Islamic-scriptual link that gave it birth. The media considers it haraam to criticize Islam. So security tax (sic) it is. Oh but why even bother? A few thousands killed here and there, a few thousands converted and turned against their ex-religion…hell, there are more than 800 million Hindus in India alone…nobody will notice if a fraction of that disappears.
Tags: Aurangzeb, Hindus wiped out, India, Indian Politics, Intolerance, Islam Watch, Jazia, Media Watch, Pakistan, Pakistan Watch, Politics, Secular Media, Secularism, Society & Culture, Taliban
11. June 2009 - 12:22 AM
But why link it to Aurangzeb? Was the jazia his innovation?
11. June 2009 - 1:58 AM
No, Alamgir merely “restarted” the jiziya which was always there from the Sultanate times, except the brief period of Akbar (which earned him “Akbar the great” title). The link is probably to denote the recency and ruthlessness of the monster. For example, pretty much everyone killed the Jews in Europe from the beginning of history. But Hitler is the arch anti-semite, for similar reasons of recency and monstrosity.
27. June 2009 - 4:34 AM
A propos the notion that “pretty much everyone killed the Jews in Europe from the beginning of history,” let’s not oversimplify, even if only to illustrate the monstrosity of crazy Adolf. For example in Russia, Queen Katherine refused to yield to the pressure to expel or exterminate Jews. Instead, she recognized their immense value to (her) society and merely put geographic boundaries on where they can live freely and without fear. The so-called “Jewish Pale” earned her some kindness of history, Katherine the Great, not unlike Akbar Padsha.
The degrees of venality notwithstanding, Hindus in particular and Indians in general, are better off with a wider acceptance of historical facts of the legacy of their wretched treatment by the Muslims rather than wallow in the mumbo-jumbo of “ancient Indian glory.”
V.S. Naipaul said it best, “Men who are nothing, who allow themselves to become nothing, have no place in this world.” I am afraid, the Hindus are racing headlong toward such ignominy, in their own homeland, that too.