Majority of the world population follows one or other religion.There is a section which does not believe in god and the persons belonging to this section are called atheists and there are among them communists also who believe in the ideology of Karl Marx or Mao tse Tung.To be an atheist or a communist is not blasphemy.Blasphemy is when somebody is disrespectful or wicked or making a mockery of god,prophets and their believers.Recently i heard one famous Indo-pak American writer,Salman Rushdie who has written a blasphemous novel’Satanic Verses’which is disrespectful to Quran and prophet Muhammed,saying that blasphemy is a freedom of expression and good for the world.I totally disagree with this statement.
Freedom of expression is with human responsibility attached to it.If our expression is hurting the beliefs of millions of people all over the world then it is better not to express.Salman Rushdie is an indian born writer whose family migrated to Pakistan and he was educated in and migrated to west.We can under stand that he was influenced by western culture and comfortable lifestyle and security and protection bestowed upon him.But all this luxurious life style at what cost?He used to call himself an atheist(non believer)in the beginning and later he said he converted to islam(perhaps out of fear when Fatwa was declared to kill him by Ayatollah khomeini of Iran)and now again he is talking in favour of blasphemy when some film’Innocence of muslims’ is being shown on you tube,a vulgar film disrepectful to prophet muhammed,made by some criminal.This kind of conduct by a famous indian born writer raises questions about his character.When an offspring of muslim parents settled in west is hurting the faith of billion+ muslim world then the person is definitely not having a sound character.I admire our late prime minister Rajiv Gandhi who had banned his book ‘Satanic Verses’in India.
After Salman rushdie’s book was published in west,there were so many blasphemous articles,cartoons and films published and exhibited in europe and america in the name of freedom of expression.America’s gun culture also is a form of freedom of expression which Salman rushdie seems to be liking.Average common man of the world does not like these acts of blasphemy,hooliganism and Salman rushdie seems to be interested in creating disturbance,chaos in the world,so the muslim world is right in trying to stop him from these blasphemous acts.
There are lot of disturbances all over the world due to various reasons,religion being one of them.Major population of the world is divided among 5 0r 6 religions i.e Christianity,Islam,Hinduism,Budhism,Judaism and sikhism.Among these also first four cover the larger chunk of population of the world which is around 7 billion+.Hinduism and judaism are among the older religions and christianity,Islam and sikhism came later.Prophets Moses,Jesus christ,Muhammed came in that order and their followers are jews,christians and muslims.Jews follow old testament of bible and worship prophet Moses who is referred in Quran sharif(The holy book of muslims)as hazrat Moosa.Jews also believe that their prophet moses will come again on earth to bless them.Christians believe in Jesus christ,who as i read it was born as a jew and had spiritual qualities of prophet and hence worshipped by western world as jesus.Jesus christ is referred in Quran sharif as Hazrat Isa and next prophet according to quran sharif is hazrat Muhammed(Prophet Muhammed).There is a conflict among jews,christians and muslims who are faithful to their own prophets but differ about the prophets of other faiths.During 1st and 2nd world wars since jews did not believe in jesus christ,they were persecuted in America and Europe specially by Hitler of germany and generally disliked by western world due to which they had to vacate europe and america and relocate themselves forming a separate country named Israel.The third prophet(Prophet muhammed)has also 1billion+ following and time to time differences crop up among christians and muslims and during these differences jews generally join hands with christians.Lately some of the christians and jews have started criticizing islam and prophet muhammed,by writing derogatory books,making cartoons and films showing prophet muhammed as a bafoon and characterless person which is not a healthy development.Muslims of the world also have over reacted violently to this ugly development. Several disturbing scenes are witnessed all over like attacking U.S and european embassies,killing western diplomats and ordinary citizens who are no way connected to those books cartoons and films derogatory to prophet muhammed.This sense less frenzy from both sides should stop thats what we pray because communal conflicts can have dangerous consequences,we know this from our past experiences.
Political scene in India is quite fluid after the prime minister’s announcement about new reforms such as foreign direct investment in multi brand retail section,which actually the indian industry has welcomed and were overdue from some time.Foreign investment in china is 10 times more and far easier than india.If we have to compete with China America and Europe then we have to continue the process of liberlisation and reforms started by p.v.Narsimharao government and there is no going back.All this hue and cry by BJP is just political opportunism for which they are well known now.Now the latest development is that Mamta Banerji the chief minister of west bengal and an important ally of ruling UPA has withdrawn support from central government and announced that her ministers will submit their resignations on fryday 21st sept 2012 after namaz,at about 3 pm.Personally i feel that there is no serious threat to the government because at the time of the election of president of india also Mamta banerji alongwith Mulayamsingh yadav opposed UPA and announced her own names for presidential election but finally UPA’s candidate Pranav Mukherji has won with handsome marjin and even Mulayamsingh has ditched Mamta at the last moment.The important point is that Mamta,Mulayam,Mayawati and even jd(u)’s Nitish kumar who are all regional leaders and prime ministerial aspirants can not come together and form a third front,so they are open to manoeuvring by bigger national parties.MulayamSingh has daclared that he wants to keep BJP away from power at any cost,so who is the beneficiary in this scenerio ? Indian National Congress and nobody else.BJP is all the time dreaming about congress downfall and in this madness it can not see its own house in disorder and shambles.Congress has 200+ seats in present coalition government of UPA whereas NDA has only 114 members of BJP and very few allies among which the biggest ally JD(u) is also not averse to join congress if Bihar is attended specially economically.So where does that leave BJP ? Nowhere actually,but this hindutva brigade never realizes that the common man of India despises its communal agenda.Mayavati the dalit leader has so far kept mum over the latest developments but she also supported congress and UPA during the election of president of india.
LKAdvani the senior most leader of Bhartiya Janta Party has stated recently that the conditions in India today are worse than emergency and he said this commenting on the arrest of cartoonist Aseem trivedi on charges of sedition.When i read this,immediately the dubious character of BJP and its leaders was exposed in front of me,because the arrest was made by congress government,so the act was comparable to emergency.I remembered that sometime back Dr Binayak sen was arrested by BJP government of chhattisgarh for a long period on sedition charges declaring him a naxalite.I saw dr binayak sen’s daughter and wife weeping on television,filing a case in the court to fight against mighty chief minister and BJP government which finally they won and BJP lost the case after torturing dr sen and treating him as a naxalite,the judge declared that dr sen was not a naxalite.Where was LKAdvani then,he did not feel that dr sen’s ordeal in jail was worse than emergency,not a single word of sympathy.When some tear gas shells were fired in the air during baba ramdev’s sabha in ramlila ground,Lkadvani has declared this incident as jalianvala baugh,insulting hundreds of freedom fighters who were shot dead by british army ruling India then.Aseem trivedi was released soon after his arrest and congress has realised the mistake but BJP had never realised its mistake in the case of Dr Sen.BJP and sangh parivar has no past record of fighting with british when all indians were involved in freedom movement and fighting with british the then super power of the world,to free our mother india from their clutches.Sangh parivar has all the records of inciting communal riots,leading rath yatras culminating in demolition of religious places unlawfully and inciting large scale riots and bomb blasts,leading processions in support of shankaracharya arrested for murders,spreading hatred between religions,so on and so forth.We indians should see through their games now and stop them thus far and no further.
I read in one of the novels of salman rushdie that corruption and communalism are the two most potent forces in india and i tend to agree with him.But the problem is that whereas there is so much hue and cry about corruption,there are andolans and dharnas by civil society against corruption,there are hardly any movements by indian civil society against communalism which is a very dangerous force and capable of playing havoc with our beloved nation.It is high time that we indians treat communalism at par with corruption and communal leaders or persons as corrupt and fit for rejection by the public.Republic of India was formed as a democratic and secular nation where all religions and all persons are respected and treated equally and this is written in our constitution.But our constitution is defied by communal leaders of the country who time and again play with the sentiments of the common men,disturb the secular character of the nation,for their petty political interests.There have been several communal riots in the country due to the wrong doings of these communal leaders for which innocent persons have suffered their life and properties to no limit.Who have benifited out of these miseries? These communal leaders and nobody else.So are these communal leaders belonging to a particular religion and spreading hatred for the other religions not corrupt?I feel that law and order in our country also is communally biased and therefore corrupt.Several culprits of communal riots in india are unpunished and are enjoying the power and patronage due to their political parties communal agenda.Why the right wing hindu fanatic groups like rss,vhp,bajrang dal,shiv sena can not be banned in india knowing pretty well that they have a communal agenda which is totally against the indian constitution.Under the garb of corruption and economic progress they can not hide their communal designs.Therefore we have to treat communalism as a corrupt practice and deal with it as sternly as we are dealing with corruption.
i had been going through all the articles and related stuff about the above subject since its occurance during which i was phycally present in baroda and ahmedabad.There were mass murders,mass rapes,looting of muslim owned establishments by jeans clad girls and boys.I wrote a letter to ms sonia gandhi referring to one hindu who told me that he was just coming out of a meeting of hindu groups who have decided that next year when i will visit gujrat i will not find a single muslim living over there.The convicted ex minister maya kodnani and babu bajrangi are the trusted confidants of chief minister narendra modi.So the entire government machinery backed by rss,vhp,bajrang dal were involved in crimes which will put the great dictator Hitler to shame and the horror of horrors is that mr modi is still the chief minister of gujrat and is behaving as if nothing has happened.Either he is a psycho or is inhuman,there can not be any third adjective for him.Bjp leaders always defend the gujrat riots as spontaneous reaction to godhra burning of hindus which is a lie because the conviction of ex minister,rss members,bajrang dal members vhp members in naroda patia massacre proves beyond doubt that state govt. with the help of militant fanatic hindu outfits have meticulously planned this carnage.Mass rapes are not done due to spontaneous reaction,but they are done with political and police patronage and there are more than one convictions in courts for rapes in gujrat riots.Supreme court had to interfere when convinced that victims will never get justice in gujrat courts,so they had to send a special investigating team to gujrat and had to shift cases from gujrat to mumbai high court.Naroda patia convictions are also due to SIT appointed by supreme court but SIT’s work also is half done as long as narendra modi is scot free because he is the main culprit.It seems that SIT has also bungled in case of modi,because many facts are coming out about modi’s direct involvement in meetings and his instructions to ministers,police and punishing those who were not toeing his line.Babu bajrangi of bajrang dal who is convicted in naroda patia cases,was heard saying after the killings and dumping that he phoned the home minister that he killed so many muslims and dumped them,and after informing the home minister he went to sleep.There is something wrong with the indian psyche otherwise how the chief ministers and home ministers of a state can walk scot free after doing these heinous crimes.They need a serious introspection.