Status Update By Ajit Menon Why Muslims will never forgive Modi, Hindus and India. Ever wondered why India’s Muslims are generally more concerned about Palestine (Arab-Israel Conflict), Iraq, Chechnya, Kashmir… than about the ongoing barbaric Shia-Sunni killings in Pakistan. If the concern is about Muslim brothers being killed in conflicts, shouldn’t all conflicts be of concern? So clearly, there is a selective projection of incidents that are being used to incite concerns among the Muslim populace! Pakistani troops and Islamists massacred over 1,250,000 Bangladeshis in 1971, but that incident hardly ever blots their collective consciousness. While over 100 million Hindus have been killed by Muslims during their invasion of India (a fact that is glorified in Islamic historical books and documents, and is completely forgotten in Indian history books) is not even a matter of heart wringing concern ever!* The atrocities by Indian troops in Kashmir cannot be forgiven or forgotten, and rightly so. What about a similar series of incidents in Baluchistan? Our Muslim leaders have no inkling of it! In the Gujarat Riots, 790 Muslims and 254 Hindus were killed in the riots, 2548 people were injured and 223 people were missing. (These figures given by the Union Minister of State for Home Shriprakash Jaiswal, of the Congress Party, in Parliament on 11 May 2005). But in subsequent retelling of the incident you would certainly have heard number of casualties mentioned as 2,000, 3,000 and 5,000 at various political rallies! (This is not an attempt to justify the incident, or nullify the magnitude & horrifying nature of it.) At a think-tank meet, the Chinese were perplexed about the Muslim world’s inability to deal with the modern world. The Chinese and the Muslims, they said, had suffered the same humiliation and occupation by foreigners over the past two hundred years, but the Chinese and Muslim reactions to these experiences seem so completely different. “We also suffered,” the Chinese said, “but now we control our destiny, and are doing everything we can to learn from these foreigners so that we can benefit from the modern world and ensure that we do not suffer this humiliation again. We Chinese ‘look to the future.’” The Muslims, on the other hand, the Chinese stated, seem to have a different approach: Instead of looking to the future, they “are mired in the past,” more concerned about taking revenge against those foreigners whom they believe had humiliated and oppressed them. It was because of this focus on the past, these Chinese intellectuals and leaders stated, that Muslims were therefore unable to build societies which could participate in the modern world. “Revenge and victimhood,” these Chinese argued, could permanently cause “the Muslim world” to “remain behind the West and Asia.” According to the Chinese, the Muslims are “obsessed” with portraying themselves as victims. Victimhood, they said, gets people nowhere; what was necessary was to remember the past but put it behind you so that you could deal with contemporary problems. The Chinese are practical: although they harbor deep resentment to what other cultures — specifically the Japanese — have done to them, they say that if they indulge in self-pity, they will never be able to improve their lot in this world. The Islamic culture, is acutely concerned with righting perceived wrongs. The Shari’a, in fact, sees the role of the ruler as one who “commands good and eradicates evil”. It is more important to “correct” past wrongs than to think about how to improve one’s situation. This proves why Muslims are unable to ‘move on’ while Sikhs, Hindus (yes even Hindus have been victims of riots) have got on with their lives – even while fighting for justice. Fighting evil, in their eyes of Muslims leadership, is a never-ending battle: they cannot — nor can, for that matter, the Palestinians — put their past perceived wrongs behind them. It is why Pakistan cannot get over the Kashmir imbroglio even though it weighs them down economically, politically and socially. Meanwhile the Kashmiris of “Azad Kashmir” (Pakistan Occupied Kashmir) continue to fight against Pakistani oppression. But none of us has even known anything about it.## Former Prime Minister of Singapore Lee Kwan Yew, said that, despite “everything we do for our Muslims, they continue to remain at the bottom of society” — poor, backward and uneducated. (Bernard Lewis, Notes on a Century…, pp. 245-246). Much of the reasons for the economic backwardness of Muslims in India should be examined in a new light. It is not as if Hindus and the Indian establishments have conspired to keep them poor and jobless in government institutions (police, army, government). This could also indicate why Muslim majority Malappuram happens to be the most backward district in Kerala, economically and in all human development indices. Maybe it is the capability of the Hindus to ‘move on’ that has enabled them to let the stones for the “Bhavya Mandhir” of Shri. Ram promised to be build at Ayodhya stay unstirred. While the Babri Masjid continues to be a major issue for many Muslims in India. (It is a doubly emotional issue for Hindus - 1. The spot is believed to be the birth place of Lord Ram. 2. It is believed that a temple at the spot was razed to the ground over which the Mosque in honor of Babur stood). In the coming elections, it would be foolish for any party to imagine that Muslims will be collectively willing or desirous of changing their view or voting for those parties they believe have acted against Muslims in general or particular. It also explains the scramble by “secular parties” to prove how concerned they are for Muslim welfare (and in the process, proving how communal they themselves are!). [PS.: In our country one cannot discuss these matters without being called a Hindu Right Wing Fanatic.] * themuslimissue.wordpress/2013/09/24/staggering-statistics-on-muslims-killing-muslims-2/ * ibnlive.in/news/media-wont-forget-gujarat-needs-justice/51464-3.html ## twocircles.net/2012feb22/help_pakistani_kashmiris_freedom_struggle_india_urged.html en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_rights_abuses_in_Azad_Kashmir
Posted on: Thu, 20 Mar 2014 16:55:37 +0000
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