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  • Muslim Indian, Hindu Indian,Chetan Bhagat Muslim Reaction

    There is an article by Chetan Bhagat in The Times of India, on Islam and Hinduism, lamenting that these Religions are to introspect about Liberalism ans have to change.

    True. there is no doubt.

    But the choicest derision is reserved for Hinduism while Islam is handled with kid gloves.

    He says ‘we had no opportunity to learn more about Hinduism…there are Hindus piercing ears with javelin..”

    Mr.Bhagat, your ignorance is not Hinduism’s responsibility,

    If you do not know about a Religion ‘ better keep your mouth shut,;make people wonder if you are an idiot than to open your mouth and confirm that you are one.

    Have you heard of Swami Vivekananda, Ramakrishna Paramahamsa,Sathya Sai Baba to cite a few among the latest?

    Or have you heard of what Muslims do during Muharram, beating their chests,cutting their skins with knives?

    Do you have enough guts to talk of Prophet’s marrying a widow or his marrying a child of 9?

    Or do you know what the Vedas are?

    If you do not know , please try to understand and do not sling mud without knowing the subject.

    If you want to know what Hinduism is, read Swami Vivekananda’s works,(16 volumes) ,provided you can read some thing brainy.

     Turkey is liberal?

    Check your current knowledge of world affairs.

    Mr. Bhagat, Hinduism is not pulp fiction.

    Better stick to what you think you know,even there you are a writer for the prurient.

    Leave it at that.

    *For your information , I am providing a letter from the Muslims, India on yoiur article.

    That is for your soft appraocah to Islam.

    Defenders of Afzal Guru on par with Hinduism?

    Imagine their reactions if you had included the points I have mentiuoned.!

     Story:Muslim Indian, Hindu India

    Let us begin with Hinduism. There is a section of Hindus who believe in mutilating themselves to please the Gods. They poke their cheeks with javelins. They pull chariots with metal hooks dug into their back. Hindu sadhus live the life of ascetics….

    So let’s pose a question — what is a Hindu supposed to be? Is the cheek-poking devotee a benchmark? Is a sadhu the ideal Hindu? Or is a regular middle-class person, working in a bank, consuming chicken, drinking beer and occasionally visiting a temple also a good Hindu?…

    For instance, take Saudi Arabia where Muslims are 97% of the population. Saudi legal system does not work on a separate constitution, but involves a strict, conservative interpretation of sharia law. Examples of Saudi laws include the need for women to cover up in public, a woman’s testimony being invalid (or carrying much less weightage than that of a man’s), and punishments such as beheadings, lashing and stoning for a variety of crimes.

    The laws are imposed strictly. In a fire at a Saudi school, firemen allegedly did not let girls leave the burning building because they were not covered enough. The girls died. Many criticise the Saudi system, while others praise it for leading to low crime.

    Let us take one more example of Turkey. Vying for EU membership, Turkey grants large amounts of personal freedom to its citizens. Religion and politics are separate. A secular constitution governs the legal system. Astonishingly, despite a 99% Muslim population, wearing the hijab is banned in universities and public or government buildings (although this has been recently relaxed) as some view it as a symbol of religion, which needs to be separated from state institutions.

    Other Muslim-majority countries are somewhere in the middle. Malaysia is somewhat liberal, Iran isn’t, Pakistan is in the middle, etc. Which brings us back to the same question. Who is more or less Muslim in the above examples?

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    We are sorry, Mr. Bhagat, but the ‘’democratic republic’’ you talk of is not so democratic. If it were so, Afzal Guru wouldn’t have been executed to ‘’satisfy the collective conscience of the nation’’. Muslim youth would not have fallen prey to minority witch-hunting, and their killers not decorated with gallantry awards. Adivasis in Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand and Orissa would not have been ripped of their fundamental rights to live with dignity. Dalit poets would not have been falsely charged under sedition laws.

    Loving one’s nation is well and good, but being blinded by patriotism is not. Why do Indian Muslims always have to prove their allegiance to India? Why can’t they also be critical of their country?

    The party whose path you are treading has had Indian Muslims pass through too many Sita-like ordeals of fire, Agni Pariksha.  You may have the privilege to turn a blind eye to the post-Babri Masjid Demolition violence, the Gujarat pogrom, but many others don’t. How then do you think a leader who doesn’t even have the integrity to apologize for his complicity in the Gujarat pogrom represent Muslim youth’s aspirations for ‘’scientific way of thinking, entrepreneurship, empowerment, progress’’ and above all, ‘’personal freedoms’’? And just by the way, have you heard of the word, ‘Justice’?

    http://blogs.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/The-underage-optimist/entry/being-hindu-indian-or-muslim-indian

    http://kafila.org/2013/07/03/a-letter-to-chetan-bhagat-from-indian-muslim-youth/

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  • Gang Rape Comments Protests Missing The Point

    There is a spate comments on the  new Delhi igang rape, which cost the life of a girl, Jyoti SIngh Pandey.

     

    Protests were organised to punish the guilty immediately without dragging for years.

     

    So far very good.

     

    Then some body like President  Pronab Mukherjee’s son,Mohn Bhagat of RSS , Asaram.. and  a host of others

     

    The protagonists   for immediate Justice clamour later reached the heights of calling every man as rapist waiting to rape any one in sight deteriorated   into question of feminine Freedom to dress and move about any time of the day..

     

     

    Delhi gang rape protest
    Delhi gang rape protest

    Comments.

     

    “It would have been comforting if vile foolishness in India had been the domain of the few. But Asaram Bapu is not alone when he says one hand cannot clap by itself. Or that taking diksha, reciting a mantra and pleading with her rapists as brothers might have saved the young girl that fateful night.

    The clergy of the Jamaat-e-Islami-Hind are not alone when they advocate co-educational institutes to be shut down, pre-marital sex to be outlawed and girls to dress in sober and dignified clothes as ways to prevent rape.

    Mohan Bhagwat is not alone when he asserts more rapes happen in ‘India’ than ‘Bharat’ — the first a synecdoche for promiscuous modernity; the latter for a more pious and traditional order where women live within boundaries prescribed by men. Abhijit Mukherjee is not alone when he mocks women protesters as “dented, painted” girls. Nor are Abu Azmi, Kailash Vijayvargiya or the Chhattisgarh home minister who says minors in the state are being raped because their stars are not favourable….

     

    The media reacted violently to these comments.

     

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    Over the past few days, the national media has rebuffed these men with an acetylene rage. Apologise, they have shouted. Retract your thoughts. Or at least be shamed into withdrawing the impunity with which you say such things in public.

    But this rage has triggered its own counter-currents. Madhu Kishwar, feminist and editor of Manushi, for instance, is scathing about the media’s tone. “What kind of imperialist vocabulary is this? If you treat everyone who does not agree with you as aliens and fools, if you refuse to accept them as your own people, what gives you the right to dictate to them? What makes you think they will even entertain your criticism?” she asks.”

    ..Ad guru Santosh Desai chimes in to warn of a backlash: “Media in India is more loud than representative,” he says. “If the framing of this debate gets too vociferous and extreme, it can galvanise the opposition in disturbing ways. Our society has always had a way of evolving organically, using a combination of strategies to create space for new ideas. As long as that change is gradual, the anxiety it produces is also gradual. If one gets too absolutist, the whole thing can boomerang.”..

     

    Chetan Bhagat offers a variation on the theme in his Times of India column, where he first divides the populace into four classes: One, the political elite; Two, the business elite; Threes, the rising lower and middle classes “with a certain amount of affluence and education”; and Four, “people with limited education, abysmal standards of living and little hope for a better future.” The Threes may be the heroes of Bhagat’s stories — and their hero in turn — but here he takes them to task for “imposing their new-found modern values” on the less-progressive masses “For example, Fours may see women-men relationships in a regressive way. The Threes, exposed to the latest Western beliefs, will mock them.” The column offers instead a more peace-loving recipe for change:”

     

    What exactly are the issues?

    A Girl was raped in the Capital of India.

     

    Accused have been charge sheeted.

     

    The case is being heard.

     

    People have expressed their anger against this despicable act.

     

    Now what we need to do is…….

     

    To make sure that rape law is made more stringent and be made Non bailable(at the same time it is to be ensured that it is not misused as in Anti Dowry laws).

     

    The perpetrators should not be executed  but to live with the mark of a rapist after serving Life term.

     

    They should be ostracized by the Society.

     

    Women should ensure that they are safe by wearing non provocative dress in public and be careful about moving in their own interest.

     

    This is not an issue of Male vs Female, it is a question of Life.

     

    You can not control other human beings at all times, human nature is unpredictable.

     

    You meet with accidents on the roads.

     

    You have Zebra Crossing.

     

    Use it.

     

    Nothing demeaning about it

     

    Media must remember it is more than TRP at stake.

     

    You have a moral responsibility as well.

     

    http://tehelka.com/cover-story-rape-and-how-men-see-it/?singlepage=1

     

     

    http://www.firstpost.com/living/sorry-chetan-bhagat-outrage-over-rape-isnt-elitist-587525.html?utm_source=mail&utm_medium=newsletter