04-10-2008, 05:26 AM
<b>'Secular' race to appease Muslims</b>
Second opinion: KR Phanda (Pioneer)
This refers to the news report, "BJP's Muslim drive" (April 6). By launching the scheme for allocation of Government funds for Muslims on religious lines and the reservation of seats and jobs for Muslims, the Congress wants to achieve three objectives.
First, the Congress wants to 'reward' Muslims for the atrocities committed on Hindus by Muslim rulers. These barbarities included the killing of Hindus, selling of their women and children in the slave markets of Baghdad and Damascus; and, the destruction of Hindu places of worship.
The destruction wrought by Muslim rulers on Hindu ethos and culture was extensive and overwhelming. In our search for Hindu temples in 2001-02, we could not locate a single temple in Delhi, Mathura, Kannauj, Jaunpur and Varanasi which dated back to the Hindu period. <b>Short of changing the names of rivers in India, Muslim invaders tried to change the name of every village, town and city. Roughly more than 50 per cent of villages, towns and districts in Uttar Pradesh bear Muslim names. Even the names of Mathura and Varanasi were changed into Islampur and Islamabad.</b>
Second, the Congress wants to reaffirm its support for the creation of Pakistan in 1947 and is further prepared to create 'Osmanistan' in Andhra Pradesh and 'Bang-i-Islam' in West Bengal. This was the scheme suggested by C Rahmat Ali of Cambridge University in 1935 in his pamphlet, The Millet of Islam and Menace of Indianism. Development of minority concentrated districts is a step in this direction.
<b>Third, the Congress wants to assure Muslims that it will treat Hindus with contempt. The party stands committed to the collection of taxes from Hindus and their use in turn for running madarsas and other Muslim institutions. </b><b>By this act, it wants to convince Muslims that Hindus are still paying jizya as they use to pay during Muslim rule.</b>
At another level, the BJP, despite its opposition to reservation on the basis of religion, has supported quota for "socially and economically" weaker sections of Muslims. This shows the intellectual bankruptcy of the BJP, as it also amounts to Muslim appeasement. After all, why should a religious community be given concession which forced the division of India and treated Hindus as nothing short of slaves?
Second opinion: KR Phanda (Pioneer)
This refers to the news report, "BJP's Muslim drive" (April 6). By launching the scheme for allocation of Government funds for Muslims on religious lines and the reservation of seats and jobs for Muslims, the Congress wants to achieve three objectives.
First, the Congress wants to 'reward' Muslims for the atrocities committed on Hindus by Muslim rulers. These barbarities included the killing of Hindus, selling of their women and children in the slave markets of Baghdad and Damascus; and, the destruction of Hindu places of worship.
The destruction wrought by Muslim rulers on Hindu ethos and culture was extensive and overwhelming. In our search for Hindu temples in 2001-02, we could not locate a single temple in Delhi, Mathura, Kannauj, Jaunpur and Varanasi which dated back to the Hindu period. <b>Short of changing the names of rivers in India, Muslim invaders tried to change the name of every village, town and city. Roughly more than 50 per cent of villages, towns and districts in Uttar Pradesh bear Muslim names. Even the names of Mathura and Varanasi were changed into Islampur and Islamabad.</b>
Second, the Congress wants to reaffirm its support for the creation of Pakistan in 1947 and is further prepared to create 'Osmanistan' in Andhra Pradesh and 'Bang-i-Islam' in West Bengal. This was the scheme suggested by C Rahmat Ali of Cambridge University in 1935 in his pamphlet, The Millet of Islam and Menace of Indianism. Development of minority concentrated districts is a step in this direction.
<b>Third, the Congress wants to assure Muslims that it will treat Hindus with contempt. The party stands committed to the collection of taxes from Hindus and their use in turn for running madarsas and other Muslim institutions. </b><b>By this act, it wants to convince Muslims that Hindus are still paying jizya as they use to pay during Muslim rule.</b>
At another level, the BJP, despite its opposition to reservation on the basis of religion, has supported quota for "socially and economically" weaker sections of Muslims. This shows the intellectual bankruptcy of the BJP, as it also amounts to Muslim appeasement. After all, why should a religious community be given concession which forced the division of India and treated Hindus as nothing short of slaves?