10-21-2005, 09:35 PM
<!--QuoteBegin-"Kaleem Kawaja says"+-->QUOTE("Kaleem Kawaja says")<!--QuoteEBegin-->When Muslims are praying in a mosque, they stage a procession outside the mosque blasting loud music etc and other loud revelries to disturb the prayers of Muslims. It happens every year in Holi also. Such provocation is standard technic to start communal riots. <!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
The press has been pronounced in indicting Mukhtar Ansari as the agent provocatuer in this instance. Pictures abound of Ansari with gun totting hooligans running rampage all around Mau. For the individual, the golden rule in any riot is to put an immediate end to the blame game. Kawaja, it is clear only wants to exacerbate the situation. Hindu women have fled. Times of India is reporting that insecurity is gripping Hindus in Mau. Yet, he is obdurate, unyielding and incessant in blaming. Nothing occupies his mind other than blaming.
Some Gandhian this obnoxious man is. Rather, it is repugnant that some people call him a Gandhian.
By resorting to stereotypes Kawaja has removed even his remotest association with honesty. The sweeping and shameless prejudice is there for all to see. When so called "intellectuals" of the Muslim community indulge in pushing prejudice using stereotypes, why blame uneducated Hindus for their belief that Muslims, when they reach a critical mass - 60% as in Mau - they drive out Hindus. Just as is happening in Mau, per the TOI story from Lucknow.
Kawaja's blatant provocation must be exposed to institutions that have been honoring him.
The press has been pronounced in indicting Mukhtar Ansari as the agent provocatuer in this instance. Pictures abound of Ansari with gun totting hooligans running rampage all around Mau. For the individual, the golden rule in any riot is to put an immediate end to the blame game. Kawaja, it is clear only wants to exacerbate the situation. Hindu women have fled. Times of India is reporting that insecurity is gripping Hindus in Mau. Yet, he is obdurate, unyielding and incessant in blaming. Nothing occupies his mind other than blaming.
Some Gandhian this obnoxious man is. Rather, it is repugnant that some people call him a Gandhian.
By resorting to stereotypes Kawaja has removed even his remotest association with honesty. The sweeping and shameless prejudice is there for all to see. When so called "intellectuals" of the Muslim community indulge in pushing prejudice using stereotypes, why blame uneducated Hindus for their belief that Muslims, when they reach a critical mass - 60% as in Mau - they drive out Hindus. Just as is happening in Mau, per the TOI story from Lucknow.
Kawaja's blatant provocation must be exposed to institutions that have been honoring him.