Author: Hermann Jung
Publication: Organiser
Date: October 3, 2004
URL: http://www.organiser.org/dynamic/modules.php?name=Content&pa=showpage&pid=44&page=17
It is not only in India that the
´secular´ writers shoot their bolt to defame Hindus, but in
the Western world too there are of their likes who have launched a campaign
of calumny against Hindus. One such example is an article, entitled "Indische
Sittenwachter" (Indian Moralisers) by Jochen Buchsteiner, published in
a German national weekly Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung (FAS) in
the June 20, 2004 issue. One can gauge the extent the writer has tarnished
the image of Hindus by using such terms in the article as "the spectre
of Hindutva or re-Indianisation", "turning back to the alleged Hindu roots",
"RSS, an anti-Muslim counter movement against Mahatma Gandhi´s Congress",
etc. The Gujarat riots in the wake of Godhra have been reported without
their cause, i.e. the burning alive of Hindu pilgrims in a train. Terrorists
shot by the police are termed ´victims´ and measures taken
by the former Chief Minister of Madhya Pradesh Uma Bharti like banning
of the sale and consumption of eggs and meat at holy places, stronger efforts
towards protection of cows, etc, have been ridiculed. Therefore, what strikes
the informed readers in the West is that, more than before, things that
in the national life of an average independent country are considered normal
are viewed as abnormal and even dangerous. However, during the end of nineties,
India-friendly reports appeared in the Western media but after a short
span, a deterioration and a dangerous development has been witnessed, which
can only be countered by a pungent satirical rejoinder to the writers to
remove their misconceptions. It is heartening that a German himself, Hermann
Jung, sent a rejoinder to the writer of the above-mentioned article to
clarify, point-by-point, his misconceptions.
Jochen writes in column two of the
article that "the BJP stems from the RSS, a cadre organisation formed long
before Independence as a mainly anti-Muslim force and a counter-movement
against M. Gandhi´s Congress". In response to this, Herman Jung writes
in his rejoinder to Jochen that it was certainly a rash step of Dr Hedgewar
to found the RSS in the twenties in order to strengthen and discipline
the Hindu society. Stating that he (Jochen) must have belonged to those
who could not comprehend that the disorganised Hindu society is plainly
unsuitable for our time, Shri Jung points out that it has to yield to the
much better equipped systems from the West, which are making good use of
the present state of Hinduism, converting its followers, thus forming them
into a mass much better suited to ´modern´ manners.
In regard to Jochen´s conclusion
that "Gujarat developed into a bloody workshop of Hindu nationalism when
CM Modi gave free rein for pogroms against Muslims", Shri Jung writes:
"The picture of a ´biased´ Modi seems to be correct. Among
the 37,000 arrested, the two-third were Hindus, among the 800 killed, just
one quarter were Hindus and of the 140 persons shot by the police, 80 belonged
to the majority community. This kill ratio is far too ´favourable´
for the ´ unbelievers´ (Hindus), and CM Modi should have done
his duty to increase this ratio.
"Moreover, why count the ´kafirs´
at all if they are killed? It is their fate, they have to somehow disappear
from the face of the Earth, so we are told by millions of copies of ´the
holy books´ distributed all over the world. Meanwhile, the fact that
lakhs of ´kafirs´ driven out of Kashmir, Bangladesh and Pakistan
seem to have lost all chances of reaching the world media, which betrays
an admirable degree of co-ordination on the part of the latter."
Referring to article´s column
five, in which Jochen writes: "Recently Modi´s security forces in
Ahmedabad shot four persons who allegedly belonged to the Pakistani terrorist
organisation Lashkar-e-Toiba and who were said to have attempted to kill
the CM. But doubts are growing since journalists and the police in Bombay
(sic) started investigation. At least one of the victims, 19-year-old student
Ishrat Jehan Raza, is considered innocent", Shri Jung writes that he understands
that in order to fight the influence of Hindu nationalists it becomes necessary
to present the above four persons as ´alleged´ members of Lashkar-e-Toiba
and the girl student as ´innocent´ (never mind the preceding
seven months´ police investigation and observation; this can easily
be hushed up).
In response to the derision of the
earlier-mentioned measures taken by the former Chief Minister of Madhya
Pradesh, Uma Bharti, Shri Jung poignantly and sarcastically says that the
CM of Madhya Pradesh seems to be an ´obstinate´ Hindu. This
becomes clear from the fact that Leftist Indian as well as, shortly after,
conservative Western media devote so much space to her.
And, Shri Jung thinks, if this wonderfully
co-ordinated campaign is to meet with some success then they (the ´secular´
and Western media) have to conceal that Uma Bharati is an OBC, that in
barely seven months in office she stabilised the power supply, connected
over 1000 villages to pucca roads, did a lot for eradication of unemployment
and for school meals, etc.-all this must be hushed up because the image
of a BJP with a ´paramilitary wing´, the ´Brahmin- dominated´
RSS, whose members ´suppress´ and ´terrorise´ dalits
and non-Hindus, must be kept alive to guarantee best results.
Laying about the Western media in
general and the German media in particular, Shri Jung writes: "Our media
are bound to feel outraged at hearing about this woman being determined,
in spite of globalisation gaining momentum everywhere, to ban the sale
and consumption of meat and eggs at holy places. So it will become all
the more necessary to support those circles that permitted the Burger and
Kentucky Fried Chicken culture to make its entry into Indian cities, which
must make many a moderniser happily rejoice in the prospect of this fantastic
food with its fragrance reaching places of pilgrimage in India (just as
has been the case for centuries in the Christian West)."
Rapping on the knuckles of the present
UPA government for rescinding what the BJP-led NDA government had initiated,
for example, dismissing, experienced politicians simply because they belong
to the RSS, Shri Jung affirms that all this is being done with the help
of no less than seven ministers with criminal charges against them and
a host of other MPs of a similar calibre. The contribution of these people
in the political mopping-up operations will certainly be especially effective
and thorough.
(This piece is based on the rejoinder
by Hermann Jung sent to German national weekly Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung.
Mr Hermann Jung can be contacted at Siedlung Grafenheide 48, D-33729 Bielefeld,
Germany, Tel. +0521-762058, E-mail: grafenheide@aol.com)
