Author: Tarun Vijay
Publication: Organiser
Date: November 27, 2005
URL: http://www.organiser.org/dynamic/modules.php?name=Content&pa=showpage&pid=106&page=2
UPA's cynical game with national security
While the coward Islamo-fascists keep on killing
our jawans and citizens in J&K and Naxals challenge and bruise the nation's
sovereignty, Indian secularists didn't show any recognisable concern over
these actions which, modestly speaking, signify collapse of governance. The
Jehanabad jail break showed that the government ignored the killings of more
than 518 citizens and security personnel in the last one year by Naxals and
not only this but also provided them state guest status and stopped army operations
against them, as in Assam. There was never a more facilitative atmosphere
for the gun-runners and hate-players as prevails today.
And the rulers seem to be completely alienated
from the rest of the nation. Nothing seems to move them. Instead of wiping
the tears of Jehanabad victims or consoling relatives of the Kashmir martyrs,
we saw the rulers partying and giggling in a 'celebration' of India's loosening
frontiers.
That's an attitude Bat Ye'aor, the author
of "Eurabia: The Euro-Arab Axis" describes as dhimmitude. It comes
from the Arab word, "dhimmi". As Bat Ye'aor explains it, "It
refers to subjugated, non-Muslim individuals or people that accept the restrictive
and humiliating subordination to an ascendant Islamic power to avoid enslavement
or death." And then she adds, "The entire Muslim world as we know
it today is a product of this 1,300-year-old jihad dynamics, whereby once
thriving non-Muslim majority civilisations have been reduced to a state of
dysfunctional dhimmitude."
There is no resolve, no assurance of security
to the citizens and no rush of the VIPs to meet and see the victims as these
photo-ops won't translate into votes for the party. On the contrary, secular
voices are projecting those who not only support but also justify the killers'
brutalities and their world and happiness depend solely on their own personal
safety which reeks of a "not me-but axe will fall on him if found guilty''
attitude.
That's what dhimmitude is all about. It's
fashionable for a secular dhimmi to protect, help and be seen with the oppressor
so that his life, image, windows to the awards and a social 'high' are as
preserved as were procured by the Rai Bahadurs and Raisahebs of the British
era.
Like French, Indian dhimmies are blaming 'socio-economic'
reasons for the brutal Naxalism and a 'sense of alienation' for Kashmiri jihad.
They have the time and a will to visit all the non-Hindu addresses, but none
answers why till this date no Communist has ever gone to even meet the victims
of Islamofascist terrorism in Doda and Delhi or the hapless villagers mourning
their dead in Bihar. They find it easier to visit Palestine.
Obviously, India remains at the farthest corner
of their concerns.
The nexus between jihadi Islamofascists and
Communists has taken such natural brotherhood hue that it looks more like
the same side of the same coin.
Quite understandable that poverty, unemployment
and alienation create fertile grounds for any kind of revolt and breed criminal
tendencies much more than an affluent society comfortably living in posh areas.
But it is wrong to believe that the more you provide financial help and opportunities
to climb up the social ladder, lesser would be the chances of being assaulted.
9/11 was not done by unemployed and alienated people and neither the mercenaries
killing Indians from Doda to Delhi are people who claim to be victims of isolation
and denial. In fact they are overfed and over pampered by the Indian State,
to the extent that money is diverted to Kashmir by keeping other under developed
states from getting enough funds for infrastructural development. All this
is done in the name of secularism, to help integrate Kashmiri brothers, to
say we care for you more than we care for anyone else. So is the case with
likes of Abu Salem, listed as one of the wealthiest 50 Indians who masterminded
the Mumbai blasts.
If poverty, unemployment and alienation can
be the only reason for what we are witnessing in Europe today, as our home
grown secularists are trying hard to explain, what can be the reason of treason
and breeding of barbarians amongst the 'Kashmiri brothers' who now demand
secession from India and yet complain 'not enough is being done for them'
by Indians?
It is not poverty that breeds terrorism but
the ideological beliefs and a fossilised mindset refusing to accept other
view points that drive people to stay alienated in ghettoised localities by
their own choice and thwart any effort by the State or social organisations
to bring them in the socio-cultural milieu of the land they adopted to enjoy
freedom and prosperity. And their usual reason for being so remains universally
same-to protect their cultural identity, religious roots and traditions. In
fact nobody asks them to forgo these. They are free to build mosques, continue
to propagate their religion, live the way they feel comfortable. But they
fight on school uniforms, disrespect the demands of etiquette and social behaviour
and national sentiments, hurt the sensitivities of the majority community
that struggles hard to ensure their exclusive rights even at the cost of its
own ethos and civilisational contours.
Sir Vidia has described it straight-"Islam,
had both enslaved and attempted to wipe out other cultures.It has had a calamitous
effect on converted peoples. To be converted you have to destroy your past,
destroy your history. You have to stamp on it, you have to say 'my ancestral
culture does not exist, it doesn't matter'."
And this is done through strategically positioning
to look civil in the mainstream intellectual debates retaining their self-imposed
alienation while conveniently blaming State and majority overtly for it. But
the civil, liberal and inclusivist participants take them really seriously
and in any disruptive situation become introspective and sheepishly ask themselves,
what went wrong on their part? To list the 'wrongs' is easy as they can quote
an article cautioning against such eruptions written in the sixties and seventies
and proudly proclaim an intellectual foresightedness ignored by leaders. Hence
it's natural, they would underline, that such eruptions happened. Exactly
this is what The Economist has done this week by putting the blame on poverty
and alienation due to the lackadaisical approach of the French.
But if this was the truth Europe would not
be in jitters like it is today. Mark Steyn writes in the New York Sun, "for
half a decade, French Arabs have been carrying on a low-level intifada against
synagogues, kosher butchers, Jewish schools, etc.' Reminding of a crucial
battle with the forces of Moorish invader Abdal-Rahman, he says, 'Poitiers
was the high-water point of the Muslim tide in western Europe. It was an opportunistic
raid by the Moors, but, if they'd won, they'd have found it hard to resist
pushing on to Paris, to the Rhine and beyond." "Perhaps," wrote
Edward Gibbon in The Decline And Fall Of The Roman Empire, "the interpretation
of the Koran would now be taught in the schools of Oxford, and her pulpits
might demonstrate to a circumcised people the sanctity and truth of the revelation
of Mahomad." There would be no Christian Europe… Today, a fearless
Muslim advance has penetrated far deeper into Europe than Abdal-Rahman. They're
in Brussels, where Belgian police officers are advised not to be seen drinking
coffee in public during Ramadan, and in Malmo, where Swedish ambulance drivers
will not go without police escort.
Was this not been happening in India much
before the European scholars identified it? From Paris to Delhi's blasts in
Paharganj this attitude is quite visible in our so-called liberal and secular
centres. Sadder still, we don't even seem to recognise this on our civil platforms.
This attitude led to India's partition and again we are fast losing Kashmir
through a zig zag route in the name of a false peace which simply overwrites
India's concerns, struggles, martyrdoms and resolves as if they never existed.
We think, once Kashmir is settled the Pakistan way, there will be springtime
forever. Needless to say, the votaries of such a plan are condemning themselves
and the nation to repeat history in a bloodier manner. Famous American writer
Alan Caruba writes about such hopes in the American Daily, 'many Americans
still want to believe that Islamists, the extreme Muslims characterised by
the Taliban and al Qaida, are just a minority of greater Islam. The wish that,
once isolated and destroyed, we will be embraced by those to whom we have
brought freedom and democracy, ignores the long history of Islam's quest for
world domination. Recent history bears witness to the fact that Arab Muslims
kill each other and anyone else with impunity to insure jihad succeeds. Why
would we ever think they would not want to continue to kill us as well?'
This is the real question we should be asking
ourselves too.
(The writer is Editor, Panchajanya and can
be contacted at tarunvijay@vsnl.com)
