Author: Krishen Kak
Publication: Vigil
Date: February 16, 2006
URL: http://www.vigilonline.com/reference/columns/vicharamala_view.asp?col_id=376
Thoughts on issues of current interest, including
instances of some double standards of our public figures, especially in the
construction of Hindusthani identity (all those Macaulayan myths, and the
hypocrisy that is Nehruvian secularism) - Krishen Kak
Much has been made of a visit recently to
Hindusthan of a VVVIP (at least so he was made out to be by our Nehruvian-secular
dispensation). This VVVIP was the Saudi Arabian king, and we were educated
about the political and economic advantage to us of this grand panjandrum's
patronage.
Now this monarch of his Koranic kindom - yes,
by its Basic Law it is the fief of the al-Saud family - has its flag the Islamic
green, with imprinted on it that fundamental and defining tenet of Islam,
the shahada (there is no god but Allah, and Mohammad is his prophet) and,
to make sure you get the point, below this is depicted an unsheathed sword.
The naked Sword of Islam symbolizes the historical reality of this worldview,
and it is personified today in Abdullah bin Abdul Aziz al-Saud whose petrodollars
fuel jihad worldwide.
The potentate, as a condition of his visit
to our darul harb, required omission of a visit by him to the samadhi of the
the so-called Father of the Nation - and his reason was that such homage would
have been against his religion (he also required that he be received personally
by our prime minister, but that's another story). Nehruvian secularists not
only tamely gave in but, with their usual double standard, then criticized
a Hindu political leader for not visiting Jinnah's mausoleum in Pakistan (
http://www.hindu.com/2006/02/10/stories/2006021005151100.htm ).
It is no secret that, in Saudi Arabia, the
display of any non-Islamic religious symbol or observance of any non-Islamic
religious ritual is strictly forbidden on pain of arrest and punishment. No
Hindu is allowed to pay respects to that Islamic idol, the Kaaba, and to kiss
its sacred Black Stone. For a Hindu to venture into Muslim sacred space merits
death. The worth of one Hindu male is 1/16th and of a Hindu female 1/33rd
that of a Muslim. This is the worldview that Abdullah bin Abdul Aziz al-Saud
enforces in his own domain and towards the worldwide achievement of which
he fearlessly fires through his petrodollars. If there is to be identified
the root resource of jihad the world over, it is the Koranic kingdom of Saudi
Arabia. Yet we do a dandvat pranam before this Muslim desert despot who devises
our destruction, even as we undermine in Nepal the world's only remaining
Hindu monarchy.
By his disregard (in which Nehruvian secularism
willingly acquiesced) of the Rajghat samadhi, he showed Koranic contempt for
and taught a Koranic lesson to his fellow-believers in our own country. The
symbols of our nation are irrelevant to Islam - what matter (and should matter)
to the true believer are the shahada and the sword that enforces it. And daily
we are reminded of this by the Islamic faithful in our land, witness the All
India Muslim Personal Law Board emphatically disowning Art 44 of the Constiution
of India, declaring that a uniform civil code is "against the spirit
of Islam", and that the only personal law acceptable to Muslims is the
immutable Koranic law.( http://www.hindu.com/2006/02/02/stories/2006020203470900.htm
) - of which we can see Saudi Arabia as the exemplar.
More recently arose a wave of Muslim violence
against some political cartoons of a gentleman they call Mohammad. In countries
all over the world, Muslim mobs called for Christian heads.; the Taliban announced
a bounty in gold of 100 kgs for killing the cartoonist - http://dailypioneer.com/archives2/default12.asp?main_variable=WORLD&file_name=wld5%2Etxt&counter_img=5&phy_path_it=D%3A%5Cdailypioneer%5Carchives2%5Cfeb1006
); non-Muslim embassies were torched by Muslims; Islamic States supported
the violent reaction, with at least Iran and Pakistan enforcing economic sanctions
(The Hindu, Feb 5 & 11, 2006); the Pakistan Parliament condemned the cartoons;
and so did the UN Secretary General.
Not to be left behind, Delhi's Jamia Millia
Islamia students rioted; huge crowds of Muslims in different cities in India
brought civic life to a halt because halfway across the world some human had
made secular fun of another human who'd died over a thousand years ago; the
J&K chief minister (always a Muslim) joined in the condemnation and called
on the Government of India to protest ( http://dailypioneer.com/archives2/default12.asp?main_variable=STATES&file_name=state5%2Etxt&counter_img=5&phy_path_it=D%3A%5Cdailypioneer%5Carchives2%5Cfeb706
); and Delhi's Shahi Imam criticized the absence of open condemnation by the
Indian government.(even as he fatuously claimed "Muslims were peace-loving
and against all forms of violence" - The Hindu, Feb 11, 2006). Predictably,
to assuage this mullah, our Nehruvian-secular government within 24 hours reiterated
a statement it had issued months earlier ( http://www.hindu.com/2006/02/12/stories/2006021214680100.htm
).
Predictably too, in all this there is a good
deal of hypocrisy - and politics. No mullah objected when Syrian television
portrayed Jewish holy men as cannibals ( http://www.hindu.com/2006/02/03/stories/2006020304301400.htm
). Islam has a long and accepted tradition of pictures of Mohammad ( see http://www.zombietime.com/mohammed_image_archive/
, in which too you can see the 12 original cartoons). These cartoons had been
published months earlier in Egypt and by an Egyptian paper - - "and not
a single squeak of outrage was present". To these 12, Danish imams themselves
added three obviously fake pictures that they then circulated in the Muslim
world. ( http://egyptiansandmonkey.blogspot.com/2006/02/boycott-egypt.html
). Why did they publicize the latter as newspaper ones, when emphatically
they were not? Who concocted these fakes, obviously to foment trouble? Isn't
the inference obvious?*
No mullah objected when our own faux Picasso,
that much-acclaimed MF Husain, expressed his creative genius by painting our
divinities in the nude. And, of divinities, note that he paints naked only
Hindu divinities. And not just in the nude - he has a naked Sita on the thigh
of a naked Ravana; a naked Sita on the tail of a naked Hanuman, the tail curving
up between her thighs; Durga in pelvic union with her vahana; Ganesha's head
doubling as the pelvis of a naked Lakshmi; and more.* * These were published
by that well-known patron of the arts, Tata Iron & Steel Co. Ltd; introduced
by its then chairman, the eminent Russi Mody; and the text is by that erudite
indophile, Dr Daniel Herwitz. The same MF Husain painted a naked Bharatmata
for auction by Nehruvian-secular Nafisa Ali's Action India's "Mission
Kashmir" ( http://www.actionindiatrust.org/mnews%20auction.htm ). Husain
also painted Hitler naked, and openly equated such naked representation with
the devil (V'mala 75). So, for us pagans, isn't the inference again obvious?
Nehruvian secularists have lauded these evil
depictions of our gods and goddesses and of our motherland as aesthetic and
defended them as freedom of expression. But not one of them has dared likewise
defend the Mohammad cartoons - even though they are of a fully-clothed human.
No crowds gathering in protest, no mobs chanting for death to Husain, no bounty
on his head, no statement by the Indian government, and no resolution by the
Indian Parliament that condemns such a flagrant violation of the worldview
of the overwhelming majority of the Hindusthanis. On the contrary, the Nehruvian-secular
Indian State honours this Husain with a Padma Shri, a Padma Bhushan, and a
Padma Vibhushan. What's next for this smutty old man? The Bharat Ratna?
What connects Abdullah bin Abdul Aziz al-Saud
and MF Husain in their arrogance to what we pagans consider sacred? Read for
youirself the Koran, and see for yourself the hate it teaches of the pagan.***
Understand that the Koran is Allah's Word
- immutable, irrefutable, and eternal.
Never forget the worldwide pagan historical
experience of Islam. Everywhere it has conquered, it has wiped out paganism.
Islam declares its objective - that the whole world be Muslim. And steadily,
over the centuries, practising sama, dana, bheda, danda, mainly danda, it
wars to this end.
Remember Kashmir. Muslim rule of the Valley
began in the mid-14th century. In the early 15th century, Sultan Sikandar
Butshikan reduced the number of non-Muslims there to 11 families. With ups
and downs, but inexorably, Islam continued its "Mission Kashmir"
till, now, in practice (and with the connivance and consent of Nehruvian secularism),
the wellspring of our pagan civilization (V'mala 53) is a darul islam.
Abdullah bin Abdul Aziz al-Saud wields the
Sword of Islam. Indeed, the royal standard has the shahada and not one naked
sword but three, making clear the ruler's bellicosity for his faith. No one
doubts that this al-Sauds is a true Muslim. Therefore, believe him only when
his flags depict ploughshares instead of swords. Believe him only when he
extends to Hindus in his kingdom the same rights Muslims have in Hindusthan.
He will never do so. Believe MF Husain only when he paints Islamic divinities
in the same manner that he does Hindu ones. He will never do so.
Ask yourself why. I challenge you to come
up with a "secular" answer.
Till then, sure, deal with the al-Sauds of
the world, but you trust them at our peril.