Author: Francois Gautier
Publication: The Pioneer
Date: July 30, 2008
In most of the cases, it is Indian Muslim
terrorists
I have often been accused of being a 'Right-winger',
a 'saffron journalist', a 'Hindu-lover'. Actually I am proud to be a lover
of the Hindus -- 850 million in India, a billion in the world, one in every
six humanbeings on this planet. I am proud to defend people who have always
accepted others, who have given refuge to all persecuted minorities in the
world, and who still possess knowledge of karma, yoga, avatar and the hidden
realities behind life. People who still produce gurus, ashrams, individuals
for us to learn from.
What surprises me the most is that there must
be around 200 foreign media correspondents posted in India and that I do not
know another one who defends Hindus, except maybe Mark Tully, in a roundabout
manner.
I am appalled at what is happening at the
moment. For, make no mistake, it is not a question of buying MPs to get through
a dubious vote of confidence, it is not even a question of the Communists
versus the Samajwadi Party, or even so-called secularist forces against the
BJP, or the unleashing of terrorism on Indian democracy. It is, in fact, an
all out attack on Hindus and their values.
Nobody wants to call a spade a spade, or else,
apologists of Islam will say that Islamic fundamentalism happens because of
Palestine or Ayodhya or the Gujarat riots. But make no mistake. All these
attacks in Jaipur, Mumbai, Varanasi, Bangalore and Ahmedabad are only targeting
Hindus; it is an accident if some Muslims also get killed. Why is it then
that at the moment India seems to be paralysed into inaction in the face of
an all-out war against Indian liberties and values by Islamic terrorists?
One is really shocked and suspicious as to
why Prime Minister Manmohan Singh appears hell-bent to impose upon the nation
a nuclear deal with the US which will neutralise India's nuclear weapons in
the face of the aggressive nuclear weaponisation of China and Pakistan, and
negate India's independence in foreign policy, as well as to bring with it
immense Westernisation, not to speak of a huge influx of Christian missionaries.
Here again, Hindus will lose.
Most of today's media, sadly, is anti-Hindu.
Nothing symbolises this more than CNN-IBN. This channel has chosen to sit
on sting operation tapes that clearly show someone close to a very senior
Samajwadi Party leader handing over a crore of rupees to three BJP MPs as
inducement for abstaining from the trust vote moved by the Prime Minister.
If the tapes had been aired, it would have immediately led to the postponement
of the trust vote and the UPA would have ultimately lost confidence motion.
Instead, CNN-IBN decided not to telecast the
tapes. It sat on them for 24 hours before handing them over to the Speaker.
Is this the role of the media? Can a mainstream television news channel, which
is associated with a well-known international television organisation, be
so partisan and unethical? And get away with it?
Whenever Hindus are hit, the Government looks
the other way. It happened when four lakh Hindus were chased out of the Kashmir
Valley and many were killed in terrorist attacks over a period of time --
both the Centre and the State Government just kept watching. It happened over
the recent Sri Amarnath Shrine Board land transfer issue. How dare Mr Omar
Abdullah make a self-righteous yet untruthful speech in Parliament and then
complain that he was booed?
And now look at the inertia of the Union Government
and the media after the Bangalore blasts followed by the the horrible bombings
in Ahmedabad, killing more than 50 innocent people.
Does the UPA think that the common citizen
of India is a nitwit and does not understand that the Government of India,
by pointing its finger at Pakistan's ISI, or at some Bangladeshi outfit, is
trying to deflect attention from the fact that most of the recent terror attacks
have been perpetrated by Indian Muslims, with or without Pakistani or Bangladeshi
(or Al Qaeda) help?
It is not only a matter of vote-bank in times
of election but also a fact that politicians in India want to keep their citizens
blindfolded and pretend that nothing is happening. Does not the Government
realise that we have all become cynical to its usual conduct on such occasions.
It first condemns 'in the strongest terms' the 'barbarous act' and appeals
for calm and 'communal harmony', and then gives a few lakhs each to the families
of the dead or injured, so that they shut up, and finally never catches the
culprits. And so it goes on till the next terrorist strike.
I am a born Christian, but I marvel at the
greatness that is Hinduism and Hindus. Ms Sonia Gandhi and Mr Manmohan Singh
are doing all they can to cut Hindus to size. Unless Hindus wake up now, unless
they realise that they are under attack from all sides, one of the greatest
civilisations of all times will slowly pass away. That will be a great loss
to the world.
