Pessimistic Ambitions and Optimistic Illusions
Somethings that happened today morning prompted me to put my thoughts in words. May be in the process, along this blog I may hurt some communities sentiments, but to be frank I dont want to. I refrained from talking about my thoughts in public in regard to this issue in the recent days. A week back, in my univ I heard some one is organizing a meet for his own PhD thesis, where he would like to study about inter-nation conflicts. He would like to have the Indians and pakistanis sit in a common bench and talk about their views and share them. Yup, I can understand, any sincere diplomat, any Indian with highly rational views would say that would help each other know a lot about the other one. Some optimists would even dare to say that, this could be a start of an eternal peace. A lot has been heard from the various communities on both sides about people people contact. Many say that could be the binding solution. If I am a person , who I was 2 years back I would say yes to it. But not now, with the world of internet spread across my each and every living cells, I can dwell much more detailed way about, not only the kashmir, but more about religious terror, religious anguish, religious revenge.
Many seminars were conducted to say Islam is peace loving religion etc etc, but why didnt they try to modify the words , sorry moderate the words what were supposed to the concept of past. Yes, even the holy bible had many versus that were really harsh, but later the churches moderated it, removed it. They made it such that, it remains holy through out its journey. But why didnt they do that to holy quran. Christianism and Islam wernt that old as Hindusim. Hinduism is basically not a religion, its methodology which you can follow. It doesnt have even a single word about other people who arent hindus. It doesnt have any message about spreading religion. Why? simple, the basic concept of hindusim is just a way of life, it doesnt come under the concept of religion. But thats not applicable for the other two. Holy quran has been written just few centuries back. Islam is a young religion, Many things have changed in the few centuries. The concept of war among neighbouring nations now cease to exist. But still the holy quran reads the same verses, kill all those people who doesnt follow islam, coz they are infidels. The concept of globalisation now co exists along with us. Thats why we have european union. And still, holy quran says, try to conquer other nations and spread islam. The concept of individual way of life, women empowerment is underway even in the most poorest nation. And still holy quran reads, woman are always under men. Women can be divorced just by saying the word talaq 3 times. And after divorce the husband, if he likes to can give his ex wife some money, otherwise he can leave her. Still holy quran abides by the same word which justifies polygamy. Why didnt the muslim community self introspect these sayings of holy quran never in their life, and had thought about the revampment.
Let me give you a example, in India, we have this muslim board, highest authority in India that changes its civil laws, ( I guess everyone know that we dont have a uniform civil code, means we have seperate civil laws for muslims, hindus and christians..then why the hell we call ourselves secular, a compromise from the Indian political community with the muslim community- utter nonsense). This muslim board took 3 long decades to decide whether this concept of giving talaq is right or not. And after 3 long decades of wait, few months back it says, It abides by the holy quran. Let me give one more example, some years back the maharshtra govt tried to invoke a law, where it says, the concept of public distribution system wil be available to the families which follows family planning. And immediately all the muslim leaders, community members thronged the streets saying thats against Islam. What the hell is this? A country where food for the current 1 billion population itself is a big question mark, you wouldnt want to follow family planning norms, jus because you religion says you shoudnt follow. Is this fair. Please see this beyond your religion. Its simple, I woudnt say muslim people are bad hearted poeple, no they are nice kind hearted people, see our president Dr. kalam, an amazing person, an amazing personality. No where in my mind I stamp him saying he belongs to a particular community. But then what is wrong. Lets dwell more into it, out of india's 10 most wanted, 8 are muslims. Out of America's 100 most wanted approximately 80 are muslims. Out of all the terror incidents that happened in the past 1 year, all were conducted by Islamic terror organisation. Never in the past few years I have heard a hindu terror organisation, christian terror orgainsation. That doesnt mean I am stamping muslims as terrorists. Iam the same person, who cried when people where ripped apart in gujarat by communal riots. Gujarat isnt an answer for godhra. yes somethiong wrong happened in godhra, its done by some mob fiery muslim group, but that doesnt justify gujarat. Same goes with coimbatore. Same goes with kashmir.
The non islamic Indian community has compromised a lot for the sake of keeping its secular fabric high. Lets talk about some more issues. Back in history, there is a incident, once chola king went for a yatra to north India, he was bemused by the beautiful temples in north India. Hence he felt really bad and as soon as he came back to his kingdom, he ordered his artisans to build lavishing temples. OK here is a question, can you guys see any artistic north indian temple any where, then what temple chola king talks about? Simple all those temples are ruins of invaded muslim kings. The court cae of ayodhya was registered believe it or not in 1830's a 170 year old case which is still in the court. Are the judges stupids? no the political democratic India doesnt want muslims to feel bad. It can be easily proved, even the archelogical survey of India report says there is a temple underneath. Then why no judgement is passed. Simple we are trying to compromise. The Indian democratic value tries to provide some breathing space for this minority community. Nothin wrong. What the political India is trying to do is perfect to its core.
Ok guys, now remember what you read in history books long time back. You would have read akbar to be a nice kind, you would have read akbar had 100 wives and off which many are hindus. And here I remember one sentence, it says, you know why akbar married hindus, its because he loved that relgion too. He want to give them equal rights. And never in that book you would have read a word against polygamy, never in that book you would have read about the stories where Akbar the great has forced so many beautiful young hindu women to marry him. I am not saying these truths should be put in the book. Yes, the writers have carefully avoided these versus in order to preserve its secular fabric. Never in your history book, you would have read about the truth's of various temples destroyed by aurangazeb. Never in you history book you would have read about the differential tax system enforced by aurangazeb on hindus. Why Why? simple the political India compromised truths to maintain secular integrity. What these communist writers have done is absolutely justfied.
Now lets see the issue of hindu fundamentalism. The amount of power that various hindu organisations like RSS, VHP enjoy in the past decade is simply immense when compared to what they did few years back. How could this happen. Simple, they triggered the fear of the hindu community. They used kashmir terror, coimbatore blasts, mumbai blasts, delhi blasts. But why that didnt happen in the previous decade. Simple there were no emotional issues. the rise of hindu fundementalism is a abnormal mutation caused due to the activities of muslim terror groups. Now this entirely changes the concept of hindusim, which could later result in many abnormal consequences.
Guyz, the Indian non muslim community has compromised a lot for the sake of keeping its secular fabric alive. Yes there were many cummunal riots, mumbai riots, coimbatore riots, gujarat riots, but all were nacklash. Mumbai riots started because of a blast due to some muslim terror group, same with coimbatore. So this means, am I pledging that I will wipe the muslim community. No thats nonsense. live and let other people live. We compromised so much, what we need in return is a moderate Islam. A Islam which is for the humans to survive, not for the humans to die. 5000 died in 9/11 cause a muslim terror organisation. 1000 died in indonesian blast coz a muslim organisation. till now 50000 people have died in kashmir insurgency coz a muslim non secular govt which binds people to fight for stupid cause in the name of religion. 1000's died in mumbai, delhi and coimbatore blasts. 1000s died in madrid train blasts. Yes you would now shoot at me that till now the statistics says, approx 5000 muslims have died in India due to communal riots. But again its a backlash. Any emotional carnage will always spring back with a more emotional and horrible one.
This is the time for the muslim community to have a introspective thinking. The Indian community have compromised so much killings, so much half truths in history books, so much temples, what we need in return is a moderation in Islamic teachings. What we need is a deliberation of Holy quran. What we need is a revampment of islamic laws, that could bring them mainstream along with other people. By laws, by your teching , you are still in the dark age. There was a rennaisance in the form of frech revolution, that wiped the worlds biggest dark age. I dono what type of second rennaisance that would reform your laws. i am optimistic I want one.But thats a illuison. I cant see one in the near future. yea that means I am not a optimist ( confused huh?) May be this young Indian kid, is loosing his hope on keeping up the indian unity. But I sincerely hope that doesnt happen.
