When such conditions are widespread how can one blame the the RSS/Sangh Parivar alone for all the ills in the society.
Correct these above conditions and deny the oxygen that makes these groups relevant.Unless and until that is done don't blame RSS and its supporters.
Unfortunately, the answer for a series of mistakes is not to point at a countervailing series of mistakes.
Frequently, when we speak to our friends across the western borders, we are exasperated when we point out the ways in which they have harmed our nation, and they reply with a dhobi-list of items that they bear as real or imaginary grievances. Your reply is exactly the same as theirs. Are we then to justify all the armed attacks on India by saying that they feel frustrated and grieved by India not giving in to all their demands? Surely not. And therefore, your list of hideous things that have been committed by others cannot be a justification for the hideous things done by the Sangh Parivar. Two wrongs do not make a right.
There are other hyper-patriots floating across the Internet waves, and one of them, in a moment of sanity enunciated what is known as Shiv's Gambit: Person A to Person B: "Your shirt is torn!" Person B to Person A: "So what? Your fly is open!" Person B's shirt remains torn; in some mysterious way, he thinks that Person A's fly being open somehow justifies going around with a torn shirt. It doesn't.
Finally, those opposed to the Sangh Parivar aren't necessarily defenders of the Congress, as seems to be your entirely mistaken belief. Please see the comments below.
Sikhs getting slaughered in thousands = A MISTAKE.
It was not; it was
ethnic violence in its worst form, and it is a national shame that it is not pursued in the courts and the perpetrators, all of whom are known politicians and thugs in Delhi, brought to justice. Please do not use the Congress Party's excuses to justify Sangh Parivar excesses and similar acts of genocide.
Hindus pandits getting killed in Kashmir = Political problem.
Again, this was an act of
communal bias, and is the blackest stain in the face of Kashmiri secularism and inter-faith tolerance. Now we have a Hurriyat excuse being used to justify the Sangh.
Poor protestors getting shot in WB under Left Govt = Misunderstanding.
Well done; you have managed to rope in the Congress Party, the Hurriyat and the CPI(M), and shown that they too are guilty of horrible crimes against humanity. How does that justify the Sangh Parivar?
But,Muslims getting killed by a few hundred = Holocaust/Pogrom/Genocide.
So let us have your enlightened Sanghi opinion: do you want us to call it "A MISTAKE", a "political problem", or a "Misunderstanding"? And are you comparing the numbers?
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Banning Parzania in Gujarat = Communal.
Banning Da Vinci Code and Jo Bole So Nihaal = Secular
Again, two wrongs making a right, it would appear.
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Reservations in every school and college on caste lines = Secular.
Reservations in Minority institutions = Communal.
In your zeal and fervour, you seem to have slipped. There is constitutional protection for minority institutions. If you consult your local Sangh chalak, he will no doubt ask you to club that also as communal. You may have to do extra drill and starch your khaki chadddis extra stiff in expiation. You are to be commiserated with; calling reservations in minority institutions "communal" was at worst a Mistake, a political problem (of understanding) or a Misunderstanding.
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Fake encounters in Gujarat [Sohrabuddin] = BJP Communalism.
Fake encounters under Cong-NCP in Maharashtra [Khwaja Younus] = Police atrocity.
Fake encounters, you will agree, are breaches of the law, and the law-breakers are to be prosecuted for manslaughter if charges of murder are not tenable (there are certain conditions that have to be satisfied for charges of murder to be imposed). The difference is that the Sohrabuddin case is clearly an outcome of the rank corruption of the BJP minister as well and senior policemen, who were running a protection racket, and threatening lives unless they were paid off. Both are atrocities.
If you want to fight the Congress, a laudable political objective, and one with which many of us will have sympathy, do it without using their misdeeds to justify the Sangh. Kalmadi's corruption doesn't justify Yedyurappa's, Raja's corruption doesn't justify Venkaiah Naidu's.
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Talking about Hindus and Hinduism appeasment = Communal.
Perhaps you need to re-write this passage; appeasing Hindus is hardly communal. Appeasing, BTW, means avoiding conflict by making concessions to a threatening enemy; how does this fit your phrase? Are Hindus and Hinduism threatening, or have they been receiving concessions?
Talking about Muslims,Christians and Islam = Secular.
Don't you think an 80+% majority can afford to be accommodating? Do you find even talking about them offensive? Presuming that secular is an offensive term to you, as it frequently is for Sanghis.
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Not hanging Afzal Guru the mastermind despite Supreme Court orders = Humanity and Political dilemma/May affect Muslim sentiments
How does delay in a judicial execution equate to communal riot and murder and burning alive an elected MP who made repeated appeals to the Chief Minister before being killed?
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BJP questioning Islam = Communal.
Congress/Historians questioning Lord Ram's existance = Clerical Error.
Islam is history, recorded by its opponents as well as by its supporters. Lord Rama is myth, even according to a fanatic BJP-ite. What do you mean by clerical error, by the way?
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The man who said "When a big tree falls the ground beneath it shakes" is honored with his name being used for every new airport,stadium,sea link etc.
Disgraceful. Does this justify slaughtering Muslims and Christians?
The man who was the CM during the Guj riots is a modern incarnation of Hitler.
And what else was Hitler but the head of state while Jews were being exterminated? Is it your case that he personally pressed the buttons to release Cyklon B?
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While every Human rights activist/political party worth his saly fights for Muslim victims of th Guj riots , no one cares for the 58 Karsevaks killed intially and the 250 killed later in the riots by the Mulsim mobs.
It might come as a surprise to you to learn that enquiries into the matter have cast grave doubts on the story of Muslim mobs setting fire to the railway coach. Look up the facts. And this is not to justify a loss of life, nor the deaths of the innocent. Those rioters who were killed in self-defence is a different matter, but we aren't talking about that, are we?
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While a bomb blast in which a fringe group is among the suspects,it gets dubbed as "Hindu Terror" while in the case of its much famous cousin it becomes "Terrorism has no religion" and "innocent muslim youths are victimised"
Bigots are bigots on both sides. Which one are you citing to justify the other? It's a circular argument, don't you see?
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In a supposedly secular society Mulsims are given subsidy to go for Hajj ; while Hindus going to Amarnath Yatra are not even allotted proper land
And why didn't the BJP government and its coalition not stop this subsidy when it was in power?
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Supreme court orders in the Shah Bano case subverted to maintain Muslim sentiments.
But Allahabad court verdict for Ayodhya questioned as faith cannot determine law.
Again, why should the wrongs committed by the Congress (in the Shah Bano case, a shocking miscarriage of justice, forced on the nation by a spineless administration) serve as justification for someone else?
Does this act of blatant interference by a political party, reversing a judicial decision by act of Parliament, justify a bad judicial decision?
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M.H Hussain drawing Godess Saraswati nude = Freedom of free speech
But Danish cartoon activist should be condemned as it hurts Muslim sentiments
Again, the same error.
Hussain certainly had and has the right of free artistic expression, and it has nothing to do with the noxious and unpardonable verbal attacks on the Danish cartoonist. Both should be condemned, not one taken as an excuse to justify the other.
