Once again, this week India watched the spectacle of its
secularist intellectuals and media expressing more sympathy for
terrorists than for their victims. Arnab Goswami’s
“Don’t Romanticize Terror” clip from his televised The News Hour debate
on Kashmir captures the crux of this strange but very familiar
phenomenon quite accurately.
But let’s backtrack just a little, to the previous week.
On July 1, around the same time that the world’s attention was fixed on Dhaka where the terrible Holey Artisan Bakery drama was unfolding, yet another Hindu priest was killed, hacked to death, this time while gathering flowers for morning puja.
It was another jihadist act of violence in a systemic, targeted
campaign that is the hallmark of intolerance and religious
fundamentalism. This also happened in Bangladesh, where Hindus, once the
majority community, are now at the very bottom of the totem pole of
human survival and dignity. They are also the most vulnerable among the
groups who have been chosen by Islamists for extermination. The other
targets have been gays, atheist bloggers and intellectuals, Buddhists,
Christians, and ex-Muslims, but Hindus have been the most victimized.
With the ethnic cleansing of Hindus Kashmir an obvious and seemingly
irreversible fait accomplished, there is now a clear plan underway to
empty Bangladesh of its remaining 8% Hindu population.
Compared to Bangladesh, the condition of Hindus is perhaps only a shade better in Muslim dominated regions of India. On July 6, in India’s West Bengal (which has seen a three-fold rise in Muslims entering Bengal civil services due to reservations and government facilitation), on Rath Yatra day, Hindus houses, shops and families were attacked in the Muslim majority district of Uttar Dinajpur. Hindu Existence has documented how
“According to that grand plan to attack Hindus on Eid-ul-Fitr Day, armed Muslims started attacking Hindu houses, shops and families after offering Namaj with a huge and frightening slogans “Allah-hu-Akbar” and “Dinajpur-Dinajpur, Hindu tomra bhago dur”, etc. Incidentally, all these areas of disturbance are located just near WB-Bangladesh international border.
But let’s backtrack just a little, to the previous week.
On July 1, around the same time that the world’s attention was fixed on Dhaka where the terrible Holey Artisan Bakery drama was unfolding, yet another Hindu priest was killed, hacked to death, this time while gathering flowers for morning puja.
Compared to Bangladesh, the condition of Hindus is perhaps only a shade better in Muslim dominated regions of India. On July 6, in India’s West Bengal (which has seen a three-fold rise in Muslims entering Bengal civil services due to reservations and government facilitation), on Rath Yatra day, Hindus houses, shops and families were attacked in the Muslim majority district of Uttar Dinajpur. Hindu Existence has documented how
“According to that grand plan to attack Hindus on Eid-ul-Fitr Day, armed Muslims started attacking Hindu houses, shops and families after offering Namaj with a huge and frightening slogans “Allah-hu-Akbar” and “Dinajpur-Dinajpur, Hindu tomra bhago dur”, etc. Incidentally, all these areas of disturbance are located just near WB-Bangladesh international border.
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