Vajpayee is Correct!

[Lalith.]

He said that muslims can\'t get along with anyone, and are true haters! why 90% of world terrorists are muslims? any clue? Coz they don\'t like to live with Hindus, Jews, Chritians.

[Taher]

If you read your message yourself it should provoke a thought in your mind that if 90% of terrorists are muslims then by now 90% of the nonbelievers would not have existed. You or anybody with that opinion wouldn\'t have existed to write this!!

So, I tell you brother dont get carried away with the words of politicians - it is our - Indians -misfortune that majority of our politicians are criminal minded and as such they think , act and behave in the same way.

Don\'t worry be happy!!

[hina]

Dear Lalith,For once in your life find a topic that makes sense.The headline of your message says that Vajpayee is Correct,But to me It looks like he is out of this world.Whenever he is giving a speech he looks half asleep to me.The prime minister of the world\'s biggest democracy most of the time sounds like he is not sure of what he is saying.He takes forever to deliver a sentence.India definitely deserves a better P.M. than him.I would appreciate if you would correct yourself rather than what Mr.Vajpayee says ,because I\'m not sure if Vajpayee even knows whats going on in the world.He always looks sedated to me.

[Ehtram]

No it is not true. Your posting shows your knowledge of History. If muslims were so! as you are putting, then you would have been either muslim today or would not have come to existence in this world cos muslims ruled for 500 years on India remember!!! Everyone co-existed and had never been forced to change their faith. I guess that was the biggest mistake which muslim rulers committed in past?

[Ram]

Yes, we don\'t want to give another chance to muslims, and we should take inspiration from Gujarati muslims.

[Suresh]

Co-existed? They can\'t kill all Hindus, but they succesfully able to kill 1,00,000! yes 1,00,000 Hindus in a single day(Terrorist Auragazeb). Compared to that massacre, Gujarat killing is nothing.

[FACTS]

Yes! 90% of the terrorists were muslims. Pakistani terrorists(Jaise-e-muhmud), Kashmiri terrorists(Muslims Laskar-e-thoiba), Afgan terrorists(Taliban), Iran terrorists(Hezbollah), Palestine terrorists(Islamic jihad), Phillipine terrorists(Abu syyeff group), Saudi terrorist(Osama and company), Iraqi terrorist(Saddam) and the list goes on. We do have terrorist groups right here in Hyderabad, as well. Also, there were other terrorist groups like LTTE(They never fought war in the name of religion), Northern Ireland...etc.

[TruthInPoetry]

does india have no conscience?
it\'s a moment of glory
for naipaul\'s area of darkness
while people bleed
students fear to go to schools
politicians drink
bloody marys in safari suits
and do damage control over press conferences
with foreign scribes in air-conditioned rooms
diseases break out in relief camps
who cares it\'s the indian way

it\'s brisk business for the butcher of gujarat
now scavengers are busy counting
votes in shrouds
god have a heart.

[L.K.Adwani]

Weeks ago, the resident editor of The Times of India in Ahmedabad sent our office in Delhi a photograph so shocking it made my stomach churn. Shocking not just for what it depicted but because, to paraphrase Barthes, ‘‘one was looking at it from inside our freedom’’. This was my India. This is my India. On a hot and dusty patch of asphalt lies the naked body of a woman, Geetaben, her clothes stripped off and thrown carelessly near her. One piece of her underclothing lies a foot away from her body, the other is clutched desperately in her left hand. Her left arm is bloodied, as is her torso, which appears to have deep gashes. Her left thigh is covered in blood and she is wearing a small anklet. Her plastic chappals sit sadly alongside her lifeless body and in the middle of the photo frame is a gnarled, red, hate-filled remnant of a brick, perhaps the one her assailants used to deliver their final blow. Geetaben was killed in Ahmedabad on March 25, in broad daylight, near a bus stop close to her home. She was a Hindu who in the eyes of the Hindu separatists currently ruling Gujarat had committed the cardinal sin of falling in love with a Muslim man. When the sangh parivar mobs came for him, she stood her ground long enough for him to flee. But the killers seemed more interested in her. She was dragged out, stripped naked and killed. No lethal dose of Zyklon-B delivered surreptitiously in a darkened, secluded chamber. Geetaben’s murder was never meant to be a furtive, secret affair. The holocaust that chief minister Narendra Modi’s administration presided over was engineered in the knowledge that the Indian state never punishes murderers with political connections. Delhi 1984, Bombay 1993, Gujarat 2002. Neither Congress, Third Front or BJP believes in Nurembergs. In these troubled times when heroes are scarce and villains abound, Geetaben deserves to be worshipped. She is Gujarat’s Jhansi-ki-Rani, its La Passionaria. I salute you, Geetaben, from the bottom of my heart for your one brief moment of defiance. For even in death, with your helpless, innocent body bloodied and your clothes ripped apart, you showed more courage, humanity and dignity and more fidelity to the Hindu religion — than prime minister Atal Behari Vajpayee has done in the past month. When the day of reckoning comes, no one will dare ask you where you were when Gujarat was burning. But when Yama waves a dossier at Mr Vajpayee and asks him how many lives he saved, what will he answer, I wonder. Will he hang his head in shame as he did at Shah-e-Alam camp.

[Citizen of India, forever]

It is with a sense of anguish, anger and deep sorrow that the people of India
received PM\'s speech at the Goa . Despite the
knowledge that he has been a swayamsevak all your life, you had managed to
convince a large section of Indian society that he is little different.

That he believed in democratic principles and while sharing the RSS dream of
a Hindu rashtra were realistic enough to know that this could not be realised
in today\'s world without a civil war and the disintegration of India as we
know it.

He has issued a denial of facts, but then you know as well as we that
denial is a practice made common by him.
He said that Hindus have allowed the Muslims and Christians to follow
their religion in India. This was the ideology that gave birth to the Nathuram Godses of the
world. It was leaders far taller than the present PM who had the vision and the foresight to
ensure that the plurality of India was enshrined in a Constitution which even
criminals in politics are compelled to swear by when they enter the
Legislature.

RSS opposed the struggle for freedom and like the Muslim League, tried to
take full advantage of the communalism that the trauma of Partition had
unleashed.

The minorities are as essential and integral a part of this country as the
majority community. We are all Indian citizens. We bleed, we hurt, we cry, we
laugh, we weep. We love our country unlike the fanatics of the RSS and the
BJP who are out to destroy the foundations of India.

Those who kill children, rape women, burn foetuses and burn men are not human
beings. They are animals. Those who are being killed today are Muslims. Those
who were killed yesterday were Hindus. Those who were killed the day before
were Christians. Those who are being killed since times immemorial are Dalits.

The atmosphere of communalism takes its toll. People bleed when communal
forces, be they Hindu or Muslim, work to vitiate the atmosphere and challenge
the democratic and secular spirit of India. The Chief Minister of Gujarat,
Narendra Modi, who should by any law of the land be in jail facing trial, has
emerged out of the shattered streets of Gujarat as the new RSS/BJP mascot.

The PM also joined in highly sinister campaign justifying the open murder of thousands
as a \"reaction\" to the reprehensible attack on the Sabarmati Express at
Godhra.

Instead of taking India out of the darkness in which it is being deliberately
sunk, he has have effectively plugged even the little chink through which a ray
of hope could have reached the traumatised survivors. Everybody, but
everybody has condemned the Godhra massacre.

It is a canard that he is spreading along with the rest that sections of
society have hesitated to denounce the violence that left women and children
dead in the charred bogeys of the ill-fated train.

At the same time not a single citizen of India with even an iota of
democratic blood in his or her veins can condone the violence unleashed by
the State that led to the burning of human beings, the repeated rape of young
girls and women, the murder of children.

Thousands, according to independent fact-finding committees who have visited
the State, have died in the orgy of violence that he has not still not
condemned. Thousands more are lying in relief camps Ì an euphemism for hell
holes without medicines, water, food or care.

Their homes are destroyed, there is no security to ensure their return, they
are frightened, shattered. The children remember the violent death of their
fathers, the rape of their mothers.

Wives scream in the night as images of their men being burnt alive haunt
them. Fathers weep as the rape of their daughters refuses to let them sleep
in peace. Is this what the people of India, innocent citizens who love this country
deserve?

Where is your conscience Mr Vajpayee? Where is the compassion that your
Ministers show even for dogs? Where is your sense of justice? Where, indeed,
is your nationalism? Killing fellow citizens is not patriotism. It is murder.
It is an anti-national act. Your support for Modi sent shivers down the spine
of secular India, as it sought to draw a distinction between citizens on
grounds of religion.

Violence, of any kind, cannot be justified. He, with his long experience in
public life should know that better than anyone else. The State exists to
protect its citizens.

He is in place to ensure that no one takes law into his own hands, that all
citizens are given equal respect, dignity and freedom, that the violence of
communalism is not brought to our doorstep.

Where do we go when you decide to join those who are violating the
Constitutional guarantees on the basis of which all of us are living today?
The apex court may intervene on the side of justice but it is the PM, as the
executive, who has to implement the law.

Muslims are not aliens. They are just ordinary people of this land who have
never claimed to be a monolith. The Malayalam speaking Muslim in Kerala has
more in common with people of his State than with the Assamese speaking
Muslim of Assam. They are poorer than others because of mistakes and a
certain discrimination which needs to be rectified.

They are more illiterate, perhaps, because of a reluctance to send their
girls to school. But they are certainly not the dirty, over breeding kind of
people that BJP tries to project them as. They are just a composite of
the poor villager, the landlord, the slum dweller, the school teacher, the engineer, the doctor, the
journalist, the politician.

They are like you, with the same blood through their veins and the same heart
beating in their breasts. Look for the similarities and you will strengthen
this excitingly plural, diverse India. Look for the differences and you will
destabilise the nation.

The PM has made his choice. He might have been forced to, as many in his party allege with gloating glee. It is good that he
have come out in the open.

At least the people of India who have rejected the BJP ideology, who are
standing up to be counted in this war against communalism know where matters
stand today. The PM is now facing another choice. Either he leave on his own,
or let the people vote him out.

India is taller, bigger, more glorious than you or me. We are all citizens of
this country, whether the RSS and the BJP accept it or not. It was a choice
made by our ancestors and endorsed over and over again by us. We have never
had second thoughts. It is true that the violence in Gujarat has scared us
out of our wits. We know that it can be repeated in other parts of the
country.

We have the memories of the Assam violence, the Punjab extremism, the murder
of Sikhs in Delhi, the Mumbai killings, Meerut, Malliana, Aligarh... Yes, we
are terrified. But there is not one person amongst us, Muslim or Hindu or
Christian, who has reconsidered his citizenship. No one will leave India.

Remember Mr Vajpayee, India does not
take kindly to destabilising violence.