Harmony and Peace

On the occasion of the Mahatma Gandhi's birthday, Abdul Fakhri wrote a wonderful blog in Sastwingees about peace and harmony. As usual lot of discussion around the subject, here I’m trying to continue some, how Hindu ideology(RSS and it’s child organizations Vishwa Hindu Parishad, Bajrang Dal etc)try to corrupt people’s mind by creating negative perceptions about minorities.

1. Christians and Muslims are organized religions, they have very strict rules about attending Sunday mass and Friday Jum’ah. But Hindu religion is not organized, so we are here to support you as an organized group, we are saviors.

Reality: All religions are some how organized and Hindus are more organized than others, because Hindus do lot of rituals/puja at home, not at temple, due to timings and changing lifestyle. Hindu religion more towards to home and family based, so we don’t need a dedicated time at temple and organized. We have police force and human rights group to protect us. Our Police, Army and Para military force are the saviors for us.

2. Christians and Muslims have more foreign connections and they are not patriots like Hindus.

Reality: Truth is Hindus have more connection with foreign countries than any other religion in India. Even though there is no concrete evidence to prove that, but based on current situation and people’s eagerness to immigrate other countries, it is clear that foreign connection is balanced with all religion. So all Non Resident Indians are unpatriotic but we only need foreign exchange money from them, India can not buy oil unless our Muslims, Christians, and Hindus brothers working hard at desert Gulf countries. What a flummery?

3. Christian’s likes heavy metal rock songs NOT Indian music, and Muslims loves Pakistan Cricketers NOT Indian Cricketers.

Reality: Nowadays Tamil, Hindi songs are more than equal to heavy metal rock songs. If Hindu ideology is real concern with this, they have to first clear their own backyard first. Moreover music is common to all, one can love any song as they like. There are great Christian carnatic singers are there, they are really awesome.

Cricketers, some of Hindus love Adam Gilchrist or Malcolm Marshal so as per Hindu ideology they are unpatriotic? It is skewed logic that all Indians should love Indian cricketers. So whoever not interested in cricket are unpatriotic??

4. Muslims hosting Pakistan flag.

Reality: this was a serious allegation from Hindu ideology, and someone got nervous after seeing some green flag in Muslim neighborhood, if they see carefully it was a green flag but not Pakistan’s. It was some Muslim religion flag. Actually it is illegal to host other nation’s flag in India at common places, without proper paper works. Some hardcore Muslim radical always try to host Pakistan flag at Kashmir and else where, that doesn’t mean that all Muslims are radical and try to host Pakistan’s flag in India. Hindu ideology also not obeying law, they sing ‘Vande Matharam’ instead of lawful national anthem ‘Jana gana mana’.

Some years ago, one of South Tamil Nadu town on verge of communal violence, because Hindu ideology accused Muslim neighborhood celebrating Pakistan’s cricket victory against India by cracking firecrackers. But the truth was they were celebrating some housewarming or some other function, but the timing was wrong. This is what exactly happening in India, because of rumors and ideology’s extreme neurotic disorder created many communal clashes.

5. A Christian favors other Christian and so do Muslims but a Hindu don’t favors other Hindus.

Reality: This is somehow true, but it was all because of Hindu’s religion set up, a Hindu may not favor other Hindu but within same caste they do favors each other. But any way, why we need favoritism from others. A low confidence and low esteem people only need favoritism, a high confidence and high esteem people doesn’t need any favoritism. If someone required favoritism then something wrong with them.

6. Conversion – A hot topic now

Reality: Historically Indian people are not Hindus, Hinduism was monopoly for long time, and hence all Indians become Hindus. Indian people not aware of other religions before Megals and British came into country. As a human and freedom of choice, everybody should know about all religion and we have to select one, which is, better for us, moreover in early olden days for poor Indians, religion is for food and protection. There is nothing wrong to follow other religion which is not by our birth. Temple, Church, Mosque all are same, all has same purpose that to preach harmony and peace.

7. If Christian suffers, powerful west countries are there to support, if Muslim suffers, rich Gulf countries are there to support, for Hindus we are the only one.

Reality: From 1992 Mumbai communal violence to still now Orissa, Karnataka violence there was no war plane/or force came from west or gulf to support Indian minorities. There were some voice from here and there, none of the countries has right to intervene Indian internal matters, as long as Indian government controls violence within threshold time and there is no major human right violations.

8. In India, all bomb blasts are happening because of Muslims.

Reality: Terrorism is the main reason for bomb blast. Most of the bomb blasts happened in India was because of Muslim radical group Indian Mujahedeen, which has ties with al-Qaeda. This is not isolated to India, now it is global issue, and we are fighting against terrorism and hopefully we can eliminate terrorism from this world.

There are many more perceptions, disconcert are the reason for unnecessary clashes between religions in India, overall India and Indians are very peaceful in nature. Most of violence’s are out of panic and there was no real threat to any body. Our law well protected every Indian citizen and treated everybody equally. It is okay to disagree with each other but it is not okay to kill each other, in the name of religion. All we need now is ideology exorcism from some of quixotic Indians. It is time to ban Vishwa Hindu Parishad, Bajrang Dal, Christian Maoists and Indian Mujahedeen etc.