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By: V Sundaram, IAS, Retd. June 09, 2006 Views expressed here are author’s own and not of this website. Full disclaimer is at the bottom. 
FeedbackThe Supreme Court stayed the Gujarat High Court order which directed authorities to take immediate steps to remove all religious structures encroaching on public space without any discrimination. This order has been passed by the Supreme Court after a petition was moved by the Government of India seeking an immediate stay of the ongoing demolition drive in the State on the ground that it feared that the Vadodara conflagration would spill over into other States as well. What is the guarantee that if the Supreme Court of India were to pass a final order upholding the orders of the Gujarat High Court in this very matter after a month, the Government of India would not stoop to the low level of again nullifying the effect of the Supreme Court order using the instrumentality of Parliament? The Government of India shamelessly amended the Indian Penal Code to overturn the Judgment of the Supreme Court in the Shah Bano case. In this context it should also be borne in mind that Muslim orthodoxy and Muslim liberalism may be divided on the question of Muslim women, but they are one where the infidels are concerned. The Government of India during British Rule did not allow the establishment of a Muslim University at Government expense. Keeping this fundamental point in view, the Supreme Court of India recently made it clear that Aligarh Muslim University set up in 1920 was not a minority institution. Again, the pseudo secular, Islam-embracing UPA Government in New Delhi overturned this judgment by bringing about an amendment to the Act governing the University. This was a stark and sordid act of minority appeasement at the cost of the nation as a whole. In order to retain its Muslim vote bank in Assam, the Congress Government had enacted the IMDT Act which excluded the application of Foreigners Act only to the State of Assam. This Act was declared unconstitutional by the Supreme Court. The UPA Congress Government in New Delhi is now trying to subvert the decision of the Supreme Court and the spirit of the Indian Constitution by amending the Foreigners Act. History of India after 1945 has been a disgraceful history of minority appeasement and extreme tolerance of minority terrorism. In the 1945-46 General Elections, Muslims in every State in the then united India voted for the creation of Pakistan. The superior rights envisaged and proposed by that Islam-embracing Jawaharlal Nehru were codified and incorporated in Articles 25 to 30 of the Constitution. At that time no one questioned Nehru as to why he was proposing a package of special treatment with special privileges for the Muslims even after they had been given a separate homeland based on Non-saffron Jinnah's "Two-Nation" theory. Being a clever and unscrupulous politician, after the death of Mahatma Gandhi, Nehru realized that the only way in which he could create a vote bank for the Congress Party was by providing superior rights for the Muslims in the Constitution. With his known contempt for the Hindus of India, Nehru used his influence in a wily manner in such a way that all matters of concern to Hindus as a whole were included in the non-justifiable Directive Principles of State policy. Thus he gave special justifiable rights for the minorities under the umbrella of Fundamental Rights. The Hindus of India were politically cheated by being put under the umbrella of non-justifiable Directive Principles of State policy. This vicious dichotomy has become the unmanageable AIDS (Acquired Immuno-deficiency Syndrome) in our national polity today. After the Congress Party came to power in New Delhi in May 2004, it has renewed its traditional policy of minority appeasement at any cost. If there is one political party in the world which has worked consistently, ceaselessly, relentlessly and remorselessly against the Hindus of India, it is the Congress Party. During the last two years, it has set up Rajender Sachar Commission, Ranganath Misra Commission, Siddique Commission and a Commission under the Human Resources Development Minister (indeed in actual fact a Human Resources Destruction Minister!) to look into the demands of the Muslims. It is a known fact of history that Muslims in general are cruelly oppressive when in majority and subversively turbulent when in minority. By going out of its way to appease the minorities, the UPA Government in New Delhi is participating with pseudo-secular gusto in the disastrous process of subversion of the spirit of the Constitution, time and again. Our wicked politicians are very fond of talking about Hindu-Muslim unity. This is not an easy task. If we carefully go through the pages of Indian History, it will be clear that the number of victims arising from the persecutions of Hindus by Muslims is easily of the same order of magnitude as that of the extermination of the Jews by Hitler in Nazi Germany. Unlike in Europe, in India the Muslims needed more than five centuries of attempts at invasion before they could catch hold of large parts of India and everywhere they encountered endless resistance and had to settle for a compromise. The Muslim conquests, down to the 16th century, were to the Hindus a pure struggle of life and death. Entire cities were burnt down and the populations massacred with hundreds of thousands killed in every campaign, and similar numbers deported as slaves. Every new invader made (often literally) his hills of Hindus sculls. Thus the conquest of Afghanistan in the year 1000 AD was followed by the annihilation of the Hindu population in that region which is still called the "Hindu Kush", ?Hindu Slaughter". The Brahmani Sultans (1347-1480) in Central India made it a rule to kill 100,000 Hindus every year. In 1399, Timur killed 100,000 captives in a single day in Delhi. The Vijayanagar Empire came to an end at the battle of Talikota in 1565 which left the capital at Hampi and the large areas of Karnataka depopulated. Robert Sewell, (beyond any doubt a non-saffron historian!!), in his famous book "A Forgotten Empire" gives the following description of the wanton destruction caused by the invading Muslim Armies at Talikota: ?The third day saw the beginning of the end. The victorious Musalmans had halted on the field of battle for rest and refreshment, but now they had reached the capital, and from that time forward for a space of five months Vijayanagar knew no rest. The enemy had come to destroy and they carried out their object relentlessly. They slaughtered the people without mercy; broke down the temples and palaces; and wreaked such savage vengeance on the abode of Kings, that with the exception of a few great stone-built temples and walls, nothing now remains but a heap of ruins to mark the spot where once the Stately buildings stood. They demolished the statues, and even succeeded in breaking the limbs of the huge Narahsimha Monolith. Nothing seemed to escape them. They broke up the pavilions standing on the huge platform from which the Kings used to watch the festivals, and overthrew all the carved work. They lit huge fires in the magnificently decorated buildings forming the temple of Vittalaswamy near the river and smashed its exquisite stone sculptures. With fire and sword, with crow-bars and axes, they carried on day after day their work of destruction. Never perhaps in the history of the world has such havoc been wrought, and wrought so suddenly, on so splendid a city; teeming with a wealthy and industrious population in the full plenitude of prosperity one day, and on the next seized, pillaged, and reduced to ruins, amid scenes of savage massacre and horrors beggaring description?. "Negationism" means the denial of historical crimes against humanity. Congress-sponsored negations in India means concealing this known historical record of Islam in India. It means the denial of crimes against the Hindu majority across centuries. Profull Goradia, former Member of Parliament, has written a brilliant book called ?Hindu Masjids?. In this book he describes in graphic detail about certain important cases of destruction of Hindu Temples which were converted into Mosques or Masjids by the Muslim Rulers from time to time during the last 1000 years. In this book he has rightly observed: ?Hindu Masjids personify the deep chasm, or the sharp conflict between the Hindu ethos and Muslim zealotry. The conflict must be resolved. Why are we anxious? For the simple reason that without resolution, India cannot acquire the spirit of collective honor. And without national pride, the country cannot leap forward. Individual citizens may flourish or shine, as they do even now, whether at home or overseas. But the collective performance of the country disappoints. ?? Many Samaritans and great men like Mahatma Gandhi who tried to bridge the Hindu/Muslim chasm, failed because they could not comprehend the mismatch between the Hindu psyche and the Muslim mind. ? ? The psyche of a Muslim is to try and dominate whatever and whomever he can. Domination is the central thrust of Islam. Whereas accommodation is the core of Hinduness. To bridge this known historic gap or gulf between the desire to dominate and readiness to accommodate is the challenge before all the Indians today?. It is unfortunate but true that in Muslim history there has been no protest from Muslim quarters against what Islam has done to non-Muslims. V Sundaram, IAS, Retd.
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