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By: V Sundaram, IAS, Retd.
February 12, 2007
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It has been reported that several people were injured, vehicles damaged,
houses and shops looted and ransacked during the communal violence that
rocked Bharatinagar and surrounding areas in Bangalore on 19 January
(Friday). It continued for three days. According to the Police, the
trouble erupted when a group of people were marching towards Shivajinagar
Stadium from K G Halli to attend a rally organized by the newly formed
People"s Front to protest against the execution of Saddam Hussain and
"American imperialism". It is understood that the processionists set on
fire some banners on Seppings Road in Bharatinagar. A group of people took
objection to this which led to a clash. Those who were part of the
procession started attacking houses, vehicles and shops with stones, the
police said. The mob started pelting stones and burning vehicles parked on
Thimmaiah Road. The arsonists barged into a web-designing centre, damaged
computers and set them on fire. The mob barged into several houses and
shops, ransacked them and looted valuables.
The police had enough indication of the impending violence as some of the
precisionists were carrying weapons. Taking advantage of the lax security,
a section of the precisionists went on the rampage and targeted the homes
and properties of the majority Hindu community who live in the lanes and
by-lanes of the Muslim-dominated areas of Shivajinagar, Commercial Street,
Bharati Nagar and Fraser Town. According to the police, around 50
vehicles, including cars and police vehicles, were set on fire. The police
rushed additional forces to the area. The situation was very tense and
explosive. Similar incidents were also reported from Thimmaiah Road,
Narayana Pillai Street, Seppings Road, etc. The whole area was strewn with
glass pieces, mangled vehicles and burnt tyres. The injured have been
admitted to various hospitals. The Assistant Commissioner of Police
(Fraser Town) Puttathimme Gowda has stated: "In order to quell the mob, a
head constable fired three rounds in the air. Later, I used my service
revolver and fired four rounds in the air. This did not control the
situation and people started throwing stones at me and my men."
Puttathimme Gowda, sub-inspector M Malalingaiah, police constables
Ratnakar and Siddaramaiah were injured in stone-throwing. V Anand, another
constable, was stabbed. In all, 20 police personnel who were injured have
been admitted to a private hospital. The police resorted to lathi-charge
and burst teargas shells to disperse the mob. Later they opened fire in
the air.
What is the cause of all this communal violence in Bangalore? The hanging
of Saddam Hussain on 30 December, 2006! It was not in Karnataka or Gujarat
or Madhya Pradesh or Chhatisgarh or Rajasthan but in far away Iraq.
Further, he was hanged not by the order of the Supreme Court of India or
any other Indian Court but by a Court of Law, totally manned only by
Muslims, in his own Islamic country. And yet, the racist and the communal
Congress Party in Karnataka planned, organized and launched a cataract of
violence against our own countrymen in Bangalore last week. The purpose
seems to have been to politically embarrass the non-Congress Government of
Karnataka. The main man behind this whole show is reported to be Jaffer
Sheriff, former Union Railway Minister and known to be one of the most
unscrupulous Congress Ministers in India after independence. The Congress
party organized this violence not to express sympathy for Saddam Hussain
or his family but to rally the Muslims under their party banner to enlarge
their sphere of political influence in a State where they are in
opposition. It was clear that Jaffer Sheriff, who has been marginalised in
the Congress after his defeat in the last Lok Sabha poll, wanted to
resurrect himself and create a communal divide in his Bangalore North Lok
Sabha constituency. It is a well known public fact that Jaffer Sheriff was
the main man behind the Congress party-sponsored show of communal violence
in Bangalore. Other effete Congress leaders like N Dharam Singh, K P C C
president Mallikarjuna Karge and others participated at the communal
meeting organized by the so called People"s Front at Shivaji Nagar on 19
January, 2007.
On account of the Danish Cartoons last year, the Muslims of Lucknow and
Hyderabad went on a rampage and looted and destroyed public property "more
particularly Hindu property" under the cover of "minority rights". And now
for Saddam Hussein's hanging by his own countrymen, the Muslims in
Bangalore have gone on a rampage destroying public property and injuring
innocent citizens including law enforcing police officers and men. While
the riots in Lucknow and Hyderabad were instantaneous, in Bangalore it was
artificially organized with ulterior motive by the Congress Party under
the informal leadership of Jaffer Sheriff. Is not the Union Home Minister
guilty of communal favoritism based on religion when he very cleverly
avoids making any visit to Bangalore to study the situation for himself?
Is he worried about hurting the feelings of the Muslims engaged in noble
acts of universal brotherhood and compassion in Bangalore? Why are the
Home Minister Shivraj Patil, Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh and Super
Prime Minister Sonia Gandhi maintaining an attitude of stoic secular
silence on this disgraceful issue? Why are not they condemning their own
party men and the Muslims of Bangalore for indulging in acts of barbarous
violence for an incident which took place not in India but in Iraq? Are
they of the view that Saddam Hussein was executed in Karnataka? Do they
want to convert Bangalore into a Baghdad?
Quite unlike the mad response of the Muslims in Karnataka under the
leadership of a callous leader Jaffer Sheriff, the response and reactions
in the other civilized Islamic countries has been measured and
businesslike. Malaysia, which currently holds the chair of the
Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC), expressed its surprise on
Saddam's execution and only questioned the legal procedures under which
the sentence had been carried out. In Indonesia, the most populous Muslim
nation of the world, the government said it hoped the execution will not
worsen relations between the warring parties and complicate national
reconciliation efforts in the country. Pakistan described Saddam's death
as a sad event and termed it another poignant reminder of the violence
that continues to grip Iraq.
In Afghanistan, President Hamid Karzai frowned on the timing of the
execution, but said it was "the work of the Iraqi government" and would
have "no effect" on Afghanistan. Jordan hoped that there would be no
negative consequences for the hanging of Saddam that would affect the
unity and solidarity of Iraqi people. Saudi Arabia said it was dismayed by
the timing of Saddam's hanging. Meanwhile, the Organization of the Islamic
Conference (OIC), which is based in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, called for calm
after the hanging. In the first reaction to the hanging of the deposed
former Iraqi leader, Kuwaiti officials said that the execution of Saddam
Hussein was "divine justice." The Kuwaiti official News Agency (KUNA) also
reported that the Kuwaiti Minister of Social Affairs and Labor Sheikh
Sabah al-Khaled al-Hamad al-Sabah said: "Divine justice is exacted sooner
or later." Without giving myself over to flights of fancy or wild
imagination, I can say that only in India, the racist and the communal
Congress party under the hegemony of the Vatican in Rome, is capable of
even declaring the date of hanging of Saddam Hussein as a national holiday
every year in place of Krishna Jayanti or Holi!!
In recent years, the Mullahs and Muslim politicians have been receiving
liberal financial assistance and sustained moral support from the oil-rich
Islamic countries. Their tone, thanks to the official support of the
congress party and the UPA Government, has continued to become more and
more aggressive. Like last week's riots in Bangalore, they have frequently
fomented riots in which Muslim mobs have turned violent not only against
their Hindu neighbors but also against the security forces sent to restore
law and order. The so-called Muslim minority is thus being fast converted
politically into a far flung fifth-column which will not hesitate to
collaborate with foreign aggression as soon as that aggression shows some
signs of success. The happenings in Assam are an index of this ugly
phenomenon.
What is the moral of the story? I can answer in the beautiful and
inspiring words of Sri Sita Ram Goel in his brilliant book - Heroic Hindu
Resistance to Muslim Invaders: "Hindu Society has to make up its mind when
it is no longer going to tolerate this degenerate politics which has been
disintegrating Hindu society on the one hand and consolidating the "Muslim
Millat" on the other. Only a politics created by Hindu consciousness and
guided by Hindu ideology can retrieve the situation and meet the challenge
of Islamic imperialism. Hindu society has to see to it that the Central
State acquires a Hindu character and gets infused with Hindu
consciousness, and that the Central Government functions as a Hindu
Government in a Hindu Homeland."
V Sundaram, IAS, Retd.
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