Forgotten film actor Raza Murad
started another controversy about the most loved whipping boy of Indian
Politics Narendra Modi during an Idd prayer on last Friday at an Idgah in MP. When
Madhya Pradesh chief
minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan
wore a skull cap while greeting Muslims on the occasion of Eid ul-Fitr,
he praised Chouhan's 'spirit of secularism' by saying that Modi should learn from him. He also said that "by participating in
someone's festivities, your religion would not be corrupted”. This is all
because in 2011, the Gujarat CM had politely refused
to put on a skull cap offered by a Muslim cleric during his Sadbhavana fast.
What Mr. Murad or the Pseudo Secular
politicians & media brigade fails
to explain is - does wearing a religious symbol of only one particular
community make Indian politicians specially hindu politicians secular?
It doesn’t matter to Mr. Murad & the secular brigade that BSP MP Shafiqur Rahman Barq,
walked out of the Lok Sabha as India's national song Vande Mataram began playing,
saying that it amounts to worshipping the Motherland & it is incorrect for a
true muslim as he can worship only Allah. It also does not matter to them that Kerala
ministers of Indian Union Muslim league IUML (allies of "secular Congress party ” ruling Kerala),
are
refusing to light a lamp to inaugurate public functions saying this Indian
tradition is un-Islamic.
Why in India only hindus have to
bear the burden of secularism and prove their secular credentials every time whereas
we never see any Muslim leaders participating in any Hindu religious ceremony
let alone wearing a Tilak or accepting Prasad. Have anybody ever seen any
Muslim leader participating in Holi, Diwali or Ganesh Chaturthi Utsav wearing a
Saffron Anga Vastra or Turban? But no they need not do so, as Muslims are born
secular but they demand that others behave as per their whims and fancies. How
does it matter if Imam Bukhari asks Muslims not to join Anna Hazare because of
Vande Matram, how does it matter that Saudi King while visiting India does not
go to Mahatma Gandhi's samadhi, how does it matter if Islam forbids its faithful’s
not to offer respect to Hindu culture or deities?
Does this brigade know the meaning of
secularism? It is separation of religion from state. A secular person or politician can continue to
hold his personal religious faith & beliefs, but he doesn't involve
religion in matters of governance. And this
is what Modi says and does.
Just imagine how Modi would appear in
the “Breaking News” and next day's News Papers if he had indeed worn the skull cap.
The very media that is questioning his secular credentials today would have
written head lines as “Maulana Modi” and
that he is playing communal politics and ready to stoop to any level to become PM. Modi is a man who’s secularism is in his heart
and deeds to his motherland. Anyone else
in his place would have succumbed to the flashing cameras and simply worn the
cap. They choose to ignore his dedicated work to improve the economy of
Gujarat, but are outraged that he declined to wear a skull cap.
Modi is on record saying that for him “secularism
is India First” & his philosophy is
‘Justice to all, Appeasement to none’. He also said “first thing, to
Hindustan’s citizens, to voters, Hindus & Muslims, I’m not in favour of
dividing. I’m not in favour of dividing Hindus & Sikhs. I’m not in favour
of dividing Hindus & Christians. All the citizens, all the voters, are my
countrymen. So my basic philosophy is, I don’t address this issue like this.
And that is a danger to democracy also. Religion should not be an instrument in
your democratic process”. But our
secular media & politicians don’t understand, trust & publish what he actually
means but very well interpret what he doesn’t mean (eg. Puppy & Burqa).
Secularism in
India, provides a great escape route to politicians & political parties from
performance & accountability. Therefore every mediocre, non-performing
& corrupt Indian politician or political party is a self-proclaimed secularist.
After the Himalayan blunders created by
Congress & UPA Govt. in economy, infrastructure, social issues, law &
order, defence, external affairs and the loot raj they & their allies unleashed
on this nation by indulging in scams in every affair of governance, they have
realised that the age old boggy of 'secularism'
would have to be their last resort to
hoodwink people. They have realised that
raking up 2002 is safer than having to answer for 2004-2013. As such these
politicians and their paid media have brainwashed India to react like this -
with its poisonous vote bank politics. The policy of appeasement is a Congress
invention. In a fractured Hindu society, managing the 15% Muslim votes would
make all the difference between winning election to control power or sitting in
the opposition. Congress needs only another 20% votes from the majority
community to rule & that is what they have done in the last 65 years. Even
most of the regional parties & the Left front have also been perfecting
this tactic to win elections. The funniest part of
Congress brand of secularism is that outright communal parties like the MIM in
Andhra Pradesh, the IUML in Kerala &
the AUDF in Assam are certified as secular, the moment Congress needs to ally
with them.
The Muslim community has never really
benefited economically despite going along with the Congress as per the diktat
of their religious leaders is dawning on many Muslims. They and the entire
nation have been taken for a massive ride by the corrupt Congress and its
allies. Congress is superficially engaging with minorities whereas Modi has
decided not to consider anyone as minority or majority but to treat all citizens
as Indians. He has worked for upliftment of all communities in Gujarat. Unable
to accept their minority vote bank being integrated into the main stream, Congress
party is creating skull cap like incidents and enrolling out of job people like
Raza Murad to raise these non-issues so as to fool the minorities. This should
open the eyes of muslims and all Indians. Hopefully this will lead to a real
political revolution in India, which will kill the politics of minority
appeasement & vote bank politics. The only Leader who could defuse this time-bomb
of vote bank politics to save India & unify Indians on developmental plank is
Narendra Modi.
Sorry Mr. Namurads, your dangerous
& notorious game plan has been exposed & will not work with the
electorate this time. Rest assured, 2002 will not be an issue in 2014. This Govt.’s unending
failures in the last 9 years will be a far bigger issue.
My vote will be for a leader who does
not wear religion on his sleeve, or in this case, on his head.
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