[nukkad] Babri and Bamiyan

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Here is an email from another group which helps shed light on pretensions,
self-deceit and partisan behaviour of a particular breed of Indians. It's
little long but worth the trouble.

Rohit Zaveri.
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-----Original Message-----
From: Sudesh Thakur 
Sent: Thursday, December 05, 2002 9:36 PM
To: ** G - IndianCivilization; # Tarun Bharat, Mumbai; # RSS YAHOO
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Subject: [IndianCivilization] Babri and Bamiyan


Babri and Bamiyan

A Satire on Indian Pseudo-secularism

(with Secularism Ji ki Arati)



SIGNED: Teesta Seetalvad, Father Cedric Prakash, Father John Dayal, Maulana
Wahiduddin, Comrade Romila Thapar, Comrade D. N. Jha, Comrade R. S. Sharma,
Jawed Akhtar, Shabana Azmi, Darryl D'Monte, Dilip D'Souza, Dileep Simeon,
Comrade Anand Patwardhan, Father Valson Thampu, Seema Mustafa, Justice
Tarakude, Comrade K. N. Pannikar, Harbans Mukhia, Maulana Wahiuddin, Shahi
Imam Bukhari, Syed Shahabuddin, Comrade Praful Bidwai, Comrade Amulya
Ganguli, Comrade Arvind N. Das, Father Alan D'Lastic, Ashghar Ali Engineer,
Rafique Zakaria, M. J. Akbar, Maulana ABC, Father XYZ, Comrade MNO and other
secularists.



We, the concerned Indian Secular Intellectuals (ISI) of the Secular People's
Republic of India believe that the destruction of the Babri Masjid was truly
a cataclysmic event that has now robbed Hinduism of its innocence for all
times to come. It has now demolished, more resoundingly than that structure,
the false notion that Hinduism is or ever was tolerant. The event has only
vindicated the great Secular Eminent Historian (E. H.) Romila Thapar's
thesis that 'tolerant Hinduism' is only a myth. After all, the Hindu
fascists have destroyed earlier thousands of Buddhist and Jain and Animist
shrines, setting a strong precedent for later, similar acts of egalitarian
Muslim rulers of India. When the Muslim rulers were destroying temples, they
were only following a precedent set up by Hindus. They were also replacing
the fascist, totalitarian Hindu Smriti with the egalitarian Islamic Sharia
Laws, as proved by the secular historian Mohammad Habib.



In fact, so thorough were the actions of fascist Hindus in the past that
they have not left any literary and archaeological trace of the destruction
of these Stupas, Jain temples and Animist Shrines. But we are sure that the
Hindus did all this in ancient times, several centuries ago. However we also
agree whole-heartedly with Western Indologists that Hinduism and Hindus are
themselves a modern construct of the 19th century. Therefore, Hindus did not
exist before 1800 AD, but Hindu communalists definitely destroyed thousands
of Buddhist and Jain structures before 1000 AD. In contrast to fascist
Hindus, the secular Muslim rulers practiced sound environmentalism by
recycling the temple parts into their secular mosques. By incorporating
temple parts into mosques, they have demonstrated their commitment to a
pluralist society and respect for diversity.



Secularist Mani Shankar Aiyer had stated in the Indian Parliament that the
remnants of the displaced Hindu Vishvanath temple embedded in the walls of
the Gyanavapi Aurangzebi mosque at Varanasi are a symbol of our beautiful
composite culture and represent Islam and Hinduism in embrace.



The great secular Eminent Historian D. N. Jha had declared that when Hindus
started worshipping cows around 300 AD, they sowed the seeds of modern day
communalism. We argue that Valmiki sowed the seeds of Hindu fascism much
earlier. The incident of Babri demolition should clinch any dithering on
this matter. Therefore, in the interests of our secular polity, Ramayana
should be banned. T V serials like Ramayana and Mahabharata not only promote
puerile superstitions and undermine the scientific temper of secular India,
they also promote Hindu chauvinism. Therefore, all such serials should be
banned, particularly because Doordarshan cannot show serials on Prophet
Muhammad.



Many of us had vowed that if the fascist, Hindu Nationalist Party BJP comes
to power, we would leave India. But now we have changed our minds and want
to stay back. This change is not because we continue to enjoy government
largesse and have compromised with the fascist forces, but because we want
to spend time in educating Indians by organizing morchas, bandhs, dharnas,
by writing apologias for Hurriyat conference and Taliban leaders, attending
Urdu Mushairas with Pakistanis at 5 Star Hotels and gobbling free shahi
paneer, beef tikkas and butter chicken, making free govt. paid trips to
Lahore, and holding the Indian parliament to ransom over the rise of Hindu
fascism. In fact, many of us like N. Ram, K N Pannikar and Romila Thapar do
spend a lot of time abroad alerting people about rising fascism in India.



The destruction of the great Babri Masjid might not have split India, as
predicted earlier by our Theory, but it has certainly vivisected Hindus and
Muslim minds, which co-existed in perfect secular bliss and harmony before
that. After the Day of Judgment (6 December 1992), there were fortunately
great secular upsurges. Secular Muslim intellectuals erased 450 communal
Hindu temples in India, 200 in Bangladesh, 100 in Pakistan, 22 in Great
Britain and 1 at Toronto (Canada).



Our secular predictions that Hindu fascists will take revenge on hapless
minorities, and thus repeat history have come true. The Hindu fanatics
indeed repeated history and enslaved millions of minority members and
exported them to Central Asia and the Middle East. They imposed Jaziyah tax
on 'Mlecchas', raped their women, destroyed thousands of mosques, burnt
thousands of 'mleccha' scriptures, destroyed secular Madrassaas and
seminaries, forcibly converted several thousand/nay millions of  minority
community members whom they called now 'mlecchas' (because the 'mlecchas'
had called them 'kafirs'). To 'defend' their agglomeration of gutter and
animist cults called 'Hinduism', the xenophobic, fanatical, revisionist,
revanchist, reactionary, majoritarian, totalitarian, autocratic, crass,
crude, parochial, feudal, racist, misogynist, anti-Dalit, anti-minority,
chauvinist, Nazi (phew! Saying all these words gives so much instant relief
to our secular minds) Hindu fascists invaded all land.



In fact, it is because of the destruction of the Babri Masjid that the
oppressed Talibans were forced to destroy the Buddhist statues in
Afghanistan. Have they not said so already? We agree with them. Imam Bukhari
of Jama Masjid also stated that he will intervene on this matter provided
the fascist BJP government returns the Babri Masjid to Muslims. Again, we
agree with him, just as we have always. In fact, it is because of the
destruction of Babri Masjid in 1992, that the Muslim secularists drove out
the Hindus of Kashmir in 1989, destroyed 50 Hindu temples in 1980's and
created Pakistan in 1947. Therefore, although we cannot guarantee that the
Masjid will be rebuilt at the very spot, we will nevertheless disrupt the
proceedings of the Parliament every year in December to prove that we are
'More Secular than Thou'.



It is because of the Babri demolition and the Nuclear blasts by the fascist
Hindu nationalists, that Pakistan invaded Kargil. The Hindu fascist storm
troopers and jingoists then actually had the cunning to launch their
blitzkrieg at Kargil to push these egalitarian forces into Pakistan! It is
because of the Babri Masjid demolition that the Mumbai riots took place. It
is because of the Babri Masjid demolition that the secular Muslim underworld
leaders blasted bomb at Mumbai. It is all the fault of Hindus.



Hindus should not now take revenge because Hinduism teaches forgiveness and
the equality of all religions. Hinduism teaches that this world is an
illusion. So why crib over the destruction of a few temples here and there.
But most important, Hinduism teaches non-violence. As Mahatma Gandhi had
told Hindus in Pakistan: "It is better to stay there and die to the last
man, than to even resist your Muslim attackers. By sacrificing your lives
meekly for the sake of non-violence, Hindus will add great prestige to their
religion". We might be Secular Hindus ourselves, or might not be Hindus at
all, but we consider it out duty to remind you of your traditions.
Therefore, by raising your voices against imaginary alleged atrocities on
Hindus, do not re-invent Hinduism and destroy your religion.



We should learn from the secular example of Maulana Wahiduddin. When asked
to pray for the Indian soldiers fighting at Kargil, he refused; under the
pretext that he cannot pray for people who are fighting the Muslims. In
reality, he did not want to side with the fascist, jingoist Hindu
nationalist government that was fighting with our poor neighbor, instead of
striking peace with them. This is why secular leaders Soniaji and Priyankaji
went for the Maulana's funeral later, to express their support for the cause
of secularism in India.



We, as secular, liberal and neutral historians, had earlier warned that all
this will happen if our infallible truth (that there was no temple beneath
the Babri mosque) is not propagated and forced down the throats of RSS
fascists. Even if there were a temple there, it had only probably displaced
a pre-existing Buddhist Stupa. So what if there is no proof of the Stupa?
You cannot equate our infallible assertions with the 200 artifacts of some
temple found beneath the mosque after its demolition, because these
artifacts are either fabrications or clearly are pilfered items from museums
of Beijing, Havana and Calcutta. We have explained these two points in great
detail in our party organ Frontline with the help of international scholars.
So, do not blame us for this mess. If only Narasimha Rao had emulated the
secular hero Maulana Mulayam Singh Yadav, and had ordered the police to mow
down the thousands of Hindutva fascists at Ayodhya who were chanting fascist
slogans like 'Jai Siya Ra.



And do not even dare to compare the destruction of Babri Masjid with the
alleged demolition of thousands of temples in the world by Muslims. Do not
even mention the alleged ethnic cleansing of Hindus from Kabul to Srinagar,
or the alleged marginalization of Hindus in Christian Meghalaya or the
alleged ethnic cleansing of Hindus from Christian Mizoram or the alleged
killings of Hindu priests by church backed terrorists in Tripura or the bomb
blasts at Churches by the Islamic Deendar Anjuman. All these were caused by
Hindu cunning, and none of these events is more heinous than the destruction
of the Babri Masjid. The murder of Graham Staines is a close second. All
other crimes in India are not even a distant third. Besides, don't you know
that you could promote Hindu communalism and fascism by even mentioning the
alleged destruction of temples at Kashmir? Knowing this, if you protest
against the alleged destruction of temples or the alleged killings of Hindus
anywhere and anytime, you ...



We agree that two wrongs do not make one right. But then, why are you being
presumptuous in condemning Taliban's actions as 'wrong' without considering
that they have been driven to desperation by the Capitalist West. The West
is hypocritical because it never cared to save the dying Afghans caught in
the crossfire between Talibans and its misogynist, revanchist, autocratic,
fanatical enemies. Neither should you bring in the question of Kashmiri
Hindus here. Did not one of the secularists prove earlier that the Pandits
are the ones who created a communal crisis in the valley by sucking up to
fascist Jagmohan and leaving the secular Kashmir valley en masse? Nor can
you compare the destruction of the great Babri with the alleged destruction
of countless temples in the world. Why? First, and most important, Babri is
Babri. Its destruction cannot be compared to the alleged destruction of any
temple. Secondarily, there could be economic or political motives at work in
the alleged destructi...



And so what if secular Secular Indologist Iravatham Mahadevan had also
asserted that there was a temple beneath the mosque? He has so far not
equated the animist, primitive, bucolic Vedic culture with the Harappan
culture. Therefore, he remains a secularist. If he were to change his
opinion tomorrow and say that the Vedic culture and Harappan Culture were
one, then we will label him a communal saffronist. But right now, he is the
President of the Indian History Congress, an organization of secular,
Marxist historians. And he was also the editor of 'Dinamani', the mouthpiece
of DMK, a permanent enemy of dirty, ugly, north Indian, cow belt
Brahmin-Bania Aryan invaders. Do you not remember what we did to B. B. Lal,
the doyen of Indian archaeology? He might have 'Lal' (= red) as his surname,
but we made him 'saffronist' as soon as he rejected the Aryan Invasion
Theory and also said that a temple existed at the site of the mosque. We
might have quoted his writings approvingly earlier, but.



So these are the two litmus tests to decide whether you are a secularist or
whether you are a fanatic/reactionary/revisionist/feudal/bigot/narrow
minded/ revanchist/communal/cow belter BIMARU/ Upper Caste chauvinist Hindu
fascist (especially Brahmin-Bania type)-



1. Your stance on the Aryan Invasion Theory and,

2. Your stance on Babri (pronounced similar to the 'Rabri', the spouse of
the secular hero Laloo who stopped fascist Advani's Japanese Toyota van
christened as 'Ratha').



And this is how we should interpret the results of the Litmus test for
deciding if a person is communal or if he is secular-



1. If your color changes from an indifferent, cold blue to a livid, secular
LEFTIST red whenever the name Babri masjid is uttered, you are a secularist.



2. And whenever your RIGHT-eous red of indignation changes to a cold,
indifferent blue at the mention of the expulsion of Kashmiri Hindus from
Kashmir, you are a secularist again.



Last but not the least, we want to warn our innocent and gullible secular
countrymen to be wary of these peddlers of hate who come in various guises.
These Nazi Hindus can go to any extent to hide their real faces. To
refurbish their international image, these fascists have been feeding 50,000
homeless victims of the Kutch earthquake since 26 January 2001. These angels
of death have rescued 1500 injured from below the debris. These pyromaniac
Hindu Nazis have cremated 2000 corpses, probably because they have a lot of
practice from incinerating Christian priests and other minority community
members every now and then in gas chambers. Earlier also, they have been
involved in large scale relief operations in Orissa, Latur, Chakri-Dadri but
their intentions always are to promote fascism. We could have also done all
this work in a secular way. For instance, we organized mass funds collection
drives in Kolkata to support Cuba and Comrade Fidel Castro when his country
was being besieged by ...



Down with Hindu Nazis! Down with Fascists!



To promote Secularism, we must sing the following secular Bhajans everyday 5
times a day facing Beijing or Islamabad--



Secularism Ji ki Arati


OM*


Chhanda

NRam naam ras lijiye manuva, NRam naam ras lijiye|

Tajiye ku-Sangh, SAHMAT sung baithiye,

Romila bhajan nish-din kijiye||



Chupai

Hindustan, Pakistan  ka cheraa |

Kijiye secular hridaya mein deraa ||



Sunahum NRam, ab kahahun niketaa,

Jahaan basahun, Romila Thapar Sametaa |

Marx hi nivedit, bhojana karahin,

Secular prasaad laal vastra dharahin||



Kar nit karahin, Namboodirpad Puja,

Soniya bharosey hridaya nahin duujaa|

Charan Beijing teerath chali jaahin|

Secularism basahun, tinakey man maahin||



Doha

Jai Jai Jai Romila Maayi, Dayaa karo Soniya ki Naayi |

West Bengal ik secular samaaju, JNU hi teeratharaaju  ||



Shloka

Sarve santu secularists,

Sarve Hindu mrtyumayaaH |

Sarve red pustakani pasyantu,

Maa kaschit saffronist bhavet ||



Na'asti Babari samam masjid, na'asti Stalin samam Pir |

Na'asti Nehru samam secular, tasmaat Taliban pujayet ||



Islaam paramo dharma, Secularism paramo tapah |

Romila paramo vidvaan, Jyoti Basu ek eva mahaan ||



Doha

Laal rang, laali lasai, bhagavaa dhvajaa giray koop |

Laloo Mullu Yadav sahit, Hindu dharam par kooch ||



Jai Jai kaar

Pakistan ki jai ho, Hindustan ka naash ho |

Minorities mein sadbhaavaa ho, secularists ka kalyaan ho ||



Marx suta Jyoti Basu ki jai !

Bolo Romila Thapar ki Jai!



Jai Jai Shabana Samarth |



OM* = Official Marxists






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