I hate to be politically correct and i believe its a sin against truthfulness to be a politically correct individual. Almost a decade has passed since 9/11, i have become an Engineer, India has become "an exciting story", Iraq has become a country without a nation, Afghanistan has not moved a bit, Pakistan has committed almost every possible sin, World has become more unsafe and we as a nation has become more intolerant and deeply unsecular.
Sometimes its very difficult to understand (atleast for me) why people can even think of burning a book respected by millions of people world wide and throughout ages and on the top of that why people burn flags of countries inhabited by millions of people. I have seen protests on TV, people burning flags of US in thousands when provocated by nobody Jones. There is something deeply wrong some where. I have read somewhere long back and now i am a firm believer of that "Hate hurts, harmony works" but by burning national and religious symbols we can only perpetuate the so called "Clash of Civilizations" since the days of First Crusade. One should apply the same laws to others that one can apply to one self and if people feel proud in burning flags of other countries then they should be ready for its repercussions as we all are made up of same ingredients.
When people desecrate religious place of some community then they should feel that their religious places have also been desecrated and it happens all the time. How many Hindu temples we know in Pakistan? There were innumerable temples some centuries back. People should think why minorities suffer in Islamic countries. Why non Muslims don't have a right to build a temple, synagogue or a Church in Saudi Arabia but the same Saudi Arabia can finance building of many many Mosques in other countries? This does not look correct to me logically. Why minorities in Pakistan as well as in Bangladesh have been shrinking in numbers since 1947 and why they are increasing in India, USA, UK and other European countries? Something is wrong some where. Here i am not saying that India treats its minorities in 100% correct way but it treats them well compare to almost all other Asian countries and even better than France. Its difficult to understand why countries like Maldives and Malaysia define citizenship on the basis of religion. No one even wants to discuss these things. I want to know why. US was damn wrong when it attacked Iraq and Afghanistan and killed thousands of innocents but those people were also wrong who did 9/11 or who killed Daniel Pearl or who did 26/11 and the list goes on. Eye for an eye makes the whole world blind, it was true in the beginning and its true even now. Why we didn't protest when Muslims were massacred in Gujarat after Godhra train burning? Why we protest when someone make cartoons or some make fun of our religion and why we don't protest when some uses our religion to fulfill his/her ulterior motives. We don't need to protest again some nobody burning holybook or holy symbol but its our right and responsibility to protest if some one is using our religion to complete his/her evil designs. The same rule applies to Media as well. Our media does not leave any chance to castigate Modi or BJP and it goes full throttle if any bad thing happens to minority community in Gujarat and else where but the same media is conspicuosly silent on the Deganga (a place not too far from Kolkata) riots. Many temples have been desecrated in last few days and scores of Hindus have fled for this place. Situation was so grave that Army was called few days back but our media is damn slient. Thats not good for we as a nation and we as Indians. As President Obama says that "Any radical act accelerates the recruiting process of other radical groups", so we should remain careful.
And i end my post by famous Urdu lines:
Uski woh jaane uske pass wafa thi ki na thi, Tum faraz apni taraf se toh nibhate jaate
Happy Eid and Ganesh Chaturthi to all fellow Indians and others. I will be back :).
