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| RSS tries to exacerbate tensions with Muslims |
| 2002-03-18 |
Translated: "Unless you kowtow to us, you won't be safe from our thugs." Gary was just mentioning this bunch yesterday. Don't they seem true to form? Briefing reporters, RSS joint general secretary, Madan Das, who is considered a key man of the Sangh Parivar outfit’s links with BJP, said Muslims are safe provided they win our goodwill. "Don't do anything stupid or we'll beat you up and burn your house down." Alleging that Muslims were not accepting the law of the land, Das, who is also a RSS spokesperson, said Muslims should not provoke Hindus but respect their feelings. A noble sentiment. We've been saying the same thing for years. We haven't tried to provoke violence with them, though. Saying that Hindus are a silent and peaceful society and want harmony in India, Das urged Muslims to believe in diversity. We've been saying that, too. But it looks like the Hindus are working hard not to be a silent and peaceful society and instead want to become more like the Islamolunatics. RSS warned that insult to Hindus cannot be tolerated. Life of Hindus has no meaning in India, he regretted. Doesn't look like anybody's life has meaning in India or Pakistan, except for religious leaders. They keep going for year after year, raking in the money while the rabble gets slaughtered. The resolution said although few Muslim leaders hold the current interpretation of Jehad as absolutely wrong and in no way support the Jehadi terrorism, it should be admitted that these people have not been able to influence the present day extermist Jehadi leaders and stubborn Mullahs and Maulavis. That's a problem we've all been trying to deal with. Emulating the Learned Elders of Islam and killing people indiscriminately puts you in the same category. The ABPS wants to make it clear that it does no credit to the Muslim community to allow themselves to be made pawns in the hands of extremist Muslim leaders and Hindu-baiting elements, it said. No more so than it does credit to Hindus to be made pawns of greedhead "holy men" whose aim is to stir up as much public discord as possible in their pursuit of their own ends. Condemning the Godhra massacre as horrible and ghastly, RSS said the reaction to this incident was natural and spontaneous, and the entire Hindu society cutting across all divisions of party, caste and social status reacted. Explain, please, how more of the same leads to less of the same? One bad thing about this turn of events is that it makes the same events in Pakistan look like subcontinental business as usual. India had the reputation before last month of being the progressive nation on the subcontinent, but now the Hindi Sturmabteilungen seem intent on disproving that hypothesis. |
| Posted by:Fred Pruitt |