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October 15, 2015 News, Top Stories 2 Comments

Mr. Fali Nariman, the doyen of the Indian bar, has spoken against the growing intolerance in the country, and so has the Indian President and many others.

But without instigating communal hatred and communal riots how can the BJP win elections ?

BJP normally has only the upper caste Hindu votes. But the upper caste Hindus (Brahmins, Rajputs, banias,etc) are altogether numerically only about 15% of the population in north Indian states.(they are much less in south India).

An election cannot be won by getting only 15% votes. So how can the BJP win elections ?

For that there only two ways.

1. Promise ‘vikas’ ( development ), which will create an illusion that millions of jobs will now be created under BJP rule. In the May 2014 Lok Sabha elections this was the magic slogan which ensured victory for the BJP. The youth in particular, cutting through caste and religious lines, voted en masse for the BJP led by Modi, thinking that now they will all get jobs.( the voting age was reduced from 21 to 18 in 1988). After all, all youth, whatever their religion or caste, want jobs.

But after the Lok Sabha elections it was realized that this promise was hollow and a sham, and the youth were taken for a ride and left high and dry..There is no vikas, and no jobs. Jobs cannot be created by empty slogans. They can only be created when the economy is rapidly expanding, but the Indian economy is stagnant. So the vikas slogan has now become ineffective, despite all talk of Digital India and all that kind of jazz.

2. So the BJP has now to fall back on the other, traditional, way to win elections :instigate communal hatred and riots, of which they are experts.

Hindus are ordinarily divided on caste lines ( it was recently reported that in Bihar even kitchens of policemen are separate for different castes ). But when the communal poison is spread they often unite against Muslims.

This idea was best developed by Advani, the poor chap who is now licking his wounds and saying ‘ Et tu Brute ‘ to his erstwhile chelas Modi and Jaitley who have unceremoniously kicked him aside..

It was Advani who started rath yatra and the Ram Janmabhumi agitation which resulted in the BJP’s seats in the Lok Sabha going up from 2 in 1984 to 161 in 196 and 183 in 1999, never mind what damage was done to the country by the demolition of the Babri Masjid.

The attacks on Muslims in Muzaffarnagar, Ballabhgarh, the lynching of Ikhlaque in Dadri, the hate speeches of Adityanath, Sadhvi Prachi, Sadhvi Niranjan Jyoti ( of ‘ haramzada ‘ fame ) etc, and the deliberate spreading of communalism in rural areas all fit into this pattern.

What is the real nature of the BJP ? It is really dominated by the RSS, as its leadership and cadres are from the RSS. And the RSS is rabidly anti Muslim and anti Christian.

The BJP claims to profess ‘Hindutva’. But in fact it does not really represent Hinduism, and its leaders and rank and file have no knowledge of the great Hindu intellectualism in the past ( see my speech ‘ Sanskrit as a language of Science’ available online and in my blog justicekatju.blogspot.in ). All it has in its ideology is communal hatred, and pseudo claims of our past achievements like the claim that our ancestors had invented aircraft (pushpak viman), atom bombs, guided missiles, etc and had discovered genetic engineering and head transplant technique (Ganesh) in ancient India, which are all false.They have little knowledge of the real great achievements of our ancestors like the decimal system, plastic surgery, construction of ports as in Lothal, and the great discoveries by Aryabhatta, Brahmagupta, Bhaskar etc in mathematics, Sushrut and Charak in medicine, Panini and Patanjali in grammar, etc

So, Mr. Nariman, do not live in a world of dreams

This was in response to the article “It’s high time PM acts: Fali S Nariman” published in Times of India

By Justice Markandey Katju

There is surely a method to this Beef Madness

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   Ghulam Muhammed

   October 13, 2015 at 8:25 am

   There is surely a method to this Beef Madness. Both for longer term targeting of Muslims, in one case as businessmen and in another as voter. While the world has come to realize that India is the second most important beef ( actually Buffalo beef and not cow or bull beef) exporter, not much is known by wider circles that Muslims are the main beneficiaries of this huge export business opportunity. RSS/BJP/Brahmins cannot tolerate Muslims making money and improving their economic status at least in some pockets. Once in the saddle at the Central and some state governments, they have now cracked down on beef slaughter. The manipulation may be to hijack the entire been export to their own Hindu exporter and let Muslim be the menial worker. So this is a longer term plan being executed at breakneck speed, lest BJP does not come into power again. Second, is of course, the electoral compulsion. The more Muslim is identified and vilified as killer of the mother cow, the more consolidation of Hindu vote will be against the Muslim voters as well as the supporting secular classes. If beef crackdown can polarise the communities, BJP can assure itself a complete control of the both houses of parliament and pass legislations without bothering for any opposition from any quarters forthwith. So there is a method to this Beef Madness, that has to be addressed by the victims and opposition to frustrate RSS/BJP’s dirty games tactics. The way they have antagonized the entire world against their open fascist methodology to rule India, the world has to be rightfully alarmed. India is most vulnerable at so many levels and BJP/RSS cannot confront the world as much as they would like.

Saudi employer denies chopping maid’s hand - By FPJ Bureau - The Free Press Journal, Mumbai, India.

The details now emerging from Saudi Employer's statement show how media, especially Western media is quick on the draw in demonizing Muslims, Arabs and Saudis, in an ongoing Islamophobic crusade. 

In this case, it is regrettable that India's top Foreign Office minister Shushma Swaraj, with full Riyadh Embassy staff at her command, should follow the 'hand chopping' media headline news to issue India's strong reaction, --- reality being damned.

Ghulam Muhammed, Mumbai

<ghulammuhammed3@gmail.com>

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http://www.freepressjournal.in/saudi-employer-denies-chopping-maids-hand/

Saudi employer denies chopping maid’s hand

— By FPJ Bureau | Oct 11, 2015 12:21 am

 

“India’s External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj reacted on Twitter: “Chopping of hand of Indian lady – we are very much disturbed over the brutal manner in which Indian lady has been treated in Saudi Arabia.” Sushma Swaraj / External Affairs Minister reacted on Twitter

Riyadh : The Saudi Arabian employer of an Indian domestic help whose hand was “chopped off” has said the woman had to get her hand amputated in hospital after she damaged it badly while jumping from the third floor of their house in Riyadh.

Arab News newspaper quoted the First Secretary (Community Welfare) of the Indian Embassy Anil Nautiyal as saying on Friday that the Indian mission has demanded a full-scale inquiry into the incident, reports IANS.The Saudi sponsor told Arab News that the right hand of Kasturi Munirathinam, 55, was amputated as a result of her failed attempt to flee by jumping from a window.

He said she was recruited two months ago to serve his mother who is 70 and lives alone in an apartment in Riyadh. On Thursday, the housemaid went to her room while my mother was performing Asr prayer and locked herself inside. “She knotted together bed sheets and some of her clothes and dangled the rope out of the window so that she could jump from the third floor.

“An expat worker on the street saw her trying to jump, and when she fell she landed on two electricity boxes, which caused severe damage to her hand.

“The worker then informed the building guard and my mother informed police and the Red Crescent about the incident. “The rescuers arrived on the scene and transferred the housemaid to the hospital where she underwent amputation surgery to her right hand,” he told the newspaper. “Police investigated the accident and checked all the evidence at the site and concluded that the woman tried to jump from the window and fell from the  third floor,” he said. The doctors who performed surgery on Kasturi informed embassy officials that she was out of danger and would soon be able to travel. India’s External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj reacted on Twitter: “Chopping of hand of Indian lady – we are very much disturbed over the brutal manner in which Indian lady has been treated in Saudi Arabia.”

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‘LAW WON’T PROTECT SINNERS LIKE YOU’: SCROLL.IN REPORTER COVERING BEEF PROTEST HELD FOR SEVEN HOURS - MumbaiMirror

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‘LAW WON’T PROTECT SINNERS LIKE YOU’: SCROLL.INREPORTER COVERING BEEF PROTEST HELD FOR SEVEN HOURS

Mumbai Mirror | Oct 6, 2015, 09.48 AM IST

By Mayank Jain

On Sunday at noon, as I emerged from New Delhi's Patel Chowk Metro station, I was startled to find about a dozen police officers on high alert on the street outside. They were conducting vigorous checks of people's bags. They weren't looking for bombs - they were inspecting the contents of their lunchboxes. 

Last week, a group of students from Delhi posted a notice on Facebook announcing a demonstration outside the Bharatiya Janata Party headquarters to protest against the ruling party's refusal to condemn the lynching of a 50-year-old man in Dadri, ostensibly because he had killed a calf and stored the meat in his refrigerator. Participants were urged to to BYOB - bring your own beef - and eat it at a "Beefy Picnic" on Ashoka Road. 

The Delhi police, it seems, had been stationed at all the metro stations in the area to detain anyone headed to the event. 

As a reporter, it was just another day in the field for me. I expected to see some posters and listen to some sloganeering. The police had other plans. I was stopped right outside the metro station since the policemen refused to believe that my press card was genuine. The fact that I wasn't carrying containers full of beef failed to convince them otherwise. 

After I was frisked, a burly policemen grabbed my hand and pulled me to the side. From the Delhi police website, I would later learn that he was Dinesh Kumar, the Station House Officer at the Parliament Street Police Station. After waiting for 15 minutes, another constable arrived with a smartphone. They started scrolling through photographs on the phone. From their conversation, they wanted to check if I was the one. 

CHECKING FACEBOOK 

It would later become clear that they had found the Facebook invitation the organisers had created for the event, and were looking at the profile of the person who had posted the notice. 

After they established that I wasn't the organiser, Kumar let me go with a warning: "Unse mat milo, kaat ke fenk dunga. (Don't join them. I will cut you into pieces and throw them away.) As I strolled towards the BJP office, two people asked for directions to the BJP headquarters. One of them told me that his name was Gaurav Jain and it turned out that he was the organiser of the protest. He said that they had escaped security check at the metro station by hiding the beef deep inside their bags. Evidently, the police search hadn't been as thorough as it should have been. 

As we were chatting, an SUV stopped in front of us. A group of policemen grabbed us and asked us to step into the car. We were being taken to the Parliament Street Police Station, one of the constables said. As protesters started phoning Gaurav Jain to ask why he had not arrived at the venue, I explained repeatedly to SHO Kumar that I was a journalist and I was only doing my job. He would have none of it. 

Soon enough, we found ourselves in his office at the police station where they made us write down all our details, surrounded by a scrum of constables and inspectors. There was even a senior officer from the CID who said he was investigating the case, but didn't bother to ask or verify my credentials. 

The fact that my surname is Jain was enough to enrage the SHO. "Today's kids are throwing Hinduism into a gutter," he said. "Is this what your parents teach you? That you go out and eat beef?" 

My protestations were met with a command to "shut up" and threats of slaps and "dhaaras" (sections of the law). 

After my repeated insistence that I was a journalist, he asked me to prove it. I gave him my press card as well as the visiting card, both of which clearly mention my designation as a reporter at Scroll.in. 

"It's all fake media," Kumar said. He tore up my visiting card and threw the pieces at me. "I can get this made at home." 

DENIED WATER, WASHROOM 

I was ushered out of the room by two policemen and kept in a sub-inspector's office, along with Gaurav Jain and the woman who accompanied him. I was not allowed to phone my family or a lawyer. "The law can protect criminals but it won't protect sinners like you," a constable declared. 

I pleaded to be allowed to drink some water and use the washroom. It was half an hour before I was allowed to. I wasn't allowed to eat, or use my phone. We had to get up from our seats or sit down when we were ordered to. 

Around 4 pm, I was called into the SHO's office, where he sat with a police inspector who was struggling to turn on the computer. He was using Google to search for the term "Beefy party". 

The idea was to find everyone who interacted with the page and use it as evidence. Since they couldn't find anything about me, they asked me to help them look up Gaurav Jain's profile. I refused. This angered the SHO and he asked me to "get out" right away. 

Finally, at 8 pm, the SHO called me to tell me that I would be let go after writing an apology. "What do I apologise for?" I asked. He replied, "Just do what we say and don't open your mouth." 

The sub-inspector gave us another lecture on how we were a "disgrace" to the country and how the government wasted its personnel and time to keep protests in check. 

NO FORMAL COMPLAINT 

Almost seven hours after being detained, there had been no written complaint, no First Information Report, no paperwork of any sort to prove that we had actually been detained. When we asked why we had been taken in, we were told that we had "offended feelings of a lot of people" for which we would be "punished". After another 30 minutes of waiting, they finally let me go without forcing me to make an apology. But my press card was missing. I asked the SHO to return it to me. "I crushed it and tore into pieces," he said with a laugh. He finally ordered one of the constables to fetch it. 

He bent the hard plastic back and forth before giving it back to me. I was asked to "leave and run as soon as possible". I got away with a damaged press card and a first-hand experience of strategies employed by the state to silence opinions it finds inconvenient. 

This account originally appeared on scroll.in.

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My Tweets on Dadri lynch murder on beef eating rumor:

1. Ghulam Muhammed ‏@GhulamMuhammed  Oct 4

   Ghulam Muhammed: Dadri’s dire warning: If Modi fails to give India ... http://ghulammuhammed.blogspot.com/2015/10/dadris-dire-warning-if-modi-fails-to.html?spref=tw …0 retweets0 favorites

   
   
2. Ghulam Muhammed ‏@GhulamMuhammed  Oct 3

   Ghulam Muhammed: A beef-eating Hindu demands his rights - By SA Aiy... http://ghulammuhammed.blogspot.com/2015/10/a-beef-eating-hindu-demands-his-rights.html?spref=tw …
3. Ghulam Muhammed ‏@GhulamMuhammed  Oct 2

   Destroying Muslim economics is ongoing agenda of Brahmin mindset. Communal riots destroyed Aligarh Moradabad Varanashi's Muslim businesses.

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4. Ghulam Muhammed ‏@GhulamMuhammed  Oct 2

   Beef ban activated in response to export trade enriching Muslims. Destroying Muslim economics is an ongoing agenda of Brahmin mindset .0 retweets0 favorites
5. Ghulam Muhammed ‏@GhulamMuhammed  Oct 2

   Dadri lynching: Owaisi attacks PM, says it was 'planned murder' over religion http://zeenews.india.com/news/uttar-pradesh/dadri-lynching-owaisi-attacks-pm-says-it-was-planned-murder-over-religion_1805146.html …

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6. Ghulam Muhammed ‏@GhulamMuhammed  Oct 2

   BJP's outlook towards community, society responsible for Dadri mob murder: Congress http://zeenews.india.com/news/uttar-pradesh/bjps-outlook-towards-community-society-responsible-for-dadri-mob-murder-congress_1805121.html …

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   Syed Qamar Hasan. ‏@qamarhasan50  Sep 30

   @GhulamMuhammed #Beef is costlier than flesh in Modi's India.

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8. Ghulam Muhammed ‏@GhulamMuhammed  Sep 30

   Yakub Shaikh died when his co-worker Santos Arekar inserted an air blower pipe into his rectum saying I'll take out all mutton U ate on Eid.
9. Ghulam Muhammed ‏@GhulamMuhammed  Sep 30

   Next door to Delhi, mob kills 50-year-old [Muslim], injures son over 'rumours' they eat beef ... http://ghulammuhammed.blogspot.com/2015/09/next-door-to-delhi-mob-kills-50-year.html?spref=tw …
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Dadri’s dire warning: If Modi fails to give India change, it’s because of enemies within his house - Written by Tavleen Singh - The Indian Express

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Dadri’s dire warning: If Modi fails to give India change, it’s because of enemies within his house

Akhlaq’s death was foretold from the moment Bharatiya Janata Party chief ministers started banning meat on the excuse of festivals during which it has never been banned before.

Written by Tavleen Singh 
Updated: Oct 4, 2015, 7:41

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·        Akhlaq’s daughter and her cousin, in Bisara village Wednesday. Akhlaq was killed when a mob attacked his house following rumours that he and his family stored and ate beef. His son, severely injured in the attack, is in hospital. (Express Photo by: Prem Nath Pandey)

This week I would have written about the Foreign Minister’s excellent speech at the United Nations, but images from Dadri got in the way. Ever since the barbaric, senseless murder of Mohammed Akhlaq, I have been haunted by those images of a family with modern, middle-class aspirations destroyed by the savagery that lies so close to the surface of Indian modernity. Mohammed Akhlaq’s brutal murder gives the Prime Minister a chance to confront the reality that, if he fails to give India change, development and prosperity, it will be because of enemies inside his own house.

Akhlaq’s death was foretold from the moment Bharatiya Janata Party chief ministers started banning meat on the excuse of festivals during which it has never been banned before. They did this without concern for the jobs that would be lost and without noticing that Muslims would become an automatic target. Where better for this to be demonstrated than in a Hindu village with less Muslim families than you can count on the fingers of one hand? But Akhlaq’s cowardly murder raises other more serious questions.

When he was in Silicon Valley, the Prime Minister talked proudly about his plans to use digital technology to transform rural India. What use is this kind of talk when a murderous mob can gather in a village on the edge of Delhi without the police being able to do anything? The men who planned the murder of Akhlaq, and the attempted murder of his son Danish, used WhatsApp to spread lies about cow slaughter days in advance, but the police did not notice. 

What use is digital technology if it cannot improve basic policing? What use are cellphones in villages if the temple priest who made the announcement that caused Akhlaq’s death could not use it to alert the nearest police station? Even if the Prime Minister succeeds in spreading the use of digital technology to improve policing and governance, what is he going to do about the primitive mindset of members of his own party?

What will he do with the ex-MLA who said that if the meat found in Akhlaq’s fridge was beef, then the violence was justified? What will he do with BJP spokesmen who justified the murder in other ways? Some said that farmers in the area were relying on their cattle to survive because of the drought and in the village of Bisara a calf had disappeared. Others, including the local MP, dismissed the murder as an ‘accident’ and the result of a ‘misunderstanding’.

It was a shameful display of primitive, provincial thinking, and Mr Modi would do well to notice that, along with the ‘ghar wapasi’ nonsense that went on through his entire first year in office, it serves to distract from the reasons why he became prime minister. The vote was for change and development and not Hindutva. Anyone who tells him otherwise is lying. And yet he has done nothing to stop the theft of his mandate by people who would not have been ministers or members of Parliament if his slogan of ‘parivartan’ and ‘vikas’ had not found such resonance.

Akhlaq’s murder reminds us of how superficial India’s modernity is. The men who killed him and tried to kill his son would have all had cellphones in their pockets and colour television sets in their homes. Some may even have had access to computers and the Internet, and still all it took was a rumour for them to turn into savages. It is only savages who can turn so quickly into a killer mob. And in recent months a very ugly atmosphere has been created across the country by BJP chief ministers and Modi’s own ministers, and he has done nothing to stop them. Nor has he made the smallest effort to call a halt to the misguided ‘ghar wapasi’ (homecoming) campaign launched by his former comrades in the RSS. If the RSS is truly interested in serving India, and if they are true believers in the Sanatan Dharma, then they must concentrate their activities on more useful things like cleaning the Ganga and helping the Swachh Bharat campaign. Ghar wapasi is the antithesis of the idea of the Sanatan Dharma.

Meanwhile the Prime Minister must realise that the investors he woos on his travels in foreign lands halt in their tracks every time they see signs that beneath its new highways and shining malls, India remains a primitive country. Akhlaq was stoned to death in a village less than 50 kilometres away from Delhi and his young son, if he lives, could live with serious head injuries. Do we require more proof that we are going to need more than digital technology to make India into a country that truly belongs in the 21st century, instead of in some hideous, primordial time warp?

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