POLITICS OF COMMUNAL FORCES

What is holding the Government to deal with Anti-India and Communal Forces??

We have been witnessing anti-India activities and propaganda for a long time such as burning of national flag, openly abusing Indian cricket team for defeating Pakistan, distributing sweets after Pakistan’s victory over India etc etc..

The Shahi Imams like Abdullah Bukhari in his speech had declared himself as an ISI agent and dared the government to arrest him. Charge sheet against former Shahi Imam of Jama Masjid Syed Abdullah Bukhari in a sedition case for allegedly making anti-national speech will be filed soon as investigation has been completed for disturbing harmony in the society and attempt to instigate a section to wage war against the country.

His son now Shahi Imam Maulana Syed Ahmed Bukhari’s irresponsible statement not only undermines the dignity and respect of the nation but also creates religious and communal mistrust in the largely tolerant society of India.

Syed Muhammad Noor ur Rahman Barkati Shahi Imam of Tipu Sultan Mosque, Kolkata (1989–2017) organised prayers for Osama bin Laden after he was killed by United States in March 2011. In December 2016, Barkati issued a fatwa against West Bengal Bharatiya Janata Party chief Dilip Ghosh for allegedly giving hate speech against chief minister Mamata Banerjee. In the fatwa, he asked people to stone Ghosh and exile him from the state. In January 2017, PM Modi received a fatwa from Barkati for demonetizing 500 and 1000 rupees bank notes. He offered an amount of Rs 25 lakh to someone who would "cut off PM Narendra Modi's beard, shave his head and smear him with black ink".

On 17 May, 2017 Barkati was sacked from his post of Shahi Imam as the trustee board opined that his anti national statements were indirectly helping Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh to spread in the state.

Dr. Zakir Naik tells blatant lies and manipulates (quoting out of context or translating erroneously or incompletely) the scriptures of various religions so that it appears that everyone should become Muslim. He says that Allah is the only God who should be worshipped and the gods of all other religions are not gods and should not be worshipped.    

Naik who is currently abroad, was being probed under terror and money-laundering charges by the NIA. He fled from India in July, 2016. In October 2017, the National Investigation Agency (NIA) has filed a chargesheet against him for inciting youth to take up terror activities, giving hate speeches and promoting enmity between communities.

Akbaruddin Owaisi MLA of the Telangana Legislative Assembly and of AIMIM party announced death threats against Bangladeshi writer Tasleema Nasreen and Satanic Verses famed writer Salman Rushdie. Owaisi said, "we in Hyderabad want to behead this woman according to the fatwa."

Obviously, government failed to check Owaisi to exercise his nefarious right to propagate his unlawful ideas and contest elections. But for the Muslim community its sternest test comes now: Should it rally behind the man who’s known for his erudition and the savoury biryani and kababs he serves to journalists but who, in his public speeches, often begins to resemble the Mahant Avaidyanath of the Muslims?

Like the AIMIM, the RSS has tried to underplay the chilling ideological formulation of its second sarsanghchalak, Guru Golwalkar, who had declared that the Muslims either had the option of being assimilated into the Hindu fold or accepting the status of second class citizen. Then again, it disowns the assassin of Mahatma Gandhi, Nathuram Godse, yet its own government felicitates his mentor, Vir Savarkar.

The AIMIM may not possibly ride the Muslim support to power. But it may split the Muslim support of some parties to the advantage of the BJP, which doesn’t depend on religious minorities for its electoral performance.

Masrat Alam Bhat, an Indian Kashmiri separatist leader currently General Secretary of the All Parties Hurriyat Conference led by Syed Ali Shah Geelani supported 2008 Mumbai attacks mastermind Hafiz Saeed, making a series of anti-India and pro-Pakistan slogans and favouring militants like Hizbul Mujahideen chief Syed Salahuddin.

Azam Khan’s anti-India tirades are a known factor for which he has never been apologetic. He has sedition charges on him due to his remarks on Indian army.

Take it from me that fanaticism has become a political tool for those who have tasted the easy passage to the most lucrative business of politics. If there is a whole host of Muslim leaders spitting venom for propagating anti-India tirade the Hindus are also trying hard to raise a fanatic bastion for direct confrontation. The majority community with majority support in the parliament is unwilling to deal with the malady of social rift constitutionally. Incessant unobtrusive anti India tirade and subsequent inaction against the perpetrators also point to the demonic ambition to establish majority political dominance with Hindutva ploy. Whereas need of the hour is constitutional remedy and effective implementation of law and order. Why the venom spitting leaders are not rounded off either for anti-India tirade or for disturbing the harmony through religious and communal mistrust irrespective of any community?

It is the religious leaders who create insecurities in the minds of their followers and breed hatred, which in turn motivates their followers to blindly adhere to them, thereby increasing the religious leaders’ power and influence in turn securing political place for them in the executive and the legislature.