"Hindus are Lazy and Coward, Non-Combative to
Humiliation and Violence, even Selfish,Divided and Greedy to self Betterment".
Indian media, Civil society and the government of India have
all remained mute spectators in the last one decade at least, to the
plight of thousands of Hindus
worldwide targeted in the humiliation, torture, discrimination, and last the
planned genocide mainly in our neighbouring countries, Pakistan and
Bangladesh. Though Indian media has done a commendable job in covering international
events, be it Tiananmen Square massacre, Arab Spring, Tahrir Square, Gaza conflicts or
recent IS invasion in Iraq and Syria, yet it has become quite inexplicable
while the most gruesome human tragedy of humiliation, torture and killing of
women and children, that has been regularly unfolding right in our
sub-continent, and that has gone unnoticed, media even had refused to
acknowledge most of the charge sheeted crimes on Hindus.
Unlike as in India, the Hindu community that constitute a
small fraction of US population, public representatives in US had been
taking cognisance of the plight of minorities in India’s neighbourhood
long ago. Members of Congress in the last decade had submitted a
bipartisan letter to then Secretary of State, Hilary Clinton urging her to
ensure that religious persecution of minorities end in Pakistan.
Democrat Congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard and republican
Congressman Aaron Schock have spearheaded a bipartisan
Congressional letter that urged US Secretary of State John Kerry to make
human rights of the minorities in Bangladesh a priority in bilateral
relations with US. Arlene A Juracek, the mayor of the village of Mount Prospect
has recognised the tragedy of Hindus in Bangladesh who cannot even
celebrate Durga Puja in Bangladesh owing to its anti-Hindu laws.
The gloomy part of this ongoing tragedy more recently is that
similar persecutions has started in India’s West Bengal, almost in all the border
districts, where Muslim population has crossed a threshold limit of 20% to 30%.
Human Torture, burning of properties, humiliation, molestation and
abduction of women has become frequent and rampant. The ugliest part of
this tragedy, seen recently in many villages in Bengal, is that the right of
worship is taken away with the active consent and support from the passive
administration and the biased ruling government, that has banned Durga
puja as and when larger Muslims have objection on that.
Now going into the history, all know that when Pakistan was
created in 1947, Hindus constituted about 15 per cent of the population of
West Pakistan (current Pakistan); by 1998 it is about 1.6 per cent,
the population declined by about 90 per cent in about 50 years. This decimation
is the outcome of sustained legal and social discrimination ever since the
creation of Pakistan. Blasphemy laws carry a death sentence and have been
used to target non Muslims. Family laws for non-Muslims do not exist.
Thus, marriages cannot be legally established for purpose of travel and
divorce and even property right disputes cannot be amicably resolved.
On the social front, the curriculum in government schools and
Madarsas anywhere and everywhere promote religious hatred against
minorities in both of the neighbouring countries. And this Madarsa tradition is
brought in ditto and followed in a similar way in many states of
India where the Muslim population has crossed 20%; even in many cases there
these Madarsas have turned into training centre for jihadi terrorism as
confirmed by many incidents investigated.
The reports complied by many activist-writers have similar
conclusive stories for most parts of Pakistan and Bangladesh, that
says, "As a result, Hindu women, mostly minors, are being persistently
abducted and forcibly converted, Hindu businessmen kidnapped for ransom,
and Hindu temples destroyed. An elaborate infrastructure has been designed
to prey upon the likes of Rachna Kumari and Rinkel Kumari. The human rights
commission in Pakistan reports that 20-25 young Hindu girls are abducted
and forcibly converted every month. Dawn puts this number at 1000 every
year for Hindu and Christian women.
Pakistan has been home to numerous Hindu temples of which
only 360 remain, with an even smaller number functioning; thousands of
temples have been destroyed since 1947. One of the holiest sites of the Hindus,
the Hinglaj Mata Mandir has also been targeted by extremists. Bereft of
any hope for dignified survival in Pakistan, Hindus are taking refuge abroad.
Pakistan Hindu council estimates that about 5000 Hindus leave for India
every year.”
Similar reports on erstwhile East Pakistan and now Bangladesh has
been drawn by various writers, and it concludes : "From almost a
third of East Pakistan’s (currently Bangladesh’s) population as per
Pakistan’s 1951 census, by 1971, when Bangladesh was born out of East
Pakistan, Hindus were less than a fifth of its population. Hindus
constitute less than 10 per cent of the populace there thirty years later; than
and as little as 8 per cent today per reliable estimate.
The situation is now so dire that even Amnesty has taken note
that the Hindu community in Bangladesh is at extreme risk and is being
targeted simply for their religion. In 1971 alone 10 million ethnic Bengalis,
mostly Hindus fled to India and 200,000 women were raped.
From 1975 onwards, religious minorities including Hindus have been
subjected to discriminatory property laws, restrictions on religious
freedom and violence perpetrated by both state and non-state agencies.
Hindus are attacked almost every year during the celebration of
their most important festival, Durga Puja. Before creation of Bangladesh
Pakistani government had instituted an enemy property acts in 1965,
which officially labeled Hindus as enemies and enabled annexation of their
properties.
Now the serious question arises on what is the role played by our
Government of India, the vibrant Civil society and the media, and that
draws most ugly status of highly polarized political polity.
Erstwhile Nehruian Indian government has not accorded
the official status of refugees to Hindus from Pakistan, despite
satisfying the criteria for refugee status under international law due to
Pakistan's failure to protect them from malicious religious persecution.
They live in abject poverty, in cramped and squalid conditions in
open tents in North and North West India, and have been suffering from
repeated colds, coughs, psychosomatic conditions. This apathy has
continued under governments of all political hues.
It has however been reported that the current government led by
Prime Minister Modi is planning a package which includes private jobs and
a fast track process for Indian citizenship for Hindu and Sikh refugees
from Pakistan. But it will be never enough now when the bigger Hindu population
of Pakistan and Bangladesh has either been wiped out by killing or
forcibly converted to Islam.
The role of watchful civil society and the media in India has been
more dismal and astonishing given that many activists are vigilant about
caste violence perpetrated against the traditionally disadvantaged classes, as
they should be. Yet, the cause of the plight of Hindus in India’s backyard
(or the places within India where Muslim population is above one fourth of
total population), has been deliberately neglected or avoided under pressure
from political leaders despite the fact that they are predominantly Dalits.
Protests against their persecution have been few and far between and
mostly relegated to much revile supposedly casteist right wing Hindu
groups.
Indian media had remained largely oblivious of the genocide of
Hindus in both Pakistan and Bangladesh. Even India Today that did a cover
story on Hindus in Pakistan in the wake of the abduction of Rinkle Kumari
on February 24, 2012, has received little coverage in other Indian news sites
as well. It was a sample study when thousands of such cases were noticed
at these two nations and most astonished in many states within India in
the disguise of love-jihad.
A systematic study of all such similar acts of the genocide
in has been missing any vibe by the media , only by and large some
sporadic reports have focused on conditions Hindus refugees in
India.
It is shameful for Indian Hindus that most of the
limited coverage that this human tragedy against Hindus has received, has
been made by the news sites outside India and this story is no different
for Hindus in Bangladesh, Bhutan or Malaysia either.
Rabindra Ghosh, Dhaka, Bangladesh of Bangladesh Minority
Watch has been dealing relentlessly in hundreds of serious cases of
killing, loot or destruction of property, kidnapping and conversion by love
jihad every month. No respite, no stopping, the plight, the persecution
of minority of Hindus in Bangladesh is unending.
Irish Statesman Edmund Burke had quoted in 17th century, and that
is still relevant with the nobles sleeping in Hindutav cover, that says, "The
only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men should do
nothing". Here’s what one finds that, ‘When bad men combine, the good must
associate; else they will fall one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a
contemptible struggle.
This is the status of Hindus now for several centuries and even
after all above, it is pity still we are half-awake to the mess that Hindus, as
a community, are in. The most relevant question for this decade is show unity
both in thought and action only to resist effectively or it will not be too far
when all those sitting individually will be wiped out one by one.
When we find most of the communities religious or sect wise
through the world are united for their
welfare but Hindus are still drunk in the fantasy of being secular.
But sad to say, truth is different, Hindus are lazy and coward, non resistive
to humiliation and violence, even selfishly greedy to self betterment.
Present status report of Hindus as a community,
with the changeover of political leadership in our country has to be
intelligently interpreted and even there is need to find integration with
Hindutava Nationalism.
Here the role of NaMo’s ”Dialectical
Hindutava, the process of Integral Humanism is relevant, when applied
universally to diverse groups of religious communities, politicians and
nations. The million $ question is: do we have created enough power to persuade
or force NaMo to intervene in troubled waters and use his goodwill with
Bangladeshi leadership to act? Sad, we have not thought of this within Bengal
or Assam, election after election. Naked truth is "Hindus are lazy and
coward, non combative to humiliation and violence, even selfish, and greedy to
self betterment".
