Re: [IAC#RG] Insult to the nation

Bande Matarm is not our "national anthem", it is the "national song",
a notch below the "anthem".

Sukla

On 14/05/2013, R.K.Gupta <hr.sasgroup@gmail.com> wrote:
> We should hang such people irrespective of caste&creed who don't pay
> respect to our National Anthem or they should be asked to leave the country
> and citizenship should be withdrawn.
>
>
> On Tue, May 14, 2013 at 10:24 AM, Veerendra Jaitly
> <jaitly.iit@gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> It is sad that some people find it difficult to sing even a few lines in
>> the praise of our own motherland.
>>
>> 'Vande Matram' is a great song which at one time united all Indians
>> irrespective of caste, creed and religion.
>>
>> With modernization, some people are becoming more and more fanatic and
>> less flexible.
>>
>> rgds
>>
>> VK Jaitly
>>
>>
>> On Mon, May 13, 2013 at 4:17 PM, Sarbajit Roy <sroy.mb@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> *Sack MPs who don't respect National Song *
>>>
>>> No matter what his reservations may have been against the National Song,
>>> by disdainfully walking out of Parliament when *Vande Mataram* was being
>>> played, BSP leader Shafiqur Rahman Barq has insulted the country. Such
>>> an
>>> affront to the nation, that too delivered inside the hallowed halls of
>>> Parliament — the *sanctum sanctorum* of democracy, cannot be tolerated.
>>> Lok Sabha Speaker Meira Kumar has taken note of the incident, but the
>>> matter must not be allowed to rest there. The offending MP's membership
>>> to
>>> the lower House must be cancelled and his political boss would do well
>>> to
>>> severely reprimand him. Not only has Mr Barq committed sacrilege, he has
>>> shown no remorse for his despicable behaviour. Instead, the little known
>>> MP
>>> from Moradabad has defended his actions in the name of 'religious
>>> freedom'
>>> and 'secularism'. That the two have absolutely nothing to do with
>>> respecting one's motherland is clearly a concept that is alien to Mr
>>> Barq,
>>> who has argued that since rendering *Vande Mataram* is the equivalent of
>>> paying 'homage to a Hindu idol', he, as a true Muslim, cannot 'worship'
>>> anyone else apart from Allah. The fallacious nature of his argument
>>> apart,
>>> the fact remains that Mr Barq had no business dragging his religious
>>> beliefs into Parliament, where he has come not as a representive of a
>>> religious community. Moreover, if he really felt so strongly about the
>>> National Song, he had other ways to register his concern. He could have,
>>> for instance, stood aside while the song was being played. But by
>>> walking
>>> out, Mr Barq sought cheap publicity through the use of his religious
>>> identity. But this is not the first time that Mr Barq has played the
>>> Muslim
>>> card; he had opposed the BSP's *'Jai Bhim'* slogan too.
>>>
>>> This is also not the first time that *Vande Mataram* has been criticised
>>> for being 'anti-Islamic'. This manufactured controversy goes back to the
>>> turbulent decades of the 1930s and 1940s when the country's emergent
>>> Muslim
>>> leadership was seeking to consolidate its own political base
>>> *vis-à-vis*that of the Congress. By that time,
>>> *Vande Mataram* — Bankim Chandra Chattopadhay's powerful paen to the
>>> motherland which had bound the national conscience, Hindus and Muslims
>>> alike, during the 1905 Bengal partition — was already being sung at the
>>> opening of all Congress sessions. However, when the party wanted to make
>>> the song the national anthem, some Muslim leaders objected. In 1937, a
>>> sub-committee that included Jawaharlal Nehru and Subhas Chandra Bose
>>> reviewed the song, and for the first time in the 1938 Haripura session,
>>> only the first two stanzas were played. Even that did little to placate
>>> the
>>> likes of Mohammad Ali Jinnah, who demanded the song be scrapped.
>>>
>>> But while that did not happen, *Vande Mataram* has remained the
>>> favourite punching bag of communal leaders. In 2006, the song's
>>> centenary
>>> celebrations were hampered after some Muslims complained against a Union
>>> Government directive asking all schools to sing the song on September 7.
>>> A
>>> supine Congress leadership in New Delhi buckled before them, as it had
>>> earlier. The question now is: Will it be any different this time around
>>> or
>>> will Shafiqur Rahman Barq get away with his shocking irreverance?
>>>
>>> http://www.dailypioneer.com/columnists/edit/insult-to-the-nation.html
>>>
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>>
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