Saturday, October 3, 2015

Re:[IAC#RG]

Ms Mustafa,

While the case of Dadri is unfortunate, we should have a balanced view
of the subject.
Hinduism and Islam are two antithetical religions. While Islam
is an aggressive and 'without pity, without remorse' type of faith,
Hinduism is a friendly, peaceable and benign religion. Islam, by virtue
of its strict canons, encouraged discipline and unity within its adherents
but Hinduism, by virtue of the infamous caste system was, intrinsically,
divisive in nature. Islam attracted new followers by its liberal 'polygyny'
(polygamy by males) and superior position allotted for male believers
compared to females. This, probably, was one of the main attractions for
such fast proliferation of Islam. Hinduism, with its myriad rituals, and
humiliating caste system, however, seemed too complicated and
repulsive, to ordinary seekers.
The Hindu religion had its roots into the far away mist of history.
Hinduism was, basically, liberal towards other faiths and tolerated,
respected and communicated with other faiths. Islam, on the other
hand, did not take kindly towards other religions and persons of other
faiths and called everyone, who was not a Muslim, a 'kafir' (unbeliever)
and to undertake 'jihad' (armed struggle) against them was, not only
justified but was the bounden duty of every Muslim. 'Jehad' was used as
a multi-purpose vehicle. It was employed for raising morale and prestige
of Muslims against Hindus in battle, forging unity among the
communities and even among Muslim states against Hindu state(s) as
well as for spread of Islam 'by the sword'. Hinduism, on the other hand,
had no such inbuilt religious edict or instrument. We have seen in the
battles how the Muslim kings from Mehmud of Ghazni
through Muhammad-bin-Tughlaq to the Deccan Sultantes
Confederation against Vijayanagar invoked
'jehad' in order to lift the zeal of their soldiers
against Hindu 'infidels'. On the opposite, our history, brings out
glaringly, the inability of Hindu states to unite against Muslim invaders.
It is quite right that the 'Dawood type' are only few. But the silent majority
of the remaining 'good' Muslims have failed to start any movement to
oppose the 'bad' types. So it happened in the case of Nazis of Hitler and
so it happened in Kashmir. The 'silent majority' had failed to influence the
outcome of massacre and driving out of peaceful minority of Kashmiri
Pandits. Same is the case with Pakistan where not only Hindus and
but even the Christians and 'Shia Muslims' are perseucuted and driven out.

Today the general impression is that the Hindu Agenda, (if there is any) is
a reaction to the Muslim Agenda (which is inbuilt into Islam) i.e. to wait for
attaining majority of population (more than 50%) and then sort out the Hindus.
It is, therefore, the bounden duty of every 'good Muslim' to unite and start a
liberal movement among 'good Muslims' so as to create an atmosphere where
both communities could live in brotherhood with each other. The onus of doing
so remains on the Muslims because of the offensive edicts of Islam. The earlier
such a movement starts the better it would be for the nation!

Regards,

Randhir Phagura

On Fri, Oct 2, 2015 at 10:42 AM, Seema Mustafa <seemamustafa@gmail.com> wrote:
Thank you. Of course I know that, and guess thats what gives us some hope.



On Fri, Oct 2, 2015 at 1:00 AM, ashok kumar <indiaresists@lists.riseup.net> wrote:
Seems Mustafa , kudos to you for bringing it all out so lucidly.                                                    Like all Muslims in India are not "Dawood " variety , all Hindus aren't  hardcore hindutva fundamentalists either. And this I say as a proud , practising Hindu from the heartland , U.P.  Please rest assured that I don't represent the minority but the majority amongst Hindus though we may  have differing  eating preference or praying methodology than yours. So what ? You are as much an Indian as    me or any Sikh , Christian  or a Parsi  etc.  Every Dadri or Muzaffar Nagar shames and saddens us as much . It  also alarms us as much. I don't have  the gift which the Almighty has blessed you with , to express my feelings adequately in words. Hope you understand my pain , anguish and sorrow .           Ashok  Kumar.

From: Seema Mustafa
Sent: ‎01/‎10/‎2015 22:36
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Subject: [IAC#RG]

THE RSS/BJP MESSAGE TO MUSLIMS IN INDIA TODAY

SEEMA MUSTAFA Wednesday, September 30, 2015

NEW DELHI: It was a systematic communal campaign in Dadri, that precedes acts of violence always. First a calf was reported missing, and a campaign unleashed that basically spread rumours linking the calf to eating beef. When the tension reached prescribed levels, a temple in Dadri announced that a particular family--- Muslims of course--- was eating, after keeping, beef in their home. And barely before the echo of the announcement had subsided, a mob attacked the house of Mohammad Akhlaq, in the village in Dadri, pulled him out and beat him to death with bricks. His 22 year old son was also attacked, and is presently battling for his life in a hospital. The mob attacked their grandmother, and tried to molest the women in the house. The family is completely traumatised, terrified and currently praying for the young son's life. 

In terms of numbers, always very important for a statistic obsessed government, only one man has died so far. But in terms of impact, the incident has rung alarm bells across the country being reported in the global media at some length. And as the Muzaffarnagar violence at the time of the last Lok Sabha elections had shown, corroborated by subsequent communal incidents, the new strategy of those seeking to divide India on communal lines is to minimise deaths, but to exaggerate impact. Be it in the form of large scale displacement of the minorities, or widespread fear. 

In the Dadri attack the intention was not displacement, but to generate fear, to terrify. Hence the singling out of the one family, and the brutal attack where Akhlaq was killed without mercy. Do not eat beef is the ostensible message. The real message is: you are second class citizens, so you will do what you are told in India. 

So what are Muslims being told in India? But before that the stereotype which is fed by an ignorant, complicit media; goes largely unchallenged by the so called regional parties as they neither have the cadres nor the organisation to do little more than listen; and that is slowly being injected as a poisonous venom into society at every available opportunity, borrowing also from the US led campaign against Muslims across the world. 

1. Muslims in India are a monolith and hence dangerous; 

2. At best they are of two types: the APJ Abdul Kalam variety or the Dawood Ibrahim kind. And the second are in the majority, hence have to be hunted out before they hurt others; 

3. They are influenced greatly by the extremist politics of the terror groups in Pakistan and West Asia; 

4. They are growing rapidly and pose a challenge to the stability of India; 

5. They work against the cultural ethos of India, as they eat beef, take away our daughters, are aggressive in following their religion, and hence a threat to Hinduism; 

In this discourse there is no room for the reality. That Muslims are not a monolith, and are as culturally different as all other Indians; that they are largely liberal, even if they are religious as are non-Muslims in India; that they have shunned extremist politics to a point where they vote always for the secular option and not for the kinds of Owaisi, or the Jamaat e Islami in elections; that they have done nothing, repeat nothing, to be branded anti-national; that they too do not eat beef, and are secular and Indian as the last Indian. 

And hence through the systematic, crafted, manipulated communal incidents come the many messages. Muslims are being told very deliberately, and through violence: 

1. Do not marry outside your religion. The entire 'love jihad' campaign launched in Uttar Pradesh in particular by the RSS affiliates was directed at invoking terror through deliberate attacks on Hindu-Muslim couples, and on the families of the Muslim young people so involved, making it clear that this will not be tolerated; 

2. Do not eat meat or beef. The central government itself passed an order against the export of beef. The Maharashtra government has gone many steps further. This should have been a message to all Indians, but through the campaign and now Akhlaq's murder it has been demonstrated that the defaulters are Muslims. Hence Muslims must follow the food code or suffer the consequences, as posts on the social media by self-acknowledged Hindutva acolytes profess in language that is abusive and vitriolic. 

3. Do not live in cosmopolitan colonies, move into ghettos. Mumbai, Ahmedabad, Delhi have managed to make this a rule with most of Gujarat covered, and other cities and states following. Muslims do not easily get rented accommodation in these cities, and are also not allowed to buy property easily by the residents associations. 

4. Do not become too successful economically. The communal violence has been increasingly targeting Muslim businessmen, with shops being specifically targeted.In fact the Congress government in Maharashtra also fed into this by unleashing a wave of terror against Muslim professionals, many of whom were arrested on suspicion of having "terror links.' While some were released after months and years, there are many languishing in jail for crimes that local lawyers have described as concocted. 

5. And speak only when you are asked to, actually not at all. This is the message coming out of a major attack on Muslim writers, academics, intelligentsia on the social media where trolls describing themselves as bhakts of PM Narendra Modi, Hindutva acolytes and carrying profile pictures of angry gods literally abuse and threaten any one writing under a Muslim name, questioning their patriotism, their religion and their identity. In fact Muslims are repeatedly reminded when they share in democratic debate, that they should remember how other countries ---Pakistan for instance---treats its minorities, and should thus follow a path of caution. 

The campaign is virulent and relentless. And political parties in states going to the polls in particular are now feeling this pressure and re


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Re: [IAC#RG] Fwd: OROP

Dear Jhaji,
Sarbajit and others who are feeling bad about OROP have absolutely no idea about the basics of OROP. They crib for everything the faujis are getting as their entitlement, after retirement. Medical services and Military Hospitals for armed forces pensioners is very painful for Sarbajit & co. Gentlemen, for your kind information, the retired armed forces personnel avail medical facilities under the scheme known as ECHS. This means Ex-servicemen Contributory Health Scheme. Retired personnel become member of this scheme with their share of contribution. Talking about canteen facilities, Nothing is contributed by the Govt,or subsidized. This is a system run by the Defence Services personnel, efficiently, with least or no corruption keeping profitability to the standards laid down by the Ministry of Defence. Employees working in the CSD outlets are paid from the profit earned by the canteens. The canteens are operated on "rate contract basis". That is how the things are comparatively cheaper in the canteen and not because anything is subsidized like Parliament Canteens.
Now coming to OROP, it is not something like a person having access to a politician makes the politician drunk and gets a promise of OROP. What do you think, Congress Govt agreed for OROP without any base? Koshiyari commission appointed by the Parliament forcefully recommended OROP. It is only babus who suffer from inferiority complex want to settle the score with Defence Forces. Do you think Modiji during his campaign in last general election, had no knowledge about OROP. He promised for OROP as he was fully convinced about the demand. The demand for OROP has been accepted by two different governments, the PM has announced it twice from Lal Qila and as on date no Governmental functionary contradicts. On one hand we take pride as the biggest democracy of the world and on the other hand the issue which affects over 3 million bona fide citizen is being handled most undemocratically. Mr Sarbajit, no one cares for your  useless, baseless cries. You are not running the Govt, and you are in no capacity to even propose anything except cribbing. This matter is being talked at much higher level than you can even think of.   

On Thu, Oct 1, 2015 at 8:50 AM, satyendra jha <satyendrajha@hotmail.com> wrote:
Hi friends
I have been going through the debate on OROP for some time and everybody is trying to outsmart each other . But the fact remains that country respects the armed forces for their contribution and keep on doing so till armed forces do not start considering them above all and placing their demands by threats and strikes ( though at present only by retired personnels) . Now let's look at the india's budgetary allocation for the armed forces which is far  more bigger than any other govt organizations and a major portion of the same goes into salaries and pensions and not much is left for upgradation and modernization. In a country like ours where more than 30 percent go below the poverty line if Rs 26 and Rs 32 per day is taken as the benchmark income for rural and urban area as given by the government , u can understand their plight . In light of this whether a higher pension is justified when a major portion of the civil society is deprived of this benefit. 
Our respected friends from the armed forces always talk of their sacrifice and it is not hidden from any one and that is why they command respect. But when you preferred uniform over others u already had the nation and sacrifice in mind so why remind . U r doing your job with perfection and so r others contributing (taxes)for the armed forces . However as a responsible citizen you have to come out and see how many people in this country have pay and perks offered the way it is for the armed forces. Healthcare one of the costliest burden on the old age civilians today is a nightmare but not for armed forces as there  are military hospital or a new govt scheme to take care, same is the case for other privileges for you including canteen facilities. The pay commissions compensates the govt employees but where r the schemes of pay revisions in private sectors and for poor masses and there r so  many privileges attached to the uniform with respect. Today's pay and perks are highly competitive in armed forces    and even the pensions are linked to compensate the increase in cost of living. Post retirement settlement schemes, priorities and preferences in allocations in PSU etc are also there. I see many retired persons employed at good positions if they are deserving .So if our friends wants to fight , sit on Jantar mantar it should be in the larger interest of the nation and masses and not for the benefit of self . please raise your voice against corruption, Wrongdoing etc , u will be more respected . Your joining the armed forces and pledging to serve does not come to an end once u retire so please keep fighting for the betterment without any expectation .
I must say sorry to my friends if I hv hurt their sentiments.
Thanks


 jha


On 01-Oct-2015, at 1:18 am, Randhir Sethi <shebon@gmail.com> wrote:

AS THEY SAY LITTLE KNOWLEDGE IS DANGEROUS, SO LET ALL FAUJIS JUST IGNORE THE STATEMENTS BEING MADE BY THE LIKES OF MR SARABJIT , BHARAT BHUSHAN, KAPOOR ET ALL 

JAI HIND

R S S SETHI. 

AT THIS RATE THEY MAY SOONER OR LATER NOT HAVE A NATIONAL FLAG TO BE UNFURLED ON THE REPUBLIC OR INDEPENDENCE DAY

CHEERS TO THEIR THOUGHT PROCESS

On Tuesday, September 29, 2015, PA Kumaran <pakumaran@gmail.com> wrote:
Mr Sarbajit,

We all have to stick to a minimum level of decency when we communicate. You cannot call names or accuse someone without any credence. Whatever said and done ................... you seem to have forgotten that the Defence Forces have been seeking  OROP since last 43 years.  It is the bureaucrats & politicians who, on the victory of the 1971 war, presented the Defence Forces with a reduction of pension (!!!) from 70 % to 50%, where as they helped themselves with an increase of pension from 30% to 50%. So who sowed the seed ? There are innumerable such examples where in Defence Forces were let down from generation to generations. Others could go on stirke/ hartal etc - where does the fouji go ? He is pushed towards the wall.

 You seem to be more obsessed with Defence Forces for getting "Pension" and that you are not getting it.

In any organisation there may by an odd person who may be a black sheep and because of him the organisation gets a bad name. You just mentioned two  ...imagine in a huge  organisation like Defence forces, an aberration also enquired into and the guilty punished. So let us not quote those.

Sir, going on a tangent, do you need Defence Forces at all ? Your aversion speaks all. Do you realize how dangerous the situation will be , when no one wants to join the Defence Forces. The cumulative effect of shortages in manpower will be only welcome by our adversaries . In this context where you stand ? In future, your own grand children will curse those who did not take care of the Defence Forces.

I just wanted to drive home some points. There are many more such injustices.

Suffice to say that in a democratic country like India, it is the right of the Defence Forces to fight for OROP (without diluting its contents)

Lastly, if I have hurt anyone by my utterances, it is only  to highlight the injustice that is being barraged on the defence forces.

With Regards,
Col PA Kumaran (Retd)
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On Sun, Sep 27, 2015 at 6:13 PM, Sarbajit Roy <sroy.mb@gmail.com> wrote:
Dear Brig Saha

It seems our veterans lose their ability to detect friend from foe
once they retire if you lot routinely dish out terms like "traitor" to
describe your channel hosts.

FYI, I am not a babu. Neither do I get any pension / salary from the Govt.

What "I" am is the poor fool who pays for all the worthless and
whining rascals hiding behind terms like patriotism and nationalism
for their greedy / selfish ends. I am the person who pays for  ketchup
colonels and their fake encounters. I am the person who pays for
Adarsh Housing scams. ...

You people were paid enough for any work you allegedly did while in
service. If you couldn't save while you were in service I fail to see
why we citizens should pay for your existence and your booze once you
retire. (NB: By "you" I mean each and every person who gets a pension
- starting from our worthless MPs)

I am sure that many ordinary citizens would say much the same thing
once we leave the hypocrisy behind.

Best regards
.
Sarbajit

On 9/27/15, kashi saha <indiaresists@lists.riseup.net> wrote:
> Sarabjt,
> Why you donot you spk of the harm done by the your patriotic IAS super babus
> by blackmailing the Politicians. When  a person joins a service with certain
> terms and conditions through Gazette notification how can it be changed to
> down grade the same in pay and pension. All veterans and those who defended
> the nation till 1971, are all pre 1973 order issued removing the OROP and
> pension quantum( 70% of last pay drawn). Those are people fighting in
> peaceful manner trying to bring sense into these people in power.
> You are asking us to fight with you( It seems from your comment you are one
> of those glorified Babu  ) to bring down your self enhanced privileges, why
> is our job you deserve it or not you convince the Govt. what we are
> interested is a parity you increase yours increase ours too. You do not do
> any thing extra to contribute to the nation. You do your bit and we do our
> bit. If you fail we take on the job even if it is messed up so that the
> nation do not suffer. and if we fail in our job you can only suck your
> thumb. What you IAS/IFS and Political Nexus have done so far:
> 1. In 1971,You messed up the with your foreign policy with Bangladesh after
> the liberation. And it is a thorn on our back, a small helmet for terrorist
> and entry point of CFCurrency and terrorist . A proactive policy could have
> avoided all this
> 2. After 1971 You messed up with your policy against Pak even after we had
> handed over a trophy of more than 90K Pak POW., you could have bargained all
> our POW and POK.
> 3. In 1947 You messed up the Kashmir by asking us to Ceasefire when we were
> in the verge of taking over now so called POK
> 4. Twice we took over Strategic passes in Kashmir you forced us to hand them
> over now the Chinese with their armed forces have a strategic road to PAK.
> 5. Srilanka you created a problem and now we are loosing it to China.
> 6. Myanmar oil pipeline to China again failed in your foreign policy.
> 7. Internally Naxal, NE interstate relationship, sharing of water allocation
> of development fund and projects , you failed every where.
> Why IAS?? to protected constitution at national interest irrespective of
> party in power, advise the politicians who are masses rep against
> unconstitutional, antinational actions. Look into your self are doing that.
> How can any one justify subsidized food for the MPs, pensions with OROP
> principle for the MP with even one election win, There are few Khemkas and
> Chatuvedis but majority of you are self serving un patriot, with yes sir
> attitude for kushy transfer Children studying abroad and after 60 years Apex
> scale pension and member of a commission.
> You are the traitors and need to be sorted out not the politicians.
> Jai Hind         Brigadier Kashi Nath Saha  Mob: 9810728364 Email:
> knsaha44@yahoo.com

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Friday, October 2, 2015

Re:[IAC#RG]

Dear Ms Seema,
Your article is very extraordinary. The categorization of Indian Muslims into Dr. Kalam and Dawood is though a very much simplification but in realty both are to be treated as exception. Dr. Kalam was a technocrat in the government service but when NDA government was in power he too got involved in anti-congress politics and that paid him dividend. A common man on the street or people below poverty line or farmers or manual labourers or even other profession people cannot be compared with him, as he being technocrat, bureaucrat and willing politician anti congress, he was of different genre. Also he had no family or children to look after or to strive for their education, job, arranging, marriage and ensure success career of children r grandchildren, so philanthropic thoughts were obvious choice for him being free from family affairs, worried etc.

Dawood as media projects is underworld don. He has different agenda perhaps self style king of underworld activities, earn wealth for self through all activities prohibited by law, he has perhaps backing of anti-India forces. Despite all these attributes none of Indian Muslims either favour, support, admires, or follow him as ideal figure.

I reside in Ghaziabad where large number of Muslims reside. What I could notice most or Muslims are neutral to religion based politics. They neither of category of Dr. APJ Kalam nor Dawood. Mostly peace loving and concerned with their own routine activities. Indeed politicians take advantages of their both simplicity and dependent on government's welfare schemes. No peace in the society exist unless people are peace loving and law abiding. Any one if follows extreme path there is likely disturbance in peace loving society. The politicians who try to emotionally exploit religious sentiment always target vulnerable youth not of the quality either of Dr. APJK or Dawood but who are rowdies, rouge, unemployment, can be exploited by paying little money or by assuring some thing they cannot achieve in normal course, etc. Usually those are of different categories of people or creature of their own ambitions or slave of own thinking which may be anti-Hindu and anti-Muslim stub born, etc.

Nevertheless you skill of writing article and expressing thoughts lucidly. Writing has very strong effect and it is said pen is mightier than sword or can easily spark violence, therefore, be careful in selecting words and sentences that appeal peace than exploit already vulnerable situation or add ghee to fire. Best luck, and good wishes!                 
 
Dr. Ratnakar Gedam  





On Friday, October 2, 2015 9:31 PM, Seema Mustafa <seemamustafa@gmail.com> wrote:


Thank you. Of course I know that, and guess thats what gives us some hope.



On Fri, Oct 2, 2015 at 1:00 AM, ashok kumar <indiaresists@lists.riseup.net> wrote:
Seems Mustafa , kudos to you for bringing it all out so lucidly.                                                    Like all Muslims in India are not "Dawood " variety , all Hindus aren't  hardcore hindutva fundamentalists either. And this I say as a proud , practising Hindu from the heartland , U.P.  Please rest assured that I don't represent the minority but the majority amongst Hindus though we may  have differing  eating preference or praying methodology than yours. So what ? You are as much an Indian as    me or any Sikh , Christian  or a Parsi  etc.  Every Dadri or Muzaffar Nagar shames and saddens us as much . It  also alarms us as much. I don't have  the gift which the Almighty has blessed you with , to express my feelings adequately in words. Hope you understand my pain , anguish and sorrow .           Ashok  Kumar.

From: Seema Mustafa
Sent: ‎01/‎10/‎2015 22:36
To: indiaresists@lists.riseup.net
Subject: [IAC#RG]

THE RSS/BJP MESSAGE TO MUSLIMS IN INDIA TODAY

SEEMA MUSTAFA Wednesday, September 30, 2015

NEW DELHI: It was a systematic communal campaign in Dadri, that precedes acts of violence always. First a calf was reported missing, and a campaign unleashed that basically spread rumours linking the calf to eating beef. When the tension reached prescribed levels, a temple in Dadri announced that a particular family--- Muslims of course--- was eating, after keeping, beef in their home. And barely before the echo of the announcement had subsided, a mob attacked the house of Mohammad Akhlaq, in the village in Dadri, pulled him out and beat him to death with bricks. His 22 year old son was also attacked, and is presently battling for his life in a hospital. The mob attacked their grandmother, and tried to molest the women in the house. The family is completely traumatised, terrified and currently praying for the young son's life. 

In terms of numbers, always very important for a statistic obsessed government, only one man has died so far. But in terms of impact, the incident has rung alarm bells across the country being reported in the global media at some length. And as the Muzaffarnagar violence at the time of the last Lok Sabha elections had shown, corroborated by subsequent communal incidents, the new strategy of those seeking to divide India on communal lines is to minimise deaths, but to exaggerate impact. Be it in the form of large scale displacement of the minorities, or widespread fear. 

In the Dadri attack the intention was not displacement, but to generate fear, to terrify. Hence the singling out of the one family, and the brutal attack where Akhlaq was killed without mercy. Do not eat beef is the ostensible message. The real message is: you are second class citizens, so you will do what you are told in India. 

So what are Muslims being told in India? But before that the stereotype which is fed by an ignorant, complicit media; goes largely unchallenged by the so called regional parties as they neither have the cadres nor the organisation to do little more than listen; and that is slowly being injected as a poisonous venom into society at every available opportunity, borrowing also from the US led campaign against Muslims across the world. 

1. Muslims in India are a monolith and hence dangerous; 

2. At best they are of two types: the APJ Abdul Kalam variety or the Dawood Ibrahim kind. And the second are in the majority, hence have to be hunted out before they hurt others; 

3. They are influenced greatly by the extremist politics of the terror groups in Pakistan and West Asia; 

4. They are growing rapidly and pose a challenge to the stability of India; 

5. They work against the cultural ethos of India, as they eat beef, take away our daughters, are aggressive in following their religion, and hence a threat to Hinduism; 

In this discourse there is no room for the reality. That Muslims are not a monolith, and are as culturally different as all other Indians; that they are largely liberal, even if they are religious as are non-Muslims in India; that they have shunned extremist politics to a point where they vote always for the secular option and not for the kinds of Owaisi, or the Jamaat e Islami in elections; that they have done nothing, repeat nothing, to be branded anti-national; that they too do not eat beef, and are secular and Indian as the last Indian. 

And hence through the systematic, crafted, manipulated communal incidents come the many messages. Muslims are being told very deliberately, and through violence: 

1. Do not marry outside your religion. The entire 'love jihad' campaign launched in Uttar Pradesh in particular by the RSS affiliates was directed at invoking terror through deliberate attacks on Hindu-Muslim couples, and on the families of the Muslim young people so involved, making it clear that this will not be tolerated; 

2. Do not eat meat or beef. The central government itself passed an order against the export of beef. The Maharashtra government has gone many steps further. This should have been a message to all Indians, but through the campaign and now Akhlaq's murder it has been demonstrated that the defaulters are Muslims. Hence Muslims must follow the food code or suffer the consequences, as posts on the social media by self-acknowledged Hindutva acolytes profess in language that is abusive and vitriolic. 

3. Do not live in cosmopolitan colonies, move into ghettos. Mumbai, Ahmedabad, Delhi have managed to make this a rule with most of Gujarat covered, and other cities and states following. Muslims do not easily get rented accommodation in these cities, and are also not allowed to buy property easily by the residents associations. 

4. Do not become too successful economically. The communal violence has been increasingly targeting Muslim businessmen, with shops being specifically targeted.In fact the Congress government in Maharashtra also fed into this by unleashing a wave of terror against Muslim professionals, many of whom were arrested on suspicion of having "terror links.' While some were released after months and years, there are many languishing in jail for crimes that local lawyers have described as concocted. 

5. And speak only when you are asked to, actually not at all. This is the message coming out of a major attack on Muslim writers, academics, intelligentsia on the social media where trolls describing themselves as bhakts of PM Narendra Modi, Hindutva acolytes and carrying profile pictures of angry gods literally abuse and threaten any one writing under a Muslim name, questioning their patriotism, their religion and their identity. In fact Muslims are repeatedly reminded when they share in democratic debate, that they should remember how other countries ---Pakistan for instance---treats its minorities, and should thus follow a path of caution. 

The campaign is virulent and relentless. And political parties in states going to the polls in particular are now feeling this pressure and re

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RE:[IAC#RG]

VERY WELL SAID,  SEEMA.
CECIL VICTOR

Date: Fri, 2 Oct 2015 10:42:59 +0530
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Subject: Re:[IAC#RG]

Thank you. Of course I know that, and guess thats what gives us some hope.



On Fri, Oct 2, 2015 at 1:00 AM, ashok kumar <indiaresists@lists.riseup.net> wrote:
Seems Mustafa , kudos to you for bringing it all out so lucidly.                                                    Like all Muslims in India are not "Dawood " variety , all Hindus aren't  hardcore hindutva fundamentalists either. And this I say as a proud , practising Hindu from the heartland , U.P.  Please rest assured that I don't represent the minority but the majority amongst Hindus though we may  have differing  eating preference or praying methodology than yours. So what ? You are as much an Indian as    me or any Sikh , Christian  or a Parsi  etc.  Every Dadri or Muzaffar Nagar shames and saddens us as much . It  also alarms us as much. I don't have  the gift which the Almighty has blessed you with , to express my feelings adequately in words. Hope you understand my pain , anguish and sorrow .           Ashok  Kumar.

From: Seema Mustafa
Sent: ‎01/‎10/‎2015 22:36
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Subject: [IAC#RG]

THE RSS/BJP MESSAGE TO MUSLIMS IN INDIA TODAY

SEEMA MUSTAFA Wednesday, September 30, 2015

NEW DELHI: It was a systematic communal campaign in Dadri, that precedes acts of violence always. First a calf was reported missing, and a campaign unleashed that basically spread rumours linking the calf to eating beef. When the tension reached prescribed levels, a temple in Dadri announced that a particular family--- Muslims of course--- was eating, after keeping, beef in their home. And barely before the echo of the announcement had subsided, a mob attacked the house of Mohammad Akhlaq, in the village in Dadri, pulled him out and beat him to death with bricks. His 22 year old son was also attacked, and is presently battling for his life in a hospital. The mob attacked their grandmother, and tried to molest the women in the house. The family is completely traumatised, terrified and currently praying for the young son's life. 

In terms of numbers, always very important for a statistic obsessed government, only one man has died so far. But in terms of impact, the incident has rung alarm bells across the country being reported in the global media at some length. And as the Muzaffarnagar violence at the time of the last Lok Sabha elections had shown, corroborated by subsequent communal incidents, the new strategy of those seeking to divide India on communal lines is to minimise deaths, but to exaggerate impact. Be it in the form of large scale displacement of the minorities, or widespread fear. 

In the Dadri attack the intention was not displacement, but to generate fear, to terrify. Hence the singling out of the one family, and the brutal attack where Akhlaq was killed without mercy. Do not eat beef is the ostensible message. The real message is: you are second class citizens, so you will do what you are told in India. 

So what are Muslims being told in India? But before that the stereotype which is fed by an ignorant, complicit media; goes largely unchallenged by the so called regional parties as they neither have the cadres nor the organisation to do little more than listen; and that is slowly being injected as a poisonous venom into society at every available opportunity, borrowing also from the US led campaign against Muslims across the world. 

1. Muslims in India are a monolith and hence dangerous; 

2. At best they are of two types: the APJ Abdul Kalam variety or the Dawood Ibrahim kind. And the second are in the majority, hence have to be hunted out before they hurt others; 

3. They are influenced greatly by the extremist politics of the terror groups in Pakistan and West Asia; 

4. They are growing rapidly and pose a challenge to the stability of India; 

5. They work against the cultural ethos of India, as they eat beef, take away our daughters, are aggressive in following their religion, and hence a threat to Hinduism; 

In this discourse there is no room for the reality. That Muslims are not a monolith, and are as culturally different as all other Indians; that they are largely liberal, even if they are religious as are non-Muslims in India; that they have shunned extremist politics to a point where they vote always for the secular option and not for the kinds of Owaisi, or the Jamaat e Islami in elections; that they have done nothing, repeat nothing, to be branded anti-national; that they too do not eat beef, and are secular and Indian as the last Indian. 

And hence through the systematic, crafted, manipulated communal incidents come the many messages. Muslims are being told very deliberately, and through violence: 

1. Do not marry outside your religion. The entire 'love jihad' campaign launched in Uttar Pradesh in particular by the RSS affiliates was directed at invoking terror through deliberate attacks on Hindu-Muslim couples, and on the families of the Muslim young people so involved, making it clear that this will not be tolerated; 

2. Do not eat meat or beef. The central government itself passed an order against the export of beef. The Maharashtra government has gone many steps further. This should have been a message to all Indians, but through the campaign and now Akhlaq's murder it has been demonstrated that the defaulters are Muslims. Hence Muslims must follow the food code or suffer the consequences, as posts on the social media by self-acknowledged Hindutva acolytes profess in language that is abusive and vitriolic. 

3. Do not live in cosmopolitan colonies, move into ghettos. Mumbai, Ahmedabad, Delhi have managed to make this a rule with most of Gujarat covered, and other cities and states following. Muslims do not easily get rented accommodation in these cities, and are also not allowed to buy property easily by the residents associations. 

4. Do not become too successful economically. The communal violence has been increasingly targeting Muslim businessmen, with shops being specifically targeted.In fact the Congress government in Maharashtra also fed into this by unleashing a wave of terror against Muslim professionals, many of whom were arrested on suspicion of having "terror links.' While some were released after months and years, there are many languishing in jail for crimes that local lawyers have described as concocted. 

5. And speak only when you are asked to, actually not at all. This is the message coming out of a major attack on Muslim writers, academics, intelligentsia on the social media where trolls describing themselves as bhakts of PM Narendra Modi, Hindutva acolytes and carrying profile pictures of angry gods literally abuse and threaten any one writing under a Muslim name, questioning their patriotism, their religion and their identity. In fact Muslims are repeatedly reminded when they share in democratic debate, that they should remember how other countries ---Pakistan for instance---treats its minorities, and should thus follow a path of caution. 

The campaign is virulent and relentless. And political parties in states going to the polls in particular are now feeling this pressure and re


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Re: [IAC#RG] THE RSS/BJP MESSAGE TO MUSLIMS IN INDIA TODAY

Dear Mr Pannikkar

Please adjust to the new reality - the inmates are running the asylum. There are no overt "secular forces", and neither is there an actual "civil society".

Sarbajit 

On Fri, Oct 2, 2015 at 10:19 AM, Kn Panikkar <knpanikkar@gmail.com> wrote:
Dear Seema,
I read your excellent piece. The question is what the secular forces  are going to do about it? Is n't it time that some major initiative is taken by the civil society? The situation seems to be gettinmg out of control.
KNPanikkar

On Thu, Oct 1, 2015 at 10:06 AM, Seema Mustafa <seemamustafa@gmail.com> wrote:

THE RSS/BJP MESSAGE TO MUSLIMS IN INDIA TODAY

SEEMA MUSTAFA Wednesday, September 30, 2015

NEW DELHI: It was a systematic communal campaign in Dadri, that precedes acts of violence always. First a calf was reported missing, and a campaign unleashed that basically spread rumours linking the calf to eating beef. When the tension reached prescribed levels, a temple in Dadri announced that a particular family--- Muslims of course--- was eating, after keeping, beef in their home. And barely before the echo of the announcement had subsided, a mob attacked the house of Mohammad Akhlaq, in the village in Dadri, pulled him out and beat him to death with bricks. His 22 year old son was also attacked, and is presently battling for his life in a hospital. The mob attacked their grandmother, and tried to molest the women in the house. The family is completely traumatised, terrified and currently praying for the young son's life. 

In terms of numbers, always very important for a statistic obsessed government, only one man has died so far. But in terms of impact, the incident has rung alarm bells across the country being reported in the global media at some length. And as the Muzaffarnagar violence at the time of the last Lok Sabha elections had shown, corroborated by subsequent communal incidents, the new strategy of those seeking to divide India on communal lines is to minimise deaths, but to exaggerate impact. Be it in the form of large scale displacement of the minorities, or widespread fear. 

In the Dadri attack the intention was not displacement, but to generate fear, to terrify. Hence the singling out of the one family, and the brutal attack where Akhlaq was killed without mercy. Do not eat beef is the ostensible message. The real message is: you are second class citizens, so you will do what you are told in India. 

So what are Muslims being told in India? But before that the stereotype which is fed by an ignorant, complicit media; goes largely unchallenged by the so called regional parties as they neither have the cadres nor the organisation to do little more than listen; and that is slowly being injected as a poisonous venom into society at every available opportunity, borrowing also from the US led campaign against Muslims across the world. 

1. Muslims in India are a monolith and hence dangerous; 

2. At best they are of two types: the APJ Abdul Kalam variety or the Dawood Ibrahim kind. And the second are in the majority, hence have to be hunted out before they hurt others; 

3. They are influenced greatly by the extremist politics of the terror groups in Pakistan and West Asia; 

4. They are growing rapidly and pose a challenge to the stability of India; 

5. They work against the cultural ethos of India, as they eat beef, take away our daughters, are aggressive in following their religion, and hence a threat to Hinduism; 

In this discourse there is no room for the reality. That Muslims are not a monolith, and are as culturally different as all other Indians; that they are largely liberal, even if they are religious as are non-Muslims in India; that they have shunned extremist politics to a point where they vote always for the secular option and not for the kinds of Owaisi, or the Jamaat e Islami in elections; that they have done nothing, repeat nothing, to be branded anti-national; that they too do not eat beef, and are secular and Indian as the last Indian. 

And hence through the systematic, crafted, manipulated communal incidents come the many messages. Muslims are being told very deliberately, and through violence: 

1. Do not marry outside your religion. The entire 'love jihad' campaign launched in Uttar Pradesh in particular by the RSS affiliates was directed at invoking terror through deliberate attacks on Hindu-Muslim couples, and on the families of the Muslim young people so involved, making it clear that this will not be tolerated; 

2. Do not eat meat or beef. The central government itself passed an order against the export of beef. The Maharashtra government has gone many steps further. This should have been a message to all Indians, but through the campaign and now Akhlaq's murder it has been demonstrated that the defaulters are Muslims. Hence Muslims must follow the food code or suffer the consequences, as posts on the social media by self-acknowledged Hindutva acolytes profess in language that is abusive and vitriolic. 

3. Do not live in cosmopolitan colonies, move into ghettos. Mumbai, Ahmedabad, Delhi have managed to make this a rule with most of Gujarat covered, and other cities and states following. Muslims do not easily get rented accommodation in these cities, and are also not allowed to buy property easily by the residents associations. 

4. Do not become too successful economically. The communal violence has been increasingly targeting Muslim businessmen, with shops being specifically targeted.In fact the Congress government in Maharashtra also fed into this by unleashing a wave of terror against Muslim professionals, many of whom were arrested on suspicion of having "terror links.' While some were released after months and years, there are many languishing in jail for crimes that local lawyers have described as concocted. 

5. And speak only when you are asked to, actually not at all. This is the message coming out of a major attack on Muslim writers, academics, intelligentsia on the social media where trolls describing themselves as bhakts of PM Narendra Modi, Hindutva acolytes and carrying profile pictures of angry gods literally abuse and threaten any one writing under a Muslim name, questioning their patriotism, their religion and their identity. In fact Muslims are repeatedly reminded when they share in democratic debate, that they should remember how other countries ---Pakistan for instance---treats its minorities, and should thus follow a path of caution. 

The campaign is virulent and relentless. And political parties in states going to the polls in particular are now feeling this pressure and reacting to it in some cases. In UP, Mulayam Singh and the Samajwadi party became bystanders during, before and after the Muzaffarnagar violence, doing little to counter the campaign of divisiveness unleashed by the BJP and the affiliates at the time. In Bihar, Janata Dal(U) leaders have taken cognisance of what MP Pavan Varma described to this writer, as a virulent communal campaign by the RSS and the BJP to consolidate the majority vote, and are trying to combat it. As Varma said, "RSS cadres have fanned into the districts and are working systematically to create a divide." He was optimistic, however, they would not succeed in Bihar as they had in UP, maintaining that Chief Minister Nitish Kumar is alive to this and keeping a close watch.


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