Your editorial ‘Creating Hindu terrorism’, November 18, brought to the fore the fact that a lie repeated many times becomes the truth. It becomes extremely difficult to take a stand on an issue which has been motivated by vested interests in order to deflect attention to inconsequential issues.
Till last month, the media was baying for the home minister’s blood in the context of ‘internal security’. Presently, it is engaged in creating a bogey called ‘Hindu terrorism’.
If Jamia Millia sprung up to the defence of those accused of terrorist activity, it was without a parallel. Imagine the Banaras Hindu University doing the same? Would it not raise everyone’s hackles? Most pink papers would go to town talking of the cost of defending the ‘guilty’ at the taxpayers’ expense.
For your information, narco-analysis is not admissable as evidence in a court of law. At best, it is used sparingly to fill in the gaps of a story. Yet, it was front page headlines in most newspapers, seeming to suggest narco-analysis is the best way to solve all crimes. It is asinine to put the Hindus in a corner and tar them with the same brush. Admittedly, Islamic terrorism is an oxymoron but then again, the term is a creation of a person who let his/her logic fly out of the window.
I hope that better sense prevails and that we focus on substantial issues. I was not expecting something of this sort in your esteemed editorial. It sounds shrill and is rhetorical, with an open-ended question about your own motives in publishing it. If the sole purpose is to elicit a debate, one has to look at the broader issue of how Hindus have been victmised and the evil designs of Darul-Islam. Remember, there were no such incidents of random bombings during the BJP’s rule. It was because they took active and deterrent action to smash the sleeper terrorist cells. These cells have regrouped under the Congress rule because the rule of law cannot be enforced. Afzal Guru still awaits his hanging; it is a matter of national shame that a person who attacked the symbol of democracy is being provided government protection.
Why don’t you highlight this?
Abhishek Puri, via email
