India's top
Hindu leader falls back on terror language
Wants Hindus to make better bombs, explode them in Muslim areas
WSN Bureau
 MUMBAI:
Imagine a Sikh leader merely mentioning that continuous
marginalization of the Sikhs or attempts to denigrate Sikh Gurus or
Sikh maryada may lead to a situation where the youth of the
community could retaliate in a manner not wholly conducive to
democratic conduct in nation states. All hell will break lose, the
RSS-BJP leadership will harken back to the days of Sikh militancy,
many will bring up the installation of portrait of a Sant by the
SGPC, some of the Congress leaders will tell Sikhs that the
community should learn from the past atrocities against it, and the
communists will wave their puny little red flags and sing their
shrill songs of national integration.
But every single one of these worthies silently crawled back
like termites into woodwork when the Shiv Sena supremo not only made
a statement but actually wrote in his newspaper, registered by the
state government and eligible to carry sarkari ads, that Hindus
should make better bombs and explode them in Muslim dominated
areas.
Shiv Sena chief Bal Thackeray used the solemn columns of
editorial space in Saamna to say that Hindus would be saved only if
Hindutva organizations formed suicide squads on the lines of the
ones formed by Islamic terror organizations. No one can be better
qualified to befriend Osama bin Laden than this Shiv Sena chief.
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Thackerays are ‘migrants’, says scholar
Mumbai: The Thackerays came to Mumbai two generations ago for
jobs and as such have no right to assault those coming to the
financial capital in search of livelihood. This claim has been
made in an article published in this month's issue of
Nationalist Congress Party's mouthpiece Rashtravadi, whose Chief
Sharad Pawar is an old friend of Shiv Sena supremo Bal
Thackeray.
Hari Narke, professor at Mahatma Phule chair in
Pune University
and a renowned scholar on Ambedkar, has written the
strong-worded article.
Narke has flayed Maharashtra Navnirman Sena Chief Raj
Thackeray, who is Bal Thackeray's nephew, over attacks on
migrants in Mumbai.
"Raj should read the autobiography of his grandfather
Prabodhankar Thackeray (Bal Thackeray's father). Prabodhankar,
who studied in Madhya Pradesh, has written how he travelled in
other states for livelihood", Narke says. "This proves that the
Thackerays, who are not original inhabitants of Mumbai, came to
this city in search of livelihood", the scholar says.
Incidentally, Maharashtra Government published Prabodhankar’s
literature in 1995 at the behest of Narke, the article says. |
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Neither the BJP nor the RSS saw anything atrociously wrong
with such statements and the Indian media merely reported it in a
matter of fact way as if Bal Thackeray has commented on the price of
potatoes.
In fact, the man who called himself a Tiger of Maharashtra
(since no one else called him that), also termed a bomb planted by
Hindu fundamentalists in a Thane theatre a damp squib and urged
Hindus to make “better bombs”. He said the bombs should be good
enough to match those made by “Islamic terrorists”.
Thackeray is the editor of Saamna. He said the bombs in the
theatre merely injured a few people and that too, Hindus, which had
brought “dishonour to Hinduism” but he did praise the Hindu
organizations involved in the blast.
Experts said this should be enough for Indian Diaspora abroad
to ensure that Thackeray and his ilk are never permitted to travel
by air, these organizations be banned all around the world, and
should be identified during the roll call of culprits in the ongoing
war on terror.
Thackeray clearly knew where to look for inspiration and said
Hindutva organizations should learn lessons from Islamic terror
organizations like Jaish, Al Qaeda and Hizbul.
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June, 2008
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