I am sure by now, particularly after Arnav Goswami’s
outburst got viral, you all know about the haloed campus of JNU where their
leftist student union leaders, the “well-educated”, “literate”, “knowledgeable”
Indians are shouting in support of Afzal Guroo, that too in the capital of this
intolerant country, where supposedly opinion is stifled, where free speech
doesn’t exist. In this meet the leftist students not only idolized Afzal
Guroo and Maqbool Bhat as martyrs but shouted slogans “India go
back, Kashmir ki azadi tak jung chalegi. Bharat ki barbaadi tak jung
chalegi”. And this was a cultural event…..whose culture you might ask!
Students, whose education is being subsidized by our tax money, are imbibing,
fostering and propagating a culture which is anti-national!
Cut, cut, cut……….Clap. Scene 2: In Jammu & Kashmir,
no less than the J & K High Court Bar Association, holds an extra-ordinary
general meeting to pay “glorious tributes” to “Shaheed Maqbool Bhat” and “Shaheed
Mohammad Afzal Guroo” who according to the Bar Association, were hanged in
“most barbaric, inhuman and brutal” manner for fighting for Kashmir’s freedom.
This is a resolution passed by them in J & K and they suspended work on 9th
and 11th February, to “pay homage to the martyrs”
Cut, cut, cut………Clap. Scene 3: In the Rohith Vemula
case, we were told that he was protesting against the death penalty and
not in support of Yakub Memon, but in the news clips we can see these elements
glorifying terrorists, calling them “Shaheed” and even worse, praying for
“Bharat ki barbaadi”.
Is there a pattern emerging in all this? Politicians of
both religious and left and left of centre (LLCT) hue – Owasi, Pappu and
Muffler all rushed to Hyderabad to express their solidarity with the protestors
and anger against an intolerant and oppressive government. I am eagerly waiting
for them to visit the JNU campus and show their unflinching support to the
J&K Bar Association.
JNU is, and has always been a pro-naxal and pro-extremist
institution, which has disguised anti-national and anti cultural ideology in
the name of ultra elite and post-modernism. They are a bunch of hypocrites when
it comes to the practice of abhorrent caste system in their campus and the
hostels. Mainstream left has sidelined the OBC, SC, ST to such an extent that
these marginalized groups had to form their own party BAPSA and contest
elections. It is fashionable in JNU to call Indian army as “rapists” but the irony
is, JNU has the most number of sexual abuse cases, and one ex- president of JNU
who was a member of a progressive leftist party which claims ” bekhauf azaadi”
had charges of sexual harassment against him. JNU campus organizes plays like
Gadha Puran, celebrates Mahisasur Diwas to show their pseudo-intellectual
superiority by castigating our proud heritage and the LLCT that financed the
University has chosen to turn a blind eye towards all this!
We all have been students and we know that if you’re not
a liberal at twenty you have no heart, but then again if you’re not a conservative
at forty you have no brain! This is called growing up. Leftism and youth both
share common characteristics, namely immaturity and idealism and this can be
tolerated and pampered to some extent but if that means idolizing the
terrorists, we have a problem in our hand. Leftist radicalism is seen as ‘just
a phase’ that a person simply grows out of as he/she matures. Youth is
characterized by an abundance of time that adulthood can rarely provide. It
comes with a particularly acute sense of individualism whereas adulthood
entails the responsibility for one’s own self, one’s friends and family and one’s
country and the world. Communists are more engaged in their own make belief
world and they speak in different voices to suit different occasions.
For all those who think the freedom of speech is under
threat, let’s be clear, it is rather the monopoly of freedom of speech
that is threatened. If the LLCT is so much for freedom of speech then why didn’t
it didn’t allow Tasleema Nasreen to stay at Kolkata, her favorite city? Politically their hypocrisy is even more baffling. They
opposed Israel's occupation of West Bank and Gaza but never raised any voice
against Chinese occupation to Tibet or Russian occupation of Baltic countries
and Afghanistan.
But do you know why they chose Afzal Guroo, Maqbool Bhat
and Yakub Memon as their brand leaders? Why is it that the Muslim communal
icons were fancied? After all the Marxian dictum is -'religion is the opium of
people' then why softness towards the religious obscurantism of the Muslim
fundamentalists? This is their intellectual hypocrisy for not only are they
both anti-national, but they both enjoy many similarities.
Both the Communists and the Muslim communalists are
internationalists in character. The Communists attempt to 'ape Russia and
China' for everything. The Muslim Communalists on the other hand are
emotionally attached to Perso-Arabic socio-culture with Saudi Arabia as their
international centre. They are both thriving in secular India which they
intend to destabilize, but dare not go to their haloed land of ideals for the
fear of being persecuted. They both do not believe in the concept of
nationalism and while one puts ideology before the nation, the other puts
religion ahead of the country. The Muslim communalists believe in pan-Islamism
in which there is no place for motherland. As supra-nationalists they do not
have faith in nationalism. To run down the pre-medieval heritage and culture of
this ancient land emerged as their common programme. Patriotic association
that constitutes a nation with common heritage and culture in which hearts and
minds move in one direction is not acceptable to either of them.
So the twin demons of Communism and Muslim fundamentalism
are conceived by falsehood, and nurtured by ignorance, must be exorcised by
truth. The government of the day cannot remain a mute spectator.
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