From: indu@iss700.Columbia.NCR.COM ()
Subject: Re: Inappropriate heading of a News clip
Originator: indu@iss700
Organization: NCR Corp, E&M-Columbia, Columbia, SC
Date: Sun, 15 Nov 92 19:34:48 GMT

To: tripunit@algol.cs.psu.edu
In article <BxMsws.MvA@cs.psu.edu> you write:
>I am sure most of you read the following article in misc.news.southasia :
>
>From     : Dinesh Agrawal
>Source   : Times of India, November 4, 1992
>Country  : India
>
>Kerala School Succumbs to Muslim Fundamentalists
>
>
>Clearly, allowing Muslim students to wear caps is the right thing to do.
>Could we, for instance, insist that a Sikh student not wear a turban?
>Therefore, I see nothing in the above article that would suggest that
>the school management succumbed to "Muslim Fundamentalists." The heading
>is clearly inappropriate. If the management was insular enough not to
>allow Muslim students to wear caps, and if they were later persuaded
>to make such an allowance, no matter where this persuasion came from,
>one can only say that the management corrected its wrong ways.

   When I  went to school, during 80's in Hyderabad (one of the  Muslim 
   Majority areas, My SIKH friends had Turbans. But I never saw, my muslims
   friends wearing any CAPS.   Sikhs wear their  turbans all through the day.
   Where as, I don't see any reason in these Fundamentalists trying to wear
   caps DURING SCHOOL times. C'mon there is a limit  to fundamentalistic
   stands and there is limit for people like you condoning it. Is wearing a cap
   a RELIGIOUS RIGHT? If yes, then WHY DO I FIND MAJORITY OF  MUSLIMS SHUNNING
   TO WEAR IT?

   Is this happening the first time?
     These fellows want to wear cap, just because, the SCHOOL doesnot permit 
     to do so? Is wearing a cap, such an important issue? If so, I found 
     most of the muslims have chosen other wise, atleast in public - have 
     shun wearing a cap, while performing social duties  (I mean non-religious).

     These same buch of goons, were against  VANDE MATARAM being sung in 
     schools,  again a incident in Kerala. They  were against  some  prayer,
     "India is my country, all Indians are my  brothers and sisters...". 

     Then they were against sanskrit classes. They were against students 
     coming out with programmes depicting Indian INtegration concepts 
     ( the Bombay incident where a principal was suspended for allowing
     students to do their own play on national Integration).
     
     What is the  result? Recently I read an article in News India where a  
     few muslim students, caught  hold of their Hindu  class mate and WIPED
     off the BINDI. Who are what is the process, which has sowed this FANATICAL
     Idea of over rdiding a persons BASIC FUNDAMENTAL RIGHTS and CHOICES? 
     
     I will not find fault with those children. I will not find  fault with 
     their ignorant  parents. THe fault  is not even with those VENOMOUS 
     fundamentalists for it is their "basic instinct" to raise  the question 
     of loyalty to their Fundamentalistic attitudes, and any other system. 

     IT IS PEOPLE LIKE YOU with your LACK OF FORESIGHT start supporting 
     every  fundamentalistic act. WHICH HAS brought the country to such a pass.
     Freedom does not mean that, you start bending rules for every fanatical 
     ideology.

>I smell a rat here. Either the Times of India is attempting to
>sensationalize an issue (especially because there is a new fear for
>Islamic Fundamentalism rooted in Kerala) that doesn't deserve to be,
>or this article was written by an Indian from a certain region of
>India...a certain region, most people from which like to look at
>the South & claim that it is in shambles (with, in this instance,
>the "Muslim Fundamentalists" having a field day).

   These are very standard techniques. Ignore the news. If it is too HARD 
   to ignore  suppress it. After that, sow seeds of suspicion. Even after that
   negate it, followed by raise doubts about the source, scandalise it, 
   divert the attention and finally blame the "OPPOSITION". I think you are 
   following on similar lines.
 

( I have nothing against you. It is only your views which are jeopardising
  my country's interests. ).

>Mahesh.
-Indu.
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