From: rroy@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Raja R Roy)
Subject: Re: The Start of a New Beginning
Keywords: Ayodhya, Hindu, Muslim, secular, history, politics
Organization: The Ohio State University
Date: Wed, 6 Jan 1993 20:24:21 GMT


In article <1993Jan6.190115.20698@csrd.uiuc.edu> ghosh@sp1.csrd.uiuc.edu (Sanjo
y Ghosh) writes:
>(Girish) writes:
>
>>the historic  December 6 events in Ayodhya will make interesting reading. Thi
s
>>article has been taken from "The Illustrated Weekly of India", December 12-18
,
>>1992.
>>
>>     The Pakistanis fuelled anti-Islamic sentiment in India  by  their  crass
>>insistence  that  Kashmir  belonged  to  them because a majority of Kashmiris
>>(forgetting those in Jammu and Ladakh) were Muslims. Had Pakistan left  India
>>alone,  distrust of Muslims would have died a natural death. But that was not
>>to be. And Muslims in India have not told their co-religionists  in  Pakistan
>>to  shut  up. At least not loudly and not insistently. A fear has always per-
>>sisted in Hindu minds that Muslims are not reliable. This  has  been  another
>>factor governing Hindu-Muslim relations in India.
>
>Pakistan could hardly afford to do otherwise.  After creating a country
>based on Mulim nationhood, they could hardly let their brothers in India
>suffer under Hindu rule without lifting a finger.  It is downright stupid
>of Mr. Kamath to demand that indian muslims understand the psyche of hindu 
>peasants and concede the masjid to them, while overlooking this crucial 
>component of Pakistani nationhood.

     Oh boy!!! Because Pakistan can not afford  not to burn India, Indians
 should let their houses be burnt without protest. Is that your logic Mr.
 Gupta. Who are the brothers and why? We the Indians are brothers , or
 the muslims of different nations are brothers? This is THE question. If
 the later is the answer, then no force can stop what is going on in India.
  
  Eat from the pay of grandfather and praise the virtues of grandfather-in-
  law. That is not going to work. Pakistan has no f***ing business interfer-
 ing in India's internal matters. Noone gives a damn shit about what Pakistan
 or OIC thinks. Muslims in India are Indians. That's it. Those who do not like
 India are free to go to their grandfather-in-law's house in Pakistan.

 Raja 
>
>>     Many further believe that the Muslim attitude is one of: "what  we  have
>>is  ours,  what  you  have  is  also ours". The Muslims voted solidly for the
>>Muslim League and for Pakistan. Today's generation says  that  it  cannot  be
>>made  to  pay  for what their fathers did. But surely those fathers are still
>>around who should have known better? The Shahi Imam says that he wants  India
>>to  be  "secular".  Were those mullahs who coughed fire and brimstone in 1946
>>secular?
>
>To hold a person to what he thought more than 40 years ago is really childish.
>Can Mr. Kamath honestly say that his World view has not changed since 1946.  
>Conditions were very different in 1946 than they are now.  With the British 
>abruptly leaving the place, any muslim would quite rightly feel very unsecure.
>It is truly juvenile to blame them for it today.
>
>Sanjoy Ghosh
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