Mega crimes and Muslim apology

This is another article in organiser, that dwells in to the sensitive problems of hindu muslim conflict. And this author emphasise that the muslim community has to be proactive, and participate in condemning all terrorist bombings from their fellow community members.  He even goes on to say that they should apologise for all the numerous terrorist strikes so far happened, which would make them more responsible, and win the confidence of the victimised community to join with them.

The article can be read from the below link.

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By By Prafull Goradia

 

Since 9/11, any number of blasts and explosions have been perpetrated by Islamist terrorists. On record since October 2001 are 13 bomb blasts in the different cities of India from New Delhi in the north, to Bangalore in the south, to Gandhinagar in the west to Guwahati in the east. The terrorists could well be misguided youth but what is particularly disturbing is that hardly ever does a responsible Muslim leader condemn the barbaric action. Nor does he apologise for any of them. For the people of India, that is rubbing salt by the Muslim elite on the wounds inflicted by their misguided fellow religionists.

A time has come when the major crimes of Islamists are enumerated and Muslim leaders are confronted with them along with a demand for their apology. There are nine mega crimes for which apologies are called for.

The governments in India have taken the boycott of vande mataram lightly although, in effect, the Muslims refusing to participate is an insult to the nation. Vande mataram was the song of the Independence movement and would have been the national anthem but for Jawaharlal Nehru’s weakness for Muslim prejudices, Jana gana mana was therefore chosen although it was originally written as a tribute to King George V.

Over the decades, Hindu Muslim riots were mostly started by the latter. If this were not so, why have there not been Hindu Christian riots even in districts where the latter are dominant as in Nagarcoil? Until the political advent of the British, the communal equation was so loaded that the Muslims felt secure. Once the Muslims were also reduced to subject status, their insecurity began the corollary of which were riots. In the course of the Moplah riot of 1921 anything was practised from arson to conversion to pregnant women being cut into pieces with unborn babies protruding from the mothers’ corpses. Smt Annie Besant, the Irish lady and the 1913 president of the Congress, after her visit to Malabar, exhorted Gandhiji to see for himself the ghastly horrors which had been created by his beloved brothers, Mohammad and Shaukat Ali.

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The Muslim League Supreme Council met in Bombay and on July 29 declared for “Direct Action”, August 16 was fixed as the day for the initiation of the movement. Fiery speeches containing thinly veiled threats of Civil War and drastic action against “Quislings” followed. The League Press and the League spokesmen started a tirade against the Congress in particular and Hindus in general in Calcutta, the League papers started stepping up their programme of incitement causing great apprehension amongst all national circles.

The uneasy dawn of the 16th found large bands of “processionists” armed with long sticks, iron rods, bludgeons and sharp weapons parading the city all over with League flags. Any shop that was even partially open was immediately stoned and the shopkeepers belaboured. Vehicular traffic was forcibly stopped and the passengers beaten up. Sikh taxi-drivers were a special target and even lone cyclists did not escape. Any resistance merely increased the fury of the “peaceful processionists,” looted shops, cracked heads and stab-wounds being the reply given to protests or remonstrances. Police were significantly inactive, indeed the city was totally innocent of police protection.

Soon the city was ablaze from North to South and from East to West. The telephone wires were jammed with frantic appeals for police-aid from Hindus of all sections of the city, but these appeals were disregarded in toto. Even where by chance there were some police, they seldom did lift a finger, excepting in certain instances where they bestirred themselves in gleaning some loot. In some cases the police present are alleged to have said that they had orders not to interfere in such political demonstrations.

Mass butchery started with the early dawn of Saturday, while loot and arson spread like wild fire all over the city. The police had let the situation deteriorate till it was completely out of control and yet military aid was not called for. The carnage continued for two more days until the military took matters entirely into their own hands and very large forces were employed in penetrating deep over a widespread area. The situation was brought under control only after the direction and control of affairs relating to law and order had virtually passed out of the hands of the League Minister-in-charge of Law and Order, Mr. H.S. Suhrawardy, and his henchmen in officialdom.

Iconoclasm is a face of barbarism in the name of God. Which divine likes or dislikes icons or idols is a matter of opinion based on imagination or inculcation. But one thing is certain, for anyone to impose one opinion or the other is inhuman. My God is supreme as the Ten Commandments ordain in the Old Testament. My God is the only god and there can be no other god, the holy Quran contends. Both are wrong. Simply because there flourished civilisations for long before the holy Bible was penned and well before Prophet Muhammad had his visions, which means that either there are other Gods or there is no god.

God or no god, it is desirable for men and women to switch off from the material and to pray or meditate about the spiritual. To enable ordinary people to focus on the spiritual, it is useful to provide icons, idols or walls. A Hindu idol, a Parsee fire, a crucifix over an altar for the Christian or a mimbar for the Muslim are helpful. For a mimbar to claim that it is sacred but an idol is profane deserving to be destroyed, is patently wrong. Similarly for an Imam to feel fulfilled because a temple or a church has been desecrated is reprehensible. For him to worship in a mandir so converted to a masjid is more immoral.

Ignorant scholars often dismiss iconoclasm as being medieval; no point in wasting discussion on what happened centuries ago. If that be so, what is the need for pursuit of history which is always about centuries past. Medieval history is not myth. Iconoclasm is equally contemporary. A Buddha statue was destroyed at Swat in Pakistan as recently as September 2007 (red letters). The tragic fate of the Bamiyan Buddhas as late as 2001 is well known. The 20th century especially in its latter half has witnessed hundreds of desecrations. Unless the perpetrators are punished or retaliatory action taken, this barbarism will continue to prevail.

The biggest on going crime is terrorism. Since October 2001, post 9/11, there have been 13 major bomb blasts in India which have butchered hundreds of innocent people, women, children, ordinary citizens et al. The officially reported figures are low because they are announced soon after the incident and can only be based on dead bodies found. Those that are not recorded are not taken into account. What is shameful is that the acts of terrorism are seldom condemned by Muslim leaders probably because they are looked upon as episodes in jihad. How can anything sacred be condemned?

She can only win, never lose!

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An Excellent article by Gurumurthy exposing the unexposed.. ie, the sonia myth .. .. Unlike other writers, gurumurthy is a nationalist, who is not bound to any pressure either from within or from abroad.. nor he doesnot indulge in fabrication, manipulation, etc, to produce the required propoganda.. He just writes, what is truth and what is fact.. and clearly, it appeals to all those who expect fairness, justness from medias.

I feel, there can be no other better way, in which the bias and conspiracy of medias can be exposed.. I plan to write another detailed post on how media handled the gujarat election, and how far they went low to create hatred among the people for modi..

I am just reproducing a part of the artilce..

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Her shadow was all over Gujarat. As results showing the decimation of the Congress started coming out, the omnipresent Sonia disappeared from the post-election theatre. Instead of tracing her out, the media began tracking and discussing who was the real winner – Modi or BJP – and who was the loser – BJP or Advani or Rajnath, or the Congress. But no one would dare add the name of the person on whose strength the Congress had almost proclaimed victory in Gujarat and lost – Sonia. In eight of the 13 constituencies in which she addressed huge rallies, the party lost. While the media reported the huge rallies of Sonia before the polls, it would not report that the party lost most of the seats where she held rallies.

Media’s compassion made it easy for the party to distance her from the humiliating defeat. But now that the very ‘merchant of death’ whom she despised and asked the voters of Gujarat to throw out has won, she does owe an answer to her party and to the nation.

Yet, she keeps mum and instead employs her Alsatians to bark at others, hiding herself behind the iron gates of 10 Janpath protected by ZPlus security. While, in Delhi, her party keeps her name out, many Gujarat Congress leaders seem to have told the media, of course in anonymity, that her ‘merchant of death’ remark has cost the party some 30 seats.

Finally poor Hariprasad Solanki, Gujarat Congress party president, has become the ‘bakra’ – the sacrificial goat. He was forced to go to the party office in Delhi and own up the defeat as his(!) so that Sonia remains the victor. Imagine the party had won Gujarat. Would Hariprasad be allowed to share photo with the victor Sonia?

After she made it emphatically known that she is the real key and Manmohan Singh is the duplicate one, this Congress sycophancy has become an accepted media discipline. Result: All good things happening for the party and in the government are unfailingly credited to her. Whether it is employment guarantee or rural development, it is all conceded as her agenda.

She inaugurates all projects and plans with the Prime Minister as the clapper boy. She is all over in government ads. When oil prices rise, the blame goes to poor PM. When it is cut, it is on her orders! When oil prices are not raised, minister says that it is on her directive. If the Congress party wins an election, it is due to her, but if it loses Hariprasads will bear the cross. In sum, she is exempt here from all scrutiny by the media. It is media’s collective endeavour, not just isolated Congress effort, to keep her above blame, faultless. Hence the debate on who is the loser among the victors in Gujarat, so that the real loser, Sonia, is kept out of discussion.

QED: Sonia can only win. She can never lose.

(And my addition.. She can do only good.. and she can never do wrong.. )

The green revolution that produced poisons – will future humanity survive?

Actually, I dont support the idea of copy pasting from another links..  But, since this is an important health issue that affects the whole humanity, i want to just reproduce the article as it is..  This is taken from dailypioneer.com .  I did not provide the link, because they dont have a permalink structure.

About this article:

This article is about the unmindful use of fertilizers and chemicals under the name of scientific agriculture..  Although it was termed as green revolution,  its actually a bubble, that bursts after reaching its limit..

Pesticides, herbicides are used all over india.  And my frist two decades of life, comes from such agricultural background, that i could easily understand the food chain, through which these poisons travel through and affect not just man.. but all possible living things in this world.

In short, i will explain this phenomenon..  The farmer uses fertilizers to boost yield.  But, this fertilizer alters the PH value of the soil, and kills all other organisms, like earthworm, bacterias & fungus, that are part of the agriculture.  Due to this, the soil become sterile, and plant will grow only if fertilizer is given.  (This is a vicious cycle where a farmer gets trapped in to.. like if he do farming, he has to apply fertilizer .. )  ..

Since, other organisms are destroyed, the eco system collapses and the pests roam freely with the absense of natural checks.  To control them, again, the farmer applies pesticides to target those pests.  This is where the real danger starts..  The pesticides which kills the pests, remain in soil, and enter in to plants and the food grains that we got out of it.  Those who are in towns, consume this food grains, and the same pesticide enters in to human body.

Apart from that, the same plant is consumed by domestic animals like cow, goat, and the pesticide enters them.  We then get the same pesticide through the milk.

The same pesticide, is not fully taken by the plant.  Major part of it remains in soil, and gradually subsides in to ground water, and accumulated in wells.  This is again, consumed by both humans and domestic animals, and the cycle continues.

During floods, these pesticides travel from one area to the adjacent fields, and in some cases to rivers, and then pervades in all sphers of our life.

Most of our people are not aware of the dangers..  The simple question they ask is that pesticides are used for long time, and it did not kill any one.  But the fact is that the rise in many diseases like cancel, liver disease etc are indirectly attributed to these pesticides.  the real problem is that we could not comprehend such things so far..  And i dont think that people would be aware in the near future..

So, how are we affected?  let’s leave ourselves..  our indian psyche is that everyone sacrifices for our family and children..  let it happen anything to me.. but my children should be safe..  This is where i am pointing out..  when the whole living environment is polluted, will our children be ever safe?

So, what are we going to give to them?  As an individual, we have virtually nothing to give them anything good.  Because, this problem is not individual related, rather, involves the entire society.

So, we should come out of our personal selfish shells, and start viewing this world from this society perspective.. In that case, what should we do?

1. We can represent our views through various channels to enforce right form of agriculture.

2. We can be both moral and financial support to those farmers who are involved in Organic farming.  (I would like to pursue such organic farming)

3. We should be ready to pay more price for organic foods.

4. The government should frame policies and make organic farming as state policy.

5. Loss of agricultural land should be prevented at any cost.  Real estate should be regularised, and agricultural land should not be commodotised.

6. Some of those in cities, believing in doing agricultural similar to corporates.  Unfortunately, corporate farming is not possible in organic farming.  This would require another post, but, the idea is that to do organic farming, we need to develop an integrated eco system close nature.  This includes rearing cows, growing hens, and above all, people to work in fields.  There is limit to machinisation..

There are lot to be done..  But, i would like to emphasis, that we are consuming poisons in the form of food daily.. the carrot we buy, the vegetables we buy, the rice that we buy, the dhal, cereals, and all, contains those pesticides..  and what can we call the food prepared using all these?

Let’s leave ourselves.. what about our children..  arent we feeding them with poison?

Lot to be queried.. and the answer lies in common man’s awarenes.. and every man has the duty to get awareness.. not just the farmers.

Lets move on the article….

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Government must adopt an organic environment and health-friendly policies while initiating another Green Revolution

Amid talk of the UPA Government reviving the Green Revolution of the 1960s and 1970s, credited with India becoming a grain-surplus nation, surface disconcerting reports of people in rural areas in the rich agrarian State of Punjab suffering genetic mutations and death, related to heavy pesticide residues and industrial effluents in water and food. Scientific studies point to a piquant situation, where those who have gained financially from the use of modern technology have had to pay a lethal price in terms of health over a period of time.

Severe allergies, digestive ailments, cancer, physical and mental deformities, and weakened immunity are being blamed by doctors and researchers to the sustained use of chemicals by farmers to boost their yield during the much-vaunted Green Revolution. The toxins, having entered the elements, and milk, grains, fruits and vegetables, are also present in the human body.

These reports are not unfamiliar for city inhabitants, who periodically receive media warnings about toxins in vegetables, especially of the leafy variety, upon which pesticides and chemical fertilisers are directly sprayed, and, of course, aerated soft drinks and bottled water. But the malaise is now pandemic, with the sylvan ideal having turned into a nurturing ground for disease.

News of arsenic-laced water — and even fish — being imbibed in rural West Bengal, with serious consequences, has been filtering out. Case studies of Punjab villages — symbols of Green Revolution success — establish the serious fallout of the percolation of chemicals in the environment, ground water, food chain and milk. Failure to dispose off industrial waste compounds the problem.

To cite examples, Amritsar district reports an alarming spurt in miscarriages, termed “spontaneous abortions” locally, as much as retarded growth among children. The Sri Guru Ram Dass Rotary Cancer Hospital has recorded a three-fold rise in cancer cases over the past five years. Compared to the two or three news cases daily, reported earlier, the number has now shot up to eight. A hospital source ascribes the rise mainly to the drinking of water contaminated with toxins over many years. Similarly, an alarming increase in cancer cases is reported from Bhatinda district, where pesticides are liberally used in cotton farming.

Independent studies confirm the fearful health risks resulting from the chemical’s invasion of agriculture, especially in the absence of regulation, with farmers indiscriminately mixing pesticides and exceeding the required dosage. Chandigarh’s Post-Graduate Institute of Medical Education and Research conducted a two-year investigation on the basis of case studies at the behest of the Punjab Pollution Control Board. The report, submitted about a month ago, cites its findings at 25 villages near five open drains. Analysis of blood samples shows DNA mutations in 65 per cent of the cases and genetic damages in some.

Principal investigator JS Thakur states that there is “clear evidence” that irrigating fields with acutely polluted drain water and exposure to pesticides is causing neuro, reproductive and genotoxicity-related diseases. The genetic damage, he warns, will manifest itself fully in the years to come. Delhi’s Centre for Science and Environ-ment, which exposed the high pesticides content in aerated drinks and mineral water, has also verified the health hazards of long-term chemicals use in farming.

A study of randomly selected blood samples from four villages in Punjab’s Ropar district found six to 13 pesticides in most of the samples, with some being astonishingly high. These were estimated at the ratio of 15-605, compared to the level present in blood samples tested in the US. The NGO also reported an alarming rise in cancer cases from Punjab areas, where pesticides use is rampant, such as Bhatinda. The National Cancer Centre in Bikaner, Rajasthan, where these patients resorted for treatment, also recorded a seven-time increase in cancer in the past 10 years.

Green campaigners deploy these facts to advocate a switch over to organic farming, which minimises or excludes the use of chemical fertilizers and pesticides. An additional factor cited against chemicals-intensive farming is the debt trap, triggering farmer suicides. The inability to repay loans taken to buy costly pesticides and fertilizers needed for growing cash crops such as cotton has driven many farmers to end their life in Punjab. And, in Andhra Pradesh, the lure of cotton and chillies, and grapes and pomegranates in Maharashtra has spelt doom for farmers, unable to discharge their debt.

The use of pesticides has magnified a hundred times, from 154 million tonnes in 1954 to 88,000 million tonnes in 2001. The current usage is correspondingly higher. And, the degradation of environment and decline in health is also commensurate.

Government efforts to initiate another Green Revolution should adopt the organic environment and health-friendly policies.