What is it with the self proclaimed and constitutionally appointed conscience keepers of?our Nation? that they cannot get themselves to utter a single word on Nandigram without first prefacing it with how much like the Gujarat 2002 riots it is ?
The National Human Rights Commission Chairperson Justice has finally found his voice on Nandigram a full 10 days after the fact. But then his voice returned with a familiar echo from 5 years ago.
Calling the situation in Bengal ?grave?, Babu said, ?Nandigram and Godhra are assaults on the face of democracy. They are the worst scars on the face of the nation. It is shameless to see that human rights were violated in such a way.? He said NHRC was committed to protect the rights of people who were victims of ?opportunist? politics in Bengal and Gujarat.
?The State Human Rights Commission in West Bengal is actively involved in taking up these cases, as it had done at the time of Gujarat riots,? he said on the sidelines of Fourth Annual Meeting of the NHRC with State Human Rights Commissions in New Delhi on Monday.
This equivocation apart from when did the NHRC’s mandate expand to protecting the “people” from politics “opportunistic” or otherwise ?
Be that as it may the message the NHRC Chairperson is sending here is that the only way he can muster credibility and conscience to act on Nandigram is by invoking Gujarat.
So in effect he is telling the mostly Muslim Victims of Nandigram that you got lucky your brethren were the victims in Gujarat otherwise it would be impossible for me to say what I said for it would “politically incorrect” and “inconvenient” for your tormentors – the CPI-Mafioso.
While the NHRC equivocates on Nandigram at tax payer expense, national conscience be damned, other closet communists in the media have fared no better. From TN Ninan to Ashok Desai, the self proclaimed conscience keepers in the media have had to resort to convoluted, politically correct blather to cleanse their conscience of Nandigram, lest they be tainted by association with the CPI-Mafioso.
In fact the most telling comment on this kind of equivocation came from the Indian Express in its editorial titled “Nandigram’s spectre“
Is Nandigram 2007 like Gujarat 2002? Such comparisons deceive. Every crime is horrifying in its own way. Yet there is something outrageous about the way in which the CPM is trying to evade acknowledgement of the enormity of the wrong committed in Nandigram
?Computing the exact degrees of separation that lie between Nandigram and the communal carnage in Modi?s Gujarat five years ago is a tawdry exercise, best left to those who have the stomach for it.
Offstumped Bottomline: It is one thing to question those who’s morality and conscience are selectively perked on incidents like in Gujarat over their conspiracy of silence over Nandigram. But to preface every criticism of Nandigram with how much like Gujarat? it is, is an attempt at political correctness that offends the victims of Nandigram. It sends the message that if there were no Gujarat riots in 2002 they would have no words to condemn the state sponsored red terror on the people of Nandigram. It sends the message that they need the moral equivalence with Gujarat to muster the courage and conscience to confront the CP-Mafioso with any credibility.
Full Offstumped coverage on Nandigram and Singur
5th December 2006 – Mamata in Singur – Will this drive a wedge between UPA and CPI-M
26th December 2006 – Mamata?s Fast in Singur heads for the end game – What are the likely scenarios ???
15th Jan 2007 - SEZ Land Acquisition – Reliance shows the way
15th March 2007 - Communists Kill Police – Communist Policing kills people !
21st March 2007 - Week after Nandigram comes the ?I told you so??
7th Nov 2007 -In Nandigram – A Manasi Das no Bilkis Bano
8th Nov 2007 - Buddhadeb – The post modern day Nero
9th Nov 2007 - Impose President?s Rule in West Bengal
11th Nov 2007 - Communist of Party of India – Mafioso (CPI-M)
11th Nov 2007 - Where is the moral outrage for Mossamat Akhera Bibi ?
12th?Nov ?2007 - Who is a bigger Terrorist – Dawood Ibrahim or Prakash Karat ?
12th?Nov ?2007 - Where are the Maoists ?
13th?Nov 2007 - Where the mind is with fear ?
13th Nov 2007?- Buddhadeb?s Taliban Act?
14th Nov 2007 - Victims of a Pogrom ?
14th Nov 2007 - Left versus Left – So what is left ?
16th Nov 2007 - Conspiracy of Silence on Nandigram?s Muslim Victims
17th Nov 2007 - Sonia Gandhi?s Six Degrees of separation from Nandigram?s Muslims
18th Nov 2007 - To Brinda Karat gangrape in Nandigram no matter of shame
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MMS seems to be sleeping well these days. Infact the man seems to have gone into a permanent state of somnabulance. Even the plight of the Nandigram victims (Muslims mainly) and the effects of Cyclone Sidr in neighbouring Bangladesh (again Muslim majority)has not woken our man from his sleep.
Compare this to his sleeplessness when Mohd Haneef was detained in Australia and the entire media, the ’secular’ political classes and the human rights activists went for Australia’s jugular and just stopped shy of naming that country as a part of the Sangh Parivar.
Why the double standards? How come barring a Medha Patkar, Mamta Banerjee and the moth balled intelligentsia from Bengal we don’t see any other activists? Is it because its the comrades who are holding the umbilical cord to the seat of power in their “literally red” hands?
I couldn’t believe IE’s editorial. What nonsense guys pedal. The soft balling of Commies is mind boggling. Can you imagine if this happened in a BJP lead state? All hell would have broken loose on TV and newspapers. President’s rule etc…nothing of that sort while propping up the commies.
Yossarin,salute to you. I love u man. Great going! Count me in,with you .
PI.
The National Human Rights Commission is sleeping in congress and commies bed rooms. they wake up for small things in bjp ruled stated but they will never wakeup in case of congress and cpm/cpi
Definations of events by Communal Congress and their idiotic followers.
Posted by truecongresspolitics on October 19, 2007
Congress interpretations of some of the similiar events is as follows -
Sikhs getting slaughered in thousands = A MISTAKE.
Hindus getting killed in Kashmir = Political problem.
Muslims getting killed by a few hundred = Holocaust.
Poor protestors getting shot in WB under Left Govt = Misunderstanding.
Banning Parzania in Gujarat = Communal.
Banning Da Vinci Code and Jo Bole So Nihaal = Secular.
Kargil Attack = Government failure.
Chinese invasion in 1962 = Unfortunate betrayal.
Reservations in every school and college on caste lines = Secular. Reservations in Minority institutions = Communal.
Fake encounters in Gujarat [Sohrabuddin] = BJP Communalism.
Fake encounters under Cong-NCP in Maharashtra [Khwaja Younus] = Police atrocity.
Talking about Hindus and Hinduism appeasment = Communal. Talking about Muslims and Islam = Secular.
BJP freeing 3 terrorists to save 100 Indian hostages = Shameful
Congress freeing 4 militants to save just a life of one daughter of it’s minister in Kashmir [Rubina Sayed] = Natural Political dilemma.
Attack on Parliament = BJP ineptitude. Not hanging Afzal Guru the mastermind despite Supreme Court orders = Humanity and Political dilemma.
BJP questioning Islam = Communal. Congress questioning Lord Rama’s existance = Clerical Error.
Is there any end to Congress and it’s shameless supporters hypocrisy.
Who is communal? Congress, Communists or BJP
Posted by truecongresspolitics on October 18, 2007
I love and agree to both of you.It is the quality of Hindu dharma only that it gives regard to others way of worship and tolerates other’s view-piont and allows an open debate for every issue. Similar is not the case of others.
1. There are nearly 52 Muslim countries. Show one Muslim country, which provides Haj subsidy.
2. Show one Muslim country where Hindus are extended the special rights that Muslims are accorded in India?
3. Show one Muslim country, which has a Non-Muslim as its President or Prime Minister.
4. Show one country where the 85% majority craves for the indulgence of the 15% minority.
5. Show one Mullah or Maulvi who has declared a ‘fatwa’ against terrorists.
6. Hindu-majority Maharashtra, Bihar, Kerala, Pondicherry, etc. have in the past elected Muslim as CMs; Can you ever imagine a Hindu becoming the CM of Muslim – majority J&K?
7. Today Hindus are 85%. If Hindus are intolerant, how come Masjids and Madrassas are thriving? How come Muslims are offering Namaz on the road? How come Muslims are proclaiming 5 times a day on loudspeakers that there is no God except Allah?
8. When Hindus gave to Muslims 30% of Bharat for a song, why should Hindus now beg for their sacred places at Ayodhya, Mathura and Kashi?
9. Why temple funds are spent for the welfare of Muslims and Christians, when they are free to spend their money in any way they like?
10. When uniform is made compulsory for school children, why there is no Uniform Civil Code for citizens?
11. In what way, J&K is different from Maharashtra, Tamil Nadu or Uttar Pradesh, to have article 370?
12. Why Gandhiji supported Khilafat Movement (nothing to do with our freedom movement) and what in turn he got?
13. Why Ghandiji objected to the decision of the cabinet and insisted that Somnath Temple should be reconstructed out of public fund, not government funds. When in January 1948 he pressurized Nehru and Patel to carry on renovation of the mosques of Delhi at government expenses?
14. If Muslims & Christians are minorities in Maharashtra, UP, Bihar, etc., are Hindus not minorities in J&K, Mizoram, Nagaland, Arunachal Pradesh, Meghalaya etc? Why are Hindus denied minority rights in these states?
15. Do you admit that Hindus have problems that need to be recognized? Or do you think that those who call themselves Hindus are themselves the problem?
16. Why post-Godhra is blown out proportion, when no one talks of the ethnic cleansing of 4 lakh Hindus from Kashmir?
17. In 1947, when India was partitioned, the Hindu population in Pakistan was about 24%. Today it is not even 1%. In 1947, the Hindu population in East Pakistan (now Bangladesh) was 30%. Today it is about 7%. What happened to the missing Hindus? Do Hindus have human rights?
18. In contrast, in India, Muslim population has gone up from 10.4% in 1951 to about 14% today; whereas Hindu population has come down from 87.2% in 1951 to 85% in 1991. Do you still think that Hindus are fundamentalists?
19. Do you consider that – Sanskrit is communal and Urdu is secular, Mandir is Communal and Masjid is Secular, Sadhu is Communal and Iman is Secular, BJP is communal and Muslim league is Secular, Dr. Praveen Bhai Togadia is ANTI-NATIONAL and Bhukari is Secular, Vande Matharam is communal and Allah-O-Akbar is secular, Shriman is communal and Mian is secular, Hinduism is Communal and Islam is Secular, Hindutva is communal and Jihadism is secular, and at last, Bharat is communal and Italy is Secular?
20. When Christian and Muslim schools can teach Bible and Quran, Why Hindus cannot teach Gita or Ramayan?
21. Abdul Rehman Antuley was made a trustee of the famous Siddhi Vinayak Temple in Prabhadevi, Mumbai Can a Hindu – say Mulayam or Laloo – ever become a trustee of a Masjid or Madrassa?
22. Dr. Praveenbhai Togadia has been arrested many time on flimsy grounds, has the Shahi Imam of Jama Masjid, Delhi, Ahmed Bhukari been arrested for claiming to be an ISI agent and advocating further partition of Bharat?
23. When Haj pilgrims are given subsidy, why Hindu pilgrims to Amarnath, Sabarimalai & Kailash Mansarovar are taxed?
24. Afzal Guru,attacker on Parliament,isnot being put to hanging inspite of repeated otders of supreme court?Could he be spared in any muslim or christian country for the same crime? No terrorist has yet been hanged.
The Secular CPI(M)which always talk of Freedom of Artist M.F.Hussain right to paint nude picture of Hindu Goddess wants Writer Taslima nasreen to leave Secular Freedom of Expression land of Bengal and there is a talk that Taslima is presuurised to go to Gujarat or Rajasthan both govt run by party who according to them Communal And depress the Freedom of Artist????
Mr.Biman Bose Left Front Chairman has publicly said this including againstMedia, High Court,Governor.
This is CPI(M)
This is Secularism
and This is our Secular Independent Media
If you all remember that “Gujarat Poster” of a Man with fear and folded hand published in all Media…
That man a Muslim Tailor with full Media presence was Adopted by Secular government of Bengal and was settled in kolkatta.
Media fully publicise that event But anybody knows that where is that Muslim Tailor…
Behold he has gone back to ModiLand…..
So a slap to Secularism media,party and intellectual for whom CPIM has recently described…
DELETED FOR FOUL LANGUAGE, COME BACK AND POST COMMENTS WHEN YOU HAVE CLEANSED YOUR FOUL MOUTH OF ABUSS
In the entire comment, there was one word of abuse, and definitely not a single word of ABUSS.
I am sure you agree with most of the list, why not just delete the names you love, and publish it?!
RE-POST WITHOUT THE FOUL WORDS TO MAKE YOUR POINT, IF YOU CANT GET YOURSELF TO ARTICULATE YOUR THOUGHTS WITHOUT THE FOUL WORDS GO BACK TO SCHOOL
And just so the readers do not think I ABUSSED the blog or blogger – I had used one gaali in English, the hindi version of which is in common use in India.
Oops. Mistake again.
This is what I meant.
And just so the readers do not think I ABUSSED the blog or blogger – I had used one gaali in English, the hindi version of which is in common use in India – and it was not used against the blogger but against every single person or group I could think about who had committed violence.
In fact, a better and more accurate word would have been ‘murderers’.
a true Macaulyite – when you cannot argue on points and ideas you go around making fun of people’s fluency in English. Those Japanese and Germans and Russians who do not speak Xavierite accented English must be total retards . Was my above statement “ABUSSIVE”. Now that the West is on the path of going to war with Islam which side are you Macaulyites going to side with?
oops Macaulayite not Macaulyite – otherwise I will face 3-4 posts making fun of the spelling.
Macaulay da Puttar,
Here is news from the land of Macaulay
Artists too frightened to tackle radical Islam
So what is the big deal you say, old chap.
Well, Well read the comments by ordinary Britishers at the end of the article.
“Artists are frightened to take on radical hinduism too.”
Yup, MF Hussain was recently beheaded by some Hindooo fundies, its just that nobody knows about it. Oh Wait..
“Same for radical christianity, though that is mostly an nutter phenomenon in US.”
You did not read the comments on that article, did you?
http://www.ibnlive.com/news/modi-too-arrogant-for-hometown-but-has-full-support/52996-3-2.html
Congress is the most shameless parties of all….and india suffers due to Congress…
Remove Congress…..make Narendra Modi out PM…..
He has helped both Hindus/Muslims to benefit economically….
He can help all India to benefit…economically….
Remove everybody else…..everybody else is just wasting hard earned public money……
Remove Congress……the sycophants party……
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