The double standards of our 'secular' and 'liberal' intelligentsia and even the ordinary people becomes apparent when we compare their outrage over the dadri killing and compare it with their reaction (or lack of it) over the genocide and ethnic cleansing of Kashmir pandits and the massacre of Sikhs in 1984.
One man is killed and all these secular guys and media have been shouting for days altogether but there was hardly any outrage over the atrocities on Kashmiri pandits or Sikhs.
Even our intelligentsia, comprising of renowned liberal writers, academicians, artistes etc who have been prompt to return their awards in protest against the dadri killing were remarkably silent in the two analogies mentioned above or during other acts of communal violence.
We need to think about the reasons for their double standards by trying to analyse the differences between the two cases. One was the scale of violence and destruction - what the Kashmiri pandits and Sikhs faced was of unimaginable magnitude and the killings numbered thousands while in dadri, one person was killed - but the outrage, instead of being a thousand times more, is hardly a fraction of what we are seeing now.
The one other difference between the two analogies, and one which will explain the selective outrage, is the perpetrators and the victims.
In dadri, the victim was a muslim and the killers hindus. In the other two cases, the killers were muslims and the thousands of people killed were Sikhs and hindus.
This clearly demonstrates the bias prevalent amongst our secular and liberal countrymen and should make us question them on whether they consider one muslim life more valuable than the lives of thousands of hindu and Sikh lives.
A question no one is asking them and one they are not willing to answer...
One man is killed and all these secular guys and media have been shouting for days altogether but there was hardly any outrage over the atrocities on Kashmiri pandits or Sikhs.
Even our intelligentsia, comprising of renowned liberal writers, academicians, artistes etc who have been prompt to return their awards in protest against the dadri killing were remarkably silent in the two analogies mentioned above or during other acts of communal violence.
We need to think about the reasons for their double standards by trying to analyse the differences between the two cases. One was the scale of violence and destruction - what the Kashmiri pandits and Sikhs faced was of unimaginable magnitude and the killings numbered thousands while in dadri, one person was killed - but the outrage, instead of being a thousand times more, is hardly a fraction of what we are seeing now.
The one other difference between the two analogies, and one which will explain the selective outrage, is the perpetrators and the victims.
In dadri, the victim was a muslim and the killers hindus. In the other two cases, the killers were muslims and the thousands of people killed were Sikhs and hindus.
This clearly demonstrates the bias prevalent amongst our secular and liberal countrymen and should make us question them on whether they consider one muslim life more valuable than the lives of thousands of hindu and Sikh lives.
A question no one is asking them and one they are not willing to answer...
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