Tuesday, July 4, 2017

What comes first for minorities - Religion or Country ?

Apropos Narendra Modi’s recent visit to Israel, a lot of people are critical and have expressed their desire to prioritise Palestine instead. These guys comprise of muslims, communists and self-proclaimed liberals - all of whom openly favour Palestine, a country which has always supported Pakistan over India in various international forums (and these guys also bitterly loath Israel in spite of the fact that Israel has always assisted India in overcoming the challenges of terrorism and radicalisation).

These guys are proving beyond doubt that for them religion matters more than the interests of India (so they identify themselves with their co-religionists in countries which are thousands of miles away, even to the extent of harming India’s security interests).

And a question to these guys -how come they never felt so strongly about the ethnic cleansing of Hindu pandits in Kashmir (where muslims indulged in mass murders, rapes and other forms of violence and subjugation)?

Hindu’s need to identify such traitors within, whose loyalty is towards their religion/ ideology than to India, more so because these people possess voting rights and have a say in the formation of the Indian government (and hence can exercise a detrimental influence on India's foreign and defence policy - which then manifests itself into minority appeasement practised by pseudo secular political parties) but whose heart beats for countries other than India.

As long as muslims are in a minority, they will harp about secularism, freedom for all religions, tolerance etc, but the moment they form the majority, it will mean the forcible imposition of their own religion and a complete lack of freedom or respect for followers of other religions.

The scenario is not as fat fetched as it sounds. Just look at the dire plight of Hindu’s, Christians, Sikhs and Buddhists in Pakistan and Bangladesh to understand (and accept) the harsh reality.

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