Nun gangrape and Hindu rape culture

BACKGROUND

Rape of an aged nun happened in Bengal and entire globe was protesting against Hindutva terror. Then it was found that culprits were Jihadis from Bangladesh who had religious reasons to hate non-Muslims. Part 1 of this piece was written before the culprits were nabbed. As always, the predictions made by Agniveer were spot-on.

PART 1

The Navaratras came with a sense of deep shame that year. An elderly nun was brutally raped by perverts in a state that is known for its worship of Durga. So entrenched is respect for women in Bengal that even the daughter is addressed as ‘Maa’ or mother. On Navaratras we would feed young girls and show our respect as if they represent Durga Mata. Thus the event was most shocking.

A society that cannot respect the mother is bound to doom. It is time we announced brutal death sentence for every rapist irrespective of age and fast-track courts to resolve such cases within no time.

What was even more appalling than even the rape was the way this shameful incident was used as a tool for political and commercial victory by different stakeholders. The leaders of Church organization held protest rallies and many of them blamed Hindutva forces for this. The West Bengal government representatives also incriminated ‘Ghar Wapsi’ for this. A few media houses went berserk in linking it to church attacks in Delhi, miscellaneous other attacks on minorities and finding an easy scapegoat in Hindutva and new government.

The same media condemns Khaps for being illegitimate judges but are the first ones to hold kangaroo courts to issue verdicts that increase their commercial gains.

How shameless is a society that makes a business out of rapes of a mother!

How conveniently everyone ignored that Ranaghat – where the tragedy happened – is not even a stronghold of any so-called Hindutva group including BJP! In the peak of Modi wave, BJP came at distant third in Lok Sabha elections. The constituency is represented by the ruling party TMC with more than 40% vote share.

The assembly constituency is again a TMC stronghold with almost 55% vote share. BJP does not have even 4% vote share.

On contrary, CM has announced her commitment to legalizing illegal Bangladeshi immigrants several times. Vandalism against Hindu temples and idols have seen a huge upsurge in last 5 years. So why should this incident be not linked with the pro-Bangladeshi stance of TMC? The entire world knows how much love fanatics of Bangladesh and Pakistan have towards Christians in general. Bangladeshi goons have already brought fame for themselves by killing, looting, raping minorities. Jihadi hatred against Christians is amply evident across the globe. ISIS beheading is a recent example.

The pattern of gang-rape makes evident that it was not just a crime of passion or greed. It was driven by hatred and bestiality. It was in lines of the way ISIS glorifies its killings. No wonder what would emerge in future is that it was the handiwork of Jihadis inspired by ISIS and Al Qaeda who were possibly helped by someone inside. And of course, the way government after government in Bengal are nurturing illegal Bangladeshis, they are putting entire country, and especially border districts in grave danger.

HINDU-PHOBIA

Ironically, while a lot of hype was made out of church attacks in Delhi, no communal angle nor any pattern could be brought out. They were either case of burglaries, thefts, similar crimes and accidents like short circuit. Statistically, there have been many times more such ‘attacks’ of similar nature on temples and gurudwaras of Delhi in same time period!

To give another example of communally-igniting in some sections of media, here is an example from a recent front-page news headline published in Times of India on 22 March 2015: ‘For lack of evidence, all 16 Hashimpura accused walk. 42 Muslims had died by ’87 massacre’ by Sana Shakil.

I wonder what would have been the headline if those who died were not Muslims? Do we have separate criminal laws for Hindus and Muslims in the country? Or have no Hindus been ever been killed in massacres? In fact, if we indeed start showcasing communal angles, the irony is that the Indian history of last 1000 years can be termed as bloodiest, longest running and most brutal genocide of Hindus that put even ISIS to shame.

If someone was killed, an Indian was killed. Hindu, Muslim, Christian does not matter. If a massacre happened, it is wrong, irrespective of who did it and to whom. Punishment must be severe. Period. Law does not differentiate on basis of religion. Why must media house do so? Merely for petty sensationalism? Or there is something deeper?

SOLUTION TO RELIGIOUS HATRED

For some morons, it is difficult to digest that personal belief is indeed personal. You can talk as much as you want about why your belief-system is best, but eventually, decision to choose a belief-system is personal. If you think someone is following a wrong belief-system, let God punish him. Why must you be an agent?

Ironically though, many religious shops of today thrive on hatred. Such shops must be destroyed to bring communal harmony.

To do it objectively, top 10 most popular publications of religious books of each religion must be brought. All publications taught in Gurukuls, Madarsas and convents must be also included. They will most probably include:

• Various translations of Gita, Ramcharitmanas, Hanuman Chalisa, Upanishads etc.
• Various translations of Bible, stories of Bible etc.
• Various translations of Quran, Hadiths etc.
Now each of these must be reviewed for following:
• Does the publication claim that non-believers will go to Hell?
• Does the publication differentiate between believers and disbelievers?

If yes, all such books must be outrightly banned. Let the publishers bring out alternate translations that do not have these defects. No book – religious or non-religious – must be allowed in education that explicitly suggests punishment (divine or non-divine) and hatred against non-believers. These silly translations are making a mess of our beautiful world.
We are one humanity, one family.

PART 2

Navratras came with deep shame when an elderly nun was brutally raped in the land known for hailing woman as Maa Durga. What happened cannot be compensated for in any manner. But as Navratras come to an end, we come to know that devotees of Maa Durga are not the culprits of this heinous crime.

News has just percolated that it was Bangladeshi goons who illegally entered India and committed this offence. Sikandar Shaikh alias Salim was arrested from Mumbai along with another sidekick in Bengal. Sikandar confessed to his crime and named other Bangladeshi gang-members involved. Their mastermind Milan Bhai is absconding. The CID investigations reveal that these criminals often sneak into India to commit such crime. Ranaghat being a border district is an easy destination. By the way, Milan Bhai is a fake identity of another Jihadi whose real name is yet to be revealed in public.

The culture of attack on churches and temples is not new for these Bangladeshis. Last year a mob of 50 Islamic extremists looted a church in Boldipukur. Hundreds of temples have been desecrated within last one year in Bangladesh. Blogger Avijit Roy was murdered in public for marrying a Muslim girl.

Islamic extremism thrives on hatred against non-Muslims. By mere brutality of the crime, you can reasonably predict who the perpetrator is. If there is a crime of passion, greed or momentary outburst, it could be anyone. But when it is a well-thought brutal crime bordering on hatred, you are likely to find an Islamic extremist behind it. Look at the way ISIS makes Hollywood style videos of their brutal killings.

The moment Agniveer found that gang-rape of an elderly lady happened at gunpoint in front of so many other people within a place of worship, we predicted that Bangladeshi jihadis would be behind it.

When we found that the juvenile rapist in Nirbhaya case took out intestines of the victim with his bare hands, we predicted he must be an Islamic extremist. And yes, Muhammad Afroz ‘Raju’ showed no remorse for his actions and has been set free already. Same is the case with Mumbai Vile Parle rape and other crimes.

But look what media did. The moment rape happened, they announced it is done by Ghar Wapsi brigade. Church leaders took out a rally to condemn ‘anti-minority’ Prime Minister for encouraging ‘right-winged Hindutva goons’ to attack ‘minorities’. They linked these attacks with those that happened in Delhi and elsewhere. All political parties started fake-weeping in blaming it on ruling party of India.

And now suddenly there is a deep silence. No one has the audacity to admit that they were wrong.

Now no church leader is planning any rally to apologize to Hindus for false defamation.
No political party is making a statement that Bangladeshi infiltrators are creating a mess in the country.

TMC (ruling party of Bengal) has no courage to admit that their open support to illegal Bangladeshi infiltrators is instrumental in emboldening them and providing all infrastructure to carry out such crimes.

No one now stands up to say: ‘If all church attacks in the country are linked, then it proves that Islamic extremists from Bangladesh are behind such attacks. The way separatists show allegiance to Pakistan and issue statements against non-Muslims show that Islamic fanaticism is the root of all this violence.’

Yes, it is true that all Muslims are not terrorists. Among Muslims, we have heroes like Ashfaqullah Khan, APJ Abdul Kalam, Azim Premji, Abdul Hamid and countless more who live/lived and died only for the nation.

But it is also true that we have two neighbours whose birth was based on Islamic extremism. These extremists were shameless enough to divide their motherland and break relations with their fellow Muslims of India as well. These rascals share similar names, physical features, language and yet breed hatred against Indians, especially non-Muslims.

They have their own interpretation of Islam. As per their interpretation, they have divine right to rape, loot and kill non-Muslims. They have right to pretend as friends when they are weak and turn traitor when they can attack. They hate liberal Indian Muslims for keeping country above religion and being patriots.

Now they are spread wide in the world. And they are able to brainwash many Indian Muslims as well by nefarious means. Their agents like Zakir Naik, IRF dupe them to consider religion above everything and hate non-Muslims. People like Owaisi openly threaten non-Muslims. And our politicians nurture this hatred for vote-bank politics.

Our media nurtures this hatred for two reasons –

A. It gives them TRP.
B. Who will mess with such fanatics who can even kill and conduct suicide attacks? It is easier to blame Hindus who are harmless. In most extreme case, some weak-nerved Hindu would pelt a stone on a window of a barren building. And that will give even more harmless sensational news and TRP.

But they don’t realize that they are digging their own graves.

They don’t realize that by harbouring terrorists in this way, they are strengthening their roots and making our future even more difficult. Just look at the resources that ISIS has acquired. Even USA and all developed countries together are not able to tackle them effectively.

They don’t realize that they are making villains out of those who are actually their friends. Hinduism is the only philosophy of world that does not demand any specific belief to be followed. If the world has to rise above religion and unite, Hinduism is the only large-scale option. And Hindus are the most docile people on the planet.

And they also don’t realize that by harbouring these terrorists, they are victimizing the good Muslims. Now the entire world sees Muslims with mistrust. Even in Islamic countries, there is special checking at the airport for Muslims.

The need of the hour is to admit that Islamic world has been infested by hard-core extremists, instead of blaming every religion for having extremists. We must admit that this has not happened overnight but over last 1000 years. It is time to unite all non-extremist Muslims with non-Muslims to wage a war against terror.

And falsely accusing Hindutva for the crimes of extremists is not going to help.

Instead of telling the world ‘Islam is Peace’, Muslim world must realize what went wrong that caused this infestation by terrorists. They must review all their highest circulated publications and see if something is prone to misinterpretation. They must propagate ‘Islam is Peace’ and ‘Islam gives Heaven to non-Muslims’ in their mosques, Madarsas and institutions. Islamic leaders and Maulvis must make such announcements about love for non-Muslims again and again. This will contain the nefarious designs of fanatics and strengthen the Islam followed by scientists like Dr APJ Abdul Kalam. This is need of the hour.

Disclaimer

This post is based on translations and commentaries of Islamic texts like Quran, Hadiths etc. as published by all major Islamic publishing sources. These are publicly available translations that are used for promotion of Islam by prominent representatives.

We, however, believe that most of these texts have been wrongly translated, misinterpreted, misquoted or even have been tampered with and interpolated to suit the selfish designs of proponents of Islam after Muhammad. Thus, we believe that original Islam and original Quran of Muhammad are totally different from what have been propagated by his followers in name of Islam. There are a few minority groups in Muslims whose scholars subscribe to our views and interpret/translate Islamic texts differently or even refuse to consider the available Quran and Hadiths as authentic. But these scholars are considered Kafirs and are condemned by the dominant elite group of Islam. Thus, when we refer to Islam, we actually imply this dominant elite of Islam and not Muslims or all Islamic scholars in general.

Wherever we critically evaluate Muhammad, we imply the fictitious Muhammad propagated by these false texts or their wrong translations and not the original Muhammad. We have high regard for original Muhammad who stood for non-violence and tolerance. Similarly, when we analyze Islamic texts, we refer to these questionable translations/versions and NOT original texts.

Further, we have a sense of the highest level of brotherhood for Muslims in general. Wherever we use the word Muslim in a critical manner, it refers to false representatives of Islam and not Muslims in general. Readers are requested to keep this in mind to understand the correct perspective of the post.

Nowhere should they assume that words like Islam, Quran, Prophet etc. to be referring to original noble entities, unless it has been referred in a positive light. We restrict ourselves only to notions prevalent in minds of fanatics and those without reason.