26/11 The Siege - All Pain, Nothing Gained

Many may have seen disaster movies like ‘The Poseidon’ ( a remake of ‘The Poseidon adventure’) or ‘The towering inferno’ or the Indian disaster movie ‘The burning train’. The common theme in these and similar disaster movies is people from different backgrounds with different stories coming together at a party or a journey. Newlyweds, old parents visiting, honeymooners, rich men and women come to throw their money around, politicians, criminals, long lost friends, relatives meeting up again and, of course, the staff. Then disaster strikes by accident or design and then the story is about how each of the characters react, cling to life, make up for their sins, value relationships again. Some die, some are saved. There are heroes and there are bums.

One of my least read posts is “Indian media’s top 5 prayers”. Although the prayers-list is not exhaustive it serves as a guide for me on the behavioural patterns of our media celebs and reporters. Their biggest excitement seems to come from the answer to one of these prayers. Anchors rush to courts like the Aarushi-verdict or to the Phailin cyclone spots in Orissa. They rush to terror-incident spots like on 26/11. Once the event or tragedy is over they return to the studios and blabber with assorted morons but don’t dig deeper into the incidents and tragedies. The Uttarakhand story was forgotten in just a few days. They don’t like that part of the job (The only story they seem to remember in the last 1786 years is Gujarat 2002). And then Rajdeep Sardesai asks the dumb question why it takes an outsider. I had to rap Numero Uno with the reply that Indian media celebs warm their bottoms in studios. Researching and writing requires getting out and doing some honest journalism. It requires patience and the urge to seek the truth. It requires waiting outside offices and standing in lines; something people like Rajdeep and his ‘Hammam’ aren’t used to. This is why foreigners with an obsession do that job.

Adrian Levy and Cathy Scott-Clark released their book “The Siege” about 26/11  a month back and it was discussed widely in the media. The authors have traced the people, their backgrounds, their deaths and their lives. The book is written through a timeline of those who became victims of the terrorist attack at multiple spots but particularly The Taj hotel. As in the disaster movies I mentioned, the authors bring in the characters from different backgrounds and different purposes and how they lived through hell for 3 nights and 3 days. 166 of them did not make it. It is not a ring-side view of the tragedy. It is a view from ‘inside’ the ring from those who shared the suffering. These include people who were acting to counter the attack; the Police and the NSG. There is no happy ending.

We’re all gonna die someday. Death is a certain uncertainty or an uncertain certainty. Most of us would like to choose how we die. It is impossible for those who weren’t inside the ring to feel what they felt or experience it. We may try but not even be able to understand their experience. We can empathise or sympathise with their suffering and their loss. Here’s a clip that might help understanding what it feels to be inside (Video 35 seconds):

There are two guys waving some shirt or garment as a distress flag in the clip above; one jumps off the building. There’s a woman feeling the heat of being burned. The book by Levy and Scott-Clark is written like a script to one of those disaster movies. There aren’t too many great revelations but it is more of a human story rather than a terror and intrigue story. Here are some selective passages from the book that I thought make important reading on what happened. The references in brackets at the end of each quote are from the paperback edition.

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26/11 - About thoughts and actions of Rakesh Maria (JC) who had handled the 1993 blasts case:

Fidayeen rules were in play. They learn and adapt. We stagnate, squabble and steal from one another. Maria wondered if this force of 40,000, protecting a city of 13 million – well below the UN recommended minimum – was even capable of getting a grip on the crisis… At 22.40 he made an entry in the Control Room diary: “I have spoken to the Chief Secretary. We need the National Security Guard or the army to help us deal with this. This was the state’s call and it was still dithering. Then Maria had a 1993 moment. This felt like a nation waging war against Mumbai and in Maria’s opinion Pakistan was the obvious candidate. (Ch.3, Pg. 85)

27/11 - About thoughts of  JC Rajvardhan, one of the first to be at the site at Taj:

The JC made himself a wager: there would no inquiry worth its salt. This was not UK or the US, where a powerful commission would bear down on every institution. The establishment would thwart any such investigation. No one would put their head above the parapet and afterwards the old, inefficient, corrupt regime would continue to rule the roost. (Ch.7, Pg. 195)

27/11 - Mike Pollack, a foreigner, observes:

All around him mobile phone screens glowed in the darkness. Some of the conversations made him feel like his teeth were getting drilled, including that of an Indian MP, who seemed to be giving a live TV interview. ‘We are in a special part of the hotel on the first floor called the Chambers. There are more than 200 important people: business leaders and foreigners’. Pollack whispered to Anjali: ‘Can you believe it? This f*****g idiot MP is blabbering our exact locations to CNN or something’. Friends in the US began texting to say that the Indian MP’s interview already being reported. A siege had just become something far more deadly. (Ch. 7, Pg. 209)

Authors: Afterword on examining police records in Mumbai:

But once we had begun trawling through the evidence the opposite seemed true. While the 9/11 commission of inquiry in the United States enlisted a ten-man bi-partisan board of politicians to probe every facet of the attacks, and the 7/7 inquiries in London spent six months recording every detail and witness statement, 26/11 received only a cursory grilling from the Pradhan Commission, a two-man panel formed in Mumbai on 30 December 2008 to explore the ‘war-like’ attacks on the city… Pradhan exonerated Mumbai’s police force, although it did accuse Police Commissioner Hassan Gafoor of failing to be visible. Even these weak words were rejected by the state legislature. Gafoor, who responded by blaming other senior officers for the mistakes of 26/11, died of a heart attack in Breach Candy hospital in 2012, by which time the majority of the Pradhan Commission’s recommendations to better detect future attacks (and thwart them) had still not been implemented. (Pg. 278)

Authors: Afterword on the govt delays:

The Black Cats created a forensic account of every minute wasted and submitted it to the Home Ministry. It is an astonishing document that still makes soldiers angry and details how a combined task force was unofficially mobilized at 10.05pm on Wednesday, 26 November 2008, just twenty two minutes after the first shots were fired in Leopold’s. By 10.30 pm , the Black Cats were ready to deploy to the technical area of Palam airstrip, but it would take another seventy minutes for the Cabinet Secretary, the highest civil servant in the land, to contact the NSG chief, Jyoti Dutt, warning of a mobilization without giving the go-ahead or revealing transport arrangements. (Pg. 284)

Authors: Afterword on Black Cats (NSG):

From Delhi it took more than two and a half flying hours to reach most other cities. The NSG proposed creating four regional hubs, but the proposals went unanswered. So did a second report advising the ministry that the Black Cats were ‘limping along’ because of corruption and lethargy in procurement. Presently the men were ‘woefully ill-equipped’. Applications for lightweight boots, Kevlar helmets and modern body armour, as well as hands-free communications sets, were in limbo. They were short of high-powered thermal-imaging units; their lightweight ladders dated from 1985; and they had no useable night vision devices, with one ministry official conceding that the NSG was ‘as good as blind’ and ‘could only work efficiently during daylight’. When the Black Cats flew into Mumbai it was a triumph of men over machinery, chief Dutt reflected to us. (Pg. 286)

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Quoting any more would be a dis-service to the authors. Do remember there was someone in Delhi in the corridors of govt who is reported to have fed information to the ISI and who has been given the codename “Honeybee” by the authors. This Honeybee had probably relayed all the holes and weaknesses in our defences that the authors cite to the handlers of the terrorists. The authors mention the Indian media’s poor reportage and feeding terrorists only mildly. It doesn’t take a wizard to know the ISI and Pakistan were behind the attacks. Even the ‘Dehati Aurat’ knows that. The govt’s response and subsequent measures to counter terrorism doesn’t demand much to applaud. The terrorists are not only from across the border but also within our land; in sleeper cells, various govts and, particularly, in the media. Even our counter-terror policies are dictated by religion and “Sickularism” and not by security concerns for the people and the country. Nothing has been learned.

Rajdeep’s tweet was ignorant hypocrisy but he means well. He sometimes thinks better when he is off TV. He is not entirely accurate, though, when he says there are no Indian writers and researchers who write “our” story. There are some who wrote some articles claiming “revelations” about 26/11 (Like a Scumbagini from Tehelka who wrote a grand conspiracy which the rag quietly deleted later because it was as spurious as Tarun Tejpal) and there is at least one who researched very deep and came up with an answer to who was behind the whole attack on Mumbai and India. You see, the Hindus are upset that India has progressed far ahead of Pakistan. They are upset that we are still a democracy. They are upset that the Taj Hotel, an architectural beauty, is still standing. The Hindus want to destroy it all. That is what one moron called Aziz Burney tried to imply in the very Indian book “26/11 – An RSS Conspiracy”. And there is the Congress “Liar-in-Chief” Digvijaya Singh, of the Congress party, approving and releasing the book at a function. Alongside him are scumbags like Mahesh Bhatt whose son, Rahul Bhatt, was one of the bimbos exploited by David Headley.

In “The Siege” the authors narrate how Uncle Zaki (of LeT) tells the terror recruits who were to attack Mumbai how India has progressed at the cost of Muslims. How Muslims in India and Pakistan are suffering and their condition must be avenged to please Allah. That when the recruits die their faces will glow, they will have made Allah happy and they will go to paradise. Welcome to hell, this IS paradise! There have been many terror attacks since 26/11 and the Indian govt has shown no inclination whatsoever to hound and clean up terrorist sleeper cells. The Home Minister writes to CMs not to arrest Muslims. Of course, the morons will keep telling you terror has no religion. And when leaders and ordinary people withstand these terror attacks they call it a conspiracy too (Miracle at Gandhi Maidan). As long as terror sympathisers are within our land there will be a bigger 26/11 attempted. There’s nothing learned; all pain and no gain.

Intolerable Acquittals

Sometime ago Digvijaya Singh attended a grand ceremony and launched the book “26/11 An RSS Conspiracy”. Post that event the author of that silly book, Aziz Burney, had apologised in his paper for his great work of research done from some sewer in his head. Not just apologise, Burney went on “He cited a piece he wrote on December 17 last year entitled, Hafiz Sayed hamara apraadhi hai, ise hamein saunpo, (Hafiz Sayed is our enemy, hand him to us). "(The piece) does not talk about 26/11 nor links the incident with the RSS." The timing of the grand launch of that imaginary “conspiracy” was December 6, 2010 (The Babri anniversary). Before and after that dubious ceremony the Congress party members have been spinning a spurious theory of “Saffron terror” or “Hindu terror”. This was their scheme to deflect attention from the real terrorists and “balance” the whole terrorism game between Hindus and Muslims.

Hafiz Sayeed is our enemy? Actually, Hafiz ‘Saab’ found a friend in Home Minister Sushilkumar Shinde when he claimed BJP and RSS are running terror camps and bomb-making factories. When Shinde brought up “Hindu terror” again he was applauded by Hafiz. Since P. Chidambaram started off with the “saffron terror” theory in a more brazen manner our MSM was happy to latch on to that hoax and has since been hawking the theory in every instance of terrorism. The same theory applies to so-called hate speeches. If a Hindu makes an incendiary speech, that is hate speech for the media. If a Muslim does so, it’s mostly misguided youth, victimhood or even in a “juvenile” state of mind. The Muslim leaders can call for Jihad as often as they want but responding to them is a crime it seems.

After the recent blasts in Hyderabad, information was made available to media by the authorities in Hyderabad or Delhi with which they narrowed down the perpetrators to Indian Mujahideen. Of course, the media is wrong, as always, to speculate so much without solid reliable information. Our police and investigators are equally stupid in making juicy titbits available to the media before even preliminary investigations are made. CNN-IBN and Rajdeep Sardesai were no exceptions to the loud airings of these stories. They don’t want to be left behind TimesNow, do they? Now, if CNN-IBN is screaming IM then that’s the time for our Social Genius, Sagarika Ghose, to plunge to newer levels of stupidity. She’s like an oil prospector. If hole-1 doesn’t pump up any oil despite drilling right down to the centre of the earth, she nonchalantly moves on to drill another hole. She keeps on drilling till she hits new depths in stupidity. Amazing talent, I must say.

Remember what SG said about Ak Owaisi’s hate speech? She said his brother, Asad, was a gentleman. Yeah, why not! It’s a different matter that Asad too makes incendiary speeches, even from the floor of the parliament. Asad also has cases pending against him that are being prosecuted. But post the Hyderabad blasts he was the first panellist on CNN-IBN with Rajdeep. Quite naturally! He is “innocent”. But hey, that Varun Gandhi was a criminal from the day he was accused of some speech in 2009 before the general elections. All the channels, particularly NDTV and CNN-IBN, played his speech over and over again due to the election season. Some of it alleged to be “doctored” as well. The paymasters were happy.

So post-Hyderabad and connections made with IM, the Social Genius sends out another Bimboesque tweet. This time she has sound advice for the police. That part was fine but she comes up with another piece of mindless nonsense. “Don’t playact in some 9/11 movie” she says. Huh? What exactly is that supposed to mean? Playact? In some 9/11 movie? So what did happen after 9/11? Did the US agencies go around cracking down on Muslims all over the place? No! One of the first things George Bush did was to visit a mosque in Washington and proclaimed his now famous statement “Islam is a Religion of Peace”. Ever since Bush’s declaration, Islam is being referred to as “ROP” a lot more commonly; sometimes in dry humour and sarcasm. Another thing that did happen was that Sikh men were confused to be of Osama Bin Laden’s community and were attacked. One of them was killed in a revenge attack. Fortunately, for all the revenge attacks the US media didn’t come up with a “Christian terror” theory. Unfortunately, they missed Indian politicians and media morons who could have come up with that.

After 9/11 flights were grounded across the US. But far from cracking down on Muslims what the Bush govt did was to pack off Saudi nationals to protect them from attacks. This is what appeared in Michael Moore’s “Fahrenheit 9/11” too:

"After the airspace reopened, six chartered flights with 142 people, mostly Saudi Arabian nationals, departed from the United States between September 14 and 24. One flight, the so-called Bin Ladin flight, departed the United States on September 20 with 26 passengers, most of them relatives of Usama Bin Ladin." National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States, Threats and Responses in 2001, Staff Statement No. 10, The Saudi Flights.

So, far from arresting or even attacking any Muslims in the US, the Saudis and even relatives of Osama were given safe passage out of the US. So what crap is Sagarika peddling? I guess only her “Numero Uno” political analyst buys her nonsense. The US did get Osama in the end. In India, our govt tries to balance the real terror threats and acts by some imaginary “Hindu terror” and people in the media extend that campaign of lies and more lies. Our media celebs hate it if Muslims are caught in hate-speeches or acts of terror. They probably wish it were Hindus instead. They can’t even stand the acquittal of Hindus in many legal cases. If a Hindu is acquitted it’s like a criminal was allowed to go scot-free. If Muslims are arrested then their community is being victimised. This is the essence of “Sickularism”. Some channels have made hate-Hinduism their staple diet. It provides them with their ‘Haleem’ and ‘Hyderabadi Biryani’ for life; not to mention a generous dole of govt ads. After every Islamic terror attack, those good Muslims turn atheists as this chart floating on the internet will tell you. Those guys become atheists, so you have only Hindu terror.

Then again, when some were convicted in the Godhra train burning and terror case NDTV promptly announced that “63 were acquitted”. Yes indeed, those were “innocent” Muslims”. But when the courts acquitted 29 in the Naroda Patiya case of Gujarat 2002 they were “let off”. These 29 Hindus were, of course, guilty as hell and the courts had let them off and allowed them to walk free. Such injustice, eh? That’s the kind of hatred that NDTV breeds for justice and contempt for Hindus even when courts pronounced verdict. Just in case you forgot, these same channels called the Ayodhya verdict of the Allahabad High Court a “Panchayati verdict”.  

It wasn’t very different when Varun Gandhi was acquitted in the “hate speech” case of 2009 against him. Mayawati had even arrested him under the National Security Act which action was struck down by the Supreme Court. Now that VarunG has been acquitted in one of the cases, it is not really an acquittal. Our stupid courts just “let him off”. That’s what our media would have you believe. If it was NDTV in the Gujarat case, it had to be her colonial cousin in the case of Varun Gandhi to proclaim he was “let off”. You see, when it comes to Hindus or for that matter Narendra Modi, courts do not have jurisdiction. If they are pronounced guilty by the bimbos in our media then the court can only make mistakes and “let them off”. In September 2011 when the SC referred Zakia Jafri’s petition against Modi back to the lower court Sagarika was desperately wishing that the court should have at least passed some “strictures” against him. For the first time in 11 years February 28 passed without another trashing of Modi. These guys must surely be tired and must have found peaceful refuge in the Budget discussions.  

If you’re a Hindu even remotely connected to or even wrongly arrested in any criminal case then the only justice is if you are sentenced to prison, to life in prison or to death. Nothing else will do for our Hindu-hating media. Any acquittal is sheer injustice and intolerable.

CNN-IBN, IBN7 - Criminally Communal Channels

There is something about our media celebs that makes them hate anything remotely connected with Hinduism or the Hindu religion. Any symbol related to Hinduism or their spiritual leaders or Gurus is an insult to the intelligence of these elites. Of the many media outlets that frequently ridicule Hinduism, CNN-IBN and its sidekick IBN7 are channels that are undisputed leaders. Not so long ago CNN-IBN’s Sagarika Ghose ran a fraudulent live show about SriSri Ravi Shankar and his campaign against corruption. It was a case enough to ‘Sack Sagarika’. But just as in politics, nepotism prevails in the media too and she continues merrily on the channel, frequently spouting venom against Hindus, subtly on TV or more brazenly on Twitter. When the damage is done and she faces a backlash her typical response is to play victim. Here are some recent transactions by CNN-IBN’s Managing Director, Rajdeep Sardesai:

The tweet on the left was in response to many demanding coverage of the anniversary of Emergency on June 25, 2012. Now, what exactly does Emergency have to do with Babri? But unless a historic event of significance is not equated with some supposed ant-Hindu news Rajdeep’s equation is not complete. In reality, Emergency is a shame on the nation, destruction of democracy and is comparable with the tin-pot dictators of Pakistan, perhaps with Saddam Hussain, Pinochet or Idi Amin. Emergency was not an offence against any particular community. All communities paid a price. In contrast the Babri incident is one of many communal incidents in the country. If history is perspective, then Babri should be compared to Somnath and not to the Emergency. But such is the communal agenda of CNN-IBN.

On June 25 #Emergency75 trended all day on Twitter. So Rajdeep wants to know if tweeters will trend #Babri92 on December 6^.  While he actually doesn’t suggest it, it’s almost as if Babri happened as revenge for Emergency. It’s alarming that those who pass off as editors in media outlets cannot distinguish between a national tragedy and a communal incident. The number of people killed or permanently disabled during Emergency will neither be known nor be ever revealed because our current media would prefer another Emergency. They would like a censorship of all voices in the social media and would delight in peddling only the voice of the Congress and their ruling allies. The Justice Shah Commission report on the Emergency was buried and lost till recently a writer (Era Sezhiyan) put the pieces together in a book.

Here’s another tweet from the same evening. Once again Rajdeep drags Babri and Gujarat 2002 to balance Emergency and the 1984 “Riots”. Mind you, he and others in the media continue to refer to 1984 as “riots” and Gujarat 2002 as “pogrom”. Most will disagree with 1984 being termed “riots”. That was a systematic killing of ONLY Sikhs in retaliation. It wasn’t a conflict in which both Sikhs and others were killing each other. Only Sikhs were being killed by Congress cadres. Still, what’s the connection? Unless the BJP’s so-called sins are called into the debate it is unfair to talk about Emergency. All the events Rajdeep talks about happened much after Emergency and aren’t connected in anyway. This is the media’s idea of “balanced” crap!

In another tweet Rajdeep laments being called a “pseudo-secular”. Why? Because he did a programme on 1984 on its 25^th Anniversary and about Gujarat/Godhra on its 10^th Anniversary. This is where Rajdeep comes across and establishes himself as an outright LIAR. And I do call him a LIAR. For long the media had buried 1984. It is only when the media was churning out lies about Gujarat 2002 that people wondered why a similar campaign wasn’t there for 1984. What the liar Rajdeep forgets is that from the day Gujarat riots started he, in whichever channel he was, has carried out a relentless campaign almost every day against the perpetrators and particularly Narendra Modi.The anti-Gujarat shows weren't on anniversaries - those were every week, every month, every year and still continue. Such were the extent of lies that media even reported as if February 2002 had 30 days and not 28. The stories are all in the open now and probably there is as much guilt that Rajdeep feels as other media crooks for stories about Gujarat.

If Narendra Modi were a Muslim I seriously doubt any of these channels would have mentioned Gujarat beyond 2002 or 2003. If Narendra Modi were a Congressman then Gujarat2002 would have been buried by the media as they did 1984. If Narendra Modi were a Congressman he would have been awarded a Bharat Ratna, streets would be named after him, airports named after him, govt schemes would be named after him. And would you see the media protesting? Make a wild guess! This is the communal nature of Rajdeep, Sagarika and all other bimbos in our mainstream media. Hate Hindus, magnify any Hindu crime and suppress the crimes of their paymasters, particularly Congress. Of course, when challenged about being anti-Hindu Rajdeep will claim he is a proud Hindu! Why? Because he eats beef! That’s his measure.

Now, while there have been frequent accusations of CNN-IBN and IBN7 being anti-Hindu and communal here is proof if you ever needed it. The latest catch in the 26/11 is someone called Abu Jindal. Umm…  no one seems sure about his real name! He is also called Abu Jundal, Abu Hamza and new names might crop up soon. On every channel and newspaper there is only one picture of his – the one with the same expression and the same check-shirt. Wait, all except IBN7. An observant tweeter (@AwakeIndian) sent me this TV grab from the channel. 

Out of nowhere you have Abu Whatever seen wearing a Saffron Kurta. IBN7 dressed him up him in ‘Saffron’ and that colour is symbolic with Hindus. The mischief behind altering a commonly circulated image is not lost on people. Of course, the journalistic-bimbo would disagree and suggest that isn’t Saffron but ‘Orange’. AwakeIndian also points to the saffron shirt the anchor is wearing but I wouldn’t read much into that. What exactly is the motive behind photo-shopping the image of a suspected terrorist? 

This can be a good case for a criminal act under section 153A of the IPC – Creating communal disharmony, insulting the religious sentiments of a community and so on. The managing editor of IBN7, Ashutosh, is also often accused of his anti-Hindu stance. Such acts only confirm the agenda of the CNN-IBN group as a whole. So Rajdeep, Sagarika and Ashutosh and their team can flush their ‘secular’ credentials down the drain and stop any pretensions. Their tweets, their images, their misguided sense of ‘balance’ have been frequently exposed. In the case of SriSri, Sagarika claimed it was a “bug” and a genuine “mistake”. Nobody buys that anymore. As with that episode I have to repeat: It’s neither an error nor a mistake, it’s just wilful deception. The sly, subtle and deceptive anti-Hindu campaign will continue on their channels.

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The Sick Sense

Early this morning I got a call from MNS. Wait, that’s not the Raj Thackeray party. I’m talking about M. Night Shyamalan, the Hollywood film-maker. He was excitedly talking about a sequel to his famous movie ‘The Sixth Sense’. I said I could understand. Some of his recent movies haven’t done all that well so a sequel to that hit may not be a bad idea. “..but Bruce Willis is dead in that movie and the kid is Ok so what’s the sequel going to be about?” I asked him. “No, no this has nothing to do with those guys, this is about Digvijay Singh”! About Digvijay Singh? What in the world would a Hollywood director have to do with a movie about an honest politician like DS, I wondered.

MNS then explained to me that he got the hint from Anna Hazare and added that most of his movies had a bit to do with mental illness and the story of DS was an absolute fit. I asked what help he wanted from me.  “I want a title for the movie that explains the sequel and a tag line” he told me. I mentioned to him lightly that in that case he should make it about Rahul Gandhi since the Sixth Sense had a mother-son duo in the story. MNS quickly dismissed me and said there is a role of a woman, but she plays the boss of DS. He further added that Rahul had acquired the image of a ‘baby’ and his movies are for adults so he had to sacrifice the mother-son theme and settle for the woman boss and the mentally challenged subordinate. “So give me a title and a tag line by the evening” he said. The phone call ended there and left me wondering for hours how all this could have started. And how me a fake journalist can come up with a title and a tag line. But it’s rare that I get a phone call from a friend like MNS so I had promised that I’d work on it. It's hard to work out a title and even harder to beat a tag line like "I see dead people"..

I slowly started to put things together to make sense of what MNS really wanted. I realised that just today Anna Hazare, on being accused of being an RSS plant by DS, had said that DS should be in a mental asylum in Yeravada Jail. My mind went back to all those statements by DS. The mental illness issue made me talk to a psychiatrist to analyse DS from a distance and tell me how I could put things together. He did his job fairly well but I was blown apart by his fees. “Why so much”? I asked him. He explained to me that DS had multiple problems – Schizophrenia, Hallucination, OCD, Violent behaviour, Fixation with footwear…I finally asked him to stop and just send me the bill.  I could get MNS to pay for it anyway, nothing to worry.

I realised that the shrink was right, it all fitted very well. Right from tutoring his protégé to the ‘SIMI=RSS’ statement. Then there were those cases of strange phone calls that DS used to receive from people just before they were about to die. And again there was this schizophrenic instance where he launched a book called ‘26/11 an RSS conspiracy’. On the reports of the Anna Hazare statement recommending mental asylum for DS a news site reported this : “..The media pointed out to Hazare that Singh had raised questions about how his protest site in April had a painting of 'mother India' similar to the one used by the RSS to depict India”. Damn! I realised this guy sees RSS everywhere just like that kid saw dead people in the ‘Sixth Sense’. I was wondering about violent behaviour and just at the moment I found this pic on the net which showed DS kicking the would-be shoe thrower at a Congress presser. That explained a lot.

At least the shoe thing had nothing to do with RSS, I thought. But I realised what an idiot I was. I was wrong, this guy is a dream come true for MNS. I ran into another news report which reported this statement from DS: “The attack was absolutely motivated, planned and inspired by the RSS, VHP and BJP. It symbolised reactionary, communal and fascist ideology. This incident happened because the Sangh Parivar was being exposed after the admission of Aseemanand about the involvement of the RSS in terror activities..”

So everything that psychiatrist told me was true. DS was a man with all kinds of psychological disorders and I didn’t want to waste any more time on this. Last I heard there were unconfirmed reports that DS had received a phone call from MF Husain just before his heart attack to tell him the RSS was attacking him with laser rays from the sky to kill him. Enough is enough, I was thoroughly convinced that this RSS, VHP, BJP combine is the real nightmare for this country. So I called up M. Night Shyamalan in the evening to tell him what I could come up with.

I told MNS how mentally ill this DS was and the only name I could come up with for his sequel was ‘The Sick Sense’! “..And the tag line”? he asked me. “I see saffron people” I told him, OR "I call dead people.."

JuD: Jihad, N-War Solutions To Kashmir Issue

Any ‘moderate’ muslim anywhere in the world will tell you ‘Jihad’ is an ‘internal struggle’ for spiritual cleansing. I am confident that the likes of Digvijay Singh and Rahul Gandhi will agree. It’s only idiots like us who do not understand the real meaning of ‘Jihad’ and frequently stereo-type muslims.

“India has shown disappointment over the release of Hafiz Saeed, chief of Jamaat-ud-Dawa (JuD) and a suspect for masterminding 26/11 Mumbai attacks. JuD is suspected to be a front for Lashkar-e-Taiba. The release questions Pakistan’s seriousness in combating terror...Hafiz Saeed is also reported to be a co-founder of the Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT)”.  That was a news report from June 2009.

On Sunday, February 6, at a Kashmir Solidarity Day meeting Lahore, Hafiz Saeed’s speech for spiritual cleansing of Kashmir was reported as under: (From DNA)

"You (Manmohan Singh) must remember that the movement of the Kashmiri people is nearing an end and I am telling you very clearly to immediately leave Kashmir. Otherwise we are ready to start a war against you to get this at any cost," "The only solution to the Kashmir issue is jihad," said Saeed. The jihad should continue "as long as Kashmir remains under Indian occupation" and there would be "no problem" if the fighting leads to nuclear war between Pakistan and India, he contended".

Well, we need not worry much about the JuD or the LeT. We have a bigger terrorist threat at home through Hindu Terror outfits. That is what Rahul Gandhi told an American Diplomat. Hafiz Saeed also blamed India for masterminding the 26/11 attacks. He is not wrong. The Digivijay Singhs and Aziz Burneys of India have also expressed similar sentiments. It was probably an RSS conspiracy.

A few days ago I wrote a post titled ‘Egypt & The Fifth Column’. The separatists in J&K are understandable. Why should we believe that there aren’t hidden separatists in the other parts of India? The more the weakness of the UPA government and greater their attempt to cloak the real threat of Islamic Terror with strident cries of Hindu terror the more emboldened the likes of JuD and LeT are likely to feel. For long many leaders have been calling upon muslims in India to merge with the mainstream. It may have happened to some extent. But there is a certain religious intolerance among certain sections of muslims which will inevitably fall prey to the designs of JuD and LeT, if they haven’t already done.

Not surprisingly, British PM David Cameron has recently announced that multiculturalism has failed in Britain. This follows earlier such announcements by Angela Merkel of Germany. The community being responsible for this according to them is not Hindus or Jains or Sikhs. They singularly point to muslims who have proved to be against any norm of democratic and liberal society. And on cue, the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt has announced that they would like to implement the ‘Sharia’ in Egypt.

Here is a video of a Fox News interview with Imam Anjem Chowdhary. This Imam is one who deeply desires complete Islamisation of Britain and is also reported to be a Sharia Court Judge in one of Britain’s Sharia courts. A Sharia court in Britain? Yes, there are more than 80 of them. And this is the multiculturalism that David Cameron states is failing.

                           Anjem Choudhary on Fox News "..You can live under Sharia"

Let me caution you, Fox News is often cited as a right-wing conservative news channel. I have not pasted this video for a Fox News’ programme but to reflect on the views of Anjem Choudhary. And he holds out this promise in the video “...Islam is coming to your backyard...you can live under Sharia”. But when our own politicians and media tarnish many Hindu outfits as ‘right-wing’, ‘communal’ and such choice tags you have to know what they are inviting into this country through a backdoor. A veritable fifth column. If we talk about these, don’t be surprised getting labelled as ‘Racist, Bigot, Propagandist or an Islamophobhe’.

So all the mediacrooks who were tom-toming the theory that the protesters in Egypt were seeking democracy, freedom and liberty should now stop lying and realise the fact that much of the protests was fueled by the Muslim Brotherhood and their ultimate aim is Islamic rule in Egypt. Our friendly neighbour, Pakistan, is already an ‘Islamic Democracy’. The Times of India, NDTV and similar news outfits desire nothing but great peace with Pakistan. Nothing wrong with that. The only problem is Islamic rule and Democracy are not compatible. According to the Islamists, democracy is man-made and that is not acceptable to them. Therefore, their God-made laws and systems will always triumph over man- made ones. That’s a certainty.

The columns that some of our media friends write could well be ‘The fifth column’ in reality. Aziz Burney was not the only one strident with his conspiracy theories about 26/11. Digivijay Singh, A.R. Antulay are among prominent subscribers of that theory. And among the many journals that espouse such theories has to be Tehelka. Yes, the journal that employs journalists who believe in journalism and who get paid to tell the truth!

An interesting piece about Tehelka titled “Turncoat Tehelka” appears on Sandeepweb, and I produce some excerpts below:

.....Back to the fearless paper’s fearlessness, we see that Tehelka in February 2009 published an article entitled THE CURIOUS TALE OF MUMBAI TERROR by one Raveena Hansa. The full text of the article is here. An unending stream of the author’s medically-untreatable bowel movements on an overdrive, it basically says the following:

• There are unanswered questions about 26/11.
• There are doubts about who killed Hemant Karkare.
• The attack is not entirely the work of Pakistani terrorists.
• We can’t rule out the possibility of “Hindutva terrorists.”
• Pakistan is as serious about shutting down terror networks as India is.

And then inexplicably, Tehelka took down that article from its site, a fact that went by unnoticed except that the indefatigable Barbarindian detected this sleight-of-hand and posed a question to the fearless paper. The paper responded with:

@barbarindian Sorry that article wasn’t published on Tehelka. Altho, same article on Countercurrents w/ diff headline Here.

That is the fearless Tehelka denying an article it carried supporting the conspiracy theories about 26/11. One needs to be reminded that Tehelka had nearly shut down some years ago. The blog Sans Serif carries a post about how the Congress government helped restore Tehelka. Is it any surprise that such a fearless journal would need to reward the Congress with some propaganda?

The dangers of the media being corrupt and not willing to call the lies spread by several politicians or events that unfold in the nation and the world is a clear warning that propagandist media will eventually destroy every democratic value and freedom that we cherish. Hafiz Saeed and his JuD are emboldened to threaten Jihad and N-war. And on the sidelines of the current SAARC meeting our journalists are busy interviewing various people on the next move for peace with Pakistan. We need a watchdog over the media so that they do not abuse the very freedom we cherish to open the backdoors to those who wish to destroy India.