So she’s at it again. But this time a lot more sedate and she tries to
balance things. But given her “Miss India” solutions she invariably goofs up. Somewhere
in her article ‘Re-thinking Hindus and Muslims’ Sagarika Ghose
states: “Muslim rage and Hindu hate are feeding off each other”. Now, if you aren’t
very observant you will miss how casually those terms are used. Muslims have
rage and Hindus have hate! Sub-consciously prejudiced! Rage may or may not have
a provocation. Hate is simply born out of prejudice. So by her own logic if I
were to call SG a prejudiced Hindu hater I cannot be faulted. In the post ‘Victimhood justifies violence’ I
tried to describe how this fake sense of ‘victimhood’ is often being used by
media to justify Muslim violence. Violence that is so frequent, so easily
erupts at the drop of a hat! But when you’re employed in a barn called CNN-IBN you are probably
chosen for that exact prejudice.
On the anniversary of 9/11, in mindless violence that erupted in Egypt
and Libya the US Embassies and Consulates were burned and some were killed.
Among the dead are US Ambassador to Libya Chris
Stevens (53). He is often referred to as a friend of those who liberated Libya
from Gaddafi. Tragic! The attack on Stevens’ quarters in Benghazi is reported
to be pre-planned and executed with horrific violence. What was the motive?
Some stupid movie by a man called Sam Bacile who offended Mohammad. I guess in the world of SG that is enough
provocation to be raging. A colleague of hers thought so too, a little differently. We’ll see. But
here’s a comment (excerpt) posted on the report about Stevens’ killing and the
violence in NY Times:
FB Chicago Sep 12: I'm an
American Muslim and I say that only to ensure that these barbarians don't
represent or speak for Islam. Killing innocent people has no place in Islam,
ever. This is nothing but cold-blooded murder. Sam Bacile and his Jewish
benefactors need to be held to account. Sure, free speech is protected but
inflammatory speech has global consequences because we are a global country in
the Internet age. The Bacile video is at least as outrageous as this killing,
to Muslims. Imagine if someone called Jesus an illegitimate child, or Moses a
mass murderer…..
Haven’t you heard that crap before? Till 1 second to the attack they
were Muslims. Once the attack happened and killed people they are “not muslims”.
It is one thing to condemn the attack as the commenter rightly does. But he
follows the same stupid logic that most Mullahs in India take shelter in: “They are not muslims”. Well, if they aren’t,
who are they? And then the commenter wonders what would if happen if someone
were to lampoon Jesus. Well, there are many who do and it doesn’t lead to
violence or killing. Da Vinci Code, many spoofs and many Fiberal comedians in
the West frequently slam Jesus and Christianity. That doesn’t end up in
violence. Founding father of USA, Thomas
Jefferson is known to have stated: “Christianity
is the most perverted system that ever shone on man”. He wasn’t crucified
or the US or the Christian world didn’t erupt in violence.
In the Indian context, unless Muslim leaders own up the fact that the
people who carry out violence in the name of Islam are indeed Muslims there
will be no let up. If my brother commits a murder it would be funny to say “Till 9.00 am he was my brother but when he
committed a murder at 9.01 am, Umm.. he’s
not my brother”. The MSM in India not only doesn’t question this nonsense
but even condones it. And there are political and media morons who will either
talk about the “root cause” or dish
out the line “terrorism has no religion”.
Technically terrorism can’t have a religion but terrorists do. And Egypt and Libya were the countries that Barkha Dutt and others proclaimed as the new liberal democracies rising from the Arab Spring.
There is no denying that Sam Bacile’s movie (based on the trailer that
is available on Youtube) is absolutely stupid and not even worth reviewing. But
such stupidity can lead to such violence and killing should make the Islamists
and our media stand up and think. People like Sagarika Ghose seem to think
there is a genuine reason for Muslim ‘rage and victimhood’. Other than economic
reasons there really cannot be any reason for their sense of victimhood. Even
the economic victimhood is their own making and not of others.
The US, and most of the world, is naturally outraged at the violence
and killing following Bacile’s silly movie. The responses from President Obama and Hillary Clinton were quite measured but
stern. Obama stated that those who killed Ambassador Chris Stevens and others
will be brought to justice. This statement reflects nothing more than the
resolve of the civilised world to pursue justice. It’s not a statement of
revenge. But voila, trust a bimbo from the CNN/IBN barn to quickly read more
into that statement than there is. Smita
Sharma responds with the silliest of tweets. This is typical of the Communist Fiberals. Even a lame MMS
would have made the same statement as Obama without actually meaning it
seriously as past events in India have showed. Yet, our media morons, instead
of even remotely understanding the sentiments see rhetorical threat of “you’re
with us or them theatrics”. Shameful!
The reason why many in India, mostly Hindus and lately a Muslim
professor in Kolkatta, are angered is indeed mindless appeasement. Crimes of
Hindus are magnified and the media is unwilling to show the courage to talk
about crimes of Islamists. Hindus don’t hate Muslims. Hindus are raging against
the systematic discrimination by the state and media. More often than not it is
the ‘Minority of One’ that can upset
the balance of society. That balance in reporting by the media is totally
missing. Well, it will continue to be missing as long as we are blessed with
the stupidity of the likes of Sagarika Ghose and Smita Sharma and many more.
Nothing demonstrates the idea of balance
as simply as this video. I recommend you
patiently watch (7.31 minutes)
‘Balance’ (1989) is an Oscar
winning short animated film. Five guys on a floating platform keep balancing
it. It takes a minority of one to rock the balance. It gets so far that in the
end the one guy left cannot move without killing himself. You can read your own
meanings and draw your conclusions from this short but brilliant movie. By
the same token if the MSM doesn’t find a balance in their reporting and
coverage they will find themselves dying and unable to move. NDTV and TV Today (Headlines Today, AajTak) are now laying off workers. They
are busy balancing their manpower to save their bottom-line instead of
balancing their main business: That of
balancing reportage.




