Revivalism Of The Eternal Religion Of Hinduism (Sanatan Dharma) Or Successful 'Islamisation' Of Savarkar's Hindutva Ideology That RSS Had Been Working On For A Century? Muzaffarnagar School Incident Where A Woman Teacher Gets A Muslim Student Beaten Up By His Hindu Classmates For Being A "Mohammadan" Mirrors India's Present Day Society
By
Ghulam Rasool Dehlvi, New Age Islam
26 August
2023
Main
Points:
1. What
happened to a poor little Muslim kid in Muzaffarnagar school is brutal,
worrisome and an out-and-out dehumanisation of Muslims in India.
2. It shows
that the hate has gone deep in our multi-religious society. From this incident,
it is not difficult to gauge the mood of the country.
3. One can
imagine what the little child has had to go through. This is a clear violation
of the children's rights to education in a safe and healthy environment.
4. Every
sensible citizen in our country would naturally speak up against this inhuman,
anti-national, dastardly and outrightly communal incident.
5. Ideologically,
it is clear that 'Hindutvavadis' and their sympathizers -- from politicians,
religious leaders, preachers and activists to school teachers -- now in India
are harbouring the radicalised Islamic mindset.
6. RSS-inspired
Hindutvavadis have studied diligently Shah Waliullah and other traditional
Muslim theologians for how dhimmis should be treated in an Islamic State. Now
they are practicing more or less the same with Muslim dhimmis in a Hindu State.
7. However, as
even top "Secular" leaders of the Congress Party publicly declare
India as Hindu State, one cannot merely blame RSS-inspired Hindutvavadis for
considering India a Hindu State.
8. Those who
still consider India a a Secular State need to get their heads examined by
experienced psychiatrists who specialise in treating hallucination.
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Photo: Patrika.com/ Principal of Neha Public school in Khubbapur
village, under the Mansoorpur police station limits in Muzaffarnagar.
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This is an
out-and-out dehumanisation of the Muslims in India! What has happened in
Muzaffarnagar school to a poor little Muslim kid is brutal and far more
worrisome than the earlier similar incidents of communal bias and violence in
different parts of the country, both recently and in the past decades.
It shows
that the hate has gone deep in our Sanatan Hindu society. Or to put it from a
'politically correct' perspective, it was already deeply seated in the society
which has now been clearly revealed by the mobs emboldened by the politicians
and fanatic religious leaders and radical preachers. That a Sanatani school
teacher ordered her Hindu students to perpetrate this communal violence against
their Muslim classmate is deeply painful and gruesome. From this incident, it
is not difficult to gauge the mood of the country -- common masses, teachers,
academicians and intellectuals and not just the politicians. One can easily
make an assumption in India now that communalism and religious bigotry have
deeply spread inside the country, which can be clearly seen from the
Muzaffarnagar school incident.
Times of
India journalist and regular columnist, Sagarika Ghose has rightly termed this
incident a sad part of the trying times we live in. "None other than a
teacher in a Muzaffarnagar school asking students to beat up a Muslim child in
class and watching as kid is slapped. Can anything be more disgraceful. There
can be no “Amrit Kaal” with so much hate in the air", she tweeted.
Until
penning down this piece, many must have seen the painful video from
Muzaffarnagar of a school child being made to stand and teacher instructing his
non-Muslim classmates to hit him hard because he was a Muslim, while at the
same time the teacher was making anti-Muslim statements. More regrettable is
that the local police has not yet taken any action and has actually worked out
a settlement with the father and school. One can imagine what the little child
has had to go through. This is a clear violation of the children's rights to
education in a safe and healthy environment. While this writer still hopes that
the teacher would be soon prosecuted, and not just dismissed, there's something
more serious to do: Action should immediately be taken by the state government
against the policemen for failing their duty.
Every
sensible citizen in our country would naturally speak up against this inhuman,
anti-national, dastardly and outrightly communal incident. However, the major
reason why I weigh in on this issue, is not just this incident but a bigger
cause of concern for the nation.
The Radical
Islamisation Of 'Hindutva'
After the
Islamic nations and Arab countries including Saudi Arabia have thrown out their
extremist, totalitarian Islamist ideology, it has unfortunately found its
shelter in India but not just among the pan-Islamist radical preachers but more
so now in their imitators: the 'Hindutvavadis' who have diligently studied
traditional Islamic theology for a
century, particularly how an Islamic State should treat its dhimmis (the second
class citizens who are in its protection). They're not at all imbued in the
true spiritual and universal values of Hinduism but rather inspired, in action
and ideology, by the radical Islamists and jihadists who are now banned in their
own countries.
It was the
radical Islamism that was at the heart of the terrorism and violent extremism
emanating from the Arab and Islamic world. Consequently, the world's top terror
groups such as ISIS, Al-Qaeda and Taliban sprang up from different Islamic
denominations. They condoned the religious legitimacy, which was already there
in the redundant and outdated Islamic theology, to dehumanise non-Muslims and
fellow Muslims alike for not subscribing to their ideology of creating an
'Islamic state'.
Ideologically,
it is clear that 'Hindutvavadis' and their sympathizers -- from politicians,
religious leaders, preachers and activists to school teachers -- now in India
are harbouring the radical Islamist mindset. They have borrowed the Takfiri
template of Islamism to distinguish between ‘true’ Indians and supposedly
‘fake’ Indians or true nationalists and anti-nationals through the prism of
biased and bogus 'religiosity'.
If this is
the road we Indians today really want to go, then doom and destruction at the
societal, communal and internal security levels are our fate for sure, in the
same way as Islamism has destroyed Pakistan.
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A Regular Columnist with Newageislam.com, Ghulam
Rasool Dehlvi is an Indo-Islamic scholar and English-Arabic-Urdu writer. He has
graduated from a leading Sufi Islamic seminary in India, and acquired Diploma
in Qur'anic sciences and a Certificate in Uloom ul Hadith from Al-Azhar
Institute of Islamic Studies. He has also participated in the 3-year “Madrasa
Discourses” program initiated by the University of Notre Dame, USA.
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