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An Eye Opener from a Christian Professor - Open letter to Ms Seema Mustafa
28/08/2008 21:41:19

From: Hilda raja
Subject: Open letterto Ms Seema Mustafa
Date: Tuesday, August 26, 2008, 9:03 PM

Dear Seema Mustafa,
Allow me to introduce myself-I have been a professor in one of the elite colleges in Madras and after retirement was a Development Consultant for both National and International organizations. I have reached the biblical age of three scores and ten on the day your article was published.

Your article 'When callousness rules' (NIE 25th Aug) was partly good and did expose the callousness that we in India have to live with day in and day out but unlike the NRIs whom you mentioned, cannot leave this land of callousness because this is the only land we have and the only home we have. Your examples of this callousness from the peeing on the road to 'the soulless class which has no time for sovereignty, democracy, secularism, stability, poverty alleviation" , did echo what the ordinary citizen like me agonizes about.

But when it came to terrorism your bias surfaced. The moment police and the investigation agencies try to do their jobs the media and journalists bring out 'the other side of terror'. Is it possible for the police to straight away walk and with one look pick up the culprits? Is there any country in the world, which is as soft to terrorists than India? Even the Islamic countries there is hardly any investigation- a terrorist is simply done away with. Even hardcore terrorists have not been brought to justice in India. Thanks to the politicians' vote bank mentality. It is true that in the process innocent people will be put to hardships. But how will one eliminate the innocent without going through the procedures of investigation of the suspects, which will have both the innocent and the culprits?

The Muslim community is well knit and they live in aggregate communities. The community usually closes up and walls all investigation.

Tell me Ms Seema how will you react if across the country thousands of temples gave a call to the Hindus to congregate at a particular area. But this is exactly what happened in Kashmir when a call given was by more than a thousand mosques in Kashmir through the public address system (which is meant to proclaim the prayers) to congregate on the roads in a specific place for rallies to shout anti-Indian slogans. And pro-Pakistan slogans holding Pakistan flags. Only this country will see such scenes of betrayal by its own people. So in the whole frame- work of callousness you did not mention the treason and the betrayal of this nation.

Your article appeared on the 25th Aug and just the previous day a revered Swamiji Laksmnananda Saraswathi and his five disciples were brutally murdered in Orissa. Had they belonged to the minority community the media would have splashed the news across its front pages and the electronic media would have imaged it poignantly at the prime time as these did when a Christian nun was alleged burned by the VHP in Bargha in Orissa, but as you rightly stated the " dilution of journalistic ethics", operated to allowed the latter incident to be blurred and passed over as just another one of those killing to be forgotten.

Was it sheer callousness and 'dilution of journalistic ethics which allowed the ethnic cleansing in Kashmir to be systematically carried out with the nation and its impotent government to be just silent spectators? And look at how even you as a journalist has rushed to the defense of Shabana Azmi. With her stature and her financial power she is finding it impossible to get a house .Is she then living on the streets of Mumbai?

Why is it that when all the Muslim actors can possess posh bungalows only Shabana Azmi finds it impossible to buy a house. And you fault that no government official has tried to find out the reason and no remedial action was taken- this another example of the 'callousness' ; which you cited in your article? What about the lakhs who are sleeping by the roadside and a few who get mowed by the reckless driving of powerful persons? Should we not cite the community of the victims and the reckless drivers? That will be news. What about those who have no shelter above their heads for generations- should the government not find out the reason and take remedial action? How deftly you have come to the defense of Shaban Azmi and even accused the communal forces demanding an apology from her. This reveals your own biased mindset.

Please bear with me if I narrate to you my own experience. I have lived for 50 years in Chennai-Mahalingapuram- It was a predominately a Brahmin locality (I am a Catholic) The area today has a large number of Muslim families who have bought the houses-some have constructed flats; this was possible because the owners did not look into the religion of the buyers. But now not a single Muslim will rent out his flat/ house to a non-Muslim. One Muslim who owns 12 flats when I approached for my niece told me point blank 'we take only our people as tenants". The media usually brings out how the Muslims are denied houses- employment by non Muslims. My experience is just the opposite. Why does the media not report facts and base their articles on ground reality?

I myself had rented out a portion of upstairs to a Muslim-. After having lived for two years and when I had to dispose of my house he refused to vacate though I had given him a three months notice. He asked me to go to court. Do you think I would recommend him to prospective house owners? It would be easy for a biased journalist to report, 'Poor 'X' nobody is prepared to take him as a tenant'. And one must read this as part of the discrimination the Muslims by and large face in India.

'Poor Shabana Azmi a five times national awardee-if this is what happens to her then one can imagine what the ordinary Muslims go through' is the message. No country in the world treats its minorities as they are treated in India-with respect and equality. It is grossly unfair for the pseudo- secularists then to heap such unwarranted accusations.

Indian history records that the massacre perpetuated by the Muslims in India is unparallel, bigger than the holocaust of the Jews. If that was history then today we have the biggest number of terror victims in the world.

All religions profess that theirs is a religion of love and brotherhood. But this cannot remain as hollow proclamations by the religious leaders and so called secularists. It has to be experienced. It is in the name of religions that our country is not just a nation where "callousness rules' but where disharmony, distrust and disunity rules. Religious fundamentalist is shredding the fabric of the country. Any action has its reaction. You would agree with me that the criteria to etch the contours of a religion as fundamental are its dogmas, its tight control over its adherents and its intolerance of other religions.

I believe that it is in love and goodness of heart that one will be judged not by the religion to which one belongs.

Dr Mrs Hilda Raja,
Vadodara


S Balasundar 25/10/2008 08:18:21	Mustafa and the yellow eyed beings! Yah !! DR Hilda Raja has rightly criticised the journalist Seema Mustafa,for her biased view. Shaban or Teetsa ,Javed or Mahesh Bhatt .. who are these yellow eyed beings . Are they to be called prejudiced persons or devils advocates. Shaban started her campaign with hutment dwellers of Mumbai ,became an MP, but she is fully prejudiced. Her statement to the press regarding her inability to buy a House itself smacks of "acting deprived:and noneelse.Its a blatant lie and atmost a slogan to catch with Islam communalist. What she does is incitement to Islam Fundamentalists,who will be carrying their propaganda, all the more with securing place for the like minded idiots,who want ammunitions against majority community.1 S Balasundar, Mumbai
SeaLion 04/09/2008 00:01:25	TRAITOR HERE IS THE ACTUAL SHAME ON INDIA. THE FACE OF TURBANED INDIAN AL MALIKI AND HIS BOSS MAINO. HOW THEY CHEATED INDIAN SECURITY. JUST READ HOW INDIA HAS BEEN SOLD TO US http://www.dailypioneer.com/indexn12.asp?main_variable=front%5Fpage&file_name=story1%2Etxt&counter_img=1
SeaLion 03/09/2008 23:44:00	Prime Minister The Chaprasi in Chief is not a Sikh, both his wife and daughter (and he in private) are Converted Xtians. This Chaprasi begger when he came to India has survived because of Hindu largess. The food in his swine stomach was supplied by Hindus, when he came with a broken bowl.It is the evil, vileness of the Death cult Christianity that he states "shame on nation". ACTUALLY HE IS THE GREATEST "SHAME" ON THE NATION SELLING THE NATION TO AMERICANS FOR SOME UNNUMBERED SWISS ACCOUNT. CONGRESS SHOULD BE TAKEN ON STREETS, AND HE ACTUALLY CAN EASILY BE TRIED FOR SEDITION ON 123 ACT
Indian 30/08/2008 17:39:37	Muslims/Christians are communal "The Muslim community is well knit and they live in aggregate communities. The community usually closes up and walls all investigation" - this applies to Christian communities as well. Hindus have NO rights in Muslim/Christian majority states in India. How much more abuse do the Hindus need from the communal Abrahamic cults to wake up to reality?
KSV SUBRAMANIAN 29/08/2008 15:36:53	She is truly secular We require true secular persons like Mr. Raja to save our country. We can live peacefully without any rhetoric. No minority, no majority, no conversion, no vote bank politics based on religions and castes. Government should govern with equity and justice to all its citizens without any discrimination without talking about religions. But I don't think it is possible with the Congress. It is the most communal party in India now trying to divide the people in every possible way.
KSV SUBRAMANIAN 29/08/2008 15:04:40	At least some one from the minority to tell the truth We know reactions of minorities in Kerala when A.K. Antony tried to tell the truth. I am happy some one has shown the guts and sincerity to tell the truth. I have lived in many parts of India. I have seen Christians living among the hindu majority areas and buildings without any let or hindrance. Even at the height of the riots in Gujarat the Christians were safe. These are not concocted but the bare truths. Even harmless creatures try to protect themselves when attacked, that too repeatedly. For the last 1300 years we have been at the receiving end. On getting freedom India was divided on the basis of religion. Hindus were on the receiving end in all these years. But repeated assaults on their self, their religion, their Gods by the so called secular terrorists, Congress and their fellow travellers, communists have resulted in the resurgence of hinduism. It is the direct result of the assault on hindus. This Congress government has given the impetus with blatant pro-minority and anti-hindu agenda. Provocative statements such as the first claim on all resources should go to muslims (they were the rulers for more than 100 years and we the dhimmis) has added to the hindu resentment. The responsibility of making hindus fundamentalists (though there is nothing fundamentalistic in hindu sanatana dharma) solely rests at the doorsteps of these anti-hindu secular terrorists. It is high time there is a rethinking in the approach of the secular fundamentalists. In a democratic set up all its citizens should be treated as equal. No majority no minority. No majority rights nor any minority rights. All should enjoy equal rights. Government should leave the religious matters to the people. No government should interfere in the religious affairs of any citizen nor try to usurp the powers of the temples, trusts, institutions etc. Similarly curb all kinds of conversion activities. Let people take decision individually without any kind of inducements.
hindus unite for your survival 29/08/2008 10:31:12	boycott missionary schools if Hindus don't unite, they'll perish. go to website called christian aggression and crusade watch for truth
Observer 29/08/2008 02:55:23	Eye opener for pseudo secular politicians If all educated minority persons think this way our politicians cannot play their vote bank game anymore. The more they are appeasing the minority the more the minority get alienated from majority. Congress kept people illiterate for more than half a century after independence. The new generation is not illiterate. The politicians cannot fool people for ever. The 'WEAKEST' prime minister of India is not weak in hurting Hindu feelings. He is anti-hindu in every actions and every statements he make. Never got elected. Just a puppet in the hands of Sonia. He never uttered a word about the killing of Hindu Swami but when the people reacted he says shame on nation. Yes, it is shame on nation to let foreign money and sonia's political power used for conversion. Positions are going for the people of sonia's own community. Look at the statements like "muslims have first right for India". "sleepless nights" due arrest of a suspected muslim Indian in Australia who was cousin of a suicide bomber in Londn. Who is he to declare Hindus are second class citizen in the only Hindu majority country in the world? China and Islamic power helped maoists to change Nepal. Nothing is done against separationists in Kashmir conducting rally with Pakistan flags. Buying M.P's using money to get his secret agendas approved. Not showing any leadership but crookedness. People are getting tired or this game. The recent elections have been reflection of people's mind and BJP is getting stronger. It is time to stop this pseudo-secular policies. PM is using this incident to help conversion through financial help to those affected christians. What about the people who got killed by christian criminals? Central government is like Mugals and British in encourage conversion. Giving reservation in the name of religion is against any secular credentials. Foreign money from west and vatican is used for conversion. Financing from Pakistan and middle east is making other minority dominate over majority.

Hindu culture is not such a weak and fluffy thing as to be easily stamped out; it has lasted through something like five millenniums and is going to carry on much longer and has quite enough power to survive.

Shri Aurobindo