In my earlier post i have focused on perversely USCIRF panel report on deteriorating condition for minorities in India under proclaimed Hindu nationalist Narendra Modi . Though data compiled & provided by Delhi police although is a small sample size clearly indicates no upsurge in desecration of minority religious places under present govt as claimed ,thus indicates the mischief mongers trying to incite communal hatred in complicity with few individuals and NGOs.
Some churches were vandalized and an unfortunate savage act of rape in West Bengal was also conveniently blamed on some Hindu outfits thus deliberately questioning Modi govt's conviction for not reigning in on such outfits merely on hearsay. After thorough investigations such attacks were found to be handiwork of disgruntled Christians (Bangaluru,Mumbai,Delhi) and in one case in Agra of jilted lover,the rapists were arrested and were identified as illegal Bangladeshi vandals.
"“If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it."
-- Joseph Goebbels
What's disgusting is the despicable flaunting of fake concerns for minorities by vested groups in USA to tarnish and destabilize India through fallacious concocted stories. It's astonishing that America itself is riddled with zenith number of problems ranging from Islamophobia to racial murders of blacks in ever increasing number doesn't raise eyebrows anymore .The racial profiling of Asians is acceptable there, leading to ever increasing acts of senseless violence against minorities both linguistic and religious. Stereotyping of minorities and subsequent attack on gurdwara, mosques are not rare. There had been numerous incidents of turban hand searches of Sikhs, Muslims too are victims of profiling and are increasingly targeted by christian bigots in the name of free speech.Graduating from vandalizing Sikh places of worship in California to Wisconsin gurdwara massacre, vandalizing Hindu temples in Texas, Kent and Bothell are not isolated incidents. There are numerous incidents of mosque attacks and vandalism across USA that quoting a few would be injustice. Data related to desecration of minority sanctum sanctorum is readily available on net. Worst still the special treatment seems to be reserved for the sizable black community who are routinely murdered by Whites and law enforcers usually on trivial reasons .
"Forget Hitler - it was America that snubbed black Olympian "
Jesse Owens
From 1936 racial discrimination to present day racially motivated attacks on Black population is continuing without abatement . There are unprovoked attacks on black across all age groups ,teenagers without discrimination of gender both girls and boys are not only subjected to verbal but physical abuses too,web is filled with such videos. There's an upsurge in mindless acts of violence against all communities in USA & hatred towards compatriots seems to have been inculcated down generations, thus not even congregation of worshipers at Black Church in The Charleston, South Carolina were spared they were butchered by a 21-year-old Dylann Roof, a white man is a recent case . As recently as the 1990's, a wave of fire-bombings hit black churches routinely throughout USA. In 2013, the most recent year for which federal data is available, the FBI identified 3,563 victims of racially motivated hate crimes. Black victims constituted 66 percent of the total. 21 percent were victims of anti-white bias. 4.6 percent were victims of anti-Asian bias. And 4.5 percent were victims of anti-Native American bias. Under such horrendous track record of blatant human rights abuse and minority violence perpetrated inside USA may i ask what moral authority does USA have to preach the world at large and India in particular . "Religious intolerance in India would have shocked Gandhi as stated by Obama doesn't therefore shouldn't be taken seriously in context of India. I am however not sure what Martin Luther King, Jr. would have thought about prevailing american condition but as the great man said never accept the tyranny and injustice lying down.
It would be prudent for panelists of USCIRF to do soul searching before pointing fingers at others. It's true there are some fanatical elements in our society who try to provoke and foment trouble but the administrative and social fabric in India has withstood the test of time & is capable enough to effectively deal with such hate mongers without sermons from west.
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