Ordinary Things to Say.(About Secularism)

I have pretty ordinary things to say. No Discoveries. Nothing Remarkable. Just limited use of common sense*

No. Terrorism doesn’t start and end with Pakistan. It’s a lot more complex than that. There is a reasonable theory that one of the motives behind the Mumbai Attacks was to divert the Pakistani Army from the Afghan borders and to create a crisis between both the nations. The terrorists hit two targets with one shot. They degraded the Indian Government, created fear among the civilians and on the larger grounds they spoiled all the diplomatic advances made by both the governments in the line of peaceful relations between the nations. AL Qaida receives funds from a lot of sources including its own illegal businesses all over the Middle East. So don’t blame Indian government for not slashing down Pakistan. Government is a lot wiser than you. I am not a congress supporter either.

Anyhow, do you know who suffers the most from a terror attack apart from the aggrieved? The ordinary Muslims. They are treated with suspicions and hatred.  India is really secular in a good sense, it never showed hatred and dominance against its Muslims or other minorities. But please don’t change this. Saying that Pakistan doesn’t treat Hindus well is not a good excuse to treat Muslims here without sense.

What the hell is Democracy when you don’t have the right to choose your religion. Make India a Dictatorship or forceful regime before trying to stop people from converting from Hinduism or any other religion (By the way, if a person is accepting cash in exchange for his religion, even that is his OWN decision). Or before telling SRK to stop making his personal comments about his business. Or before banning valentines. Or before stabbing people who want to go to pubs. Otherwise we have no right to blame the terrorists. We are one of them! And if all this is just for one thing called the vote bank, we know how that worked!

Anyhow why in the hell would you want India to be only of Hindus? Why do you want to make other people your subordinates? Is it divine according to some Veda or Bhagavad-Gita? Is that some kind of anti-poverty policy or something? I never said Muslim extremists are right. But that doesn’t make right your stupid ideologies, does it? BJP has its ideology as Hindutva even today with added flavor of “tolerant, inclusive” outlook. My comment is “Tolerate who? Are we talking about animals? And why do we ‘include’ them when they are already one of us? Why should the Musalmans in India remain silent if they want to live here. You have your rights to speak out, why shouldn’t they have their rights?”

Why do you care when someone follows some western culture? English is western. Fucking motor bikes, cars.. all that technology is western! Jeans is western! It Is quite a lifestyle now. Show me one guy in India who is not used to them? Even the priests think it’s cool. We accept jeans and cars as a part of how we live. We don’t go on cattle or horse to a vegetable market! I don’t see many ‘warriors’ wearing Dhotis to work. Then why can’t we take other practices in the same spirit of individuality and accept things as they come. So every goddamn thing you say about invasion of alien cultures doesn’t apply when it comes to you, does it?  No one is taking away your chances of survival by selling you a greeting card. In fact, no one is forcing you to buy it. Just don’t get pissed off at others buying it.

Please live your life however you want to and let others live it the same way. Not however you want to but however they want to.

When you try to argue with a “Just Hindus” enthusiast, all you get to hear is what there is in the History books written by some 60 year old following and filtering everything which went against the Hindu “Innocents”. With proofs of how cruel the other communities were to the Hindu people and statistics of how many people were killed by Muslims in Godhra or Ayodhya. I’ll never say something like that isn’t true. Thousands of Hindus were trapped and killed in rail bogeys just for the heck of it. What I say is its only half truth. The other half, if these guys dared to face, would show that there is equal cruelty on the part of the Anti-Muslims who either acted or reacted in equal evilness killing as many people in the name of God (Hindu God). How in the world would they justify their identity as an Hindu when they advocate Ahimsa which I read no where as the Hindu-Dharma.

I don’t give a thing about gods or religions. Technically I, too, am not a Hindu. Kill me.

*        I am not a Muslim or Congress supporter. Anyhow, majority of Muslims are good people and congress is secular at least in records.

 

TERRORISM – the funny side

Don’t take this in the wrong sense. I tell you, don’t take this in any sense at all!

Advantages of terrorism!!

Though the advantages do not even compete with the ravage and damage caused by terrorism, they still exist. Why else do you think the so-called superpowers still bear with the Pakistans and Al-Qaedas..

1. Economy – many people do not know that terrorism runs a parallel economy of illegal activities, smuggling and even some vital industries. If the western world were to eradicate Al-Qaeda and allied forces, which they are very capable of, the world economy would collapse in no time. Osama bin laden and co. own the major share in gum Arabic company, which exports a special gum to most of the world including America. This gum is vital in production of newspaper, cool drinks etc. Therefore, whenever you buy a newspaper or drink, you are supporting Osama!

2. Boon to the opposition – What better reason to accuse the ruling government, for the opposition, than the security to the lives of the people. I think politicians are the ones who look forward to such attacks more than the terrorists themselves do.

3. Press survives – you know how many people live in news media industry? As reporters? As anchors? As writers? In thousands..In addition, without terrorism, the whole sector would collapse virtually. It’s a fact that today terrorism is the main source out of which interesting shows or articles can be made out.. People want to watch or read interesting things. And terrorism makes news quite interesting!

4. Insurance – Earlier, the government used to introduce special tax benefits if people invested money in life insurance policies, to encourage people to take insurance cover. Now, it can comfortably withdraw all those exemptions. Because, when you are not sure whether you’ll return back home or not from that flop movie you dared to go, you sure would not hesitate taking a LIC policy ha..

5. Publicity – Anyone cared to observe the sales trend of GOKUL chat after the bombings? Its earning in lakhs day to day and now its also planning a new branch! I mean how’s that for publicity..You’ll find more people standing near gokul chat on a normal weekday evening than you’ll find in a MacDonald’s on any weekday! So, terrorism indirectly is boosting some popularity for places like that..

6. Recession – It gives us a reason to take our heads away from the economic failures and lay-offs.

7. Oneness – Nothing binds two sections of people more than a common enemy! People of Mumbai, for instance, have put their bullshit regional differences aside for as change to bring out a solution for this problem (Though they are not going to make much of a difference).

8. Security Personnel – Another economic sector booming because of terrorism. Also, causing handful employment activities to the people with fewer brains and more bodies! Again how else do you think the commandos and the special task forces get prove their efficiency if not for those incidents.

9. Self Esteem – How many of you are really born for a cause? Look their prospective - These people - the terrorists – are made to believe that they are born for one! Either a terrorist is training, hiding or in a mission, or he is already dead! Even the suicide bombers – Jihads - think that they are going to attain immortality. Damn about immortality and eternity but imagine the pride in the minds of those Mumbai terrorists minutes before they jumped into that suicidal action!