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> An Interesting Viewpoint

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>>By Francois Gautier

>>Is there such a thing as 'Hindu terrorism', as the arrest of Sadhvi Pragya

Singh Thakur for the Malegaon blasts may tend to prove? Well, I guess I was

asked to write this column because I am one of that rare breed of foreign

correspondents — a lover of Hindus! A born Frenchman, Catholic-educated and

non-Hindu, I do hope I'll be given some credit for my opinions, which are not

the product of my parents' ideas, my education or my atavism, but garnered from

25 years of reporting in South Asia (for Le Journal de Geneve and Le Figaro).

>>In the early 1980s, when I started freelancing in south India, doing photo

features on Kalaripayattu, the Ayyappa festival, or the Ayyanars, I slowly

realised that the genius of this country lies in its Hindu ethos, in the true

spirituality behind Hinduism. The average Hindu you meet in a million villages

possesses this simple, innate spirituality and accepts your diversity, whether

you are Christian or Muslim, Jain or Arab, French or Chinese. It is this

Hinduness that makes the Indian Christian different from, say, a French

Christian, or the Indian Muslim unlike a Saudi Muslim. I also learnt that Hindus

not only believed that the divine could manifest itself at different times,

under different names, using different scriptures (not to mention the wonderful

avatar concept, the perfect answer to 21st century religious strife) but that

they had also given refuge to persecuted minorities from across the

world—Syrian Christians, Parsis, Jews, Armenians,

and today, Tibetans.

>>In 3,500 years of existence, Hindus have never militarily invaded another

country, never tried to impose their religion on others by force or induced

conversions. You cannot find anybody less fundamentalist than a Hindu in the

world and it saddens me when I see the Indian and western press equating

terrorist groups like SIMI, which blow up innocent civilians, with ordinary,

angry Hindus who burn churches without killing anybody. We know also that most

of these communal incidents often involve persons from the same groups—often

Dalits and tribals—some of who have converted to Christianity and others not.

However reprehensible the destruction of Babri Masjid, no Muslim was killed in

the process; compare this to the 'vengeance' bombings of 1993 in Bombay, which

wiped out hundreds of innocents, mostly Hindus. Yet the Babri Masjid destruction

is often described by journalists as the more horrible act of the two. We also

remember how Sharad Pawar, when

he was chief minister of Maharashtra in 1993, lied about a bomb that was

supposed to have gone off in a Muslim locality of Bombay.

>>I have never been politically correct, but have always written what I have

discovered while reporting. Let me then be straightforward about this so-called

Hindu terror. Hindus, since the first Arab invasions, have been at the receiving

end of terrorism, whether it was by Timur, who killed 1,00,000 Hindus in a

single day in 1399, or by the Portuguese Inquisition which crucified Brahmins in

Goa. Today, Hindus are still being targeted: there were one million Hindus in

the Kashmir valley in 1900; only a few hundred remain, the rest having fled in

terror. Blasts after blasts have killed hundreds of innocent Hindus all over

India in the last four years. Hindus, the overwhelming majority community of

this country, are being made fun of, are despised, are deprived of the most

basic facilities for one of their most sacred pilgrimages in Amarnath while

their government heavily sponsors the Haj. They see their brothers and sisters

converted to Christianity

through inducements and financial traps, see a harmless 84-year-old swami and a

sadhvi brutally murdered. Their gods are blasphemed. So sometimes, enough is

enough.

>At some point, after years or even centuries of submitting like sheep to

slaughter, Hindus—whom the Mahatma once gently called cowards—erupt in

uncontrolled fury. And it hurts badly. It happened in Gujarat. It happened in

Jammu, then in Kandhamal, Mangalore, and Malegaon. It may happen again

elsewhere. What should be understood is that this is a spontaneous revolution on

the ground, by ordinary Hindus, without any planning from the political

leadership. Therefore, the BJP, instead of acting embarrassed, should not disown

those who choose other means to let their anguished voices be heard.

>There are about a billion Hindus, one in every six persons on this planet. They

form one of the most successful, law-abiding and integrated communities in the

world today. Can you call them terrorists?

>Francois Gautier

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