Re: Is India turning fascist under Modi?
The point is simple - certain types of Indians avoid direct and absolute criticism of their country's malicious intolerance and pseudo secularism by needlessly shaming Pakistan as diversion. Similarly their Pakistani counterparts too avoid any direct and absolute criticism on India by needlessly thrashing Pakistan for diversion purposes. Why can't India be put on spot for its own evil deeds without insecure souls dragging Pakistan's name into it and changing the whole topic all together. Why do they do this?
Certain stupid, lame and complex ridden quarters in Pakistan also tried to dampen the Defence Day spirit because they couldn't tolerate a sense of celebration of victory against India! The agenda is unmistakable. After a while, expect Pakistanis to get sick of likes of Asma Jahangir and her ilk, and their typical turning the other cheek mentality and spinelessly apologetic behaviour where you just cannot stand sticking up for their country against growing Indian hostilities.
For your information, two Muslim youth had been brutally beaten by Indian police and told to go 'back to Pakistan' in Mumbai today. Can you condemn this barbarity in India in absolute terms without really beating around the bush about how equally monstrous Pakistan is (no it is not) to neutralise all the fascist activities in India?
That's the problem. Everyone in Pakistan pulls the 'feel good' religious cards whenever it suits them. They simply pull the religious card to play with sentimentalities. This feel good practice of dragging religion whenever it suits an agenda had caused more harm than good. All religious card pullers are as bad as each other - they all think they are doing their religion a great service. Anyway, Islamic charter of Pakistan has clear instruction on injustice and corruption too!
India'a treatment of its minorities with so called secular credentials has been far worse than Pakistan the state that deliberately tempered with religious extremism.
Read a thing or two about Barbari Masjid attack, Gujrat riots, Kashmir, Golden Temple attack, 22 Churches destroyed in Gujrat in 1997, history of attacks on Christians in the Southern States, mass Hindu conversion of Muslims and Christians by RSS. These aren't random mob taking laws in their hands - most of them are state sponsored attacks. Is Pakistan's treatment of its tiny minority really as bad India's attacks on its large minority population (one which is almost the size of Pakistan)?
So can you call India out of its vile hypocrisy without beating around the bush for Pakistan?
For me introspection comes first. Those who live in glass houses should not throw stones.
I didn't say anywhere that minorities are not facing any problems in India and the matter covered in the video require no condemnation. The reports from India are alarming. From mass conversion efforts to banning of Ghazal concert of Ghulam Ali and ink attack on organisers of launching of Qasoori's book, every act shows intolerance on part of certain fundamentalists, but still there are voices including Muslims like Naseer u din Shah, Shabana Azmi who are openly condemning such acts.
I have an issue with generalisation of all the society as a whole. I have problem with the attitude that we will get through all this and others will not be able to counter these problems as they have turned completely fascists.
Till the people like Sudheendra Kulkarni exists in India who can face fascist Shiv Sena, I don't find any justification to term whole Indian society as 'fascist'.