Condemn ALL lynchings. Selective Outrage exposes Bigotry.
- In Current Affairs
- 06:37 AM, Dec 13, 2017
- Shwetank Bhushan
The horrible Rajasthan crime has kept me disturbed for last one week. The gruesome crime, in which a migrant Muslim laborer (Mohd. Ashraful alias Bhatta Sheikh) from Malda district of West Bengal was lynched and burnt alive in Rajasthan's Rajsamand district for committing "love jihad" by an accused, Shambhulal Regar.
Honestly speaking, I attempted a few times by scrolling the screen up and down, yet my eyes kept turning away, yet I could gauge the barbarity. What makes this incidence a gut-wrenching horror is that a cold-blooded murder was also shot and converted into a televised drama. Sick!
This psychopath also uploaded the video of the shocking act on the social media, in which he is heard giving "love jihad" as the reason behind the gruesome act and also says, "Jihadis, leave our country, else you will meet the same fate." The police have arrested the accused and assured stringent action against the perpetrator. The police also said that "we are trying to get the correct story" and suggested that a campaign will be undertaken to ensure that there is no encore.
The story that followed and floating around is, which the accused claimed in another video, that he killed the man to save a girl from "love jihad," and he doesn't think it was a crime.
One migrant Muslim contractor Ballu Sheikh had got into a live-in relationship with a woman in his colony about 15 years ago. After a few years, Ballu left her and began living with her 14-year-old daughter and took her to his hometown in Malda. Shambhulal, the accused, went there on her mother's request and brought her back. Shambhu also alleged that Ballu drove both the women into flesh trade and ruined their lives.
"I do not think I committed a crime. He (Afrazul) had eloped with a girl I knew since childhood of our colony. I helped in bringing her back, that is why he committed the crime of threatening to kill my entire family," Shambunath said at the Delwara police station, where he underwent intensive interrogation by Rajsamand police.
Rajasthan DGP, OP Galhotra on Thursday said that the prima facie reports cited the man seen in the video was not a 'normal human being.' It is entirely clear that there was no fear of law in the mind of the accused.
Whatever be the story behind or the state of mind of the perpetrator, it is just unconscionable. If we claim to be a civilized society, then justice for this act must be delivered decisively & swiftly, and this man needs to be hanged or be in jail for the rest of his life.
Even when someone's sister or daughter's life is ruined by design, and the crime is committed under reactionary passion that overpowered his senses, it DOES NOT make this crime less horrific, does it?
There can be no justification for such acts. NONE.
For those who selectively outrage over gruesome murders, using various excuses, is fundamentally driven by an agenda that has overpowered their conscience.
While the nation reeled in shock over the barbarity, condemned unequivocally and demanded that strictest punishment should be meted out to the psychopath, a political storm has erupted from suspected corners.
While West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee condemned the heinous murder and announced compensation, CPM’s Brinda Karat blamed "BJP-RSS ideology” for the killing.
Now that is a fraudulent bigotry. So what if the police said that so far, he has not been linked to any Hindu hardliner group and in all probability, it appears to be a case of personal enmity?
The ‘Professional Rudalis’ also woke up now because this one crime suits their ideological agenda after a stony silence on uncountable, documented murders, lynchings, mob attacks by Muslims on Hindus, also on Dalits. There had been similar gruesome incidents that escaped professional outrage despite the fact that each of them took life, brutally.
One is free to imagine that highlighting the fraudulent bigotry is any kind of justification. Which it is not.
If one is active in condemnation of one religious fundamentalism, and seen utterly silent on the barbarity of other religious fundamentalism, he/she is a fraud.
I have no qualms in saying that the religious hatred lies at the epicenter of such a crime. But the left-leaning media along with these folks wish to focus on fundamentalism as the sole domain of only one side. It is this lot that rejects the fact based on data and statistics and downplays serious issues like "love jihad" calling it a flawed idea and unnoticeably creating a victimhood complex.
There is no doubt that this psychopath is remorseless and clearly, his feelings have been aroused by passions built up against Muslims especially over love jihad, and the deranged rant in his video is only a confirmation. I also witnessed that many such demented people were also hailing the act calling this psychopath a hero. Who are these people?
A possibility that the default position by the Professional Rudalis (hate tracking with the only focus on Hindu fundamentalism), classifying each act of heinous crime into Hindu and Muslim murder, observing suitability, and then outraging selectively must have demented many by pushing victim complex, cannot be denied.
This one single Tweet is a glaring example how it riled up the entire loony left, the left-leaning media and feeding-on-crumbs ecosystem, that controls all the avenues of narrative (except social media) and indulges in professional Rudali.
If they cannot outrage on the brutal murder of their fellow journalists that does not suit their agenda, how does one expect them to outrage on similar gruesome incidents, despite each of them took life, brutally?
Two weeks ago, the bodies of a Hindu boy and a Muslim girl were recovered from Bihar’s Champaran district, brutally killed by girl’s brother Alauddin Ansari and uncles -- Gulsanovar Mian and Aamir Mian for having an affair. The professional Rudalis were having a weekend off.
A Dalit woman was gang-raped by youths (Amiruddin and Wasim) in a movie theatre, the secularism was intact then.
A pregnant Muslim woman was burnt alive by her own family for marrying a Dalit man in Karnataka.
Another girl gang-raped by a love-Jihadi and his friends. The man (Salman) used a fake identity (Rajesh) to trap the Hindu girl. It’s this downplaying of 'love-jihad' by the professional Rudalis that our law-enforcement agencies ignore the menace that is (possibly) instigating Rajasthan like violent incidents.
In another grisly incidence, a 21-year-old boy, Paresh Mesta was killed after boiling oil was poured on his head, castrated, and his head split open. He will also become another name, just a statistic in the list of Hindu activists killed for their ideology, like hundreds of Kerala Murders, calling it reprisal.
On the one hand, Chief Minister Vasundhara Raje Scindhia condemned the Rajasthan incident saying "it is deplorable, but it is laudable that police promptly arrested the accused." But the Peoples Union for Civil Liberties sought the resignation of the CM and HM Gulab Chand Kataria for failure to curb inflammatory activities against Muslims in the state.
On the other hand, there is stony silence from CM Siddharamaiah, and the Superintendent of Police declares this as "normal death." Despicable!
Why this brutality did not sting the Professional Rudalis? Is it because there were no such self-shot video clips available or was it not the right kind of dead body?
Another Hindu boy was burnt alive by Muslims in Pune. Here is the video. But the loonies kept mum. There were no prime-time debates. There was a dying declaration by the boy too.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=2&v=RpCb8EPb63U
For these professional Rudalis, the victimhood is decided on the identity of the dead body, outrage only if that suits an agenda, else, celebrate such deaths in the night.
The sole point here without mitigating the severity of the act of burning someone alive is to highlight the bigoted agendas. These left-loonies, the professional Rudalis have no ideology, but only an agenda.
We must realize that by not acknowledging their agenda, we share the collective guilt of a society that does not battle its own demons.
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