Certainly you have a point here. But I wish Cheriyatura does not end up a topic for tangential reference; it could have been provoked even otherwise sort of thoughts you expressed - I mean, without prejudice to the content of the forward you'd dismiss as joke!. It took not just many Jamia type of incidents repeatedly happen before people seemingly succeed in seeing through the evil designs of hate politics, communal profiling and so on. Viewing each incident in isolation with others will perhaps helps the perpetrators. The complicity of Kerala Police in the Cheriyathura firing is evident and acknowledging this at least in part, the Govt has already suspended four police personnel.It has also ordered a judicial enquiry ,apart from announcing a lump sum of Rs 10 lakhs to the dependents of the victims. Why do we often put the blame squarely on the secularists and spare the professional 'hate parties'? I wish people could be bit more open minded toward the track record of people like Ram Puniyani and other 'bad' secularists, before being judgmental about what they actually try to assert. I do agree that the even the higher echelons of the Kerala Police possibly along with many political leaders cutting across parties are already biased against our Muslim compatriots and they are interested in talking about terrorism in a language shrouded in communal profiling. But this is precisely why one should look beyond the parochial limits. If Kerala has become communally biased against Muslims, it is to be fundamentally seen in the light of Muslims globally being demonized by the US-Israel axis plus the Hindutwa allies here. Therefore, I wish to suggest that talking and thinking in truly in ways strengthening secularism is no joke at all! Regards, Venu
On 23 May, 11:51, aryakrishnan ramakrishnan <[email protected]> wrote: > It is a fucking joke ! at the face of the recent muslim massacre in > Cheriyathura. Feel to laugh and scream when seeing these kind of forwards in > the midst of the silence of our secular neighborhoods on what happened in > Cheriyathura. Those who compete to attach the term Muslim with terror, I > mean the media, talks of the 6 dead as 'belonging to a particular > community'. Can't it be named, when it is killing? Or are we fools, though > we live in a fascist society to think that the killings were so naive. There > are other strategies to support the silence, (which is actually justifying > of the killing) by talking of communal tension. Who gets shot behind? I > mean, repeatedly from Jamia nagar to Cheriyathura. Are we that naive to talk > of secularism in our communal state? > > Aryan > > On 5/23/09, Venugopalan K M <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > > From: ram puniyani <[email protected]> > > Date: Sat, May 23, 2009 at 9:37 AM > > Subject: [Secular Perspective] Looking forward to Peace and Justice > > Article for circulation > > To: ram puniyani <[email protected]> > > > Looking Forward to Peace and Progress --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Green Youth Movement" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/greenyouth?hl=en-GB -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
