Were innocent men blamed for the Mecca Masjid and Ajmer blasts? 33 min 35 sec
http://www.ndtv.com/news/videos/video_player.php?id=1224958 Barkha Dutt's panel discussion blows the shroud over the grand conspiracy to demonise Indian Muslims and charge their young and educated, who have been illegal targets of illegal phone taping, and were on a dubious list of police and other authorities all the time waiting to be picked up under draconian penal laws like MACOCA etc without giving the innocent any chance for their day in court. The fascist mindset of Indian police and secret agencies were fully supported by communal political groups, even the so-called secular Indian National Congress. The way top journalists like Parveen Swami of Hindu/Fortune publication, who was notorious in writing up prosaic accounts of harrowing accounts of supposedly 'Muslim' terrorists is shown in the NDTV video clip, now hiding behind transparent excuses seeking refuge in his own idea of what journalism is. He wants full amnesty for reporting untruth and falsehood, with the kind of passion that could only project how biased and prejudiced he had been in reporting of all such bombing incidents as the solely the work of "Muslims". Such reporters should be brought to justice for having spread falsehood and sowing division in our communities. My fervent request to all receipants of the email with the link to NDTV video clip, to kindly go through the video clip again and again and join a movement to put all such spurious 'investigative' journalists, who are in contempt, to account for their bonafide. It will be in highest standards of journalism, if the management of Hindu/Frontline, to sack Parveen Swami from their staff, if he is on their payroll and stop publishing his lies and falsehood, unless he does not blindly quote police and unknown sources and has solid proof to point fingers on otherwise innocent people who are his bete noir. He says, he is not an investigator, but then he has a responsibility to check whether the source is reliable and the facts are verifiable and not indulging in open communal bias when they arrest Muslims in a bomb blast in a Masjid and a Dargah. In the wider interest of peace, Parveen should be more vehement in publishing such reporting and should mention in each of his writing if the sources are historically communal or not and can be trusted to be secular. More than the suffering by innocent, the entire 150 million Indian Muslims are made to suffer untold stigma by the distorted reporting by the likes of Praveen Swami. They should be accountable and answerable to the entire community. Unless the guilty in media is punished with exemplary sentences, the dirty business of communalized reporting will not stop. Ghulam Muhammed, Mumbai -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "humanrights 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/humanrights-movement?hl=en.
