Saturday, December 8, 2007

TIME TO THROW OUT THE COMMUNalISTS FROM BENGAL

“Communal forces are bent on establishing that Ram built a bridge across the sea…Ram is a mythological character… A large number of Muslim traders, big and small, have fled Gujarat”.

These words of West Bengal Chief Minister on December 06, 2007, are the latest in a series of acts of blatantly communal ‘atonements’ to ensure that the CPI(M) gets its Muslim vote bank back after its cadre went on a killing spree in Muslim majority Nandigram in November. The resultant violent backlash in Kolkata by an obscure Muslim fundamentalist organisation has made the CM quite shamelessly play communal politics of the worst kind.

Buddhadev’s first communal atonement was the overnight banishment of fugitive Bangladesh author Taslima Nasreen from the state, as demanded by a few Muslim fundamentalists. The next was his ‘regret’ for his earlier ‘tit for tat’ statement in support of the murders CPI(M) goons instigated by him had committed in Nandigram. And now this shedding of tears for Muslims in Gujarat, hyphenated with an assault on almost the very foundation of Hindu religion.

If Ram is fictional, then the Dasavatars of Vishnu and indeed Vishnu Himself are fictional. If Vishnu is a mythological character, then, if anyone in the CPI(M) has read at least the Durga Saptashati, Durga, the presiding deity of the Hindus of Bengal, is even more fictional, as is Kali.

In other words, the Chief Minister of West Bengal is telling all the Hindus of his state, indeed the world, that they are a bunch of brainless idiots who are engaged in the worship of false and fictional Gods. Chaitanya Mahaprabu, Ramakrishna Parmahansa, Swami Vivekananda and all other spiritual leaders of Bengal, were also, if the CM's logic is correct, nothing but communalists bent on falsely establishing the many miraculous acts of various Hindu Gods and Goddesses, including Durga and the avatars of Vishnu.

Even fundamentalists of other religions whose believe this to be true about religions other than their own would not have dared to make such an incendiary statement publicly.

If this is not communalism and blasphemy of the worst kind, then nothing is.

Buddhadev cannot hide himself behind the shelter of Tagore to justify his blasphemous words. Many scriptures and people have said many unpleasant things about other religions. Will Buddhadev, for example, dare ever to speak about Muslims quoting Swami Vivekananda, or about Jesus Christ citing the Holy Quran?

After the CPI(M) cadres had let loose their rein of terror in Nandigram, I had written highlighting the shocking fact that communists had globally killed more people in the last century than were killed in all the wars combined. Nandigram was no aberration to that totally intolerant and vicious violence that the communist ideology had given rise to everywhere.

Unfortunately for the new ‘Stalin’ of West Bengal, power is not absolute here and staying in power means having to get votes. That realization has generated the next set of disgraceful actions, the latest being this naked and shameless frontal assault on the faith and belief of a billion people of this country.

It is time for the proud intellectuals of West Bengal to recognize that the communists of their state are actually communalists who have caused incalculable damage to the state, which was once a leading state of the country on almost all parameters. They would also do well to realise that in their eagerness to appear liberal and tolerant, the people of Bengal have so far perhaps erred in guiltily associating communalism with the majority community alone.

The actions of the Communalist Party of India (Marxist) and its deceptively smiling leader in the recent past have exposed one more dangerous side of atheist communists, not seen elsewhere in the world. No society which prides itself on its intellectual prowess and boasts of a galaxy of literary and social-reformer giants can afford to let itself be ruled by such a despicable lot of tyrants who do not think twice before jumping into bed with religious fundamentalists and insulting their own culture and religion shamelessly.

It is time the people of Bengal threw these communalists out from their state.

5 comments:

Georg said...

Hallo Vinod,

To say that communists are atheists is not quite correct because it is a religion. They have even Gods and give homage to them.

Big number One God was old Charlie Marx, born in Trier/Germany. Many true believers go there and feel spiritually rewarded.

Lesser Gods - but still godlike and thus making no mistakes - are chaps called Lenin, warty Mao with his steering rod, or Trotzki who gave rise to a sect called heretical by other true believers.

And last not least, the God of multitude should not be forgotten, the workers class. A bit astonishing is the fact that you can find commies in places where there are not workers, like in Nepal or Kurdistan. But even that can be explained away in true religious manner, facts no object.

Georg

Anonymous said...

Communists are just like the characters in the book , The animal farm. And in any case, only a amalgamation of "isms " have produced something good for mankind.

Vinod_Sharma said...

As far as I know, Indian commies are a class apart. Though they talk of all their Gods starting from the German author of Das Kapital down to the discarded Chinese god Mao, in their closet, they still hide photographs and idols of their ancestral Gods. But, like all good commies, they actually worship only absolute power!

Georg said...

Hallo Sharma, good morning,

Just finished reading "a letter to the publisher" in Newsweek talking about the Communists in India.

There he says it could very well be that the Indian commies par paid by China to wreck havoc and hold you back as long as possible.

Georg

Vinod_Sharma said...

Hi Georg,

I don't know whether our commies are paid by the Chinese. But the apprehensions in this regard are not misplaced! They certainly are intent on sticking to the failed and discarded type of communism that China dumped more than two decades ago. Our commies are either blind to the fantastic progress made by China after that or are intent on ensuring that India does not catch up with them.

wd