“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
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
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
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
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:
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
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.
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!
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
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
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