Abusaleh Shariff explodes the myth of Muslims doing better under Modi ruleCommon Muslims don’t hope punishment to Babri culprits, criticize Muslim leadership
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By TwoCircles.net,
New Delhi: Common Muslims, whether in the National Capital of New Delhi or state capital like Patna, have not taken as surprising the findings of the 17-year-old Liberhan Commission. They aren’t a bit hopeful that the guilty of Babri Masjid demolition will ever be punished. At the same time, they have no good words for the Muslim leadership for what they did during the decades-long Babri movement.
Asked to comment on the indictment of Sangh Parivar leaders in the Liberhan Commission report for the Babri Masjid demolition, Delhi and Patna Muslims said the culprits of the Babri demolition were known to all as all that happened on December 6, 1992 in Ayodhya was telecast throughout the world. Yet, the Liberhan Commission took 17 years to find out them.
On how much hopeful they are about the punishment of the culprits of the demolition indicted in the Liberhan report, an elderly Muslim in Patna said: Nothing will happen to the culprits. Like reports of other commissions in the last 60 years, this will also meet the same fate. A Delhi man in mid-thirties said: I am not sure anyone will be punished. The entire issue of a criminal case has been and will be politicized. The government was not ready to table the report but after the leak it did so unwillingly.
Asked to comment on criticism of Muslim leaders by the Liberhan Commission for “failing the community and not presenting a consensus and constant view on the dispute neither in the court nor outside,” common Muslims were evenly divided in their views about Muslim leaders.
While a Patna resident said the Commission’s comment on Muslim leaders is correct as they did not put the Muslims’ point strongly, and they just cared for their chair, another in the same city, capital of Bihar, describes the commission’s comment as wrong.
Similar division is seen in Delhi.
While an elderly Muslim in the National Capital says that to criticize Muslim leaders in this case is wrong and unjustified, a youth’s view on the issue is just opposite.
“As for criticism of the Muslim leaders, Liberhan Commission is true as Muslim leaders then did not guide the community correctly. They did not put the view of the community before the world clearly. I think there was something wrong on the part of Muslim leadership,” says the man.
(Inputs from Mudassir Rizwan in Patna and Mumtaz Alam Falahi in New Delhi)
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Why just Muslim commoners?
ALL COMMONERS have lost hope of Justice in the supposedly democratic set up! Forget about punishment to high and mighty culprits thriving under the dispensation. Not just Muslim commoners. These commoners include people misbranded as belonging to 'majority community'.
Take out the tribal populations who do not subscribe to any formally recognized religion. Take out all Dalits and "lesser caste" Hindus, who do not accept the social status assigned to them. Take out followers of Sikhism, Jainism, Buddhism and several egalitarian sects of South India. They were all founded to reject and rebel against evil traditions promoted by the tiny elite reigning over them since medieval times. They are in majority if coupled with Islam and Christianity.
In fact, so-called freedom fighters usurped power to inherit the colony from the British. They were from this elite and projected themselves as representing the majority of the population. Narasimha Rao was rightly known to be wearing Saffron loincloth under Khadi dhoti. He was not at all an aberration. Rao was only emulating his party's patriarch whose cronies collaborated in dividing the region. Agony to millions was caused only to deny equitable representation to the ‘majority’ through separate electorates.
That was at the root of Babri demolition and umpteen riots and massacres. Unless the leadership of the marginalized sections - It actually represents the majority - take the courage to call the bluff of the freedom struggle and its hypocritical heroes, deadlier demolitions and massacres can't be wished away. And, pliable judges will get lucrative whitewash assignments at public expense!
Liberhan on Muslim leadership
Yours was a good effort to let the readers have a peep into the minds of a Muslim on the street.One wishes that Muslim leadership throughout the tenure of this dispute had tried to keep on eliciting the opinions of the Muslim masses. I believe the leadership was quite disconnected from the Muslim masses and the strategies were thought out without bothering to find out what aam Muslim wants or thinks. Alas, TCN was not active earlier. Even now at this late stage TCN should play its role in course correction because even now the possibility of blood-bath can not be ruled out.
what more people expect.All
what more people expect.All the actors involved directly or indirectly in the demolition of Babri Masjid are living a life with dimnishing public respect and with no expectation of getting in power in near future.Their political demise is punishment in itself.This is natural justice which leaves no wrongdover and makes no distinction on the ground of gender or religion.
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