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)