As Islamic terrorists with guns and bombs are threatening the world, some Muslim intellectuals are in no way less harmful. Who are these intellectual Islamists?
In 2008, the Islamist terrorist organization Lashkar-e-Taiba carried out a dozen coordinated attacks in Mumbai which claimed 175 lives, leaving over 300 injured, their lives changed forever. Our intellectuals, including politicians and filmmakers, sold these attacks as an execution by the Hindu group Rashtriya Swayamseva Sang (RSS). One of the terrorists, Kasab, was planted in the scene as a Hindu, wearing a sacred thread, the Kalava, on his wrist; his arrest foiled the well-scripted plan of smearing the Hindus.
In 2015, the terrifying Kandhamal gang rape case sent tremors across West Bengal, shaking up the whole nation. A 71-year-old Syro-Malankara Catholic nun was brutally raped by unidentified men who had broken into the Ranaghat convent school, robbed the Catholic Missionary School and didn’t leave before putting the septuagenarian through unspeakable barbarity. Reactions came pouring in from all directions, and the media was livid. Islamist journalists posing as secularists were quick to blame Hindu groups. It was providential for them, as the “Hindutva party” under the leadership of Narendra Modi had just assumed power at the centre. Very deftly, they tried to brush off the fact that “law and order” was a state subject, and the state of West Bengal was being governed by the Muslim-pandering Trinamool Congress with Mamata Banerjee at the helm.
Taunting the RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat, famous journalist-cum-activist Rana Ayyub bloviated in a widely read and shared article: “No, Mohan Bhagwat these terrorists have not infiltrated from neighbouring Bangladesh. They are our very own demons indoctrinated by the hate for the haraamzadas.” Her insinuation was that this heinous crime was committed by the “Christian-hating Hindus.”
As investigations progressed, contrary to the popular journalist’s claims, six Bangladeshi infiltrators, including Nazrul Islam, Ohidul Islam, Selim Sheikh and Khaledar Rahman were arrested, prosecuted and found guilty of this crime. It took about two years for the case to conclude, and in those two years, people had lost interest and had moved on to new cases. The damage, however, had been done by Rana Ayyub, who had successfully promulgated the deceiving narrative of the Hindus, triggered by their hatred for the Christians, executing this hate crime. Their moral fibre is so frayed that they do not feel the need to tender an apology for their irresponsible commentary on a section of society.
Ayyub, a regular blogger with a famous American media house, is celebrated for her anti-Modi pieces, and infamous for her dubious pieces of fiction back home. Her famed book, Gujarat Files, which was predicated on the 2002 Gujarat riots that ensued after a Muslim mob torched the Sabarmati express, killing over 50 Hindu pilgrims, was successful in advancing the smear campaign against Narendra Modi. The book was later trashed by the Supreme Court of India for being “based upon surmises, conjectures, and suppositions”; the Court added that the book had “no evidentiary value.”
Rana Ayyub is not alone in this. In India, there is an entire ecosystem that functions in perfect lockstep to destabilize the status quo and create a pro-Islamist environment. They do it by tarnishing the image of India globally, projecting the claim that Muslims are being victimized and that Hindutva-gangs are pure evil. They cry, loudly and without civility, that they are being victimized, without caring that in most cases their claims of victimhood are flawed and factually incorrect. Their cries are loud enough for the world media to broadcast their “plight.”
A smart way of abusing the Hindu demography and going unreprimanded is to use the word “Hindutva” instead of “Hindu,” a trick these “intellectuals” employ craftily. An example of this was when the popular media figure Saba Naqvi tweeted last year, “Yatras by Hindutva groups should never have been allowed…”
But again, engendered by the inaction of the administration, members of this intelligentsia often slander the Hindus openly and face no consequences for their open and obvious hate. Bollywood scriptwriter Hussain Haidry tweeted “Hindu terrorists, Hindu terrorists, Hindu terrorists” last year. Twitter found nothing objectionable there. Recently, an activist of sorts, Sharjeel Usmani, tweeted, “A Hindu chanting ‘Jai Shri Ram’ is most likely a terrorist.” Twitter, again, found nothing going against its “community standards” there. However, despite countless riots, bombings, murders following a particular slogan, the slogan and the ones chanting it remain unassailable globally. A police complaint was lodged against Usmani, but nothing much would come of it, as India loves to handle its minorities with kid gloves. And that’s why pretentious journalists get the liberty to chant “Pakistan Zindabad”(Long live Pakistan) while complaining and cribbing that “Bharat Mata ki Jai” (Victory to Mother India) is communal and hence unacceptable.
These intellectual Islamists have made inroads into every area of modern life that shapes minds and influences thinking. Every aspect of Indian life that was once simply a part of Indian culture is now a political tool. They have taken over Bollywood. Knowing that Indians love their movies and adulate their movie stars, one can only imagine the extent of brainwashing that happens from that one domain. Further, barring a few platforms, the mainstream media – electronic, print, and digital — has long since slipped into their power. They entertain as radio jockeys and very smoothly ingrain their agenda into impressionable minds. They are ruling the marketing world as well, and so you see advertisements highlighting how a Hindu woman is lovingly accepted by a Muslim family, while Hindu children terrorize a Muslim youth on the Hindu festival of Holi. Muslim movie stars whose non-Hindu wives had converted to Islam “consensually” after marriage have the audacity to talk about the growing intolerance in the country. Unfortunately, people trust their version of the story also. India has already once been dismembered to make room for an Islamic nation. The country is edging towards another disaster, and if the government fails to overcome the temptation of becoming secular, it’s just a matter of time, and the intellectual Islamists will do what they plan to do.
CogitoErgoSum says
The most intellectual of all Muslim intellectuals will tell you that everything you need to know is in the Koran. Even Muhammad knew that …….. and he was no intellectual. He couldn’t even write.
Beneath the Veil of Consciousness says
Muslim Intellectuals is an oxymoron.
JR says
Please do not call this person an intellectual. She’s a venom-spewing Jihadi who’s hate for kafirs is astronomical.
BlackSabbath says
All these overweight islamic pseudo-intellectual women get money from gulf states to sit there and defecate daily on the heads of a billion Hindus their islamic hogwash. They have never had a real job and as long as money is flowing from the gulf states (Saudi Arabia, UAE, Qatar), they will do their media jihad and try every measure to destroy the nation so that some sort of islamic caliphate led by Turkish joker Erdogan can be established throughout India. It will never happen and countdown towards the end of islam has already begun.
Infidel says
Actually, money hasn’t been flowing from Saudi Arabia and Emirates for a while now. Probably just Qatar, and maybe Kuwait
Infidel says
I actually disagree w/ Krishna Priya here. As I mentioned in another thread another day, in India they don’t follow the US convention of only referring to practicing/devout adherents as the religion’s followers. Anybody w/ a Hindu name is considered a Hindu, regardless of whether s/he actually believes in any Hindu deity or scriptures, and atheists and agnostics are automatically counted in the Hindu population, even if many of them may be secular and communist. As a result, even the most rabid anti-Hindu politician/journalist/activist would be counted as Hindu, unless s/he was either of a different faith, or had converted out of Hinduism to something else. What makes things worse is a lot of Hindus using the term ‘Sanatan dharm’ which describes Dharmaic religions: it’s the equivalent of ‘Judeo-Christian’ here. How many people have you met who describe themselves as ‘Judeo-Christians’?
I therefore like this trend of secular activists to use the adjective ‘Hindutva’ to describe Hindu religious festivals, processions and so on: it forces Hindus to recognize, if they didn’t already, that Hindus are not one bloc, and that secular Hindus are de-facto allies of jihadists. Think about it: if someone thinks that ‘allah’ and ‘ishwar’ are one and the same, then why would they have any issues reciting the shehada or converting to islam? The reason Jews, Hindus, Christians, Buddhists, et al do not convert to islam is that they actually believe in their own deities. If people in these groups don’t think that those deities that they worship are distinct from allah, then why would they have any issues converting to islam?
Christians don’t have that issue, since in the West, and in the US in particular, Atheists, Agnostics, Marxists are never referred to as Christian. For Jews, there is the Orthodox Jew vs Reform Jew vs Liberal Jew and all those other adjectives that help separate them out. For Hindus, there is nothing: Hindus tend to harp on ‘sanatan dharma’ almost out of embarrassment at worshiping so many deities, and make the ridiculous claim that Hinduism is a monotheistic religion, instead of simply proudly worshiping their favorite deity. The last flies in the face of all Hindu scriptures – be it the Vedas, Puranas, the epics and so on: Brahma is not Vishnu is not Shiva is not Durga is not Lakshmi is not Saraswati
So Hindus need to filter out secular Hindus from Hindutva Hindus, so that they get to know their real demographic strength within India. Otherwise they’ll keep lying to themselves that they are 80% of the population, when in fact, they may just be 40%
gravenimage says
I take your point–but Rana Ayyub is not a secular Hindu (or whatever you prefer to call them)–she is Muslim.
Infidel says
I know that. But I was talking about the people on the Right, who while analyzing, count secular Hindus within their group b’cos of religion. Due to the refusal to separate secular Hindus from Hindutva Hindus. Rana Ayyub is but one activist
gravenimage says
OK, Infidel.
Halaku says
Good point. The pre-independence RSS founders who coined the word thought of Hindutva as a National attribute that distinguished all Indians from non-Indians, regardless of their religion, as long as they looked at India as their homeland, to be protected from outsiders, like the British, whom they saw as occupiers and exploiters. Today’s ruling party – BJP, adopted this word in the late 80s and early 90s when it moved away from Atal Behari Vajpayi’s “Secular, Gandhian” vision and suddenly, the till then totally sidelined party, started getting attention of the voters. The anglicised and westernised media has however, given it a twisted interpretation as “Fundamentalist Hindus”, the absurdity of the term notwithstanding, and the Muslims have latched on to the term greedily, using it as equivalent to a Jihadi or Wahhabi Islamist.
Infidel says
Under the RSS definition, would Indian muslims who consider India their home, be called Hindutva Muslims? Or Mohammediya Hindus, as former BJP leader Murli Manohar Joshi used to call them? That’s the problem with conflating India and Hinduism. The term is better used to separate secular from practicing Hindus
Halaku says
It does seem like a muddle, doesn’t it? Indians is a good enough term to describe the national aspect.
Infidel says
Precisely! Or if they are talking in Indian languages, ‘Bharatiya’. Incidentally, I reject the term ‘Hindustani’, as it seems to imply that all Indians are Hindu and speak Hindi, neither of which are true, even for those who refuse to consider muslims as Indian
gravenimage says
And the poroblem is that Muslims in India who may consider India their home are still in most cases committed to Islamizing the nation.
Infidel says
Precisely, Gravenimage
gravenimage says
The Muslim Intellectuals Who Are Decimating India with Absolute Impunity
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These thugs are not exactly “intellectuals”–but yes, this is “Jihad of the tongue” and “Jihad of the pen”, which are both terribly harmful.
Infidel says
Propagandists or spin-doctors would be more accurate
libertyORdeath says
I’m pretty sure “Islamist intellectual” is an oxymoron?
libertyORdeath says
I’m pretty sure that “Islamist intellectual” is an oxymoron.
Halaku says
A few years ago, after a string of attacks on youngsters from the North-East, in India’s metros, the westernised media was agog with stories about the racist Indians (Hindus, if you please, wink wink). The Liberal-Leftist-Secular-Muslim journalist Saba Naqvi wrote a detailed story compiling all the incidents, triumphantly concluding that Indians were racists at heart and needed to be honest with themselves. Then a reader pointed out that every single incident of the attacks had a Muslim perpetrator. Yes, every single one of them. That was the end of ‘Are Indians Racist?” stories for a long time.
gravenimage says
Yep.
Mr X says
Hindutva followers don’t consider Muslim and Christians as part of the indian( hindu ) culture.
Halaku says
That’s the current spin. However, if you look closer, some of Hindutva’s most admired icons are devout Muslims like former President APJ Abdul Kalam, freedom fighter Ashfaqulla Khan, poets Raskhan and Rahim as well as innumerable classical musicians.
Mr X says
Dr APJ Abdul Kalam was not a devout muslim. He was very much a liberal muslim. The other names you mentioned also fall into the same category. Majority of muslim don’t consider the hindutva ideology has inclusive of Muslims.
Halaku says
That begs the question as to who is a devout Muslim? Ashfaqulla Khan prayed regularly and died at the gallows reciting the Quran, but he was a committed nationalist.
Infidel says
Mr X happens to be accurate here. Rafique Zakaria and Syed Shahabbudin both wrote op-eds stating that Dr Kalam’s election to president wasn’t the same as India’s previous 2 muslim presidents, and how most of his religious and cultural practice, such as reading the Bhagwad Gita every morning, was more Hindu than islamic
I haven’t heard about the other people you listed, and always hated Indian classical music
gravenimage says
Mr X has spent most of his time here babbling against Jews. Now he appears to be intent on dividing Hindus and Christians, despite their both regularly being victimized by Muslims.
I have asked if he is actually opposed to Jihad terror, and he has never answered.
Ibrahim Khaleel. says
Who coined the term “Hindutva?” The right wingers use it proudly. When some Saffron party worker found indulging in terror activities, the right wingers started saying the terrorists have not religion. Then why she is using the term Islamic Terrorist while the term Terror and Islam are antithesis. Right who coined the terms Haram Zaday and Ram Zaday? Do you think they are the expression of love and appeasement?
gravenimage says
Then why she is using the term Islamic Terrorist while the term Terror and Islam are antithesis.
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Perhaps Ibrahim Khaleel should tell his violent coreligionists that–what about those 39,000+ Jihad terror attacks just since 9/11? Try again…
Infidel says
‘Hindutva’ was first used by the Shiv Sena in Bombay in the 80s, and started as a Marathi term. This was under the father of their current leader, who was more interested in Marathi pride than becoming the state’s chief minister. The BJP first started using it in the 90s
Haramzaday is Farsi term literally meaning ‘bastard’. I’ve never heard of the other term ‘Ram zaday’. Those are Urdu terms not often used by the Hindu right
mortimer says
What Krishna Priya is describing is the ‘JIHAD OF THE PEN’. Mohammed actually hired writer-poets to slander his critics in verses that would be recited in towns under his control.
Moreover, the hatred directed by Muslims against disbelievers is a normative, canonical teaching of Islam called ‘AL WALAA WAL BARAA’, rather than an aberration.
Since ‘AL WALAA WAL BARAA’ is such a hideously mean-spirited teaching, Muslims must disguise it, conceal it and hide it or Islam cannot be socially accepted.
Psychological projection is a STANDARD FEATURE of Islamic VERBAL JIHAD. This blame-reversal technique allows Muslim propagandists to pass off standard Islamic bigotry onto ‘the other’, while culturally appropriating ‘the other’s’ tolerance and desire for inter-faith harmony, while dissembling about ‘AL WALAA WAL BARAA’. We see this same ‘psychological projection’ in the hadiths as practiced by Mohammed.
– Dr. Muhammad Saeed Al-Qahtaani said: “Thus, it is clear that Al-Wala’ Wal-Bara calls on Muslims to “love” their fellow Muslims and HATE the non-Muslim (or Kafir).”
– from Sufi scholar Ahmad Sirhindi (1564-1624): “The honour of Islam lies in INSULTING kufr and kafirs. One who respects the kafirs dishonours the Muslims… The real purpose of levying jiziya on them is to HUMILIATE them to such an extent that they may not be able to dress well and to live in grandeur. They should constantly remain TERRIFIED and TREMBLING. It is intended to hold them under CONTEMPT and to uphold the honour and might of Islam.”
– from ibn Taymiyya, “Book of Emaan”: “… true believers show ANIMOSITY and HATRED towards disbelievers and NEVER support them.”
– K. 28:86 says: “Lend not thou support in any way to those who reject Allah’s Message.”
Halaku says
Very well explained, Mortimer. Sirhindi was fanatically opposed to Akbar the Great’s prudent efforts to tone down Islam’s hostility and make it more accepting of non-Muslims. Akbar’s great grandson Aurangzeb took Sirhindi’s fatwas to heart and ended up destroying the rich and mighty Mughal empire, with his obtuseness and zealotry.
gravenimage says
+1
3.1412 says
The “majority of Muslims” are wrong in their assumption. Hindus in general are most tolerant of other religions and by and large peace loving. People are people, their frustrations due to personal experiences may sometimes result in non-inclusive behavior but that is human reaction. The majority of Muslims on the other hand are communal or have such feelings. There is no hindu version of Jihaad and Bharat Mata ki jai is about the mother land, not Hinduism. Those who refuse to say that are traitors at heart and anti-nationals with a separatist agenda in mind. Jihaadis at heart, even if not by action. Any religious book that says that their God is the ultimate God is preaching hatred and intolerance of other religions. Practice what you want, but be true to your motherland and humanity.
Infidel says
I support Hindutva movements in India, but reject this conflation of Hinduism with India: I’m a Hindu who became a US citizen last year. Still a Hindu but no longer an Indian
OLD GUY says
Muslim intellectuals wouldn’t be Islamic followers if they were really smart. What these intellectuals really want is POWER and DOMINATION over everyone else.
Infidel says
Precisely, Gravenimage!
gravenimage says
Thanks, Infidel.