Kasab's Case

The ridiculing of the witnesses in the court by honible Mr. Kazmi was
a slap on the face of every citizen who has the slightest feeling for
the nation. The way in which witnesses were manipulated in the court
was clearly pathetic. Cant we see the obvious, a person with his
accomplices walks into your nation kills around 200 of your citizens
and in return our people, if they can be called so, try their heart
and sole to defend him. In the process the witnesses are manipulated
with useless details like if he knows the difference between AK-46/47,
or whether he knows what a panchnama is. Isn't it shameful. The law
should take its course but not in such shameful and disgraceful
manner. Is it not a waste of time of courts, already suffering from
huge backlogs, and public money. Wasnt this a time to send out a
strong and clear message to the terrorists in waiting that moment you
mess with the nation you would be shown no mercy. What is left right
now is a sympathy campaign by the media for the accused, showing his
son to become a doctor or the dreams of his father-sounds familiar
doesn't it-. Incident like these and people like MR. Kazmi are laying
the foundation for a society in which anyone would just walk in, kill
citizens and then be acquitted because no citizen would like to take
such a humiliation.

The "terror plot" that wasn't

The arrest of the Muslim students in England was sad but was it
totally incorrect. I don't think so. The police were just doing their
job. Can they afford another Glasgow. This primarily is the difference
between the west and India. They can not compromise national security
and the life of hundreds who would have lost their "human rights" in
case there was a real plot, however for the sake of human rights of a
few we surely can. It better to be safe than sorry. Had their been a
plot,which still could be, would the human right activists and the
media come forward and defend the policemen of U.K. , drawing
attention to the fact that they were preventing the marginalization of
a few Muslims in the country, of course in the process that had to
sacrifice our own people. We still care for appeasement more than our
security. Just as a matter of fact the media who are calling the UK
police biased, are they themselves not prejudiced in calling it a
"terror plot that wasn't" with investigation still on the way. Coming
to the Muslim population, why is it that they time and again brazenly
create a clamor that they are being discriminated against. If they
really are citizens of the countries in which they are living is it
not their duty to cooperate with the law and order authorities for the
good of hundreds of citizens of their country. Why cant they see
themselves as Indians or English before Muslims. Are they too naive to
see the fact that it is natural for them to be the prime suspect since
almost all of the terror attacks are caused by people of their
community. How can they be oblivious to it. How are they any different
from main stream terrorists if they are also contributing to the
weakening of law and order situation. It is fact that you cant please
all the people all the time which I thnk our media needs to
understand.

Judgement by Justice Katju

It might have been restricted to a small column but the judgment by
Justice Katju really exposes a reality that has been discomforting to
many of the citizens. His rejection of the plea of a muslim youth who
wanted the right to wear a beard in a catholic school where it was
barred, stating that secularism can not be stretched beyond a limit
should probe some important questions. I am and shall continue to wait
for publicity frenzy media and Human Rights Activists to storm or burn
the office of the reverent judge for discriminating, subjugating the
right and oppressing a minority. Well probably it wont happen since
the issue involves a Supreme Court Judge had it been a sessions court
it would have been fully inflated and would by now have become an
issue where mobs would have been ready to prevent the minority from
being discriminated by the tyrants of this country who do nothing but
kill the minorities, deny them houses, do not offer them jobs etc. I
am no communal extremist, I just happen to be an ordinary engineering
student but how long would the "fighters of justice " of this country
let me remain that is doubtful. I have seen and have been seeing that
every time a policy of appeasement and vote bank is followed I feel
discriminated. Every time the entire minority population is made to
believe by the media that they are being discriminated against I feel
oppressed. The more they make people feel that when they are
victimized they are a Muslim, I feel more like a Hindu. This I know
for sure is not restricted to just me. We Indians have a culture
where self incrimination. Self criticism has always been treated
Godly,"Nindak neere Rakhiye", well I really want to say that I am a
human being If someone hurts me repeatedly I get hurt I want to hurt
back and not continue in misery for the fear of being called an
oppressor. It is wrong to discriminate against someone but it is
equally wrong to discriminate against the other for the fear of
discriminating against the former. I know this wont go to the regular
but at least the people at "The Hindu" would read it.