HOPEFULLY THEy WILL NOT ASK ME…
“Without this planning how do you think we razed the [Babri] masjid in six hours? Do you think a group of frenzied kar sevaks could have gone about it so systematically?”
- One VHP leader, boasting that engineers had been asked to identify the structure’s weak spots and volunteers trained on how best to bring it down.[1]
Though I do not hope such a situation will ever arise but what if someone comes up and asks me, “What do you think; Babri Masjid or Ram Mandir should be erected in Ayodhya?”
For, I will look at them derisively and would say, “Go play with your toys. For how does it matter whether there’s a Mandir or a Masjid, you still will not leave your hypocrisy, you still will worship stones, and you still will trample living humans under your feet. Ah! Such is your appalling condition. You call yourselves a Hindu or a Muslim, but little do you know that you are so by accident and not by choice. They are all ideologies, that is what you fail to understand. Was there some kind of stamping done on your forehead by God when you were born? No, but you still behave so rigidly. You were told, did you get me “told” and put this carefully in your head that you did not choose. Am I right or wrong? Just because you learned something initially does not mean that it was correct. Now, if someone comes up and tells you about “their” faith, “their” practices and asserts themselves to be true. I know what you will do; you will pick up a sword and behead him, instead of resorting to reason. That’s how stupid, ignorant you are, for you have lost all your intellect of reasoning and logic to parochialism. That’s why I am saying to you; just go away, for you do not deserve my attention.”
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[1] For first quote: - “India after Gandhi” by Ramachandra Guha, p640, taken obviously without permission.
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