The BJP recently objected to the use of the phrase ‘Hindu terrorism’ in the Parliament by P.Chidambaram :
While talking about government approach towards any form of terrorism cause by any group irrespective of its religious colour, Chidambram said: “The government maintains zero tolerance for terrorism inspired by religion, may it be Islam or may it be Hindu.”
Chidambaram was immediately pointed out by BJP’s Prakash Javadekar and SS Ahluwalia and other BJP members for his repeated usage of the word of “Hindu terrorists” during his statement on internal security issue.
“When the investigation is on how could you say it would reveal the Hindu terrorists”, Javdekar asked Chidambaram over his Hindu terrorist remark.
Another BJP leader Ahluwalia questioned Chidambaram how could he generalize the entire community over an alleged act of a few individuals.
I am with the BJP on this one; I believe the correct neologism is Saffron terror. But that’s okay. We are going to take a while adjusting to such new words. It would be too obvious an irony to mention the BJP’s use of the ‘Islamic terrorism’, so I’ll skip past that.
One thing we can agree upon : if one form of terrorism is always termed religious, we have a right to call any other form that uses religion as its basis with its associated religion. Else we should agree that terrorism has no religion.
Which brings me to the oft-repeated sentence, ‘Terrorism has no religion’. I disagree. Whenever terrorism is inspired by religious ideas or in defense of a religion, it makes perfect sense to associate it with the corresponding religion. When they call themselves religious terrorists, who are we to disagree ? And let’s face it, every religion today has violent fundamentalists. Period.
The only difference in my association : I’d put together the religion, terrorism and the perpetrators in the association. That would just be fair on the innocent fellow followers.
If that is confusing, the gist is thus : We cannot decouple religion from terrorism, else we’re not looking at the larger problem.
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December 8, 2009 at 8:01 pm
allthecrap
So tomm if they call themselves with some other name you will agree with that as well?
(Its like himesh says his a good actor, who are we to disagree? heh)
These acts are not inspired by any religion..Its because ppl are misguided on the name of religion. And so are we, your observations prove that.
December 8, 2009 at 8:05 pm
Deepak Iyer
@allthecrap : Er, the correct analogy is thus :
If Himesh says he is a good actor and actually does a good job at it, who are we to disagree ?
December 8, 2009 at 8:53 pm
allthecrap
well you didn’t say that in the post?
So I think you meant :
“When they call themselves religious terrorists and are excellent at spreading there religion or protecting it, who are we to disagree ?”
So you think they are doing “good job religiously” as a muslim terrorist in pak? by killing muslims? great analogy, I must say!!
December 8, 2009 at 8:58 pm
Deepak Iyer
@allthecrap : My analogy was limited to terrorism and the act of effectively spreading terror.
As I said, the sooner we accept it is religious, the better we can address the problem. This is not the time to be politically correct.
December 8, 2009 at 10:28 pm
allthecrap
Well I don’t think my comments were diplomatic. Just for hack of it we should accept any misguided theory.
I think religion is a way of living rather than anything else. Its just a misinterpretation of religion which leads to such problems. So rather than finding a root cause of problem your post points to some superficial theory which we all are made to believe via different source; including society, media etc.
December 8, 2009 at 10:54 pm
Deepak Iyer
@allthecrap : Religion cannot be absolved of all sins here. The simple reason being — it motivates people to take offense.
December 9, 2009 at 12:58 am
allthecrap
well do u think that just happen with religion? It happens when your emotions are hurt. If someone appose my opinion on anything(food I eat, cloths I wear etc) I may take offence. Religion is just another thing.
And for that matter religion teaches tolerance.
btw your replying to selective comments so discussion is drifting away from topic
but its fine with me.
December 13, 2009 at 11:02 am
aviesena
religion or not ,it’s all conspiracy theory
who am I to disagree..
I travelled the world in seven seas
everybody’s looking for something
oooooohhh yeah..
December 30, 2009 at 5:27 pm
iqbal singh
converted christain hindu mr chidambaram or mr chidam ko bharam ho gaya kya saram ki bat ki hindu teorrism sabad ka upiyog kar rahe hai – kya chidam to adam hona hai kya ya to rajendra prachuri ki tarah uno ki post chahiye kya ya to fhir jo bhi mu me aaya bol diya italian sonia ke dabav mer akar ya to fhir gore ke kahene par chidam kya bat idam nigam sigrham gachami buddham sharanam – chidam jaban ko lagam de
January 1, 2010 at 1:35 pm
iqbal singh
hindus or aryans are never a terrorists in any way – the term terrorrism only applies dierctly to all non hindus aryans as hindus gace pannaha refuge to parsis but they all favoured europeans all the times even during our independence the parsis were appointed as a police imspector who regular beat hindus – dudh mein sakar -, but proved dudh mein gandi nali ka pani ke kide- mugals converted raped looted hindus – evil devil satanic europeans all in the name of hm did all the thugery in indian bharat lands -jains budhists also did not prove theirs human beings they say that they jains buddhists dosent like to be called as hindus what a farce by all non hindus who all got refuge in india bharat – so shri bala sahed ji is right for all hindus as an indian nation for all indian
s whether converted or as it is – all indians must re
alise to respect the views of shri bala saheb ji om