Topic started by vohsendhan (@ 202.88.138.181) on Wed Mar 6 11:25:23 .
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The Hindu fundamentalists of the upper varna are equating the Shah Bhano case with the Ayodhya issue. It is true that Rajiv Gandhi had unwittingly yielded to the pressure of the Muslim fundamentalists in overturning the splendid verdict of the Supreme Court. But, that cannot be used as a ruse by the Hindu fundamentalists to question the propriety of the court to adjudicate in the Ayodhya issue, even when the matter is sub-judice.
The Shah Bhano case decided the intra-religious issue of the Muslims. The appeasement of the Muslim fundamentalists by sabotaging the verdict did not affect the Hindus anyway. It affected only a section of the Muslims and there were and are enough Muslim thinkers who talk and work against it and will take care of it.
But, the Ayodhya issue is an inter-religious issue where the Hindu fundamentalists lay claim to the property of the Muslims in utter violation of the solemn promise given by the government in the year 1947 on the maintenance of status quo of the temples. There is no question of going into the pre-1947 events, just because the Hindu fundamentalists, with the covert and overt support of the rulers, project only the convenient historical events to usurp the property lawfully vested in Muslims. These Hindu fundamentalists do not bother to explain how and why the priesthood of the Palani temple (income-wise next only to Tirupathi in the South), which had been vested in the Sudras, had been snatched away by the upper varnas during the period of the king Tirumalai Naicker (1623-1659) of Madurai. The court case regarding certain property and rights of these Sudra priests is pending in the court for ages. No RSS or VHP is raising any voice for early verdict in this sensitive case, because it would shake the policy of apartheid perpetrated and perpetuated by the upper varnas. So, if you want to compare anything, you can compare the Shah Bhano case with this Palani temple case. For, both are dealing with intra-religious issues.
One must therefore call the bluff of the Hindu communalists who justify their atrocities by equating the Shah Bhano case with that of Ayodhya issue. Such an equation is illogical and would help foster the Hindu fundamentalism stirred up by the upper varna Hindus.
It has already, on December 6, 1992 itself, acquired the status of being classified as ‘psychological genocide’ as per the UN Convention on the Prevention of the Crime of Genocide (General Assembly Resolutions 2670 of 1948). It defines genocide as “the killing or causing serious bodily or mental harm of a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, committed with the intent to destroy such a group in whole or in part.”
Article IV of the Convention states, “Persons committing Genocide shall be punished, whether they are constitutionally responsible rulers, public officials or private individuals”. The perpetrators of genocide in 1992 are now attempting to perpetuate it. Human beings with conscience should speak up against it.
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