Dear
Mr. Sharan,
You call it appeasement if somebody
gives a fair and unbiased statement
of what happened in Gujarat. I would
not say anything except this ishaar:
"Hum AAh bhi bharte hai to ho jate
hai badnaam
Woh Qatal bhi karte hai to charcha
nahi hota"
Last but not the least, I have a
suggestion to admin, PatnaDaily.com,
an article of this kind should not
have an space in your portal where
the motive is to unite people and
discuss the progress of our mother
land which has glorious history in
past but a poor, downtrodden
present. - Sharique A. Nezami,
Doha, Qatar - Oct. 23, 2007
Dear Mr. Nezami:
So you think it's okay to compare
Gujarat riots with Holocaust!
I don't know if you understand the
extent or the meaning of Holocaust
but let me try to put it in some
perspective:
In Holocaust (which is universally
acknowledged as Hitler's crime
against Jews during the Second World
War), approximately 6,000,000 (yes,
6 million) Jews were killed. If you
include other (non-Jew) people
killed under the Hitler regime, the
number is a staggering 9 million.
In Gujarat riot of 2002, officials
numbers put 790 Muslims and 254
Hindus dead, 223 missing and 2,548
injured. Even if you take the
unofficial number into account, it
is between 1000 and 2000. I hope you
realize this is a far cry from 6
million!
Now lets see some other numbers in
violence, genocide in some other
countries:
Saddam's poison-gas on Kurd rebels
in 1998 kills 5,000 - mostly women
and children. The Iran-Iraq war that
ensued for next 8 years took lives
of over 1 million people. So far,
according to a recent study by the
UN, an estimated 1,220,580 people
have died in the current US-Iraq
War.
Darfur situation - According to an
UN report, the conflict between the
government, other militias and the
Baggara nomads has left as many as
450,000 dead from violence and
disease.
Kosovo conflict - An estimated
10,000 ethnic Albanians and 3,000
Serbs have been killed.
The list is endless.
These numbers are not made up by me
but are available on various
credible sites on the Internet. I
suggest you look them up.
Let's try it again - 2000 deaths vs.
6,000,000 deaths and you find no
difference between them? The term
Holocaust has a special meaning in
today's political world and you sir,
are sadly oblivious to it.
While a loss of even one human life
in a communal violence or political
supremacy is one too many, please
don't try to distort history. Mr.
Sharan has rightfully called Mr.
Prime Minister's bluff which was
only meant to incite the communal
feelings for pure vote bank policy.
With a mid-term poll looming on the
Indian political horizon, such harsh
rhetoric are not unusual by Indian
politicians irrespective of their
party leanings but as responsible
citizens of India, it is our moral
duty to hold our politicians
accountable for such irresponsible
utterances.
As for Dr. Manmohan Singh being a
puppet of Sonia Gandhi, that's also
a known fact among all political
parties, including Congress, and if
you deny that then obviously you
have too much to learn about the
Indian politics. - Ashish Kumar -
Oct. 24, 2007
Dear Mr. Ashish,
Instead of counting the
death/killing to justify the
definition of holocaust, if we would
condemn the act of killing even one
innocent, it would possibly be worth
for the Indian society.
Here the question is not the count
of deceased in riots. The question
here is why we are still playing
puppet in the hand of our
politicians. Why we never come up to
stop the game of hatred. You raised
your hand defining the counts of
Holocaust. I would say you are very
correct in your definition. Bravo!
But have you ever thought; by
defining the term and the count of
holocaust you are justifying the
killings of 2000 innocents? You are
supporting the killer for the
killing of 2000 innocent lifes
intellectually? Do you think they
were not having right to live? And
what we are doing for them, nothing,
we can’t even say the killing was
wrong? The act whoever did that was
wrong, whoever supported them was
wrong.
Regards,
Sharique A. Nezam - Oct. 25, 2007
Dear Mr. Nezami:
Nice attempt to paint me as a
sympathizer of Gujarat rioters! Let
me see if I understand you
correctly: I clarified the meaning
of 'Holocaust' as it is perceived in
the modern political world and that
makes me the supporter of Gujarat
riots?
Your intellectual dishonesty is
amazing and frankly does not deserve
any reply but here it goes: According
to your definition (??) of
Holocaust, any murder/killing is a
Holocaust. A man murdered on the
streets of Bihar is a Holocaust.
9-11 was a Holocaust. After all more
than 3,000 people were killed by
Islamist terrorists on that eventful
day in New York City.
You and our honorable Prime Minister
can go on redefining the meaning of
anything and everything to suit your
own personal/political agenda, it
does not matter to the rest of the
educated world which clearly knows
what the term 'Holocaust' has come
to mean in the modern, post-World
War II period.
In your knee-jerk reaction to
support your personal belief
(whatever that may be), you
completely missed this line in my
earlier letter. Here is what I
wrote:
"While a loss of even one human
life in a communal violence or
political supremacy is one too
many..."
What part of this sentence you don't
understand Mr. Nezami?
You wrote: "...by defining the term
and the count of holocaust you are
justifying the killings of 2000
innocents? You are supporting the
killer for the killing of 2000
innocent lifes intellectually?
Oh really? I am justifying the
killings of 2000 innocent lives? Ok,
if you say so. I would only say that
either you lack the faculty required
to understand history or politics or
you are purposely being
intellectually disingenuous in order
to win an argument.
I concede. You win. I have no
intention of further playing this
game of yours
'let's-redefine-the-history' because
your mind is already made up about
the meaning of 'Holocaust'.
Regards,
Ashish Kumar -
Oct. 25, 2007
Dear Ashish and Nezami,
As far as I understand both of you
regret the killings of innocent
people in Gujarat riots. However,
when we compare this incident with a
term, definitely we need to be
cautious as even a minute difference
may have the biggest future
consequences in all the terms.
When our respected PM compared the
Gujarat killings with Holocaust,
surely his motive was not to show
the sympathy to the family of
innocent killed people but to take
political advantages and believe me,
it is not new for us. Even our
respected Railway Minister published
the Gujarat riots report just before
the Lok Sabha elections to have
sympathy votes. The list is
endless..... Since we get flown in
emotions and our so called
politicians know better than God how
to encash it for their political
gain. If our politicians really have
any regret of this incident then
instead of delivering such useless
speeches they would have helped the
family of innocent people and taken
some constructive measures not to
repeat such incidents.
I do not know when we all will
understand this fact. We should
always discourage these people and
even such thoughts and above all
blame-games. - Saurabh Kumar,
Vancouver, Canada - Oct. 27, 2007 |
