By Ubair Ul Hameed
New Delhi: Reacting to RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat’s statement prominent experts on RSS have said that RSS is trying to gain a foothold among the Muslim masses, that’s why its members are making statements that seem to be in favour of Muslims.
The reaction comes after RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat had said that the DNA of all Indians is the same and that those indulging in lynching are against Hindutva.
Reacting to Bhagwat’s statement, a former professor of Political Science at Delhi University and author of several books on Hindu Nationalism, Hindutva and the RSS, Dr. Shamsul Islam said that before talking about Muslims, RSS should talk about their agenda about the majority and the politics of the country.
While quoting an excerpt from an article from the RSS’ mouthpiece, the Organizer, which dates back to 14 August 1947 and reads “The people who have come to power by the kick of fate may give in our hands, the tricolour, but it will never be respected and owned by Hindus. The word three is in itself an evil, and a flag having three colours will certainly produce a very bad psychological effect and is injurious to a country,”
Dr. Islam said that the RSS has no agenda for the Indian nation and the organisation is against the very idea of India.
He said that the RSS stood against the constitution of India after it was drafted. “In an editorial on November 30, 1949, Organizer, the RSS rejected the constitution because it talks of equality and demanded the archaic, anti-egalitarian ‘Manusmriti’— a book that’s against Hindu women and Shudras,” he said.
While citing VD Savarkar’s book Hindutva (1923), Dr. Islam said that RSS doesn’t even consider Muslims and Christians a part of India.
“According to Savarkar, people who are fair in color and speak Sanskrit are Indians only… interestingly most RSS members will also not be a part of the Sangh’s idea of India,” he said. “Hindutva is what Mohan Bhagwat is denying.”
Dr. Islam said that he’d trust Bhagwat if he denounced Golwakalar’s books which call for a holocaust of Muslims and Christians. “…but they won’t do it, these books are the Bibles for RSS cadre,” he said.
“Bengal and Tamil Nadu elections have shown that Hindus are not falling prey to the vicious ideology and now elections are going to be held in the Hindi belt…they want Muslim votes, it’s all a gimmick,” Dr. Islam said.
“The RSS killed Mahatma Gandhi, they abused Bhagat Singh, Rajguru, Sukhdev and Bhim Rao Ambedkar when they were alive, now they eulogize them…it’s all hypocrisy,” he added.
Maulana Abdul Hameed Nomani, who wrote several books on RSS and its ideology said that Bhagwat’s statement is right but the implementation doesn’t seem to be happening anytime soon.
“We’re a free country, everyone is a part of it, nobody can exclude the existence of others from the idea of India,” he said.
Maulana Nomani said that statements like these are mere words and unless a law is formed in the country, it doesn’t make any sense. “There shouldn’t be a contradiction in precept and practice,” he said.
Earlier, Member of Parliament and chief of All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen, Assadudin Owaisi had said RSS and Hindutva ideology is responsible for radicalization of the majority community.
“I want to ask him (Mohan Bhagwat) if he has accepted that the majority community has been radicalized due to RSS & Hindutva ideology? Is RSS & Hindutva ideology not responsible for radicalization?,” Owaisi was quoted, as saying by ANI.
The National President of the Social Democratic Party of India, M.K. Faizy also criticized the RSS chief’s statement and said that the statement should be discussed as a prime agenda in RSS itself and needs its retrospection.
Faizy said that Bhagwat’s affirmation of “Don’t get trapped in the cycle of fear that Islam is in danger in India” needs to be checked in the Sangh circle itself.
“Bhagwat is well aware of Golwalkar theory of ‘Hindutwa’ which directs the Sangh members to treat Muslims as enemies and evils that need to be eliminated from the country. This ideology of RSS has been taught to Sangh members till today in its training camps, Shakhas, literature, speeches, etc. Arms training and brainwashing camps are taking place across the country by the RSS to instill Golwalkar theory in the minds of RSS workers and for its implementation,” he said in a statement.
“Even ‘Hindutwa Politics’ survives and thrives on the Golwalkar theory of communal polarization and demonization of Muslims,” Faizy added.
Hate crimes against Muslims in India have reached new heights, with reports of Muslims being assaulted, insulted, and lynched in the news almost every day.
Although, there are no official figures, at least 133 cow-related attacks were reported in India since 2012, leading to 50 deaths and more than 290 injuries, according to a FactChecker.in database.
In March 2021, the US Department of State released a report, criticizing India for violations of religious freedom; crimes involving violence and discrimination targeting members of minority groups including women based on religious affiliation or social status, etc.
Likewise, in the Freedom House report for 2021, India lost its status as ‘free’. “Political rights and civil liberties in the country have deteriorated since Narendra Modi became prime minister in 2014, with increased pressure on human rights organizations, rising intimidation of academics and journalists, and a spate of bigoted attacks, including lynchings, aimed at Muslims,” the report read.
According to the report, “The decline only accelerated after Modi’s reelection in 2019.”
The Human Rights Watch (HRW) has also accused the Indian government of adopting laws and policies that “systematically discriminate against Muslims and stigmatize critics of the government.”
No muslim is going to vote for madi anyways and these people won’t lose their support as well. So reacting to his statement is a waste of time as nothing is goin to change.
marquis de kalia aka opindia fake news peddling troll,
Being the typical Hindu extremist goo bhakt you are, you are incapable of understanding civil society and the role of a civilized and informed citizenry. Change is inevitable. Hindus think their monkey worshipping illiterate street thug terrorist messiah Modi can do no wrong….reality says otherwise. Third covid wave should be given them more reason to reconsider assuming they survive.
Chuslim pigs have problem with Jews, Buddhist, hindus, Christians, atheists everyone. This is why chuslim suars following instructions of a child rapist pig should be beaten whenever found.
wron aka lying HIndu gutter rat,
You’ve got it the other way around, Hindu sh1t eater….it’s Hindus who are incapable in living in peace with Muslims, Silhs, Christians, Buddhists and even Hindus based on caste. Hinduism is a inhuman brahmin slave cult with hundreds of millions of “gods” who raped, killed, ate each other, including incest bestiality. Your beliefs are sh1t which is why most of you are embarrassed of even reading your gutter fairy tales of hundred headed demons and blue gay spacemen, panty theives, half human half elephants and all kinds of insane mythical nonsense.
Good thing the Muslims brought civilization to your backward superstition sh1t eating savages, thats why you smelly clown rent your mothers to get money to get work visas to Muslim countries to clean our toilets. Your kind are fit to be bhangis only. Other then that, the only solution to save India is to exterminate Hindu extremists and terrorists. You won’t be missed.
Change is inevitable ??? Yeah, will see how much in 2024 !!!
Maggoty Kalia,
Slow day at the WhatsApp IT Hindu bhangi troll cell today? Whats going to happen in 2024.? Oxygen tanks for dying lindus? ..did a smelly sadhu read your palm? or are you just being delusional as usual with multiple aliases?
Yet we must take advantage of whatever positive he said and force him to work on those lines. It help our cause greatly. Dismissing it outright is professionally not the right thing to do. Make committee of around six top brains, exclude all religious people, make a fine agenda and follow up on what he said. Don’t argue with him just give him your demands to fulfill based on his commitments in his conciliatory speec🎤. Let’s not miss this chance.,Thanks 🙏