India Retold: BATLA HOUSE: HYSTERICAL REACTIONS, DIFFICULT QUESTIONS

• India Retold: BATLA HOUSE: HYSTERICAL REACTIONS, DIFFICULT QUESTIONS

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  • The NHRC has, at last, confirmed what almost everyone has known from the very beginning: the famous Batla House encounter in Delhi in which Inspector MC Sharma fell to the bullets of Indian Mujahideen terrorists, two of whom were also killed by the police, was genuine.
  • It may be recalled that immediately after the encounter took place, Muslims across the spectrum had gone more than overboard with their reactions.
  • Shabnam Hashmi had gone to the absurd and incendiary extent of charging on TV that the condition of Muslims in India was like that of Jews in Nazi Germany. The theme of alienation of Muslims was also echoed by other Muslim leaders, including the liberal Mushirul Hasan who went to the extent of getting Jamia Milia Islamia University, whose students the terrorists were, to pay for their legal expenses.
  • There were also calls by an influential lot of Muslims for instituting almost separate and exclusive criminal laws for Muslims with one of the demands being that at least one third of the raiding police force in Muslim dominated areas must be of Muslim officers. But the cake was taken by the Shahi Imam of the Jama Masjid who attended the burial of the two terrorists shot by the police, even though their parents had chosen to stay away.
  • There is little doubt that it is because of this synchronised cacophony that the Delhi government capitulated and decided not to invoke MCOCA against the terrorists of the Indian Mujahideen, despite the evidence that they had carried out bomb blasts in three Indian cities. This will strike you in the face when you learn that the same govt later used MCOCA to book five men held for the murders of journalist Soumya Vishwanathan and IT executive Jigisha Ghosh.
  • Suddenly, after the police managed to kill and nab young, educated members of the Indian Mujahideen(IM) who had been claiming responsibility for the blasts in Delhi, Jaipur and Ahmedabad, the tone of even liberal Muslims has changed. It is almost as if their gloves are finally off, now that it is no longer possible for them to keep pretending that Indian Muslims are not involved in terror attacks on innocent Indians across the country.
  • Indeed those reactions were damaging. Let us face it the truth that, as the NHRC report has also revealed, the two terrorists who escaped, were able to do so because there were two doors to the house and a crowd had gathered. This means that every Muslim living in Jamia Nagar and his uncle, including the Shahi Imam, and his aunt, including Hashmi, knew from day one that those boys were terrorists indeed. Despite that so much of noise was made. That is something which is very, very disturbing.
  • .The Jews in Europe did not create their ghettos - the state created them...In India, the Muslims have created their ghettos...
  • The Hindustan Times, for example has buried the news in a small corner. What do you think would have happened had the NHRC report said that the encounter was fake?