Revivalism Of The Eternal Religion Of Hinduism (Sanatan Dharma) Or Successful 'Islamisation' Of Savarkar's Hindutva Ideology That RSS Had Been Working On For A Century? Muzaffarnagar School Incident Where A Woman Teacher Gets A Muslim Student Beaten Up By His Hindu Classmates For Being A "Mohammadan" Mirrors India's Present Day Society

By Ghulam Rasool Dehlvi, New Age Islam 26 August 2023 Main Points: 1. What happened to a poor little Muslim kid in Muzaffarnagar school is brutal, worrisome and an out-and-out dehumanisation of Muslims in India. 2. It shows that the hate has gone deep in our multi-religious society. From this incident, it is not difficult to gauge the mood of the country. 3. One can imagine what the little child has had to go through. This is a clear violation of the children's rights to education in a safe and healthy environment. 4. Every sensible citizen in our country would naturally speak up against this inhuman, anti-national, dastardly and outrightly communal incident. 5. Ideologically, it is clear that 'Hindutvavadis' and their sympathizers -- from politicians, religious leaders, preachers and activists to school teachers -- now in India are harbouring the radicalised Islamic mindset. 6. RSS-inspired Hindutvavadis have studied diligently Shah Waliullah and other traditional Muslim theologians for how dhimmis should be treated in an Islamic State. Now they are practicing more or less the same with Muslim dhimmis in a Hindu State. 7. However, as even top "Secular" leaders of the Congress Party publicly declare India as Hindu State, one cannot merely blame RSS-inspired Hindutvavadis for considering India a Hindu State. 8. Those who still consider India a a Secular State need to get their heads examined by experienced psychiatrists who specialise in treating hallucination. ----- Photo: Patrika.com/ Principal of Neha Public school in Khubbapur village, under the Mansoorpur police station limits in Muzaffarnagar. ----- This is an out-and-out dehumanisation of the Muslims in India! What has happened in Muzaffarnagar school to a poor little Muslim kid is brutal and far more worrisome than the earlier similar incidents of communal bias and violence in different parts of the country, both recently and in the past decades. It shows that the hate has gone deep in our Sanatan Hindu society. Or to put it from a 'politically correct' perspective, it was already deeply seated in the society which has now been clearly revealed by the mobs emboldened by the politicians and fanatic religious leaders and radical preachers. That a Sanatani school teacher ordered her Hindu students to perpetrate this communal violence against their Muslim classmate is deeply painful and gruesome. From this incident, it is not difficult to gauge the mood of the country -- common masses, teachers, academicians and intellectuals and not just the politicians. One can easily make an assumption in India now that communalism and religious bigotry have deeply spread inside the country, which can be clearly seen from the Muzaffarnagar school incident. Times of India journalist and regular columnist, Sagarika Ghose has rightly termed this incident a sad part of the trying times we live in. "None other than a teacher in a Muzaffarnagar school asking students to beat up a Muslim child in class and watching as kid is slapped. Can anything be more disgraceful. There can be no “Amrit Kaal” with so much hate in the air", she tweeted. Until penning down this piece, many must have seen the painful video from Muzaffarnagar of a school child being made to stand and teacher instructing his non-Muslim classmates to hit him hard because he was a Muslim, while at the same time the teacher was making anti-Muslim statements. More regrettable is that the local police has not yet taken any action and has actually worked out a settlement with the father and school. One can imagine what the little child has had to go through. This is a clear violation of the children's rights to education in a safe and healthy environment. While this writer still hopes that the teacher would be soon prosecuted, and not just dismissed, there's something more serious to do: Action should immediately be taken by the state government against the policemen for failing their duty. Every sensible citizen in our country would naturally speak up against this inhuman, anti-national, dastardly and outrightly communal incident. However, the major reason why I weigh in on this issue, is not just this incident but a bigger cause of concern for the nation. The Radical Islamisation Of 'Hindutva' After the Islamic nations and Arab countries including Saudi Arabia have thrown out their extremist, totalitarian Islamist ideology, it has unfortunately found its shelter in India but not just among the pan-Islamist radical preachers but more so now in their imitators: the 'Hindutvavadis' who have diligently studied traditional Islamic theology for a century, particularly how an Islamic State should treat its dhimmis (the second class citizens who are in its protection). They're not at all imbued in the true spiritual and universal values of Hinduism but rather inspired, in action and ideology, by the radical Islamists and jihadists who are now banned in their own countries. It was the radical Islamism that was at the heart of the terrorism and violent extremism emanating from the Arab and Islamic world. Consequently, the world's top terror groups such as ISIS, Al-Qaeda and Taliban sprang up from different Islamic denominations. They condoned the religious legitimacy, which was already there in the redundant and outdated Islamic theology, to dehumanise non-Muslims and fellow Muslims alike for not subscribing to their ideology of creating an 'Islamic state'. Ideologically, it is clear that 'Hindutvavadis' and their sympathizers -- from politicians, religious leaders, preachers and activists to school teachers -- now in India are harbouring the radical Islamist mindset. They have borrowed the Takfiri template of Islamism to distinguish between ‘true’ Indians and supposedly ‘fake’ Indians or true nationalists and anti-nationals through the prism of biased and bogus 'religiosity'. If this is the road we Indians today really want to go, then doom and destruction at the societal, communal and internal security levels are our fate for sure, in the same way as Islamism has destroyed Pakistan. ------ A Regular Columnist with Newageislam.com, Ghulam Rasool Dehlvi is an Indo-Islamic scholar and English-Arabic-Urdu writer. He has graduated from a leading Sufi Islamic seminary in India, and acquired Diploma in Qur'anic sciences and a Certificate in Uloom ul Hadith from Al-Azhar Institute of Islamic Studies. He has also participated in the 3-year “Madrasa Discourses” program initiated by the University of Notre Dame, USA. 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