I endorse , Niloufer Bhagwat ----- Original Message ----- From: Mahtab Alam To: nilofer bhagwat Sent: Thursday, February 21, 2013 2:43 PM Subject: For urgent endorsement: Statement on Shindhe's remarks, to be released by 3pm
Please send your endorsement to the following statement by 3pm at activist.journal...@gmail.com /mansi...@gmail.com Home Minister’s Apology: Congress’ Cowardly Capitulation to the RSS and BJP 21.02.2012 After frankly acknowledging the organizational role of the RSS and BJP in spawning terrorism in the country Home Minister Shinde has suddenly backtracked and buckled under pressure and apologized to the BJP.Mr. Shinde’s statement at Jaipur about ‘training camps of both BJP and RSS promoting Hindu terrorism’ were factually correct given the political and religious identity of those involved in the Samjhauta, Malegaon and Mecca Masjid blasts. His clubbing the term ‘ Hindu’ with ‘terrorism’ is nothing to apologise for in a country where state agencies, politicians and the media routinely refer to ‘jihadi terrorism’ without any compunctions. By making this apology Mr. Shinde has sent a dubious message to agencies investigating the activities of terrorists linked to the RSS and its associated organisations such as the Hindu Sansathan, Jai Vande Matram Kalyani Samiti and Abhinav Bharat. His apology will only serve to strengthen current prejudice and institutional bias against the minority community in terror investigations. While terror may have no religion, as Congress and BJP agree with TV anchors, ‘the fact remains that Indian police and other agencies routinely target and vilify the Muslim community whenever a terrorist attack takes place. Mr Shinde’s apology, coming as it does just days after the secret execution of Afzal Guru, another condemnable act of cowardly capitulation by the UPA government we can only wonder how far the Congress will go to adopt the fascist and communal agenda of the RSS as its very own? Manisha Sethi, JTSA Shabnam Hashmi, ANHAD Mahtab Alam, PUCL Satya Sivaraman, Public Health Activist, Delhi Mansi Sharma, Activist, Delhi -- MD. MAHTAB ALAM mdmahtaba...@gmail.com Phone:+ 91-9811209345 -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "humanrights movement" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to humanrights-movement+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to humanrights-movement@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/humanrights-movement?hl=en. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
