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TRI Continental Film Festival - Dona Paula, Goa, Sep 28 - Oct 2, 2007
http://www.moviesgoa.org/tricontinental/tricon.htm
For public viewing. Registration at The International Centre Goa. (Ph:
+91-832-2452805 to 10)
Online Media Partner: http://www.GOANET.org
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The swashbuckling revealation of the pseudo secularists that there is no
freedom of religion for Muslims in Goa looks like they have lost their
balance and coherence. They have mislaid their wisdom and do not know what
to say. Flabbergasted, they seems standing in the ruins of their make
believe world. They are shouting on the rooftops with choked cries in their
throats and shedding crocodile tears as sympathizers of humanity. The gloom
on their faces is loud and clear. Doleful, dejected, disconsolate, they are
unable to reconcile with the turn of events.
Ask any Goan Muslims who are co existing here for generations peacefully
with other communities if anyone has prevented them from practicing their
religion throughout their life. A stray incident in Curtorim/Chinchinim
can not be set as an paradigm for above topic unless proven in depth the
ground realities. To trace the communal tension in Savordem or Chinchnim
issue is a travesty of truth
It does not require anyone to tell that killing is inhuman in he name of
relegion. The madrassas which are funded by Jehadis and ISI are finding to
sprawl its wings in usually serene Goa. These madrassas are the breeding
ground for terrorist in the name of imparting religious education they sow
seeds of hatred towards other religions in the young minds. There is nothing
wrong if the local people are opposing this move. So do not create a divide
between Mulslims and majority community with your prejudiced views.
It is important for perverted notions of secularism for majority community
to learn. So long as Hindu politics were divided on caste and region
secularism was safe. Appeasement of Catholics communalism was a matter of
fact, conceived by cunning, corrupt Congress party to conceal their
gluttony and questioned by none without inviting the stigma of communalism.
This brand of secularism is practiced unabashedly and indeed is a passport
to secularism or to put it more appropriately, pseudo-secularism.
But there was marked indifference and insensitivity to the Hindu senti-ments
by the intelligentsia, the media especially the English dailies of Goa which
are edited by sold out Editors and sections of political leadership
styling themselves as secular. In Goa the secularism is sought to be
justified by criticizing the majority Community and its organizations.
The intransigence of the entire spectrum of political leadership is no less
callous. The Hindus are taken for granted in the name of secularism The
politicized secularism did not provide for any room for consideration of
Hindu majority which largely remained inarticulate, disorganized and lacked
the political value for the secular political leadership to take cognizance
of inspite of being in the majority, the Hindus are lacking a political
constituency in Goa.
It is not Pseudo Secularists faith in secularism as much as their concern
for the minority community vote bank and has become a defining
manifestation of anti-Hindu communalism that is packed and marketed as
secu-larism.
The selective morality has redefined secularism as a politically convenient
and expedient concept to mean maligning of majority community and
exploitation of minority vote banks.
What kind of mankind is this if one religion do not have a healthy respect
for each other. If the minorities cannot be suppressed in a democracy,
neither can the majority be subjugated. And that is the dilemma the lack
of moral leadership in Goa.
The failure to rationalize and deal with the communal monster in a detached
manner can never be a motivating factor unless the political parties give up
vote bank politics or shed anti-majoritism in the name of secularism. The
secular fundamentalism and bigotry is equally responsible for vitiating the
communal atmosphere in India. It neither combats communalism nor promotes
secularism. In fact, there is a marked reluctance to even as much as to
reprimand the minority communalism. Such is the inhibition that if at all
there is token criticism, it is unfailingly attributed to something because
of the Hindus and their organization. Secularism has come to be redefined as
anti-Hindu communalism.
We have a Government in Goa which promotes not true secularism but pseudo
secularism, not to protect the Goan welfare but to protect the political
interest of the Congress party.
Vinay Natekar
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