After the blast the media said ‘perhaps the first time Muslims are victims(of terrorism)‘. Well, stats talk otherwise. Of some 450 people dead in terrorist strikes in Jammu and Kashmir, more than 410 were Muslim. The percentage is more than their ethnic representation.
The Prime Minister said about Mumbai blast ‘this is an attack against India‘. He did not exactly say that after Malegaon. Instead, ‘this is an attempt to disturb the social fabric of the country‘ . Perhaps true, but it too is an attack against India.
Fake beard was found near the blast site. A few days before the blast, in a bomb blast at a Bajrang Dal activist’s home, two people died. These things don’t prove anything but does suggest. What should the police have done? They should have questioned some BD activists. They did not. Isn’t the apathy obvious? If it is still not obvious, then let me quote a local police officer- “What goes around comes around” (tonge in cheek). The dead in Malegaon were guilty of being Muslim, and then automatically qualify as guilty of terrorism or atleast supporting terrorism.
They’re only questioning some SIMI activist. It simply doesn’t get into my head, a group that has right wing agenda for Muslims, can kill Muslims in order to ‘disturb the social babric of India.’
Praful Bidwai says this is a litmus test of impartiality which the government seems to have failed already.
The 1993 blast case verdict is out. The guilty are punished. Fine. What about those who killed 2000 people before that? Are they not guilty too? Of perhaps a bigger crime? Of killing more people and starting the violence?
What about 1984 anti-Sikh rioters? What about 1992?
Where is my secular, impartial India, to which all its citizen are equal?
