A tragic joke

Since 9/11, India which joined the vile propaganda campaign of some Western countries including American Jewish lobby in equating Muslims with fundamentalism and in creating Islamic phobia is itself a real fundamentalist state under the shadow of secularism.

Although violence against the other communities has been used by Hindu fundamentalists as a normal practice since partition, yet intensity of the anti-Muslim and anti-Christian bloodshed in the last decade coupled with the dissemination of Hindutva (Hindu nationalism) has converted the Indian secularism in a tragic joke.

Apart from the previous massacre of Muslims, more than 2500 Muslims were killed in 2002 in the BJP-ruled Indian state of Gujarat where horrible scenes of arson, mutation and rape were perpetrated by the Hindu extremists against the unarmed Muslims.

Regarding that large-scale genocide, both Human Rights Watch in 2002 and Amnesty International in 2003 charged the "Gujarat state administration" for involvement in "a massive cover-up of the state's role in the massacres" and indicated "numerous police officials-specifically ministers, high officials, Vishva Hindu Parishad, Bharatiya Janata Party and Bajrang Dal leaders as participants in the violence.

In that respect, various investigations failed in pointing out the real perpetrators as they were high officials or police officers of the Indian government. Hence, the Supreme Court of India has ordered a fresh probe on March 25, 2008, but the same will also remain inconclusive due to concealment of evidence against the culprits who are members of the political parties.