7th Rangers: The dark side of Gujarat 2002 propaganda: How it is used for conversion to Islam and why Muslim students screening the documentary should raise red flags
Fighting Seventh
The Fighting Rangers On War, Politics and Burning Issues
Rudyard Kipling"
“When you're left wounded on Afganistan's plains and
the women come out to cut up what remains, Just roll to your rifle
and blow out your brains,
And go to your God like a soldier”
General Douglas MacArthur"
“We are not retreating. We are advancing in another direction.”
“It is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it.” “Old soldiers never die; they just fade away.
“The soldier, above all other people, prays for peace, for he must suffer and be the deepest wounds and scars of war.”
“May God have mercy upon my enemies, because I won't .” “The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
“Nobody ever defended, there is only attack and attack and attack some more.
“It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather we should thank God that such men lived.
The Soldier stood and faced God
Which must always come to pass
He hoped his shoes were shining
Just as bright as his brass
"Step forward you Soldier,
How shall I deal with you?
Have you always turned the other cheek?
To My Church have you been true?"
"No, Lord, I guess I ain't
Because those of us who carry guns
Can't always be a saint."
I've had to work on Sundays
And at times my talk was tough,
And sometimes I've been violent,
Because the world is awfully rough.
But, I never took a penny
That wasn't mine to keep.
Though I worked a lot of overtime
When the bills got just too steep,
The Soldier squared his shoulders and said
And I never passed a cry for help
Though at times I shook with fear,
And sometimes, God forgive me,
I've wept unmanly tears.
I know I don't deserve a place
Among the people here.
They never wanted me around
Except to calm their fears.
If you've a place for me here,
Lord, It needn't be so grand,
I never expected or had too much,
But if you don't, I'll understand."
There was silence all around the throne
Where the saints had often trod
As the Soldier waited quietly,
For the judgment of his God.
"Step forward now, you Soldier,
You've borne your burden well.
Walk peacefully on Heaven's streets,
You've done your time in Hell."
The dark side of Gujarat 2002 propaganda: How it is used for conversion to Islam and why Muslim students screening the documentary should raise red flags
Sunday, January 29, 2023
Screening of BBC documentary on PM Modi
For years, propaganda videos have been used by terror organisation to radicalise youth, trainee terrorists to make them join the ranks of terrorism.
"How Come Parsis, Jews Never Cry Intolerance in India ?" Only the Muslims whine? They want privileges over all others.
Muslim students groups and political groups are screening the BBC
propaganda documentary on PM Modi to insinuate that he, as a head of the
state, let the riots, which took place after Muslim mob burned down a
train killing 59 pilgrims returning from Ayodhya, happen. (That's a backlash!!) This is
happening at universities, some funded by the Central Government.
The documentary by the British state-funded broadcaster is an attempt
to make PM Modi appear ‘anti-Muslim’ ahead of the 2024 general
elections. As usual, the same is being used by opposition leaders in
India. It is almost as if they have accepted that they could not defeat
Modi on their own and would rather have foreign intervention coupled
with ‘dara hua Musalman’ narrative to try and defeat him in 2024.
However, there is more than the politics behind this propaganda that
should worry us. The radicalisation of Muslim youths. The Students
Islamic Organisation (SIO), members of whom have been involved in
mobilising mobs for the anti-CAA protests that eventually led to
anti-Hindu riots in Delhi in February 2020, were found screening the
documentary at the Hyderabad Central University. Asif Tanha, one of the
members of SIO, was booked for violence in Delhi.
The SIO was founded by Jamaat-e-Islami in 1982 after the Students
Islamic Movement of India (SIMI) broke away from it in 1981. A Livemint report from
2008 puts the relationship between the two organizations in this
manner, “Blood brothers they may be, but the groups have charted
conflicting courses, both in principle and actions. While SIMI is
largely underground after the government crackdown, SIO is a gradually
swelling student revolution in the making, taking Islam beyond the
parodied stereotypes of fundamentalism and violence. Its mission: to
prepare students, Muslims and non-Muslims, for reconstruction of a
peaceful India on the basis of Islamic principles.”
Last week, the Centre said in an affidavit filed before the
Supreme Court that activists of the outlawed Students Islamic Movement
of India (SIMI) continue to function secretively and receive funds. It
added that the organisation’s “objective of establishing Islamic rule in
India can, under no circumstances, be permitted to subsist”.
