Book of Integration Council New - Ministry of Home Affairs

every muslim as a potential terrorist. Neighbours start suspecting his neighbour, a
whole community gets demonized through this process. Muslims are not able to rent
houses in Hindu localities. Muslim shops are boycotted etc. By highlighting the alleged
terrorist are highly educated, they are IT graduates, they are engineers, computer
technologists, they are being very highly paid and this, these are repeated time and time
again, in both the print media as well as the electronic media, and by issuing advisories
to the industry/employers to keep watch over their employees and this has appeared in
the newspapers, employees who are IT trained, who are educated, one more avenue of
employment for the muslims is being taken away from them. Which IT company Sir,
will in future employ, IT experts, IT technologists, IT trained computer engineers if they
are receiving advisories that you better watch for your employees if they happen to be
IT trained, if they happen to be computer trained. By advising the employers to watch
the religious proclamities of their employees, every muslim who grows a beared or goes
to Friday prayer, will now come under suspicion that these people are going to be
future terrorist, they have a potential for becoming a terrorist. Sir, I am reminded of a
poet who said – oks dj jgs gS a eqgCcr ugha oru ls eq>s] fl[kk jgs gS a eqgCcr e”khu xu ls eq>sA
Now, the Christian community too has been targeted and no doubt they too will feel the
heat in the coming days. Mr. Chidambaram, the Hon’ble Finance Minister of India has
sounded a very dire warning in one of his lectures recently in Tamil Nadu. Out of that,
I am quoting from it “out of the hopelessness and despair of the Muslim community
and if not addressed firmly the Christian tribal communities too will rise new waves of
terror.” This is, these are the words of Mr. Chidambaram, himself. The minorities feel
that while governments, both at the Central and the State, take prompt action against
alleged muslim terrorists and communal organizations, and rightly so, similar alacrity is
not shown against other communal organizations, who openly indulge in violence against
Minorities even when their perpatrators have appeared before the television. The
gruesome roles they have played in the communal pograms or called press conferences
as in Orissa, Karnataka etc. and claimed responsibilities for the attacks on the Christians.
This mindset is what leads to the loss of confidence and to total alienation.
Sir, I have got a few suggestions to make which I would request that the NIC may
consider and the Government may like to see. Sir, the duty of the Government is
to govern, it is the basic responsibility of the government to ensure the life and
safety of life, ligament, property of everyone of its citizen, specially of the weakest
and the most vulnerable. Government should deal even-handedly with all communities,
whether they are Muslims, Hindus, Sikhs or any one. Every terrorist organization,
every communal extremist organization which spreads hatred and terror should
be dealt with sternly and firmly. Terrorism and extremism are two sides of the
same coin, their activists should be put away for long until they come to their senses.
All perpetrators should be speedily tried and punished. The Communal Violence
(Prevention, Control and Rehabilitation of victims Bill), the numerous recommendations
of the commissions of inquiry should be implemented forthwith.
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