It came across as no surprise when the Supreme Court quashed the verdict proclaimed by the special bench at the Allahabad high court on the Ayodhya case. The ruling to bifurcate the land among the three warring parties was completely uncalled for, considering none of the petitioners made such a claim.
Everything from the constitution of the Allahabad bench reflected an atittude of appeasing the minorities. We are not accusing the country’s legal system of partisanship. However, the bench comprising a Hindu Brahmin, a Muslim and another Hindu non-Brahmin gave us enough indication that the verdict would look to appease all petitioners irrespective of who had the legal claim on the land. The verdict only made official what was already anticipated.
India is a Hindu country. The town of Ayodhya is steeped in India’s history and is much older than any of the towns associated with the Abrahamic faiths. There is enough archaeological evidence to suggest that a temple existed in the place where the Masjid was built. Then why try and appease the parties that have no support to stake claim to the land?
Destruction of Hindu shrines by barbaric muslim rulers is not something that is unfamiliar to our nation either. The ruins at Hampi and the numerous missing temples in South Karnataka and North Kerala bear testimony to the religious intolerance of Muslim rulers. If the Hindus were to file a case for each such instance of destruction, the number of courts, lawyers and judges in this country would not suffice to investigate them.
Hailing from a religious community that has such a dark past, I don’t understand the hue and cry raised by Indian muslims over the Babri Masjid demolition issue. While I don’t support the demolition per se, the behaviour of Indian muslims has indicated that they cannot take a share of their own medicine. This doesn’t surprise me considering there are people still living in this country who consider Osama Bin Laden a martyr.
As long as the Congress continues to rule this country, I don’t expect any verdict to benefit this nation. The Kasabs and the Afzal Gurus will continue to prosper in this failed state. The Government will not initiate any action against them to survive another five-year term in the centre. The majority have no option but to passively watch this country go to the dogs.
Not just I, my ancestors and their ancestors and their ancestors have been brought up with the same belief. Ramayana, Bhagavath Geetha and all the Hindu religious scriptures have been written some ages before birth of Islam and Christianity. It is not like, after the demolition of Ram mandir in 15th century the Ramayana scripture was changed. This is the very foundation of Hindu Religion. Some where in the middle of time, some barbaric Raiders called Moguls intrude my country, abuse my people because they are not following Islam, forcible convert them to Islam, killed people who refused to convert, demolish Ram mandir that is located in the present Ayodhya site in dispute, built mosque over that with the idols of Gods as their mosque foot steps. This is not going to make me happy or comfortable. One thing is for sure, I am not a liberal and I am no Gandhi to stand and mourn in silence as an act of protest… I am secular in my own way. I will follow my religion with complete pride and will respect other religions. I can’t bear the atrocities that others commit on my religion and call myself secular just because it makes me look cool. I feel that Ayodhya belongs to Hindus. I don’t need a courts permission to feel this way.
What happened 500 years ago can not and should not be used as an excuse to do something bad today. The land on which my house is built today might have belonged to some other person a few centuries ago and might have been wrongfully taken from him by somebody. Does that justify him demolishing my home and beating me up? It is precisely for this reason that the law has a limit on the time for which a case can be filed. The presence or absence of a temple in a town in UP should not under normal circumstances affect the faith or religious life of anybody outside that place (and it didn’t for a long time). I sincerely feel that we are taking this too personal when there are more important things for us to worry about. Thus, I hope that people would not fight over a remote piece of land.