WAKE UP TO THE DANGER THAT FACES US AND ACT IN ACCORDANCE

WAKE UP TO THE DANGER THAT FACES US AND ACT IN ACCORDANCE 

Why does the Government of India not ban all such organisations and academic institutions that radicalise citizens unto taking up arms against the country? Why must a blind eye be turned to the fact that millions of children are brainwashed systematically on a regular basis with divisive principles based on archaic, absolutist, fanatical theological mandates? 

You allow intolerance at seed to grow and expect to root out terrorism in the shoot? That can never be. A complete overhauling of the academic training ground of future potential terrorism is needed with modern liberal education supplanting it. 

When the most major theological school announces Ghazwa-e-Hind, which is patently treasonous, as valid doctrine and a like institution declares 2047 as the year for setting up an Islamic state in India, it is portentous and demands heavy handling by the Government. A soft democratic approach cannot be the way to deal with such antinational forces and it needs total weeding out of such from our polity. 

Is the Government heeding the danger enough? Is the polity aware of such a dastardly design as these periodic pronouncements point to? 

It is time to act. A nationalistic education system must replace all such faith schools where the very faith mandates intolerance and violence, principles which are drummed into the heads of impressionable children to make them unthinking fanatics with the potential to cause a lot of social unrest at the least and destructive violence otherwise. Children of a single generation, if taught liberal principles and if shielded from dangerous theological doctrines in faith schools, can bring about a healthy change in society. What then remains is to impress upon parents and elderly family members not to indoctrinate their young ones with toxic religious doctrine that potentially trains innocents into radicalised rogues. 

Any religion that is by fundamental doctrine intolerant of other religions or dharmas and is in effect antinational must be treated as such and disallowed space in our country. In the name of democracy and 'unity in diversity' such evil ideologies cannot be allowed to flourish among sections of the polity. It is in our national interest and in our civilisational interest that we must foster the Sanatan spirit of inclusiveness in all our citizens and that can never be unless the intolerant faiths are weeded out of our national life. A tall order, but it must be done. Else, eternal India will one day live only in memory, perhaps, but will die a practical death. That must never be and we must see to it that such a cataclysm does not visit us anymore.

Vande Mataram! 🕉 

Written by Sugata Bose