WHY BRAND TRUTH-TELLERS ABOUT ISLAM AS ISLAMOPHOBES ?

WHY BRAND TRUTH-TELLERS ABOUT ISLAM AS ISLAMOPHOBES ?

Why are people who speak the truth about Islam hounded as Islamophobes and need 24 hour police protection? Does the Qur'an not advocate the speaking of truth as duty paramount even if such truthfulness goes against one's own parents? Then why this baiting of speakers of the truth about Islam and that too when they do so by quoting from the Qur'an itself? Why must they live in fear of being killed by some fanatic who is impelled unto such murderous action by indoctrinating clerics? Where is 'Satyameva jayatey' being followed if such truth-telling is curbed officially and unofficially and legally limited to preserve an illusory communal harmony where history bears testimony to the falsity of such supposed harmony between antithetical civilisational stands? If Islam is scripturally mandated to destroy all other religions and establish its hegemony in the world, if the Ghazwa-e-Hind is a scriptural (Hadees) injunction aimed at the destruction of Hinduism and the idolatrous Hindus, why is it that those who warn against such dangerous doctrine are branded Islamophobes and their freedom curtailed by clerical threats which are legion and which committed followers are determined to execute sooner or later to secure an easy entry into a pleasurable Paradise? Must hiding the truth and lying be the norm then in a country that has always prided itself on open criticism of religious principles which has led to the most wonderful development of religion in India? Are we then going against the grain of our civilisation in accommodating antithetical ideologies bent upon the annihilation of our very civilisation? How healthy is it for our body politic?

Written by Sugata Bose