Wednesday, December 3, 2008
If the problem of 'soft on terror' stance of India has to be traced to roots, it may not be just Congress politicians as the BJP and other political parties are alleging now. We might as well start with cells in the Indian media.
A media portal SAWF (sawf.org), appears to be symptomatic of this. Just recently, the portal 'reported' the Jihadi 'fidayeen' attacks on India as 'tragedy' while lambasting the likes of Ajay Devgan and Raveena Tandon for calling out the failure of the basic government infrastructure that any government is hired to provide (national and domestic security). The latter group has been merely echoing the frustration and anger of the hundred of millions of Indians and people worldwide.
Maybe Sawf type media do not understand language very well so let us help them out. Hamlet was a tragedy. This is not. Or to put it more subtly, tragedy is what happens when these media people get run over by a speeding Indian army truck. That might be tragic. Tragedy however is not Jihadis from Pakistan or Middle-East, using local support, managing to infiltrate Mumbai, starting seizing city landmarks and slaughtering innocent people there. What happened in Mumbai was no tragedy.
Terrorism is mass murder of unarmed civilians with intention to terrorize the rest into gradual submission. And Islamic Terrorism is an offensive, escalating worldwide problem which in India is neither a 'tragedy' nor an 'accident'. It is designed to create murderous panic via symbolic attacks to drive subsequent mental surrender of the infidel civilian population who the terrorists tend to target in the first place.
The least Bollywood and Hindi cinema figures then could do is to raise the call on behalf of themselves and for the country they have gotten so much from and which has made them what they are, not to mention where public safety at public places like movie theaters is essential for their profession to sustain. So that's what number of them are doing.
That's more than what some others are showing however, including elements of the Indian media.
Calling terrorism 'tragedy' is like calling cold-blood murder an 'unseemly incident'. Many in media do this deliberately to reframe the situation and problem as one of 'helplessness' and 'no source' and 'no solutions' as if it is a tragedy (like the cyclone), then it must not be a deliberate mass targeted crime against the country, its institutions and its people.
Which of course is exactly what it is.
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