Orissa flopdown
Orissa is not Kandahar, says the lead editorial in the latest issue of RSS weekly Organiser,criticising the Naveen Patnaik government for agreeing to release Maoist leaders in exchange of two kidnapped officials. The UPA has also been rather indifferent on the issue,leaving the state government to handle the crisis,it says.
What Arab churn?
The turmoil in the Arab world notwithstanding,an article in the RSS journal suggests that India should not attach much importance to the events in the region. Because the more things change in that world,the more they remain the same. For,the Arabs relate everything to the dim past of the birth of Islam,and not to the modern world, it says. The article says that the Muslim world can be genuinely democratic only when it embraces the 21st century. And it is only when it turns genuinely democratic that it can get rid of its dictators and other thugs and get down to running its societies the way they should be in this modern world.
Backing the assertion that things rarely change in the Arab world,the article says that in Iran,Khomeini replaced the Shah and took that country back a few centuries. It was the same in Libya when a madman replaced the previous incumbent. This may happen also in Iraq where a fanatic Shia leader called Sadr is waiting in the wings to fill the vacuum left by the departing Americans. It says that throughout the Arab world,and also outside the Arab world,the Taliban is waiting,like a wolf licking its tongue: not only in Iraq,but also in Afghanistan and Pakistan,which are in worse shape than Egypt.
The burning train
The RSSs Hindi journal Panchjanya devotes several pages to the Godhra verdict. Hailing the trial court judgment,the article says it has now been established that the burning of the train was indeed the result of a conspiracy. It castigates the Congress,secular leaders and hyprocritical human rights activists for distorting facts and trying to present the tragedy as an accident. Now these leaders have gone into hiding,saying they have yet to study the verdict.
The article claims that the death of kar sevaks in the train was the result of a jihadi frenzy. The biggest lesson of this verdict is that the country that is suffering because of jihadi frenzy and terrorism for the last 20 years must no longer be the victim of the secular vote bank politics of the Congress and other parties, it says.
Another article berates the pseudo-secularism of many parties that have tried their best to look for Hindu terrorists in their attempts to garner Muslim votes.
