Result of conspiracies of a different kind!
If I can be late in posting my write ups, I can be early too. This one comes earlier then the scheduled date. Well moving towards the end of Conspiracies of a Different Kind I would like to put this question forward "Ever wondered why is there a divide between Hindus and Muslims?" Is it for money, power, property, business and other list of stuff? I don’t even see an identity crisis too. Well everybody has their own individual domain. There is no such particular reason that I could possibly think of why are there clashes between both the religions. I guess this leads back to the year 1947. Before that particular year both of them were fighting for one cause “Freedom”. Someone thought it isn’t good for few of them that both are together. Something happened and they started fighting amongst each other (I guess I do not need to mention history in so much detail when it is so evident). Can one ever imagine that something that happened around 60 years back has separated these communities to a level where one could not bring together? They live with each other today, do business with each other but somewhere (minus a few exceptional cases) there is this thin line which always provokes doubt. Every few years this divide is broadened by many incidents like Godhra, Ayodhya, so on and so forth. Not because it is happening naturally but it is intentionally to remind people that they are not supposed to live in harmony, to remind them of that thin line. Those carrying out such activities get answers by bomb blasts (According to so called people who take responsibility of them. But then again we all know that terrorism is something that is in itself a different case altogether & terrorists as mentioned in my first blog play with God’s name. But then again that’s what other extremists too are doing). They do it because they have to (may be its their bread and butter), but we who live in peace in harmony get carried away and start doubting our fellow citizens. If someone would want to know how let me explain by a story.
Recently a friend of mine was in a dilemma of whether to give a job to Muslim boy from Jaipur where before a few months it was rocked by bomb blasts. Doubting why this guy from Jaipur has come to Gujarat? Well let’s call this guy “Human”. Human is a driver cum mechanic. He was removed from his earlier job in Jaipur immediately after the blasts. He couldn’t get a job anywhere. So since Gujarat is lucrative enough he came to Gujarat in search of a job. But to his hard luck there were bomb blasts in Gujarat too and he remained jobless. Since he had no job no money he had to stay with a maulvi (priest) in a mosque. My friend when approached by Human didn’t know what to do. According to him he was ok with giving him a driver’s job since he was in need but if something happens then? Wouldn’t the police harass him? And many other similar questions. Finally after a lot of internal deliberations, Human was kept on the job. Second situation - Human is in search of a place to stay because he doesn’t like to stay in a mosque with a maulvi. So my friend approached few known muslims and guess what they had to tell him. They told “Aapko Gujarat se koi nahi mila. Aapne ye Jaipur wale ko naukari pe rakha? (Didnt you find anybody from Gujarat that you had to keep this guy from Jaipur on job?) We would not be keeping somebody from outside as tenants specially a Muslim person, what if something happens tomorrow we would be unnecessarily harassed by the police.” So while I am writing this, Human still does not have a place to stay and is staying in a mosque.
What is happening here is that the Muslims who live in poverty are further pushed down by such events. One internal riots where either they or their belongings are burnt and they are left with nothing and second the bomb blasts which hits human psychology so much that nobody offers them work. In both cases the common innocent Muslim (I would say human first) is worst hit. Those perpetuators both the rioters and terrorists do not think about this. Even Muslims are not trusting Muslims. Those who live earning daily wages are the worst hit, since people stop offering them labour. How are they supposed to survive, along with their family? While I am writing this, I just spoke to my mother who told me about yet another blast in Delhi and the attacks on Christians by the same extremist groups (“ch..ch..ch Mervyn only God knows when this people are going to stop. What enjoyment would they be getting in blasting and burning people alive” words of my mother). These attacks on Christians are based on false issue of religious conversions. I don’t understand who gives one right to kill, burn and rape. Most of the people instead of looking at a person as human being have started to look at his/her religion.
Coming back to the point, the divide between both these religions through such gory incidents keeps increasing. Such incidents destroy a person’s existence both internal and external. Instead of an effort to bridge the divide there is a constant effort in deeds and words to gain maximum momentum of one majority and pushing down the minority and vice-versa, thus widening the divide. On top of it when people go in search of justice in front of such commissions what they get in return is only salt on their wounds. Wouldn’t lack of justice create another set of anger of those who have seen their families burnt alive, sisters paraded nude and raped, poor old disabled man harassed without reason? But then it is on the people who have power to decide whether to fuel such fire or help in subsiding it. But then it could be a conspiracy of a different kind in which one is meant to divide.
While I come to the end of Conspiracies of a different kind, I am firm that I will make my own efforts to look at a person as a human first and not his religion. We are all humans and have different circumstances (along with religion) but that does not mean that since a person is from a particular religion he could be a possible suspect. We those who are reading this are fortunate ones. I have friends who have been misguided by such thoughts and I constantly make an effort to make them realise the ‘being of human’. If those who are educated shall be consumed by such hatred propagated by fanatic mind, then I fear to imagine where it will all lead. I believe we the fortunate kinds would make efforts to bridge the gap and not give rise to such conspiracies of a different kind.
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