Teachers of Hate Spread Hatred Among Students
By
New Age Islam Staff Writer
17
September 2023
Muslim Children
From Muzaffar Nagar To New Delhi Complain About Hate Crime Against Them.
Main
Points:
1. A lady
teacher made students slap their Muslim classmate.
1. 2.Hatred
against Muslims has gone to another level in India.
2. Even little
children are not spared.
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The hate
crimes against Muslims have risen in India drastically and it seems that it has
gone out of control. But the truth is that nobody in the government is serious
about controlling it. A few months ago, Mohan Bhagwat had said that Hindus have
been at war for the last one thousand years. On the other hand, the Dalit
leader Waman Meshram often says that the low caste people have been subjected
to oppression by the upper caste for the last three thousand years. Therefore,
it can be concluded that Indian society has been in a state of conflict for
centuries because of the complexity of its social and religious texture.
The society
in the era before Christ or before Buddha was a tribal and uneducated,
uncivilised society. The humanity had not developed. So there may have been
hostility between communities over religious, cultural and economic issues.
Culture of violence was dominant and Might is Right was the rule. People would
decide their disputes with the use of force.
But as the
humanity became more educated and civilised, the human society realised the importance
of peaceful co-existence and respect for others. Many great reformers, saints
and philosophers came who preached the respect of each other and the importance
of peaceful co-existence. They taught people that all human beings are equal
and that the sanctity of human blood should be protected. They taught people to
love all the creatures, not just the humans. India produced some great
philosophers who preached love and respect of human beings. Gautam Buddha was
one of the greatest saints of India who preached love and taught that good
karma leads to one's one self. Therefore, one should do good deeds to others if
he or she wants his/her own good. The society before Buddha was based on
hatred, discrimination, violence and untouchability while the society after
Buddha was based on love, equality, fraternity and sympathy.
However,
the social order was reversed after Buddha. Hatred again dominated.
Untouchability, discrimination and violence again took centre stage. Earlier,
the low caste community was the target of the hatred, now the Muslims are the
target. But the level of hatred and violence in the recent months and years has
sunk to a degree that no country or society of the world has any precedence.
Insane people in the West or in China shoot children in school but no teacher
in any country asks students in the class to slap their classmate as an act of
hate crime. In no country in the world, a sane mob parades two hapless girls
naked on the road. Worse, the criminals are defended by others on social media
shamelessly. I no other country of the world, the rapists are greeted and
garlanded only because they had raped the woman of the other country. In no
other country, people take out a procession in favour of a rapist of an eight
year old girl of the other community.
If we think
that they are not taught or preached by any chauvinist organisation, we are at
fault. Earlier, such organisations used printed literature that was distributed
secretly among the like-minded people because they had the fear of the law and
because they knew that the majority of people do not subscribe or support their
ideology. Therefore, the spread of their hate-filled ideology was slow and
limited. Now, with the onset of the mainstream media with a reach direct to
every kitchen, the secret printed literature is not needed. The mainstream
media is spreading the same content among the common people across the country
day in and day out and with much force. They do not fear the law because the
law enforcing agencies have been compromised. The 24 hour communal rants of the
anchors has made people including children and the youth mentally ill. They
have become insane and have turned into moving time bombs. The process of
making people psychologically sick was so slow that people did not realise that
they were given slow poison. It is very strange and unfortunate that only ten-
twelve anchors of TV channels did in 8 years what communal organisations could
not with their secretly distributed communal literature in 90 years. They
turned common peace loving people of India into beasts.
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Hate
In India Has Gone Beyond Control. Even Modi, RSS Can’t Stop It
By
Vir Sanghvi
31 August,
2023
What was
your first reaction when you saw (or read about) the video of a school teacher
getting her students to assault one of their classmates. How did you react when
you heard the audio and realised that she was actually using communal
terminology and, in effect, asking the children to commit a hate crime?
Did it
remind you, in some way, of the railway police constable who roamed through a
train shooting Muslim passengers and delivering an impassioned diatribe against
the community?
And did you
see the news item in Wednesday’s newspapers about four students in a government
school in Delhi complaining that their teacher had made communal remarks to
them. According to the complaints, the teacher said: “During Partition you did
not go to Pakistan. You stayed in India. You have no contribution to India’s
freedom struggle.” There was more in a similar vein.
I am guessing
that your first reaction to all of these incidents was the same as mine: shock,
outrage, anger, disbelief, sadness and fears about the kind of country we are
becoming. And that you were as horrified as I was when the organised armies on
social media posted lies to explain away the incidents. Apparently, the
hate-filled teacher had not said anything communal. The video was distorted.
Various glove-puppets and bots then hailed her as a martyr. Likewise, the
Muslim-murdering railway police officer was not anti-Muslim, his social media
supporters said, he was just ‘disturbed ’. The control rooms had to junk this
lie after the shooter’s own superiors admitted that he had committed a hate
crime, which he was then charged with.
But once I
began to look beyond my anger and my despair, two things worried me. Here, in
no particular order, is what frightens me.
Hate That’s
Unstoppable
The biggest
misconception about hate is that you can control it. Politicians (from all
parties and all religions) make the mistake of believing that hate is like
water. You can pour as much of it as you like. But when you are through, you
can just turn off the tap.
In fact,
hate is the opposite of water. It is like fire.
Once you
light the flame, it becomes very difficult to control it. The blaze takes on a
life of its own and it is almost impossible to stop it or to manage how it
spreads.
It is
popular among people opposed to the current political dispensation to act as
though the hate we see all around us emanates from the top and is the result of
some careful political calculation.
I don’t
think that is true. Every Muslim-hater is not a sangh supporter who is acting
on orders from Nagpur. Like fire, hate takes on a life of its own. Nobody can
tell where the next conflagration will occur, where the fire will spread or who
the flames will devour.
Even though
the Prime Minister and his top ministers are very careful not to say anything
that could be termed communal, the hate has now reached a level where it makes
no difference what they say. Even the rest of the parivar — the RSS, the VHP,
the Bajrang Dal and all other liberal bogeymen and villains — lost control of
the fires of hatred long ago. Nobody ordered the school teachers to target
Muslims. Nobody asked the railway cop to kill Muslims.
The kind of
hatred we see in today’s India is uncontrollable. It requires no trigger and no
spark. And it is harder to fight the hatred because once the deed is done or
the crime committed, an army of social media hitmen arrives to cheer on the
murderers and the abusers.
It is
nobody’s case that there was no hatred in India before the current outbreak.
Independent India was created in hatred and bloodshed. But ever since then,
most leaders (across political parties) and the media worked hard to heal
wounds and to create social harmony.
Over the
last decade-and-a-half or so, that effort has been abandoned. The wounds have
been reopened and the blood is pouring out again. As responsible as top leaders
might be, they have done little to prevent the fanatics, the fundamentalists,
the Godse-lovers, and the rest from spreading their gospel of hate.
Most
distressing of all: the television media is more communal and hate-filled today
than at any time in its history. As for social media — including the parts
controlled by political parties — that is the biggest cesspit in our country.
I don’t
know where all of this will lead us but of one thing, I am certain: even if the
heads of all the communal organisations in the country come together and ask
for social harmony and peace, it will make very little difference.
It is too
late. You cannot put out a wild fire with a few speeches or public statements.
Poisoning
The Future: Children
The most
worrying thing about this epidemic of hate is the effect it will have on
children. As the two reported instances of verbal (and physical) assaults on
Muslim schoolchildren show us, the poison of communal hatred has spread to our
schools.
I imagine
that you would need a heart of stone not to feel sympathy for the poor Muslim
boy who was repeatedly slapped by his schoolmates under the supervision of
their teachers. But many Muslims say that their children are abused and
discriminated against in schools all over India — even if the abuse does not
take such horrific a form.
Obviously,
this is shameful and upsetting and tragic. But our concerns should go beyond
sympathy and emotion. The big question is: what is the impact of all of this
going to be for the India of the future?
Are we
raising a generation of students who believe that Muslims don’t really belong
here? That they should go to Pakistan? That it is okay to discriminate against
them? That, in some way, they are not really as Indian as Hindus?
We don’t
have to guess about the impact this will have. We have seen it in Pakistan
where generations have grown up without knowing any Hindus themselves and are
taught to regard all Hindus as cunning people who want to destroy Pakistan.
It may be
fine for Pakistanis to mindlessly regard Hindus as the enemy. There are
relatively few Hindus in Pakistan for them to discriminate against. But it is
this kind of belief that has turned Pakistan into a medieval nation that seeks
strength in religious fundamentalism. It is hardly the sort of future we want
for ourselves; hardly the India we dream about.
And we have
seen it in Kashmir. One reason why so many young Kashmiris are hostile to India
is because, unlike previous generations, they have very few Hindu friends.
After the ethnic cleansing of 1989/90, when the Pandits left, the Hindu
population of the valley has reduced dramatically. Because young Kashmiris
hardly meet Hindus, they believe the caricatures of Hindus that are spread by
militants.
When you
start brainwashing children, you poison a society. The children who are the
victims of the hatred grow up emotionally scarred, and the discrimination makes
it harder for them to feel like equal members of society. And the people doing
the oppressing find it hard to ever accept those they were once taught to abuse
and to torment as equals.
So yes, we
are right to be shocked and horrified by the way that a teacher organised an
assault on a schoolboy. But the dangers of that sort of behaviour go beyond our
immediate outrage. They extend to the heart of our society and they endanger
the future of India.
We are
poised to become a major global power in this century. Don’t let hatred destroy
us from within and derail the progress that millions of Indians have worked so
hard for.
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Vir Sanghvi is a print and television journalist,
and talk show host. He tweets @virsanghvi
(Edited
by Anurag Chaubey)
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