The Term 'Hindu Bania' Used by Pakistani Columnists and Writers Speaks of Their Sick Mentality
By S.
Arshad
07 August
2020
Islam asks
believers to never shun justice or moral decency even while dealing with
enemies. But when we read the Urdu newspapers of Pakistan, we regularly observe
this lack of moral decency among the writers, so-called intellectuals and
columnists reflected in their writings. Most of the columnists do not find any
other issue pertaining to social, political, economic and other issues of
national importance.
They often
write what India is going to do against Pakistan or what conspiracies it is
hatching against Pakistan.
Every
journalist seems to love to mention RAW as if they have breakfast with RAW
officers every morning whereas the fact is that they are ill-informed people
with half-baked knowledge of the social, economic and political realities of
their own country. They thrive on anti-India paranoia and regularly spew venom
against Hindus of India while claiming to be sympathisers of Hindus of
Pakistan. While speaking about Hindus, they add the prefix 'bania'.
So, to
them, every Hindu is a bania, a derogatory word meaning a cunning businessman.
They have coined this term to express their hate against the Hindus of India. I
have observed that even journalists and poetesses of Pakistan who occasionally
visit India and while in India, praise the Hindus of India and the country's
multicultural traditions, use the word Hindi bania in their writings back home
as an old habit.
No Hindi
newspaper columnist of India uses any derogatory term for Muslims in his
writings. The speech or writing of a person only reflects the collective way of
thinking of the society or environment in which he lives.
They do it
because it is necessary for them to cash in on the popular sentiments. On the
other hand, they do not have the courage to write anything about the Taliban,
the Lashkar-e-Taiba, ISIS and other terrorist organisations thriving and
causing bloodshed in the country because they know the repercussions.
By going
through the Urdu newspapers of Pakistan, one will think that terrorism is not
an issue of Pakistan. No Urdu columnist dares to write on terrorism as an
issue, because they will have to mention the terrorist organisations active in
the country.
For
example, when one learned columnist of Pakistan wrote an article on Maulana
Sarfaraz Hussain Nayeem who had launched a nationwide campaign against the
Taliban and was ultimately killed by Taliban, the columnist did not mention a
word about Taliban or Maulana Nayeemi's campaign against terrorism and Taliban.
The columnist simply praised his simplicity, his contribution to the field of
education and his piety.
This is the
degree of fear they have of the terrorist organisations of Pakistan. So, what
is left for them to discuss? India and Hindus, of course.
They cannot
abuse Chini 'bania' because China has instructed their Prime Minister to stop
spread of negative propaganda against its inhuman treatment of Uighur Muslims
among Pakistani Muslims. For Imran Khan, even a cricket match with India is a
jihad.
This is the
reason; the Pakistani columnists have to fall back upon India and Hindus to
earn their bread and butter and maintain their image as journalists and
intellectuals.
S.
Arshad is a regular columnist for NewAgeIslam.com
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