The Inevitable & Welcome rise of 'Hyper-Nationalism'
Mar 31, 2016
Parag Amalnerkar
If there is one thing one must acknowledge about Twitter, it is that it brings to the fore the pulse (read sentiment) of urban masses. #Dr.Pankajlynched and #JusticeforDr.Pankaj were top trends a couple of days ago with tweets crossing 150K in numbers!
Here is what had happened:
The incident occurred soon after India’s win over Bangladesh as Dr.Narang along with his seven-year-old son and nephew came out of their home around 30 minutes past Wednesday midnight and started playing cricket in their car park. Trouble began when the ball flew into the bylane and he and his son ran after it. Narang saw two youth on a bike approaching them, taking abrupt alternate right and left turns. When he raised his hand to stop the biker, it grazed the rider’s body, triggering an argument. The argument escalated as Narang slapped the biker and seized his motorcycle and keys. The duo escaped but returned 15 minutes later with more than a dozen people, including juveniles and women, carrying blunt objects, a police officer said. Narang was dragged out of his home and brutally assaulted. He ran around the neighborhood, apologizing for his mistake and screaming for help, but collapsed as the attackers kept hitting him from behind. A CCTV camera installed outside a local hospital captured portions of the attack while witnesses said Mesar, mother of the Khan Brothers, kept inciting the mob to assault the dentist. The Mob left after Narang and his brother-in-law fell motionless on the road. The family took them to Mata Chanan Devi Hospital, where the dentist died around 8.30am on Thursday the 24thof March.
The cops said “We have arrested five people, including 22-year-old main accused Nasir Khan, brother Amir and mother Mesar. Four boys were taken into custody too. Efforts are on to catch the other culprits,”.
Some folks including those who coined communal and despicable phrases such as the 'Internet Hindu’ were shocked that these very ‘Internet Hindus’ highlighted this MURDER by a MUSLIM mob of a HINDU doctor and gave it a communal twist perhaps because the “Internet Hindu” had shattered their monopoly in painting everything communal.
Now while the facts are being investigated, it is important to analyze why this was the top trend on Twitter. Let’s look at the world over to get a wider perspective,
In Germany, Chancellor Merkel is facing flak for her stand on Syrian refugee influx so much so that she lost several recent elections. Chancellor Angela Merkel's Christian Democratic Union performed poorly in the state elections Sunday, according to projections from the Associated Press. The party lost to the center-left Social Democratic Party in two of the three voting states, while the far-right, anti-immigrant Alternative for Germany Party made gains, posing a serious challenge to future coalition-building.
The spectacular rise of Donald Trump for the republicans with him winning one primary after other and now having a clear lead over Cruz by 274 delegates. His outspoken views while causing much heartburn to everyone except those who are voting for him needs to be noted. His stand against Islamic terror, waterboarding illegal immigrants, building a wall at the Mexico border are all issues that no one in America ever spoke about so openly in the past.
This approach so rattled Lieutenant General Dhahi Khalfan Tamim, Dubai’s deputy chairman of police and security that he pronounced, "If Trump beats Hillary [Clinton] that means that the scenario of the clash of civilizations created by Samuel will come to light at the hands of the candidate and [IS leader] al-Baghdadi".
Tamim's comments came after the Republican presidential candidate refused to retract his comment that “Islam hates the West” during Thursday’s Republican debate. The fact is that the clash of civilizations has been taking place for some time now. There is common thread that binds the loss of Chancellor Merkel, the rise of Donald Trump and the rise of the Internet Hindu as evident in the murder of Dr.Pankaj. The common thread is that all non- Islamic communities have prospered with the sheer dint of their education & hard work only to find that Islam has regressed backwards and is now dominated by sections that rule through sheer force of violence as reflected in the scourge of Islamist terror that has singed Europe (Paris,Brussels), America (9/11), India (26/11 and many more).
For long we have tried to talk about moderate Islam Vs. militant Islam, but there is little evidence to support the existence of moderate Islam.
Some Questions that need to be answered here are: Why are Syrian refugees piling onto Europe? Why are Bangladeshis infiltrating into India if that country is doing well economically?
Theocratic Islamic countries have little to show for progress and quality of life because they are not democracies and are governed by hostile doctrines.
If you take away oil from Saudi Arabia they have little to show for progress, in fact the falling barrel prices are already taking their toll. Why are Syrians & Bangladeshis not being provided refuge by Iran, Saudi Arabia and Pakistan? Because they have no comfort and prosperity to offer! It is strange that while all Islamic countries have been hostile of Europe, America and India when they need refuge and jobs they flock to these very countries – why should one welcome them at all? Humanity is and must be a two-way street. Clearly democracy has offered superior life wherever it has thrived, contrast this with others and the difference is stark.
Closer home the brutal murder of the RSS worker K. Raju in Mysore by miscreants was not reported widely by mainstream media! It was again a people from one community who killed him and now likewise the brutal murder of Dr. Pankaj has not been reported widely at all. If it had not been for the internet Hindu on twitter this would not even have been noticed. It is only natural to question the main stream media and the left-congress concoction, the verdict on Dadri was passed in the first few hours itself as an example of communalism that BJP has vitiated (in a non-BJP ruled state!) without any investigation and report placed by the relevant authorities!
Now it is time for the world and largely Islam to face one emerging truth- the rise of Nationalism is the inevitable result of decades of one sided civility, little effort to merge with the mainstream and try to dominate not by excellence but by violence sanctified in some of the texts. The media at least in India is equally responsible for what they are conveniently labelling as hyper-nationalism! Recently (on March 24th) resisting the Supreme Court's suo motu decision to test the legal validity of triple talaq in Muslim personal law, the All India Muslim Personal Law Board (AIMPLB) has said that the country's top court has no jurisdiction to undertake the exercise as the community's personal law was based on the Quran and not on a law enacted by Parliament! Yet another example of how Islam will resist every effort to civilize itself and merge with the mainstream even if some Muslim women themselves have begun to protest against this! Now by the same argument, why should the Ram Temple be decided by the Supreme Court of India? It is an article of faith for Hindu’s, period! Just like Mecca is the holy city for Islam, Vatican is for Christians, Ayodhya is for Hindus.
Instead of seizing an opportunity to embrace the majority by allowing the Ram Temple to be built at Ayodhya decades ago stiff resistance has been put up aided and abetted by vested interests. The resistance of Muslims represented by Owaisi to chanting “Bharat Mata Ki Jai” only confirms what has been known for a long while.
The repeated efforts to resist modernization through holistic education and let religion trump their national and social obligations and expecting never ending civility from all non-Islamic communities in democracies across the world is now tipping over resulting in the rise of Nationalism the world over.
It is inevitable and long in the making; Islam now has to choose to reciprocate else the world order will change forever much to their dislike. And yes you can call it Hyper – Nationalism! Suits the sentiment just fine.
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