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08-29-2007, 03:45 PM
SECULAR WRITER RAM PUNYANI SAYS REASONS BEHIND TERRORISM MUST BE ADDRESSED FIRST
Don't blame Muslims for world terror: Expert
Express News Service
http://cities.expressindia.com/fullstory.php?newsid=253296
Pune, August 28: Terrorism is not a religious phenomenon and Muslims
alone should not be blamed for the terrorist attacks taking place in
the country, said noted secularist Prof Ram Punyani in his talk on
communalism organised by Talk Club at Anjuman-E-Khairul Islam's (AKI)
Poona College of Arts Commerce and Science on Tuesday.
Analysing the rise in terror activities around the globe, Punyani said
people were taking up terrorism in response to the injustice being
meted out to them, rising communalism and the fight for oil.
"Terrorism is a symptom of the disease that needs to be addressed in
an unbiased manner," he said.
Punyani said politics should not be mixed with religion, as the latter
stood for cultivating strong moral values and high ideals amongst the
masses. "Instead, religion has been deliberately exploited to drive a
wedge into the country by engineering riots leading to death and
destruction," Punyani said, adding that there was an institutionalised
bias against minorities.
Referring to riots, Punyani said several innocent people had been
killed in mindless communal violence during the past decades, while it
was generally seen that the culprits had gone unpunished while the
poor were maximally killed. "Several myths about Muslims relating to
history, demographics and about the polity of terror continue to
circulate and confuse the masses till date," he said.
Punyani also slammed the saffron forces for creating confusion about
the growth of the Christian population in the country owing to
activities of their missionaries. "Christianity in India is 1,950
years old, yet there are only 2.30 million Christians, which is a
relatively small figure," he said. "Forces inimical to secularism are
bent on attacking the missionaries which should be strongly condemned
and stopped."
He lamented ghettoisation that was once again engulfing Indian Muslims
due to fear psychosis in their minds. "It is giving rise to retrograde
tendencies in the community, especially amongst the youth. Such
tendencies are likely to reverse any progress made by Muslims."
Don't blame Muslims for world terror: Expert
Express News Service
http://cities.expressindia.com/fullstory.php?newsid=253296
Pune, August 28: Terrorism is not a religious phenomenon and Muslims
alone should not be blamed for the terrorist attacks taking place in
the country, said noted secularist Prof Ram Punyani in his talk on
communalism organised by Talk Club at Anjuman-E-Khairul Islam's (AKI)
Poona College of Arts Commerce and Science on Tuesday.
Analysing the rise in terror activities around the globe, Punyani said
people were taking up terrorism in response to the injustice being
meted out to them, rising communalism and the fight for oil.
"Terrorism is a symptom of the disease that needs to be addressed in
an unbiased manner," he said.
Punyani said politics should not be mixed with religion, as the latter
stood for cultivating strong moral values and high ideals amongst the
masses. "Instead, religion has been deliberately exploited to drive a
wedge into the country by engineering riots leading to death and
destruction," Punyani said, adding that there was an institutionalised
bias against minorities.
Referring to riots, Punyani said several innocent people had been
killed in mindless communal violence during the past decades, while it
was generally seen that the culprits had gone unpunished while the
poor were maximally killed. "Several myths about Muslims relating to
history, demographics and about the polity of terror continue to
circulate and confuse the masses till date," he said.
Punyani also slammed the saffron forces for creating confusion about
the growth of the Christian population in the country owing to
activities of their missionaries. "Christianity in India is 1,950
years old, yet there are only 2.30 million Christians, which is a
relatively small figure," he said. "Forces inimical to secularism are
bent on attacking the missionaries which should be strongly condemned
and stopped."
He lamented ghettoisation that was once again engulfing Indian Muslims
due to fear psychosis in their minds. "It is giving rise to retrograde
tendencies in the community, especially amongst the youth. Such
tendencies are likely to reverse any progress made by Muslims."