Sunday, August 19, 2007

I don't have an agenda against journalists but somehow I keep running in to fourth estate time and again. This time it is Ms Sagarika Ghosh from IBN.

http://www.ibnlive.com/blogs/author/223/2220/sagarikaghose.html

This lady is surprised by the fact that most of the people convicted in Bombay Blast case are Muslims. I would request you to check records of cases registered in Gujarat Riots. Surprisingly, you will find only Hindu names there. Would you say that Gujarat is discriminating against Hindus??!!!

How ridiculous is your logic?

Police did not do a random survey and come up with those names in either cases and the fact that both record books have names from one community only doesn't mean there is ill will against either of them.

Same logic about delay of justice. For delay in cases in Gujarat, this same lot screams that the delay will benefit the culprits. Now all of a sudden in case of Muslims delay of justice will cause harm to the accused.

In either cases delay is not to cause harm or for benefit of culprits / accused, it is just the lacunae of our judicial system. So please don't see ill-will where there is none.

On the question about having terrorists in your houses and not knowing about that, go find children and tell them this fairy tale. Women, Muslim or otherwise, would know what is happening in their homes. Even the uneducated ones.

Muslims are as much citizens of this country as anyone else. No party or organization can alter that fact. If there is injustice being done to them, or for that matter to any community, it is prerogative of media to come forward and support them.

But finding faults where there are none and portraying sheer incompetence of the system in to evil planning against any community is despicable. A responsible media should stay away from such sensationalization of issues.

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