• Samvada
Wednesday, May 18, 2022
Vishwa Samvada Kendra
No Result
View All Result
  • Login
  • Samvada

    ಪ್ರಬೋದಿನೀ ಗುರುಕುಲಕ್ಕೆ NIOS ಅಧಿಕಾರಿಗಳ ಭೇಟಿ

    ಮಾರ್ಚ್ ೧೧ರಿಂದ ೧೩ರವರೆಗೆ ಗುಜರಾತಿನಲ್ಲಿ ಅಖಿಲ ಭಾರತ ಪ್ರತಿನಿಧಿ ಸಭಾ

    Evacuation of Indians stranded in Ukraine by Government of India

    Ukraine Russia Crisis : India abstained from UNSC resolution

    Trending Tags

    • Commentary
    • Featured
    • Event
    • Editorial
  • Samvada

    ಪ್ರಬೋದಿನೀ ಗುರುಕುಲಕ್ಕೆ NIOS ಅಧಿಕಾರಿಗಳ ಭೇಟಿ

    ಮಾರ್ಚ್ ೧೧ರಿಂದ ೧೩ರವರೆಗೆ ಗುಜರಾತಿನಲ್ಲಿ ಅಖಿಲ ಭಾರತ ಪ್ರತಿನಿಧಿ ಸಭಾ

    Evacuation of Indians stranded in Ukraine by Government of India

    Ukraine Russia Crisis : India abstained from UNSC resolution

    Trending Tags

    • Commentary
    • Featured
    • Event
    • Editorial
No Result
View All Result
Samvada
Home Articles

Liberal Fascists: An article by RAM MADHAV

Vishwa Samvada Kendra by Vishwa Samvada Kendra
August 2, 2011
in Articles
235
0
Liberal Fascists: An article by RAM MADHAV
491
SHARES
1.4k
VIEWS
Share on FacebookShare on Twitter

READ ALSO

ಹಿಂದೂ ಧಾರ್ಮಿಕ ಕಾರ್ಯಕ್ರಮಗಳಲ್ಲಿ ಅನ್ಯಮತೀಯರ ಆರ್ಥಿಕ ಬಹಿಷ್ಕಾರ : ಒಂದು ಚರ್ಚೆ

ಡಿವಿಜಿಯವರ ವ್ಯಾಸಂಗ ಗೋಷ್ಠಿ

Liberal Fascists

aticle by Ram MADHAV , Tuesday August 2, 2011

This is an old technique of our pseudo-intellectuals. Attack and abuse.. but never engage in a debate or discussion over the issues raised or the arguments made.

Sesham Kopena Poorayet…. goes an old adage. What remains when you run out of arguments is anger and abuse.
What Dr. Subramanian Swamy had written in an article titled “How to wipe out Islamic terror in India” are his views. One may or may not agree with his views. The article was found fit for publication by the editor of a prestigious Mumbai-based English daily.
Ideally our intellectuals should have responded by countering Dr. Swamy’s arguments and opinions. Instead what we hear are endless invectives. I am not giving any opinion on the content of the article here. But how can I or anybody else deny Dr. Swamy his right to articulate his views?
In fact the political mission of many Islamists is under scrutiny all over the world. Tons of literature can be found in US and Europe over political Islam. In the most liberal parts of the world issues relating to Islam and its political ambitions are debated freely and opinions freely expressed. But in our country it is a complete taboo.
I am not surprised about the reactions from politicians like Digvijay Singh. In fact we can ignore them. For, they are just merchants of votes, rather unscrupulous. They don’t read books that they go to release. We don’t need to imagine that they had read Dr. Swamy’s piece before condemning him. They are knowledge-proof and information-proof. All that they know is to cynically exploit every opportunity for their narrow vote-bank politics. In fact they must be cribbing and wallowing that ‘Osamaji’ had not telephoned to them before getting killed so that they could have declared a grand nexus between the CIA and the RSS in eliminating ‘Osamaji’ – ‘part of a global anti-Muslim conspiracy’. Ignore them.
But what about our intellectual brigade that lungs out choicest sobriquets at Dr. Swamy for daring to write that article? What about our Minority Commission which is ‘seriously considering’ taking legal action against him?
Don’t forget these were the very same people who vigorously defended using their full vocal might M.F. Hussain when he painted Durga Mata, Sita Mata and Bharat Mata in the nude and obscene. That was described as ‘artistic freedom’. And these were the ones who were defending seditious bellows of Arundhati Roy and Jeelani etc. That was freedom of expression. Why then can Dr. Swamy not enjoy that freedom?
But that is how our pseudo intellectuals operate. They did it before too, several times, with several others. When Syed Shahabuddin was attacking Js. Krishna Aiyer on Shahbano judgment or when he was haranguing against Salman Rushdie – remember, without even reading the book Satanic Verses – these intellectuals were not seen anywhere to stop him. They were mute spectators to the fundamentalist Muslims’ targeting of Taslima Nasreen and their hurling of choicest invectives at her. Even to this day she runs from pillar to post every six months to ensure that the Indian Government doesn’t throw her out under the pressure of the fundamentalist groups.
In all these cases the refrain of these pseudo intellectuals is that the sentiments and sensitivities of the Muslims must be kept in mind. Let me recall that when Ayatollah Khomeini declared fatwa of death against Rushdie the great American Democrat and former President Jimmy Carter didn’t ask for the Ayatollah or the Muslims to show greater sensitivity to the right to freedom of expression of other people. Instead he only called for greater Western sensitivity to Muslim feelings. So did Margaret Thatcher of the UK.
Our pseudo intellectuals don’t bother when a Derek van Gogh is murdered or a Geert Wilders is made to make umpteen number of rounds of the courts or a Scandinavian magazine office becomes a target of repeated attacks for an ordinary cartoon depicting the Prophet or an Ayan Hirsi Ali is hounded out of Netherlands. Their freedom of expression doesn’t count. They pounce on Dr. Swamy in the similar manner for using a platform to express his views. He must be thrown out of Harvard; he must be prosecuted.
Now are they not the real Fascists – the Liberal Fascists?
Source: ram-madhav.blogspot.com
  • email
  • facebook
  • twitter
  • google+
  • WhatsApp

Related Posts

Articles

ಹಿಂದೂ ಧಾರ್ಮಿಕ ಕಾರ್ಯಕ್ರಮಗಳಲ್ಲಿ ಅನ್ಯಮತೀಯರ ಆರ್ಥಿಕ ಬಹಿಷ್ಕಾರ : ಒಂದು ಚರ್ಚೆ

March 25, 2022
Articles

ಡಿವಿಜಿಯವರ ವ್ಯಾಸಂಗ ಗೋಷ್ಠಿ

March 17, 2022
Articles

ಗ್ರಾಹಕರ ಹಿತ ರಕ್ಷಣೆಯ ಜಾಗೃತಿ – ಇಂದಿನ ಅಗತ್ಯ

March 15, 2022
Articles

ಗಾನ ಸಾಮ್ರಾಜ್ಞಿ : ಶ್ರೀಮತಿ ಗಂಗೂಬಾಯಿ ಹಾನಗಲ್

March 5, 2022
Articles

Russia,Ukraine war – All we need to know

Articles

ಬನ್ನಿ, ಆಲೂರು ವೆಂಕಟರಾಯರನ್ನು ಓದೋಣ.‌‌‌…

Next Post

RSS plays safe on new leadership issue, says it is BJP's internal matter

Leave a Reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

POPULAR NEWS

ಎಬಿಪಿಎಸ್ ನಿರ್ಣಯ – ಭಾರತವನ್ನು ಸ್ವಾವಲಂಬಿಯಾಗಿಸಲು ಉದ್ಯೋಗಾವಕಾಶಗಳ ಪ್ರೋತ್ಸಾಹಕ್ಕೆ ಒತ್ತು

March 13, 2022

ಟೀ ಮಾರಿದ್ದ ನ್ಯಾಯಾಲಯದಲ್ಲೇ ವಕೀಲೆಯಾದ ಛಲಗಾತಿ!

March 8, 2022

ನಮ್ಮ ನೆಲದ ಚಿಂತನೆಯ ಆಧಾರದ ರಾಷ್ಟ್ರದ ಪುನರ್ನಿರ್ಮಾಣ ಅಗತ್ಯ – ಪಿ ಎಸ್ ಪ್ರಕಾಶ್

May 7, 2022

ಹಗರಿಬೊಮ್ಮನಹಳ್ಳಿಯಲ್ಲಿ ರಾಷ್ಟ್ರೀಯ ಸ್ವಯಂಸೇವಕ ಸಂಘದ ಶಿಕ್ಷಾ ವರ್ಗದ ಸಮಾರೋಪ

May 13, 2022

ಸಂಘಕಾರ್ಯದ ಮೂಲಕ ಸಮಾಜದ ಆಂತರಿಕ ಶಕ್ತಿ ಹೆಚ್ಚಿಸಬೇಕಿದೆ – ದತ್ತಾತ್ರೇಯ ಹೊಸಬಾಳೆ ಕರೆ

March 14, 2022

EDITOR'S PICK

ಸರಸಂಘಚಾಲಕರಿಂದ ವಿದೇಶಿ ಪತ್ರಕರ್ತರ ಭೇಟಿ

ಸರಸಂಘಚಾಲಕರಿಂದ ವಿದೇಶಿ ಪತ್ರಕರ್ತರ ಭೇಟಿ

September 24, 2019
Hindu Swayamsevak Sangh’s Vishwa Sangh Shiksha Varg-2016 concludes at Nairobi, Kenya

Hindu Swayamsevak Sangh’s Vishwa Sangh Shiksha Varg-2016 concludes at Nairobi, Kenya

December 31, 2016
Deadly cocktail combination of Marxist-Jehadi nexus behind murder of Ramith: writes J Nandakumar

ಕೇರಳದಲ್ಲಿ ಕಮ್ಯುನಿಸ್ಟರ ರಕ್ತಕ್ರೌರ್ಯ: ಬುದ್ಧಿಜೀವಿಗಳ ಮಹಾಮೌನ !

October 15, 2016
“ಡಾII ಕಲಾಂ ಚಿಂತನೆಯ ಬೆಳಕಿನಲ್ಲಿ ನನ್ನ ಭವಿಷ್ಯದ ದಾರಿ” : ಉತ್ಥಾನ ಮಾಸಪತ್ರಿಕೆಯಿಂದ ಕಾಲೇಜು ವಿದ್ಯಾರ್ಥಿಗಳಿಗಾಗಿ  ಪ್ರಬಂಧ ಸ್ಪರ್ಧೆ

“ಡಾII ಕಲಾಂ ಚಿಂತನೆಯ ಬೆಳಕಿನಲ್ಲಿ ನನ್ನ ಭವಿಷ್ಯದ ದಾರಿ” : ಉತ್ಥಾನ ಮಾಸಪತ್ರಿಕೆಯಿಂದ ಕಾಲೇಜು ವಿದ್ಯಾರ್ಥಿಗಳಿಗಾಗಿ ಪ್ರಬಂಧ ಸ್ಪರ್ಧೆ

August 16, 2015

Samvada ಸಂವಾದ :

Samvada is a media center where we discuss various topics like Health, Politics, Education, Science, History, Current affairs and so on.

Categories

Recent Posts

  • ಭಾರತ ಮತ್ತು ಏಷ್ಯಾದ ಬೌದ್ಧ ದೇಶಗಳು : ಒಂದು ಸಾಂಸ್ಕೃತಿಕ ರಾಷ್ಟ್ರೀಯವಾದ
  • भारतस्य प्रतिष्ठे द्वे संस्कृतं संस्कृतिश्च
  • ನ್ಯಾಯಾಲಯದ ಆದೇಶದ ಮೇರೆಗೆ ಕಾಶಿಯ ಗ್ಯಾನವಾಪಿ ಮಸೀದಿ ಸರ್ವೇ ಪ್ರಕ್ರಿಯೆ ಆರಂಭ
  • ಸಮರ್ಪಣಾ ಮನೋಭಾವ ನಿಜವಾದ ದೇಶಭಕ್ತಿ – ತಿಪ್ಪೇಸ್ವಾಮಿ
  • About Us
  • Contact Us
  • Editorial Team
  • Errors/Corrections
  • ETHICS POLICY
  • Events
  • Fact-checking Policy
  • Home
  • Live
  • Ownership & Funding
  • Pungava Archives
  • Subscribe

© samvada.org - Developed By gradientguru.com

No Result
View All Result
  • Samvada

© samvada.org - Developed By gradientguru.com

Welcome Back!

Login to your account below

Forgotten Password?

Retrieve your password

Please enter your username or email address to reset your password.

Log In