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Times of India, Mumbai’s print edition
has never been known to harbour any sympathy for Indian Muslims,
Islam and Muslim world. Time and again it has blackened its pages
with stark calumnies against Muslims. The British Government’s ban
on Zakir Naik’s scheduled visit to UK after the new Jewish Prime
Minister David Cameron took over the Conservative-Lib-Dem coalition,
has given Times of India another opportunity to play its dirty news
and views management game to malign and de-legitimize the rampant
anti-western sentiments that are natural to all Muslims around the
world over America’s illegal and brutal invasion of Iraq and
Afghanistan and the massacres of millions of innocent Muslim
civilians, men, women and children. America and its allies who are
helping in these murderous forays into weekly defended Muslim
nations are in fact guilty of war crimes and crimes against
humanity. Times of India, becomes a willing tool to spread US
propaganda over its ‘war against terror’ media campaign without
having any moral standard to justify the invasions per se. It
chooses to demonise the victimize Muslims and side with the
aggressors, all for the possible benefit of financial bonanza.
In the article: The controversial PREACHER (TOI, June 27, 2010),
TOI’s favourite hatchet man, Mohammed Wajihuddin, gathers the usual
suspects from among the Left-liberals who are on the very fringe of
Indian Muslim mainstream and who are known to be cowards not
standing up to take the heat over acknowledging the crux of the
whole matter and rather fashion their slick comments on tangential
matters about Zakir Naik’s personality, his past and his worldwide
popular following, to conveniently ignore the 800 pound gorilla of
US imperialist menace looming large even on India’s own midst,
setting and imposing its own agenda on the supposedly democratic
nation, that elects an oligarchic cabal of politicians to perpetuate
the new reign of democratic feudalism.
Times of India cannot fool the people that the war on terror is a
legitimate war being fought over religious divide and while the West
is clean, the Muslim nations are dirty. It may be TOI’s own communal
bias that is getting better of its editorial judgment. The issue
that should be addressed whether the West has not invaded two UN
member nations, on spurious pretexts, but in fact in a concerted and
well-publicized campaign (Remember Neo-con American Century plans)
to control and usurp their oil wealth and other vital strategic
resources of the Third World, especially the Middle East and Central
Asia. The Islamisation of the legitimate resistance, in whichever
form it is coming forth from a fragmented and weak polity of the
third world countries, so holistically targeted by the brute force
of world’s only superpower, is a fraud designed to preempt any
religious backlash that is not being seen coming in any menacing
proportion. The panic that minor incidents of amateurish bombings in
Western cities are no comparison with the devastation unleashed by
US and British forces in Iraq, and US, UK and other EU countries in
Afghanistan. It is not a coincidence that the German President had
to resign, when he admitted that his nation’s participation in
Afghan has nothing to do with hunting Al-Qaida, but to secure
strategic interest in that country. He severely dented America’s
propaganda around the world that they are in Afghanistan hunting for
Al Qaida. New York Times story of trillions of dollar worth of
mining of precious metals further puts stamp on the greedy
imperialist designs of the western marauders.
Times of India, underestimates its readership’s intelligence when it
plays on the always running under-current of communal prejudices in
Indian polity and thus is guilty of dividing the nation on communal
lines, while openly supporting and sympathizing with Western
imperialist agenda.
Knowledgeable people are not blind to the dirty game played by a few
writers in TOI’s Mumbai editorial board with or without the owners’
approval.
Times of India’s hatchet job against Dr. Zakir Naik has wider
linkages and it is time India’s more sober and mature media, place
the wider perspective in public domain.
Copy of the letter sent
to the Editor, TOI in response
to its report published
today
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