How absurd can it get …

"The government should put the hanging of Guru in abeyance to avoid strengthening separatists in Jammu and Kashmir," Bharipa Bahujan Mahasangh president Prakash Ambedkar, the grandson of Dalit icon B.R. Ambedkar, told IANS over the phone on Saturday.

"We should understand that we are not ruled by fundamental Hindu nationalists. India is a secular country and it is run by secularists," he said.

The full report I here: http://newindianexpress.com/nation/article1381141.ece

I am appalled by this absurd argument. Let me tell you why. As per the statements given above, it seems that if India chooses to execute a terrorist, the separatists in Jammu and Kashmir will be angry. One may be tempted to ask, so what? Don’t we boast of being tomorrow’s super power? Aren’t we been trying to get a permanent seat in the UN Security Council? Do we not have the obligation to protect our citizens and nation from these terrorists and separatists?

Or should we continue to be docile and petrified whenever our sovereignty is in question? Should the country tread farther down the road that will get India more marginalized and inconsequential in international socio-political arena?

If the system is incapable of protecting the nation from terrorists, naxals, separatists etc, one should be thinking about changing the system rather than surrendering to the anti-nationals.

Even more irresponsible and shocking is the second part of the statement. It seems to suggest that a ‘secular’ government in India should not punish a terrorist. I wonder why? Will the state be deemed as fundamentalist if it chooses to execute Afzal Guru? If we execute the assassins of Rajiv Gandhi, will India become anti-Tamil or anti-Hindu? If India’s secular credentials are so fragile, I would rather live in a nation “ruled by fundamental Hindu nationalists.”

It is exactly the kind of logic and argument that has allowed a Pak Interior Minister to meddle in the internal affairs of our country even while his nation continues to be a failed and rogue neighbor. It is high time that the elite 'secularists' in India showed some amount of sensibility while making such ‘enlightening’ statements. We live in an era when people protest if a commercial film happens to have villain characters from their community. Where are we headed???