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  • Justice Katju vs Arfa Khanum Sherwani: Unmasking Media Priorities in India

    Justice Katju vs Arfa Khanum Sherwani: Unmasking Media Priorities in India

    The godi media says ‘Hindu, Hindu, Hindu’, while Arfa Khanum Sherwani says ‘Muslim, Muslim, Muslim’, all the time. Thus they are two sides to the same coin, dividing and polarizing society, like the Hindu Mahasabha and Muslim League before Partition. 

    Arfa Khanum Sherwani and the godi media are two sides to the same coin

    Neither godi media nor Arfa talk much of massive poverty in India, record and rising unemployment, appalling level of child malnutrition, almost total lack of proper healthcare and good education for the masses, etc.

    https://indicanews.com/2023/07/17/justice-markandey-katju-lies-damned-lies-and-statistics-in-india/

    Arfa says that the voice of 20 crore Muslims in India has been suppressed. 

    She does not add that the voice of 100 crore poor Hindus has also been suppressed, because poverty is destructive of all rights. 

    Please see these videos of Arfa. Is there any mention of the massive socio-economic evils which plague 80% of our entire population of 1400 million people, not just Muslims, like poverty, hunger, unemployment, etc ? No, Arfa only highlights and focuses on the plight of Muslims, which is a half truth ( or rather a one sixth truth, because Muslims are only one sixth of the population of India ).

    I too condemn atocities on Muslims. But I believe that there are people other than Muslims who also live in India. And the solution to the basic problems of all ou people is a mighty united people’s struggle led by modern minded leaders determined to give our people a high standard of living and decent lives.

    https://indicanews.com/2023/09/29/justice-markandey-katju-arghya-senguptas-superficiality-and-inanity/

    https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/blogs/satyam-bruyat/a-french-revolution-is-approaching/

    I wonder who finances Arfa’s foreign trips ? She may say they are some foreign organisations. But what is the real aim of these foreign organisations ? Is it to keep India polarised so that India does not emerge as a modern Indian giant, like China, as explained in this video ?

    When she goes abroad Arfa keeps ranting about atrocities on Muslims ( which no doubt is the truth ), but never about poverty, unemployment, malnutrition, etc which afflict all in India, not just Muslims ( which is a far greater truth ). 

    Is she not behaving like Jinnah, who was a British agent responsible for Partition ? And are her financers not like the British who relentlessly pursued a divide and rule policy ?

  • Arfa Khanum Sherwani and the godi media are two sides to the same coin

    Arfa Khanum Sherwani and the godi media are two sides to the same coin

    The Senior Editor of the portal thewire.in, Arfa Khanum Sherwani, recently spoke at the Dr Ambedkar International Centre, New Delhi

    In her speech she spoke of the atrocities on Muslims in India, hate speeches against Muslims, voters being polarised, etc

    It is true that atrocities on Muslims have increased after the BJP came to power in 2014. However, Arfa did not mention a word that this was the inevitable and logical outcome of Partition of India in 1947 on the basis of the bogus two nation theory, as I have explained in this article :

    https://www.hastakshepnews.com/2023/09/newtons-third-law.html

    Arfa has never condemned Partition. What she advocates is more Muslim representation in legislatures, local bodies, etc. She said in her speech ” Jo hamaara haq hai hamein dila deejiye ”. 

    She also said that Muslim representation ” Inmein jaan baksh deta hai ”. 

    Everyone knows that persons in legislatures and local bodies in India, whether Hindu or Muslim, are mostly a set of rogues and rascals who have no genuine love for the country, but are there only for power and pelf. So according to Arfa, looting of the people should not be done by Hindus alone, but also by Muslims, and this will solve the country’s problems. 

    Arfa says that the voice of 20 crore Muslims in India has been crushed. What she deliberately does not say is that the voice of 100 crore poor Hindus in India has also been crushed, because poverty is destructive of all rights.

    Arfa said that being identified as a Muslim journalist ” ab main taaj ki tarah pahanti hun ”.

    While the godi media keeps harping on atrocities on Hindus, Arfa keeps harping on atrocities on Muslims. I submit that these are two sides of the same coin.

    In India there is massive poverty, record and rising unemployment, appalling level of child malnutrition ( Global Hunger Index has said that every second child in India is malnourished ), skyrocketing prices of food and other essential commodities, almost total lack of proper healthcare and good education for the masses, etc.

    https://m.economictimes.com/news/india/level-of-hunger-in-india-serious-ranks-107-on-global-hunger-index-2022/articleshow/94876759.cms#:~:text=India%20ranked%20107%20out%20of,the%20highest%20in%20the%20world.

    These socio economic evils are common to both Hindus and Muslims, and not to Muslims alone.

    To abolish them a mighty historical united people’s struggle, led by patriotic, modern minded leaders, is needed, which will be protracted, and in which tremendous sacrifices will have to be made.

    As to who will be those patriotic leaders determined to raise the standard of living of our people and give them decent lives, how will that struggle be conducted, how much time will it take to achieve success, what will be the alternative to parliamentary democracy under which India will rapidly industrialise and modernise, etc no one can predict. One cannot be rigid about historical forms. The enlightened sections of the people will have to use their creativity in solving these problems.

    Arfa has no understanding of all this, yet, like the godi media, she keeps strutting around like a peacock dispensing to the public her pearls of wisdom.