No one should be blamed to conclude that RSS is learning to profit from the doctrines of Hitler. Its totally another matter that in its blind enmity against Muslims its favorite country in the world is Israel.
IT WAS vintage Rahul Gandhi, an embodiment of courage and honesty, a modest youth leader who has finally thrown the gauntlet in the court of obscurantist, communalists and fascists. In his press conference in Bhopal on Wednesday he equated Rashtriya Swyamsevak Sangh with the banned Students Islamic Movement of India.
He said that both are preaching hard-line fundamental ideologies. SIMI was a proscribed outfit and RSS is a Nagpur based right-wing Hindu group. According to him,” Both these organizations preach fundamentalist ideologies. That’s a fact and nothing is going to change the fact.”The Sangh Parivar reacted by saying - Only a sick mind can do it. He seems to have lost his mental balance. The RSS is an institute of nationalist thought while SIMI is banned by Congress government as it was banned by us when we were in power.
The writer is neither an particular admirer of Congress, Sonia Ji, Manmohan Singh or Rahul Baba. However, one must not fail to register the appreciation where and when it is due; one should not hesitate also to put the mirror if someone challenges the fundamental principle of co-existence and democracy. Following are the pearls of wisdom from the top luminary of RSS and it is left for the reader to draw his own conclusions.
“To keep up the purity of the Race and its culture, Germany shocked the world by her purging the country of the Semitic races—the Jews. Race pride at its highest has been manifested here. Germany has also shown how well nigh impossible it is for Races and cultures, having differences going to the root, to be assimilated into one united whole, a good lesson for us in Hindustan to learn and profit by.”
– Madhavrao Golwalkar, We, or Our Nation Defined, Nagpur: Bharat publications, 1939, p. 37
No one should be blamed to conclude that RSS is learning to profit from the doctrines of Hitler. Its totally another matter that in its blind enmity against Muslims its favorite country in the world is Israel. All fascist movements have few things in common. They begin as quasi-religious “spirited’ movements; they indoctrinate their follower to believe that they are in minority even if they are in majority and they put a lot of emphasis on health and purity of body. RSS is no exception. What they forget that the enlightened youth of India is not going to buy their anachronistic philosophy. The ordinary Indian youth recoil at the thought that they could be bound together by the chains of dogma and prejudice. Needless to say that no Muslim has any problem with Hindutva as long as it doesn’t trample upon their fundamental rights; as long they are allowed to live with dignity; as long there is no apartheid. They know that followers of other faith won’t accept the saffronization of their lives at any cost. RSS has a flawed vision that inspires to debunk the secularism and adopt the undercurrents of TMI (Toxic Majoritarian Ideology). This is where Rahul Baba has hit them, this is where he has nailed them to the counter. The time is not very far when the Indians would realize that this organization is trying to wring the last drop of juice from Hindu ideology. We have full trust in the emerging enlightened youth. Well done Rahul !And to conclude the write-up:“As a final result of the poison, the country had to suffer the sacrifice of the invaluable life of Gandhiji. Even an iota of the sympathy of the Government or of the people no more remained for the RSS. In fact, opposition grew. Opposition turned more severe when the RSS men expressed joy and distributed sweets after Gandhiji's death.” – Sardar Patel – freedom fighter, first Home Minister and Deputy Prime Minister of India
I think the author does not know history or probably he reads history written by communists for whom truth and honesty are alien. Every quote from a book or article needs to be read in conjunction with the context and time at which it was written. I think the aauthor was neither born nor he has seen how RSS functions before calling RSS a fascist organiztion. Nowhere in RSS it is preached that muslims should be isolated from the main stream. Nepal had guts to call itself a Hindu nation whereas the secularists in India think Bankim Chandra Chtterjee is a fundamentalist and his Vande Matarm is not accepted as national song to appease muslims of the country at the cost of Hindus. One should not forget the selfless service RSs volunteers rendered during national calamities like Morvi breach, Divi taluka cyclone and Bhuj earthquake. The houses built by RSS volunteers in Divi in Andhra cyclone are still standing tall and families are living there whereas the houses built by Congress workers fell within nine months from the day of construction. Every organization of the size of RSS will have few aberrations but to smear them as fascists and fundamentalists and coin words of saffron terror as P Chindambaram did speaks volumes about the hate preached by these so called secularists. These kind of hate campaigns does not deter RSS and its volunteers. They run more than one lakh schools across India and they do not take any government grants. I think the author should study an organization before writing one sided hearsay articles not based on any facts or research.