"Muslims should learn the lesson of mutual love, cooperation and
organization from RSS". Dr. Zakir Hussain, Former President of India
It has become fashionable, reckless,
mindless and irresponsible on the part of the government officials,
secularists, media, communists, liberals and other religious people to
criticize, blame, accuse and attribute any and all terrorist activities to
Hindus and Hindu organizations such as RSS, VHP and BJP either for vote bank
politics, maintaining control over political power, continuing deceptive
conversion practices, appeasing the minorities with quotas for undeserving
people, and so on. Any body, who is involved in making such slanderous,
blatant, hateful, inflammatory statements should be condemned, prosecuted and
punished appropriately.
The recent outburst by Home Minister Sri Sushilkumar Shinde in January 2013
that BJP and RSS are conducting terror-training camps and promoting “Hindu
terrorism” should be denounced and considered offensive and hateful. It is a
clear-cutexample of irresponsible statement, abuse of power and misuse of the
position one occupies. Sri Shinde should provide evidence to show that they are
promoting terrorism. He is not an illiterate, ordinary common man. He is the
Home Minister. He cannot be a loose cannon to say something without evidence
and reports from the intelligence agencies. He has total access to all the
intelligence reports.
In a similar fashion, former Home Minister P. Chidambaram also made a
comparable statement in August 2010 by saying that “there is the recently uncovered
phenomenon of saffron terrorism that has been implicated in many bomb blasts of
the past.” On October 25, 2010, Uttar Pradesh Congress Committee Chief
Rita Bahuguna Joshi made even more senseless, bizarre statement without any
evidence: "I demand from the Centre and state governments to keep an eye
on activities of RSS, which is involved in almost all the riots that took place
in the country. If activities of this fundamentalist organization could not be
controlled, it should be banned."So far neither Chidambaram nor Shinde was
able to produce any evidence to justify their statements. Does it take nearly
two and a half years to produce evidence? If there is evidence, it should not
have taken this long. Obviously one might surmise that the government may be
manufacturing the evidence and implicating the individuals falsely.
Some Christian writers like Frank Raj even said that Hindutva is even more
dangerous than sharia law. Blinded by the obsession with deceptive conversion
tactics to please their jealous God, and to go to the elusive heaven to carry
the message of their God, they leave aside decency, morals, ethics, dignity and
scruples and blame the innocent, honest, nonaggressive and peaceful Hindus.
Neither Hindus nor Hindu organizations have any interest in evangelizing the
citizens by putting a cross on India
as advocated by the Pope and no interest in terrorizing the people to dominate India,
as is the case with Islamic Terrorists. As former President, Sri Abdul Kalam,
said that India has never
invaded any other country for establishing its hegemony because the people of India respect
the freedom and independence of others. Hindus never imposed their faith either
though terror or deception.
It is an eye opener for any fair minded, rational, objective, logical and
balanced person irrespective of religion, caste, creed or political affiliation
to listen to Sri K T Thomas, a former Supreme Court Judge, a born Christian, a
practicing Christian and a Church going Christian as to what he thinks of RSS.
He observed and studied RSS from a distance for more than twenty years in order
to be objective.
Global Hindu Heritage Foundation listened to the speech and transcribed most of
his speech he had given in 2011, one year after P Chidambaram attributed
terrorism to Hindu organizations and calling the as Saffron Terror.
Printed below is the speech by Sri K T Thomas on August 1, 2011.
YouTube link is provided for you to watch and listen to the honest, frank and truthful
appraisal of RSS (Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh) by K T Thomas:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l49bTkCZqmw
Printed below is the speech -Transcribed and Condensed.
End smear campaign against RSS, says former SC judge Thomas
Aug 01,2011
Respected Guruji.
I deem it as areal honor and a privilege that I am invited to preside over this
very highly venerated function – Guru Puja. You know from my name I am a
Christian. I was born as a Christian and practice in that religion. I am a
church going Christian. My advantage is that I have also learnt many things
about RSS. I developed an admiration toward this. It is a disciplined core of
this country as early as 1979 (I came to know) when I was posted as Additional
District Judge in Calicut.
The Principal District Judge was I R Srinivas. We will agree that his honesty
is 100 percent. His integrity is transfer. His scholarship is unparalleled. And
commitment to this country is unquestioned. And above all, the disciplined life
he followed was also admirable. On his retirement I took over. Immediately
after his retirement he became a member of RSS. We used to communicate
and converse on many things. That occasion gave me the advantage of jettisoning
many things, which the smearing and simmering propaganda made by interested
persons outside about RSS would be eliminated in my mind. I became an admirer
of this organization. I regard many things on the objectivity point of view.
Prejudice is weakness of human being. Because, a human being is not prepared to
believe a thing without objectivity.
When objectivity is applied to the smearing propaganda made earlier that RSS is
responsible for the murder of Mahatma Gandhi appears to me to be unjust and
uncharitable. I learned more about it.
Of course, the mere fact that an assassin happened be once upon a time a member
of that organization cannot make a disciplined organization responsible for the
murder of the Father of the Nation…. There should be objectivity in
approaching these things. Then, I went and read the judgment of Justice
Khosla on the Mahatma Gandhi assassination. Then I learned that the learned
Judge of Punjab, Justice Khosla completely exonerated RSS as having anything to
do with the assassination of Mahatma Gandhi. I say the smearing campaign must
end in this country. Otherwise it will be really unjust on the part of any one.
I had an opportunity to travel with Sudarshanji from Chennai
to my hometown. It was amazing to learn about his great scholarship and how he
insisted on a simple living. And I found out that this is the hallmark of the
members of this great organization, Simple living and High thinking. They used
to exchange Christmas cards with a quotation from a Gospel of Bible and a
precept from Bhagavad Gita. That gave me an opportunity to learn more and more
about this organization.
The best test I had in my life about this organization is during the dark
months of emergency when Indira Gandhi declared to suspend amajor portion of
the constitution. When the whole country was benumbed before whip swished
by Mrs. Indira Gandhi, the only nonpolitical organization that worked
fearlessly in subterranean sector, was RSS. The result was that this
great country of Bharath could get liberated from the pangs of a dictatorship.
We owe very much to this organization for sacrificing many lives and many of the
pleasures of life for the purpose of regaining what our leaders gained for this
country, mainly the fundamental rights of this country. I am disturbed in
seeing that for the sake of vote bank politics the security of the nation is
sacrificed.
In Article 19 of the Constitution, there is a catalogue of freedoms listed for
Indian people.But, every such freedom is restricted to the security of the
nation. In constitution, we are very insistent that primodality should be
given to the security of the nation because we have to live in the state. I
find many instances of official activities, governmental and political, where
security is given less prominence than vote bank, I am really disturbed. That
is a matter on which the country should stand unanimously and uniformly with
strident voice and declare that we will not tolerate. Such a policy should be
followed. The propaganda that RSS is anti-minority is a baseless
propaganda. After all, what is a minority? I have realized according to RSS,
whatever religion you belong to, you must be a full patriot. Your faith is
immaterial. Whichever faith you follow, only insistence for them is that you
should not have extra territorial loyalties. I also realize that no one is
entitled to tell somebody else that my religion is better than your religion
and therefore abandon your religion and join my religion.No person, who has any
knowledge of the fundamentals of his own religion, can say that. The basic
percept of his own religion is that the other religion is not only equally
important but multiplicity of religions some times is a gift of God to man kind
because all religions have got weaknesses. In order to replenish the weakness
of one’s religion, some benefits are given to another religion. Besides, a
country where composite cultures have been created, faith is immaterial where
your loyalty, your commitment and your patriotism should be given the most
important thing (priority).
I have a different concept of minorityism. On many platforms I received
more brickbats than flowers on this aspect. Who is minority in this
country? Minority is discernible from article 29 of the Constitution
where any section of India
can be a minority. It can be based on culture, script, and language. Any
section, which is suffering from any disadvantage, could be a minority provided
they are numerically less. Faith wise, minority is recognized in the article 30
only for one limited purpose. That is for conducting educational institutions
without stream roller majority rolling over that. If a person is able to read
article 29 first, as a student of Constitution I will tell you it does not
envisage minority based on religion or faith. Comes to article 29, this word
religion is mentioned only with regard to educational institutions. I was a
member of 11 judges bench Supreme Court trust which could not complete the
argument in TMIP case. The point of view which emerged among the majority of
judges that time was that the education envisaged in article 30 should only be
for secular education not professional education. When we put it to Parimal
(?), the great lawyer became angry and he said that is an aspect which has been
concluded long long ago that the word education would cover much beyond secular
education. Unfortunately our bench could not complete hearings and judgment
could not be delivered. Many years later after my retirement, another bench was
formed with 11 judges and there also Mr. Paliyer made the arguments; and
finally the verdict came that education in article 30 is at any level. I am
mentioning for another reason. That great lawyer has written an autobiography
where in he confessed that his interpretation of education was a disaster for
the whole country. I wanted to mention this at some august place. I have chosen
this assembly for bringing to their notice that the education in article 30
even according to the great lawyer who pioneered this argument feels that it
should be limited only to secular education.
In a big country like India,
minority should have nothing to do with faith. Faith could be changed by any
one. That is exactly what happened. When a medical college was started by
Paliniappa Ground (?) in Tamil Nadu, he converted into Christianity because he
could get more benefits.It should not happen in a secular country like ours.
In a secular republic, religion should not be your identity. Being an Indian
shall be your identity. That is precisely what Zakir Hussain said when he
became Rashtra Pathi Of India. When T V R Shenoy congratulated him by saying
that that it is a great victory for Secularism, Zakir Hussain said,“In what way
it is a victory.” Rashtra Pathi was smiling. Shenoy asked, “why your are
laughing.” Zakir Hussain said,“I am smiling at the notion of your
secularism.” Then he said, “Secularism will be achieved only the day when
you do not know my religion.”
My dear friends, take it for me secularism has nothing to do with religion in
this country. You should not know my religion. In the same way I should not
know your religion.
Whatever your faith may be, your primary commitment should be to this nation.
In this matter, I very much admire. I am a great admirer of this organization
(RSS). The discipline exhibited everywhere and the manner in which the flowers
are offered, gave me the real impression that the discipline is given the real
impetus to your working and performances. Discipline is needed for a nation.
Discipline is a fundamental thing for the growth of the nation. Whichever
nation has progressed, it is because of the discipline that has been inculcated
in the citizens. In that matter, RSS is a model to me also.
GHHF Core Team