Reuters' shameful Journalism

Reuters wanna be Huffington Post?           

It all started with this tweet from Reuters India, its content intended to incite and enrage people on both sides of political divide.

I was under the false notion that the tribe of small-minded journalists have been effectively silenced with the BJP getting elected, an electoral result that should have stunned them into retrospection. But I guess it applies to those with integrity and conscience. 

The public was in no mood to heed to the pontifications of the media along the leftist ideological line. I also did not think people like Srinivasan Jain would change, because in my opinion, he does not have the bare minimum intelligence that is required to change one’s own mind. His kind is a miraculous inanity.

But this article published by Reuters India took me by surprise. This is the one of the most atrocious and biased articles in recent times. It does has not even try to conceal lack of objectivity in its eagerness to pay obeisance to their masters, be it left, liberal or any other kind of mindlessness. Articles in Al Queda magazines may have been more objective.

The opening salvo is not reporting but editorial.

 “Fired up and full of vitriol, Hindu activist Rajeshwar Singh is on a mission to end centuries of religious diversity in India, one conversion at a time.”

The religious diversity that has been brought into India was not through love and peace. It was by force, rape, death, coercion, bribe, ruse and fraud, depending upon the religious denomination that proselytized. It is not like Buddhism, Jainism or other variants of Hinduism that arose from the land. They all were imported and forced by the rulers of the invaders.

Having made that editorial that remains unconnected to the article, there was no substantiation of that allegation ever in the article.

Rajeshwar, to qualify for the epithet from Rupam Jain Nair and Frank Jack Daniel, had said that “we will not let the conspiracy of church or mosque succeed in Bharat (India),"

Do the authors think there is no conspiracy? If so, let them say so and enough truth can be provided to shut them up. It may not make a dent on their sold out souls, though.

In response, I posed them a question, with no response.

 I have repeated the question many times with no answers from the media traders.

One of the harshest allegations runs like this: “Singh is affiliated to the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), a vast nationalist volunteer organisation that aims to unify Hindus "to carry the nation to the pinnacle of glory"

Is being a nationalist volunteer organization crime? Is an attempt to unify Hindus “to carry the nation to the pinnacle of glory” repugnant? What do the authors want to say? Is selling one’s nation, as a pimp would a prostitute, the highest moral standard one should strive to reach? Is wishing for the destruction of the motherland the pinnacle of glory?  

Going on, the twosome avers that Police investigations have found no evidence of ‘Love Jihad’. They have carefully avoided reported incidents, scourging for absence of evidences. Classic case of looking for things where you know the things are’nt

I am quoting from Wikipedia's observation by court on this matter. The judge refers to ‘blessings of some outfit’ and ‘concerted effort’. Of course the Love Jihad is not something the supremacist religionists run by advertising in front page of Times of India. It is run very surreptitiously and the evidences are available on the surface or they are commonplace. 

A court observation has escaped their reporting while the police reports have found place in the article. The court observation is a stronger indicator. The evidence is here to see very clearly but the authors have cleverly kept truth out of it. One would like to know if it was intentional or was it ineptitude as journalists. In both cases, the outcome should only be a pink slip.
The article does not refer to a call from the Christians, hardly from the RSS camp.

Not the 4000 or so cases in Kerala in the last five years. Not the incidences in Mangalore. Not the reference to it in Maharashtra assembly.

If at all conversions have taken place in India, as a rule, all these years, they have been carried out by Christians and Muslims. The money being pumped into India is phenomenal, to say the least. World Vision is accused of employing along religious lines, in contradiction to what they claim to be doing, lending credence to the allegation that it is a bogey for conversion. Islam, on its part has pursued aggressive conversion programs.

As a system, these are the two religions that impose a duty on its followers to bring people belonging to other religions into their fold. Hindu scriptures, while not uniformly applicable on all those who call themselves as Hindus,  are least mindful of other religionists following their own, in all the last 1300 years or so. India has also provided refuge to persecuted minorities like Parsis and has never forced the home grown religions on the visitors.

In the last few centuries the Muslims have recorded history of forceful conversion, as they do now in Syria, Iraq and other countries, in India. Christians have adopted every conceivable ruse and fraudulent method to entice the innocent native Indians to convert to Christianity. In the recent years, one of the most profitable cottage industries being proselytization, it begins in a small hut converting the poor masses but miraculously ends up in massive concrete structures for praying and the facilitators.

In this background, the two journalists have found a grave fault in a small time Pracharak’s bravado calling for reconversion of Christians and Muslims.

If Christians can convert, if Muslims convert, why can’t a Hindu? How does it become vitriolic? Does it mean that Muslims and Christians have indulged in centuries of vitriol? Why was it not a problem till date?

Scandalous insinuations are being slyly cast on BJP and RSS. I am not sure if the two are aware of the fact that their words are completely false and they do not have the support of the collusive Congress government which was willing to bankroll anyone game to tarnish Hindu religion and Indians who were not slaves of the west.

The sly insinuations fall just short of saying anything concrete, a sheer waste of the paper it is printed on. They also make allegations in this article with no substance to back it. If Yogi Adityanath is accused of delivering inflammatory speeches, is there any mateiral to substantiate it? Is asking Hindus to retaliate to Muslim transgression a crime? If Muslims can convert Hindu women by marrying, what is wrong if Hindus also begin to play the same game? Clearly it shows that these two have antipathy towards Hinduism and would rather see a one sided erosion of its followers.

After all this, there is a footnote that says the journalists are required fair presentation. It is a shame that Reuters is lending cover for those who further personal agendas in the name of journalism. There is no shred of credibility in the article, nor response from the authors when their views are challenged. It is a shoot and scoot method that befits fringe political ideologists like Naxals, Maoists and the like. Reuters pays such people to belittle the collective wisdom of the people of India who have elected BJP. India should slowly edge out such biased news agencies unless they start showing fairness in their reporting. That will happen.

It is people like these two who bury the rape of hundreds of Yezidis,because they do not fall in the their kind of political coloring. These are the type who buried the rape of millions in Darfur by Supremacist Arab Muslims because it is not politically correct. Or because the two are sh1t scared of the bullies who have niceties when it comes to swinging a dagger. These are from the same tribe that sang to the slaughter of Stalin, Lenin and other leftist terrorists. You never hear them whispering against the really violent, intolerant ones fearing for their own life but to put a few ill-earned dollars in the bank are not averse to hitting below the belt of those who cannot defend themselves.
In today's world, who poses threat to peace? Is it ISIS, Al Queda, Boko Haram or RSS? And where do the real threats fall? It takes not more than two gray cells to come to the correct conclusion but alas these two don't have it amongst the two of them. Or have exchanged it for whatever consideration that has been agree upon, monetary or otherwise.

The footnote is an insult to injury.
Footnote from Reuters: Thomson Reuters journalists are subject to an Editorial Handbook which requires fair presentation and disclosure of relevant interests. Fair presentation, my foot.

REUTER sucks!

dwimidha@gmail.com 

ISIS on rampage - How tolerant can we be?

While ISIS is at killing the ‘others’ Game theory says…

I have often thought of muting my own thoughts, as written here, along the lines of this piece but the restraint just  breached with the limitless terror ISIS unleashes with impunity.

ISIS is pure breed, pedigree Islamists and their call appears to be based on Islam. I have not heard any religious heads find flaw with their call to establish the ‘Caliphate’. I have seen Indian Journalists from Liberal camp, or Islamic journalists who have camped there till their Sharia arrives, in fact wishing ISIS would go and help Hamas. There is no shred of morals, even for showing.

ISIS kills people, puts up severed heads on stakes to terrorize the living into submission, converts the rest and hunts down the residual. This is the second time a Genocide has been carried out successfully, under the watchful eyes of UN, the first being Darfur. Ooops, third, almost forgot Rwanda.  Both times the culprits come from same stock  The victims, all of them have only one thing in common. They are not Muslims or the kind of Muslims that ISIS Islamists approves of.  Need to remember the newpaper and media reports that say that ISIS Islamists have robust support in many countries amongst the Muslim population. ISIS flags have appeared in Tamil Nadu and Kashmir in India and all over Europe and in other parts of the world.

 

While the killing goes on, there is hardly anyone in a hurry to stop them. In the case of non-Muslims, it is overwhelmingly the sensibilities ingrained in our society, filtered by politically correct expression actually drive us to bury our head in the sand while the crime goes on. In the case of Muslims, one is not sure as there is no protest except from a small sane minority who have overcome the effect of the teachings of religion.

Let us look at it from a Game theory perspective

Options are:

1.       That is, if Islamists kill and non-Islamists do not kill, non-Islamists get eliminated.

2.       If Islamists kill and non-Islamists also kill in return, both may have some survivors left

3.       If Islamists do not kill and non-Islamists kill Islamists will get eliminated

4.       If Islamists do not kill and non-Islamists also do not, both thrive

The best option is, option for civil and democratic society is 4. But since Islamists are not willing to follow the strategy of not-killing the others, compelled by their belief system that imposes a duty on them to kill or convert the other, as claimed by ISIS, the only option left to non-Islamists is to destroy ISIS  as short term objective.
As a long term objective, the non-Islamists also should impose sufficient restrictions on Islamists so as to prevent the repeat of this mad violence ever again. Mostly in the countries where democracy is in force.

If ISIS is allowed to kill non-Islamists, it is a no brainer, the number of ISIS kind of people, Islamists, will increase and non-Islamists will decrease. With less men amongst non-Islamists and their women /womb being converted to make more Islamists, the strength of ISIS will only grow. The strategy of showing the other cheek does not work in 21^st century.

The pure Islamists also do not shy away from stating that ‘secularism’ is not acceptable. For them it is “Islam or bust’ which, if achieved, means we, the rest are all bust. The real fight is between Islam pedigree and democracy. The moderate Muslims are most likely to line up behind the Jihadist as the threat of ‘Apostasy’ is pregnant with dire consequence, including ending up as a human ornament on stakes.

(Secularism is religion of Kafirs- Board in Pakistan, #ISIS not yet there )

There is one thing that Game Theory says that is logical. When adversary attacks, you too respond with attack and when the adversary ceases to attack (having learned the lesson that it is the act of attacking that begot attack from the other side) cease to, to bring and enforce the most favorable behavior in the adversary.

Without getting emotional, I see only there are only two options left to those following democracy.

1.       Attack anyone who resorts to killing without any feeling of remorse, the terror Islamists variety. This is like doing a surgery. Removal of cancerous growth is to be approached as a rational act and not an emotional one.

2.       Deny benefits of democracy to any country that follows Islamic law , including education, citizenship and domicile benefits.Consider repatriation also. 
           Make it clear that it is an ‘either’ or ‘or’ option. Either one is a follower of Islam that demands Sharia codes to be the ‘governing  jurisprudence’ or a believer in democratic values. Believer in both is from ‘Taqqia’ constituency. Renunciation of select parts of Islamic teachings is prerequisite to gain entry into 'democratic' world. It is akin to banning Nazism.

The dead have rights too and we cannot afford to bury those rights without being reminded of our collective guilt. If someone has taken away their right to live, with force, consequently, such criminals also lose their right to live. No mercy with them who carry out murders to achieve a political goal that will make me, you and all others who are not pedigree Islamists, a slave in their scheme of things. If you do not stand up to challenge, we all are kicking the can down the road.

Time to stand up and eliminate the political Ebola altogether! There is no time of niceties. Those who wish and implement death to men, women and children as means to establish their version of politics are evil incarnate. Any mercy shown to them is spitting on the graves of those innocent human beings, killed in the last 1300 years, who unwittingly paid the price for some supremacist's blood-thirsty evil ambition to impose a demonic will. And on those being killed in Iraq, Kurdistan and Syria daily.

India's vote against Israel in UN - Another look

When ‘Best’ is the enemy of ‘Good’, the Bad wins

From yesterday I have been fighting BJP supporters who have been vocal in protesting against India’s vote against Israel.

UN voting

Some of the contents were strong indeed.

Some made comparison with UPA

Some went even further

In two months,  the marriage appeared to be in tatters, with no trace having had a honey moon together. The tone was not of disagreement but of betrayal and cheating. In good measure this was also there on twitter.

And this

Somehow most people get hurt by actions and inactions of our political leaders and are willing to launch into destructive mode without a second thought.

Blast from the past

On May 16th 2014, the results of the new election were announced and we are into the third month since BJP assumed power. It does not mean that BJP has started a new era totally divested of the consequences of actions of the past government. It is a continuation.

Let us look at what BJP inherited from  Congress.

1.       Economy in shambles

2.       Media manned by Congress sympathizers (including film Industry)

3.       Oligapoly in the name of coterie

4.       Democratic institutions eroded by parallel rule of NAC

5.       A PM who stood and watched for two decades

6.       Corrupted idea of secularism, appeasement in exchange for votes policy

7.       Divisive and internicine caste politics

8.       Communal elements who hold sway within India with trans-border loyalty

9.       Politicized administrative machinery

10.   Judiciary which seems to have been influenced by Executive

11.   Politicized Defence forces

12.   Looted public assets

13.   Artificially inflated $ rate, suspected to fund election

14.   Anti-Majoritism

15.   Revengeful tax policies

16.   Failing infrastructure

17.   Demoralized manufacturing sector

18.   ……

19.   ……

The net of it is, India was slowly wasting away its economic power due to inaction, looting and policy coma. There was a group of people with no direct mandate from people, yet acting as one with powers that even exceeded the Cabinet. Media spoke and wrote what the Congress government wanted and wrapped news that were not palatable to the establishment. Malicious and anti-democratic camapigns were carried out against elected state Governments, reducing the federal structure to a farce. Free speech was under pressure with draconian laws. CBI was not ashamed of carrying a moniker “Congress Bureau of Investigation”. Cases against political leaders were dropped which was miraculously and without fail followed by its support to Congress .

Those who are crying like children denied of a toffee should remember what it was two months ago. This change was not achieved with ease. Modiji had to fight all of them without compromising what he stood for, the politics, the power, media, NGOs, false cases, Collectors and Election commissoners.

Few chapters can be filled to remind us of the ditch we were in during Congress time.

Promise of Future

There is a clear larger objective BJP keeps repeating, that is,  Congress Mukht Bharat. This is an idea to which many like me have voted as the idea of Congress has become so corrupt that there is no chance that it will turn around to make contribution to our nation.  Mother and Son are unabashedly strutting around as divine rulers of India while the slaves are ready to accept their fuedal lords without questioning, unbecoming of members of democracy.

With the election of BJP, India cannot start doing what is right immediately. It is a strategic move that should take into consideration our economic and social plights.

The only way the dreams inspired by BJP, for which people have voted, becomes a chance of becoming reality is by India becoming economically strong.

You need more money to build a world class defence. Wars are not fought with Guns and Ships. It is fought with money.

You need more money to invest in infrastructure that will go in reducing our oil dependency. Irony is, if the economy spurs, so spurs demand for oil and consequenty the price. It would seem we Indians work harder to pay more to our oil suppliers. To move the energy dependency partially to local sources is not something one can do in a day or a month or year. And till it is done, it is foolish to pick a fracas with our energy suppliers for any such incident only will increase our oil bill. Lower our saving. The largest objective is to avoid that, even if it means voting against Israel as a short term measure.

You need more money to lay dedicated, high speed railway tracks which will reduce our oil consumption, moving the freight traffic from road to rail.

We need more money to build capacity in Passenger rail to move more passengers from road to rail.

We need more money to supply power to produce Steel and Cement to build that rail line

We need more money to provide energy to those Steel and Cement plants to produce more Steel and Cement

And to achieve all these, we need patience.

 If we vote with Israel, those who oppose us should know that we cannot be pushed because we are strong. Bravado is not the answer. It works only in Amitabh and Dharam movies and not in real life.

So the fight is long and demanding. The fruits may not be available to some of us in our lifetime. It may elude most of us for years. But I thought the idea of electing BJP to power emnated from Nationalists who are ready for a sacrifice and a long fight to make our nation stronger. To see people who lose heart in two months is disappointing.

The emotionally challenged BJP fans are asking for the best and now. There is a message for them. When you demand the best, you are killing the good. And when you kill the good, only the bad will remain on the field, with Best unachieved, good dead and only bad surviving.

All this bickering for ideal state will weaken a realistic chance we have to build a great nation in thenext 10 years. While we build we will do things we will cherish and also things that we know we wish we do not have to. We will do things we will regret. But as long as the actions are not meant to defeat the objective with which we started, remember, short term sacrifices are only short term.

Dear BJP voters, kindly think about it. Change will take time. To take a weak country to a position of strength will take time. First we have to stand strong as an economic power before we flaunt our political muscles.

Jai Hindi

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