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Header: Holland faces India heat
Sub-header: Envoy expresses regret after being read the riot act over Amsterdam detentions
The news item begins with: "THE TREATMENT meted out to 12 Indians detained and later released after a pilot alert on Northwest Airlines flight in Amsterdam last Wednesday turned into a diplomatic row between India and the Netherlands".
The question that comes to my mind is this:
- Such significance has been attached to this particular issue by the Central Government and the prominent media
- Why?
- Is it because all those 12 people were Muslims?
- What would have been the attitude of the Central Government and the prominent media if the 12 were Hindus?
To seek an answer to this question, I looked at their recent conduct in the following instance:
- Not long before, probably it was the last month, when it happened in Malaysia
- A significant Hindu temple was destroyed by Malaysian authorities
- The destruction was carried out in full public view when a significanr Devi Puja was in progress inside the temple
- The devotees present requested the authorities to let the Puja be concluded
- The least the authorities could have done is to have agreed to that request
- But they did not
- They destroyed the temple without letting the Puja be completed
- What did Central Government of our country do?
- How much coverage the prominent media in our country gave to this news?
- You know the answers
- Both ignored it as if nothing had happened that ever mattered
Remembering this very recent episode a few other questions surfaced my mind:
- As long as the Central Government and the prominent media are concerned
- Where their loyalty lies?
- We hear that our country has some 80% Hindus
- Does the Central Government care for Hindu sentiments?
- The answer appears to be a big NO, NOT AT ALL
- I also hear that our country has some 14-15% Muslims
- Does the Central Government care for the Muslim sentiments?
- The answer appears to be a big YES, YES, YES
- And, what about the prominent media?
- Who buys their newspapers?
- Isn't it 80% Hindus?
- Where does their pay packet come from?
- Isn't it from the revenue that newspapers generate from their Hindu customers?
- Then why do they purposefully ignore Hindu interests?
- And why are they always in the forefront trying to protect Muslim sentiments?
- At least one good example of that can be found almost every day in our newspapers
- Should it mean that a bigger pay packet, the hidden one, reaches their pocket coming from rich Muslim countries like Malaysia, Saudi Arabia, Dubai, etc?
- Is this the reason their loyalty lies with the Muslims, not with the Hindus?
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