The Constitution actually conceives ‘minority’ as an open category to protect the interests of various religious, linguistic and culturally distinctive groups.
In India, we are accustomed to glacial change. We love appointing Committees to ‘look into’ reform. Unfortunately for us, the rest of the world moves fast.
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From Munir’s point of view, a few bumps here and there is par for the course. He isn’t going to drive his dumper truck to its doom. He wants to use it as a weapon.
The only importance the Babri Masjid has is of archeological value, it was a historic monument.
It should be handed over to Hindus as sentiment and religious superstition is high on their side.
It also gives the RSS (a bunch of rascals) an excuse to divide communities and garner the vote.
THE HINDUS ARE WELCOME TO THE SITE
Ram was a character out of Mythology.
It shows the ignorance of the masses in India
Hindus are a very primitive people.
Muslims too are fairly ignorant too.
We must improve standards of education
This issue goes beyond the preservation of cultural heritage. India has thousands of sites of cultural, historical significance that are lying neglected, exposed to the elements. What happened on 6th December 1992 is well understood. Two different ways of structuring Indian society in conflict. The Constitution has place for only one. 2. The Babri Masjid was constructed four hundred years before Mr Advani was born. Unclear who invested him with the power to declaim : I hold there is no mosque there. Only the “ structure “ – some would say, vivadit dhaancha – of a mosque above the temple.
If you ask me — the problem is nobody asks me — the MOST JUST solution to the Ayodhya issue can be worked out as follows:
1) since there were numerous temples in Ayodhya through out history, it cannot be ascertained WHICH of those temples had MEGA IMPORTANCE in lord Ram’s life — like the site where he was born, or where he was coronated, or where he first sat on his throne after return from exile, etc. In the absence of any such irrefutable information, all temples in Ayodhya are and were EQUALLY SACROSANCT.
2) therefore, even if there WAS a temple at the site of the now-defunct Babri masjid, no individual of present or past, no shred of history can incontrovertibly say that THAT temple was of any MEGA IMPORTANCE in lord Ram’s life.
The only SURE facts are that lord Ram was born SOMEWHERE within Ayodhya, because Ayodhya was his father king Dashrath’s kingdom.
3) in view of the above two points it is reasonable to say that the importance being ascribed to the said temple at the Babri site is INSINUATED by some self-righteous Hindus like the RSS BJP VHP Bajrang Dal and others, none of which can claim to represent the MAJORITY Hindu view on THIS particular issue, because even the only elected entity out of them, the BJP has NEVER won an election on this temple issue.
This is getting a bit too much. These “unelected” people are thumping their chests as if they are the true representatives of Hindus at large!! Supreme Court should suspend all proceedings in the Ram temple case and conduct a national referendum on:
SHOULD RAM TEMPLE BE BUILT IN AYODHYA ON AN UNDISPUTED PIECE OF LAND, OR ON THE SITE WHERE A MUSLIM MOSQUE WAS DESTROYED WITHOUT ANY LEGAL PERMISSION?
In Hindi:
Ayodhya mein Ram mandir nir-vivadit sthaan par banaana chahiye, ya uss sthaan par jahaan musalmanoan ki ek masjid binaa kisi kanooni ijaazat ke giraayai gayi thi?
Ditto with a mosque — a mosque too should be built in Ayodhya, BUT NOT at the disputed site because it will unnecessarily perpetuate the acrimonious debate. Muslims will do well to remember that Prophet Muhammad sometimes prayed sitting at the back of his camel, whichever direction his camel happened to be going in (obviously not necessarily towards Mecca); sometimes he prayed with his shoes on; sometimes when the weather was foul he exhorted his followers to pray WITHIN THEIR HOMES and not bother to come to the mosque, etc. The Prophet’s essential message was: pray to God with sincerity, whichever way or wherever you do.
And now to the most important point of my suggestion: what exactly to do with the disputed site??? My first suggestion is, drop the name of Babar; he was a nobody; so what if he was a king, he was an ordinary mortal like you and me. Secondly, build on the disputed site something that will serve, and will be dear to all Hindus and Muslims, and therefore will be dear to God — no matter whether we call him Ram or Allah. A most modern and FREE hospital should be built there:
RAM — MUHAMMED NATIONAL HOSPITAL
FOR THE POOR
Well guys, this act in one fell swoop will finish the entire controversy FOR GOOD, and for the good of entire country.
The only importance the Babri Masjid has is of archeological value, it was a historic monument.
It should be handed over to Hindus as sentiment and religious superstition is high on their side.
It also gives the RSS (a bunch of rascals) an excuse to divide communities and garner the vote.
THE HINDUS ARE WELCOME TO THE SITE
Ram was a character out of Mythology.
It shows the ignorance of the masses in India
Hindus are a very primitive people.
Muslims too are fairly ignorant too.
We must improve standards of education
This issue goes beyond the preservation of cultural heritage. India has thousands of sites of cultural, historical significance that are lying neglected, exposed to the elements. What happened on 6th December 1992 is well understood. Two different ways of structuring Indian society in conflict. The Constitution has place for only one. 2. The Babri Masjid was constructed four hundred years before Mr Advani was born. Unclear who invested him with the power to declaim : I hold there is no mosque there. Only the “ structure “ – some would say, vivadit dhaancha – of a mosque above the temple.
If you ask me — the problem is nobody asks me — the MOST JUST solution to the Ayodhya issue can be worked out as follows:
1) since there were numerous temples in Ayodhya through out history, it cannot be ascertained WHICH of those temples had MEGA IMPORTANCE in lord Ram’s life — like the site where he was born, or where he was coronated, or where he first sat on his throne after return from exile, etc. In the absence of any such irrefutable information, all temples in Ayodhya are and were EQUALLY SACROSANCT.
2) therefore, even if there WAS a temple at the site of the now-defunct Babri masjid, no individual of present or past, no shred of history can incontrovertibly say that THAT temple was of any MEGA IMPORTANCE in lord Ram’s life.
The only SURE facts are that lord Ram was born SOMEWHERE within Ayodhya, because Ayodhya was his father king Dashrath’s kingdom.
3) in view of the above two points it is reasonable to say that the importance being ascribed to the said temple at the Babri site is INSINUATED by some self-righteous Hindus like the RSS BJP VHP Bajrang Dal and others, none of which can claim to represent the MAJORITY Hindu view on THIS particular issue, because even the only elected entity out of them, the BJP has NEVER won an election on this temple issue.
This is getting a bit too much. These “unelected” people are thumping their chests as if they are the true representatives of Hindus at large!! Supreme Court should suspend all proceedings in the Ram temple case and conduct a national referendum on:
SHOULD RAM TEMPLE BE BUILT IN AYODHYA ON AN UNDISPUTED PIECE OF LAND, OR ON THE SITE WHERE A MUSLIM MOSQUE WAS DESTROYED WITHOUT ANY LEGAL PERMISSION?
In Hindi:
Ayodhya mein Ram mandir nir-vivadit sthaan par banaana chahiye, ya uss sthaan par jahaan musalmanoan ki ek masjid binaa kisi kanooni ijaazat ke giraayai gayi thi?
Ditto with a mosque — a mosque too should be built in Ayodhya, BUT NOT at the disputed site because it will unnecessarily perpetuate the acrimonious debate. Muslims will do well to remember that Prophet Muhammad sometimes prayed sitting at the back of his camel, whichever direction his camel happened to be going in (obviously not necessarily towards Mecca); sometimes he prayed with his shoes on; sometimes when the weather was foul he exhorted his followers to pray WITHIN THEIR HOMES and not bother to come to the mosque, etc. The Prophet’s essential message was: pray to God with sincerity, whichever way or wherever you do.
And now to the most important point of my suggestion: what exactly to do with the disputed site??? My first suggestion is, drop the name of Babar; he was a nobody; so what if he was a king, he was an ordinary mortal like you and me. Secondly, build on the disputed site something that will serve, and will be dear to all Hindus and Muslims, and therefore will be dear to God — no matter whether we call him Ram or Allah. A most modern and FREE hospital should be built there:
RAM — MUHAMMED NATIONAL HOSPITAL
FOR THE POOR
Well guys, this act in one fell swoop will finish the entire controversy FOR GOOD, and for the good of entire country.