Secular Response to The Kerala Story Exposes Deeply Imbibed Hindu Hate
After The Kashmir Files, this is another expose of the terror networks of radical elements of Islamists.
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The Kerala Story has stirred the conscience of the nation and woken up the affected communities, viz. Hindus and Christians. After The Kashmir Files, this is another expose of the terror networks of radical elements of Islamists. While The Kashmir Files exposed the Pakistani hand and Salafist radicalization via Arab money, The Kerala Story touches upon the international network of ISIS and terror and their affiliates. I have already given my review of the film in The First Post, so I won’t repeat myself.
I can add that it is a well-made film with huge research of nearly six years. I am informed that nearly 200 pages of documentary evidence and hours of video footage of Love Jihad victims including those rotting in Afghanistan jails was submitted to the wary Censor Board even before it took up its certification exercise. The efforts of so-called seculars to block the movie in various courts also failed as courts found nothing wrong. One judge clearly observed that the movie talks about terror organisations, why should it be taken as a comment against Muslim community? But, despite all these rational steps, the seculars have decided that The Kerala File is not fit for human consumption as it may create hate.
One must keep in mind that there were no riots, no hate mongering even after three days of the film release. Only after the resounding response the film got, did the secular politicians wake up.
An NCP politician said, the director of the movie should be hanged. This person retracted his statement but did not apologize.
A politician of a Samajwadi Party went on to support the NCP leader. He said, even if the story is true, it should not be shown as it can create hate against a particular community. If this is true, why are we taught false history that glorifies the holocaust and persecution of Hindus?
Kerala communist party and jihadis tried their best to disrupt the film by forcing theatre owners to stop screening.
CPM Chief Minister denounced the film in no uncertain terms calling it fiction and fake, forgetting that his own predecessor had said nearly 15-20 years back that Islamists wish to convert Kerala into a Muslim majority state. Also forgetting that Kerala HC had termed these activities as Love Jihad and the first community to complain about it was Christian community way back in 2004 or so.
In Tamil Nadu, similar scenes were created by fringe political groups to stop the screening of The Kerala Story.
The West Bengal Chief Minister denounced the film and banned it despite the Supreme Court and the High Court rejecting all the pleas to stop the film's release.
One Congress leader threatened violence against the audience and the producers. One person supporting the movie was actually thrashed by the local political goons.
The audience in West Bengal who had paid for the tickets, were held by the scruff of their necks and dragged out of the theatre by the state police. I am not aware if they faced arrest or were detained illegally in police station.
There was a film producer who opposed the movie bitterly on TV without watching it! Infact, most of the vocal critics and those perpetrating violent ideas to stop the movie and audience have not see the movie.
When they could not find any valid reason to stop the film, the seculars tried to make light of the figure of 32000 of disappeared girls and a few boy victims of Love Jihad and called it fake propaganda. Is the tragedy of the victims more important or the exact numbers? Even if they are only three victims as per the film, does it make it less heinous? We remember that lynching of 3-4 cow smugglers became international headlines and cause of censure of Hindu community and Hindutva organisations for months and are still recalled in every debate. But, showing lives of three Hindu and Christian girls destroyed by ISIS terror is something to be denounced? Has secularism deadened the minds of our comrades and seculars?
Aarsha Vidya Samajam has been rescuing the victims of Love Jihad. They have released many youtube videos with actual victims. They claim to have rescued approximately 6000 victims. One can guess the numbers who could not be rescued. Hindu helpline of VHP claims to have received 14000 calls for help from victim families to save their daughters. Where do these numbers lead us to? Though the numbers don’t matter when it is a huge human tragedy, they are needed to shut up the hate mongers.
Those denouncing the film story as fake narrative, did not bother to meet the writer/ director/ producer team who have all the required documentary evidence. Perhaps, they don’t have the courage. I am sure, the courts too would have been privy to these evidences and had reasons to believe that they are true stories. The film at the end does show the families of the victims and provides evidence for the characters portrayed in the film.
The so-called leaders used to say, it is your choice to watch the movie or not when Hindus protested against their derogatory representation in movies like PK or Sexy Durga et al. They were happy showing terrorists as victims of armed forces’ violence and had nothing to do with their commitment to a particular exclusivist violent ideology.
Another politician claimed, those who convert and perpetrate violence cannot be Muslims. This argument is similar to the argument that terror has no religion. If terror has no religion, then why are they opposing a movie that basically exposes terrorist organisations? They are opposed to the movies like The Kerala Story and The Kashmir Files claiming they are inciting hate against Muslims. If the terrorists have no religion and ISIS is not Islamic, why are they making these films into anti-Muslim films?
While the world applauds a Schindler’s List, we must keep our lips sealed, eyes shut, ears plugged to the atrocities that took place for centuries and are still taking place not just in India but across the world. We must deny the stories of sexual grooming, a politically correct term for Love Jihad in the UK. We must not recognize that thousands of women from all over the world were sent to Syria, Afghanistan, and other theatres of Islamist terror as it may be termed Islamophobia. A phobia is an irrational fear. Is truth irrational?
Truth is not irrational. Hindus and writer-directors of such historic movies are not irrational, the secular left illiberals are irrational and irrationally Hindu haters. They are irrational because they are wearing western lenses for decades. Their idea of nationhood is rooted in British narrative. They believe that India that is Bharat was never a nation and it was created by the British. Thus, breaking it is their duty. Now, as Hindus awaken and assert that Bharat was a cultural nation since atleast 10000 years of documented history, may be even older as more scientific evidence is dug out, they are upset. They are upset that Hindus are ready to confront the ghosts of the past and speak up.
Left knows it cannot control Bharat as it has no roots in Bharat, so the next best thing is to strike at the roots of the idea of Bharatiya nationhood. Islamist supremacists believe that the entire world must bow down to the flag of Islam. Thus, both have a vested interest in weakening Hindu society by every possible means so they can capture this lone land of Dharma. Hindus are the last big hurdles to the dreams of Ghawa-e-Hind and/or a land of anarchy that new left dreams of. Therefore, you find the strange alliance of mutually exclusive cults of Communism and Islamism.
Response to The Kerala Story lays bare the unholy rainbow alliance of Extreme Left to Extreme Right that is against the very idea of a self-confident united prosperous Bharat.
However, I may note that I wrote in the end, “As you come out of the theatre, you don’t feel hate for the Muslim community, you come out pondering about Hindus’ failure to educate their young generations about the beauty of their dharma, their religions and sampradayas.”
Our failure to explain the inclusive nature, its ability to provide a spiritual path to diverse intellects and minds becomes its weak point for others to exploit our faith as some outlandish belief system.
Our failure to explain the inclusive nature, its ability to provide a spiritual path to diverse intellects and minds becomes its weak point for others to exploit our faith as some outlandish belief system.
I can add that it is a well-made film with huge research of nearly six years. I am informed that nearly 200 pages of documentary evidence and hours of video footage of Love Jihad victims including those rotting in Afghanistan jails was submitted to the wary Censor Board even before it took up its certification exercise. The efforts of so-called seculars to block the movie in various courts also failed as courts found nothing wrong. One judge clearly observed that the movie talks about terror organisations, why should it be taken as a comment against Muslim community? But, despite all these rational steps, the seculars have decided that The Kerala File is not fit for human consumption as it may create hate.
One must keep in mind that there were no riots, no hate mongering even after three days of the film release. Only after the resounding response the film got, did the secular politicians wake up.
An NCP politician said, the director of the movie should be hanged. This person retracted his statement but did not apologize.
A politician of a Samajwadi Party went on to support the NCP leader. He said, even if the story is true, it should not be shown as it can create hate against a particular community. If this is true, why are we taught false history that glorifies the holocaust and persecution of Hindus?
Kerala communist party and jihadis tried their best to disrupt the film by forcing theatre owners to stop screening.
CPM Chief Minister denounced the film in no uncertain terms calling it fiction and fake, forgetting that his own predecessor had said nearly 15-20 years back that Islamists wish to convert Kerala into a Muslim majority state. Also forgetting that Kerala HC had termed these activities as Love Jihad and the first community to complain about it was Christian community way back in 2004 or so.
In Tamil Nadu, similar scenes were created by fringe political groups to stop the screening of The Kerala Story.
The West Bengal Chief Minister denounced the film and banned it despite the Supreme Court and the High Court rejecting all the pleas to stop the film's release.
One Congress leader threatened violence against the audience and the producers. One person supporting the movie was actually thrashed by the local political goons.
The audience in West Bengal who had paid for the tickets, were held by the scruff of their necks and dragged out of the theatre by the state police. I am not aware if they faced arrest or were detained illegally in police station.
There was a film producer who opposed the movie bitterly on TV without watching it! Infact, most of the vocal critics and those perpetrating violent ideas to stop the movie and audience have not see the movie.
The Numbers Game
When they could not find any valid reason to stop the film, the seculars tried to make light of the figure of 32000 of disappeared girls and a few boy victims of Love Jihad and called it fake propaganda. Is the tragedy of the victims more important or the exact numbers? Even if they are only three victims as per the film, does it make it less heinous? We remember that lynching of 3-4 cow smugglers became international headlines and cause of censure of Hindu community and Hindutva organisations for months and are still recalled in every debate. But, showing lives of three Hindu and Christian girls destroyed by ISIS terror is something to be denounced? Has secularism deadened the minds of our comrades and seculars?
Since, we are talking of numbers, may I present a few numbers that show the enormity of the problem? I interviewed two Christian clerics who confirmed that they have documentary evidence collected painstakingly by meeting the affected families, of approximately 4000 girls and a few boys too. They called it Romeo Jihad.
Here is the link -
Aarsha Vidya Samajam has been rescuing the victims of Love Jihad. They have released many youtube videos with actual victims. They claim to have rescued approximately 6000 victims. One can guess the numbers who could not be rescued. Hindu helpline of VHP claims to have received 14000 calls for help from victim families to save their daughters. Where do these numbers lead us to? Though the numbers don’t matter when it is a huge human tragedy, they are needed to shut up the hate mongers.
Those denouncing the film story as fake narrative, did not bother to meet the writer/ director/ producer team who have all the required documentary evidence. Perhaps, they don’t have the courage. I am sure, the courts too would have been privy to these evidences and had reasons to believe that they are true stories. The film at the end does show the families of the victims and provides evidence for the characters portrayed in the film.
The Hypocrisy
The so-called leaders used to say, it is your choice to watch the movie or not when Hindus protested against their derogatory representation in movies like PK or Sexy Durga et al. They were happy showing terrorists as victims of armed forces’ violence and had nothing to do with their commitment to a particular exclusivist violent ideology.
Another politician claimed, those who convert and perpetrate violence cannot be Muslims. This argument is similar to the argument that terror has no religion. If terror has no religion, then why are they opposing a movie that basically exposes terrorist organisations? They are opposed to the movies like The Kerala Story and The Kashmir Files claiming they are inciting hate against Muslims. If the terrorists have no religion and ISIS is not Islamic, why are they making these films into anti-Muslim films?
While the world applauds a Schindler’s List, we must keep our lips sealed, eyes shut, ears plugged to the atrocities that took place for centuries and are still taking place not just in India but across the world. We must deny the stories of sexual grooming, a politically correct term for Love Jihad in the UK. We must not recognize that thousands of women from all over the world were sent to Syria, Afghanistan, and other theatres of Islamist terror as it may be termed Islamophobia. A phobia is an irrational fear. Is truth irrational?
Truth is not irrational. Hindus and writer-directors of such historic movies are not irrational, the secular left illiberals are irrational and irrationally Hindu haters. They are irrational because they are wearing western lenses for decades. Their idea of nationhood is rooted in British narrative. They believe that India that is Bharat was never a nation and it was created by the British. Thus, breaking it is their duty. Now, as Hindus awaken and assert that Bharat was a cultural nation since atleast 10000 years of documented history, may be even older as more scientific evidence is dug out, they are upset. They are upset that Hindus are ready to confront the ghosts of the past and speak up.
Left knows it cannot control Bharat as it has no roots in Bharat, so the next best thing is to strike at the roots of the idea of Bharatiya nationhood. Islamist supremacists believe that the entire world must bow down to the flag of Islam. Thus, both have a vested interest in weakening Hindu society by every possible means so they can capture this lone land of Dharma. Hindus are the last big hurdles to the dreams of Ghawa-e-Hind and/or a land of anarchy that new left dreams of. Therefore, you find the strange alliance of mutually exclusive cults of Communism and Islamism.
Response to The Kerala Story lays bare the unholy rainbow alliance of Extreme Left to Extreme Right that is against the very idea of a self-confident united prosperous Bharat.
Ratan Sharda
Ratan Sharda has been awarded a PhD for his thesis on RSS. He is an author, columnist and renowned TV panelist. He has written 9 books of which 7 are on RSS, one on Guru Nanak Dev and one on Disaster Management; translated two books about RSS – The Incomparable Guruji Golwalkar and M S Golwalkar: His Vision and Mission, from Hindi to English; written by the foremost RSS thinker Shri Ranga Hari. He has edited/designed 12 books.
His most popular books on RSS are RSS360 degree, Sangh & Swaraj, RSS – Evolution from an Organisation to a Movement, Prof Rajendra Singh Ki Jeevan Yatra and Conflict Resolution: The RSS Way.
Ratan Sharda has travelled extensively in and outside Bharat. He was jailed during 1975-77 in the days of Emergency. He was an ERP consultant for two decades in addition to varied industrial experience of 2 decades. He was the founder secretary of Vishw Kendra (Centre for International Studies), Mumbai for eight years. He is an advisor to many educational institutions and voluntary organisations.