Myth 6: Gujarat riots were the ‘worst ever massacre’ in India
Posted on May 22, 2008 - Filed Under 12-Concocted Lies and Myths by the media | 43 Comments
Fact: Gujarat riots of 2002 AD were absolutely nothing as compared to Gujarat’s past riots of 1969 and 1985 AD. They were still nothing as compared to Gujarat’s riots of 1980, 1982, 1990, and 1992. And they were again nothing as compared to pre-independence riots of the 1940’s in Ahmedabad when the Hindu community took a sound beating. And there were many more riots far far worse than the 2002 Gujarat riots in India- not to talk of the 1947 Partition riots.
Much worse riots took place in New Delhi in 1984 under the Congress Party’s rule. Officially 3,000 people were killed, and actually many more. Ranganath Mishra Commission gave the number of 3874 out of which 2307 were in Delhi alone. Riots were also not limited to New Delhi then. They occured in places like West Bengal, Tripura as well. Killings of more than 40,000 Hindus have happened in Jammu and Kashmir state of India. Hardly 1000 people were killed in Gujarat in 2002 AD, for the sins of 2000 Muslims of Godhra. Out of them, more than 250 are Hindus. Post-Godhra riots were neither ‘pogrom’, nor ‘genocide’, nor ‘massacre’. They were not even ‘massacre’, not to talk of the ‘worst-ever massacre in India.’ Despite this- pseudo-secularists like Teesta Setalvad, Harsh Mander, Amulya Ganguly, Prafull Bidwai and other such stark liars- like Tehelka, political rivals thriving on Muslim votebank, etc have called the 2002 riots as ‘Gujarat massacre’- and lied that there was “Gujarat massacre of Muslims- with the sanction of Narendra Modi”. These people have demanded action against Modi. (An article on some facts about the media can be read here “NDTV is CPM Today“. And another article which is worth reading is “The channels strategy of attacks”. Note that these articles are purely the view of the blogger and not of Gujaratriots.com )
Far from any action being taken Modi, action needs to be taken against stark liars like Tehelka, the foreign media- i.e. US and British media, and so-called Human Rights organizations in India and abroad, there was no “Gujarat massacre of Muslims” in the 2002 riots but plain Hindu-Muslim riots in which hundreds of Hindus were also killed by Muslims even after the gruesome and horrific roasting of 59 Hindus- including 25 women and 15 children in Godhra and 40,000 Hindus were thrown out of their homes by Muslims despite comprising only 11 % of the population and that too in a state ruled by a Hindu party like the BJP with a man like Narendra Modi as Chief Minister. That is- Muslims have the strength to throw out 40,000 Hindus from their homes in a Hindu country like India even after partitioning India in 1947 and getting a homeland- and that too under Narendra Modi’s rule.
The worst ever massacre was of the Hindus during the medieval times. Timur massacred some 1 lakh Hindus on a single day in Delhi in 1399. Nadirshah, the invader, massacred many people in 1739 in Delhi. The massacres of Hindus in medieval India would have put Hitler’s Nazi death-chambers of the 1930s to shame. These massacres happened under all the medieval rulers of India including Akbar- who ordered killing of 30,000 Hindus in February 1568. Mahmud of Ghazni also massacred many Hindus in between 1001-1027 AD. Mohammad Ghori also did the same between 1192 to 1206. So did all others. The invaders were like a cloud of locusts destroying and devouring everything on their way. In fact- Professor K.S.Lal in his book “Growth of Muslim population in India” has said that according to his calculations- the Hindu population declined by 80 million between AD 1000 and AD 1525- probably the biggest ever holocaust in world history. 8 crore Hindus were slaughtered by foreign Muslims in this period.
For just a brief and cursory (very very brief and very very cursory) history of Islam in India, see this. This doesn’t focus on the mass murders and massacres of Hindus with detail, which have been given in the book (“Gujarat Riots: The True Story”) but not included in this website.
http://www.islaminindia.org/category/islam-in-india-history
Pakistan and Bangladesh were also parts of India-the Hindu population in Pakistan has declined from 23 % in 1947 to around 1% now- the biggest unreported genocide, massacre and holocaust in recent times. While in medieval India-Hindus, in the face of extreme cruelty and death, saved Hinduism from Islam’s onslaught, in the modern, progressive age they suffered the worst damage- with Hindus thrown to the mercy of wolves in Pakistan. The media and the government did nothing to raise this issue with Pakistan. Similarly- the Hindu population in Bangladesh has declined from 34 % in 1901 to 29 % in 1947, and to 10 % in 2001- and its around 7 % now. Even in India- the Hindu population has declined from 85 % in 1951 to 80.5 % in 2001- and by now- it must be in the 70s. The liberals in the Indian media- human rights activists, and Indian government have never ever raised this complete annihilation of Hindus by Pakistan ever in the world- at any forum. On the contrary- Islamists have exaggerated and inflated the case of Gujarat riots- along with the Indian media- and whitewashed Islam’s guilt in annihilating Hinduism in Pakistan and Bangladesh- and also Kashmir.
Pakistan’s TALLEST Hindu leader, Sudham Chand Chawla was killed in broad daylight in Jacobabad on 29 Jan 2002 while returning from his rice meal. The culprits were not nabbed, nor was any compensation given to his family. He had in fact been complaining to the so-called civil society of Pakistan for years about the threat to his life, to the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan and yet nobody did anything. If this was the case with the BIGGEST Hindu leader, then what must be the story of ordinary Hindus, who have already been reduced from 20 % in 1947 to just 1 % now?
http://www.sudhamchandchawla.com/
The Hindu leaders also seem to be lost in a world of their own- enjoying targeting and criticizing each other in public- and never raising these issues of extinction of Hindus from Pakistan and Bangladesh. A similar fate awaits India unless steps are taken.
Looking at the modern, independent India, these riots were still absolutely nothing. The worst ever massacre in independent India was of the Hindus in Kashmir, which continues till date. After that, nothing was worse than the 1984 riots, when the Sikhs were massacred by the ruling Congress Party. In Bhagalpur, Bihar under the Congress rule itself more than 1400 people were killed, most of whom were Muslims, after Muslims threw bombs on Hindu localities, and then suffered in retaliation.
May 5th, 2012 at 10:45 AM
@sandy,
as per english style, your name is too sandy, but you think those badly burnt persons, who were burned in the sabarmati express? if those incident might be happened by hindus, the whole idia might be burnt, not only gujrat. is this 2012, where, if anybody supports hindusthany, they will be unsecular and who supports muslims, they will be secular as language of our politicians, mps, mlas.
February 29th, 2012 at 3:42 AM
cant believe that i actually read this article….
the person is completely lunatic…
justifying riots !!!!! and comparing them…
this is 2012 my friend, not 1399..
a killing is a killing even if a single person is butchered. just grow up and educate yourself..
July 5th, 2011 at 6:14 AM
Kaaminey Hindu Virodhiyom ye Hindusthan he Pakisthan Nahi. Hindu ko gali detha he usko bhi Bada dilwala Hindu Sweekar Kartha hei. Lekin thum tho Bade namk haram nikaley kamminom. Ab tho vakth Aaya hei ki Mu Thod Javaab dena, Jisne Hindu ke oopar hath uttaya kaat dena hey un Saalom ko aur khilana hey bediyom ko. Kaamina Anthakvadiyom ko peida karneyvalom thera tho Satya nash ho… Wake Up Hindus….You are cleverly being fooled by Self called Secularists… You are Being Fooled by these Butchers for 1000 years, even you are Not Aware of the Fact. Wake Up…Get United…Bharath Matha is in need of Us. Its time to throw & Cut the People like M.F.Hussain who is trying to Paint ‘Rape of India’. Khalas karna hey un Saalom ko Jo Bharath Maa ke Upar Athyachar Karen…. Vande Matharam