12-Concocted Lies and Myths by the media
Myth 5: Gujarat police was anti-Muslim
Posted on May 22, 2008 - Filed Under 12-Concocted Lies and Myths by the media
Fact: Far from it, the police was slow to act on Muslim fanatics for fear of being called ‘anti-Muslim’ by the media. As many as 170 people were shot dead by the police in Gujarat- i.e. killed in police firing. Muslims greeted the police, and also the army, with bullets and turned off the power [...]
Read More..>>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
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 [...]
Read More..>>Myth 7: Only Muslims were rendered homeless and suffered economically
Posted on May 22, 2008 - Filed Under 12-Concocted Lies and Myths by the media
Fact: As early as 5 March 2002, out of the 98 relief/ refugee camps set up in the state, 85 were for the Muslims and 13 were for the Hindus. As on 17 March 2002, as per the report of a newspaper as anti-BJP as The Times of India, 10,000 Hindus were rendered homeless in [...]
Read More..>>Myth 8: The Gujarat government was involved in the riots
Posted on May 22, 2008 - Filed Under 12-Concocted Lies and Myths by the media
Fact: The full details of the role of the government in controlling violence can be seen in this article:
http://www.gujaratriots.com/29/role-of-the-government-in-controlling-violence/
Gujarat government of the BJP, headed by Narendra Modi was blind to the mushrooming of madrasas in the state. Not only that, the previous government headed by Keshubhai Patel too was equally blind to the same. From [...]
Myth 9: Gujarat riots were like the 1984 anti-Sikh riots
Posted on May 22, 2008 - Filed Under 12-Concocted Lies and Myths by the media
Fact: There was a contrast of day and night in these two riots. NDTV, the mouthpiece of the CPI (M), and company, and other stark liers like Arundhati Roy, Teesta Setalavad, and others deliberately misled the nation by equating the two riots. In May-June 2005, NDTV deliberately asked a question to its viewers in its [...]
Read More..>>Myth 10: Gujarat became a dangerous place to live in, in 2002
Posted on May 22, 2008 - Filed Under 12-Concocted Lies and Myths by the media
Fact:: The opinion poll by the weekly India Today in its issue dated 25 November 2002 asked a question to its respondents- “Do you feel secure living in Gujarat today?” in which more than 68 % people including more than 56 % Muslims felt secure. While commenting on the entire poll, India Today reported, “Voters [...]
Read More..>>Myth 11: In Ehsan Jafri’s case, women were raped
Posted on May 22, 2008 - Filed Under 12-Concocted Lies and Myths by the media
Fact: The following is some part of Arundhati Roy’s article in weekly Outlook dated 6 May 2002 on the Ehsan Jafri case:
“Last night a friend from Baroda called. Weeping. It took her fifteen minutes to tell me what the matter was. It wasn’t very complicated. Only that Sayeeda, a friend of hers, had been [...]
Myth 12: The photo of Qutubuddin Ansari is genuine
Posted on May 22, 2008 - Filed Under 12-Concocted Lies and Myths by the media
Fact: This photo is reproduced here in this book on page 136. This photo has been used repeatedly to tarnish the name of BJP, VHP and the Bajrang Dal throughout India. The victim, Qutubuddin Ansari, is seen pleading for mercy to the rioters. Later he is shown in Kolkata, living happily on the help given [...]
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