Tuesday, July 24, 2007

Islamophobia in voting for 7 wonders

The world is changing with the pace of speed of light, even more than that. Concepts and thoughts are also changing. Media is playing the major role in this changing world. The domestic media of all the countries is headed by Western media, showing fabricated and biased news and pushing news which is beneficial for US for longer run. Lets take an example of worst condition in Iraq. News channels are never saying that general public is against the presence of foreign troops on their lands rather the blasts and bloodshed has given the name of Shia - Sunni conflict. From the time when US invaded Iraq, news are showing the same statements, giving the impression that Iraqi public is in favor of US forces.

Similar is the case of other criminal activities. The news channels are targeting particular community after 9/11 event. Rather it is a well known fact that the 9/11 attacks are the fabrications of CIA & Mossad activist, taking the name of terrorist and coordinating them with Islam makes no sense. This is simply the case of Islamophobia. There are ample of points on which we can talk specially about fight by certain groups / communities, like LTTE terror attacks on Sri Lanka government. The fight is going on since decades in which thousands has been killed hampering the growth and development of whole of the nation but no one call LTTE as Hindu Terrorism. Similarly, Sikhs also fought for their own countries for more than 10 years killing thousands and other losses, but still this is not termed as Sikh Terrorism.

Similarly we have ample of cases. But why we call the crime/fight done by any Muslim as Islamic terrorism, answer is simply the media effects and ISLAMOPHOBIA. Apart from the western world, media got success in spreading this disease of Islamophobia into whole of the globe.

Now a days there is voting going on for the seven wonder of the world which also includes few monuments made by Muslim Rulers. Taj Mahal is one of the example. Last week I had forwarded a mail to promote votes for Taj as being an Indian but few of my colleagues has replied me in negation that they will not vote for Taj because they are concerned about the person who has ordered to build Taj i.e. Mogul king Shahjahan. Reasons for not voting are builder was an oppressor who has killed lots of people, who has ordered to cut the fingers of an architect, etc.

Point here is, as being an Indian, all the general public like to promote the name of their country throughout the globe by voting for a monument of their land to get included in seven wonders of the world. But how come these patriotic Indians get diverted from this point and from where the point of oppressor and oppression came in their mind rather till now they are loving Taj as their own.

Answer is Islamophobia. The false propaganda of combining Islam and violence through all the media channels in all the countries has transformed the solidarity of country into communal biased thinking. If we are thinking about the oppression done by builder of Taj, then why we are ignoring the oppression done by Pharaoh who made Pyramids of Egypt, the oppression done on labor for construction of Great Wall of China, and similar all things.

The reason is behind this simple false and biased propaganda which is promoting the disease of Islamophobia which is growing day by day resulting into hatred between communities which will give birth to more communal rights and insecurity. Hatred will break but love will make. So if we want better community and society in near future then make an environment which will help us to get rid of Islamophobia and unbiased media to create society based on love and peace.

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