Sonu Nigam Puts It At The Right Place
I am glad that someone finally said it. Though it was little
surprising coming from an otherwise cool and sober Sonu Nigam, it still merits applaud,
just for being honest and to the point. It also reflects how genuinely irritated
he was when he tweeted his anger. For long I too had my reservations on having
loudspeakers screeching all through the day and disturbing one and all. This
applies to all religions, not just Islam and their ‘Azaan’, which they recite out loud five times a day. There are students preparing for their exams; there are
mothers desperately trying to make their toddlers sleep; there are heart
patients with critical ailment. No one has the authority and liberty to disturb
everyone else to satisfy his/her religious ego. This can’t be allowed in a
civilized society, be it the ‘Azaan’ or the ‘Ganapati Pandals’ or for that
matter even the nonsensical political rallies.
I don’t see any problem if one opposes such blatant misuse
of public announcement systems. But that seems to be not the case with Sonu
Nigam and his series of tweets accusing the nearby Mosque for repeatedly
disturbing him at his sleep every morning. The usual suspects have already
gunning for his head. There is in fact one Mullha in West-Bengal who already
has issued a ‘Fatwa’ and a reward against SN. The notorious ‘Raja Academy’
which even let its members go on a rampage in the Mumbai streets and piss on
martyr memorials some years back seems to be too perturbed by the honest
tweets. They have requested the commissioner of police in a letter to file an
FIR against SN and arrest him for alluring communal disharmony? Disharmony?
Really? Such lose use of sensitive words shows that there is much more to just ‘Noise
Pollution’ angle that our intellectual morons were busy describing the whole fracas
as. All-in-all, it is monumental chaos and unbelievable hypocrisy all around. Since
things aren’t looking entirely normal it warrants that we should analyse what the
whole farce is all about and what could be the real reasons why our liberals
are at it again.
For starters, it is not all about noise pollution though SN
may be trying to point at that direction. For some time the Indian version of
secularism has its own way of presenting issues pertaining to Islam in an
entirely different way. And you only need to know how secularism has come to being traded as
a convenient projectile to aim at any sensible articulation, be it UCC, triple
Talaq or Azaan. Have you heard of a controversy of similar nature involving the ‘Bhagyalaxmi’
temple in Hyderabad? It is not your fault if you haven’t since none of the
liberals ever bothered to shout their throats out that time. So the temple had to shut down its ‘Aarti’ because the Muslims residing nearby had problems with
the noise. Brilliant, no? The over vigilant city administration run by outright secularists
like AIMIM and Congress sprang into action within no time. The Temple was
directed to stop their ‘Aarti’ at once. I never saw a single intellectual
questioning the move. But today all of them are up-in arms against Sonu Nigam.
Did you see the trend? Few months back the West-Bengal government banned ‘Durga
Puja’ at places where there is Muslim majority. Reason given – Muslims are
finding it offending. Brilliant again. In a Hindu majority country a popular Hindu festival is
getting problematic for a minor section of the society while the Indian version
of secularism upholds the demands of the minority group. No intellectual has
any problem here. In fact Mamata Banarjee government is quite blatant in
violating many norms when it comes to Hindus and their sentiments. She does it quietly
without any noise coming from the usual quarters. And keep it in mind, we are
talking about a democratically elected government whose lookout should have
been assuring equality to all and they are bound by our constitution. Yet not a
single secular moron raised his/her eyebrows, much less going on an episodic
outrage. But today an individual showing his genuine displeasure has the same
gang going for a group orgasm. Did you notice the trend now? Let’s go through
few more examples to elaborate it further.
When Modi pitched for international Yoga day the HRD
ministry thought of introducing ‘Yoga’ in school curriculum. It took no time
for the Mullhas to shout ‘Yoga is against our religion’. The entire liberal
brigade lined up at once in supporting the outcry. Suddenly ‘Suryanamashkar’
become an object of ‘Haaram’. But today the same morons who stood by the rabid
Mullhas back then are lecturing you, me and Sonu Nigam on the intricacies of a
pluralistic society. Though I am not a Muslim I am told to listen to ‘Azaan’
five times a day irrespective of if I like it or not but Muslims can’t be asked
to listen to the ‘Aarti’ of ‘Bhagyalaxmi’ temple or attend ‘Suryanamashkar’ in
school. Everything under the sun seems to be in the ‘Haaram’ list of a
particular religion and the elements of the entire list can’t be performed but
I, being an individual, can’t complain if my sleep gets disturbed because of
the noise coming from a Mosque. People can cite their religion and refuse to
sing ‘Vande Mataram’ but I seem to enjoy no such liberty as I have my ears
already shoved with four large size loudspeakers. Irony even, I can’t complain
of this forced religious surmounting. I guess we too need to come up with our
own set of ‘Haaram’ list and include everything under the sun so that we can
have our displeasure getting the desired support from the intellectual morons. A
mere 52 second’s national anthem is problematic for a certain section and with
all probability; it is ‘Haaram’ in their religion too. But come to me being
given lecture on ‘beauty in diversity’, I am told to tolerate something that I
don’t like fifteen minutes every day and throughout the year. People can show
their displeasure with having our tri-colour getting hoisted in their cities
but I can’t show my displeasure for being woken up from my sleep every day for
no apparent reason. Why I should be told to listen to something that I neither
believe nor I like? Stranger even, why I would be name called if I make my
stance very clear on this? Where am I disturbing the religious harmony with the
openness and truthfulness about my daily discomfort?
Skirting of ‘Ganapati’ festival to defend the musical
terrorism is as bogus as it can get. All Hindu festivals including ‘Ganapati’
are once in a year occurrence unlike ‘Azaan’ which is here forever. For a month
Muslims block all major city roads for Namaaz during Ramzan while a five day ‘Ganapati’
festival seems like the worst thing happening to the nation. One day ‘Holi’ is
problematic too and we should stop celebrating the festival if possible but I
am told, I have to tolerate 38 days (roughly) every year on listening to ‘Azaan’
only. All major festivals in India put together may not cross 38 days even and
yet the morons are advocating for gibberish and meaningless comparisons. There
is more to my abhorrence than odd noise. I as an individual find the lines of ‘Azaan’
as an insult to my religion. How it is possible that one who uses big
loudspeakers to mock other religion Gods and Goddesses as non-existent as there
is only one God called ‘Allah’ is perfectly an harmonious act while I being
termed as communal if I object to such open insult towards my God? Why someone
would use loudspeakers to disturb me five times a day thereby nonchalantly
announcing Gods of my religion as slaves of the God of their religion and yet I
still can’t object? Why I am told to tolerate such blatant acts? Where has
secularism gone here? If people can have problems with ‘Aarti’ where nothing is
said against any religion or God why can’t I have problems with open insult of
my beliefs? This equation simply is beyond my understanding.
That said, I still agree, all short of musical terrorism
should be stopped. We must respect the 2005 ruling of Supreme Court in which the
phenomenon called loudspeakers for any religious reasons is termed as a public
nuisance at large. Here we shouldn’t be selective in implementation. If ‘Ganapati’
festival must get rid of its vulgar Bollywood numbers playing out loud, ‘Azaan’
too stop blabbering on loudspeakers which largely calls every other religion as
rubbish. There can’t be selective secularism.
By design Hindu religion is confined to one’s belief and
surroundings unlike Christianity and Islam which is mostly forced on others.
But this small thing doesn’t get into the vacuum brains of our pseudo liberals.
Case-in-point – MS Pooja Bhatt here. She salutes the ‘Spirit Of India’,
whatever that means, by giving the most absurd of metaphor. I may very well
love to know the exact part in her that salutes the martyrs and victims of
26/11 which was an organized terror attack where one of the architects was
felicitated by her own brother. I also want to know the part that salutes her
obnoxious father who attends junkets thrown away by ISI agents like Ghulam Nabi
Fai. But these liberals aren’t very bright people. All they are master at are
mindless hypocrisy. She explains how she lights an ‘Agarbatti’ before her
regular saluting gesture but fails to get the drift. I am forced to listen to
the ‘Azaan’ where as her ‘Agarbatti’ may not be visible to anyone else. Precisely
why I advised her to rush into every household in her neighbourhood next time
and light an ‘Agarbatti’ in every home.
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