The Sangh's approach to the Muslim rulers of India baffles all Indians who love their mother land. The Sangh finds the Muslim rulers unacceptable because it considers them foreign invaders who occupied India even though they settled down here and made this land their home. It is unforgiving towards them because many of them committed atrocities on the Hindus and converted a large number of Hindus to Islam by force. It is possible to differ with it on facts, but one is not baffled by their different perception but by difference in their treatment of invaders who committed atrocities on Indians. It continues to be hostile to the Muslim rulers (who ruled centuries ago) and the Muslims, but when it was founded in 1925, it made it a point to make it clear that it was not concerned with the Independence Movement and its aim was to oppose the 'yavan -snakes (the Muslims) 'who were spreading riots against the Hindus in the country.
Had the RSS loved Bharat Mata, it could not have adopted a policy of abandoning her to be ruled and robbed by the British, who were foreign invaders come to loot her. Had they really loved Bharat Mata they would have fought against the British who were bleeding her and robbing her instead of choosing to aid them by deliberately keeping awar from Independence Movement and condemning the Freedom Fighters as 'Traitors '.Golwarkar in his We or Our. Nationhood Defined says," only those movements are truly 'National' as aim at rebuilding, revitalizing
and emancipating from the present stupor, the Hindu Nation.........All others posing to be patriots and wilfully indulging in a course of action detrimental to the Hindu Nation are traitors and enemies to the national cause, or to take a more charitable view if unintentionally, and led into such a course a mere misguided ignorant fools. “Thus to the RSS, those who fought the British rulers were traitors. Gandhi, Nehru, Subhash Chandra Bose, Patel, Bhagat Singh and Chandra Shekhar Azad were traitors while the members of the RSS who were rioting against the Muslims were Patriots. The RSS' conduct in being dead against the conversion to Islam which happened centuries ago stands in a sharp contrast to its silence on the ongoing conversion to Christianity during the British rule. There is no other explanation for it except Cowardice. It is their cowardice, the desire to save their skin that kept them at a safe distance from the Independence Movement and made them meekly accept the conversion of Hindus to Christianity under the British rule. It began attacking the Christians only after independence when the British had left and it was quite safe to target them. Of all the organisations in the country, it is the Sangh, which is not qualified to speak of Patriotism and Love for Bharat Mata because it chose to leave her at the mercy of the British rulers to be ruled and robbed, and condemned those who fought the mighty British for her Independence. To the Sar Sangh Sanchalak M.S. Golwarkar, the valiant freedom fighters, who suffered and made sacrifices, were 'traitors' or ignorant fools.
The Sangh's pathological hatred of the Muslims continues to lead it to pursue its anti-national goal of creating enmity between the Hindus and Muslims causing National Disintegration instead of national Integration. It continues to create disaffection against the Muslims on one pretext or the other. It raises a false alarm at a slight rise in the birth rate of the Muslims even though it would take 270 years for the population of Hindus and Muslims to be equal. But the approach that the rise in the population of the Muslims is a threat in in violation of the letter and spirit of our Constitution and is an anti-national act. Who has given the Sangh the right to portray and treat any community as inferior having less claim on Bharat Mata than them? They are giving a message to the Hindus that they are setting the wrong done by the Muslim rulers right by demolishing Babri masjid, changing the name of the road named after Aurangzeb or protesting against a celebration to honour Tipu Sultan. They justify it in the name of setting the wrong of the past right. But is the Sangh pursuing this policy uniformly and honestly?
The suffering caused to the Hindus by the Muslim rulers is nothing compared to the unspeakable humiliation and suffering inflicted on them by the Hindus themselves. They introduced a system of caste to perpetually deny them equality as human beings, equality of opportunity to rise according to their talent and to even dream of a change of their status other than the one ordained for the caste to which they were born. It is the Hindus who condemned their own members as untouchables and treated them as worse than animals. The upper caste Hindus could touch animals without being polluted but kept away even from the shadow of their own untouchable brethren.

Has the Sangh condemned those Hindus who inflicted this suffering on a section of Hindus for centuries? Has it tried to fix responsibility and condemn the guilty as it has been doing in the case of the Muslims rulers? Has it ever condemned them for creating an inhuman condition which impelled large number of Hindus to convert to Islam to escape from their inhuman existence? Has it ever undertaken to condemn and demolish this inhuman system in its 90 years of existence? Gandhi, a devout Hindu and politician, fought against untouchability but the Sangh never took any step to save 80% or more of Hindus, who were condemned to inferior status as human beings in the hierarchy of castes. Even in its own organisation, it has been preserving the stranglehold of Brahmins on the organisation. In the 90 years of its existence, barring one or two persons it is the Brahmins who have been its head. The top echelon of the organisation is the monopoly of Brahmans and other upper castes.
The conduct of the Sangh presents a tell-tale evidence of its double standard, hypocrisy, Islamophobia and anti-national conduct .Its anti-national acts are not intentional to hurt Bharat Mata it professes to love, but is due to its blindness , characteristic of an organisation born in the sin of Hatred and incapable of introspection and change.
Prabhakar Sinha

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