India Recalls Babri Mosque Demolition Amidst the Gaza Genocide

Date: 06 December 2023 - 21:48

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By: Kayhan Int’l Staff Writer

With the eyes of the world, including the international media, glued to Gaza and the genocide by the Zionists on the direction of super terrorist US, which is also fanning flames of war in Ukraine and tensions off the coasts of China, the 31st anniversary of the criminal demolition of the historical Babri Mosque in India, may have gone unnoticed by the Iranian press as well.

A glance, however, at events in India and the Indian media on December 6, showed that the destruction in 1992 by vandals of a place of worship for the One and Only Creator of the universe, is very much alive, with Muslims observing a ‘black day’ and those who endorsed its desecration celebrating the building of a temple in its place, while the criminals who committed the blasphemy still at large.

India’s conscientious majority made up of Hindus, whose religion is peace-loving and who never sided with the riffraff exploiting the religious sentiments of the ignorant to fuel hatred nationwide, joined the country’s 250-million-plus Muslim compatriots to decry the criminal violation of the secular constitution.

Headlines and articles in the electronic and print media reflected the opinions of the silent majority who bemoan the razing down of a unique architectural edifice that was built on a vacant plot of land and not on any allegedly destroyed temple, by Mir Baqi Tashqandi, the Tajik (Persian-speaking) minister of Emperor Babur in 1528, in what later grew into the city of Faizabad and is known as Ayodhya today.

For instance, the widely circulated English daily, “Indian Express” had a piece titled “On December 6, a question: How many election wins absolve the criminal destruction of Babri Masjid?”

Written by Aakash Josh and lamenting the injustice done, it said: “It is difficult to be a part of the celebration of ‘New’ India, as you remember the difference between right and wrong.”

The “Wire” had an article written by Supreme Court Advocate Prashant Padmanabhan, pointing out the clauses of the inviolability of religious places, and headlined “Thirty-One Years after Babri Demolition, an Important Reminder.”

“Newsclick” wrote “December 6: Babri Masjid is Being Demolished in our Dreams Even Today.”

Other segments of the press noted: “The Ram Temple in Ayodhya is almost ready but there is no trace of the mosque that was to be built in Ayodhya as compensation for the demolition of Babri Masjid.”

To sum up, it is indeed a matter of deep regret that the Mosque-Temple controversy has become the centerpiece of agenda of communal parties uninterested in national solidarity and intent upon dividing India, a democratic nation whose strength lies in “unity in diversity” with its respect for all religions, schools of thought, cultures, languages and ethnicities.