Ghulam Nabi Azad did not
really compare the terrorist outfit, Islamic State, with RSS. He says he only mentioned the two in the same
breath. He was opposed to both.
Though the IS and RSS may
share a few things in common, putting them on two sides of the same balance is preposterous.
Tavleen Singh, in her column
in The Indian Express, elaborates on
that preposterousness and then goes on to assert that she grew up despising
RSS. This is what she says:
I found their aggressive nationalism silly and their
obsession with Hindu revivalism boring. I still do. I believe that reducing the
vast wealth of Indian civilisation to a debate about beef is vandalism. Since
Narendra Modi became Prime Minister, we have seen far too many of his partymen
exhibit their complete ignorance about Hindu civilisation by spreading hatred
against those who eat beef and believing that they do this in the cause of
reviving Hindu thought from Vedic times. Most of them have learned their ideas
from RSS shakhas, so it should be clear that the RSS needs to change a lot more
than its knickers
This is all, more or less,
what I have been telling in my writings all through. I’m happy to find someone who agrees with me
or, being humble, someone with whom I agree.
I also don’t think that
the RSS will stretch its ambition beyond the borders of Bharat Mata and seek to
bring the whole world (Vasudaiva
Kutumbakam) under the wide umbrella of its ancient culture. The IS wants to bring the whole world under
the Caliphate. I fail to understand why
anyone wants to bring anyone else under anything. This is one thing I fail to understand about
the RSS too. Why does it want to bring
India under the Hindutva umbrella? Why
can’t it let people find their own religious and cultural moorings? Why does it insist on lending its roots to
everybody in the country? It is in this
one regard, on the insistence of making everyone wear the same religio-cultural
robes, that the RSS is being compared with IS.
Of course, we know, like Tavleen Singh, that the RSS has only grown up
from knickers to trousers and has not post-graduated in the ideology as the IS
has.
Totally agree. There's no comparison between RSS and IS at all. RSS is militant, but they do try to help the country during crisis, which is more than what IS does. I'm totally against the policy of RSS and their brand of Hinduism, but given a choice, I'd always choose RSS over IS.
ReplyDeleteWhen any organization is on a downward slide, no one can predict how low it will go. Still it's quite certain that RSS won't hit the levels reached by IS.
DeleteRSS is an organization founded to serve the nation without differentiate between cast , religion or region but those dont know much about RSS are always think that RSS is against Muslims or others but Yes , RSS is against those are in the dress of India but playing for others.
ReplyDeleteThe problem is there are elements both in RSS and its affiliates that have criminal tendencies. If they can be controlled quite a lot of problems will be solved.
DeleteRegarding those who act against the nation, aren't there laws to deal with them? Why should any organization take the law into their hands?
Moreover, is India such a feeble concept that it will crumble on the face of a few individuals shouting some slogans?