Inexplicable Hatred Believers desecrating their temple to assault Muslims

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Pure Serendipity

It was another routine, boring grocery shopping at continual pokes from mom. Waiting impatiently for the shopkeeper to pack rice for me, I was casually looking around when I found old sheets of news paper dangling by the shelves almost ready to fall down. One of them caught my eyes; it read: Four Hindu youths held for desecration of temple Intrigued by the title, I thought why would Hindus profane their own temple? Thus, I pulled it out from the bunch of otherwise junk papers and started to read the article until the shop keeper prodded with the rice packet and a bill slip. I requested the gentleman if I can carry the piece of junk I just found. He had no thoughts of preserving it. He gave it to me with a smile assuming that I would patronize his shop.

Bizarre Hatred

At home while reading the article, I discovered what was a bizarre, inexplicable hatred and vitriol against Muslims. According to this report articulated in a famous Indian daily, The Hindu, dated: Sunday, April 29, 2012, p.9 four Hindu men concerted to sacrilege their own Temple by placing bovine legs in the temple along with sprays of green color on the temple walls. Note that cows are considered to be sacred in certain Hindu sects as such killing a cow for any reason is considered to be blasphemous enough to wage riots (presumably against Muslims). In certain areas there is tacit ban on selling of cow meat as well! Green color generally in South Asian countries is related to Islam by certain Muslims. As such Green now represents Islam and its presence. Of course, to the best of my knowledge, it is unsupported by Islamic Scriptures. In fact Prophet (peace be upon him) had proclivities towards White.

Honest and praiseworthy Police authorities declared that when a Hindu festival, namely, Sri Ram Navami and Hanuman Jayanti passed by peacefully, the zealots were pestered as they could not get any chance to beleaguer Muslims to unite Hindus. As such they thought of engineering an antagonizing incident between the two communities. The plan was chalked by miscreants and it merely needed execution. A certain Nagraj, one of the cohorts in the conspiracy, gathered severed animal legs from Chanchalguda, where the burnt legs of animals are dumped. Past midnight on April 7, these devotees went up to the temple, planted the legs on the wall, inserting them through the iron grill, and sprinkled the [Green] paint. The next morning, regular temple goers unaware of the diabolical proceedings of the past night were obviously outraged at the blasphemous scenes. And the suspicion fell, as per plan, on the Muslims. Now, the self-offended mobstarted throwing stones, damaging Muslim property.! No wonder Muslims retaliated. Police did a fair job by controlling the situation. Their unbiased investigation brought the truth that, It was not jihadis, but four Hindu youths, instigated by two local leaders, who planted the legs of a cow and sprinkled green paint in a temple What is still unfortunate is that these trouble-makers were not nominal Hindus. They were convener organizers of multiple Hindu festivals in the area. As the article states: The arrested persons did not have any criminal record, but were organizing religious programmes in the area. They used to lead youngsters of the area in celebrating Ganesh Chaturthi and Navaratri.

Sorry state of affairs

On one hand where the Police authorities of Hyderabad need to be applauded for their neutral position in the dispute, however, on the other hand, it becomes incredible how active Hindus, out of pure hatred for Islam, can go out of their way to sacrilege their own religious centers! This should alarm lay and innocent Hindus if they were made to fall prey to yet another gory riot in the history of India. Hyderabad could have well witnessed another Ahmadabad massacre of 2002 had the vandals succeeded in their plans. Although the incident is months old now yet it once again displays the level to which the hate-mongers can condescend! As for Muslims, as now as always, they have to make distinction between a certain few hatemongers and general Hindus. Besides, they have their Protector (SWT) with them.

Below, we produce the entire article as published in the News Paper with mine emphasize: