Tuesday, April 04, 2006

I Read the below article online(Note that this is not my opinion).

Straight-forward, non-pseudo-secular solutions to the Ayodhya-Babri Masjid
Solution one:

You are all nuts, and I need to pee solution.
You may have heard this one before. This is the least practical, and hence the most lovable solution I can think about. We have to get the religious and politicians on both sides to unanimously agree that something like the structure and soil at Ayodhya are evil. It could be a Muslim evil or Hindu evil, but definitely evil. Once we are all agreed on that, let us nuke the place so there is no question of arguing over it anymore. No Ayodhya temple, No Babri Masjid. The problem with this solution is that the residents of Ayodhya may not like it at all. So we don't nuke it. We flatten the entire place - US of A can probably spare us a Daisy-cutter - and then build a big, multi-cultural, multi-denominational, multi-religious, multi-sex loo there. All religions relieving themselves together in the same place can contribute a lot to national integration.

Solution two:
The Sri Sri Ravi Sankar solution
I do not know if he actually said this, but if he did, I have some respect for the man. He doesn't seem to think that people of all religions peeing together is very important, sadly.
He says that Hindus should apologise to Indian Muslims for demolishing the Babri Masjid. Then, Muslims should accept the apology and hand over the former location of the Babri Masjid place to Hindus.
This is brilliant. The details of the apology and wording can be worked out. Essentially Muslims have no real religious reason to have a particular mosque in a particular place. Islam is a religion that does not give any relevance to where you pray to Allah. Whatever the current lot of Mullahs says is crap. Muslim scholars can accept this easily, if the entire atmosphere of coercion ceases to exist. In other words, if you are true believer, Babri Masjid is just a building.
Hindus, whether they like it or not, did something that was clearly against the law. And the small bunch who brought the Babri Masjid down claimed they did it for Hindus. The act has made Indian Muslims fearful of their safety and security in this country, and it is not good for anyone to have a few fearful millions of Muslims. Apologise for the idiots who told lies and broke promises. Unlike Islam, Hinduism, in practice has reverence for places and locations, and Indian Muslims should respect that, and hand over the place to Hindus.
Like I said, this is possible only when the trishuls and bombs stop doing their work. Muzzle Togadia, and perhaps Shahabuddin and this can work.

1 comment:

Akshai said...

In my humble opinion, in a nation which has far bigger and more important problems to solve such as providing clean drinking water, electricity etc to its people, this whole Babri issue (also Mathura, Varansi on the 2nd tier list) is a complete waste of everyones time.Utilization of our nations time and resources to solve this problem is criminal.