Wordification … vilification … venomspewing…. Rot

Cry, the beloved country … but how?

Gujarat state, the birthplace of the “apostle of peace” in the modern world
Is the post-modern graveyard of sanity
The fifth Reich rears its head : gorgon-like,

A four hundred year old sufi tomb-shrine
Labelled an encroachment and razed by men in uniform

Who’s happy about it?
Certainly not those of us who hold our own beliefs as sacred as those of others.
Certainly the hundreds of Christians, Jains, Hindus who would take part in the rituals around the tomb are dumbstruck, shocked, sorrowful.
Certainly those who love history and heritage can look at this as an act of insanity, remember the Taliban and the Bamiyan Buddhas?

Strange how these rightists, these fundamentalists work together.

The Orthodox, narrow, fundamentalist Muslim fringe can’t stand the Sufis
Because the sufi saints spoke about a divine love that surpassed the narrow limits of written lines on some ancient parchment.

The Muslim fundamentalists call the sufi cult an aberration, a satan, something to be eliminated…

So who’s happy at this turn of events?
The Muslim fundamentalist clerics … the splinter Islamic groups … those that spread hatred and separation in the name of religion.

How wonderful for them … the sufi shrine being destroyed …
and their false doctrine of Moslem-being-victimised can be vindicated

so riots …
and then the pseudo-doctrine of Minority-being appeased
and Hindu-being-victimised can flower…

Remember, every time the bell tolls
It tolls for me … and you….

Let’s not get trapped in vilification and verbiage
Let the power of bhakti… of divine love .. shine all the stronger