In the name of secularism, governments both at the center and in states are discriminating Hindus. On the one hand government confiscates temple collections and distributes to help Muslim and Christian causes. On the other, the government is pampering minorities by way of various appeasement programs at the expense of the majority population. We must find ways to stop government discrimination against our lives and faith in the name of secularism. People can not control governments’ action except by stopping donation to temples, which will in turn hurt Hindu causes. Hindus don’t have right to protect Muslim and Christian influences spreading around temples or disallowing illegal business activity like slaughtering or selling meat in temple premises. However, Hindus rarely participate in any business activity in and around Churches and mosques or distribute literature in those premises. If they do, Christians and Muslims complain to government and government drive away Hindus to protect minority rights.

Those who set up shops around temples, railway stations, hospitals and bus stands in the guys of Kashmiri Muslims with Hindu names are actually separatists or Pakistanis, placed in strategic locations, who have terrorist trainings. Tell that to DMK, CPI (M) or Congress governments. This is like the report by the Kerala DGP who said that there is no organization like Love Jihad. Police will say there is no proof for such allegations. Neither the owners nor the operators on site of these retail stalls carry identification. Therefore unarmed and harmless people in the area could be terrorized and massacred without warning using operators of these businesses. All terrorist may not look like Pakistanis or Kashmiris. Young people with terrorist training are not a few. A large number of them have been trained and they in turn impart such training to more people in their communities. Thus terrorists also originate from our own neighborhood. These young Muslims owning operating retail business around public gatherings like temples, bus stands, railway stations, hospitals, schools and colleges, public offices, etc. tease young girls causing harassment to them and their parents. They also use these venues as platform for luring young women to commit “religious suicide” through “love jihad.” Priests, temple workers, aged travelers, devotees, etc to the temples, the sick traveling to hospitals, young children going to schools, young women going to colleges or work places become victims of these hooligans because government has no control on these businesses. These retail businesses are set up in movable structures of practically little value on roadside and other public land causing traffic inconvenience and other nuisance. The operators of these unlicensed businesses pose serious national security risk. Governments have to act practically to control this deceitful activity. These minority retailers have taken advantage of traditionally gracious Hindus, who do not discriminate against traders on the basis of religion.

On the one hand native traditions and culture are being wiped out and on the other, economic consequences are also significant. For example, the proposal to ban the use of coconuts in Madurai Meenakshi temple by the Tamil Nadu government has serious economic consequences too. Coconuts are abundantly available in India. Using coconuts for poojas creates significant demand for coconuts. Using coconut oils for temple functions are also important. Any type of fat oil, vegetable or animal fat could be used as raw material for the production of candles. Even the slightest presence of animal fat in the oil used in temple lamps could be a sacrilege. Already, cheap imported palm oil made of soybeans, corn etc. from mechanically cultivated farms are making it hard for domestic farmers to sustain cultivation. Soybeans are genetically produced and therefore, are not organic like coconuts, peanuts or ghee.

It is not an Indian practice to stand around churches and mosques to distribute copies of texts containing Hindu scriptures. What practice has not been in existence in the past should not be introduced to the disadvantage of native community. What practice the majority community does not follow should not be started by minority community to the disadvantage of the majority community. The reason why we have government is to make sure that the society functions peacefully without one section of the community hampering peaceful life and welfare of another section of the society. If the government does not accept that Christian and Muslim practice around the citadels of our faith is hampering native culture, we should not only protect peacefully, but do whatever else is necessary.

It has become a practice to treat traditional dress, manners and decorations as costumes. We should not refuse to declare the fact that wearing a “saree or other traditional Indian dress,” “greeting people with folded hands,” “wearing a saffron tilak or vibhooti on the forehead,” “speaking a few words in Hindi,” “Hindu names,” etc. are simple make beliefs for economic gains. For economic gains, people do anything. What we see in the celluloid is not to be seen as real. It is not new in India to see people who are fanatically opposed to Hindu religion, culture and traditions, without proficiency in Indian language act as Lord Shiva, Durga, Ram, Krishna, Sita and Radha in movies under coaching and directions by studying the character and their behavior in the particular scene, while the dialogue, songs or scriptures are recorded later using doubles who speak Indian languages. Indian celluloid industry has promoted the non Hindus acting traditional roles of Hindu youth and householders and exhibiting Hindu value systems, while the actors performing those roles live different lives at home. Recently we heard the complaint raised by one fanatic Muslim actress, who excelled in acting roles of Hindu housewives, that she was being discriminated because she was a Muslim. If Hindus were discriminatory, Muslim actors and movie producers would not have been so successful in India. Why we don’t see any terrorist activity or threat against any Muslim celluloid worker or politician is something we should seriously consider.

One could observe that dialogues and scenes in many movies have contents to denigrate native faith. For example, in a scene, one bad man challenges a poor virtuous man, beats him up with the dialogue, “Narayan, let me see how you protect yourself or your “patni,” “let me see how your “dharma” protects you?” It is a practice to see villains running after heroines who fall in front of the deity and singing. Villians always have Hindu names. Television serials come out with reinterpreted themes of Ramayana, in which Ravana is a “Dashabhakta!” While educated Hindus remain silent on the gradual, but definite and fast erosion of Hindu value systems, half baked Indian journalists with little real education, but the mere ability to run their mouth or their pen shape and control public opinion. When I see a Lawyers citing “…..killed Rama,” “In the homicide of “Rama,” “in a divorce petition, Sita complained,” “Rama was arrested for rape charges,” etc, I can not accept it as innocent use of examples. In cases when publications reach to an audience of millions of people, there is no point in arguing that “Rama was never killed,” “Rama was a noble prince,” “Sita never prayed for divorce” etc to the author or publishers.

Hindu protests against the systematic efforts by vested interests to destroy our value systems have just begun. There is already strong protest against it. We must strengthen our protest and continue our struggle.