CRIMES AGAINST WOMEN ON THE RISE; REMEDY NOWHERE

OUR leaders make us believe that our country is fast developing and would be in the league of great nations. How can we become a developed and powerful nation when politician-criminal-bureaucrat nexus has grown into a gangrenous disease that is destroying the very socio-economic fabric of our society? How, when a poor Raja Ram spends 35 years in Faizabad jail without trial for a petty theft while high-heeled murderer(s) of model Jessica Lall are acquitted for lack of evidence even after seven years of investigation and prosecution? She was killed from point blank range in the presence of at least one hundred people on April 29,1999 in posh Tamarind Court restaurant in New Delhi.
Why crimes are on the rise and what are the remedies. Until and unless we tackle this social monster, we would be befooling ourselves if we think we are developing and everything is hanky-dry.
The GDP rate is fluctuating but the rate of crime is steadily rising, never looking back. Murder and molestation and robbery and rape have become commonplace. Not only in small, remote towns but also in glittering giant metros, crimes are being committed with much impunity. The offenders do not seem to have any shed of fear of law, law enforcing agencies or even judiciary. A Jessica Lall and a Daya Nayak embolden them rather.
Ms.Kiran Bedi,IPS, is right in her capacity what she writes in "Guest Column" in "The Hindustan Times", dated March 5,2006, "Our police force is one reason why Manu Sharma got away with murder. And the rot in the system is due to a blinked leadership and poor man management…The outcome of Jessica Lall’s case is a product of yeas of neglect or indifference in just too many areas of policing. The tragedy is that each passing day; things seem to further decline. There are many reasons for this. And one primary reason is that the huge human resource that is the police force is not getting as much attention as the current challenges demand." And in the last of the article she says, "…A person who cannot be trusted in sensitive departments, which involve internal security, cannot be made to hang around. He needs to be directed instead to ‘stay at home till further orders’ and not be in the sensitive department where he can have access to all information or responsibilities…it is the men writing the case diaries who matter considerably. Our leadership has to tell us who they are. And how things have come to such a pass. And how many more."
The reasons of the rising crime graph are not unknown. We all know that unemployment is considered one of the big reasons. Drug abuse in youth, who from nearly half of the total population of the country, is another big reason. The gross social and economic disparity, which is on the increase day by day, an exploitation of the poor and illiterate by politicians are also contributing their share. Earlier it was said that politicians’ soft attitude towards criminal elements and history-sheeters is helping the society in becoming crime-prone, Now it is very difficult for common people to distinguish which of the two is true-crime is being politicised or politics being criminalised. Moreover, poverty and illiteracy are making people from the lower strata of society violators of law. They easily fall prey to drug addiction and trafficking in girls and children.
To make society peaceful and prosperous, you will have to minimise the unemployment of youth to nil and illiteracy to zero, and to make poverty an alien word. You will have to vote out criminal politicians irrespective of their political and /or ethnic affiliations.
Furthermore, these should be reform programs for jail inmates so that they should feel encouraged and motivated to live a civil life. We have to change laws to maintain the law and order as well as peace in the society.
There is no denying the fact that society and environment sow the seeds of crime. So until you root out the causes of the menace, you cannot succeed in containing the crime by pruning its branches. The government should be vigilant about the sources that are inculcating criminal mentality and violence in children and youth. There is an urgent need to have check and balance regime for silver screen, Internet, films, media and publications. They are collectively ruining the moral integrity of the children and youth. Moral teaching should be incorporated in the school and college syllabi, and fear of law of the land.

CLASH OF CIVILISATION AND OF DOUBLE STANDARD

UNDER the guise of free speech, a leading Danish newspaper published a dozen provocative anti-Islamic cartoons clearly designed to offend Muslims. The predictable result has greatly increased the possibility of violence and left Denmark in a costly and dangerous predicament.
Four months after "Jyllands-Posten (JP)", Denmark’s most widely read morning paper, published 12 cartoons, Denes woke up to the fact that there is a high price to be paid for promoting the "clash of civilisations".
The fact that the editors behind the anti-Islamic images claim to be excercising free speech while refusing to address Europe’s strict censorship laws regarding discussion of the Holocaust and the ongoing imprisonment of historical revisionists reveals the existence of a more sinister agenda behind thecartoons.
"Agents of certain persuation" are behindthe egregious affront to Islam in orer to provoke Muslims, Prof. Mikeal Rothstein of the University of Copenhagen told the BBC. The key "agent" is Flamming Rose, the cultural editor of JP, who commissioned cartoonists to produce the blasphemous images and then published them in Denmark’s leading newspaper last September(2005).
The "International Herald Tribune", which reported on the offensive cartoons on January 1,2006,noted that even the liberalism of Rose had its limits when it came to criticism of Zionist leaders and their crimes. Rose also has clear ties to the Zionist Neo-Cons behind the ‘war the terror’.
Later on, Rose told the media that "he would not publish a cartoon of Israel’s Ariel Sharon strangling a Palestinian baby, since that could be construed as "racist".Asked why he was protecting Sharon, a known war criminal, while abusing Muslims and their Prophet in the name of free speech, Rose told "American Free Press" that he had been "misquoted" in the "Times" article.
Rose travelled to Philadelphia in October 2004 to visit Daniel Pipes, the Neo-Con-ideologue who says the only path to Middle East peace will come through a total Israeli military victory. Rose then penned a positive article about Pipes, who compares "militant Islam" with fascism and communism.In April 2003, President George Bush nominated the rabid anti-Muslim Pipes to the board of the United States Institute of Peace, a congressionally sponsored think-tank dedicated to the peaceful conflicts.Ministers from 17 nations condemned thepublication of the cartoons as an egregious offence to Islam and called on the Denish government to ensure that it would not be repeated.
When the Danish government, which supports the war on terror with more than 500 troop in Iraq, refused to issue an apology for the offensive cartoons, Muslims consumers across the Middle East began a boycott of Danish products.
As the boycott damaged Danish business and a bomb scare closed the office of its newspaper, Rose continued to defend his decision to commission and publish the offensive cartoons. "We stand by the publication of these 12cartoons," he said. "I would say that I do not regret having commissioned those cartoons and I think asking me that question is like asking a rape vistim if she regrets wearing a short skirt Friday night at the discotheque."
The dangerous game that was styarted by the Damish editor has now been picked up by at least 7 newspapers across Europe. Supposedly in support of the Danes, papers in France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Spain and Switzerland simultaneously reprinted the cartoons on February1. The timings suggest that this response was coordinated by a hidden hand. In Paris, for example,Arnaud Levy, editor-in-chief of financially-strapped "France-Soir", was fired by the paper’s owner Raymond Lakah, an Egyptian magnate, according to employees.Peter Mandelson, Trade Commissioner for the European Union strongly reprimanded the newspapers for pouring oil on the fire by reprinting the offensive cartoons.
Robert Menard, secretary general of "Reporters with Borders" a Paris based media monitor, however, supported the publication of the cartoons saying: " All countries in Europe should be behind the Danes and Danish authorities to defend the principle that a newspaper can write what it wished to, even if it offends people. I understand that it may shock Muslims, but being shocked is part of the price of being informed," he told "The New York Times".
However, when it comes to discussion, let the leaders of political parties, religious heads, and media—India and abroad—response, why they all remained silent when an Indian painter, M.F.Husain painted Hindu gods and goddesses as nude? Why this indifferent attitude towards Hindus or Hinduism? It’s a million dollar question to be answered by them all.Till when Hindus/Hinduism or its creators be humiliated?Why they remained mum when Taliban—a Muslim terrorist organisation—broken the Buddha idols in Afghanistan; why they sat their fingers crossed.
TILL WHEN THIS APPEASEMENT POLICY BE ADOPTED.ON ISLAMIC TERRORISM ALL THESE HUE AND CRY CREATORS ARE BLIND AND DEAF. WHY THIS DOUBLE STANDARD OF LAW AND ORDERS.