SHAH RUKH KHAN’S JIHAD AGAINST AMERICA ?

 

SHAH RUKH KHAN’S JIHAD AGAINST AMERICA ?Jihad (a campaign waged by Muslims in defense of the Islamic faith against people, organizations, or countries regarded as hostile to Islam)Shah Rukh Khan with just a few words has unleashed a verbal Jihad against the United States Of America . The huge fan following that he has in India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Malaysia, UK, etc have got worked up no end as they heard about Shah Rukh complaining about the racial profiling against him because he is a Muslim. And mind you the collective populations of these countries could surpass a whopping 3 billion figure. This issue will surely rattle in the minds of of his coreligionist’s as also his fans many who are non Muslims for a long time to come irrespective of the country of their origin. The fact is he has willingly or unwillingly promoted the al Qaeda propaganda against America and made a dent in the image of United States of America. Now no apologies or retraction of statements can undo the damage.Millions of people are debating this issue and its likely fall out on the net .In Delhi some Muslims have staged a protest In Uttar Pradesh the Congress party workers have burned the effigy of Barrack Obama. Some Congress and NCP ministers have also joined the support Khan – band wagon.Ambika Soni screams “tit for tat” she went on to suggest that “We should make them go through a hard search when they come to India” Mam do you want our tourist destinations to close shop ? There are more than 5 million tourists coming in to India every year, by advocating such hatred you are endangering the livelihood of lakhs of Indians who are dependent on the tourism industry to feed their families. Apart from that I am sure you and your ilk wouldn’t want the five star hotels to close down.I am not suggesting we should not check or frisk the people coming but please do not instigate the masses to commit hate crimes against foreigners on the streets of India.Praful Patel the NCP minister of civil aviation was heard clearly overstepping his assigned jurisdiction when he said that “We should lodge a serious protest with the US administration and not allow such things to happen” Mr.Praful Patel it would have been better if you would not have allowed Air India to suffer a loss of billions of dollars of the Indian tax payers money,you have been in charge of this ministry for the last nearly six years haven’t you ? Well coming back to your not allowing such things to happen, allow me to remind you that you could not even stop the ex president of India Abdul Kalam from being frisked, checked (they even made him remove his shoes) by the personnel of the US carrier Continental Airlines before boarding a US bound flight at the Delhi airport. So what serious protest are you talking about ? We are not taking precautions for our security is our problem, that’s why repeated terrorist attacks take place, the American government takes extra care for the safety and security of its citizens unlike our govt.Not to be outdone in the shouts and plaudits of the throng the tweeter and darling of the page 3 circuit Shashi Tharoor(again a Congress m p) also chipped in and spoke against US procedures and the torture of Muslims in America. Shashi there are more than a 1000 students in America who suffer more grueling procedures, may be even harassment much more than what Mr. Khan may have suffered, at the most he may have got a few scratches on his Luis Vuitton travel bag. No Rajiv Shukla, no Ambika Soni, no Praful Patel have ever spoken to take up the cause of the hapless Indians been killed, injured, beaten in racial attacks in Australia for the last more than three months. Is it because they are not Muslims? The external affairs minister S M Krishna reluctantly goes to Australia and guess what ? He refuses to meet the Indian student community. Why did you go there in the first place stupid ? Was it for a holiday at the Indian citizen’s hard earned money ? The mentality and self interest of these politicians in power shocks me.Today the onus is on the Muslim community to stem the growing divide They themselves should immediately put a stop to this game of playing the victim because if it goes on a bit longer the non Muslims could term it as ” reverse discrimination” Already people like Emran Hashmi, Shabana Azmi, Arshad Warsi as also Saif Ali Khan, Azharudin, Nadeem have been playing the Muslim card for quite some time at the cost of the nation.(sometimes I wonder if there is something more to it than meets the eye) Even though India has given them much more than what they could have imagined, its high time they stopped it as such baseless talks can only widen the rift and help create more terrorists, as also unnecessarily bring many other innocent Muslims under the legal scanner. I am sure these guys wouldn’t want that.SRK has only upped the antte. He is supposed to be an educated and cultured guy, he should understand that when he enters another country he is bound to abide by the laws of that land, the USA has every right to frisk him, put him in a holding cell, search his luggage and even deport him if they want. They are not obliged to grant him preferential treatment because of his star status . and they didn’t . Was it necessary probably not, was it an error probably yes. The reality is it’s not reason enough to trigger off a response from the ministry of external affairs. Rajiv Shukla it seems has become more powerful than Sonia Gandhi. Another question we have to ask ourselves is – Will the embassy officials do their duty with the same eagerness for an ordinary Indian citizen? Well if you are a actor with a huge fan base why not, cause if you join their political party and canvass for them in the next Lok Sabha elections the spoils can be unlimited for all to gain from. Four and a half years is not a very long time .Has the deal been signed ? Only time will tell it always does.The problem with India is that the media has made actors and item girls in to demi gods and queens. In Hollywood also some stars enjoy cult status. Who can be a bigger international icon than Sylvester Stallone fondly known to his fans as Rocky Balboa and Rambo. I have seen his pictures stuck on paan beedi shops in the remotest of Indian villages where even electricity has yet to reach. People have to travel by bus for three hours to reach the nearest makeshift theater. Let me tell you a small incident which happened with Stallone .Some time back he was traveling to Australia and was detained at the Sydney airport for more than four hours. It was reported that he was carrying some vials of a human growth hormone as his regular exercise supplement. He calmly sat through the ordeal of four hours . Did he shout , rave or rant ? No a capital NO . Neither did he crib about it to the media. he took it in his stride .In contrast a detention of just one hour six minutes to be precise and our man starts whining . Not done bro.The difference between America and India is that the Americans don’t differentiate between celebrities and the common man at the cost of national security.Another huge American icon Bob Dylan was detained for suspicious activity by the police even as he was walking the streets of long branch N. J.(Kind of takes the wind out of SRK’s hallow allegations) Senator Edward Kennedy of the iconic Kennedy clan was off loaded at the Washington D C airport just because his namesake an Irish terrorist was on the airport watch list. No wonder not a single terrorist act has taken place in US in the last eight years.I myself have been detained at an Indian airport while going abroad for no fault of mine and I am not a Khan.The “Elites” of India be it the President, ministers or actors should get “REAL” for a change.Thousands of our citizens in India are dying of starvation, hundreds of farmers are committing suicides, India has become the rape capital of the world and yet all our attention is on SRK no wonder the naxalites are getting stronger by the hour. Today every citizen is perpetually living under fear. There is a terrorist threat even to the hospitals and children’s schools yet our govt behaves like a wimp pleading Pakistan to book the terrorists . When this govt itself is not implementing the death sentence given to the terrorists why this drama ? if only our laws and security forces get more strict and stringent like the Americans would we feel more secure.Bollywood has always been famous , at times for all the wrong reasons. Lets us also not forget that a few big time production houses of Bollywood have been involved in human trafficking and are on the US authorities black list. The then big star Sanjay Dutt was deeply involved with enemies of our nation the ISI as also the Dawood Ebrahim underworld and the culmination was the 1993 serial bomb blasts in Mumbai where 257 people were killed and more than 700 injured.This man Sanjay Dutt just four months back has had the audacity to say before the media that he was tortured by the Mumbai police just because his mother was a Muslim.All this only goes to prove that just because they are celebrities they cannot be above the law.Yet Kabeer Khan the film director from Bollywood is on record saying “This incidence with SRK…is going to spread ill will against their country” What do you want a special rule for famous people? RIDICULOUS !Shah Rukh Khan is more than famous his films do the highest business over seas in America, the distributors of his ready to be released film are Fox an American company, SRK makes a huge amount of money through his shows in America. Then why his ran tings against the country where he has gone umpteen times before in the last 20 years. It has been reported that SRK had a couple of years back in London made some uncomplimentary remarks about US. People are asking is Shah Rukh Khan’s dislike of America prompted by American foreign policy and its impact on his co religionists .The President of USA Barrack Obama has been struggling to create a better image of America especially in the eyes of the Muslim world to bring in peace and harmony on this planet but Mr. Khan with just a small outburst has undermined most of his good work if not all. The US is against Muslims has yet again been drilled in to the minds of millions of Muslims. Undue advantage of Khans outbursts could be taken by the radical Islamists to lure hundreds of Muslims in to their fold. The result of which we may see in the months and years ahead. America has taken a dent and it will be quit some time before they get to repair it at least on this side of the world.Celebrities with huge fan base should try to bring in harmony and not create animosity among communities and countries in the already strife torn world.Shah Rukh Khan knowingly or unknowingly with just a few words has unleashed nothing less than a Jihad against America OR is it “Reverse Discrimination” as the non Muslims would like to call it.VARON B K SHARMA(author) of the novel “Assassination Of George Bush”www.varonbksharma.comwww.theassassinationofgeorgebush.comhttp://myblog.varonbksharma.com