The British media has become so imprisoned in its own “politically correct” swamp that all too often they run a mile from calling a spade a spade. We have witnessed this many times in the past decade or so. Take for example, the episode of Rotherham and the grooming gang. For years, as far as I can ascertain, not one leading newspaper had the guts in identifying the perpetrators of that evil, Pakistani. The term “Asian” was used in order to either hide their true identity, or to appease to the extremists in society. It was only when it became so apparent as the case came to fruition, that some in the media finally had the permission of their masters to use the term “Pakistani Grooming Gang”.
So, it is what a wonderful surprise that during this General Election suddenly they are all using the term Indian. Yes, I am finally acknowledged for who I am, a British Indian Hindu. You might be a British Indian Sikh, or Muslim, Christian and Jain. The good thing is, you are now at least British and Indian. And you might say, pray please tell us why we have seen this seismic change in the media?
The answer it seems is connected with the Kashmir situation. As soon as India exercised its sovereign right to include the whole of Jammu and Kashmir within the structure of the Indian constitution, the whole western media jumped into action and suddenly we had become either Indian or Pakistani. Perfectly acceptable. However, their intent was to attack India and Indians. Not only that, their intent was to attack Indians everywhere in the world, as well as the Indian High Commission. This same narrative has echoed in the political arena. For example, the Labour Party, some of its MPs and Councillors jumped on the J&K situation and their attacks against India and Indians became vicious. Some of them even joined protest marches that resulted in acts of vandalism. All of this finally culminated in the Labour Party passing the anti-India motion at their conference.
In the past week we have seen this anti-Indian, and increasingly, anti-Hindu narrative reach hysterical proportions. Any MP who dares to challenge Pakistan is targeted. Indeed, Islamic groups now exist in the UK whose sole purpose is to target Tory MPs, like Bob Blackman and Alok Sharma, and attack them on social media. Their attempt is not only to silence any debate that exposes the terrorism emanating out of Pakistan, but to get rid of MPs who dare to expose them for who they are.
The antisemitic Labour Party knows it has won against the Jewish community, their focus is now on Indians, especially Hindus and Sikhs. Their job is to silence anyone by using the Islamophobia card. It seems this time round, the number of Indians selected to represent Labour in safe seats is in single digits. The message being, we don’t want you, but we want your face to fool the voters.
So in this election, voters in Leicester, Birmingham, Harrow, Ealing etc are now being classified as Indian, and then a subset, Hindus and Sikhs. The politics of the Indian Subcontinent is being used by the political left to create division on our streets. If left unchecked, the victimisation of Hindus and Sikhs will increase. Our fate is now the same as that of the Jewish community. Our diverse Indian community now needs to speak with one voice and rise to protect the integrity of this nation.
(Expressed opinions are personal.)
