Sunday, December 11, 2016

What is wrong with Raees- glorifying Abdul Latif.



Biopics on gangsters is not a new phenomenon in any film industry in the world. Hollywood began in the 1930s, with James Cagney portraying gangsters in many of his films, based on personalities like John Dillinger. Al Capone was the inspiration behind Scarface in 1931. The Sicilian mafia in New York during its heydays also inspired many literary and celluloid works, most notably among them the Godfather (1972) which remains a classic, whose sequel Godfather II too was one of the , Films like Goodfellas (1990), Casino (1995) , Donnie Brasco (1997) were examples of films based on true events involving Italian American mafia. There have been a lot of films about Hispanic mafia as well, notably Scarface (1983), Traffic (2000) or the ongoing TV series Narcos.
In India too, gangsters like Haji Mastan (Amitabh Bachchan’s Vijay in Deewar ,1975), Karim Lala (Pran’s Sher Khan in Zanjeer, 1973), Vardarajan Mudaliar (A superb Kamal Hassan in Nayagan, 1987 and later an average Vinod Khanna in a much poorer Dayavan, 1988), Dawood Ibrahim (In several sub par films not worth remembering) have been lionized in the film industry, in addition to several non specific gangster films that keep churning out.
The latest to join the list is Shahrukh Khan starrer Raees, to be released soon.
Raees Alam i.e Shah Rukh Khan's character in Raees is a Gujarat based gangster who builds his criminal empire by bootlegging illicit liquor. Although not confirmed by film's makers, it is almost certainly based on real-life gangster Abdul Latif who was a terror throughout Gujarat. In order to prepare for the character, Shah Rukh Khan visited Abdul Latif's son Mustak Ahmed Abdul Latif Shaikh, at least twice, but backed out from meeting him more after his meetings began to be given a political colour. Mustak too has filed a case against the film’s makers because they have shown the titular character running a brothel and using female bootleggers.
For starters, this is Abdul Latif’s  great and inspirational legacy:-


Info: After his arrest in 1995.

Born in Kalupur, Ahmedabad, in 1951 Latif , coming from a large and poor family, started out working in his father’s shop but fell out with him in his 20s. He began his career as a delivery boy in 1980s for bootleggers,  waiting tables in gambling dens. Through murder, extortion and political patronage, he slowly grew big enough to monopolize the illicit liquor business of Gujarat. In his heyday, his criminal empire in Gujarat extended from bootlegging and hawala to land deals and contract killings. He was politically very well connected, and had a Robin Hood like image among the low income Muslims. According to anecdotes, Latif would help underprivileged and backward Muslim youth get jobs and would provide the needy among them with necessities. He ran a parallel justice system and always ensured that his gang were predominantly Muslim . In the words of a Gujarat police officer, after his arrest, "There were fireworks in the Hindu areas”. In 1986, Latif was elected simultaneously from five municipal wards in Ahmedabad despite being in jail at the time of the polls. However, he was later disqualified from the post, but it showed the support he had among the Muslims. This caused him to be used by various politicians, especially those from the Congress, by helping to rig various elections and settle personal scores  and they returned the favour of them shielding him (Hasan Lala, the Gujarat Youth Congress President in those days was his childhood friend). His role in frequent communal riots during those days was very evident, and so was his role in breaking up anti Congress protests (Something that the news traders harping about 2002 are happy to sweep under the carpet). 

Latif was much more than a mere bootlegger. He was everything what any person joining the likes of Lashkar e Taiyabba and Hizb ul Mujahideen would aspire to be. From extortion to murders to riots , there was no crime which he did not have a hand in. After his arrest, Latif revealed to investigators that during his 15-month stay in Karachi between August 1993 and December 1994, he would meet Dawood "almost daily." Its interesting to note that at one time in the early 1980s, he was involved in a gangwar against Dawood’s gang, and peace between them was brokered by a maulana in Dubai in 1989. This was the beginning of Latif venturing into terrorism, and being seen as a name synonymous with crime and as a product of the Congress’s minority appeasement.  Although his name wasn’t among the 198 accused in connection to the 1993 Mumbai multiple blasts, Latif was heavily suspected to have been a conduit for the RDX smuggled into the country that was used in the blasts, since he is also alleged to have had a hand in receiving and distributing arms smuggled into the country through villages on the western coast regularly. He is also suspected to have supplied arms to Khalistani terrorists, and  received a consignment of 47 AK-56 rifles. 300 hand-grenades and 15.000 rounds of ammunition in 1993 from the Dubai-based arms smuggler Mustafa Majnu. a close Dawood aide. Even before the blasts, he was involved in several murders, the most notorious being the shooting in October 1992 of Raul  Waliullah, the then general secretary of the Gujarat Pradesh Congress. Waliullah was said to have been preparing a memorandum for the prime minister detailing the late chief minister Chimanbhai Patel's (Latif’s allegedly biggest patron) alleged criminal links.
His brutality was well known for liquidating rivals, the most infamous being the Radhika Gymkhana multiple murders of August 1992. Latif sent his hitmen to the gymkhana to murder  Hansraj Trivedi, a rival bootlegger. Since the assassins couldn't recognise Trivedi, they shot all the nine people in the room.


Pic: Radhika Gymkhana murders

 Late Haren Pandya who won the by-elections to the Ellisbridge assembly seat on a BJP ticket in 1993, used to tell only one thing to the voters: "When you go out to vote, don't forget Latif". "It would not be wrong to say Abdul Latif laid the foundations of the BJP's climb to power on its own strength in Gujarat," said  a retired director general of Gujarat Police. From then state level leaders like Narendra Modi and Shankarsingh Waghela to the eventual CM Keshubhai Patel, everyone in BJP  during the 1995 elections were sure to target Latif and his ties with Dawood Ibrahim and Congress. Latif fled Gujarat after BJP won the 1995 elections. He was arrested in Oct 1995 after a two month long operations from New Delhi because of one error he made : using the same telephone booth for all his calls.

 Latif had been implicated in over 97 cases, 10 of them involving murder and a number of them relating to bootlegging. Since 1982, the Gujarat Police registered 243 cases against Lalif's gang, including 64 murders and 14 kidnappings. 

 Pic: Abdul Latif after his arrest.

After Latif's arrest, Gujarat CM Keshubhai Patel was hailed 'Hindu Hriday Samrat'.  Latif, since his arrest, had been lodged in the Sabarmati Central jail. On November 29, 1997, Latif allegedly tried to escape after he was brought back to his jail following an investigation. He was shot dead by the police in retaliation.





Baniye ka dimaag aur Miyaanbhai ki daring is what Raees Alam, the titular character in Raees talks about, is the reason behind his ‘’success’’.
Baniya. That’s one word in which a huge multitude of jihadi mindset encompass Hindus, implying that a Hindu can be nothing but a cowardly shopkeeper. That was the inspiration for Yahya Khan’s rhetoric in 1965 that Pakistan will easily win the war as one muslim is equal to ten hindus .‘Hindu baniye ki saazish’ is what our beloved neighbor calls the 1971 war as in popular discourse. Under the twisted notion of secularism in India, this kind of derogatory remarks will be hailed as something great by various bunch of glossy fecal publications which go by the name of film magazines.


As evident from the film’s trailer, Raees Alam is shown as a larger than life action figure, singing and dancing with his lady love, and looking at the sheer number of hits on this video, which come from public which has got zero interest in anything in a film except the actors looks and dialogues, we can see where this is going. Soon, we will have our leftist intellectuals crying on TV how a poor Muslim social worker was killed by BJP RSS goons in police uniform, and how secularism is in danger due to such arrests and encounters. We could also have biopics on Abu Salem , Burhan Wani and maybe once again Dawood Ibrahim, showing them as young men who were forced to take the wrong path due to injustice meted on them.

Because no stupidity is enough in this country.

Why Tarek Fatah must be taken cautiously



Tarek Fatah, the Pakistani origin writer and columnist who now is a Canadian citizen has amassed quite a fan following in India for his no holds barred criticism of Pakistan, Sharia and the follies of the Islamic world. He has now become a regular feature in discussions, talk shows on Indian channels and cultural programmes in India. He rightfully calls Pakistan as a harlot, who goes to sleep with anyone who pays her good money, be it Saudi Arabia or USA. Or expressing the faux nature of the Pakistani state as a piece of land owned by the Pakistan Army  who employs the civil govt , or how just about every artiste coming here is carefully selected by ISI, or what a joke Aman ki Asha like programmes is. 


But there are quite a few half truths or non truths he pushes which his fanboys ignore at their and everybody’s peril:-


Claims of Mohammad’s family fleeing to India and Dahir fighting for them. There is absolutely no proof of the fact that the remnants of Mohammad’s family came to India and were sheltered by Hindu kings here. This seems like nothing but another promotion of the leftist ‘’ganga jamuni tehzeeb’’ propaganda.


Puts the creation of Pakistan mostly on the west for wanting to have a buffer zone for combating communism, and blames them for creating and fanning discontent. While the British backing to Muslim separatism is a fact, the truth is that the Pakistan movement had began during the days of Syed Ahmed Khan or even earlier. It got its official name only during the 1930s. It was mostly Muslim separatism, driven by the vested Muslim interests in central provinces, CP Berar and Bengal who could not bear to have their ‘’glory days’’ behind them and live in the regime of kafirs. Pakistan was the British Raj’s parting gift to the Muslim League for their loyalty. But they didn’t create the situation, they merely fanned the existing one and benefitted from it.


He pushes forward a very dangerous notion that Bangladesh as the biggest friend of India, and hence the best ally to fight against Pakistan. Not a word about how over 20 million illegal Bangladeshi immigrants are wrecking havoc in India, especially in the north eastern part of the country where they have demographically altered dozens of districts and now call the shots in any elections. Not one word about how Bangladesh has become the hotbed of jihadi training and indoctrination. He does rightly state about Pakistani government’s Hindu genocide in east Bengal but fails to mention that anti Hindu killings in Bangladesh have exceeded those in Pakistan at any given time. He always says that there are no Hindus left in West Punjab, but fails to mention how they have been ethnically cleansed in east Bengal. The anti Hindu pogroms of 1950 and 1964 wiped out every single Hindu from many districts of Bangladesh. In sheer numbers of Hindus killed, it was larger than the toll of all the riots in independent India.  And most of all, its today’s Bangladesh where the real idea of Pakistan got its biggest support, in terms of men and material. The biggest vote bank of the Muslim League was from Bengal Province and not Punjab or Sindh. He goes even as far as to suggest that Indians don’t like Bangladeshis due to their dark skin colour!


Afghanistan too is touted as a natural ally by him, giving examples of Badshah Khan at every opportunity. But we shouldn’t forget that afghans were always willing footsoldiers for jihad, from Sher Shah Suri to Ahmed Shah Abdali . Afghans today are a very divided people with ever changing loyalties. With Taliban on the Pakistan and Saudi side, Afghan government on the American side  and warlords that change alliances like item girls changing dance bars, India has a huge task ahead in Afghanistan for ensuring that the region cannot be used for anti India activities (it  shouldn’t get too carried away with Afghan president’s pro India utterances, a lot has to be done in this regard).

Balochistan being natural ally is another one of his thoughts. While it is true that India has to give backing to Baloch people and bring their sufferings at the hands of the Pak Army  to international notice just like Pakistan keeps harping Kashmir at the drop of a hat, it has to be remembered that the Baloch leaders  are no less brutal in the treatment of their people than any Punjabi feudal or an Afghan warlord. They are opportunist to the core, allying with the Pakistan government and getting elected to legislatures when it is in their favour, or calling rebellion when it is not eg  not getting enough share of the oil and natural gas revenues (which wont be used for Baloch people’s betterment but for the benefit of these Baloch leaders).Balochistan remains one of the most backward regions in the world, and while it is true that the Pakistan Army and civilian establishment is responsible for it, the Baloch warlords have their fare share of responsibility in this.
  

                                                     Pic: Dusshera in Quetta, 1930s.


As for Balochis being friends of Hindus/ India, there is no Hindu left in Balochistan, just like there is no Hindu left in west Punjab. During partition, Baloch soldiers were among the ones who killed male refugees and raped female refugees in trains going to India. Lets not have any romantic thoughts about ‘’abki baar Modi sarkar” being written on hills there as Mr Fatah claims.

Admiration for people like Shashi Tharoor as some kind of visionary leaders. One cannot forget the arrogance of the man who as HRD minister had openly called lower middle class Indians as ‘’cattle class’’.  His admiration of Narendra Modi too is recently found, as he was his vehement oppose before the 2014 election. He is a left progressive person and always stands by leaders with that ideology. His admiration of Nehru is well known, doesn’t matter that Nehruvian socialism scuttled any possibility of India ever being a prosperous country. Or his admiration of Justin Trudeau, who is flooding Canada with illegal ‘’refugees’’ from Syria and other great lands in the name of diversity. He may somewhat support the Hindu nationalists in front of the camera, but blocks them from his social media profiles.



Perhaps the fans of Mr Fatah will like to see this old video of his where he talks in favour of Balkanisation of India:-


Or this excerpt from his interview where he seems to suggest that bad treatment of lower classes is an exclusively Indian trait, and that in Pakistan, no servant tolerates mistreatment (!):-


Calling India a police state:-


How different are these views from radical left outfits or from foreign mainstream media like BBC or NYT?
 


The propagation of the faulty ‘’thousand year slavery’’ idea, by claiming that India has been on aggressive mode for the first time in the last one thousand years. Nothing can be further from the truth. The defeatist historians make us believe that the throne of Delhi was occupied What defeatist historians call thousand year old slavery period is the period of thousand year  period of non stop warfare between the jihadi invaders and Hindu defenders, which began with the valiant but unsuccessful fight by the Shahiya kings against Mohd bin Qasim and ended with the Maratha confederacy’s permanent destruction of Ahmed Shah Abdali’s forces in the third battle of Panipat (Yes, it was not the permanent defeat of the Marathas like the defeatist historians like us to believe. They regained lost ground in less than ten years while Abdali never dared to cross India’s borders again and ceased to be a pan Asian threat). Between the first jihadi invasion of 712 and the last in 1761, countless conflicts big and small only show the indomitable spirit of this land to preserve its way of life at all costs. 


It will be a paranoia to call Mr Fatah a taqqiyamaster, but making him into some kind of guru whose every word should be taken as true is stupidity. All these things aside, Mr Fatah should be given the Indian citizenship, because frankly, if thousands of illegal Bangladeshi infiltrators can be given the citizenship, he can be too. The only thing is to tread cautiously, take what is necessary and leaving the rest and keeping in mind that one doesn’t become your trusted friend just by abusing your enemy.

Thursday, November 17, 2016

Trumping the left





Donald Trump on 8th Nov 2016 did something more than being elected the 45th president of USA.
Because its him that has broken the glass ceiling.An outsider crashing into the party of Washington insiders rotating power among themselves.  Someone who calls spade a spade, who points out that the emperor is indeed naked, someone who speaks for the forgotten people , someone whos not backed by corporate and lobby interests. Sure, he’s largely a failed businessman,but Hillary Clinton is a failed politician in a failed system. She’s no Margaret Thatcher or for that matter even Teresa May. She’s the wife of a former president, who’s record is often glossed over by leftist media, and we all know very well that a politician’s wife or children wanting to fill up his vacant place isn’t democracy, its kleptocracy, its the stuff banana republics are made of.
He’s dealt a deafening blow to the mainstream media’s credibility.
And he’s made it evident how out of touch of reality the progressive leftist upper class is, this includes not just the media but the entire metropolitan  urban upper middle class and the various colleges whose campuses are left dominated. 

Something the mainstream media had termed as a cake walk for  Hillary Clinton. Right from Clinton’s second term as president, the media had anointed Hillary Clinton as the first future woman president and the even then serving president as the future “first gentleman”.  With all the backing of the Wall Street, the corporate lobby, the weapons lobby, the media and special interest groups, this was her election to lose. And she lost. By a rich playboy who had taken up politics as a hobby just two years ago.

It is actually the last eight  years of Obama that have created the rise of Donald Trump. Obama came up riding on the wave of anger with the Republicans who had heaped two wars  and a recession in eight years on the country.  He promised to cure everything, but did nothing but play safe, just like any other career politician. He’s done nothing for even the black community from where he comes, forget about other groups. He’s made America much less relevant, and much worse than when he first came to power. Racial tensions are at their worst and as this election shows, the country is deeply divided.

The last three presidential terms were by a sexual fiend, a war mongering halfwit and a smooth talking incompetent. So, stop pretending that America has fallen into a hell hole the moment Trump was elected. It been there for quite some time.

But the left is never known for introspection. Immediately, the filth began to roll:-

This one straight calls half the voters as uncouth waiting to molest women:-
Whipping up the race victimization frenzy:-

This one looks more like praising the chaos than reporting on it:-




And how could the celebretards be left behind? :-


Rest can be found here:-
And to speak of the college educated out of reality public-



Left: Manhood, liberal style
Right: Empowered tears .


Awww...snowflake, go to sleep in the safe space of your gooey brain to the sweet sound of Hillary deleting her emails from her private server.


So this is the future generation, who cant accept that the opinions from the other sections of society matter too, and that people from every strata of the society need to have their vote do the deciding Another liberal hypocrisy , of people wanting a classless society caring nothing about the opinions of someone outside their circle. If these students can't take losing an election, they need to go back home and let their mothers nurse them, because that is how infantile they are. 

Some of whom have taken to the streets for rioting, along with the other freeloaders who constitute a huge chunk of the liberal voter base:-


Top: An upside-down flag, which is typically reserved for military distress signals in times of grave danger.
Below: Burning the same flag which you think is in distress.
Make up your minds, clowns.

Honeybunny, Orange hair just talked about grabbing p***y, but Billy boy actually grabbed it throughout his political career. He’d turned the oval office into oral office. But thats ok, isn’t it?
Some glimpses  of the anti Trump protest:-

Liberals have absolutely lost it. On media, at businesses, in colleges, and now on the streets nationwide.So, its totally acceptable for liberals to call out for killing of the rival candidate and destroy public property as per the liberal media  that is doing a great job fanning this, but its racist and facist if someone calls out their BS. All this chaos is being whipped up into a frenzy by a media desperate to further demonize the GOP candidate into losing to the unpopular and flawed Hillary Clinton, her supporters are not ready to accept that not everyone shares their twisted views, and America cant be run by their logic.
 Because there is no bigger hate monger & intolerant than a liberal. There is no group bigger than liberals who keep racism alive and even fan it for their own sustainance. There is no bigger morally deprived people, no bigger egoists who never care whether their plans work or not, as long as they are so very safe from the chaos and violence caused by their policies. Noone hates the working class more than the liberals, and thats why they are at the forefront demeaning the working class , or whoever doesn’t have some fancy degree. 

To liberals, tolerance is, by definition, whatever their opinion happens to be. So, to be tolerant, you have to agree with them. People who don't even know what tolerance is shouldn't be lecturing everyone else on the subject. Liberals talk incessantly about tolerance and yet they lash out whenever anyone dares to present a view that doesn't toe the liberal line, even assaulting them if necessary. In short, they are hate filled people who accuse their opponents of behaving the way they do on a regular basis. 

And they destroy the societies they live in, by using minority against majority &  propping up hate groups by pinning vicitimhood on them, stall every social reform or economic development as they thrive in misery , They have no qualms about bringing the worst kind of people from beyond their borders just to break the social fabric of the majority and create their own voterbase. The result is seen today by the glorious rioting scenes all over post this election.

Lesson for India:- The likes of CNN and Huffpost  is what happens when you don’t nip weeds like NDTV and Scroll in the bud.
Imagine the opposite, imagine if, that after Obama got reelected in 2012, republican voters had smashed some cars and beaten up some people. 

To sum it up:-


She lost. Because now public patience with the establishment and its favourite children is running out. Because people were aghast that their next president to be a self appointed women’s rights champion was funded by regimes who had the worst record against women’s freedoms. Because one cannot just wish away the 33000 deleted emails( remember, Nixon got removed from presidency for Watergate, and deleting 18 minutes of Watergate tapes made his position much worse), the shameless embezzlement of money meant for charity (Haiti’s curse has hit you hard, Hillary) and other purposes via Clinton foundation, arming jihadi groups to fuel more wars for the weapons and oil lobby and destroying two secular regimes as well as two countries in the process, wanting to flood the country with Syrian “refugees”, bringing ties with Israel to an absolute low, plans to expand Obamacare into a Government-Run, Single-Payer System, fighting voter ID laws as being racist (as the dead vote democrat in awesome numbers), the list goes on..

This is Hillary’s record, in the simplest language:-

As an Indian, I’m no fan of the Republican party either. Its hijacked by bible thumping lunatics (just like the Democratic party by the left), has given some horrid presidents who wrecked havoc in their country, as well as rest of the world,the latest two examples being Ronald Reagan and the Bush father & son. Both the Democrat and Republican party in the long run have been bad for India . But in the more recent times, it has been the like of the Democrats like Clintons who have been promoting vested interests in India and encouraging anti India lobbies. Donald Trump wont be great either, but he’s lesser of the two evils, and looking at the lows of Indo American relations right upto the late 1990s, even that is a relief.

Lastly, to the Indian Americans:- American policies against India have always been on the adverse side. Try to change that by being a bigger political force, and not merely by bragging about your perfect life to your relatives back home. Please don’t vote merely who will provide H1B visas, vote for the politicians who are willing to change this.