“Nothing spontaneous about Nuh violence: Why we should stop normalising Islamist vandalism”, First Post, August 1, 2023:
“Soviet revolutionary Karl Radek, “a sparkling writer, with an equal flair for synthesis and for sarcasm”, as author Victor Serge would introduce him in Memoirs of a Revolutionary, had been associated with a number of political jokes surrounding Joseph Stalin. Long before he was killed in a scripted labour camp scuffle with another inmate at Stalin’s behest, Radek — as the story goes — was one day standing naked at the Red Square. A well-wisher soon approached him and asked if he wasn’t afraid of the police.
Radek stared at him and shot back: “Police? Where are the police?” The man pointed towards a number of policemen all across the Square and said: “There’s a policeman. There’s another. And yet another… Why, the whole place is crawling with policemen.” To this, Radek replied, “You can see them. I can’t. I am a party member. I am not supposed to see them. For party members there are no police anywhere in the Soviet Union.”
Today, when one looks at the way the Nuh violence in Haryana is being analysed, explained and reported all across, it instantly reminds of Radek and his selective blindness. For, in all this arson, mayhem, and worse, the killing of five people, including two policemen, the Left-‘liberal’ commentariat and intelligentsia fail to see any Islamist connection to it…..”
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