- Ankit Saxena’s killers have been convicted six years after his public murder by the family of his Muslim girlfriend, illustrating the dangers faced by Hindus in interfaith relationships.
- Secularism is blinding individuals like Ankit and his father to the religious motivations behind the murder, posing a greater threat to Hindu society than overt enemies like terrorists or evangelists.
- Low collective IQ in India is a factor facilitating the persistence of secularism, with intellectually challenged individuals susceptible to influence by extremist ideologies.
- Secularism poses a national security threat for Bharat, hindering Hindus from defending themselves against attacks from Muslims and Christians, with authorities often favoring minority communities.
- The growth of mini-Pakistan-like Muslim-majority neighborhoods raises concerns about the safety of Hindus,
- Secularism may eventually force Hindus to flee certain regions of India, similar to the exodus from Kashmir.
“For barbarism is always around civilization, amid it and beneath it, ready to engulf it by arms, or mass migration, or unchecked fertility. Barbarism is like the jungle; it never admits its defeat; it waits patiently for centuries to recover the territory it has lost.” – Will Durant, The Story of Civilization[1]
Six years after his throat was slit in full public view by the family of the woman he was in an interfaith relationship with, Ankit Saxena’s killers have finally been convicted. On March 7, 2024, a Delhi court sentenced to life imprisonment Akbar Ali and Shahnaz Begum, the parents of Saxena’s then-girlfriend Shehzadi, and the woman’s maternal uncle Mohammad Salim. The judge also imposed a fine of Rs 50,000 on each of them.
If mere murder were the motive, Shehzadi’s family would have killed him [Ankit Saxena] in secret. But they chose to do it publicly to drive home the message to Hindus: don’t marry our women.
On February 1, 2018, Ankit was waylaid by the Muslim family of his 20-year-old girlfriend. Eyewitnesses described the horrifying sequence of events, where Shehzadi’s mother initiated the attack by ramming her scooter into Ankit’s vehicle. The 23-year-old photographer was beaten up for 10-15 minutes by Ali, Begum, their 14-year-old son, and Salim. The police also said that while the accused were raining down blows on the youth, his parents and friends came to his rescue. However, his mother was manhandled by the accused.[2]
As he was being stabbed by his girlfriend’s mother, Shahnaz Begum, he pleaded: “Aunty, I have done nothing… I didn’t take your daughter.” The fanatic family didn’t show any mercy. They slit his throat with a butcher’s knife. The planning was so calculated and the attack so violent that Ankit’s head was almost decapitated from his body, and he died in seconds.
Ankit’s father, Yashpal, who witnessed the final moments of the attack, carried his son’s limp body to the hospital, hoping that there was a tiny chance he was alive.
If mere murder were the motive, Shehzadi’s family would have killed him in secret. But they chose to do it publicly to drive home the message to Hindus: don’t marry our women.
Secular Virus
It’s bad enough to be blind’ however, it is far worse to have good eyesight but be blind to the obvious. Ankit was so deep into secularism that he had started wearing a Muslim cap and palling around with Muslim ‘friends.’ He and his Hindu friends had founded Awara Boys [Vagabond Boys], a group wedded to – one-sided – secularism.
Descending to a new secular low, [Ankit’s father] Yashpal added, “Even if I don’t get justice, I won’t have hatred against any community.”
The youth was killed simply because he was Hindu, yet Yashpal said: “Yes, those who killed my son were Muslim… but every Muslim can’t be branded for this. Don’t use me to spread communal tension; don’t drag me into it… I appeal to everyone not to link this to religion and vitiate the atmosphere.”[3] Descending to a new secular low, Yashpal added, “Even if I don’t get justice, I won’t have hatred against any community.”[4]
It boggles the mind that a father whose only child was killed in front of his eyes by a Muslim family (which unequivocally declared they were punishing him for daring to befriend a Muslim girl) would ask the media not to link the murder to religion when the murder was entirely about religion. But that’s what secularism does – it blinds you to the obvious danger of the two most populous Abrahamic faiths.
That’s why secular Hindus like Ankit and Yashpal present a greater danger to Hindus than an Islamic terrorist or a Christian evangelist. Terrorists and evangelists are known enemies, but seculars are people like us who live amidst us and gradually weaken the fabric of society from within.
To illustrate, just four months after their son’s death, the Saxena family threw an iftar party for Muslims to break their Ramadan fast, and the Awara Boys served refreshments to guests. After the feast, the Boys made space in the lane for the Muslims to recite their namaz.
One may never find out how many gullible Hindus were influenced by Ankit and Yashpal’s words and actions, but if the popularity of vagabond boys in the neighborhood is an indication, chances are they may have infected a significant number.
Why the Virus Persists
Ankit’s murder will not deter these intellectually challenged seculars from mixing with jihadis and promoting ‘brotherhood.’ They don’t have the processing power in their brains to see the threat.
To understand why the virus of secularism is so persistent, first, let’s take into account that India’s collective IQ is an abysmally low 76 (Japan tops at over 106).[5] But that’s only the average; indeed, there are tens of millions of Indians who are well below that number. The 60 IQ mark is generally agreed upon as the level of being mentally challenged. In other words, at this mental level, a person is a simpleton (imbecile is a more accurate word, but that would be politically incorrect) who is open to influence by the wily jihadis and missionaries. By the way, these soul-grabbers are trained to brainwash highly intelligent people from the highest socio-economic communities, so indoctrinating low-IQ people is a walk in the park for them.
But it gets worse. People with an IQ of 60 or lower are most likely to believe in canards like “all religions are the same” and “all faiths teach the same ideas.”
Ankit’s murder will not deter these intellectually challenged seculars from mixing with jihadis and promoting ‘brotherhood.’ They don’t have the processing power in their brains to see the threat. Even highly educated people don’t know that the so-called brotherhood of Islam only applies to fellow Muslims; it is not extended to the hated kafir (unbeliever).[6] Clearly, for all practical purposes, the concept of brotherhood doesn’t exist in Islam.
National Security Threat
Indian Muslims and Christians can attack Hindus with impunity because they have the backing of the secular state. From the NGOs and courts to state governments and police forces, they stop honest, hardworking, tax-paying Hindus from defending themselves.
Sanjay Dixit, former bureaucrat and founder of The Jaipur Dialogues, says that Mohandas Gandhi and his disciple Jawaharlal Nehru were the most responsible for secularism going berserk. “In his great zeal for Hindu-Muslim unity, he made concessions to Muslim religious leadership that are haunting the polity even today. His sarva dharma samabhava (the philosophy of all religions being the same) was not only a great disaster, but also took away the defense mechanism that Sanatana Dharma had developed over several centuries against Islamic jihad.”[7]
Indeed, three generations of Hindus have been raised on the slogan that a naked fakir defeated the British Empire with the weapon of non-violence. For close to five decades after independence, hundreds of millions of Indians believed this fairytale. They became convinced that non-violence was the magic wand that could disarm a violent adversary. However, the Muslims of India never gave much credence to Gandhi and kept sharpening their swords for the clashes that would inevitably happen throughout independent India.
This loss of their defense mechanism is the reason why Hindus continue to face attacks. According to author Anand Ranganathan, people have suffered because of the use of the term all religions are the same. “The biggest sufferers are Hindus.”[8]
That’s why author and former journalist Tufail Ahmad insists secularism has emerged as a “national security threat” to India. “Every politician, every police officer, every journalist, and every dharma guru knows that secularism is damaging the soul of India. Everyone pretends that everything is right. Cops find secularism as a textbook tool to run the beyawastha [absence of law and order], the law and order founded on secularism.”[9]
Ahmed points out the case of Kamlesh Tiwari, a Hindu activist who was murdered by Muslim fanatics. Tiwari, in response to Muslim politicians mocking Lord Rama, had made derogatory statements about the prophet of Islam, for which police officers arrested him. “But the same police officers don’t have the guts even to touch the Islamic clerics of Bijnor who in 2015 announced a reward of Rs 51 lakh to behead Tiwari either in jail or outside. Secularism has emerged as India’s national sport – everyone participates, everyone pretends, everyone claps, everyone shuts their eyes to reality.”
Meanwhile, the media and academia provide covering fire for the jihadis. The liberal media was quick to announce that Ankit’s murder was due to a patriarchal problem more than anything else. One writer, a Muslim, employed the classic trope of the liberals – false equivalence: “And ironically, on the same day Ankit was murdered, I saw a gruesome video from Afghanistan, of a woman being savagely flogged for an alleged extramarital affair.”[10]
Despite the Muslim family proudly asserting they killed Ankit due to his different faith, Dibyesh Anand, a professor at the UK’s Westminster University, denies it has anything to do with religion: “The lethal concept is not a religion but proprietorial-patriarchal-family-honor that afflicts many Hindus, Muslims and others alike.”
Mushrooming Mini-Pakistans
While seculars need to be criticized for closing their eyes to the jehadi threat at their doorstep, one must also empathize with Hindus who may have become dhimmis (the Islamic word for non-Muslims living on borrowed time in Muslim ghettos). Perhaps the actions and words of the Saxenas and other Hindus living in Muslim-majority neighborhoods are driven by Stockholm Syndrome, as they know that the secular state will never come to their support.
“I have a message for the generation of my grandchildren. In your times, secularism will force Hindus to leave parts of Kerala, West Bengal, Bihar, and Uttar Pradesh – much like Hindus were forced to exit Kashmir in my lifetime…” – Tufail Ahmad
In contrast to the Indian state’s hands-off policy, Israel provides 24/7 protection to its Jewish citizens who live in neighborhoods surrounded by a sea of Palestinians. These Jewish citizens are armed with automatic rifles and are protected by Israeli Defense Force snipers on rooftops and several more security personnel in the street. India, with a far larger economy and population, could easily provide such security for its Hindus living in fear in Muslim-majority areas. But neither has the state expressed any intention to offer protection, nor have Hindus demanded it.
In the backdrop of the Indian state allowing Muslim ghettos to metastasize into mini Pakistans, Tufail Ahmed offers a chilling warning: “I have a message for the generation of my grandchildren. In your times, secularism will force Hindus to leave parts of Kerala, West Bengal, Bihar, and Uttar Pradesh – much like Hindus were forced to exit Kashmir in my lifetime… The government has no solution to secularism. Like termites, the germ of secularism eats at the roots of the Indian republic, feeding itself vigorously at the times of elections.”[11]
Secularism was unlawfully inserted into the constitution by the dictatorial Prime Minister Indira Gandhi during the Emergency in 1975-77 when the entire opposition was in prison or had gone underground.[12] This is why it needs to be erased from the Constitution. Because the only function of secularism is to disarm and destroy Hinduism.
Citations
[1] Durant, The Story of Civilization, Chapter I, Our Oriental Heritage, page 265
[2] 2018 Ankit Saxena murder case: Three sentenced to life in prison by Delhi judge | Latest News Delhi – Hindustan Times;
[3] Yes, My Son Was Killed, Don’t Link It To Religion: Delhi Photographer Ankit Saxena’s Father (ndtv.com), https://www.ndtv.com/delhi-news/yes-my-son-was-killed-dont-link-it-to-religion-delhi-photographer-ankit-saxenas-father-1808791
[4] Even If I Don’t Get Justice, Won’t Have Hatred Against Any Community, Says Father Of Ankit Saxena In An Appeal To Not Communalise Son’s Murder (outlookindia.com); https://www.outlookindia.com/society/even-if-i-dont-get-justice-wont-have-hatred-against-any-community-says-father-of-news-307803
[5] Revealed: World’s smartest nations; know India’s rank | Times of India Travel (indiatimes.com); https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/travel/destinations/revealed-worlds-smartest-nations-know-indias-rank/photostory/107187581.cms
[6] The Concept of Brotherhood in Islam :: Gatestone Institute; https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/2572/brotherhood-in-islam
[7] PHONEY SECULARISM IN INDIA — Time For The Pontiff and The Sultan to Rest in Peace | by Sanjay Dixit संजय | Medium; https://sanjay-dixit.medium.com/phoney-secularism-in-india-time-for-the-pontiff-and-the-sultan-to-rest-in-peace-ed53eaa1d75
[8] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EZzN_JDZMS8
[9] Secularism is a National Security Threat to India | IndiaFactsIndiaFacts; https://indiafacts.org/secularism-threat-india/
[10] Shameful to use Ankit Saxena’s murder to stoke Hindu-Muslim tensions (dailyo.in); https://www.dailyo.in/politics/ankit-saxena-murder-honour-killing-muslims-right-wing-delhi-crime-murder-22179
[11] Secularism is a National Security Threat to India – Indiafacts; https://www.indiafacts.org.in/secularism-threat-india/
[12] 42nd Amendment, Was it India’s or Indira’s Constitution? CCRD (vidhiaagaz.com); https://ccrd.vidhiaagaz.com/42nd-amendment-of-indian-constitution/
