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        It has been reported that several people were injured, vehicles damaged, houses and shops looted and ransacked during the communal violence that rocked Bharatinagar and surrounding areas in Bangalore on 19 January (Friday). It continued for three days. According to the Police, the trouble erupted when a group of people were marching towards Shivajinagar Stadium from K G Halli to attend a rally organized by the newly formed People's Front to protest against the execution of Saddam Hussain and 'American imperialism'. It is understood that the processionists set on fire some banners on Seppings Road in Bharatinagar. A group of people took objection to this which led to a clash. Those who were part of the procession started attacking houses, vehicles and shops with stones, the police said. The mob started pelting stones and burning vehicles parked on Thimmaiah Road. The arsonists barged into a web-designing centre, damaged computers and set them on fire. The mob barged into several houses and shops, ransacked them and looted valuables.

The police had enough indication of the impending violence as some of the processionists were carrying weapons. Taking advantage of the lax security, a section of the processionists went on the rampage and targeted the homes and properties of the majority Hindu community who live in the lanes and by-lanes of the Muslim-dominated areas of Shivajinagar, Commercial Street, Bharati Nagar and Fraser Town. According to the police, around 50 vehicles, including cars and police vehicles, were set on fire. The police rushed additional forces to the area. The situation was very tense and explosive. Similar incidents were also reported from Thimmaiah Road, Narayana Pillai Street, Seppings Road, etc. The whole area was strewn with glass pieces, mangled vehicles and burnt tyres. The injured have been admitted to various hospitals. The Assistant Commissioner of Police (Fraser Town) Puttathimme Gowda has stated: 'In order to quell the mob, a head constable fired three rounds in the air. Later, I used my service revolver and fired four rounds in the air. This did not control the situation and people started throwing stones at me and my men.' Puttathimme Gowda, sub-inspector M Malalingaiah, police constables Ratnakar and Siddaramaiah were injured in stone-throwing. V Anand, another constable, was stabbed. In all, 20 police personnel who were injured have been admitted to a private hospital. The police resorted to lathi-charge and burst teargas shells to disperse the mob. Later they opened fire in the air.

Injured Karnataka Police Officers.

       What is the cause of all this communal violence in Bangalore? The hanging of Saddam Hussain on 30 December, 2006! It was not in Karnataka or Gujarat or Madhya Pradesh or Chhatisgarh or Rajasthan but in far away Iraq. Further, he was hanged not by the order of the Supreme Court of India or any other Indian Court but by a Court of Law, totally manned only by Muslims, in his own Islamic country. And yet, the racist and the communal Congress Party in Karnataka planned, organized and launched a cataract of violence against our own countrymen in Bangalore last week. The purpose seems to have been to politically embarrass the non-Congress Government of Karnataka. The main man behind this whole show is reported to be Jaffer Sheriff, former Union Railway Minister and known to be one of the most unscrupulous Congress Ministers in India after independence. The Congress party organized this violence not to express sympathy for Saddam Hussain or his family but to rally the Muslims under their party banner to enlarge their sphere of political influence in a State where they are in opposition. It was clear that Jaffer Sheriff, who has been marginalised in the Congress after his defeat in the last Lok Sabha poll, wanted to resurrect himself and create a communal divide in his Bangalore North Lok Sabha constituency. It is a well known public fact that Jaffer Sheriff was the main man behind the Congress party-sponsored show of communal violence in Bangalore. Other effete Congress leaders like N Dharam Singh, K P C C president Mallikarjuna Karge and others participated at the communal meeting organized by the so called People's Front at Shivaji Nagar on 19 January, 2007.

Former Chief Minister Dharam Singh, KPCC President   Mallikarjuna Karge and Jaffer Sheriff at the meeting.

On account of the Danish Cartoons last year, the Muslims of Lucknow and Hyderabad went on a rampage and looted and destroyed public property 'more particularly Hindu property' under the cover of 'minority rights'. And now for Saddam Hussain's hanging by his own countrymen, the Muslims in Bangalore have gone on a rampage destroying public property and injuring innocent citizens including law enforcing police officers and men. While the riots in Lucknow and Hyderabad were instantaneous, in Bangalore it was artificially organized with ulterior motive by the Congress Party under the informal leadership of Jaffer Sheriff. Is not the Union Home Minister guilty of communal favouritism based on religion when he very cleverly avoids making any visit to Bangalore to study the situation for himself? Is he worried about hurting the feelings of the Muslims engaged in noble acts of universal brotherhood and compassion in Bangalore? Why are the Home Minister Shivraj Patil, Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh and Super Prime Minister Sonia Gandhi maintaining an attitude of stoic secular silence on this disgraceful issue? Why are not they condemning their own party men and the Muslims of Bangalore for indulging in acts of barbarous violence for an incident which took place not in India but in Iraq? Are they of the view that Saddam Hussain was executed in Karnataka? Do they want to convert Bangalore into a Baghdad?

        Quite unlike the mad response of the Muslims in Karnataka under the leadership of a callous leader Jaffer Sheriff, the response and reactions in the other civilized Islamic countries has been measured and businesslike. Malaysia, which currently holds the chair of the Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC), expressed its surprise on Saddam's execution and only questioned the legal procedures under which the sentence had been carried out. In Indonesia, the most populous Muslim nation of the world, the government said it hoped the execution will not worsen relations between the warring parties and complicate national reconciliation efforts in the country. Pakistan described Saddam's death as a sad event and termed it another poignant reminder of the violence that continues to grip Iraq.

In Afghanistan, President Hamid Karzai frowned on the timing of the execution, but said it was 'the work of the Iraqi government' and would have 'no effect' on Afghanistan. Jordan hoped that there would be no negative consequences for the hanging of Saddam that would affect the unity and solidarity of Iraqi people. Saudi Arabia said it was dismayed by the timing of Saddam's hanging. Meanwhile, the Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC), which is based in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, called for calm after the hanging. In the first reaction to the hanging of the deposed former Iraqi leader, Kuwaiti officials said that the execution of Saddam Hussein was 'divine justice.' The Kuwaiti official News Agency (KUNA) also reported that the Kuwaiti Minister of Social Affairs and Labor Sheikh Sabah al-Khaled al-Hamad al-Sabah said: 'Divine justice is exacted sooner or later.'         Without giving myself over to flights of fancy or wild imagination, I can say that only in India, the racist and the communal Congress party under the hegemony of the Vatican in Rome, is capable of even declaring the date of hanging of Saddam Hussain as a national holiday every year in place of Krishna Jayanti or Holi!!

Truck load of Muslims with weapons on their way to the rally organised by Jaffer Sheriff.

        In recent years, the Mullahs and Muslim politicians have been receiving liberal financial assistance and sustained moral support from the oil-rich Islamic countries. Their tone, thanks to the official support of the congress party and the UPA Government, has continued to become more and more aggressive. Like last week's riots in Bangalore, they have frequently fomented riots in which Muslim mobs have turned violent not only against their Hindu neighbours but also against the security forces sent to restore law and order. The so-called Muslim minority is thus being fast converted politically into a far flung fifth-column which will not hesitate to collaborate with foreign aggression as soon as that aggression shows some signs of success. The happenings in Assam are an index of this ugly phenomenon.

        What is the moral of the story? I can answer in the beautiful and inspiring words of Sri Sita Ram Goel in his brilliant book - Heroic Hindu Resistance to Muslim Invaders: 'Hindu Society has to make up its mind when it is no longer going to tolerate this degenerate politics which has been disintegrating Hindu society on the one hand and consolidating the 'Muslim Millat' on the other. Only a politics created by Hindu consciousness and guided by Hindu ideology can retrieve the situation and meet the challenge of Islamic imperialism. Hindu society has to see to it that the Central State acquires a Hindu character and gets infused with Hindu consciousness, and that the Central Government functions as a Hindu Government in a Hindu Homeland.'