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> Indian Muslim Alert Network
> A division of Indian Muslim Council (IMC-USA)
> Alert # 21 | Tuesday, September 17, 2002
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SUPPORT PBS AGAINST HINDUTVA-FASCISTS
Watch Soul of a Nation on September 19th at 9 PM
Hindu hate groups in the U.S are trying to stop PBS from showing a documentary, "Soul of a Nation", on the recent genocide against Muslims in India. This is the first major attempt by the US media to publicize the horrific violence against Muslims and to highlight the eminent threat posed by the right wing Hindu fundamentalist groups to the very existence of Muslims and other religious minorities in India.
Already under pressure PBS has diluted its language against Hindutva fascists on its website:
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/wideangle/about/film10.html
It is important that American Muslim community does not allow the media to yield to such undue pressure from the Hindutva-fascist forces and support the media in its effort to expose these ghastly violence against innocent Muslims. For first hand information of the intimidation campaign by VHP-America please visit:
http://www.vhp-america.org/dynamic/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=26
ACTION REQUESTED
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IMC-USA is urging all American's to launch a counter campaign in support of freedom of speech and condemn the campaign of intimidation against the US media by extremist Hindu organizations based in the US.
Before the documentary (NOW):
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1. Go to the following URL to locate the PBS stations in your local area:
http://www.pbs.org/stationfinder/index.html
2. Call or write to your local PBS station and support them for showing the program. Urge them to not yield to the pressure from other groups to drop the program or to censure parts of the program.
3. Encourage your family members, friends and co-workers to watch the program.
After the documentary
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4. Thank the station after the program and reassure your future support for such programs. Urge them to do a follow up program on the infiltration and entrenchment of the Hindutva-fascists in the American society and its institutions and their fund raising activities in America, much of which has been used to finance the
genocide of Muslims in India. Their "hate-camps", teaching American hindu youth to hate should also be investigated.
WRITE OR CALL
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1. Please send your letters of appreciation to PBS for airing the
show: viewer@pbs.org
2. Call or send letters of appreciation to the Wide angle
production staff:
Tel: (212) 560-3000
E-mail(s): segaller@thirteen.org, viewer@pbs.org,
programming@thirteen.org, Halper@thirteen.org, Fink@thirteen.org,
Friedman@thirteen.org, Chapman@thirteen.org, Mellin@thirteen.org
Web Form:
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/wideangle/feedback.html
San Francisco Bay Area residents, please contact PBS at:
KQED/Channel 9,2601 Mariposa Street,San Francisco, CA 94110 Tel:
(415) 553-2141, Email: tv@kqed.org
TALKING POINTS
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1. What happened in Gujarat was not an instance of "religious riots" and "spontaneous reactions", but pre-planned, systematic annihilation of the Muslim community and its socio-economic infrastructure. The state government of Gujarat actively aided and abetted in the savegry.
SEE: "We have no Orders to save you"
(
http://www.hrw.org/reports/2002/india/)
2. None of the perpetrators of these atroci ous crimes against humanity have been brought to justice. Emboldened by this new found immunity the Hindutva-fascist groups have threatened to carry out
similar pogroms against the minorities. There is an urgency for the world media to focus on the fascist danger.
SEE: "We'll repeat our Gujarat experiment"
(
http://www.indian-express.com/full_story.php?content_id=8831)
3. India is too big and too important a country to be allowed to be taken over by the fascists. Advani is poised to take over as India's prime minister and nuclear India under the fascist control should be a scary thing for the world. Hindutva-fascist movement R.S.S (which the ruling party in India espouses) was started on the model of the Italian Fascist party in the 1920s. Later it adopted the Nazi model.
SEE: "Fascism's Firm Footprint in India"
(
http://www.thenation.com/doc.mhtml?i=20020930&s=roy)
4. A major source of funding (in millions of dollars) for the extremist organizations like the World Hindu Council (VHP-America) is from the non-resident Indian community in the U.S., who might be contributing for seemingly religious/educational causes but instead that money is being used by such fascist rganizations to spread their moral terpitude against the minorities including Christians, Muslims and other underprivildged classes. SEE: "A few fund-raising organisations come under the scanner for diverting overseas charity money into RSS propoganda activity"
(
http://www.outlookindia.com/full.asp?sid=1&fodname=20020722&fname=VHP+%28F%29)
SAMPLE LETTER
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Dear PBS,
I have been watching PBS program's for a long time and commend you on your quality and unbiased programming. I am writing to express my appreciation for airing the wide angle documentary 'India, Soul
of a Nation' on the recent spate of violence in the Indian state of Gujarat and I am eagerly waiting to watch it in my <area>.
I urge you not to be intimadated by the right-wing Hindu hate groups in the U.S. who have launched a campaign against the airing of the documentary. These groups, namely VHP-America and the Hindu
Swayamsevak Sangh (HSS) espouse fascist groups in India that claim the subjugation of minorities as its "Hindutva "ideology. They are on no moral or ethical ground to protest against the airing of a documentary that exposes the deeds of their fellow comrades in India.
The role of VHP and other fascist organizations in India, of planning and perpetrating pogroms against minorities is not only well established by the media and other humanitarian organizations (including the US Human Rights Watch), but also by their own 'boastful' accounts and threats.
I would also like to point out to you that these same groups were invited on Michael Krasny's 'Forum' on NPR after the massacres in Gujarat.Forget about making an excuse, these groups didn't even return the call.
http://www.kqed.org/radio/forum/previous/20020311.html (Wednesday,
Mar 13)
Please note that these groups are truly fascist organizations, following the fascist type of militancy, thought control, espousing the cause of one party, one culture and one nation. Their religious extremism leads them to pursue the politics of hatred, striking terror in the minds of minorities and secular Hindus.
America is all about freedom of speech and pluralism, and it shouldn't deter a station like PBS from their planned schedule and I'm confident that PBS will not be intimidated by these fascists.
Sincerely
Your Name
Help Fight Fascism
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