'Banned'e Mataram, with good reason

Vande Mataram got issued a fatwa by JUH, Hindus backlash by saying Muslims aren’t patriotic, Javed Akhtar, some other idiots, blah, blah, blah, been listening to lots of people rant & blabber about the subject. I felt I had to blog about this… as a reply to other people’s validations & rationalizations. So here’s my perspective to all those intellectual discussions. Some of you may not agree with it but do I look like I care? Please feel free to read and get agitated!

Point #1
It is in the nature of Hindus to venerate any & every thing. So a stone can be God. A tree, a hill, even an Amoeba, Hey Bhagwan! Same to same, the concept of worshipping the ‘motherland’! It may be kosher in Hinduism to worship eleventy millionty thousand and something gods but not in Islam & Christianity – [There is only One God, Thou shalt worship no other Gods except him].
PLEASE UNDERSTAND THAT!
Thus, the concept of 'worshipping' the 'motherland' is kinda blasphemous to some people. Even Christians! I personally have been preached to about this stuff a lot – in church, at home, by people who are ultra-religious. To each his own! Whatever, but that doesn't give you a right to judge us.
So clearly, this isn’t an Indian tradition, mind you. It’s a Hindu Tradition. So the majority shoving this motherland crap down the minority’s throats in the name of patriotism is ridiculous.

Point #2
So now, patriotism & nationalism is reduced to singing a song? The Muslim leaders did say that they love India, but they cannot worship it because there are elements of idolatry in it that interfere with the basic tenets of Islam [& Christianity].
So why do you have a problem with that? Yes, some idiot issued a Fatwa but did you know that a Fatwa is not an automatic part of religious teaching & doesn’t necessarily impose universal acceptance by all Muslims. It is for the people to choose to follow it.
A Fatwa certainly does not mean you go and kill the person who breaks that law. So really, it isn’t such a big deal as you make it out to be.

Point #3
“People who can’t worship the country can leave the country”?
I thought Love was a stronger word than worship. There’s an element of fear in worshipping something, methinks! Why do I have to be afraid of my country?
And this dialogue, coming from people who keep cribbing day in and day out about our stupid society, about the city, the shit & how the system is never gonna change etc. just astounds me!

Point#4
Please stop to think that even though it is just a poem or whatever, a conservative person, when it comes to religion will take offence. Liberal-minded Javed Akhtar will not.

Point #5
Read the book! The context of the whole poem is offensive because hatred & atrocities against Muslims is a recurring theme in the book from which it is taken. Bankim Chandra Chatterjee has minced no words in saying that “We should destroy the cities of the Muslims and that these dirty people [sic] should be thrown away into the rivers.” Muslim houses are set on fire by the Sanatans or ‘sons of the motherland.’
Rabindranath Tagore has himself written somewhere that Vande Mataram has a concept of exclusionary nationalism and that it displays vitriol against a particular community.

And this same song was chosen to be our National Song?
Mother-effin-[land] Hilarious!

This is not a pro-minority article or an anti-majority article. I had to get this outta my system because I was tired of explaining shit to some thick-headed idiots out there. This is not about the Fatwa being justified or not. The Fatwa is most definitely idiotic. All i'm saying is Learn to respect minorities & their sentiments!
Written by an Indian who was born to a Hindu Mom, Christian Dad, raised in a Muslim neighborhood & studied in an Arya Samaj School… me!