Unification or Mob Hysteria

Unification or Mob Hysteria

(201’19)

1995 1-2 January-February 13 Unification or Mob Hysteria (292)

An expert in human psychology has said:

Hate is in every way a much stronger passion than love. It is also a much stronger binding force. Lovers of humanity rarely bind themselves together: haters invariably do so. Nothing unites a people more effectively than a shared enimity for someone or some other community.

This applies to most of the major Indian organisations, be these Hindu or Muslim organisations. All these have been formed on the basis of a common enemity for some supposed enemy. If we were to give a tide, which was applicable to all these organisations, the most apt one would be Organisations of haters of other communities.

Recent times have repeatedly seen ‘exemplary unity’ among Muslims. But this alleged unity is founded on hatred, not love. Repeatedly we have seen tens of thousands of Muslims gathered on a common platform, but each time this so-called brotherhood has been achieved by inciting people to unite against a common enemy. They have never been brought together on a large scale in the name of love for or well-wishing towards members of communities other than their own.

It almost invariable happens that our leaders arise, make fiery speeches to incite people against an other community, and thus manage to gather a large number of the Muslim public around them. And then they announce with enormous pride that an ‘exemplary Islamic unity’ has come into being. This is the greatest deception of perpetrated by our Muslim leaders in our times. It is one, which can only cause suffering to their followers.

The truth is that people massed together in this way should not be dignified with the expression ‘unified group’ but should be described rather as a mob brought together by hard instincts.