Unless this challenge is unitedly combated, unless the communal frenzy is challenged with an equal vigour, the very future of India for whose freedom thousands have been martyred is at stake. All patriots, who have not sold their conscience to the enemies of our country, realising these dangers, will have to forge strong unity in action against this communal monster.
To those who underestimate the dangers of the present situation we can only remind them of what a German intellectual Pastor Neimoeller had said at the time of Nazi ascendancy:
First they came for the jews and I did not speak out - Because I was not a Jew.
Then they came for the Communists then I did not speak out- Because I was not a Communist.
Then they came for the Catholics and I did not speak out - Because I was not a Catholic.
Then they came for me -and there was no one left to speak out for me.
To those who consider that these developments do not affect their life and future we can only recall to them the wisdom that has filtered down through the ages. For evil to succeed, the good has only to be silent. Passivity in meeting this challenge can only mean peril for the individual and the country.
All patriots will have to rise to the Occasion and defend India and its democratic-secular ethos.
