Dear Rajat Sharma, there is a difference between peace and truce, and secularism and brotherhood is not just the Hindu burden to bear

“It would not be proper to find Shiv Lingams under every mosque.” This is what IndiaTV chairman and senior journalist Rajat Sharma wrote in an article published on his personal website on 26th November. He quoted lines from the poem by noted Hindi poet Harivansh Rai Bachchan which reads “Bair karate mandir masjid.,” and RSS chief Mohan Bhagvat’s statement that Hindus should stop looking for Shiv Lingam beneath every mosque, to suggest that Hindus should refrain from approaching courts to reclaim their places of worship destroyed or encroached by other community. If yes, then he may embrace this cowardice but if no, then he should not misinterpret the law and claim that “there is no need to create fresh disputes about religious shrines that have already been built.” It is like telling the Hindus that “Look, your temples were destroyed by Islamic invaders, their own historical records have documented the truth, but you should forget your temples because now mosques stand over them, and if you try to reclaim your temples, the converted descendants of the Hindu victims of the same Islamic invaders will be offended and forced to do stone pelting and violence. It is amusing that every ‘peace’ loving person wants Hindus to stop reclaiming their temples and stop looking for Shiv Ling under mosques, but no one tells the Waqf Board to stop looking for Waqf property beneath the houses, colleges, villages or on random land parcels and do not create fresh disputes over already standing structure. The ‘peace’ enthusiasts need to understand that a peace that comes at the cost of the Hindu side relinquishing its rights and pandering to Islamist supremacism, is not peace but a truce, a pause that breaks with the Islamists harming the Hindus with double force as even now the Islamists dream of restoring Babri Masjid in Ayodhya one day when the “Nizam” changes.