Menace Of Pseudo-secularism

The controversy over the so called 'communally sensitive' ads published by the BJP in UP newspapers is just a clear case of the media making a mountain out of a molehill.The points raised by the BJP in those ads are very pertinent and worth pondering over.To say that the minority community in question would be hurt by the ads is just shameless pandering to the pseudo-secularist lobby of which there is no shortage in India.The 'terror appeasement' policies followed by the existing government make it all the more necessary for these issues to be raised and debated in the public spectrum.Only those who support and sympathise with 'anti-national' elements will feel offended by the ads.The very concept of secularism preached by some of our political parties and by sections of the media needs to be changed because it is biased and warped.I appeal to the media to resist making this a 'mountain' of an issue since that will give the 'pseudo-secularists' a weapon to 'poison' the electorate with.