Daijiworld Media Network - Mangaluru (SP)
Mangaluru, Jan 7: A video clip of a Muslim youth urging the people to forget communal enmity and live in unity that has been posted on Facebook has gained instant appreciation. Within a few hours since the video footage appeared, it was seen by over 44,000 times and shared over 900 times. In the video, the youth can be seen pleading with the people to live like humans by overlooking communal enmity, duly pointing out that death of a Hindu or Muslim results in loss to their respective families and not to anyone else or the religion.
The post, which pleads with the people to forge communal harmony and live with mutual trust and amity without differentiating people on the lines of their religious allegiance, is quite appealing. The entire video lasting about 30 minutes, is in Tulu.
"I lost my brother four months back. Till now, we do not know whether he was murdered or he accidentally drowned. Postmortem report is yet to be received. My family is yet to shake itself out of the shock of my brother's death. Our emotions are stirred when we see my mother shedding tears, duly holding my brother's photo in her hands," the youth can be seen describing in the video. The youngster also says that he was reminded of the pain and sorrow his mother has been through, after looking at the grief-stricken mother of slain Deepak Rao.
He says that those who incite communal violence have never themselves faced any harm and that those who lost their lives happen to be young people from poor families, who should have been pillars of support for their families. He wants the killers o think about the situation a family which depends on such young people faces when they die. "A noble Hindu or Muslim never gets involved with violence. When people fight for religion and die, their families are the one which bear the brunt. The others come to share the grief and say words of consolation for a couple of days before vanishing and getting busy with their lives. At least now we should take a pledge to live in harmony with people from all the religions," he is seen urging.
The youth is seen saying that family might get some compensation upon the death of their member on account of religious conflict but the mother will not get her son back. Religions never lose or gain upon the death of a member, but respective families will, he asserts. "Let us give up liquor, ganja, fight for religion etc and live in contentment. Let us not forget that ours is a district of intelligent people," the youth can be seen pleading. His views have come in for lavish praise from all corners of the society.