Taimur, Hitler: What is in a Name?
- In LifeStyle & Sports
- 01:50 PM, Dec 24, 2016
- Mallika Patlolla
The Bollywood couple, Saif Ali Khan Pataudi and Kareena Kapoor officially named their newborn baby boy Taimur Ali Khan Pataudi. The newborn had nothing to do regarding the name he received, so at this point he is also a victim of his parents’ megalomania. However, we should not excuse or rationalize the atrocious behavior of the parents who are adults and should know better.
Generally parents name their child after the people they respect, admire or love. Or sometimes the name is based on a unique event. I know someone called Election R, who was named Election because he was born on the day India's first election was held. Names of Gods, flowers, metals are also very popular. And no one names their child after a despised or hated figure.
ven though Hitler was a common name before WW II, no sane parent would name their child Adolf Hitler in the US, EU, or Russia. because of the negative connotation that name evokes. In fact, one couple did name their kid Adolf Hitler in the state of New Jersey in the US. The Child protective services took the kid and his siblings away from his parents in 2011, even though the judge found no evidence of abuse. These parents acknowledged the hate inherent in the name but rationalized it by saying, ‘it is not like he is going to be a killer’
Similarly, there is a lot of hate in the name 'Taimur’. Let's look at the record of Taimur Lang. He is said to have killed 17 million people, ie 5% of the population at that time. In his own words:
“My principal object in coming to Hindustan… has been to accomplish two things. The first was to war with the infidels, the enemies of the Mohammadan religion; and by this religious warfare to acquire some claim to reward in the life to come. The other was… that the army of Islam might gain something by plundering the wealth and valuables of the infidels: plunder in war is as lawful as their mothers’ milk to Musalmans who war for their faith.”
Amir Timur
So, when a famous couple named their child Taimur, social Media in India erupted in outrage rightly so, because this genocidal tyrant killed 100,000 Hindus in one day and made a mountain of skulls in Delhi. The symbolism of naming a child Taimur in a country that still has majority Hindu population was not lost on the unwashed massed.
However, justification for this name came from two camps. Barkha Dutt of Radia infamy tweeted:
"What two actors named their newborn baby reinforces how social media amplifer for most monstrous and vile bigotry"
Dictionary definition of Bigotry - Intolerance towards those who hold different opinions from oneself
Ms Dutt is not clear about how pointing out historical facts about Taimur, who was a cruel, despotic, Islamofascist, whose life mission was to kill infidels(Hindus) is bigotry. Just as Saif and Kareena have a right to name their child, we the mango people have a right to use our brains to make inferences about motivations of the couple and their nostalgia for a despot who killed millions of Hindus.
Another line of defense came from Ashok Malik, a well-known commentator. He tweeted
"Alexander died 2,300 years ago. Tamerlane died 600 years ago. If you're still at war with them, the problem is not them. It's you"
This is very disconcerting, since Mallik is a journalist and an author who should know how important cultural and civilizational memories are for a nation. Doesn’t he know that a wise soul said “Those who do not remember history will repeat it?” And Ashok Malik is also wrong about Tamerlane having died 600 years ago- physically he did, but his evil legacy still lives on in the ISIS, Al Qaeda any many other jihadist organizations.
A disturbing question does arise that why ‘urbane, sophisticated, secular' Muslims never name their children Dara Shikoh or Abdul Kalam ? .
These Intellectual Yet Idiot (IYI) class as N.N. Taleb calls them are a class of self-serving elite with good connections and bad logic. These people must realize that their monopoly over public discourse is over and their hectoring to educated, and well informed citizens is now ignored and ridiculed.
A big thank You to Saif and Kareena for the History lesson India got inadvertently. An overt Islamo-fascist is always better than covert Taqiyya master.
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