A Glorious Hindu Legacy: Indic influence in Southeast Asia.

 

Hinduism in Nepal

India's immediate neighbors Nepal and Tibet, owe much of their cultural inheritance to contact with India. Originally the word Nepal implied the Valley, which, surrounded by the peaks of the Himalayas. The holy scriptures of the Hindu religion like the Vedas, Brahmangranthas and Upanishads are the common heritage of the Nepalese and Indians. 

The Pashupatinath Temple

Skanda Puran the ancient holy text of the Hindu religion, describes the fame of Nepal as -

"in the Himalayas there is a most auspicious blessed place, where Shanker (the giver of joy) in the form of Pashupatinath resides."

All ancient Hindu religious text has described Himalayas as the abode and activity of Lord Shiva in which Nepal remained the nucleus.

To the west coast of river Bagmati, which arises from a sprout in the Himalayas, is the revered seat of Lord Pashupatinath.

It is said that a holy bath in the Bagmati river at this spot, praying with hymns of 'Rudri Mantra', followed by worshipping Pashupatinath Lingum with Panchamrita - curd, ghee (purified butter) sugar, honey and milk, will render the person free from the cycle of births. So is the magnanimity of Lord Pashupatinath in the minds of Hindus the world over.

The rulers of Nepal, over centuries made contributions in enriching and beautifying this holy temple.  According to Gopalraj Vamsavali, the oldest ever chronicle in Nepal, this temple was built by Supus Padeva, a Linchchhavi King who according to the stone inscription erected by Jayadeva 11 in the courtyard of Pashupatinath in 753 AD happened to be the ruler 39 generation before Manadeva (464-505 AD).  Yet, there is another chronicle which states that this temple was in the form of Linga shaped Devalaya before Supus Padeva constructed a five storey temple of Pashupatinath in this place.  As the time passed, the need for reparing and renovating this temple arose.  It is learnt that this temple was reconsturcted by a mediaeval King named Shivadeva (1099-1126 AD).  It was renovated by Ananta Malla adding a roof to it.

(source: shripashupatinath.org). 

Refer to Constant and Changing Faces of the Goddess: Goddess Traditions of Asia - By Deepak Shimkhada and Phyllis K. Herman

 

Sleeping Narayana from Budha Nilakantha, Nepal, circa 8th century. stone more than life size.

Lord Vishnu reclining on the coils of a cosmic serpent on the infinite ocean from which the world emerges. The Lord is shown lying down on a thousand-headed snake named Shesha or Ananta Nag - Timeless or Ageless snake.

“This primal insight into the dreamlike nature of the world of appearances has an oddly contemporary resonance given the direction of modern scientific thought. Long before post-Newtonian physics “discovered” that matter is essentially energy in drag – E =MC2 – the sages had already intuited that the physical universe is an emanation of the omnipotent Force, which they call Shakti. 

photo courtesy: Dr. Deepak Shimkhada.

(image source: A Tribute to Hinduism: Thoughts and Wisdom spanning continents and time about India and her culture - By Sushama Londhe).

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Ramayana In Nepal

The story of the Ramayana has played a great part in bringing about cultural unification. Among the Ramayanas in different Indian languages, we have in Nepali the Mero Rama and Nepali Adarsa Raghava Mahakavya. Thus we can understand how this sacred epic and the story of Ramachandra has affected the way of our thinking and life. We can understand and observe the development of Ramayana tradition in Nepali literature from the ancient period to the modern age. 

Being a sovereign Hindu Kingdom, Nepal has kept the Ramayana tradition.

  Sita is revered in Nepal because she is regarded a daughter of Nepal. Raja Janak, King of Mithila, had his captial near what is now Janakpur in Nepal. Therefore Janaki is worshipped annually during Dussera. Ramlila is also staged during Dussera, which is the most important Nepali festival held to celebrate Rama's victory.

 

Ravanaa abducting Sita and killing Jatayu in the Ramayana.

Sita is revered in Nepal because she is regarded a daughter of Nepal. Raja Janak, King of Mithila, had his captial near what is now Janakpur in Nepal. Therefore Janaki is worshipped annually during Dussera. The Nepalis are very attached to this great Epic. 

(image source: Paintings by Ravi Varma).

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The Nepalis are very attached to this great epic. To a great extent, the society of modern Nepal follows the same tradition presented in the Ramayana. It is still held true that a son's duty is to obey his father unquestioningly and a brother's to honor his elder brother. The wife's duty is to her husband to whom she must be faithful. 

The character of Rama, Sita, and Laksmana and Bharata have a nobility and appeal that is universal. The Ramayana strengthens the faith in the omnipotence of God and serves as source of the ideals of even the simplest villager who has heard the tales of Ramayana from the lips of others.

(source The Ramayana Tradition in Asia - Written by Kamala Sankrityayan and Edited By V Raghavan p. 348 - 384).

It is a proven fact that Valmiki, the composer of renowned epic the Ramayana, saw the light of the world within Nepal at Balmikinagar in Bhisalotoan. 

 

Hindu Buddhist temple in Nepal

Nepal has never known religious conflict and persecutions, and even today Hinduism and Buddhism live together in complete harmony. 

Refer to Antiquity and Origin of the Term ‘Hindu’ - By Dr. Murlidhar H. Pahoja.  Refer to Save Hinduism in Nepal

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Nepal has never known religious conflict and persecutions, and even today Hinduism and Buddhism live together in complete harmony. 

Nepalese sculpture and painting is in a style derived from the Pala art of Bihar and Bengal. Many of the laws of Nepal and its social organizations naturally reflect Hindu models, and the Nepalese language is very close to Sanskrit. But the Hindu civilization in Nepal has evolved a distinct character of its own, effected through a blending of its own traditions with those of Tibet.

Lord Gautam Buddha, the light of Asia, who was born in Lumbini in Nepal, trekked down to the plains in India in search of Enlightenment. 

(source: Chapter on Greater India: Suvarnabhumi). 

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Caves of Elephanta  - By Rev. John F Hurst

The first view of the vast cave-temples is a most pleasing surprise. The great portal bursts suddenly upon the eye. The vegetation, which is luxuriant as in Sri Lanka , crowds from the hills down to the edge of the temples. Shrubs and vines in great profusion hang over the entrance, and surround it on all sides with a rich and varied drapery. There is, first of all, the great façade to the main temple. It is supported by two immense pillars and two pilasters. These make three entrances to the temple. The great temple itself is one hundred and thirty feet long, and one hundred and twenty-eight feet broad. On either side there is a large chapel. The temple proper has immense supporting columns, twenty six in all, with sixteen pilasters. The temple, and even the columns and statues, are cut out of the solid native mass of porphyry.  

 

"Hindus build like Titans, and finish like jewelers.”  - wrote Bishop Reginald Heber.

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A peculiarity of every part of the structure is the variety of the architecture. The columns vary in size, ornamentation, and separating distances. Even the height differs slightly, the distance from the ceiling to the roof ranging from 15 feet to 17 ½ feet. Some of pillars are fluted and others square, and many are surrounded by ornamental fillets. The capitals are overhung with graceful leaves. The pillars are connected by beams, which give unity to the whole interior.  

These immense spaces in the in the solid rock are the real wonder of the caves of Elephanta. The sculptures form remarkable reliefs upon the walls. All the figures are of colossal size. The day when they were hewn by many hands, in the remote times was one for great objects. Only the gigantic and preternatural were aimed at. The caves of Elephanta are tributes to the Hindu worship. The principle mural figure is of the three faced Trinity of the Hindu triad. It is only a bust and yet is nineteen feet high. The central face, with an exquisitely carved jewel on the breast, represents Vishnu as the creative principle.  

The caves at Karla  

The temple walls, and every part of their adorning sculpture, are hewn out of the stone mountain. Were there no pagan deities in stone, no reminders of any early worship, and were the country any other than India , one would take this wonderful structure for a superb cathedral. The only thing which is not of native rock is a wooden covering or ceiling. This has been the puzzle of all the toilers in Indian archaeology, and they seem today to be no nearer a solution of the difficulty than when they began. The entire immediate covering of the temple is of teak, a native wood, almost the only one which resists the white ant and every Indian insect. As you look up, and take in the whole nave, it reminds you at once of the inverted hull of a ship. 

 

Karla caves.

One thing is sure, that the idea of excavating the very mountains in order to erect beautiful temples is of very early origin, and that these cave-temples of India sprang into perfection at the very beginning of their history. 

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The cross-timbers and the boards have that appearance, and yet the more one examines the whole of the wooden umbrella, and compares it with the rest of the temple, the more exact is its correspondence with the stone of which all the rest of the sacred building consists. The finishing of the wood-work is of the same style as that of the stone. As to the reason why the wood was put above this wonderful cave-temple, no one can answer. The ceiling was already of stone, and many a foot beneath the roots of the trees which waved on the mountain-top. Nothing could add to the massive and attractive character of the whole. It is not likely that this wooden carving was added later, long after the work was finished and the temple had been used. On the other hand, Thomas, Burgess, and Fergusson, the best researchers among the antiquities of India , began their interpretation of the Karla temple by supposing the wood to be a later addition. But after their examination, more closely conducted, they concluded it was put there at the time the temple was excavated from the mountainside.  

 

Karla caves.

"Few remains of antiquity have excited greater curiosity. The engineering skills involved in excavating the cave temples of western India suggested Egyptian involvement while their sculptural elegance was ascribed to Greek influence. Not till the 1830s was it acknowledged that they were in fact Indian.

(image source: India Discovered - By John Keay).

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One thing is sure, that the idea of excavating the very mountains in order to erect beautiful temples is of very early origin, and that these cave-temples of India sprang into perfection at the very beginning of their history. In no part of the land is one to be found which betrays an apprenticeship.  

(source: Indika: The Country and the people of India and Ceylon - By Rev. John F Hurst  p. 153 - 168).

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Indian Media's War on Hinduism

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The Indian media: Its adverse role

There are many people in India who strongly feel that the so-called ‘secular’ print and electronic media, at least a dominant section among them, knowingly or unknowingly, is playing a very adverse and prejudiced role, when it comes to the reporting of the Hindu point of view. Suppressing or misrepresenting tactics are being liberally used along with admonitions and ridicules of the Hindus, ‘Hindutva’, and the Hindu Dharma. At the same time, this secular section appears to support the anti-Hindu forces in the country, which are active with their alien and subversive ideologies. In essence, it has come to mean that ‘secularism’ is nothing but opposition to Hindus, Hindustan , Hindutva and the Hindu Dharma. This is quite ridiculous in a country that is predominantly Hindu in its composition and character. This situation is agonizing to many and confusing to many more, since they would not get a true picture of what is going on in the country because of the prejudice of the media.

The reasons for the selective propaganda by Indian media could be: a) Many leading journalists and media barons are Christians or Christian sympathizers; b) They are educated and indoctrinated in Christian run institutes; c) The media companies in India are completely under control of western companies through cross holdings; d) The media is advertising driven and almost all leading ad companies in India are foreign subsidiaries of global ad companies. 

In the inimitable words of Sri V. Sundaram, IAS (Retd.), renowned columnist of Chennai, “all the mainline English Newspapers in India are deliberately Islam-embracing, Christianity-coveting, Hindu-hating and Hindu-baiting”. And, as revealed by Dr. Subramanian Swamy, “Academia, NGOs and mass media are the obvious instruments that are on the radar of anti-Hindu forces. Which and who are these forces that are shaping the anti-Hindu bias of the media? It is a coalition, not explicit but implicit, of Communist, Christian missionary, Islamic fanatics and other terrorist interests. Each of these interests has their own specific agenda. The anti-Hindu mentality of the English-dominated media in India is secured by the cozy nexus of media with academia and the English-speaking governing elite”.

“The Internet is full of anti-Hindu rubbish”, points out Swami Devananda Saraswati who is well known for his research on the ‘Myth of St. Thomas’.  "It is impossible to tackle head on and piece by piece by individuals. We must set up a legal association like the Jewish Defense League (DFL) in the United States , made up of Hindu lawyers. As soon as court cases start to be foisted on these missionaries, their conduct will change if not their attitude. But they have vast monetary resources behind them. Which Hindu moneybags would finance a Hindu legal team? Which Hindu lawyers (of which there are lakhs) would ever back a dedicated Hindu cause? At the root of our problem is the Hindu social and business elite class who could care less about their Dharma though they make huge donations to Balaji at Tirumala. We have to face this fact. We can do nothing until our own public intellectuals and rich socialites and industrialist class are behind us.”

Here is a case study wherein the ‘Sify.com’, a major online Indian media outlet is working with ‘World Vision’, an evangelical body openly indulging in unabashed proselytisation with huge funds at their disposal for this purpose [Rs 256 crores this year according to Home Ministry records]. Details about Sify.com’s partnership with the ‘World Vision’, patently a missionary agency, are online at: http://sify.com/news/antichildlabourday/  On this page, they are blatantly fundraising for them without informing the Indian public that they are missionaries. ‘World Vision’ also regularly advertises on Sify. It should be noted that the ‘World Vision’ has been implicated in induced conversions in Orissa and in Sri Lanka during the Tsunami. Look at a quote from the World Vision's website regarding their “noble” mission: “Wherever we work, our prayer is that our efforts will be used by God to heal and strengthen people's relationships with Him and with one another. We do this by demonstrating God's unconditional love for all people through our service to the poor — which includes providing for daily needs, working to build peace and promote justice, and partnering with churches and individuals to encourage spiritual transformation.”

Using Internet, ordinary individuals now have the same tools of potential exposure on a scale comparable to large media companies. Internet Media is the way to go.

Refer to The Great Joke that is Indian Media and Who controls the mainstream media in India ? 

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The Usurpation of Control of the Indian Media has been done by the Americans

India happens to be one of the very few major countries in the world whose dominant media is controlled directly or indirectly by foreigners. The usurpation of control has actually been by Americans, much of it through surrogates of evangelical organisations that are in fact quasi-government agencies. Paradoxically, Leftist Indian political parties supposedly hostile to a US presence in India have been subdued with alacrity by these quasi-state religious agencies, which have been operating effectively in other parts of the world as well.

In India, most English language media outlets, are, in effect, vying with each other to accelerate the fragmentation of India in consonance with Anglo-American goals.

Viceroys to India in the decade before independence, Linlithgow, Wavell and Mountbatten are destined to prove prescient about its innate fractiousness. The alleged oppression of minorities is the political bridgehead that modern evangelical organisations have entrenched in the public consciousness, relentlessly distorting its reality and using it ruthlessly to fuel discontent within India . By deliberately misrepresenting the Godhra communal riots as genocide, though both communities suffered, the media has gleefully incited Islamic terrorist attacks against Hindus and harsh international condemnation of India . As a corollary, the rise of the BJP inspired them to equate mundane nationalist aspirations with the oxymoron of Hindu extremism.

(source: Indian Media's War on Hinduism - By Swami Jyotirmayananda and The Usurpation of Control of the Indian Media has been done by the Americans - By Gautam Sen

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It is unfashionable to be a Hindu in India

Why is Hinduism the favorite whipping boy of liberals and seculars? 

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Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862) American Philosopher, Unitarian, social critic, transcendentalist and writer. It was Ralph Waldo Emerson who aroused in him a true enthusiasm for India. 

The Concord sage eloquently wrote:

"In the morning I bathe my intellect in the stupendous and cosmogonal philosophy of the Bhagavat Geeta, since whose composition years of the gods have elapsed, and in comparison with which our modern world and its literature seem puny and trivial. " 

"I would say to the readers of the Scriptures, if they wish for a good book, read the Bhagvat-Geeta .... translated by Charles Wilkins. It deserves to be read with reverence even by Yankees...."Besides the Bhagvat-Geeta, our Shakespeare seems sometimes youthfully green..."

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Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860), German philosopher and writer. He was one of the greatest philosophers of the 19th century. He was the first Western philosopher to have access to translations of philosophical material from India, both Vedic and Buddhist, by which he was profoundly affected. Counted among his disciples are such thinkers as Nietzsche and Wittgenstein, as well as Sigmund Freud, who takes a large part of his psychological theory from the writings of Schopenhauer. 

"From every sentence (of the Upanishads) deep, original and sublime thoughts arise, and the whole is pervaded by a high and holy and earnest spirit...."In the whole world there is no study so beneficial and so elevating as that of the Upanishads. They are destined sooner or later to become the faith of the people." 

" It has been the solace of my life -- it will be the solace of my death."

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The age-old value system of Indian consciousness revolves around the concepts of vasudhaiva kutumbakam (this world is one family) and ekama sat viprah bahudha vadanti (the universal reality is the same, but different people interpret it by different names). Why there are different yardsticks while dealing with religions? 

B R Ambedkar wrote:  

“It is said that Hinduism is said to divide people and Islam is said to bind them. But this is only half-truth. For Islam divides and inexorably as it binds. The brotherhood of Islam is not universal brotherhood of man. It is brotherhood of Muslims for Muslims only. Another defect of Islam is that it is a system of social self-government and is incompatible with local self-government because the allegiance of a Muslim does not rest on his domicile in the country of his residence but on the faith to which he belongs.

(source: Secular Politics Communal Agenda: A History of Politics in India from 1860 to 1953 - By Prof Makkhan Lal   p. 59).  Donate to worthy causes: California Textbook Case and IDRF.  Refer to The Indian Jews - By Jakob de Roover - outlookindia.com and Indian Realist. Refer to Exodus of Kashmiri Pandits  - By Aditya Raj Kaul and Godhra: The True Story - By Nicole Elfi - jaia-bharati.org

Inspired by The Mahabharata 

Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clezio (1940 -  ) French author and Nobel laureate for Literature says:

"The great Indian epic The Mahabharata has been a sustaining factor in my life — not so much philosophically but in seeking stories."

(source: Le Clézio inspired by The Mahabharata - tribuneindia.com). Watch Introduction to Hinduism video - By Hinduism Today

Why is Hinduism the favorite whipping boy of liberals and seculars? 

For how long a nationalist is supposed to bend backwards to be considered liberal and tolerant?.

Media made me believe that Hindus, due to their majority status should be more tolerant of minorities. Any terrorist act is a handiwork of a few rotten apples, not the whole community and I agree with it wholeheartedly. Then there is a constant stream of intellectuals, liberals and self-important celebrities (Karan Thapar, Shabana Azmi, Arundhati Roy, Rajdeep Sardesai, Burkha Dutt, Sagrika Ghosh, Pranay Roy and others) who repeatedly bash Hinduism on points like casteism, lack of unity, superstition among others. I agree with them on these too. So called backward categories now enjoy almost 40 per cent reservations. It’s the sins of their forefathers that upper caste Hindus of current generation have to pay for now.  

Refer to The Most Loathsome people in India 2008

But why are there double standards when our intelligentsia talks about Muslims? In spite of so much violence based on Islam (in India only) how come they are always poor, under-represented, righteous minority who deserve to be protected from Hindu majority?

Let me explain here in case of Jammu and Kashmir:  

1) More than four lakh Kashmiri Pandits, living all over the Kashmir division, were driven out of their homeland of thousands of years after sustained violence that included rape, arson, killings and robberies at gun-point. A large number of them are still living in refugee camps in single room tin shacks or tents even after 20 years of their displacement.  

 

The Glory of Angkor Wat - Temple dedicated to Lord Vishnu.

'Secularism' is synonymous with 'anti-Hinduism' in India.

Cowards always Blame the Victims: Double Standards of Indian English Media - A constant stream of intellectuals, liberals and self-important celebrities (Karan Thapar, Shabana Azmi, Arundhati Roy, Rajdeep Sardesai, Burkha Dutt, Sagrika Ghosh, Pranay Roy and others) who repeatedly bash Hinduism but act cowardly when it comes to criticizing Islam and its holy Terror on innocent Indians. 

Will India minus the K-word" (Kashmir) or A-word (Arunachal Pradesh) or N-word (Nagaland) still be India ? No. India will not be India . India is much more than a mere geographical, sociological or philosophical idea in the minds of the English-speaking intelligentsia living in their gated communities. India is unlike any other nation, a nation so sharply divided and so diverse, culturally, racially and linguistically, that the only way the sufferings of millions of people can be mitigated, the only way natural and manmade disasters can be confronted and overcome is to keep India together ~ whatever it takes.

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Compare the news space that the sufferings of four lakh Hindu Pandits ges as compared to 3-4000 Muslims (more or less) of Gujarat.  

2) During the recent protests in J&K over the Amarnath land issue, dozens of Hindu pilgrims were attacked and beaten up by Muslim mobs in Kashmir. Three Sikh truck drivers from Jammu region were critically injured in different places there. Thirty buildings belonging to Hindus were burnt down in Poonch. There were grenade attacks on Hindu processions in Kishtwar. Hindus were attacked in Rajouri too.

3) How many Hindu temples are left in Kashmir now? Of a few temples buildings still intact, how many are still used as temples?  

4) Why Kashmiris are whining about azadi when J&K is one of the richest states in India, receives more aid than many of states combined, has a separate constitution, flag and article 370?  

Why don’t Kashmiris ask for Azadi of Pakistan occupied Kashmir (PoK) too?

5) Hindu extremists like VHP, Bajrang Dal etc are a nuisance at worst. All they do is raise annoying protests against imaginary insults to Hinduism like Valentine’s Day, some art etc. Students Islamic Movement of India (SIMI) and related organisations on the other hand are accused of treason and terrorist acts all over India. Still there is a talk of lifting ban on SIMI and banning the VHP, Bajrang Dal.

I don’t have anything against any religious group. They are free to practice their religion, as long as they are reasonable, don’t force their ideology on others and respect sovereignty of the nation. Is it too much to ask for? For how long a nationalist who by chance happens to be a Hindu is supposed to bend backwards to be considered liberal and tolerant?

(source: It is unfashionable to be a Hindu - merinews.com).  Watch video Hindus Under Siege and  India under attack and Congress : A Merchent of Death for Hindus in India / Delhi Blast  and  Secularism in India exposed. Refer to Deconstructing Arundhati Roy and her tribe - By Professor N D Batra - The Statesman 9/3/2008 and Secularism has degenerated as the backbone of terrorists & evangelists - By Dr Gautam Sen and The Indian Jews - By Jakob de Roover - outlookindia.com. Refer to Romila Thapar’s Kluge Prize – By Dr. Gautam Sen - vigilonline.com. Refer to Godhra: The True Story - By Nicole Elfi - jaia-bharati.org.  Refer to What the Islamic Invaders Did to India – By  Rizwan Salim - islamwatch.org.  Refer to Taliban: Five hours’ drive to doom – By Udayan Namboodiri

India , Secularism, Whatever  

India is not a secular country. India does not treat all its religions equally. For example:  

India allows Muslims, Christians, Jews and Parsis to manage their civil affairs according to their respective religious laws. But it places restrictions upon how Hindus, Sikhs, Buddhists and Jains can manage theirs. Indian Parliament even overturned a Supreme Court ruling to appease Muslims.  

The Indian government annually subsidizes -- to the tune of Rs 413 Crore -- the annual Haj journey for Muslims to go to Saudi Arabia .   

Andhra Pradesh government sponsors a Rs 2 Crore religious junket for Christians to Bethlehem.  

Aligarh Muslim University is allocated an annual budget -- Rs 245 Crore -- that is one of the highest for any university in India. However it still allows the central university to retain its distinct Muslim character. All dining halls serve halal meat and no space is available for Hindu religious congregation. Same goes for Jamia Millia Islamia.

Indian Muslims can have multiple wives but people belonging to other religions can’t unless they convert to Islam. Indian Muslims can utter talaq three times and get over with it whereas others need to go through tedious court proceedings.

One could go on and on in similar vein.   

All the statements listed above are true. Therefore, I conclude that India is not a secular country -- rather it is, in fact, a defender of monotheistic religions, particularly Islam.  

It is not by accident that all "Indic religions" have been slotted together under Hindi Marriage Act and those originating outside India were left out from its purview. It was a common-sense approach to take at that time and, if anything, it did not go far enough. If Sikhs, Buddhists and Jains think that they have been co-opted within the larger fold of Hinduism then its evidence is certainly hard to find. In an ideal situation, there would be one civil law for all religions as laws should be the same for all citizens.

(source: India, Secularism, Whatever  - outlookindia.com). Refer to Misinterpretation of the Gita by Dr. Zakir Naik - By Dr. Alok K. Bohara. Refer to Goebbelsian secularism and Gujarat riot myths busted - By Abraham Thomas - dailypioneer.com.

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Sanskrit: Shelving a Heritage
From Macaulay to MTV  

Marxism infested secularity of the Indian State has imposed the principle of separation of State from the Church in the European and Soviet manner. Indian Secularism has taken the form of turning away from one’s own heritage and disregarding the spiritual and ethical commitments that ancient and medieval vehicles of all religions and cultures symbolize. As a result, Sanskrit is the biggest casualty under secularist milieu. Practically speaking, secularism now means wallowing in easy consumerism of the day and neglecting religious and cultural issues. Hence the disruptive and not additive protests by secularists.  

Guilt for the ‘Classical’ Heritage  

India alone excels in belittling its classical heritage as it has unfortunately codified it as its ‘Hindu past.’

This classification began in the colonial period when non-European cultures were primarily seen in terms of religious denominations of the non-Christian colored races. They were further divided into two broad categories, primitive (African, Australian and American aborginies) and static (Asia and China ).  

The problem of giving Sanskrit its due place in Indian education is therefore, not just a matter of giving concession to a particular language. It is the task of using five thousand years of all the textual wealth produced in this subcontinent. And all who believe that these texts, the bulk being in Sanskrit, are not required for maintenance of cultural identity have little knowledge of civilizational rise and decline in history.  

Arrogance of the Indian Anglophile  

Indifference to Sanskrit and other classical languages is nurtured in no small measure by Indian Anglophils who live under the illusion that availability of ancient texts in English translations is sufficient for understanding the ancient ways of thought and feeling. For them there is no greater waste of time than learning ancient languages. Polyglossists are no longer admired in Indian academia. Indian universities do not demand a first hand knowledge of Sanskrit or prakrits from their doctoral researchers in history or philosophy. 

It is symptomatic of the times that a leading university like the Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) did not have a Sanskrit department till 2002 although it boasted having eminent historians on its faculty. 

The Indian Anglophones admire Orientalists but forget that the Orientalist enterprise was not to inform the Indian readers but to interpret a colonized culture for proswlytization and governance. They also forget that no culture can do things for another culture; one has to seek meaning in one’s own past by one’s own effort. For those Anglophils that may doubt this even after Edward Said’s work, one may remind them of T S Eliot’s dictum that ancient texts have to be studied and translated not only by each culture but also by each generation of culture. So what great-grandfather Max Muller did for Europeans needs to be done by Indians for themselves today.

(source: India: A Cultural Decline or Revival? - By Bharat Gupta  p 25 - 30). Refer to chapters on Sanskrit, First Indologists and European Imperialism. 

The new proselytizers

It is this English-speaking elite that determines what India must be reading or thinking or how Hindus must be behaving. They read about Hindus through Oxford or Cambridge publishers and show the temerity to sermonize those Hindus who have imbibed their dharma in their genes and lived every bit of it, making Kumbh melas possible and taking dips in the Ganga on the chilling mornings of Kartik and Magh. The secular proselytizer visits Kumbh, not as a devotee but as a photographer to take pictures of bathing Hindu women and sadhus using mobile phones, as if being sadhus they ought to live as cavemen. The pictures they wire to press agencies essentially depict the weird, intoxicated, obscene and the unacceptable face of uncivilized Hindus to the west.

They don't know a bit about our faith, or what Magh, Amavasya or Saptami means. They take Sanskrit degrees in English and tell us, what's the use of such knowledge in today's world? To be futuristic means denouncing all that you have preserved since ages. That's an alienated crowd of people with an accent, detached from the Indian reality.

One isolated incident of the Hindu right would become a globally circulated representative of the Hindu intolerance and terrorism.

(source: The new proselytizers - Dr Syamaprasad Mookerjee Research Foundation). 

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Prelude to eternal life

Kashi is central to our ethos; we must revive this city

Two senior Spanish diplomats are so enamoured of Varanasi that they are determined to try their utmost to revive it. Mr Ion de la Riva Guzman de Frutos, Ambassador of Spain to India, and Mr Oscar Pujol are engaged in mobilising funds and technical expertise for developing the great pilgrimage as a world heritage site. Indian National Trust for Art and Cultural Heritage is also involved in this task. Both had studied in Banaras Hindu University , and have deep regard for the city’s history and culture. But they find its present condition, as of the Ganga , upon whose banks it stands, quite dismal. They feel that if Europe’s historical cities, say, Salamanca in Spain, could survive the wear and tear inflicted by time and vandals, Varanasi too should be restored to its past magnificence.

 

     

Spanish diplomat Ion de la Riva Guzman de Frutos and Oscar Pujol. 

Both had studied in Banaras Hindu University, and have deep regard for the city’s history and culture.

Spanish diplomats are so enamoured of Varanasi that they are determined to try their utmost to revive it. Mr Ion de la Riva Guzman de Frutos, Ambassador of Spain to India, and Mr Oscar Pujol are engaged in mobilising funds and technical expertise for developing the great pilgrimage as a world heritage site. 

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Varanasi is certainly unique, representing the final post for myriad believers. It is commonly said in Europe — “See Venice and die”. In Varanasi , hordes of people flock, driven by the belief that giving up the breath in this ancient pilgrimage sanctified by Shiv and his consort Mahadevi as well as a host of deities, saints and savants, assures deliverance from the cycle of existence. The fabled temple of Kashi Vishwanath is dedicated to Shiva as the cosmic emperor, and the mother as bestower of food is worshipped in the shrine of Annapurna nearby. While scholars quibble over the precise nature of freedom, assured by dying here — with some citing scriptures to claim that it is a progressive liberation, requiring sojourns in higher realms, the city holds an unequalled attraction for seekers and tourists alike. Possibly the oldest settlement in the world, its antiquity is credited to the view that at the time of dissolution, which occurs periodically, Shiv perches Banaras atop his trident, and then restores it to its place after the waters of the great deluge have receded. It thus surmounts time.

 

River Ganga

Devout followers setting diyas afloat upon Ganga every evening, as the ceremonial aarti is performed along its banks.

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Standing on the banks of Ganga , between the confluence of Varuna with this great river to the north and of Asi to the south, the city derives its name from the two small rivers. In the past, it had various names of which Kashi and Mahashamshan are still in use. The former signifies city of lights with the devout followers setting diyas afloat upon Ganga every evening, as the ceremonial aarti is performed along its banks. As darkness gently falls, the frieze of narrow lanes comes alive with gaiety, music, dance and blazing lamps. Kathak evolved as a classical genre in these lanes, crammed with shops of silk saris and handicrafts, as did the Banaras Gharana of Hindustani music. Goswami Tulsidas wrote Ramacharitamanas in Banaras , thereby rendering the saga of Ram in the spoken tongue.

Even as Kashi dazzled with its brilliance, the city’s other name, ‘Mahashamshan’, indicated its sombre aspect. People came here to seek salvation on the ghats of Ganga . Ramakrishna Paramahansa, after visiting one of Banaras ’s burning grounds, recounted to his disciples that he had seen Shiv whisper the Tarak mantra of liberation into the ears of the dying while goddess Kali stood nearby.

About a hundred ghats line the riverbanks. Most are used for bathing and sacred dips. Harishchandra and Manikarnika ghats are deployed for burning bodies. They are holy for left-hand practitioners, tantriks and aghoris, whose mystifying path to truth lies through the burning grounds. Harishchandra dwelt as a Dom for seven long years on the ghat that bears his name after he gave up his kingdom, as directed by his preceptor, and sold his wife and child into slavery. After the pre-ordained period of suffering was over, he was miraculously restored to his former state, along with his queen and child, though the latter had died of snake bite. Thousand of years later, devout followers converge at this place with reverence. For them, death is the prelude to eternal life.

(source: Prelude to eternal life - By Anuradha Dutt - dailypioneer.com).

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The  Self Loathing Leftists and Liberals of India


Modern India’s modern myths

The first of these myths is that India itself is a myth. The Mahabharata and the Ramayana are myths that were written by men who lived in a place without geography or history. Sanskrit came from this same nebulous arena as did the Vedas and the mathematicians who invented the zero.

The idea of India did not exist until the British created it is the contention of India’s self-loathing ‘liberals’. In the words of a historian of recent celebrity, India is an ‘unnatural nation as well as an unlikely democracy’. He does not bother to explain what he means by ‘unnatural nation’ since the nation state itself did not exist till not very long ago. Long, long before that there was a country called Bharat whose borders were clearly defined and whose certainty continues to be perfectly understood by ordinary Indians across India.

When a pilgrim from Tamil Nadu or Karnataka sets off to attend the Kumbh Mela in Allahabad, he does not think that he is travelling to a foreign country. When a family from Bengal travels to Banaras or Mathura to drop off some inconvenient widow in one of the ashrams, there they do not think they are travelling abroad either. The only people who have a problem defining India are liberal, English-speaking ‘secular intellectuals’ who usually don’t speak even a single Indian language. They understand no more about the idea of India than those intellectual refugees from the West who make India their home and become ‘experts’ on all things Indian. They belong to the same club because they all make a living out of writing books, histories and articles about this India that is so unnatural a nation, so accidental a country.

 

Assault on Hindu India by aggressive minorities

Mullah, Marxists, Missionaries and self loathing pseudo secularists. They find themselves in this extraordinary role because nothing motivates them more than their passionate loathing of India. 

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The second myth perpetrated by the self-loathers is that there is no such thing as Hindu India. 

There is a ‘composite’ culture that is Hindu and Muslim and that is that. Anyone who dares suggest that for many centuries before Islam came to our shores India was a Hindu country is instantly reviled as a rank ‘communalist’ of the Hindutva kind. It is important to note here that the self-loathing liberals have no problem describing a period of Indian history as Mughul and another period as British. The problem is ‘Hindu’ India because the premise that there was a country called Bharat that was entirely Hindu in ancient times is somehow offensive.

Modern India has given birth to modern myths. The most popular myth among ‘secular liberals’ in these times of Islamist terrorism is that the Indian state is so evil that the jihad is a valid response. You would not think that there could be an alliance between religious fanatics and those who believe they are intellectuals of liberal, left persuasion but in India there is. This bizarre alliance is so strong that Indian leftists have become the most ardent spokesmen (and women) of the Islamists. They find themselves in this extraordinary role because nothing motivates them more than their passionate loathing of India. May I suggest a cure. It is time for them to spend an extended holiday in Pakistan or Bangladesh to discover what countries in which history is myth are really like.

(source: Modern India’s modern myths - By Tavleen Singh - indianexpress.com). Refer to Romila Thapar’s Kluge Prize – By Dr. Gautam Sen - vigilonline.com.  Refer to Exodus of Kashmiri Pandits  - By Aditya Raj Kaul. Refer to Taliban: Five hours’ drive to doom – By Udayan Namboodiri.  Refer to Misinterpretation of the Gita by Dr. Zakir Naik - By Dr. Alok K. Bohara.  Refer to Goebbelsian secularism and Gujarat riot myths busted - By Abraham Thomas - dailypioneer.com.  Refer to Teesta, It hit your face and NDTV

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Reclaiming India, India's History and Heritage

The attacks on Mumbai are reminiscent of the first Arab incursions, by sea between 634 and 637 AD through Thana, Broach and Debal. These were repulsed and led to incursions through land routes in the Northwest between 650-711 AD. Muhammad Bin Qasim finally succeeded in occupying parts of Sindh in 712 AD. In contrast to the 70 years it took to occupy Sindh in face of Hindu resistance, the Islamic armies had conquered Persia , Syria , Egypt within eight years of the Prophet"s death. The Muslim descendents of the Hindus, at least in Pakistan and Bangladesh , having severed themselves from their roots and heritage, find greater commonality with Arabic language, customs and religion. The idea of roots, state, civilization or cultural heritage are super ceded by the common ground of Islam.

Islam, does not recognize the idea of sovereignty of state or the concept of individual free will guiding individual choice -whether towards lifestyle or to one"s spiritual path. All Semitic faiths speak of a single God, but clearly not the same one, as each claims an exclusive covenant and an exclusive revelation through an exclusive prophet and salvation through the individual agency representing the religion.

Of the three great faiths one must admit that the modern Jewish faith does not directly negate others and does not indulge in the task of conversions overtly and covertly and therefore intrinsically seeks no conflict -only the right of self existence. The Hindus seek peaceful self existence but differ from all, in laying no claim to a unique covenant or a unique relationship with their own particular God. They further believe in self inquiry, the right to- differ, question, criticize, adopt or reject any particular aspect or tenet of spiritual life. Faith is welcome but not necessary and lack of faith or criticism does not call for execution. No conversions are needed as spiritual life does not mandate membership in an exclusive creed. State has no spiritual responsibility. Venerable Prophets are many, within and outside India , who can be guides but are not necessarily needed. Being reflections of the Divine through the human form they are exalted beings but may have human limitations or imperfection at times. There is no Hindu Umma, Dar al Hind and Dar al Harb and there are no Momins and Kafirs. No Ghazis are required to wield swords to decapitate heads of Kafirs to reap rewards in an indulgent Zannat to please the one God.

Places of worship where others worship are not special targets of wrathful destruction. Hindus have largely chosen to accept, ignore, negate and justify their suffering, believing that tolerance and patience would certainly be rewarded in the long run by dawning of reason among those who have brutalized India for about ten centuries. Large scale negation has been supplemented by outright falsification of the scale of atrocities on part of Islamic invaders. Indians have also submitted to more subtle but equally pernicious civilizational and spiritual subversion along with economic destruction by the Christian West. Purposeful erosion of the Hindu culture (Kul-achar) and ethos, was ensured, post Independence by the Congress-Communist nexus, under the cloak of secularism. This destruction continues unabated today. Political empowerment of minorities is yet to occur in Europe and North America while in Islamic countries systematic cleansing has reduced minorities to near extinction almost everywhere. 

Indian congress, communists, secularists and Human right activists have not bothered themselves with the Hindu victims of Islam or Christianity. They have built their credibility among foreigners and anti- Hindu faiths by sabotaging the ideal of India "s Nationhood based on Sanatan Dharma.

The idea of a tolerant Islamic State (for Non Muslims) is a contradiction in terms. For Christianity, state and religion, have historically been symbiotic entities -one thriving on the expansion of the other, each empowering the other. State was certainly the vehicle for Christianity"s spread and eventual conquest of Europe rendering extinct all indigenous forms of spirituality and culture, from Greece to Lithuania beginning from Italy .

The idea of Hindutva, Hindu fundamentalism are not merely illogical concepts but are carefully crafted themes to empower the exclusivist faiths who battle today for the soul and soil of India. There is no state other than India , that has seen political empowerment of minority faiths to an extent that persecution of majority is no longer looked upon with surprise. The ethnic cleansing of 400,000 Kashmiri Hindus in Hindu majority India is ignored, while communal riots in response the burning of Hindu pilgrims in Godhra is termed pogrom with international condemnation, humiliation, and enquiry commissions whose findings contradict the charge of genocide due to state complicity or permissiveness. This of course cannot satiate the Indian media"s Hindu bloodlust. 

India"s English media, human rights activists, television and it"s ruling Cabal reflect a coalition of Christians, Communists, Moslems, Western educated McCaulayites and foreign agents who live on the crumbs from middle east or the West. 

The zenith of one"s recognition in politics, academia, art , media, or intellectual circles is related to the degree of virulence one is able to muster against the Hindu and the culture of his forefathers. Regrettably, the defense of majority Hindus in their own land is at the hands of parties like BJP, whose apologetic conviction of their own heritage offers little hope. Their need for eulogies from the nation"s enemies is only matched by their gutlessness, lack of vision for their nation, colossal lack of cohesive planning and the spinelessness of political opportunism.

For almost a thousand years jeering Islamic armies destroyed temples telling the Hindus that their Gods were mere idols who could not protect themselves, while the Hindu kept rebuilding his temples. The mosque built by the genocidal Babur was no mosque but merely a usurped temple that the weak Hindu finally used his bare hands to bring down -but to what dramatic disbelief, condemnation and outrage -that a servile Hindu could do this! None bothered that a place of worship was named after a genocidal monarch - for it is but natural for Islam to honor its Ghazis.  

 

Lord Ram and Laxman meeting Hanuman.

To protect Babur"s monument (though no Islamic scholar claimed it to be a true mosque) seemed to be a national obsession for the liberal Indian. 

India"s English media, human rights activists, television and it"s ruling Cabal reflect a coalition of Christians, Communists, Moslems, Western educated McCaulayites and foreign agents who live on the crumbs from middle east or the West. The zenith of one"s recognition in politics, academia, art , media, or intellectual circles is related to the degree of virulence one is able to muster against the Hindu and the culture of his forefathers.

The ethnic cleansing of 400,000 Kashmiri Hindus in Hindu majority India is ignored, while communal riots in response the burning of Hindu pilgrims in Godhra is termed pogrom with international condemnation, humiliation, and enquiry commissions whose findings contradict the charge of genocide due to state complicity or permissiveness. This of course cannot satiate the Indian media"s Hindu bloodlust.

India "s intellectual elite today is India"s most pernicious enemy - an elite reared on the subsidized state sponsored education funded by the toiling Hindu.

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To protect Babur"s monument (though no Islamic scholar claimed it to be a true mosque) seemed to be a national obsession for the liberal Indian, for it to be brought down a national shame? Can such a country survive its citizenry? Is there a Church in Poland named after Hitler (a faithful) or for that matter, one in Rome after Constantine or Theodosius?

Finally one must come to the intellectual elite of India . The intellectual leaders of India are no longer creative, natural thinkers in indigenous languages but are brilliant products and protagonists of Western Education. One would be hard put to find an Indian thought leader today who reads or writes in a language other than English.  The Chinese, Japanese, Russians, Greeks, Germans, Spaniards, Mexicans or Egyptians do not have "English" intellectual Elite. These countries do no obsess themselves with intellectuals adorned with Booker prizes or Oscars for denigrating their countries.

Their leading newspapers, media, or academic institutions do not have to use English to be well regarded. It is perfectly cute to have the Chinese Premier shake his head at the US President and exchange pleasantries through an interpreter while it is not for the Indian savage to do the same. Indian parents regard education in English and higher studies in the English speaking West to be the highest form of academic achievement. It is a natural consequence to imbibe the English based knowledge systems and discard the vast indigenous intellectual wealth, available in Sanskrit and other indigenous literature. Thus the first rung of our civilization -the intellectual Indian has been simply de-indigenized.  

 

Nandi - Painting by Pierre Sonnerat

Indian elite prefer to read the New Yorker than indigenous literature. Indian parents regard education in English and higher studies in the English speaking West to be the highest form of academic achievement. It is a natural consequence to imbibe the English based knowledge systems and discard the vast indigenous intellectual wealth, available in Sanskrit and other indigenous literature. Thus the first rung of our civilization -the intellectual Indian has been simply de-indigenized.  

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Validated by economic success and access to leadership positions this Indian intellectual leadership is Indian only in appearance -in character it represents colonial continuity. It is virulently anti -Hindu and seeks not to be identified with Hindutva . Why else is "Hindu Tattva" or the essence of being a Hindu a dirty word while "being a good Christian" - a claim to value. Is it not the Hindu seer who gave the world Numbers and Counting, Astronomy, Music, Grammar, Yoga and Ayurveda besides Philosophy and the first glimpse of God ? What knowledge streams did the Prophets from the Monotheistic faiths bequeath to the world ? India "s English media and its English Children have turned the Hindu into a despicable, backward and intolerable heathen, who is now violent as well. To unleash violence outside one"s borders on alien lands is natural as long as the perpetrators are Christians or Moslems but to defend oneself and one"s faith within one"s own borders is fundamentalism in case of the Hindu. When the Christians or Moslems disallow proselytization or conversion it is the natural inclination to preserve one"s identity but for the Hindu to take such a view would be unacceptable bigotry. 

Barring exceptions, India "s intellectual elite today is India "s most pernicious enemy - an elite reared on the subsidized state sponsored education funded by the toiling Hindu. One must end with a discussion on solutions. As a first measure the Hindu majority of India must find its voice and aspiration reflected in the media. It must not support an anti India media through viewership, audience, subscription or advertisement revenue in any form. India must demand a media free of foreign ownership or revenue based influence. Indians must control their media. Equally important for Indians is to elect a leadership that to start with is not anti-India. Needless to say, any leadership that is anti- Hindu is anti-majority and by definition, anti-India. They cannot be at the helm of the country.  

 

Lord Krishna killing demon horse. stone.

India of the past has done far better under Vikramaditya or Chandragupta.

Indian congress, communists, secularists and Human right activists have not bothered themselves with the Hindu victims of Islam or Christianity. They have built their credibility among foreigners and anti- Hindu faiths by sabotaging the ideal of India "s Nationhood based on Sanatan Dharma. The UPA Government, its adherents and its supporting parties must be defeated and discarded into political oblivion.  Marxist organizations and political parties need to be outlawed.

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Therefore, the UPA Government, its adherents and its supporting parties must be defeated and discarded into political oblivion. Marxism is welcome as part of academic discourse but its anti-national and anti-majority views do not permit it to be a legitimate political body . Marxist organizations and political parties need to be outlawed. The nexus of criminals and politicians has to be broken by a strengthened judiciary and ruthless imposition of law. A criminalized democracy manipulated by feudal families, foreigners, anti India and anti Hindu agencies is worse than an undemocratic, but ethical administration. 

India of the past has done far better under Vikramaditya or Chandragupta. 

The academic institutions of India starting from at its schools need to be entirely revamped. Study of its indigenous languages, knowledge streams, and its classical history from indigenous sources must be mandatory for all, but most of all for its political leadership and administration, as a prerequisite for electoral contest or administration. Anti India academicians cannot have any public funding sources towards salary, research and publications and media presentations offending Hindu sentiments should not be tolerated. India"s 1.2 billion people and 1 billion Hindus must be what they want to be, not what others manipulate them to be -in this respect they must learn from China.

Hindu majority India managed to lose power and suffer enslavement, decapitation, conversion, jiziya, dhimmitude, and famines apart from annihilation of its identity for over a thousand years. Its current course shows no memory of this experience. All Hindus must act now, through forging a common Hindu identity and must express this identity through a Hindu vote for a Hindu India - a Muslim India or a Christian India cannot be a pluralistic tolerant India . Let Islam and Christianity demonstrate this first in the lands they control. Let the US elect a non Christian Governor or President and let Indonesia or Pakistan have a Hindu President first. Let rest of the world demonstrate its equality to the Hindu .The Hindu must protect himself first, to deliver humanity. While India as a nation state should stand for equality for all its citizens and proclaim all life to be sacred as decreed by Sanatan Dharma - it must let its external enemies know, that the future theatres of war would be on their soil and the rites of war would be one that they inflict on others.

(source: Reclaiming India , India "s History and Heritage - By Subroto Gangopadhyay - ivarta.com).

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In search of Moksha
French citizen's funeral held with Hindu rites

Ujjain, MP, Feb 3: At the age of 60, a French citizen breathed his last in the temple town of Madhya Pradesh in search of 'Moksha' (salvation) and his last rites were performed with Hindu rituals in presence of several foreigners.

Alin Kerujore passed away at Sidha Ahram on the banks of holy Kshipra River yesterday. He was staying with his wife Maria since 15 days.

He also mentioned in a letter he wrote before his death that Ujjain is a 'Moksha Nagari' (salvation town) and one could get salvation on dying here.

Ashram head Swami Nardanand said that several local people and foreigners arrived here for 'Bhakti' and Alin, was a polyglot and wrote books in several languages, died here in the morning yesterday. City Superintendent of Police Arvind Tiwari said that the French citizen died naturally and his body was handed over to his wife after an autopsy. The funeral was held at Chakrateertha cemetery last evening according to Hindu traditions.

(source: French citizen's funeral held with Hindu rites - newkerala.com).

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The Hindu Rate Of Wrath

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When the Mahatma's cowards erupt in fury, it hurts. It isn't terror.  

Is there such a thing as 'Hindu terrorism', as the arrest of Sadhvi Pragya Singh Thakur for the recent Malegaon blasts may tend to prove? Well, I guess I was asked to write this column because I am one of that rare breed of foreign correspondents-a lover of Hindus! 

A born Frenchman, Catholic-educated and non-Hindu, I do hope I'll be given some credit for my opinions, which are not the product of my parents' ideas, my education or my atavism, but garnered from 25 years of reporting in South Asia (for Le Journal de Geneve and Le Figaro). 

In the early 1980s, when I started freelancing in south India , doing photo features on Kalaripayattu, the Ayyappa festival, or the Ayyanars, I slowly realised that the genius of this country lies in its Hindu ethos, in the true spirituality behind Hinduism. 

The average Hindu you meet in a million villages possesses this simple, innate spirituality and accepts your diversity, whether you are Christian or Muslim, Jain or Arab, French or Chinese. It is this Hinduness that makes the Indian Christian different from, say, a French Christian, or the Indian Muslim unlike a Saudi Muslim. I also learnt that Hindus not only believed that the divine could manifest itself at different times, under different names, using different scriptures (not to mention the wonderful avatar concept, the perfect answer to 21st century religious strife) but that they had also given refuge to persecuted minorities from across the world-Syrian Christians, Parsis, Jews, Armenians, and today, Tibetans. 

In 3,500 years of existence, Hindus have never militarily invaded another country, never tried to impose their religion on others by force or induced conversions. You cannot find anybody less fundamentalist than a Hindu in the world and it saddens me when I see the Indian and western press equating terrorist groups like Islamist SIMI, which blow up innocent civilians, with ordinary, angry Hindus who burn churches without killing anybody. 

We know also that most of these communal incidents often involve persons from the same groups-often Dalits and tribals-some of who have converted to Christianity and others not. However reprehensible the destruction of Babri Masjid, no Muslim was killed in the process; compare this to the 'vengeance' bombings of 1993 in Bombay , which wiped out hundreds of innocents, mostly Hindus. Yet the Babri Masjid destruction is often described by journalists as the more horrible act of the two. We also remember how Sharad Pawar, when he was chief minister of Maharashtra in 1993, lied about a bomb that was supposed to have gone off in a Muslim locality of Bombay . 

I have never been politically correct, but have always written what I have discovered while reporting. Let me then be straightforward about this so-called Hindu terror. Hindus, since the first Arab invasions, have been at the receiving end of terrorism, whether it was by Timur, who killed 1,00,000 Hindus in a single day in 1399, or by the Portuguese Inquisition which crucified Brahmins in Goa . 

Today, Hindus are still being targeted: there were one million Hindus in the Kashmir valley in 1900; only a few hundred remain, the rest having fled in terror. 

Blasts after blasts have killed hundreds of innocent Hindus all over India in the last four years. 

Hindus, the overwhelming majority community of this country, are being made fun of, are despised, are deprived of the most basic facilities for one of their most sacred pilgrimages in Amarnath while their government heavily sponsors the Haj. 

They see their brothers and sisters converted to Christianity through inducements and financial traps, see a harmless 84-year-old swami and a sadhvi brutally murdered. Their gods are blasphemed. So sometimes, enough is enough.

At some point, after years or even centuries of submitting like sheep to slaughter, Hindus-whom the Mahatma Gandhi once gently called cowards - erupt in uncontrolled fury. And it hurts badly. 

It happened in Gujarat . It happened in Jammu , then in Kandhamal, Mangalore, and Malegaon . It may happen again elsewhere. What should be understood is that this is a spontaneous revolution on the ground, by ordinary Hindus, without any planning from the political leadership. 

Therefore, the BJP, instead of acting embarrassed, should not disown those who choose other means to let their anguished voices be heard. There are about a billion Hindus, one in every six persons on this planet. They form one of the most successful, law-abiding and integrated communities in the world today. 

Can you call them terrorists?

(source: The Hindu Rate Of Wrath – By Francois Gautier - outlookindia.com National/Opinion November 10 2008). Visit Francois Gautier. Refer to Analysis of Saadhvi Pragyas Case as projected by Media – By Chanchal Malviya - indiacause.com and The invention of a Hindu terrorist, Hindu Terrorism - By Saurav Basu and Are you scared of the Hindus, Comrade Brinda Karat? - By Bandyopadhyay Arindam. Also refer to Hindu terrorism’ – See the writing on the wall - By Radha Rajan - vigilonline.com. Refer to Islamic terrorism in India and What the Islamic Invaders Did to India - By Rizwan Salim and History of Jihad against the Hindus of India, Pakistan and Bangladesh (638 -- Ongoing).  Donate to worthy causes: California Textbook Case and IDRF. Refer to Indian Realist. Refer to  Christian Terrorists threaten to kill Puri Shankaracharya - odishatoday.com

The Jews like the Hindus are born into their religion; like Hindus they do not convert others to their faith and like Hindus again, possess a sense of homeland. Both Hindus and Jews realize now, after immense suffering and deprivation that Islam and White Christianity have caused them both, that neither they as peoples nor their religion can survive without territory that is theirs by right and by a sense of historical belonging.

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The disadvantaged Hindus, pampered Minorities

Secularism is for idiot Hindus. Minorities get to destroy the Hindu faith thru jihad, self-determination, evangelizing and US State dept. Add UN to the list.

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Anti-Brahminism and Anti-Semitism: Two strains of the same deadly virus

Anti-Brahminism and anti-Semitism are two forms of the same ethno-religious prejudice directed at an accomplished minority group who are perceived, wrongly, to be the cause of a nation's social and economic ills, or, otherwise, to be controlling a nation's religious, cultural, political, or economic destiny from behind the scenes in their own interest. Dr. Koenraad Elst, in Indigenous Indians: Agastya to Ambedkar, writes, "In fact, apart from anti-Judaism, the anti-Brahmin campaign started by [Christian] missionaries is the biggest vilification campaign in world history." 

Anti-Brahminism has become the dominant theme in the speeches and writings of Indian secularists of all sorts.

(source: Anti-Brahminism and Anti-Semitism: Two strains of the same deadly virus).

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"Muslims say they are proud to be Muslim, Christians say they are proud to be Christian, Sikhs say they are proud to be Sikh, and Hindus say they are proud to be ... secular."

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India ’s putrid political dispensation, sham-secularist politicians take sadistic pleasure in heaping scorn and calumny on the religious icons of the majority community, namely the Hindus.

Articles 29 and 30 ostensibly incorporated for protecting the cultural and educational interests of minorities, fly in the face of the right to equality enshrined in the Constitution.

They have been the source of promoting divisiveness between the majority and the minority communities thereby delivering a body blow to the ideal of unity and integrity of the Indian nation.

This invidious constitutional provision has placed the Hindus at a serious disadvantage, not only vis a vis the minorities, but even in terms of the secular ideal professed by the Indian State . If we compare the theory and practice of democracy and secularism as practiced in India with the British parliamentary system, considered to be the role model for our country, we find that the two systems are poles apart. In the United Kingdom uniform civil and criminal laws are enacted and enforced for all citizens, irrespective of their religious beliefs, creed or gender.

Barely 6l years after Independence once again the Indian nation stands at the crossroads of history. The ideal of evolving a common nationality by assimilating different religious identities into a national identity, that is the Indian identity, has remained a pipedream. The reasons for this abject failure to weld all citizens into Indians first and Indians last are many and varied. The most important reason for this monumental failure is that the post-Independence political leadership of India has remained a prisoner of the same grievance centric minority politics which had led to Partition of the country in 1947.

For the last six decades the same divisive ideology, nurtured in the garb of secularism, has remained the dominant theme of Indian polity. The situation was further exacerbated by the insertion of secularism in 1976 as an essential feature of Indian Constitution during the Emergency which gave a cross-eyed slant to the Indian polity.

History is an eloquent witness to the fact that the Hindu civilization has always been exceptionally tolerant and peaceful, both by scriptural tradition and ethical training. But during the last few decades the belligerence of the largest minority, namely the Muslims, has begun to bedevil the Indian state much in the same manner as it did in the pre-Partition era. Unfortunately the old mindset of minority-appeasement continued to dominate the Indian leadership even after India attained Independence .

It was prominently reflected in the incorporation of Articles 29 and 30 in the Constitution which conferred certain extraordinary rights and privileges on minority communities thereby elevating them the status of some kind of ‘super citizens’ because no comparable rights were allowed to members of the majority community. These two discriminatory Articles, ostensibly incorporated for protecting the cultural and educational interests of minorities, fly in the face of the right to equality enshrined in the Constitution.

  Presently the Indian political system is choc-a-bloc with unprincipled busy bodies who consider minority-centric vote-bank politics, deceptively woven into the fabric of secularism, as passport to power. In no other country the word secularism is misused in such a devious manner as it is in our country. Interestingly most politicians wearing secularism on their sleeves are either casteist leaders or leftover leftists of yesteryears who have lost their secular moorings. Indian political theatre has an overwhelming presence of unprincipled politicians who consider minority-centric vote-bank politics the easiest passport to power.

They have no moral compunction in singing paeans to secularism while donning skull-caps for attending Iftar parties, or haranguing in caste-based congregations of Brahmins, Yadavs or Rajputs in a brazen bid to ride to political power. Surprise of surprises, most of them defend with great gusto the grant of religion specific dole called Haj subsidy, but oppose enactment of a common civil code as envisioned in Article 44 of the Constitution!

Despite tall claims often made by politicians and orchestrated by the mainstream media, the fact remains that today India is anything but a secular democracy.

The Indian political system fails to fulfil the two most important prerequisites of a secular democratic nation. First, the Indian Constitution falls short of the basic postulate of uniform application of all laws to its citizens, irrespective of their caste creed, religion or gender. Absence of a common civil code is a glaring example of non-application of uniform laws in the matter of marriage and inheritance. It is well known that the Muslim women, constituting nearly 7.5 per cent of the country’s population, continue to be denied the right to equality because of strident opposition by the community’s clerics and community leaders. The second pre-condition for a country’s claim to be a democracy is the principle of equality before law. As mentioned above, Articles 29 and 30 of the Indian Constitution are a flagrant violation of the principle of equality before law. Even Article 370 conferring a special status on the state of Jammu & Kashmir is an aberration because it does not gel with the right to equality enshrined in the Constitution. For instance, under Article 370, no law enacted by the Indian Parliament is applicable to the state of Jammu & Kashmir, unless it is duly approved by the state legislature. Even the Governor of J&K state takes oath of his office under the separatist constitution of that state, while Governors of all other states take oath under the Indian Constitution. By allowing a federating state, and only one single state, to have a separate Constitution is a wanton violation of the principle of one nation, one country. 

It is antitheatical to the very idea of national unity. As highlighted by K. Subrahmanyam in a very perceptive article, (Forces of Fragmentation, Behind the Fig Leaf of Secularism, The Times of India , New Delhi , April 18, 2002)  “No country can call itself democratic or secular unless it has a common civil law.” Democracy implies that all citizens have equal rights and are to be treated equally under the rule of law. Allowing different personal laws is a negation of both secularism and democracy because it means that a person’s religion determines the laws by which he or she is to be governed.

For that reason India cannot be termed either as a secular state or a democracy. 

If we compare the theory and practice of democracy and secularism as practiced in India with the British parliamentary system, considered to be the role model for our country, we find that the two systems are poles apart. In the United Kingdom uniform civil and criminal laws are enacted and enforced for all citizens, irrespective of their religious beliefs, creed or gender, without making any exception. But not so in India . Unfortunately that ideal of uniform application of all laws to every citizens, the quintessential hallmark of secularism, is totally missing in the Indian system. The recent decision of Government of India to send a 15-member delegation led by its Labour Minister, Oscar Fernandes, to Va tican to participate in the canonization of Sister Alphonsa by Pope Benedict XVI, exposes the ugly face of Indian secularism. Not to be left behind in the race for vote-banks, the CPM-supported Kerala government also sent a delegation headed by a minister to Vatican. 

Interestingly the same politicians had no qualms in filing a derogatory affidavit in the Supreme Court denying the existence of Sri Ram in a bid to destroy the Ram Sethu.

Interestingly the British commitment to secular ideal has not deterred the UK government from declaring itself a Christian nation. Upon ascending the throne, the monarch invariably assumes the title “defender of the faith”, and all important state functions, including the coronation and inauguration of the Parliament session are accompanied by a Christian prayer, often led by the Archbishop of Canterbury himself.

In sharp contrast, in India ’s putrid political dispensation, sham-secularist politicians take sadistic pleasure in heaping scorn and calumny on the religious icons of the majority community, namely the Hindus. No wonder, the ideal of forging a common nationality has eluded the Indian nation. We have remained a nation divided against itself entirely due to serious flaws in our Constitution and weird machinations of self-serving politicians.

(source: The disadvantaged Hindus, pampered Minorities - By R K Ohri  IPS Retd). Refer to It happens only in India - By S L Byrappa. Refer to Godhra: The True Story - By Nicole Elfi - jaia-bharati.org. 

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Secularism in desirable in India but not in Europe and USA?

Why these Double standards? 

Secularism is a tool and euphemism for religious conversion

Pope calls for cooperation among Christians against secularism in Europe and America.

Pope Benedict XVI on Thursday urged Archbishop Christodoulos, head of the Orthodox Church of Greece, to work together to fight growing secularism in Europe. "It is necessary to develop cooperation between Christians in each country of the EU, so as to face the new risks that confront the Christian faith, which is to say growing secularism, relativism and nihilism," the pope told the archbishop in a speech delivered in French. Benedict has made the fight against growing secularism in Western society, especially in Europe , a theme of his pontificate.

Pope Warns Bishops Against Creeping Secularism in America.

If anybody still had any questions about why Pope Benedict XVI came to America, the answer should have been made clear yesterday, the second day of his U. S. tour. The pontiff, who turned 81 yesterday, came to teach. And the core of his message, it should now be equally clear, is a vigorous defense of faith in an increasingly secular world.

(source: Pope calls for cooperation among Christians against secularism in Europe - usastoday.com and Pope Warns Bishops Against Creeping Secularism - usnews.com). Refer to chapter on Conversion.  Watch video Hindus Under Siege and  India under attack and Congress : A Merchent of Death for Hindus in India Delhi Blast 

The great secular circus

Secularization in perverted Indian sense of the term means striping of any identity remotely Hindu and do a la Manishankar Iyer, who proclaimed eating beef as symbol of his secular identity. To be ‘qualified’ as Intellectual in elitist left circles one must essentially read pathbreaking linguistic works of Chomsky, quote from the seminal works of Amartya Sen, fill book shelves with works of Pablo Neruda/Gabriel Garcia ,sign along with Peter Seeger , light candles to fight for justice, be part of dime-a dozen signature campaigns for all and sundry and champion so-called ‘unfashionable’ cause that would be featured in NDTV.

(source: The great secular circus).

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A Bizarre and Farcically unique form of Secularism in India

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"Though borrowed from the West, secularism in India served a different end. In the West secularism was creative; in India , it was imitative. In the west it was directed against clergy, tyrannical rulers, and had therefore a liberating role; in India it was designed and actually used by Macaulayites to keep down the Hindus, the victims of two successive imperialisms extending over a thousand years."

                                               -  Ram Swarup (Indian Express, 2.1.91).

"However, the so-called 'secularism' rampant in India is a perversion of that reasonable idea: in India it is contrived to mean the active involvement of the State in supporting certain religions (Islam, Christianity and Marxism) and oppressing others (Hinduism, Sikhism, Buddhism, Jainism). Religion has become the primary consideration in all sorts of civil affairs: in anything from the reporting of news to running educational institutions."

                                              -  Rajeev Srinivasan - Perverting secularism.  

The post-Independent politics in India has manifested itself in most unimaginable bizarre shades. The meaning of ‘secularism’ in India has gone the way that any English dictionary will find hard  to explain. If it is denigration of the majority community’s gods and goddesses and even faiths and beliefs, it passes off under the garb of ‘freedom of expression’. Asking for the proof of the birth of Lord Rama and Krishna; depicting Hindu gods and goddesses in the nude and even vulgarity passes off as the ‘freedom of artistic expressions and creativity’ and in consonance with the ‘secular’ ethos of Indian. Killing cows and banning the music anywhere near a mosque has to be insisted upon not only in the name of ‘secularism’ but also to respect the religious feelings of the people concerned. 

 

     

Lord Ram building the Sethu (bridge) and Moses parting the Red Sea.

If it is denigration of the majority community’s gods and goddesses and even faiths and beliefs, it passes off under the garb of ‘freedom of expression’. Asking for the proof of the birth of Lord Rama and Krishna; depicting Hindu gods and goddesses in the nude and even vulgarity passes off as the ‘freedom of artistic expressions and creativity’ and in consonance with the ‘secular’ ethos of Indian.

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Attacks on temples, killing and maiming of thousands of people and several lakhs people becoming refugees in their own free country are non-issues to the ‘secular’ political parties, their leaders and the successive governments. 

A political party demanding for the safeguards for the Hindus faces the danger of being banned on the charge of being a ‘communal party’. Any social organization espousing the cause of Hindus is bound to be termed as ‘communal.’   Most of the ‘secular’ historians and social scientists have chosen to actively participate in creating politically correct histories and justify action of the government in the name of ‘secularism’, ‘social justice’ etc. Those who are not able to participate in this for one reason or other have chosen to turn a blind eye to the historical distortions. 

(source: Secular Politics Communal Agenda: A History of Politics in India from 1860 to 1953 - By Prof Makkhan Lal   p. xv - xvi).  Refer to India and her problem of Secularism – By Kalyan Viswanathan and Secularism and In India you are secular only if you do Hindu bashing. 

Kashmiri Hindus: Refugees in their own land

Our jholawallah brigade unabashedly turns its back to the plight of Kashmiri Pandits. 

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On 19 January 1990, Kashmiri Hindus were asked to quit home and hearth in their own country. Lakhs were killed, homes looted, girls and women subjected to unspeakable atrocities. The Central Government provided them refuge in camps lacking even basic amenities. Today, even after 28 years, they have not been adequately rehabilitated, nor serious attempts made to help them return home with honour. As the world and much of the nation’s political elite remained mute, Hindus observed 19 January as Kashmiri Hindu Displacement Day.

19 January 1990. Kashmir was breathing still; Kashmiri Pandits lay hidden like frightened pigeons in their own nest. Today on behalf of my fellow brothers and sisters, I wish to revisit the pain of separation from my own home 19 years ago, when the cruel hands of Allah-wallahs butchered members of my community for being ‘idol worshipers,’ for rejecting the call for unholy jihad and for siding with their own nation, India.  

 

A Kashmiri Panditani

A part of India's cultural heritage is destroyed; Age old temple are in ruins; a chapter of India's civilization has been erased. But our 'Secular' jholawallah (Teesta Setalvaad, Suzanne Arundhati Roy, Nandita Haksar, Medha Patkar, Shabana Azmi and others) brigade unabashedly turns its back to the plight of Kashmiri Pandits. 

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The marauders played dire warnings from mosques which pierced each nerve of anybody with a Hindu name. As the sun turned pale, the exhortations became louder, and three taped slogans repeatedly played their terror: 'Kashmir mei agar rehna hai, Allah-O-Akbar kehna hai' (If you want to stay in Kashmir, you have to say Allah is great); 'Yahan kya chalega, Nizam-e-Mustafa' (What do we want here? Rule of Shariah); 'Asi gachchi Pakistan, Batao roas te Batanev san' (We want Pakistan along with Hindu women, but without their men).

The roots of this unparalleled tragedy lie in 1986 with a well-planned strategy to expel Hindus from the valley. By 1990, the populace saw its age-old temples turned to ruins and their own lives at risk. As Pakistan stepped up its campaign against India, new Islamic terror outfits suddenly mushroomed in the state. As Jamait-e-Islami financed all madarsas to poison them against the minority Hindus and India, Pakistan instigated youth to launch Jihad against India. A terror strike so meticulously planned was terrifying. Camps in Pakistan Occupied Kashmir (POK) began training innumerable Muslim men, and India witnessed the emergence of the bloodiest Kalashnikov culture in the valley. The victims were innocent and non-violent Kashmiri Pandits.

An entire community uprooted from its ancestral land is today struggling for its identity. The weak-kneed Indian state shamelessly panders to Islamic terrorists and separatists who claim they are the final arbiters of Jammu & Kashmir's destiny. A part of India's cultural heritage is destroyed; a chapter of India's civilization has been erased. But our jholawallah brigade unabashedly turns its back to the plight of Kashmiri Pandits. 

For them ‘Hindu sorrow inflicted by Islamic terror’ is a truth too harsh to accept. Thereby hangs a tragic tale completely wiped out from public memory.

(source: Exodus of Kashmiri Pandits  - By Aditya Raj Kaul - vijayvaani.com).

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India's most influential section is the 'Secular Brigade

'Secularism' is synonymous with 'anti-Hinduism' in India, that is Barath, which comprises 85% Hindus and 15% others. In this Hindu Barath at present, the most influential section is the 'Secular Brigade', which comprises of almost all political parties (except BJP), all media houses, both print and electronic (except a very few) and most of all intellectuals and artists (again with an exception of very few).  

For this secular brigade, any heinous attack perpetrated on Hindu majority must either be ignored or be treated as a normal affair, but even a miniscule crime against the minorities (Muslims and Christians) must be considered as a monstrous attack committed by the majority. Secularism and human rights have no place wherever Hindus are victims.

This ridiculous procedure, which has been under practice since the time of independence and to some extent even before that, has resulted in the Hindu majority being treated as 'secondary' citizens and the Muslim and Christian minority getting all priorities. The non-stop pandering by the secular brigade has emboldened the minority communities to unleash all types of terror against the majority community. The secular brigade has been helping this by creating caste wise divisions among the Hindus and preventing their unity.

 

Cave Temple of Lord Amarnath.

'Secularism' in Indian parlance is farcically unique.

Secularism and human rights have no place wherever Hindus are victims.

In this Hindu Barath at present, the most influential section is the 'Secular Brigade', which comprises of almost all political parties (except BJP), all media houses, both print and electronic (except a very few) and most of all intellectuals and artists (again with an exception of very few).  

Lord Amarnath.

For more on Lord Shiva refer to chapter on Symbolism in Hinduism.

The Muslim supremacist, jihad-inspired conflict in Kashmir - really a tragic ethnic cleansing of the indigenous Hindus by Muslim jihadists which began in earnest during the 14th century  - re-emerged in late June of this year when the Indian government had the "temerity" to want to transfer 99 acres of land to the Shri Amarnath Shrine Board, a trust running the popular Hindu shrine (including the cave that houses a large ice stalagmite itself, revered by Hindus as an incarnation of Siva, the god of destruction and reproduction). Hundreds of thousands of Hindus visit the area as part of an annual pilgrimage to the cave. Please view the poignant, elegantly produced video by Kashmiri filmmaker Ashok Pandit, "And the World Remained Silent," (linked here, Parts 1 and 2) which chronicles in gory detail the brutal ethnic cleansing of some 350,000 indigenous Hindus from Kashmir during early 1990, orchestrated by Pakistan . and it's Prime Minister, Benazir Bhutto. (Focus on the time period 2:15 to 4:00 minutes, from Part 1 above, and witness the jihadist speech of the late, much ballyhooed "modernist reformer" Ms. Bhutto. She was a jihadist, plain and simple; the head of what remains a jihadist state).

  Refer to Hindus, Jews, and Jihad Terror in Mumbai - By Andrew G Bostom - americanthinker.com and The Legacy of Jihad in India - By Andrew G Bostom - Americanthinker.com

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In the recent political and communal scenario, the Amarnath and Khandhamal issues have yet again established the typical behaviour of the Indian 'secular brigade', which ignored the oppression and sufferings of the Hindus with utmost contempt, while projecting the perpetrators, Muslims in Kashmir and Christians in Orissa, as victims. The Amarnath imbroglio has hopefully come to an end, but not before the Hindu majority was made to sacrifice lives, limbs, properties, health, wealth and education, just for a paltry allotment of 100 acres of land, that too only for three months to facilitate their most strenuous and sacred pilgrimage, which has been undertaken for centuries. The government, which has been yielding to the whims and fancy of Kashmiri separatist militant forces and Muslim political parties, has once again exhibited its impotency by doing nothing against those anti-national elements, which trampled upon and burnt our National Flag, hoisted the enemy country Pakistan's flag claiming themselves as Pakistanis by openly owing their allegiance to it. The 'secular brigade' including the government has brought 'disgrace' by denigrating the patriotic Hindus as 'communal' forces and by dancing to the 'azadi tunes' of minority separatist forces. This clumsiness was never considered as 'shame', but the democratic protests of Hindus were condemned as 'disgrace'.

Let us consider two important political personalities, who have showcased their 'secular' credentials with regards to the communal unrest in Orissa. Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and former Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Jayalalitha have called the attacks on Christians in Orissa as 'national shame' and 'disgrace'. Both of them have ignored the reprehensible murder of Swami Lakshmanananda Saraswathi and his four disciples by Christian terrorists, without even uttering a single word of condemnation or condolence. This has added insult to the injury of the Hindus, who have been deeply hurt by the continuous onslaught of the 'secular' media day in and day out.

 

                 

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh (aka Sonia Sevak Singh), Tamilnadu CM Jayalalitha and Swami Lakshmanananda Saraswathi 

Both of them have ignored the reprehensible murder of Swami Lakshmanananda Saraswathi and his four disciples by Christian terrorists, without even uttering a single word of condemnation or condolence. Calling Hindus "Hindu extremists," is an absurd calumny. This has added insult to the injury of the Hindus, who have been deeply hurt by the continuous onslaught of the 'secular' media day in and day out.  

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Manmohan's remark came when a delegation of Christian leaders visited him in the aftermath of the retaliatory attack on Churches, and, close on the heels of the impudent statement made by Pope Benedict and the audacious action of the Italian government in summoning the Indian Ambassador to register its protest against the retaliatory attacks on Churches. The arrogant interference of Vatican and Italy and the 'secularly' important statement of Manmohan Singh gain significance in the obvious realisation that the Indian government is under the direct control of Italian Catholic born Sonia.

 

    

 Ram Rajya or Rome Rajya?

Vatican's Pope Benedict and Italian Catholic Sonia Gandhi and PM (aka Sonia Sewak Singh) Manmohan Singh.Refer to Sonia Gandhi. Arrogant interference of the Italian Government and the Vatican and the United States into India's internal affairs is truly mind boggling.

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Manmohan Sing lost his sleep on seeing the plight of the families of terrorists and terror suspects; he never lost sleep on seeing thousands of innocent people losing their lives because of terror attacks on Indian soil; he asserted that the Muslims have the first and rightful claim on all the resources of India; his government honoured the Australian evangelist Glady Staines by giving 'Padmashri' award for her heavy harvest of souls in Orissa; he blamed Hindus for the Malegon blasts; his government has compassionately and indefinitely postponed the hanging of parliament attack mastermind Afzal Guru despite the Supreme Court's final verdict; his government facilitated the escape of the Italian fugitive Quattrocchi and the latest being his stoic silence over the brutal murder of Swami Lakshmanananda in Orissa. All these and many more actions, in the endless list, of Manmohan Singh have been so 'honourable' that the people of India are basking in glory with pride!

Similarly, the statement of Jayalalitha, that the attacks on Christians in Orissa were a 'disgrace' to the nation, induces for an analysis of her own 'graceful' acts. Though a plethora of her 'honourable' deeds are available, it would be sufficed to mention just two of them, which have a sort of connection with the Christian community. 

First, she repealed the anti-conversion law, enacted by her own government, to appease the Christian community and secondly, she went to the extent of denigrating and destroying the sanctity of 2500 years old Institution established by Sage Adi Sankara and flawlessly maintained by his order of disciples as 'Jagath Gurus' for millions of Hindus. Incidentally and ironically in October 2004, she got the 'Golden Star for Dignity and Honour' (Thanga Tharakai) award from a Ukraine based Christian organisation named 'International Human Rights Defence Committee' controlled by America and funded by 'US Agency for International Development' (USAID). The Indian representative for IHRDC was Mallavarappu Prakash, who happened to be the Bishop of Vijayawada and was later made as Chairman of Tamil Nadu Minorities Welfare Commission!

A general look at the original history of this great Hindu nation will highlight the fact that it has been Hindus, who have been 'graceful' to the 'outsiders' and on the other hand, it has been the outsiders, who have 'disgraced' this nation. The 'revealed' religions have been 'gracefully' allowed to establish and grow here by the Dharmic Hindus, who respected the cultural and religious traditions of the outsiders and treated them with honour, love and affection. But how did the outsiders pay back the Hindus? Persecution, land-grabs, slavery, oppression, proselytisation, terror and what not!

The Christians have been calling the pantheon of Hindu Gods and Goddesses all sorts of names and ridiculing the Hindu religious customs and rituals, but brazenly adopted the very same culture to promote their faith through the strategy of 'inculturation'. The 'magnanimity' of the majority should not be taken as its weakness! This boomi is a 'Hindu boomi'; this nation is a 'Hindu nation'; its culture is 'Hindu culture'; its philosophy is 'Hindutva', that is 'Sanatana Dharma'; its people are 'Hindus' irrespective of caste, colour or creed; the Christians and Muslims of this boomi have a 'Hindu ancestry'. They must respect their ancestors and that can be achieved only by coexisting peacefully with the Hindu majority.

The 'secular brigade' must change its attitude and understand that even 'tolerance' has its limits and when it goes beyond the limits, consequences will be devastating. The minorities must also realise the importance of co-existence and must not yield to the nefarious designs of the 'secular brigade', so that, peace and harmony prevail.

(source: The 'honour' and 'grace' of Indian secularism! – By B. R. Haran - News Today September 1, 2008). For daily news and columns on India refer to Sarve Samachar. Refer to The Most Loathsome people in India 2008 and Indian Realist

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The Vital difference: Middle Eastern vs Indic Traditions
Christianity, Islam vs. Hinduism, Jainism and Buddhism

Traducing Hindus and pandering to Muslims/Christians

Heedless secularists and the rapacious aggressives do not realise they are pushing Hindus, Buddhists and others to discard their tolerance. When a tradition has the following elements, as each of the three Middle Eastern traditions has, as do the secular traditions of the West — Nazism, Marxism-Leninism — it will invariably be exclusivist, intolerant and aggressive, and it will invariably deploy all means — from propaganda to money to violence:

Reality is simple;

• It has been revealed to one man;

• He has put it in one Book;

• That Book is inerrant as well as exhaustive: so that whatever is in it is true, that it is true for all time; and that whatever is not in it or is contrary to what is in it, is false or useless or worse;

• But the Book is difficult to understand; hence, you need a guide, an intermediary, a monitor: in a word, the Church, the ulema, or the Party;

• The Book covers, the intermediary must cover every aspect of life: there is no distinction between the private and the public sphere, between the Secular and the Religious, between the State and the Church. These doctrines are totalitarian — in both senses: they insist on governing the totality of life — the Roman Catholic Church’s minatory insistence against contraception, for instance, and the reams and reams of fatwas that deal with even more intimate matters; they are also totalitarian in the sense that what they prescribe on any aspect just must be obeyed;

• The test of piety is adherence to that Book and to the prescriptions of that intermediary — in every sphere of life;

• It is the duty of that intermediary, indeed of every believer to ensure that all come to accept and adhere to The Message — there is only one Message;

As the Message is the ‘Truth, the whole Truth and nothing but the Truth,’ as there is no truth beside it, those who do not accept the Message are cussed; worse, they are thwarting the Will of Allah, or its equivalent — the march of History in Marxism-Leninism;

• Hence, it is the duty of every believer, and even more so of that intermediary to use all means to make them accept the Message, and if, even after being offered the opportunity to accept it, they refuse, to vanquish them all together.

When these elements are present, the tradition will have one singular objective: dominance. It will become an ideology of power, a dogma that rationalises everything in the pursuit of hegemony. The dogma will necessarily gravitate to, among other things, violence.

Contrast those elements with propositions that are central to the Indic traditions:

• Reality is multilayered complexity: both in the sense that there are layers within layers of it, and in the sense of each element mingling into others: the Buddhist master Thich Nhat Hanh refers to the latter as ‘inter-being’;

It has not been revealed exclusively to one person: several have glimpsed it;

• They have put down approximate descriptions of that reality as well as hints of how to glimpse it in some books: these are travel guides;

• Perceiving that Truth is an overwhelming, incomparable experience; it is the one joy that lasts. This life gives each of us a unique opportunity to bathe in that effulgence. If we don’t, the loss will be ours — but that is about it: the Truth is not affected; the guides are not falsified;

• It is not just the Book or some singular great figure who can teach us; everything, every event, every relationship can be a teacher guiding us to glimpse the Truth — indeed, our object should be to make everything teach us. The essential points are three: different ways will suit different persons; second, the individual is the one who has to strive — as ‘an island unto himself’; third, the striving, the search is an inner-directed one. It has nothing to do with the state or power or dominance over nature or man;

• In pursuing this inner-directed search, indeed in leading one’s life, the test is not adherence to any of these travel guides, nor obedience to any intermediary, but darshan — the traveller’s own experience: do not mistake the finger pointing to the moon — that is, my teaching — for the moon, the reality, the Buddha counsels.

Every single element in these traditions guides and pulls the believer in the direction that is the exact opposite of the Middle Eastern traditions. Reality is multilayered, hence no description of it is final: tolerance follows as an article of faith. The search is to be an inner-directed one: where, then, is there a case for converting some dar ul harb into some dar ul Islam? 

Hence, all who are apprehensive of a Hindu reaction should:

• Get to know the non-Indic traditions;

• Shed denial — from denial of what the basic texts of the non-Indic traditions say to denial of the demographic aggression in the Northeast;

• Most important of all, work to ensure a completely fair and an absolutely firm state; and an even-handed discourse. 

(source: The Vital difference  - By Arun Shourie - indianexpress.com).  

Pushing Hindus too far

The three great religions that originated in Palestine and Saudi Arabia — Judaism, Christianity and Islam — have been exclusivist — each has insisted that it alone is true — and aggressive. 

The Indic religions — Hinduism, Buddhism, Jainism, Sikhism — have been inclusive, they have been indulgent of the claims of others. But how may the latter sort survive when it is confronted by one that aims at power, acquires it, and then uses it to enlarge its dominion? How is the Indic sort to survive when the other uses the sword as well as other resources — organised missionaries, money, the state — to proselytise and to convert? Nor is this question facing just the Hindus in India today. It is facing the adherents of Indic traditions wherever they are: look at the Hindus in Indonesia and Malaysia; look at the Buddhists in Tibet, now in Thailand too. It is because of this vice, and the realisation born from what had already come to pass that Swami Vivekananda, for instance, while asking the Hindus to retain their Hindu soul, exhorted them to acquire an ‘Islamic body’.

Instigating factors

We can be certain that his counsel will prevail, our secularists notwithstanding,

• The more aggressively the other religions proselytise — look at the fervour with which today the Tablighi Jamaat goes about conversion; look at the organised way in which the missionaries ‘harvest’ our souls;

• The more they use money to increase the harvest — whether it is Saudi money or that of Rome and the American churches;

• The more any of them uses violence to enlarge its sway;

• The more any of them allies itself with and uses the state — whether that of Saudi Arabia or Pakistan — for aggrandisement.

Nor is what others do from outside the only determinant. From within India, three factors in particular will make the acquiring of that Islamic body all the more certain:

• The more biased ‘secularist’ discourse is;

The more political parties use non-Hindus — Muslims, for instance — as vote banks and the more that non-Hindu group comes to act as one — ‘strategic voting’ and all;

• The more the state of India bends to these exclusivist, aggressive traditions.

It has almost become routine to slight Hindu sentiments — our smart-set do not even notice the slights they administer. Recall the jibe of decades: ‘the Hindu rate of growth’.

When, because of those very socialist policies that their kind had swallowed and imposed on the country, our growth was held down to 3-4 per cent, it was dubbed — with much glee — as ‘the Hindu rate of growth’. Today, we are growing at 9 per cent. And, if you are to believe the nonsense in Sachar’s report, the minorities are not growing at all. 

So, who is responsible for this higher rate of growth? The Hindus! How come no one calls this higher rate of growth ‘the Hindu rate of growth’? Simple: dubbing the low rate as the Hindu one established you to be secular; not acknowledging the higher one as the Hindu rate establishes you to be secular! 

(source: Hindutva and radical Islam: Where the twain do meet - By Arun Shourie - indianexpress.com).

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Terror has no religion

Terror has no religion' (TOI Times of India Nov 11th) by Brinda Karat who is looking through her spectacles which is tinted red. Let me use her logic to disprove her. The aggressive defense by the CPM to a select group of terror outfits is well known. Direct and/or indirect abetment of terrorism has been obvious in the States ruled by the CPM. The maximum terror groups are in the North East States. 

Figures compiled by S. Asia Terrorism portal lists a staggering 174 terror, insurgent and extremist groups operating in India most of them in the North East with Manipur-40 Assam 36, Tirupura-30 etc. People's war group and the Communist Party of India-Maoist are also terror groups. The Nano car project which triggered protests in West Bengal saw the CPM cadres run amuck killing and raping the poor farmers and farm women. 

 Can there be justice for the minorities and no justice for the majority?

 

        

Brinda Karat (CPM - Communist Party of India) and PM Manmohan Singh 

If Kar Sevaks can be roasted in locked carriages and their burning flesh does not stir the conscience of the politicians is it small wonder that there would be a backlash? Year after year the Gujarat riots come in handy to bash Modi, the BJP and to whip up communalism. Justice is blind-it does not look at the religion of the perpetrators nor the victims. The author' mindset is revealed when she calls for justice to the victims of the minorities.

The Prime Minister disclosed that he spent a sleepless night when Haneef was arrested in Australia . One wonders if he would lose his sleep had it been a Hariram. Minority votes must be garnered at all cost -does not matter if it is through the 'confluence of the blood of innocents'.

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Brinda Karat did not raise her voice in protest against the shedding of innocent blood and the violation of women. This is not something new-it has always been the case when justice is demanded by politicians they are selective and their vision of justice is blurred. To give an example- In the case of the demolition of one and a half domes in Babri Masjid the CPM and its affiliated Women's Democratic Wing rose as one man throughout the country to condemn and demanded the banning of Hindutva outfits. 

It must be noted that not a single Muslim life was lost in that demolition. 

Year after year the Babri Majid is brought to centre stage for protests and condemnation by politicians to serve their narrow vested interest. 

The vengeance of this demolition was the bomb blasts in Mumbai in 1993 which killed more than 300 mostly Hindus and hundreds injured. Did the victims get justice? 

And as the author stated from 2004-2008 there has been at least 25 major bomb blasts in which 717 people were killed and hundreds injured. It is not only the soft policy of the UPA but also the government is guilty of abdication of its duty. The CPM which had lend its support to the UPA government should also share this guilt. The repeal of POTA gave an impetus to the sudden spawning of terror groups. The tardy investigation and the soft policy made the terror groups bold. Afzal Guru's case is a typical example on the government's weakness to bring to justice terrorists. It is wrong to state that a small section of Indian Muslim youth is drawn into the new work of terror groups because the State had failed to ensure justice to the victims of communal attacks and to punish the guilty of various crimes against the minorities. 

The very premise of this argument is flawed because most of the victims of the communal attacks are Hindus-.if Brinda Karat has the Gujarat riots in mind then by an extension of her argument it is the failure of the government and all political parties including the CPM to even condemn the Godra carnage that triggered the Gujarat riots. 

If Kar Sevaks can be roasted in locked carriages and their burning flesh does not stir the conscience of the politicians is it small wonder that there would be a backlash? 

Year after year the Gujarat riots come in handy to bash Modi, the BJP and to whip up communalism. Justice is blind-it does not look at the religion of the perpetrators nor the victims. 

The author' mindset is revealed when she calls for justice to the victims of the minorities. Can there be justice for the minorities and no justice for the majority?

It must be conceded that most of the terror outfits are Islamic. When Sadhvi has been grilled and put to narco analysis and brain mapping-when chemicals are injected into her body not once but many times Brinda and her party which raises issues against the discrimination of women were silent. Should not the process of interrogation and probing be the same? Or does it mean that the appeasement policy of the Muslims includes this area too? When the cops pick up Muslims for questioning all hell is raised that a minority community is being harassed and hounded. Can the cops just walk in and pick up the suspects without questioning others? And where are the suspects holed but within the Muslim communities? Cabinet ministers rushed to issue certificates of innocence to SIMI-a banned outfit and to those terror suspects picked up in the Batla House raid. The investigators are hindered and hampered at every stage till finally the whole investigation is put in cold storage. What is the justice Brinda Karat is talking of? To put it in a nut shell the Muslims can get away with any number of bomb blasts and crimes-but a single bomb blast in which the Hindus are suspects all hell is let loose. With the Malegoan case the color of terror became saffron and the outcry to ban all the Hindutva outfits became shrill. But when all the suspects were Muslims in nearly the 20 and odd major serial blasts then we are told that terror has no religion. From where does Jihadis emerge? What ideology inspires them? Who supports them? We have yet to know what the PM has done towards the extradition of Dawood Ibrahmin. 

The Prime Minister disclosed that he spent a sleepless night when Haneef was arrested in Australia . One wonders if he would lose his sleep had it been a Hariram. This is the whole problem with our politicians-their perception and the way they make the system work. Minority votes must be garnered at all cost -does not matter if it is through the 'confluence of the blood of innocents'.

By Dr Mrs Hilda Raja, Vasna Road,Vadodara-15

(source: Terror has no religion - An answer by Mrs Hilda Raja). Also refer to Islamic Terrorism and Genocide of Kashmiri Pandits and Refugees in their own country. Refer to The  Self Loathing Leftists and Liberals of India - By Tavleen Singh 

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As Dr. K D Pratipal, Professor Emeritus, Comparative Religion, University of Alberta , Canada , aptly puts it: 

'Muslims will only live in peace as an oppressive majority or a turbulent minority.' 

In the case of India the latter half of the quotation is more relevant and appropriate. The Muslims of India are the favoured children of the State and they are fully supported and duly blessed by the politically insolent (if not ignorant) and ideologically insolvent Government of India. Our boneless and spineless Prime Minister spent a sleepless night when a suspected Islamic terrorist from India was arrested in Australia . He never had a sleepless night when hundreds of Hindu pilgrims were slaughtered at various temple cities in India during the last four years. Then he came out with his great statement which showed his total contempt, if not hatred, of the Hindus of India in majority when he said “The minority Muslims of India will have the first and knock down priority over our national resources”.

(source: India a failed state?)  Refer to Godhra: The True Story - By Nicole Elfi - jaia-bharati.org. 

PM Manmohan Singh: Why people have lost faith in you?  

While addressing the annual conference of Directors General and Inspectors General of Police in New Delhi on Nov 22nd the Prime Minister raised the query, ‘ask why people don’t trust-even when you lose men’.. This was apparently in reference to the Batla House encounter in which some of the leaders of the UPA questioned the encounter death of Sharma shot at by the terrorists. One cannot fault the PM for urging the police force to instill confidence in the civil society for whom and among whom they work. But two areas need to be focused-why should the political leaders make statements while the police are on their job? Is it their business to cast aspersions on the police force and thus make the civil society lose their confidence in the police forced? Should the objective of vote bank politics of the politicians be taken into consideration by the police in their task of policing, in their investigation and security job? Why do the political class  influence the police in almost all cases-be they terrorism or other crimes. The civil society is aware that the rich and the politically powerful get away with crimes or with lesser punishments- be it in the mowing down of poor living by the road sides-rape cases, and murders. Of course in lesser violation of rules they claim immunity.

The Prime Minister should have pulled up his Cabinet ministers who made public their views on the investigation in the Batla House case. There can be no two yardsticks but now in the Malegaon case the ATS is giving out leaks on a daily basis. It is another matter that these leaks are contradictory and provokes the people to react.  

The PM himself is guilty of bias when in the Glasgow blast resulting in the arrest of Dr Haneef confessed that he was spending sleepless nights. Now in the Malegaon case the whole political class belonging to the ‘pseudo secularism’ is silent and faults the BJP for its condemnation of torture and violation of human rights of the suspects. 

It is relevant then to note that it is in the whole context of prejudiced, bias, adoption of double standards and discrimination so openly displayed by the ATS that Mr Advani was forced to state a truth:- had the suspects belonged to the minority community things would be different by  citing the example of Afzal Guru. The latter is a condemned convict whose sentence is kept in abeyance for reasons known only to the UPA government. Immediately the Congress threatened to ‘ask the EC to take action against Advani’.  

The language of the media reveals the perception-that the EC is also a handmaid of the Congress. Otherwise the media should have said that the Congress is thinking of filing a complaint with the EC. It has no authority to ask the EC to take action. Does Advani’s statement call for any action is for the EC to decide. What action can the EC take against Advani for vocalizing something that is well known? Has he condemned Afzal Guru? Has he stated any falsehood? Advani only cited Afzal Guru’s case to substantiate the bias and the discrimination that runs right through all the actions and inactions of the UPA government. Has the Opposition not the right to expose this? For the Malegaon suspects MCOCA is valid but not for  the suspects of the serial blasts in Delhi, Kerala, Karnataka Hyderabad, Ajmer, Assam, Gujarat etc.

Till proved the suspects are innocent was the stand of Lalu, Paswan Mulayam et al .Is that not applicable to the Malegaon suspects?  

Why these third degree methods were employed for the Malegaon suspects? Why had their human rights violated? 

Why had the Prime Minister at the conference not openly cautioned that third degree methods and violation of the personhood of suspects cannot and will not be accepted? If a reference to the Batla House could be made then it is not out of place to mention this.

Caste and communalism divisive forces are a threat to the national unity of the country. Religion also has become a divisive tool for the UPA when it even recommended a head count of the army on the basis of religion. The communal mindset of the Congress and its allies has spread to every aspect of the polity. From separate ministry, budget, programs, education policies and even pilgrimage to guarantee the salvation of souls- everything has been justified under the term ‘inclusive’ development. But in the process there has been an exclusion of a people. A wide gulf has been created between the majority and the minority people. This chasm is difficult to bridge because of the insistence of a political class which banks on vote bank politics  If a country has to develop then the criterion is to net in the poor –irrespective of religion, and built in strategies to see that the benefits of development reach the poorest of the poor. With this as the  background of the UPA government one is tempted to ask the Prime Minister- ‘why people have lost faith in you and your  government and why you  who had under oath vowed to act without favor or fear has let down a people?’ Innocent blood has reddened our streets and roads and after 1600 days in power the PM wants to chalk out a road map to arrest terrorism in 100 days! Is this not proof of the government’s betrayal of the people? 

(source:  Contributed to this website By Dr Mrs Hilda Raja of Vadodara, Gujarat, India). 

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Campus murders of Indian students in US cause for concern

Series of deaths involving students and professionals from the South Indian state of Andhra Pradesh in the US over the past few months.

The large number of unnatural deaths of Indian students in the United States has become a cause for worry. 

Just this week an Indian female student, Arpana Jinaga, was murdered by unidentified criminals in Seattle. This murder follows a number of other murders of Indian students, especially those from Andhra Pradesh. A 23-year-old student from the State, Tummala Soumya Reddy, studying in Chicago was found murdered in her car in September, allegedly shot dead by an African American, while her cousin, Tummala Vikram Kumar Reddy, was found dead two days later. These two are among the five students from Andhra Pradesh killed in the last two years. A 29 year old medical student, Akkaldevi Srinivas, was found dead with neck injuries in Pennsylvania. Though the police have said that it was a case of suicide, his family suspects foul play. In December last year, two PhD students, Kiran Kumar and K Chandrasekhara Reddy, were shot dead by unidentified people in their hostel room in Louisiana State University. Another student, Abhijit Mahato, was murdered at Duke University in North Carolina , in January this year. Despite police investigation these murders remain mysterious, with the assailants having escaped in some of the cases. This raises serious questions about security on college and university campuses in the US. But what is curious is that students from India , particularly from this one south Indian State, seem to be targeted the most. Police have suggested that the high standard of living, well-paid jobs in hi-tech sectors and a display of wealth were making Indians a soft target of criminal gangs in the US. However, this does not apply to students as many of them pursue their studies on scholarship. 

 

Andhra Pradesh Christian Chief Minister Samuel Reddy with his family at a Bible meeting. Series of deaths involving students and professionals from the South Indian state of Andhra Pradesh in the US over the past few months.

Refer to Christianization of Andhra Pradesh and Over zealous crusader - By V Sundaram. Refer to Software engineer from AP found dead in US and Another Andhra woman found dead in the US and Indian student from Andhra Pradesh shot dead in US and Another Andhra student killed in US  

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There may, therefore, be more to it than what meets the eye.

It cannot be lost sight of that among the students murdered are not just those who lived off-campus in areas that have high crime rates, but also those who lived on campus under the close supervision of university and college authorities. It is incomprehensible as to how dangerous criminals with weapons got access to secure accommodations within campuses. Hence, those responsible for the welfare of the students have failed in their duty to provide the latter ample security. In all of this it is easy to understand the anxiety and fear of parents who have sent their children abroad to study, and whose security and well-being are upper-most in their minds. 

The Government of India must, therefore, take up the matter with the authorities in the US so that such attacks on Indian students cease and the guilty are punished.

(source: Campus murders in US cause for concern - dailypioneer.com Edits Monday, November 10, 2008).

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Yoga's real threat to the prophetic monolatrous revelatory religions

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Prophetic monotheism and Sanatana Dharma

Dr. Koenraad Elst (1959 -) Dutch historian, born in Leuven, Belgium, on 7 August 1959, into a Flemish (i.e. Dutch-speaking Belgian) Catholic family. He graduated in Philosophy, Chinese Studies and Indo-Iranian Studies at the Catholic University of Leuven. He is the author of several books including The Saffron Swastika, Decolonising The Hindu Mind - Ideological Development of Hindu Revivalism and Negationism in India: Concealilng the Record of Islam. 

He has written about the threat of yoga to prophetic religions thus:

"In fact, prophecy is radically different from yoga: it means allowing an outside entity, which in the case of monotheism is called Yahweh/God/Allah, to blow certain consciousness contents into your mind. Consciousness is not turned inward, but is (or believes it is) communicating with another Being.  Moreover, the mind is not being emptied of its contents and made to rest in itself, as it is in yoga; on the contrary, it is being filled with a message beyond one's control. The prophet receives a certain information: prophecy is like talking, though with an unusual partner via an unusual channel; but yoga is silence.  Lastly, if it is correct that prophethood is a mental aberration and a delusion, then that makes it the very antithesis of yoga, which is an undisturbed and realistic awareness of pure consciousness.

Yoga is not an erratic and disturbing experience, which befalls you and drives you to tirades of doom and to outbursts against your fellow men.  It is a systematic discipline and makes the practitioner calm and serene.  The word yoga means discipline, control (it is also translated as "uniting": not the soul with an outsider called God, but the mind with its object, (i.e. concentration).  Since its field of working is consciousness, it is not interested in outward experiences such as recognition and glorification, or martyrdom. There is nothing dramatic about yoga, in stark contrast to the dramas enacted and encountered by the prophets.

The most remarkable difference between the prophets' discourse and that of the rishis, is certainly this. The prophets all talk about themselves a lot. They think they are very special, this one person in this one body is different from the rest and has an exclusive relationship with the Creator.  But the rishis talked about a universal way, a world order in which we all participate, a state of consciousness we can all achieve.  If God is defined as that which transcends all worldly differences, the One above the Many, then this universalism is far more divine than the prophets' exclusivism."

(source: Psychology of Prophetism: A Secular Look at the Bible - By Koenraad Elst - voiceofdharma.org). 

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Is yoga bad for you? - By Irfan Husain
The fatwa council are in good company with the Christian fundamentalists in the United States.

Several years ago, I developed something called arthrosis in my knees. This is a first cousin to arthritis, and is extremely painful. After a few months on painkillers, I enrolled in a yoga class out of desperation. Initially, contorting my out-of-shape body into the positions required by our teacher was very difficult, but soon I managed to bully my joints into approximating the postures our elegant instructor assumed so effortlessly. A few months into this routine, I began to look forward to the thrice-weekly yoga classes. In our darkened room, soft music would play, while we were encouraged to empty our minds and hold the positions for just a little longer each time. My body became suppler, and crucially the pain in my knees disappeared. Unfortunately, the timings of our class were changed, and I could no longer pursue my new interest. Nevertheless, I have nothing but pleasant memories of the year-long experience. Now, as my creaking body protests each time I lower myself to pick up something from the floor, I wish I could have continued my yoga lessons. So imagine my surprise when I discovered that Malaysia 's top Islamic body recently issued a fatwa prohibiting Muslims from practising yoga due to elements of Hinduism the ancient system is supposed to contain.

According to The Island, a Sri Lankan daily, the Malaysian National Fatwa Council's chairman, Shukor Husin, has said that "many Muslims fail to understand that yoga's ultimate aim is to be one with a god of a different religion". I had no idea that when our yoga teacher told us to empty our minds, she was doing so with the aim of making space in that limited cavity for a foreign god. Fortunately, this edict is not legally binding, unless of course the government makes it a law. And in case you think this is far-fetched, just remember that the Malay government has recently made it illegal for non-Muslims to use the word 'Allah', for fear that "it would confuse Muslims". It seems many other things confuse Muslims in Malaysia : the fatwa council recently declared tomboy-ish behaviour by girls un-Islamic on the grounds that girls who act like boys "violate Islam's edicts". Now having grown up with my cousin Meher who played cricket and rode bikes with us as kids, and is now long happily married, I cannot imagine how her early years as a tomboy make her un-Islamic. But according to Maulana Shukor Husin, this kind of innocent childhood behaviour is unacceptable.

But the members of the fatwa council are in good company, for Christian fundamentalists in the United States have long opposed yoga classes in schools, arguing that it violates the secular principle of separating church from state. According to them, yoga's Hindu roots conflict with Christian teachings. And apparently, Egypt 's highest theological body banned yoga for Muslims in 2004. So what planet are these fundamentalists on? And what century do they live in? Surely everything that's good for us, or is fun, cannot be declared un-Islamic on a whim?

And if this kind of retrogressive mindset can hold sway in a relatively modern Muslim country like Malaysia , just think what is going on in nations like Saudi Arabia and Pakistan. 

Whatever the reason, such desperate and ultimately futile measures only serve to further marginalise Muslims. Already viewed as a backward community by much of the world, Muslims risk withdrawing from the rest of mankind at a time when globalisation is breaking down barriers at a frenzied pace. In India , Muslim ulema have won the right to dominate women as a religious right. This exemption was granted to them by a secular Congress Party. In Pakistan and Afghanistan , the Taliban and their supporters want to ban music, movies and even kite-flying. When the Taliban were in power, they had banned education for girls, and had denied women medical care from male doctors. Where will this madness end?

It will end if and when Muslims decide that enough is enough, and that they do not want to live in the sixth century. Unfortunately, there is much confusion in the Islamic world, with the result that uneducated mullahs issue half-baked edicts on everything under the sun, and ordinary people, unsure of themselves, pay lip service to these teachings. Millions in the Islamic world have convinced themselves that their current weakness has been caused by the West. If they examine the causes for their backwardness more closely, they will discover that they lie much closer to home than they would like to admit.

(source: Is yoga bad for you? - By Irfan Husain - dawn.com). Refer to Is Yoga a Religion - By Georg Feuerstein. How long will it take to yank fundamentalist Muslims like Abdul Shukor Husin into the 21st century. Refer to the chapter on Yoga and Hindu Philosophy

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Beware the Yoga Demon! The Christian Right’s fear of self-realization and spirituality

They’re still at it. Those paranoid Christian fundamentalists are again attacking yoga.  

On On June 15, 2006, Agape Press carried this article: Author Wants to Enlighten Christians About Yoga's Demonic Influence Christian author Dave Hunt, co-founder of the Oregon-based ministry, The Berean Call, has written a new book called Yoga and the Body of Christ. In it, he contends that yoga is a spiritually dangerous practice designed to expose people to demonic influences.

Why would Mr. Hunt fear “self-realization”? Why would he advise “Christians” to avoid it? 

Could it be that if people achieve self-realization they will recognize the sinister mind-control techniques of “ministries” such as The Berean Call? Could it be that they would also realize that if they develop a “personal relationship with God,” there is no need for ministries? The clergy would become little more than “middlemen” who, like all middlemen, leech off others for their own self-aggrandizement. In fact, the clergy would become “demonic influences” interrupting, twisting and poisoning one’s personal relationship with Divinity for their own power and profit. It must be noted, however, that the Eastern spiritual philosophies that spawn yoga do not advocate hatred toward or the murder of gays, or anyone else. Fanatical Rev. Fred Phelps has much in common with other dogmatic monotheists, such as Muslim cleric Yusuf Qaradawi who couldn’t decide whether gay people should be “throw[n] from a high place” or whether “we should burn them.” Not surprisingly, Yusuf Qaradawi is also a vocal supporter of suicide bombers.

So feel free to join the estimated 30 million Americans who practice yoga, and beware those who argue against self-realization and thinking for yourself.

(source: Beware the Yoga Demon! The Christian Right’s fear of self-realization and spirituality - By By Mel Seesholtz, Ph.D. - onlinejournal.com).

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Christianity's Angry Sibling Islam

Religion of Peace strikes again? Islamic Terror In Delhi and Mumbai, India

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Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941) poet, author, philosopher, Nobel prize laureate. Tagore was deeply critical of the British Raj in India. He also made some statements to the press about the ghastly book by Katherine Mayo called Mother India, which was then a huge bestseller in the U.S. Mayo's book offers that other old myth of India: poor, backwards, savage.  Tagore's aim was criticize an unjust practice (colonialism) and an international system (the League of Nations) which was thoroughly unsympathetic to the plight of colonized people in Asia, Africa, and the Americas.

He predicted that:

 "It is possible that Hinduism might be a religion of the past before many years, and the inhabitants of India will be converted to Islam, by force."

"Hinduism is a religion of pacifism, while the teachings of Muhammad will transform even our peaceful Hindus into fanatics with a lust to fight. Even now Muhammadanism is spreading rapidly in India. You may not believe it, but the latest figures show that there are more Muhammadans here in Bengal today than there are Hindus. So if the Government falls into the hands of the Indian people it probably will mean Muhammadan rule again. "

(source: India: Land of the Black Pagoda - By Lowell Thomas p. 244- 246). Watch  Obsession, the Movie and Radical Islam video and Terrorism In India – A Presentation

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Seven blasts rocked New Delhi on Saturday evening, killing 30 persons and injuring over 100 persons, according to Delhi Police Commissioner Yudhvir Singh Dhadwal. 

 

Christianity's Angry Sibling Islam

A Millennium of Jihad and Dhimmitude on the Indian Subcontinent

India's intellectuals and Media refuse to connect the dots on religious terrorism.  

 

Terror is secular but khaki is suspect: Strange logic?

History Repeating itself - Islamic Terror in Modern India.

The Indian Mujahideen the shadow amalgam of the banned Students Islamic Movement of India and Lashker-e-Taiba, claimed responsibility for the serial blasts.

Refer to chapter on Islamic Onslaught and India, Jihad’s Permanent Battleground - By Srdja Trifkovic

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The Indian Mujahideen the shadow amalgam of the banned Students Islamic Movement of India and Lashker-e-Taiba, claimed responsibility for the serial blasts through an email sent to news organisations at almost the same time as the serial blasts. Two people were detained from Connaught Place area soon after the blasts. The blasts at Ghaffar market in Karol Bagh, at Connaught Place and Greater Kailash took place in quick succession, the police said. The first blast took place at Ghaffar market in which at least 20 people were injured. They were rushed to the nearby Ram Manohar Lohia Hospital.

When Cowards run the State?  Pathetic handling of blasts' aftermath  

"We don't have the political will to fight terrorism" 

                           - India 's former Chief Justice R.C. Lahoti felt compelled to remind fellow citizens.

Nowhere is India 's frailty more apparent than on internal security, which historically has been its Achilles heel. With one of the world's highest rates of terrorism, India today is battling underground extremists on multiple fronts: Pakistan-aided Islamists in Kashmir and elsewhere; Maoist rebels in a north-south corridor stretching from Nepal to its southeastern coastline; and separatists in the restive northeast region between Burma , Bangladesh and China-annexed Tibet . The jihadists, having ethnically cleansed much of Indian Kashmir of its Hindu minority. Prime Minister Manmohan Singh responds typically -- with empty rhetoric about the need to fight terror. But this was not backed by any concrete plans to tackle the militants. Half an hour after the first blast in New Delhi on Saturday, the NDTV 24/7 telecast telling visuals that said it all. We just don't know how to handle the aftermath of the terror attacks which we don't know how to forestall.  

(source: Death by a Thousand Cuts - By Brahma Challaney - Wall street journal).

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Blissful Ignorance of Muslim colonization of India 

"Completely uninformed about (and stubbornly resistant to any informed discussion of) the motivating Islamic ideology for the Mumbai attacks, the media "meta-narrative," repeated ad nauseum, is also oblivious to the living historical legacy of jihad on the Indian subcontinent."

"Despite the brutal Islamization of India -- dating back to the initial 8th century Arab Muslim jihad ravages, and the subsequent more extensive campaigns under the Ghaznavids (Islamized Turkic nomads who annihilated the indigenous Hindus of Afghanistan by the mid-9th century), through the Delhi Sultanate period (1000-1525 C.E.) during which an estimated 70-80 million Hindus were slaughtered -- due largely to bowdlerized educational and public discourse on Islam, even many modern Hindus remain ignorant of both this history, and the Koranic injunctions which inspired the brutal waves of jihad conquest, and Muslim colonization of India."

(source: Hindus, Jews, and Jihad Terror in Mumbai - By Andrew G Bostom - americanthinker.com). 

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Terror is secular but khaki is suspect: Strange logic

Do we get bad leaders in spite of having good people? If our people are great, why do we have leaders who fail?
Where are the people if the leaders are not doing what we think they should be doing?

A people so intensely under attack by the terrorists can’t claim to be brave by sitting silently and petitioning state clerks. Those who fear get what they fear.

Suddenly yardsticks for our judgment have changed. Opinions, morphed as judgments, are passed not on merit or weighing its consequences for the society, but by the yardstick of the colour events wear. The Nanavati Commission's report is to be discarded even before its pages are browsed because the Narendra Modi government instituted it and it shows Hindus as victims. The Bannerjee report is to be trusted because the secular Lalu Yadav instituted it and shows Hindus as aggressors. 

While the nation and her security forces – that includes the police too, stand firm to combat terrorism, the state power and the seculars are providing focused support to terrorists and enhancing their morale through statements and casting doubt on the motives of the anti-terror action. India's secular cabinet ministers demanded lifting of a ban on a terrorist organization, proposed Indian citizenship to millions of illegal Bangladeshi infiltrators, refused to say a word of encouragement to the security forces fighting terrorists but publicly assured help to the accused whom police, a part of the government, arrested for blasting Delhi and killing citizens.  

All these secular statements had just one consideration – religion of the groups they want to support or oppose. The seculars have become the worst kind of communal hate spreaders, with their extreme one-sided postures and acidic language. In a way these rabble-rousing seculars have become a security threat affecting the societal fabric and the morale of the policemen and soldiers.

(source: Terror is secular but khaki is suspect - timesofindia.com).  
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Quit India, now

It's 63 and counting. That's the number of bomb blasts that have happened in India over the last six months. This works out to an average of one every three days! Of course, blasts usually don't happen singly. Most of the time, they are serial in nature for jihadis have perfected the art of creating a cascade of terror, be it in Mumbai, Hyderabad, Jaipur, Ahmedabad, Bangalore, Delhi or Guwahati.

The Government will not admit this, but the jihadis have succeeded in their diabolical aim of creating an atmosphere of insecurity and fear across the country. No city, no State is immune to this. Even if explosions haven't happened in Kerala yet, it doesn't mean that terror merchants don't have the State on their radar.

From Idduki to Imphal, Kargil to Kanniya Kumari , India lives in trepidation. It is already being compared to jihadi-infested Iraq , Afghanistan and even Pakistan . With nearly 1,000 innocent civilians lost so far this year, and 18,360 total deaths from terrorist depredations in the country (excluding J&K) over the last decade, India has probably overtaken the tally of deaths in those countries.

But why India ? There is no convincing answer to this question because nobody knows what the jihadis want. In Iraq , they are fighting foreign invasion and a puppet regime; in Afghanistan they are battling to overthrow Hamid Karzai's NATO-backed Government; in Pakistan they want to seize power from the incumbent Establishment. But that certainly cannot be their goal in this country. Despite the steady decline in their numerical predominance, Hindus constitute 80 per cent of India 's population, Muslims accounting for a meagre 14 per cent. So, the establishment of Dar-ul-Islam here is about as much a possibility as finding intelligent life on the Moon. Anyway, from Mohammad-bin-Kasim to Aurangzeb, Muslim conquerors pursued this ambition with resounding lack of success. Jinnah, too, knew its futility very well, which is why he bargained for a Muslim homeland to be carved out of India .

So, 300 years after the death of Aurangzeb, the dream of Islamising India would appear a lunatic idea. But do the jihadis really understand this? Judging by interrogation reports of arrested SIMI operatives as well as the elaborate e-mails sent by it and its surrogate Indian Mujahideen, it seems that the goal of establishing Nizam-e-Mustafa in Hindustan is something that actually drives several thousand Muslim youth into the waiting arms of jihadi outfits.

The terrorists' strategy is two-pronged. First, they wish to destabilise the economy and cripple visible symbols of India 's success -- the Bombay Stock Exchange building, Indian Institute of Science and offices of IT giants in Bangalore , to name just two. Alongside, they seek to knock the bottom out of Narendra Modi's Vibrant Gujarat, paralyse Rajasthan's tourism-driven economy, and spread panic through Delhi since events in the national Capital have a multiplier effect on publicity.

Their second, but parallel, strategy is to create pockets of Muslim dominance to serve as recruiting grounds through exploitation of the community's perceived sense of victimhood. A Times of India report that over 62,000 Bangladeshis have gone "missing" after entering India with valid documents is absolutely stunning. Just imagine what must be the number of illegal Bangladeshis if so many "legal" visitors have disappeared! It is well known that HuJI acts as the executor of jihadi terror in most parts of India , working through legal and illegal Bangladeshi migrants. The time has come to serve a firm Quit India notice on them. If they don't leave voluntarily within a given deadline, they must be forcibly deported and if necessary simply rounded up in hordes and dumped into detention camps. 

Shades of Gulag, did somebody say? But then, better a Gulag than the impending dismember-ment of India.comment come alive.

(source: Quit India, now - By Chandan Mitra). 

Note: The Muslim supremacist, jihad-inspired conflict in Kashmir - really a tragic ethnic cleansing of the indigenous Hindus by Muslim jihadists which began in earnest during the 14th century  - re-emerged in late June of this year when the Indian government had the "temerity" to want to transfer 99 acres of land to the Shri Amarnath Shrine Board, a trust running the popular Hindu shrine (including the cave that houses a large ice stalagmite itself, revered by Hindus as an incarnation of Siva, the god of destruction and reproduction). Hundreds of thousands of Hindus visit the area as part of an annual pilgrimage to the cave. Please view the poignant, elegantly produced video by Kashmiri filmmaker Ashok Pandit, "And the World Remained Silent," (linked here, Parts 1 and 2) which chronicles in gory detail the brutal ethnic cleansing of some 350,000 indigenous Hindus from Kashmir during early 1990, orchestrated by Pakistan . and it's Prime Minister, Benazir Bhutto. (Focus on the time period 2:15 to 4:00 minutes, from Part 1 above, and witness the jihadist speech of the late, much ballyhooed "modernist reformer" Ms. Bhutto. She was a jihadist, plain and simple; the head of what remains a jihadist state).

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Barbarians at the Gate: Mumbai Massacre

Islamic Terror in India

Dr. Andrew G Bostom has written that: 

  "The root of the word jihad, appears 40 times in the Koran and in subsequent Islamic understanding to both Muslim luminaries - from the greatest jurists and scholars of classical Islam, to ordinary people - meant and means "he fought, warred or waged war against unbelievers and the like." As described by the seminal mid-19th century Arabic lexicographer E. W Lane, "Jihad came to be used by the Muslims to signify wag(ing) war, against unbelievers."

(source: Hindus, Jews, and Jihad Terror in Mumbai - By Andrew G Bostom - americanthinker.com). Refer to Mughalistan

 

The Arrogant aim of Islamic Terrorism much like Christian Evangelicals is Spiritual and Physical domination of India by the year 2020.

Islam and Christianity are aggressive and intolerant faiths that share a common goal but differ in their methods.

Funding from Saudi Arabia and Terrorism from Pakistan

 

The aim of Islam Terrorism much like Christian Evangelicals is Spiritual and Physical domination of India by the year 2020.

"The attacks remind us that global Jihad has India in its sights, no less firmly today than in the early centuries of the expansion of Islam’s bloody borders. Prior to the Muslim invasions which started in the 8th century India was one of the world’s great civilizations. It matched its contemporaries in the realms of philosophy, mathematics, and natural science. It was a richly imaginative culture, one of the half-dozen most advanced civilizations of all time. Its sculptures were vigorous and sensual, its architecture ornate and spellbinding."

Funding From Middle East: The intent of terrorism is to Islamize infidel India. After the 1970s’ oil-price shocks opened the flow of rising revenues, several sheikhdoms began funnelling some of their earnings to the promotion of Wahhabi Islam, including the establishment of jihad-spouting madrassas overseas. It was not an accident that the rise of Islamic conservatism and extremism — from Morocco and Sudan to Malaysia and Indonesia — began from the 1980s with the aid of petrodollars. Today, funds continue to be channelled to Islamist groups. Take the Al Qaeda-linked Lashkar-e-Taiba. Although it was established as a front organization of the Pakistani intelligence to bleed India , this Punjabi-dominated outfit has long been fattened with Saudi petrodollars. The Lashkar-e-Taiba is a Wahhabist group, “backed by Saudi money and protected by Pakistani intelligence services”, that targets India , Israel and the US as “existential enemies of Islam”. 

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Srdja Trifkovic, author of The Sword of the Prophet: History, Theology, Impact on the World has observed:

"The attacks remind us that global Jihad has India in its sights, no less firmly today than in the early centuries of the expansion of Islam’s bloody borders. Prior to the Muslim invasions which started in the 8th century India was one of the world’s great civilizations. It matched its contemporaries in the realms of philosophy, mathematics, and natural science. It was a richly imaginative culture, one of the half-dozen most advanced civilizations of all time. Its sculptures were vigorous and sensual, its architecture ornate and spellbinding."

(source: India, Jihad’s Permanent Battleground - By Srdja Trifkovic). Refer to Oil sheikhdoms and the rise of Islamist threat - By Brahma Chellaney and  islamwatch.org and crusadewatch.org and Islamic Terrorism and Genocide of Kashmiri Pandits and Refugees in their own country.  Refer to Godhra: The True Story - By Nicole Elfi - jaia-bharati.org.  Refer to Christian Terrorists threaten to kill Puri Shankaracharya - odishatoday.com and It happens only in India - By S L Byrappa and The Great Commission and Follow up on the murder of Swami Lakshmananda – Dar-ul- islam Christendom Refer to chapters on Conversion and Glimpses XX and Pope John Paul calls for evangelizing Asia and Things they don't tell you about Christianity. Watch video The pervasive culture of hatred in Pakistan and Lashkar e-Toiba - Pakistan and Secret government of Pakistan. What the Islamic Invaders Did to India - By Rizwan Salim and History of Jihad against the Hindus of India, Pakistan and Bangladesh (638 -- Ongoing).  Refer to Exodus of Kashmiri Pandits  - By Aditya Raj Kaul. Please watch video -  India’s 59 hour of Infamy – Jihadi Terror in Mumbai

Rizwan Salim is a reviewer of New York Tribune, Capitol Hill reporter,  assistant editor of American Sentinel. He has written with great passion of the willful destruction of Indic civilization:

"Savages at a very low level of civilisation and no culture worth the name, from Arabia and west Asia, began entering India from the early century onwards. Islamic invaders demolished countless Hindu temples, shattered uncountable sculpture and idols, plundered innumerable palaces and forts of Hindu kings, killed vast numbers of Hindu men and carried off Hindu women.  But many Indians do not seem to recognise that the alien Muslim marauders destroyed the historical evolution of the earth's most mentally advanced civilisation, the most richly imaginative culture, and the most vigorously creative society.'

Tenth century Hindustan was also too far advanced than its contemporaries in the East and the West for its achievements in the realms of speculative philosophy and scientific theorising, mathematics and knowledge of nature's workings. Hindus of the early medieval period were unquestionably superior in more things than the Chinese, the Persians (including the Sassanians), the Romans and the Byzantines of the immediate proceeding centuries. The followers of Siva and Vishnu on this subcontinent had created for themselves a society more mentally evolved-joyous and prosperous too-than had been realised by the Jews, Christians, and Muslim monotheists of the time. Medieval India, until the Islamic invaders destroyed it, was history's most richly imaginative culture and one of the five most advanced civilisations of all times. "

(source: What the Islamic Invaders Did to India – By  Rizwan Salim - islamwatch.org).  Sign Pettion - Hang Afzal Guru

Sir Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965) PM of United Kingdom wrote: 

"While the Hindu elaborates his argument, the Moslem sharpens his sword. Between these two races and creeds…the gulf is impassable.

(source: Winston Churchill 1931, 18 March. Albert Hall, London ." (Broad, 231). Refer to chapter on European Imperialism

Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948) was among India's most fervent nationalists and a devout Hindu, fighting for Indian independence from British rule. He wrote thus about Hindus and Muslims:

"There is no doubt in my mind that in the majority of quarrels the Hindus come out second best.  But my own experience confirms the opinion that the Mussalman as a rule is a bully, and the Hindu as a rule is a coward.  I have noticed this in railway trains, on public roads, and in the quarrels which I had the privilege of settling.  Need the Hindu blame the Mussalman for his cowardice?  Where there are cowards, there will always be bullies.  They say that in Saharanpur the Mussalmans looted houses, broke open safes and, in one case, a Hindu woman's modesty was outraged.  Whose fault was this?  Mussalmans can offer no defence for the execrable conduct, it is true.  But I, as a Hindu, am more ashamed of Hindu cowardice than I am angry at the Mussalman bullying.  Why did not the owners of the houses looted die in the attempt to defend their possessions?  Where were the relatives of the outraged sister at the time of the outrage?  Have they no account to render of themselves?  My non-violence does not admit of running away from danger and leaving dear ones unprotected.  Between violence and cowardly flight, I can only prefer violence to cowardice."  

(source: Hindu-Muslim Tension: Its Cause and Cure, Young India, 29/5/1924; reproduced in M.K. Gandhi: The Hindu-Muslim Unity, p.35-36). Refer to Negationism in India: Concealing the record of Islam – By Koenraad Elst

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No Nation can move forward unless its children are taught to squarely look at its history.

In art and history books, people write of the Muslims "arriving" in India as though they came on a tourist bus and went away again.

India has been a wounded civilization because of Islamic violence: Pakistanis know this; indeed they revel in it. It is only Indian Nehruvians like Romila Thapar who pretend that Islamic rule was benevolent. We should face facts.

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India became a Wounded Civilization
Writing Political Correct History: India's 'secular' Marxist historians turn a blind eye to historical distortions.

Sir Vidiadhar S. Naipaul (1932 - ) Nobel laureate, He is the author of several books including Beyond Belief: Islamic Excursions Among the Converted Peoples,  Among the Believers: An Islamic Journey, and India: A Wounded Civilization. He has said: "India was wrecked and looted, not once but repeatedly by invaders with strong religious ideas, with a hatred of the religion of the people they were conquering. People read these accounts but they do not imaginatively understand the effects of conquest by an iconoclastic religion." 

"India became the great land for Muslim adventurers and the peasantry bore this on their back, they were enslaved quite literally. It just went on like this from the 11th century onwards."

He summed up the situation well. He said, "In art and history books, people write of the Muslims "arriving" in India as though they came on a tourist bus and went away again. The Muslim view of their conquest is a truer one. They speak of the triumph of faith, the destruction of idols and temples, the loot, the casting away of locals as slaves."  Naipaul laments:

"I think when you see so many Hindu temples of the 10th century or earlier disfigured, defaced, you realise that something terrible happened. I feel that the civilisation of that closed world was mortally wounded by those invasions ... The Old World is destroyed. That has to be understood. Ancient Hindu India was destroyed."

“India has been a wounded civilization because of Islamic violence: Pakistanis know this; indeed they revel in it. It is only Indian Nehruvians like Romila Thapar (received the American kluge prize for study of humanity - She is credited with creating a new pluralistic view of the Indian civilization ? aka politically correct history ) who pretend that Islamic rule was benevolent. We should face facts: Islamic rule in India was at least as catastrophic as the later Christian rule. The Christians created massive poverty in what was a most prosperous country; the Muslims created a terrorized civilization out of what was the most creative culture that ever existed.”

(source: OutlookIndia.com, 15 November 1999 and  http://www.indpride.com/vsnaipaul.html). Economic Times. No comparison between Buddhas and Babri - Chao Mumbai.com, S. Naipaul, Anwar Shaikh and Rafiq Zakaria - By V.P. Bhatia - indiafirstfoundation.org).

 

Civilizational Deficiency to recognize Terror

Rationalization of National weakness

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Whitewashing History

B R Ambedkar wrote of the Islamic atrocities in India :

Such was the slaughter of the Buddhist priesthood perpetrated by the Islamic invaders. The axe was strcuk at the very root. For by killing the Buddhist priesthood, Islam killed Buddhism. .."

Yet for more than sixty years our so called Eminent Historians (Romilla Thapar, Bipan Chandra, K N Pannikkar, Ifran Habib and others ) have suppressed facts and invented lies and continue the fabrication of 'a benevolent Muslim rule'  and the non-existent Aryan invasion. 

Arun Shourie writing in his famous book, Eminent Historians: Their Technology, Their Line, Their Fraud:

"Islam is always presented as the one, porgressive, emancipatory religion." 

Falsification Of Indian History can lead To Disintergration of India 

Subramanian Swamy (1939 -  )  He is also a reputed economist and worked as Assistant Economic Affairs Officer, United Nations Secretariat, New York in 1963. He worked with two Nobel laureates, Simon Kuznets and Paul A. Samuelson for his doctorate in economics at the Harvard University, awarded in 1965. He is acknowledged as an authority on comparative studies of India and China. He is also well-versed in the Mandarin Chinese (Hanyu) language. He was Professor of Economics at the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi. He has written:

"The first trend to reverse is the denationalisation of the Indian identity, and establish a clear, strong identity in the mind of every Indian, a pysche that enables him to connect to, and proudly own up that his being belongs to India 's civilisational history.

Efforts are however afoot to bolster the disparagement of our past in the new dispensation today. A rudderless India , disconnected from her past would, as a consequence, become a fertile field for religious poachers and neo-imperialists from abroad who paint India as a mosaic of immigrants much like a crowd on a platform in a railway junction.

Another trend that de-nationalises the Indian psyche is through continual falsification of history in texts adopted for curriculum in the education system, thereby to disconnect and disinherit the contemporary Indian from the past glory of Hindu India. "

(source: Falsification Of Indian History can lead To Disintergration of India - By Dr Subramanian Swamy).  Watch video on Arun Shourie on the fight against Terror. Refer to Romila Thapar’s Kluge Prize – By Dr. Gautam Sen - vigilonline.com and Refer to Negationism in India: Concealing the record of Islam – By Koenraad Elst. Refer to Eminent Historians: Their Technology, Their Line, Their Fraud - By Arun Shourie  Harper Collins India  ISBN 8172233558 and Negationism in India: Concealing the Records of Isalm - By Koenraad Elst.   Refer to Nuclear Terrorism: The Ultimate Preventable Catastrophe - By Graham Allison and Experts Predict a Possible Terrorist Strike with a Nuke by 2013 -- What Can We Do to Stop It? 

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The invasion of Mumbai by Pakistani terrorists – and undoubtedly local collaborators – is but a replay of times past: the periodic and predictable arrival of barbarians over the Khyber Pass , laying waste to the countryside, and wreaking untold damage on a long-suffering populace. The only crime that the average Indian committed was to focus on the creation of wealth; of course, the barbarians came because of the wealth. Today, once again, India is generating capital, and the intention is to thwart its economic rise. 

Then, as now, the rulers failed the populace.

I have never got a satisfactory answer to the question as to why we didn’t build the Great Wall of India. The Chinese built a 1,500-mile wall; Indians could surely have built a 15-mile wall and kept the marauders out. But there was clearly a failure in leadership and in strategic thinking. Time after time, the barbarians would pour in through the passes, march to Panipat or Tarain, and there, in a desperate last-ditch battle, the Indians would lose, again and again. The result: disaster.

Furthermore, there were traitors in-house, too. They would collude with the invaders to the detriment of their fellow-Indians. Jaichand, during the Second Battle of Tarain in 1192 CE, turned the tide of the battle by allying with Mahmud of Ghori against Prithviraj Chauhan, with the result that Northern India suffered 700 years of Mohammedan tyranny – it was a clear tipping point. Or take the battle of Talikota that ended the magnificient Vijayanagar empire: it was their own troops that betrayed them.


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Invasion of Mumbai:  A Replay of History

Are we heading to being a failed State?

A nation that has been brutalized repeatedly is at least expected to learn from its mistakes.

The periodic and predictable arrival of barbarians over the Khyber Pass , laying waste to the countryside, and wreaking untold damage on a long-suffering populace. The only crime that the average Indian committed was to focus on the creation of wealth; of course, the barbarians came because of the wealth. Today, once again, India is generating capital, and the intention is to thwart its economic rise. 

 

India is under withering attack on all fronts.  

To the east, there is the demographic invasion by Bangladeshis, including unhindered infiltration by terrorist elements. The entire Northeast is in danger of secession. Christian fundamentalism and terrorism that is on the verge of turning into a move to secede on religious and ethnic grounds, a la East Timor. In the tribal lands of central India , the Northeast and in Orissa, Christian terrorists are joining hands with Communist terrorists.

"Many Western intellectuals and journalists - as well as some governments - are ready to blame the victim of terrorism. It is time for India and Israel to become allies. It is a jihad we are both facing."  - Barry Rubin

For more refer to Mumbai Under Attack - boston.com. 

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Fast forward to today. India is under withering attack on all fronts. To the east, there is the demographic invasion by Bangladeshis, including unhindered infiltration by terrorist elements. The entire Northeast is in danger of secession, given both the narrow and hard-to-defend Chicken’s Neck that connects the area to the Gangetic plain, as well as the Christian fundamentalism and terrorism that is on the verge of turning into a move to secede on religious and ethnic grounds, a la East Timor. In the tribal lands of central India , the Northeast and in Orissa, Christian terrorists are joining hands with Communist terrorists. In fact they often are one and the same, as confessed by an alleged Communist leader on TV. Their preferred weapon – liquidation of inconvenient people, as they did in the case of Swami Lakshmananda, the 84-year-old monk that they attacked with AK-47s.

The very future of the Indian State , suddenly, is in question. And it is mostly from self-inflicted, avoidable wounds. The failure of leadership is causing India to cease to exist.

(source: Towards a failed State – Ghori, Jaichand and friends redux - By Rajeev Srinivasan).Refer to When elites eschew defense: The case of India - By Ed Katz - americanthinker.com

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Third World Country Government

UPA Government failed the populace

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It was a national humiliation: Congress fetish of appeasing the minority Muslim community at any cost.

Militants or Terrorists? The BBC chooses to call such attackers as "militants" or "bombers". 

Hang your heads in shame, my countrymen. Do it because a dozen-odd terrorists traveled 500 nautical miles of the Arabian sea from Karachi to Mumbai’s Gateway of India, just opposite the grandiose Taj Mahal Hotel and proceeded to humble the city of 16.4 million into utter helpless ness for over 48 hours even as over 125 civilians and some distinguished professional security men lost their lives to the hand grenades and rifle bullets of a fanatical mindset. It was a humiliation worse than the drubbing the Chinese army gave us in 1961.

It was because our motherland, India, is a soft nation, tested and proven so several times....

our country’s approach to terrorism has all along been tepid and timid, castrated and impotent.

Because almost all the terrorist acts in recent years have involved Muslims as the perpetrators, and because of the Congress fetish of appeasing the minority Muslim community at any cost, our soft national psyche inherited from Gandhi, our response to terrorism has become a combination of impotence and vote bank politics sought to be covered by rhetoric and pleas for peace. 

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When Cowards run the state

Congress Party's fetish of appeasing the minority Muslim community at any cost

Enough is enough

Hindu Women grieving over the victims of terrorism in Mumbai.

The jihadist carnage in Mumbai, is motivated by supremacist Islamic doctrine, and the atavistic hatred of Hindus, Jews, and other non-Muslims.

Militants or Terrorists? Our elite Indian journalists of the print and TV/radio world are not even sure as to whether to describe those who indulge in an act of terror as “militants” or “terrorists”. Reams of newspaper reports are testimony to this confusion. The latest Mumbai drama was no different as one prominent TV channel kept on describing the killed terrorists as “militants”.

Double Standards in the Mainstream Media? After 9/11 in USA they are called terrorists but in India they are described as militants?

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At every stage of our every “encounter” with a terrorist act, our collective national response has been reactive rather than active, defensive rather than offensive. Public statements are issued, action is promised. Period. Nothing else really happens.

Our elite journalists of the print and TV/radio world are not even sure as to whether to describe those who indulge in an act of terror as “militants” or “terrorists”. Reams of newspaper reports are testimony to this confusion. The latest Mumbai drama was no different as one prominent TV channel kept on describing the killed terrorists as “militants”.

Yes, it is a simple matter because the English dictionary will tell you that a militant is one who confronts, face to face, not one who wears a mask; and this militant does not wield an AK 47 or throws hand grenades or detonates a bomb with remote control mechanism. 

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Haughty Italian Catholic woman Sonia Gandhi and 'soft on terror' PM Manmohan Singh

A National Humiliation

A brain dead regime is incapable of crafting any response whatsoever

Sonia Maino Gandhi and PM Manmohan Singh.

 Mrs Sonia Gandhi’s main concern is to enthrone her son as the PM. From day one of her ‘renunciation’entry she has flouted every democratic institution, and debased democratic norms. Thus in her we have a defacto PM and a power centre at No 10 Janpath.

Effete PM Manmohan Singh and his Government have bungled and bungled grievously. The Congress and particularly the haughty woman who inflicted Shivraj Patil on India, must be punished. Mumbai has rung out the Manmohan Government; it is in all our interest to ring in a new but effective dispensation. The friends of India are watching but so are the enemies of India.  The Prime Minister and the Union Home Minister have been coming out with the same pseudo-secular nursery rhyme after each terrorist attack during the last four years. 

Ever since the UPA government under our effete Prime Minister assumed office in 2004, the menace of organised terrorist crimes has been on the increase. Ever since the POTA was revoked in 2004, there has been no effective law in the country to effectively control the organised crimes. All our major cities have become targeted centres of Islamic terrorists who hoard money through illegal means. Islamic Terrorism knows no national boundaries and is fueled by illegal wealth generated by contract killing, extortion, smuggling in contrabands, illegal trade in narcotics, kidnappings for ransom, collection of protection money and money laundering, etc. 

ATS in Maharashtra was instructed by Sonia Gandhi (informally through her Security Advisor) to target the Hindu leaders. As the ATS in Maharashtra had diverted most of their staff for doing "political" work as directed by Sonia Gandhi, the ATS was not in a position to effectively deal with the terrorists who chose the right moment to attack Mumbai. Inspite of information the ATS was busy taking orders from its political masters to give a saffron color to terrorism and hence Malegaon drew all their concentration and attention in spite of warnings and tips of an impending attack.
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The basic fact was that the Congress, which heads the UPA sarkar, wanted to appease and win over the Muslims with one more lollipop. Imagine, lastly, that amounts running into thousands of crores have been spent on the Haj subsidy for Muslims but the security of our very long coastline on the west is so ill-funded that terrorists can come from Karachi across the Arabian Sea to Mumbai without being spotted.

Contrast all of this is typically indolent-cum-idealistic-cum-selfish Indian attitude to the stark realism and patriotism of the USA when 9/11 occurred in 2001. One thing that nation did shortly after that dastardly day was the enactment by the USA Congress of what’s come to be known as the USA Patriot Act. That nomenclature is really an acronym, and the full name of that legislation is "Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism Act of 2001". If a name can arouse emotions, that one certainly does. And however draconian that law has been, it has prevented the recurrence of 9/11.

Unless the whole young nation of ours forgets non-violence as a magic mantra and unless our politicians show a commitment similar to that of the USA to engage in a literal war against terror, we shall continue to allow just about a dozen-odd terrorists to humiliate an entire nation for over 48 hours, even as a naïve Prime Minister calls the Pakistan chief of intelligence to share info with us.

(source: It was a national humiliation  - By Arvind Lavakare - sify.com). Refer to ‘Manmohan a mere night watchman’ and Secular Talibanisation in practice. Refer to Total Defeat for UPAs Anti-POTA Policy - By V Sundaram and The True Balidaan Devi and The 100 % Unofficial blog of the Indian Prime Minister and Experts Predict a Possible Terrorist Strike with a Nuke by 2013 -- What Can We Do to Stop It? 

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Wages of politics of cynicism: Creating the 'Myth of Hindu'  Terror

Sonia’s presence in Delhi is costing India dearly

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Swami Vivekananda (1863-1902) was the foremost disciple of Ramakrishna and a world spokesperson for Vedanta. India's first spiritual and cultural ambassador to the West came to represent the religions of India at the World Parliament of Religions, held at Chicago in connection with the World's Fair (Columbian Exposition) of 1893. His Chicago speech is uniquely Vedantic. He said:

“I am proud to belong to a religion which has taught the world both tolerance and universal acceptance. We believe not only in universal toleration, but we accept all religions as true. 

I am proud to belong to a nation which has sheltered the persecuted and the refugees of all religions and all nations of the earth. 

I am proud to tell you that we have gathered in our bosom the purest remnant of the Israelites, who came to Southern India and took refuge with us in the very year in which their holy temple was shattered to pieces by Roman tyranny. I am proud to belong to the religion which has sheltered and is still fostering the remnant of the grand Zoroastrian nation. “ 

“As the different streams having their sources in different places all mingle their water in the sea, so, O Lord, the different paths which men take through different tendencies, various though they appear, crooked or straight, all lead to Thee.”

(source: Swami Vivekananda's speeches - The World Parliament of Religions. Chicago Sept 11 1893). .

Creating the 'Myth of Hindu'  Terror

 Balbir K Punj has astutely observed that: "For more than a month the Maharashtra Anti-Terrorism Squad was pre-occupied with chasing ‘Hindu terrorists’ and, it would appear, had little time for anything else. In fact, the ATS claimed that 90 per cent of the force was busy investigating the September 29 Malegaon bombing. All this while, India ’s enemies were plotting a bloodbath in Mumbai."

"The myth of ‘Hindu terror’, built-up by sections of the UPA and the Maharashtra Government for short-term political gains, has had a macabre and grotesque fall-out. Negligence has proved deadly, and resulted in perhaps the most venomous terrorist attack in Indian history. Today the State and Union Governments stand exposed. It is important to recognise the long-term damage that their dirty-tricks have caused. A new term — ‘Hindu terror’ — has been added to the security lexicon. The world so far recognised only ‘Islamic terror’, with Pakistan as its source. Now India is home to both Islamic and Hindu terror, if the Indian Government’s own agencies are to be believed. On the issue of terror, India and Pakistan have been placed at par.

All this must rank as the most destructive achievement by any Government anywhere. What Pakistan could not achieve after decades of labour — paint Hindu-dominated India as a factory of terror — the ‘secularists’ and their political leaders have done it in a matter of few weeks."

(source: Wages of politics of cynicism - By Balbir K Punj - dailypioneer.com Edit November 28, 2008). 

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Sonia’s presence in Delhi is costing India dearly

1898, the French writer Emile Zola wrote an open letter to the then French president in the newspaper L’Aurore, titled j’accuse (‘I accuse’), where he accused the French government of anti- Semitism towards Captain Alfred Dreyfus, a Jewish officer unfairly condemned for treason. Now it is time for the people of India to say openly that which many, including within the Congress, think secretly and may utter in the privacy of their chambers.

It is not about Manmohan Singh, it is not even about Shivraj Patil, the fall guy; it is about that one person, the Eminence Grise of India. She who pulls all the strings, She whose shadow looms menacingly over so many, She who holds no portfolio, is just a simple elected MP, like 540 others, but rules like an Empress.

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Sonia’s presence in Delhi is costing India dearly

Creating the Myth of 'Hindu terror' to dilute the fight against Jihad!

An inept government in a total denial mode of Islamic terrorism

 

Empress Sonia Gandhi - Italian born Catholic Congress Chairperson.

No Intellectual giant, but a so called 'Reluctant' politician - She who pulls all the strings, She whose shadow looms menacingly over so many, She who holds no portfolio, is just a simple elected MP, like 540 others, but rules like an empress. Even as the nation felt searing pain and anger over the death of more than 195 people— including foreigners — in the terrorist attack on Mumbai, Congress general secretary and heir apparent Rahul Gandhi merrily partied.  

Sonia Gandhi: From Tyaga mata to one of the most powerful people in the world. According to Newsweek, "In the world's largest democracy, she is the queen."

(image: Sonia Gandhi's selection of  President Pratibha Patil.  Refer to Electing a President, rashtramaataa).

I accuse Sonia of having let her Christian and Western background, in four years, divide India on religious and caste lines in a cynical and methodical manner.  

To divide the Hindu majority, which has been steadily polarising itself due to the Minority- appeasing and Hindu-hating policies of the UPA.  And the 'hidden' aim is, to dilute the fight against Jihad  as this government doesn't have the will & courage to fight against the Jihadi organisations due to its ill-conceived notion that controlling Jihadi terror would reduce the Muslim votes. The Army has called the ATS bluff in regard to Lt Colonel Purohit's alleged handling of RDX and the Armed Forces, which have been terribly upset with this government's treatment in the last four and a half years, have realised the UPA's intentions particularly after Malegon episode. If you notice the ease with which the Government of India labelled the Sadhvi and her colleagues as Hindu terrorists, you know that dangerous political games are being played that endanger India’s security. This government has undoubtedly earned the wrath of the Armed Forces. The Hindu majority, which has been watching the proceedings of the ATS and the campaign of falsehood carried out by the 'secular' mainstream media, has been agitated and outraged.  

The present rulers had repealed the anti-terror law in India when the whole democratic world was enacting such laws against terrorism. The terror attacks multiplied in numbers under the rule of the present Government. It has touched the chattering classes who form the backbone of the ‘secular’ class. The anger of this class cannot be directed against the ‘secular’ political parties that run the country today as that would shift balance of advantage to the ‘non-secular’ Opposition. So the present rulers need to be protected. Result, the anger is intentionally directed against the political class as a whole. The media seem to be on this joint enterprise to wash off the sins of the ruling party and its leadership by targeting the political class as a whole.

The shoddy governance, Muslim appeasement, politics of votebank at cost of nationhood, and the Congress’ soft approach to terror are the core issues facing us, but have all been lost in the Media coverage. Hindu Nationalism and patriotism have always been the Secular Media's favorite "Whipping boy."

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I’accuse Sonia Gandhi as being responsible for the tragedy of Mumbai, having emasculated India’s intelligence agencies by stopping them from investigating terror attacks in the last four years, including the Mumbai train blasts. She has also neutralised the ATS by ordering them at all costs to ferret out ‘Hindu terrorism’. Did the US send a warning to India that there may be an attack on Mumbai and that the Taj would be one of the targets? Were these ignored because the ATS was too busy chasing Hindu ‘terrorists’ on Sonia’s orders? I accuse Sonia and her government of having made the NSG the laughing stock of the world.

I accuse Sonia of having let her Christian and Western background, in four years, divide India on religious and caste lines in a cynical and methodical manner.

I accuse Sonia of being an enemy of the Hindus, who always gave refuge to persecuted minorities, and who are the only people in the world to accept that God may manifest under different names, in different epochs, using different scriptures. I accuse Sonia Gandhi of taking advantage of India ’s respect for women, its undue fascination with the Gandhi name, and its stupid mania for White Skin.

I’accuse Sonia of exploiting the Indian Press’ obsession with her. She hardly ever gave interview in 20 years, except scripted ones to NDTV, yet the Press always protects her, never blames her and keeps silent over her covert role.

Will someone in the Congress, someone who feels more Indian than faithful to Sonia, stand up and speak the truth? Who said, “Go after Hindu terrorists”? Who insisted on putting pressure on BJP governments in Karnataka or Orissa for so-called persecution of Christians, when Christians have always practised their faith in total freedom here, while their missionaries are converting hundreds of thousands of innocent tribals and Dalits with the billions of dollars given by gullible westerners? Who said, “Go soft on Islamic terrorism”?

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Elite indulgence of terror was passe in India

Had our power-elites in politics, business, academia and media shown care and concern when innocent women and children were being blown up in buses in Jammu and Kashmir by persons maddened by religious frenzy, propped up by the ISI and its agents, terror would not have moved to the dinning halls of Taj and Trident hotels in Mumbai.

 

Hindu Women grieving in Mumbai over terror victims.

Since the UPA government’s repeal of Prevention of Terrorist Activities Act (POTA) in 2004 has encouraged terrorism, a deterrent anti-terror law has to be enacted. 

There has been more Islamist terrorism on Indian soil under the leadership of Sonia Gandhi and Dr Manmohan Singh than at any other time. From being a Kashmiri problem it has become our biggest national security problem. The attacks have become more sophisticated and more daring every time. To fight them we must first admit that there is a jihad. This neither Sonia Gandhi nor the Prime Minister is able to do for fear that they might hurt Muslim sentiments. They don’t appear to see that by not admitting that Islamist terrorism is a reality, they virtually condemn all Muslims as being part of the jihad. 

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Nevertheless, she is a danger to India .  

Her very presence, both physical and occult, open the doors to forces inimical to India . Even Indian Christians should understand that she is not a gift to them: her presence at the top has emboldened fanatics like John Dayal or Valson Thampu, who practise an orthodox Christianity prevalent in the West in the early 20th century, but no longer, to radicalise their flock. Indian Christians should recognise that they have a much better deal here than Christians or Hindus have in Pakistan, Bangladesh, Indonesia or Saudi Arabia.

Under Sonia’s rule, Indian Muslims, too, have been used as electoral pawns. They have been encouraged to shun the Sufi streak, a blend of the best of Islam and Vedanta, for a hard-line Sunni brand imported from Saudi Arabia , Pakistan and Afghanistan . For the good of India, her civilisation, her immense spirituality and culture, Sonia Gandhi has to go and a government that thinks Indian, breathes nationalism and will protect its citizens must be voted to power.

(source: Sonia’s presence in Delhi is costing India dearly - By Francois Gautier  - expressbuzz.com). Refer to  Secular Talibanisation in practice

Rahul Baba parties while country mourns its losses
Does India have a death wish? 

Even as the nation felt searing pain and anger over the death of more than 195 people— including foreigners — in the terrorist attack on Mumbai, Congress scion Rahul Gandhi merrily partied. According to a report carried on Monday by a tabloid, Mail Today, Congress general secretary and heir apparent Rahul Gandhi went partying on Saturday with his pals at a farmhouse on Delhi ’s outskirts. 

The ‘Prince’ partied hard, till 5 in the