Pseudo-Secularism

Hindu dharma is implicitly at odds with monotheistic intolerance. What is happening in India is a new historical awakening... Indian intellectuals, who want to be secure in their liberal beliefs, may not understand what is going on. But every other Indian knows precisely what is happening: deep down he knows that a larger response is emerging even if at times this response appears in his eyes to be threatening.

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Everything against Hindus seems to be justified in India, a country dominated by 82 percent Hindus. There are no such things as Hindu rights, safety of Hindu temples and their money, Hindu pilgrimages and the Hindu way of life. Instead, every effort is made to favor, appease, fund and tolerate others, especially Muslims who are doubly benefited by the secular policies of the Government of India, and states ruled by the Congress Party and its coalition partners. Their Sharia laws give them an added advantage.

-- Indian Governments Hard on Hindus, Their Temples, Soft on All Others
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Secularism is distorted to the extent the minorities, mostly the Muslims, were pampered with retrograde social and religious concessions denied to them in most Muslim countries, and rejected by most enlightened and well-off Muslims in India itself.

-- Spurious secularism vitiating Indian politics
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Let us not forget its history. Missionary activity first arose in a religious state as its main means of expansion. Missionary activity per se is the extension of a medieval state attitude - that there is only one true religion like only one true king. It has had a long alliance with colonialism and with racism, with colonial armies marching with priests and friars, denigrating non-White religions as pagan and barbaric.

-- Missionary Activity & Secularism : Pope's Visit
The Westerners don’t know the vast meaning of Dharma and they don’t know the word at all. Hence they propagated the Hindu dharma as Hindu religion. Western Culture is a competitive culture. They will compete in every aspect of life, but in our Hindu culture we give preference for unifying all.

-- Parampujaniya Sudarshanji’s speech
Contents

On Secularism
* Are you a Secularist? Then please answer these questions
* Why is being a good Hindu politically incorrect in secular India?
* 'Secularism', Colonial Hegemony and Hindu 'Fanaticism'
* The Source of Bias against Hindus - II
* The Future of Secular Values
* Perverting secularism
* The many faces of secularism
* Who is secular, if Hindus are communal?
* A Poisonous Tree (Secularism) and its Deadly Fruit
* Secularism and the Hindu
Dharma Views
* Why the East is superior to the West?
* Need I belong to only one religion?
* Indian virtues pre-date ‘secularism’
* Towards an Indian Pluralism
* Secularism as a Tool of Adharma
* Hindus can be both very religious and secular
* Secular press promoting casteism
* Gandhi was beyond hate and fear
* 'Hindus make India secular'
Religious Freedom
* Human rights for terrorists, ministership for criminals, jail for Shankaracharya
* Exploitation Of Temples - Is This The Beginning Of Denying Freedom Of Worship To India’s Religious Majority?
* Legitimising discrimination
* Marxists blessed with right to manage temples
* Claiming Hindu Dignity
Anti-Hindu Nexus
* NGOs and Other Activists – Anti-Hindu Industry
* Four-fold menace - A nexus of enveloping evil
* Proved years before that secularists are anti-Hindus
* Hurt Hindus to be secular?
* Secular hypocrites working against Hindus
* Hindu gods & gospel untruths
Minoritism
* Politics of Numbers
* Who is a minority person?
* Revenues From Temples Diverted For Haj Subsidy And Madarassas In Karnataka
* BJP-ruled States oppose minority quota in education
* Return of Jazia?
* Appeasing Blunders
* Slave mentality
* Who mourned the Pope?
* Positive discrimination
* Secular vend for Islamist cause
* The price of appeasement
* UPA’s reservation mess spells danger: Nation’s unity in peril
* Secularism is not just pleasing Muslims
* Minorityism: UPA brand equity
* Reservation: Break casteist formula to save the nation
'Secular' Press / Media
* S Gurumurthy: Will the `secular' media heed Justice Reddy's warning?
* Pseudo-secular minority report
* Godhra, ‘secular’ ‘progressives’ and politics
* Why it is cool to hate India
* Media bias and apartheid in Kerala
Nehruvian Secularism
* Misguided Hindu Secularism
* London plots its own doom
* A Govt in gross denial
* Amarnath: A lesson in secularism
* Atrocities on Hindu catch US Congressmen's attention
* This is UPA nonsense as history
* The sound 'n' fury of Congress fundamentalism
* An Open Letter to Dr Romila Thapar
* Nehruism, communism and secularism!
* The Litmus Test of Whether Your History is Secular
* Fatal 'AIDS' of pseudo-secularism
* Lurid drama of proselytism after 1947
Hindus under siege
* Bizarre move to divide Hindu society
* Indian Governments Hard on Hindus, Their Temples, Soft on All Others
* The Demographic Detonators
* We are educating the country on the lies, bias and mistakes in textbooks
* NCERT books disparage the Indian heritage
* Detoxify the youth of India
Islamic Jihad, Evangelical Christian, Communist, Marxist, Maoist, Naxalite Terrorism
* Roots of terrorism
* Hindus are under siege in Malappuram
* Elimination of minorities in Bangladesh

Hindu students are an easy target for psychological indoctrination. One of the most telling examples of such policy in action is the cancellation of educational classes on Friday and Muslim holidays including the month of Muslim Ramadan. By using such psychological manipulation, Muslims succeed in creating anxiety, fear and panic among young Hindus. The atmosphere created by such acts casts a great shadow over Hindu society. Hindus also feel unsafe in their own homes and workplaces, daily life is disrupted, causing considerable harm to personal and family morale. Hindus in general are depressed, marginalized and demoralized. The Muslim message is: until you leave Malappuram district, you will not be safe.

-- Hindus are under siege in Malappuram
Page Index

* Five US state senates to open with Hindu prayers
* Attack on RSS office 'pre-planned', says BJP
* SC: Are there castes among Muslims?
* Bharat should be declared a Hindu Republic
* Vote bank politics not needed: Modi
* Indian immigrants in UK opting for name change
* Pseudo secularism - Congress and Commie style
* Lessons from Pakistan
* Why China and India are important to world peace
* India should confront Malaysia on ethnic mess created by Malaysian Govt.
* Pravasi Divas Expose On Samy Velu and Malaysian Indian Plight
* But for Communists India would have been a superpower
* The word 'Dalit' unconstitutional: SC panel
* Hindu rights in peril
* No compulsion to follow one religion
* Who is a secularist?
* Media tends to mislead
* Infidels of the World, Unite!
* Hindu values and Gujarat resurgence
* Hindu identity makes the difference
* UPA warned on anti-Hindu Sethu demolition plans
* “Ram Sethu fully qualifies to be declared and protected as ancient national monument”: J. Jayalalithaa
* Obnoxious application of secularism
* The Secular Hypocrisy

Today the sacrilege of Hindu concepts and hoary institutions, is being carried out not with the crude brutality of a Ghazni or Ghori, but with the sophistication of the constitutional instruments of law. The desecration of Hindu icons, for example the Kanchi Kamakoti Mutt, is being made to look legal, thereby completely confusing the Hindu people, and thus making them unable to recognize the danger, or to realize that Hindus have to unite to defend against the threats to their legacy.

-- Dr. Subramanya Swami calls on the Hindus to unite
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As long as appeasement of the so-called minority communities continues, and the rights of Hindus trampled upon, the country will keep seeing these types of unacceptable and weird behavior.

-- Indian Governments Hard on Hindus, Their Temples, Soft on All Others
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When Ashok Singhal, head of the Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP), asked the Pope to "announce that Christianity is one of the ways that can lead to salvation and not that Christianity is the only way to salvation." The newspapers called Singhal a "hardline" Hindu leader but did not accuse the Pope of being rigid in his views. Yet Singhal accepts a pluralism to religion and salvation but the Pope does not. In terms of ordinary religious discourse Singhal has more liberal views than the Pope does but he is called a hardliner because he is questioning the missionary process! A very statement asking the Pope to affirm religious tolerance is itself styled intolerant!

-- Missionary Activity & Secularism : Pope's Visit
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The challenge today confronting Hindus is however much more difficult to meet than was earlier in history because the forces at work to erode and undermine Hindu faith, unlike before, are unseen, clandestine, pernicious,deceptive but most of all sophisticated and media-savvy.

-- Dr. Subramanya Swami calls on the Hindus to unite
'Secular' India will not allow the Hindus to unite. It will snuff out any attempt to organise the Hindus, label those who attempt it as communalists and fundamentalists. But, unless Hindus get organised, 'secular' India will not allow Hinduism to survive.

-- A Poisonous Tree (Secularism) and its Deadly Fruit
Today the sacrilege of Hindu concepts and hoary institutions, is being carried out not with the crude brutality of a Ghazni or Ghori, but with the sophistication of the constitutional instruments of law. The desecration of Hindu icons, for example the Kanchi Kamakoti Mutt, is being made to look legal, thereby completely confusing the Hindu people, and thus making them unable to recognize the danger, or to realize that Hindus have to unite to defend against the threats to their legacy.

-- Dr. Subramanya Swami calls on the Hindus to unite
Some time back International Opinion carried an article detailing the takeover of Hindu temples in Karnataka and transfer of large chunks of their funds to mosques, churches, Islamic schools (madarsas) that churn out radical Muslims, and Christian schools. The die-hard Christians merrily go on converting simple, less educated, tribals, socially and economically weaker sections of Hindu population all over India.

-- Indian Governments Hard on Hindus, Their Temples, Soft on All Others
Everything against Hindus seems to be justified in India, a country dominated by 82 percent Hindus. There are no such things as Hindu rights, safety of Hindu temples and their money, Hindu pilgrimages and the Hindu way of life. Instead, every effort is made to favor, appease, fund and tolerate others, especially Muslims who are doubly benefited by the secular policies of the Government of India, and states ruled by the Congress Party and its coalition partners. Their Sharia laws give them an added advantage.

-- Indian Governments Hard on Hindus, Their Temples, Soft on All Others
It is no accident that Hindu groups are being targetted in the so-called war on terror. After Godhra, it was said that the Hindu pilgrims from Ayodhya somehow committed mass suicide for no apparent reason. Though security forces shot down three assailants speeding towards the RSS headquarters in Nagpur, two cabinet ministers had no compunctions saying that Hindus had stage-managed the attack. The targetting of Hindu pilgrims in Kashmir is being disguised as an exodus of ‘tourists,’ and now, the devastation of nearly one thousand families (almost wholly Hindu) in Mumbai in just eleven minutes leads to the silencing of Hindu human rights bodies.

-- Sonia’s ‘Iraq war’ on Hindus
As long as appeasement of the so-called minority communities continues, and the rights of Hindus trampled upon, the country will keep seeing these types of unacceptable and weird behavior.

-- Indian Governments Hard on Hindus, Their Temples, Soft on All Others
Planned destruction of Hinduism is the royal gateway for global liberation. The main objective of this coalition of Muslims-Missionaries-Nehruvian Secularists is to write Indian history in a manner that places large sections of Hindu Society outside the Hindu fold and another important section as aliens who invaded / migrated into the country from the Steppes of Central Asia. Their only aim is to de-Hinduise the nation....

-- Four-fold menace - A nexus of enveloping evil
The Westerners don’t know the vast meaning of Dharma and they don’t know the word at all. Hence they propagated the Hindu dharma as Hindu religion. Western Culture is a competitive culture. They will compete in every aspect of life, but in our Hindu culture we give preference for unifying all.

-- Parampujaniya Sudarshanji’s speech
How do you ignore history? But the nationalist movement, Independence movement ignored it. You read the Glimpses of World History by Jawaharlal Nehru, it talks about the mythical past and then it jumps the difficult period of the invasions and conquests. So you have Chinese pilgrims coming to Bihar, Nalanda and places like that. Then somehow they don’t tell you what happens, why these places are in ruin. They never tell you why Elephanta island is in ruins or why Bhubaneswar was desecrated.

-- On ignoring history
So it is time India woke up and faced the inescapable truth. Which is: India is targetted because it is a Hindu nation.

-- Say it hard and true, at least now
Anyone following the Sanatan Dharma is doomed and has to face the state-sponsored apartheid. As long as no one is there to question or correct this, communal governments with the help of corrupt media will go to any extent to tarnish our native culture, traditions and heritage.

-- Media bias and apartheid in Kerala
Nehruvian secularism is committed to the cause of de-nationalising and de-Hinduising Indian polity. De-nationalising involves the processes of devaluing both nation and nationality.

-- Four-fold menace - A nexus of enveloping evil
The Indian Marxists have learnt two vital lessons from USA and other Western Nations. By funding and supporting NGOs in India, these western powers are influencing social trends and political and economical policies in India. Secondly, they have understood the urgent public need to start their own flourishing anti-national industry called NGO-activism which would enable them to surreptitiously clothe their socially disruptive anti-Hindu activism in a facade of global respectability.

-- Four-fold menace - A nexus of enveloping evil
The move to grant minority status to more and more religious and linguistic groups is a bizarre move that will divide India and lead to further fragmentation of the Hindu society.

-- Bizarre move to divide Hindu society
There has been no take over of mosques, churches or institutions run by Muslims and Christians. Only Hindu temples are targeted. Why is this discrimination and differential treatment? And the meek, tolerant, submissive Hindus don’t raise a finger to protest it! And when they do, they are branded 'communalists' by Muslims, leftists, and even some sections of so-called secular Hindus. How surprising!

-- Indian Governments Hard on Hindus, Their Temples, Soft on All Others
Today, Muslims in Malappuram differ from the invading Muslim army of Hyder Ali and Tipu Sultan. Muslim armies of Hyder Ali and Tipu Sultan murdered thousands of Hindus, destroyed hundreds of Hindu temples, engaged in forced conversion, murder, loot, rape, sabotage and blackmail. The tactics of invading Tipu Sultan and Hyder Ali were different. However, the tactics of Muslims in Malappuram is to achieve wider goals, including marginalizing and force out Hindus from the district.

-- Hindus are under siege in Malappuram
Hindu students are an easy target for psychological indoctrination. One of the most telling examples of such policy in action is the cancellation of educational classes on Friday and Muslim holidays including the month of Muslim Ramadan. By using such psychological manipulation, Muslims succeed in creating anxiety, fear and panic among young Hindus. The atmosphere created by such acts casts a great shadow over Hindu society. Hindus also feel unsafe in their own homes and workplaces, daily life is disrupted, causing considerable harm to personal and family morale. Hindus in general are depressed, marginalized and demoralized. The Muslim message is: until you leave Malappuram district, you will not be safe.

-- Hindus are under siege in Malappuram
The Congress policy is to take over Hindu temples that are a big source of money from millions of devotees every year. That money is fully controlled by governments run by Congress Party, and its coalition partners. Hindu Temple Trusts, or traditional priests, no longer run those Temples. They are, instead, run by government-appointed Boards or Managing Committees consisting of bureaucrats from other communities also.

-- Indian Governments Hard on Hindus, Their Temples, Soft on All Others
After the bloody partition of 1947, the sovereign mission of de-Hinduising our nation continued in the guise of Nehruvian Secularism or Nehruvian Stalinism. This essentially anti-national and positively pro-Nehru family philosophy has been accorded the status of high philosophy, even superior to the 'communal' Advita philosophy of Adi Sankara!

-- Four-fold menace - A nexus of enveloping evil
Anyone following the Sanatan Dharma is doomed and has to face the state-sponsored apartheid. As long as no one is there to question or correct this, communal governments with the help of corrupt media will go to any extent to tarnish our native culture, traditions and heritage.

-- Media bias and apartheid in Kerala
Today the sacrilege of Hindu concepts and hoary institutions, is being carried out not with the crude brutality of a Ghazni or Ghori, but with the sophistication of the constitutional instruments of law. The desecration of Hindu icons, for example the Kanchi Kamakoti Mutt, is being made to look legal, thereby completely confusing the Hindu people, and thus making them unable to recognize the danger, or to realize that Hindus have to unite to defend against the threats to their legacy.

-- Dr. Subramanya Swami calls on the Hindus to unite
Surveying the History of India, Dr Suseelan pointed out that the Afghanistan was once Hindu and a part of the original India of that time. In 1947, Pakistan too was forcibly carved out of the Indian Territory by Islamists. Now, feverish efforts are on by all Islamic nations to wrest the Indian Kashmir from the Hindu India. Threats of violence, loot, murder and rape of Hindu people all familiar tools of terrorism have become a routine thing in the Indian Kashmir today.

-- Roots of terrorism
Our secular education system simply weighs the learning and does not teach its value. Students are told that degrees are required to get a job and higher degrees will fetch higher income. The thought of service to the poor, the nation or the humanity is summarily dismissed as Platonic and nonsensical.

-- Detoxify the youth of India
The Roman Catholic Pope, when he visited India last year, had bluntly told his audience in Hindu-dominated India that his mission is to convert people to Christianity (Roman Catholic version, of course). It was a slap on Hindus and should have been on the face of the Government of India that had invited him and that claims to be 'secular.'

-- Indian Governments Hard on Hindus, Their Temples, Soft on All Others
The latest in the series is the August 8, 2005 landmark judgment by the Supreme Court of India through which it dismissed the Minority Commission’s plea to grant minority status to Jains saying, if only on the basis of a different religious thought or less numerical strength or lack of health, wealth, education, power or social rights, a claim of a section of Indian society to the status of ‘minority’ is considered and conceded, there would be no end to such claims in a society as multi-religious and multi-linguistic as India is.

-- Bizarre move to divide Hindu society
The latest in the series is the August 8, 2005 landmark judgment by the Supreme Court of India through which it dismissed the Minority Commission’s plea to grant minority status to Jains saying, if only on the basis of a different religious thought or less numerical strength or lack of health, wealth, education, power or social rights, a claim of a section of Indian society to the status of ‘minority’ is considered and conceded, there would be no end to such claims in a society as multi-religious and multi-linguistic as India is.

-- Bizarre move to divide Hindu society
In our country a Parsee, a Muslim, a Sikh can be elected for the highest post. It will not happen in other countries.When other countries not allowed the Pope John Paul we welcomed him in to our country. The result is that we are facing the threat of conversions. The large scale conversions to many problems plaguing the Nation. The politicians are keeping quite on conversions because they need their votes. They can see the POWER but not the welfare of the society. The Political leaders are appeasing the minorities by giving the reservations to them.

-- Parampujaniya Sudarshanji’s speech
What is happening in India is a new historical awakening... Indian intellectuals, who want to be secure in their liberal beliefs, may not understand what is going on. But every other Indian knows precisely what is happening: deep down he knows that a larger response is emerging even if at times this response appears in his eyes to be threatening.

-- On ignoring history
Surveying the History of India, Dr Suseelan pointed out that the Afghanistan was once Hindu and a part of the original India of that time. In 1947, Pakistan too was forcibly carved out of the Indian Territory by Islamists. Now, feverish efforts are on by all Islamic nations to wrest the Indian Kashmir from the Hindu India. Threats of violence, loot, murder and rape of Hindu people all familiar tools of terrorism have become a routine thing in the Indian Kashmir today.

-- Roots of terrorism
Everything against Hindus seems to be justified in India, a country dominated by 82 percent Hindus. There are no such things as Hindu rights, safety of Hindu temples and their money, Hindu pilgrimages and the Hindu way of life. Instead, every effort is made to favor, appease, fund and tolerate others, especially Muslims who are doubly benefited by the secular policies of the Government of India, and states ruled by the Congress Party and its coalition partners. Their Sharia laws give them an added advantage.

-- Indian Governments Hard on Hindus, Their Temples, Soft on All Others
The new legislation makes a mockery of the spirit of Article 15 of the Constitution by discriminating against the Hindu community on grounds of caste, in a manner that could place undue financial burden upon ordinary Hindu households.

-- UPA clogs all national initiatives
Hindu students are an easy target for psychological indoctrination. One of the most telling examples of such policy in action is the cancellation of educational classes on Friday and Muslim holidays including the month of Muslim Ramadan. By using such psychological manipulation, Muslims succeed in creating anxiety, fear and panic among young Hindus. The atmosphere created by such acts casts a great shadow over Hindu society. Hindus also feel unsafe in their own homes and workplaces, daily life is disrupted, causing considerable harm to personal and family morale. Hindus in general are depressed, marginalized and demoralized. The Muslim message is: until you leave Malappuram district, you will not be safe.

-- Hindus are under siege in Malappuram
There has been no take over of mosques, churches or institutions run by Muslims and Christians. Only Hindu temples are targeted. Why is this discrimination and differential treatment? And the meek, tolerant, submissive Hindus don’t raise a finger to protest it! And when they do, they are branded 'communalists' by Muslims, leftists, and even some sections of so-called secular Hindus. How surprising!

-- Indian Governments Hard on Hindus, Their Temples, Soft on All Others
A part of the Hindu money also goes to Christian Non-Government Organizations (NGOs), who utilize these funds for the spread of Christian religion, education, social and cultural practices. Evidently, Hindu money, Hindu temples, Hindu religion, Hindu rights, and Hindu population, everything is going down.

-- Indian Governments Hard on Hindus, Their Temples, Soft on All Others
Opposite to secularism, both in ideas and in practice, is missionary activity, which is the attempt to convert the world to a single religious belief... Christianity is today, and has historically been, an anti-secular religion. Christian churches may tolerate the laws of living in secular countries, but they have not yet adopted a secular acceptance that many religious and spiritual paths can be valid and that no one religion has the last word.

-- Missionary Activity & Secularism : Pope's Visit
In fact, the organised minorities have fully exploited the rights in a state like Kerala. Today they own more than 90 per cent of educational institutions and still demand all kinds of state benefits and bounties. Is it fair on the part of the state to favour only the richer and organised sections? We all believe in social justice and equality for all, but how come only a section enjoys everything at the cost of others?

-- Media bias and apartheid in Kerala
The latest in the series is the August 8, 2005 landmark judgment by the Supreme Court of India through which it dismissed the Minority Commission’s plea to grant minority status to Jains saying, if only on the basis of a different religious thought or less numerical strength or lack of health, wealth, education, power or social rights, a claim of a section of Indian society to the status of ‘minority’ is considered and conceded, there would be no end to such claims in a society as multi-religious and multi-linguistic as India is.

-- Bizarre move to divide Hindu society
To quote the most appropriate words of DR KOENRAAD ELST in this context: 'Distortive or even totally false reporting on communally sensitive issues is a well entrenched feature of Indian journalism. There is no self-corrective mechanism in place to remedy this endemic culture of disinformation.

-- Four-fold menace - A nexus of enveloping evil
The bed-rock, the foundation and the underlying structure of most of these dubious NGOs is anti-Statist, anti-Nationalist and blatantly anti-Hindu. While they lack specific solutions to any problem, the fact that they are focused specifically against Hindus and Hinduism is patently clear.

-- Four-fold menace - A nexus of enveloping evil
When Kanchi Sankaracharya was arrested in November 2004 on Deepavali Day, the UPA Government in New Delhi maintained an attitude of 'strategic', 'suave' and 'secular' silence. When anything relates to Hindu Religion or Hindus, the UPA Government either overtly or covertly makes it very clear that it is no part of the allotted duty or constitutional responsibility of the Government of India to interfere in such religious matters. But the same UPA Government is always in a state of combat readiness to rush to the rescue, relief and succour of terrorists of Jihadic Islam or Angels of Service of Compassionate Christianity as and when required.

-- The Da Vinci tsunami
Surveying the History of India, Dr Suseelan pointed out that the Afghanistan was once Hindu and a part of the original India of that time. In 1947, Pakistan too was forcibly carved out of the Indian Territory by Islamists. Now, feverish efforts are on by all Islamic nations to wrest the Indian Kashmir from the Hindu India. Threats of violence, loot, murder and rape of Hindu people all familiar tools of terrorism have become a routine thing in the Indian Kashmir today.

-- Roots of terrorism
Does Vedic tolerance bestow spiritual equality to monotheistic faiths? Our ethos does not label any spiritual quest as "false religion" (whatever that means). Yet Hindu dharma is implicitly at odds with monotheistic intolerance. Accepting Christianity or Islam involves hating our own dharma (as secular intellectuals and politicians do), and shunning the other monotheism, as both demand exclusive adherence!

-- Tsunami tests secular dogmas by Sandhya Jain
The move to grant minority status to more and more religious and linguistic groups is a bizarre move that will divide India and lead to further fragmentation of the Hindu society.

-- Bizarre move to divide Hindu society
When Kanchi Sankaracharya was arrested in November 2004 on Deepavali Day, the UPA Government in New Delhi maintained an attitude of 'strategic', 'suave' and 'secular' silence. When anything relates to Hindu Religion or Hindus, the UPA Government either overtly or covertly makes it very clear that it is no part of the allotted duty or constitutional responsibility of the Government of India to interfere in such religious matters. But the same UPA Government is always in a state of combat readiness to rush to the rescue, relief and succour of terrorists of Jihadic Islam or Angels of Service of Compassionate Christianity as and when required.

-- The Da Vinci tsunami
These Nehruvian Secularists are appeasers. They preach compassion, understanding and tolerance to the Hindus. But they dare not preach to Christian missionaries or Muslim Mullahs values of compassion, understanding and tolerance towards the pagan Hindus.

These unscrupulous pseudo-secular deceivers are the most dangerous members of our society. They trifle with the best affections of our nature and violate the most sacred obligations with pan-Islamic, pan-Christian and pan-Marxist contempt, solidly supported by the mafia of mass media in India. Hindus of the world unite ! You have nothing to lose but the chains of these deceivers !!

-- Four-fold menace - A nexus of enveloping evil
Much of the current tension in Indian society is on account of "secular" politicians mollycoddling the two monotheisms and suppressing legitimate Hindu aspirations. While secularism in a Hindu context permits the existence of other faiths, it cannot tolerate negation of Hindu identity and culture. Dharma demands that spiritual paths that refuse to coexist and seek actively to destroy others must be repelled.

-- Tsunami tests secular dogmas by Sandhya Jain
All these aspects of the siege are aimed at debilitating the Hindu mind, to ultimately present a fait accompli in which the Hindus do not form a substantial majority in the country. The siege today is not like what Ghazni had laid in Somnath or Ghori did in Ujjain. Those were crude and physical while the present siege is sophisticated and psychological.

-- The Demographic Detonators

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Friday, January 25, 2008
Five US state senates to open with Hindu prayers

Indo-Asian News Service
New York, January 25, 2008

Five state senates in the US are set to open their sessions with Hindu prayers in the coming few weeks, creating a sort of milestone in American history.

Rajan Zed, prominent Hindu chaplain who hit the headlines last July when he recited Vedic prayers at the US senate in Washington DC, has now been invited to read the prayers in the senates of New Mexico, Colorado, Utah, Washington and Arizona.

He will deliver these prayers from ancient Hindu scriptures at senate halls in state Capitols in Santa Fe (Jan 28), Denver (Jan 29), Salt Lake City (Feb 13), Olympia (Feb 22), and Phoenix (March 24).

After first reciting in Sanskrit, he will then read the English translations, a press release by him said.

Besides US senate, Zed has already done the honours at California and Nevada senates.

Reno, Nevada based Zed is active in inter-faith dialogue in the region. Rajan Zed will recite from the Rig-Veda, believed to be the world's oldest scripture dating from around 1,500 BC, besides lines from Upanishads and the Bhagavad Gita, both ancient Hindu scriptures.

He plans to start and end the prayer with "OM", the mystical syllable that in Hinduism is used to introduce and conclude religious work, the press release said.

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Hindu students are an easy target for psychological indoctrination. One of the most telling examples of such policy in action is the cancellation of educational classes on Friday and Muslim holidays including the month of Muslim Ramadan. By using such psychological manipulation, Muslims succeed in creating anxiety, fear and panic among young Hindus. The atmosphere created by such acts casts a great shadow over Hindu society. Hindus also feel unsafe in their own homes and workplaces, daily life is disrupted, causing considerable harm to personal and family morale. Hindus in general are depressed, marginalized and demoralized. The Muslim message is: until you leave Malappuram district, you will not be safe.

-- Hindus are under siege in Malappuram
Attack on RSS office 'pre-planned', says BJP

Coimbatore,Jan 25 (PTI): The bomb attack on the RSS office at Tenkasi last night was part of a 'continuous conspiracy' and a 'planned one' against Hindu outfits, the Tamil Nadu unit of the BJP alleged today.

State party president L Ganesan said told reporters tonight that 'planned attacks' on persons and offices of BJP, RSS and other Hindu outfits had been taking place since 1980.

Some unidentified persons had hurled a country bomb at the RSS office in Tenkasi, 50 kms from here last night. The impact of the explosion shattered a few window panes. There were no casualties as none were present in the office

Ganesan alleged that the Tamil Nadu government had failed to rein in those who wanted to foment trouble and create communal tension in the state.

No steps had been taken to arrest those who torched two temples at Mettupalayam in the district recently, he said, adding that workers of BJP and other organisations, who were attempting to peacefully demonstrate on the issue, had been arrested.

Ganesan said that senior BJP leader and Prime Ministerial candidate L K Advani would come to Chennai on March 9 and would address a public meeting.

Asked about the alliance for the coming Lok Sabha polls, he said the time was not appropriate to discuss the issue.

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The bed-rock, the foundation and the underlying structure of most of these dubious NGOs is anti-Statist, anti-Nationalist and blatantly anti-Hindu. While they lack specific solutions to any problem, the fact that they are focused specifically against Hindus and Hinduism is patently clear.

-- Four-fold menace - A nexus of enveloping evil
SC: Are there castes among Muslims?

26 Jan 2008, 0124 hrs IST,Dhananjay Mahapatra,TNN

NEW DELHI: After Christian groups, a Muslim organisation has joined the quota race by challenging in Supreme Court validity of the 1950 Presidential Order limiting reservations to scheduled castes in Hinduism, Sikhism and Buddhism, and sought reservation benefit for Dalit Muslims.

Though both Christianity and Islam prohibit practice of caste-system and consider everyone equal, the petitioners have hinged their demand on the recommendations of central government appointed commissions headed by Justice Ranganath Misra and Justice Rajinder Sachar.

A PIL filed by Akhil Maharashtra Muslim Khatik Samaj on Friday stated that there were Dalits within Muslim community who needed reservation, a benefit extended to similarly placed persons in Hinduism, Sikhism and Buddhism.

The petitioner said though Hindu Khatiks (those who slaughter animals) were included in the SC category, the Muslim Khatiks were not, despite being in the same social strata and facing similar discrimination. Muslim Khatiks are generally considered as 'Ajlaf' (the base strata of society), it said.

Though the Bench headed by Chief Justice K G Balakrishnan issued notice to the Centre seeking its response on the issue, it asked the petitioner whether Islam permitted caste-system.

"Since when have the Muslims have started following caste-system? It is surprising. We thought that it had only rich and poor divide. The assertion that caste system is practised in Islam and that certain sections need reservation is new to us," the Bench said.

Referring to the strict dictats of Quran prohibiting practice of any forms of caste system within Islam, Justice Balakrishnan said there was no such discrimination on the basis of caste among Muslims in Kerala, his home state.
On Tuesday, the apex court had given six weeks time to the Centre to file its response to similar petitions filed by Christian organisations and individuals seeking extension of reservation benefit to Dalits within their community.

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Secularism originated in Europe centuries ago when the Kings revolted and overthrew the theocratic hegemony of the Pope from over their kingdoms and established their own rule. But India has never known such a conflict, thus the western secularism never was relevant for India. However today many Indians perceive ‘secularism’ to be a synonym of ‘pluralism’ and ‘tolerance’, but they perceive the very culture that blessed the Indian society with these noble features from the Western perspective of being a “religion”.

-- by Chinmay Bajekal
Thursday, January 24, 2008
Bharat should be declared a Hindu Republic

Manmohan promoting many nation idea
By J.G. Arora

Though Bharat’s Hindu identity is being hammered and erased bit by bit every day, the Union Government’s affidavit filed before the Supreme Court in September 2007 rejecting the existence of Ram and Ram Sethu de-legitimised Hindu faith itself.

This affidavit is the latest ploy to demolish Hinduism the way other native religions and cultures have been wiped off in the world.

Though the affidavit was withdrawn after protests, it would never have been filed if truncated India i.e. Bharat had been proclaimed a Hindu Republic in 1947 as a logical consequence of India’s partition on religious basis, and creation of Pakistan as demanded by Muslims.

And why should Hindu majority Bharat and Nepal disown their Hindu identity when over a hundred Christian-majority countries are declared as Christian countries and 57 Muslim-majority countries are declared as Islamic countries?

Besides, why cannot Bharat, the birth place of Sanatan Dharma, commonly known as Hinduism, and having Hindu traditions since time immemorial be a Hindu Republic?

No more Pakistans

Pre-1947 situation which created Pakistan is being re-enacted in India through divisive ‘communal budgeting’ and through Sachar Commission and reservation for Muslims in government jobs though such measures are unconstitutional, and also unwarranted after the creation of Pakistan as demanded by Muslims.

To prevent the creation of more Pakistans on Bharat’s soil, one must remember how Muslim League grabbed one-third of Bharat as Pakistan.

Bharat Varsh comprising of entire Indian sub-continent was Hindu land with zero Muslim population till 711 when Muhammad bin Qasim’s Arab army attacked Sindh. Hindus lost Afghanistan in 987, and present day Pakistan and Bangladesh to Muslims in 1947. During the repeated Muslim attacks for a thousand years, Hindus kept on fighting valiantly to defend their Dharma and motherland.

After overthrow of Muslim rule, the British took over India from 1857 to 1947. Muslim League was formed in 1906, and demanded Pakistan for Muslims in 1940.

This is what Muhammad Ali Jinnah said in Lahore on 23rd March, 1940 while demanding Pakistan, a separate country for Muslims, comprising of Muslim majority areas in India:

“Hindus and Muslims belong to two different religions, philosophies, social customs, and literatures. ….. and to two different civilisations. Hindus and Muslims derive their inspiration from different sources of history. They have different epics, different heroes and different episodes. Very often the hero of one is a foe of the other, and likewise their victories and defeats overlap. To yoke together two such nations under a single state, one as a numerical minority and the other as a majority, must lead to growing discontent, and the final destruction of any fabric that may be so built up for the government of such a state.”

Immediately after Muslim League demanded Pakistan and exchange of population, Dr. B.R. Ambedkar wrote his book “Thoughts on Pakistan” in 1940 in which he held that creation of Pakistan would act as a ‘settlement’ of Hindu-Muslim conflict, and also held that exchange of Hindu-Muslim population must accompany the creation of Pakistan.

In 1945-46 elections, Muslims voted for creation of Pakistan.

Muslim League kept up the pressure, and in 1947 got a third of Bharat’s land as Pakistan comprising of West Pakistan and East Pakistan. In 1971, East Pakistan became Bangladesh while West Pakistan remained Pakistan. Both Pakistan and Bangladesh are Islamic Republics, and have driven out most of Hindus and Sikhs from their land.

However, most of Indian Muslims who had demanded Pakistan and exchange of population did not go to Pakistan. Rather, the present percentage of Muslim population in India is much higher than that in 1947.

Further, to plant one more Islamic country on Indian soil, Pak-Bangla combine has sent countless terrorists and crores of infiltrators into India.

Despite the Supreme Court’s judgements delivered on July 12, 2005 and December 5, 2006 to deport infiltrators, the government has done nothing in this regard. Rather, more infiltrators are entering India through soft borders every day.

Secular Bharat is being battered and grabbed bit by bit by Pak-Bangla terrorists and infiltrators every day.

Fraudulent ‘secularism’

Logically, on India’s Partition on religious basis and creation of Pakistan for Muslims, Bharat should have been declared a Hindu republic. But surprisingly, Bharat was made a ‘secular’ country. However, in India, ‘secularism’ stands for anti-Hinduism. In secular India, Hinduism is being persistently attacked and demolished.

With each passing day, India is being made more Islamic and more Christian and less Hindu.

Countless Pak-Bangla terrorists and infiltrators bent upon creating one more Muslim country on Bharat’s soil, genocide and eviction of Hindus from Kashmir, global missionary organisations Christianising India, government control over Hindu temples whereas no mosque or church is covered by such control, special privileges to non-Hindus under Article 30, special rights to Muslim majority Jammu & Kashmir under Article 370, de-Hinduisation of education and history and banishment of Sanskrit from education, denigration of Hindus and Hinduism by most of media, and provision of Haj subsidy though none of 57 Islamic countries gives any such subsidy are just a few perversities of secular India.

Similarly, late Pope John Paul II’s outrageous call to convert Asia to Christianity was given in secular India’s capital in 1999.

Moreover, since secular India did not help Hindu Nepal, combined might of Maoists, Christian missionaries and Pakistan’s ISI divested Nepal of its Hindu identity in 2006.

Logical solution

Since sham ‘secularism’ and secular India have been a disaster for Hindus, only the Hindu Bharat can protect Hindus, Hindu Dharma, Hindu heritage, and Hindu identity of Bharat. Besides, since secular India never helps Hindus in distress either in India or abroad, Hindu Bharat would be a source of strength for the Hindus worldwide.

Moreover, only an assertive Hindu Bharat can liberate Hindus from tyranny of fake secularism; and restore Hindus’ fighting spirit and self-esteem. Hindu Bharat will also remove enactments and laws which discriminate against Hindus.

And there should be no apprehension, whatsoever, about Hindu Bharat. Since Hinduism is all embracing, Hindu republic of Bharat will give justice to all and appease none. In Hindu Bharat, there will be one law and one nation; and no distinction of majority and minority, and no discrimination, whatsoever, against any community. And all citizens in this Bharat will have equal rights. Such a Bharat will also dismantle fake-secularism, and liberate the nation from countless terrorists and crores of Pak-Bangla infiltrators.

And Hindu Bharat will remember M.A. Jinnah’s above-mentioned ‘Two Nations’ theory expounded in Lahore in 1940, and take pre-emptive action to prevent creation of more Pakistans on Bharat’s soil.

Justice and equity demand that Bharat should be declared a Hindu Republic. It is a logical, laudable and achievable goal which will boost Hindu morale. Apart from protecting Bharat’s Hindu identity, Hindu Bharat will transform the present imbecile India into an assertive nation. No one can object to a Hindu Bharat when the world has over a hundred Christian and 57 Islamic countries. All pro-Hindu individuals and organisations should join hands to transform India into a Hindu Republic of Bharat by all peaceful, constitutional and lawful means.

And this endeavour will certainly succeed as Atharva Veda proclaims, “Kritam may dakhshine haste, jayo may savya aahitah” (effort is in my right hand, and victory in my left).

(The author is a former Chief Commissioner of Income Tax. His e-mail address is: jgarora@vsnl.net)

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Indian insist on secularism, a useless way to fight a rigid, dangerous Islamic ideology. For thousands of years, Hindus were under intense persecution by the Jihadi Muslims--that's the way Islam operates.Islam fight for Allah until infidels are subjugated and surrendered.India must be wary in order to be able to protect what few freedoms we have left (compared to the freedoms our forefathers enjoyed prior to Islamic invasion).

-- Islam is a dangerous ideology - Beware of it
Monday, January 21, 2008
Vote bank politics not needed: Modi

“Good governance is the key”


MUMBAI: Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday criticised the Congress for practising divisive ‘vote bank politics.’

Addressing a party felicitation function at Shivaji Park here, he attacked Congress president Sonia Gandhi on the food situation and said she had to answer for the increased price of imported wheat.

Mr. Modi said Indian farmers were being paid less than ‘gora’(white-skinned) farmers and Ms. Gandhi should explain why this was so.

The function signalled the launch of the BJP’s election campaign in the state.

Mr. Modi said there was a ‘vested interest group’ which could not digest his victory and now they were attacking the people of Gujarat for giving him a fresh mandate. He said there was no bigger insult to the voters.

He said there was a feeling that good governance and development did not get you votes. “I have challenged this and I have decided that if you have to change the country’s destiny and give it a bright future then you have to get out of the scheme of playing politics and giving people false promises,” he said.

He said good governance was the key and if you had that then you did not need vote bank politics to win elections.

People want development and their basic needs to be fulfilled. He said soon other parties would also have to focus on delivering on promises. Gujarat has set a new standard for the country in this regard, he added.

He slammed Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s statement that Muslims had the first right to the country’ resources. He said all people were entitled to it. He criticised the “communal budgeting” of the Central government and said the poor were entitled to their share of development, irrespective of community.

He said the Vajpayee government had left the godowns full of food grains but now the country was importing wheat. He also targeted Union Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar and said he should explain why farmers outside the country were getting more money for wheat than the poor Indian farmers.

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While the Congress Party under Nehru and Indira Gandhi were committed to the philosophy of de-Hinduising the nation and de-nationalising the Hindus, several NGOs backed by global forces of Christianity and Islam and several Western powers like Britain and USA entrenched themselves in India after 1955. Later, the Communist Parties of India came to realise the significance of the role of NGOs in modifying or altering the basic structures and contours of our polity and consequently several NGOs wedded to the philosophy of Marxism on paper also joined the fray in this game of de-Hinduisation of India and de-nationalisation of the Hindus.

-- Four-fold menace - A nexus of enveloping evil
Sunday, January 20, 2008
Indian immigrants in UK opting for name change

London, January 20: Thousands of newly arrived migrants in the UK, including Indians, are adopting common British names to avoid ‘discrimination’ and mispronunciation.

Indians bearing the surname Shital prefer to be known as Sheet while Arabic names such as Karim and Muhammad are being changed to Kevin and Michael, according to a report in The Sunday Times.

The trend is part of a boom in name changing, fuelled by websites that allow people legally to rename themselves by deed poll within a few hours, usually for about 30 pounds.

About 70,000 people are expected to change their name using either the UK Deed Poll Service or the Name Change Company this year, two of the most popular services in Britain, the report said. In 2001, the number of such people was fewer than 20,000.

The paper said Chinese people have anglicised their names by adding prefixes such as John, Jason and Sue. In one instance, a refugee from Uzbekistan called Avlar Jon Akherov became Adrian Barry Roberts. In another case, a young Polish woman with an 18-letter surname opted for the brevity of one of Britain's most common names - Hall.

The migrants coming to the UK are adopting common British names to avoid either discrimination or poor pronunciation, the report said.

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Muslims get money from Hindu temple funds and are also allowed to practice their own Sharia (Islamic) laws for marriage, divorce, family inheritance and other customs. Civil laws are not uniformly applied to Muslims and their rights, real or imaginary, traditional or just made up, are generously safeguarded. They are permitted practices even if some of them are in direct conflict with India’s laws on divorce, maintenance money after divorce, and other social, religious and cultural practices.

-- Indian Governments Hard on Hindus, Their Temples, Soft on All Others
Saturday, January 19, 2008
Pseudo secularism - Congress and Commie style

V Sundaram
1/17/2008 5:08:49 PM

If you are capable of guaranteeing a 24- hour "No Questions Asked Servility’ to Sonia Gandhi with fear, nervousness and reverence and if you are capable of bumptious and sanctimonious humbug on every sensitive political issue at her supremely dictatorial bidding from time to time, then you qualify yourself to be a Union Cabinet Minister in Sonia’s surrogate government in New Delhi. Judged by this internationally known secular yardstick, Priya Ranjan Das Munshi, Union Minister for Information (Insinuation!) and Broadcasting (Blustering) is the most outstanding Central Minister in the minority non-functional government of India.

Playing the cheap and crude Congress politics of "anti-national secularism’ three days ago, he said that “Taslima Nasreen should apologise for hurting the sentiments of the Muslims. Ours is a pluralistic country, where every religion is given equal respect. I have nothing against her writing but that does not mean that she can use her pen to insult and offend the religious beliefs of Muslims or any other community for that matter. If Nasreen wanted to stay in India or any country, she had to respect the philosophy and identity of that country. I have nothing against her writings but that does mot mean that she can offend the religions beliefs of Muslims or any other community for that matter.”

Priya Ranjan Das Munshi went even further and demanded that Nasreen apologise with folded hands and tender an unqualified apology to the Muslims of India whose sentiments she has hurt and expunge those pages from her book.

The Information and Broadcasting Minister recalled that when Salman Rushdie’s book The Satanic Verses had sparked off a controversy, it was banned in India. "She cannot be an exception,’ he added.

Making a similar statement in Parliament in December, External Affairs Minister Pranab Mukherjee had also pointed out that the controversial Bangladeshi writer should behave like a guest and should desist from doing anything which will hurt the sentiments of a group or community in the country.

Thus Priya Ranjan Das Munshi wants that Taslima should bow down before the Muslims and apologise with folded hands for hurting their religious sentiments. While appreciating his sensitive concerns for the feelings of Muslims in India, I would like to ask him as to why he has not shown the same political courage to demand an apology from the known anti-Hindu DMK president Karunanidhi for having deliberately hurt the time-honoured feelings of millions and millions of Hindus in India and abroad by asking these questions: "Where did Lord Rama get his Engineering Degree from? What are his qualifications? Is he not a drunkard?’

Priya Ranjan Das Munshi has no respect for the law in so far the Hindus of India in majority are concerned. That is why he has not cared to take note of the brutal cultural attack of Karunanidhi on the sentiments of the devotees of Lord Rama. By insulting Lord Rama in his official capacity as Chief Minister of Tamilnadu, he has violated Section 295A of the Indian Penal Code which states "Deliberate or malicious acts indented to outrage the religious feelings of any class by insulting its religion or religious beliefs’. Will Priya Ranjan Das Munshi dare to demand an apology from Karunanidhi for having blatantly injured the religious feelings of the Hindus in India?

Why has Priya Ranjan Das Munshi forgotten the fact that it is the Congress party and it is his own government which deliberately hurt the feelings of the Hindu majority by insulting Lord Rama, Ramayana and Rama Sethu, in both Houses of Parliament and the Supreme Court? Why did not the Union Cabinet apologise with folded hands to the Hindus of India? Does Priya Ranjan Das Munshi have the political guts to demand an apology from his "Know Nothing’ Prime Minister for having allowed the Union Minister for Culture Ambika Soni to file the objectionable "anti-Hindu and anti-Rama’ affidavit in the Supreme Court of India?

To quote Mr. B R Haran in this context: "Ok. Priya Ranjan Das Munshi need not demand apologies from his bosses Sonia or Manmohan. Will he, at least, dare to demand an apology from those two sworn enemies of Lord Rama - Ambika Soni and T R Balu? Does he mean to say that the religious sentiments of majority Hindu community could be hurt with Congress impunity and impudence, but not so the sentiments of Muslim minorities? This "POLITICS OF APOLOGY’ is unpardonable!

Priya Ranjan Das Munshi, with a pseudo-secular bravado, has referred to the example of government ban on The Satanic Verses of Salman Rushdie.

In this context, I would like invite his attention to the famous "Quran Petition’ which was filed in the Kolkata High Court in 1985. Three heroic sons of India, namely Chandmal Chopra, advocate of Calcutta High Court, Hamangshu Kumar Chakraborthy and Sital Singh filed an application in the Calcutta High Court under Article 226 of the Constitution of India on 29 March, 1985, praying for a writ of Mandamus directing the State of West Bengal to declare each copy of the Quran, whether in the original Arabic or in its translation in any of the languages, as forfeited to the government In their petition they had stated, among other things, the following reasons for moving the above petition:

"In terms of Section 95 Cr PC read with Sections 153A and 295A IPC every copy of a book is liable to be forfeited to the government if the book contains words or sayings which promote, on ground of religion, disharmony, enmity, hatred or ill-will between different religious communities or which outrage the religious feelings of any class of citizens of India or insult the religion or religious beliefs of that class of people. This is so whether the book is classic or epic, religious or temporal, old or new.’

"For example, the Quran incites violence by saying, "Believers! make war on the infidels who dwell around you. Let them find harshness in you’ (Surah 9: ayat 123) or by saying, "Do not yield to the unbelievers, but fight them strenuously with this Koran’ (Surah 25: ayat 52) or by saying, "If you do not fight He will punish you sternly and replace you by other men’ (Surah 9: ayat 39) or by saying, "When the sacred months are over, slay the idol-worshippers, wherever you find them. Arrest them, besiege them and lie in ambush everywhere for them’ (Surah 9: ayat 5)”.

The judgment in this case was delivered by Justice Bimal Chandra Basak of the Calcutta High Court on 17 May 1985. He dismissed the petition on this ground: "Quran is of divine origin and that the Quran has no earthly source, based as it is not on any evidence but on mere religious beliefs.’ If that is so, in respect of Quran, how can the Supreme Court of India and the several High Courts demand a scientific proof regarding existence of Lord Rama and Rama Sethu from those Hindu organisations that have approached them for a similar direction?

Both the Congress and the Communists (whether in West Bengal or in Kerala) believe in the pseudo-secular philosophy of meekly surrendering to the violence of minorities and more especially to that of Islamic terrorists. When the Muslims resorted to violence on the streets of Kolkata recently, the Marxist government collapsed like a pack of cards and took action to immediately despatch Taslima Nasrin to Rajasthan in order to placate the Muslims of India.

I can give similar instances of Congress political surrender to the blackmailing of Muslims of India right from the days of Khilafat Movement in 1921. Mahatma Gandhi began this policy of MUSLIM APPEASEMENT IN INDIA with Priya Ranjan Das Munshi and Pranab Mukherjee following this tradition.

V Sundaram, IAS, Retd.

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The Congress policy is to take over Hindu temples that are a big source of money from millions of devotees every year. That money is fully controlled by governments run by Congress Party, and its coalition partners. Hindu Temple Trusts, or traditional priests, no longer run those Temples. They are, instead, run by government-appointed Boards or Managing Committees consisting of bureaucrats from other communities also.

-- Indian Governments Hard on Hindus, Their Temples, Soft on All Others
Lessons from Pakistan

Sri Sri Ravishankar
January 18, 2008

When we retrace our steps in history perhaps we can learn some lessons from the unfortunate situation Pakistan is in today.

After partition Pakistan's population had 15 percent Hindus and 2 percent Christians. If Pakistan had promoted diversity then, the next generation would have grown up in a multi-cultural, multi-religious society and exercised more tolerance.

General Zia-ul-Haq during his tenure as President systematically erased this multi-cultural heritage replacing it by radical 'Islamicisation' of civil society and the army. The rich Hindu, Buddhist and Sikh legacy that was common between Pakistan and India was forgotten. Had they recognised that their ancestors were also part of these traditions, they would have imbibed and kept alive some of those values and that perhaps would have made them more tolerant and less violent. When people dispose of their own heritage it makes them intolerant and fanatical.

Pakistan, a land where many an ancient university existed and Ayurveda texts were written, where Hinduism and other religions flourished, has today seemingly forgotten its tradition with little respect for these religions. Unlike India, where the contribution of the Mughal empire is recognised and honoured, in Pakistan, honouring its diverse traditions and culture has been ignored. The result of this has been a mono-cultural, mono-religious education that has made them radical. Lack of exposure to her own heritage has cost Pakistan dearly.

When I visited Pakistan a few years ago, I met with several journalists and interacted with thousands of people. To my amazement they seemed to know very little about India's freedom movement or Mahatma Gandhi [Images] and his principles.

The young people that I met there had very little knowledge of either ayurveda, yoga or our rich Sanskrit and Vedic heritage that is common to both countries. Tolerance and appreciation of other cultures have to be developed from a very young age. Children in Pakistan know nothing about the Bhakti movement, the spiritual renaissance which the continent once witnessed.

Their knowledge of Mahatma Gandhi is limited to the fact that he was a Hindu saint and a freedom fighter and not much beyond that. And they lack knowledge of many other saints and Sikh gurus who have traveled to and lived in Pakistan; even of people like Chanakya who wrote the Artha Shastra, and lived most of his life in a university in Taxila.

By tampering with history books educationists have done great damage to the society. The soft power they appear to wield ultimately brings out a hardened attitude in the people.

Extremist groups, who, by and large, comprise people not educated in the broad spectrum of knowledge, tend to be very insular. Unfortunately today, even in India, seeds of these tendencies can be seen in protests about "Vande Materam" being sung in schools and colleges or a fatwa issued to an actor for visiting a Ganesh festival or objections about Valentine's Day celebrations.

This should be unequivocally condemned by society as a whole. A composite society will always promote harmony and peace and put a check on extremism. It is clear that people who espouse violence today such as Naxalites and religious extremists in India and across borders have little respect for Gandhi.

Since partition, the growth of the minority population in India has been manifold while Pakistan's minority population has dwindled from 15 percent to just 1 percent. The biggest mistake that Pakistan made was in not supporting its minority communities. Fifteen percent Hindus would have turned the country into a more democratic, liberal society. But when this 15 percent was annihilated, converted or sent out of Pakistan and were replaced by mono-religious zealots and it has weighed heavily on Pakistan, leading to total chaos and fundamentalism.

Though India also has seen communal tensions, by and large the society is tolerant. Extremism in one religion does not remain contained in one. Its shadow spills over to others as well which is evident in Buddhist monks taking to the streets in Thailand, Malaysia and Myanmar.

Honouring the Hindu minority would not have been a threat to its Islamic identity, particularly because in Hinduism there is nothing such as proselytizing or conversion.

The two countries born to freedom sixty years ago clearly took different paths.

Sri Sri Ravishankar is the founder of the Art of Living Foundation.

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Minoritism is an evil that should under no circumstances be tolerated. Caste or religion-based political parties should be immediately banned. They are a menace to the unity of India.

-- UPA’s reservation mess spells danger: Nation’s unity in peril
Why China and India are important to world peace

L K Advani
January 18, 2008

Let's recognise the Genius of Asia

A discussion on 'Democracy and Conflict Resolution in Asia' must first of all recognise two factors about Asia -- its rich historical experience and its proud diversity, which should disabuse us of the notion that we have nothing to learn from our tradition of democracy and conflict-resolution and have to only learn from others. Asia is the world's largest, most populous and most diverse continent. It is also where all the world's major faiths were born. It is the cradle of a majority of the world's great and living civilizations. Neither of the two devastating World Wars of the last century was caused by Asia, although Asian countries were affected by their fire. Similarly, Asia has been a victim of colonialism and not a cause of it.

All this speaks of what is often termed as the 'Genius of Asia'. By any reckoning, it provides a valuable spiritual, cultural and intellectual resource to promote democracy and peaceful conflict-resolution. There is another important point to be noted here. After remaining a victim of history for several centuries, Asia is now becoming, once again, a prime shaper of its own destiny. Let me put this point in perspective.

Last week, I came across three volumes of a new and ambitious encyclopedia on the history of Indian Science and Technology, a project promoted by Rajiv Malhotra of the Infinity Foundation, USA. It quotes Samuel Huntington writing the following in his much-discussed book Clash of Civilisations.

"In 1750, China accounted for almost one-third, India for almost one-quarter and the West for a less than a fifth of the world's manufacturing output? In the following decades, the industrialisation of the West led to the de-industrialisation of the world."

In contrast to this, the late 20th century witnessed an Asian economic renaissance. As far as economic growth is concerned, the centre of gravity has already shifted to Asia, with India and China emerging as the two main engines of the growth of the global economy. According to noted economic historian Angus Maddison, if India and China can sustain their current rates of growth, they will regain their historic place in the next few decades.

The above trend has profound implications for democracy, conflict-resolution and management of global affairs in general. The western monopoly over global economic processes, one that has lasted for over two centuries and which gave the West a dominant position in military matters and global diplomacy, has been unequivocally broken. Asia's material rejuvenation buttressed by the flow of financial resources and dissemination of information/knowledge flows, itself enabled by the IT and communication revolution of the 1990s, has begun to strengthen the voice of nation states in Asia.

Therefore, if Asia's newly gained economic strength and rapidly growing political clout can be combined with the essential 'Genius of Asia' -- its priceless civilisational, cultural and spiritual resource, rooted in the values of peace, harmony, justice, respect for pluralism, co-existence and dialogue -- I am optimistic that Asia will be able to rewrite not only its own history but also contribute greatly to building a better future for the world as a whole. And with Asia rapidly reclaiming its historic position in the global community, I feel confident that Europe's past will not be Asia's future; rather, the best of Asia's past will mould humanity's future.

India and China should normalise good-neighbourly ties

In fact, one notices an interesting trend in Asian diplomacy whereby outstanding conflicts cast a diminishing shadow on the improvement of relations in other spheres, particularly economic. It could also be argued that the existence of outstanding disputes is persuading states to seek rapprochement and construct new bilateral and multilateral mechanisms/institutions. Economic interdependence in Asia is gradually compelling states to pursue non-confrontational means of tackling old disputes. It may suffice to say that inter-state stability can only emerge from a mutual accommodation of each other's core security interests. And this in turn will require responsible statesmen who can equilibrate security strategies based on "self-help" with those based on cooperative norms.

A good example of this is the evolution of India-China relations in recent years, and the constructive approach that both countries have adopted to resolve the border dispute. Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh's [Images] just-concluded visit to China has hopefully taken this effort forward. Fully normalised good-neighbourly and cooperative relations between the two great nations of Asia can become a reliable factor of peace, stability and progress both in the region and globally.

Indeed, the effort to bring about a rapprochement in India-China relations was started when Atal Bihari Vajpayee was the foreign minister in Morarji Desai's government. His historic meeting with Deng Xiaoping in 1979 broke the ice and resumed top-level dialogue that had been frozen after 1962. Vajpayee also gave a big boost to this effort when he became prime minister. An institutionalised framework for dialogue on resolution of the border dispute was begun during his regime. In between, Rajiv Gandhi and P V Narasimha Rao also made valuable contribution to the normalisation of ties between our two countries. Here we see an example of the development of a highly useful national consensus in foreign policy.

It has been my view that Pakistan should recognise the usefulness of the framework adopted by India and China for normalising and strengthening our bilateral ties, without holding them hostage to the resolution of the border dispute. Similarly, Indo-Pak relations can be normalised without holding them hostage to the resolution of the Kashmir issue.

Two long-festering conflicts in Asia

Unfortunately, several long-festering conflicts in Asia have been sustained, and have eluded a satisfactory solution, because of the interplay between western strategies of global domination in conflict-zones, where the conflicts are in turn exacerbated by certain intolerant, violent, hegemonistic ideologies that have originated in Asia itself.

Two prime examples of this are the conflicts in West Asia and South Asia. Palestine must get independent statehood and, at the same time, Israel's right to exist must be unequivocally recognised by all its neighbours. Those who say that Israel should be wiped off the map of the world are a threat to regional and world peace, even though their voice emanates from within Asia itself.

Similarly, closer home, we have witnessed the tragedy of Afghanistan, where the forces stoking the fires of religious extremism and global domination have harmed India, too. The trouble began in 1979 with the invasion of Afghanistan by the Soviet Union, which the then government of India should have condemned strongly and categorically. Afghanistan then became a victim of the Cold War rivalry between the then two superpowers, with Pakistan trying to take advantage of the conflict for its narrow geo-political ambitions. Since then, the Soviets pulled out of Afghanistan, and the Soviet Union itself disintegrated. But Afghanistan continues to be a zone of war, because it was converted into a sanctuary of jehadi terrorism, with disastrous consequences for all those who gave birth to this Bhasmasur.

The latest victim of this Bhasmasur was Benazir Bhutto [Images] in Pakistan. We must remember that her assassination in a terrorist attack took place in the context of the Pakistani people's aspiration for the establishment of an effective and stable democratic system. I had commented then, and also on the earlier occasion when she escaped an assassination bid on the day she returned from her exile (when 125 persons were killed in a terrorist attack on her convoy), that, in Pakistan, the struggle for democracy and the struggle against terrorism inspired by religious extremism cannot be separated.

The developments in Pakistan should prompt us to recognise a disturbing trend: The term 'democracy' is being manipulated in international relations discourse to suit the self-serving purpose of preserving one's global domination and preserving one's 'spheres of influence'. All of us know that intolerant and extremist religious ideologies are being exported out of certain countries in Asia which are far from democratic. Nevertheless, they are tolerated by those proclaiming to be defenders of freedom and democracy worldwide. This self-deception will prove costly to its practitioners and to the world at large.

Worrisome developments in Nepal

Friends, I would like to make a brief comment on the happenings in Nepal. My party and I stood firmly by the side of the people of Nepal in their desire for effective and fully empowered democracy. But we also backed their other aspiration, which was suppressed by the rise of Maoist forces in the politics of Nepal: namely, preservation of Nepal as a Hindu kingdom with constitutional monarchy. Maoism and democracy are a contradiction in terms. The two cannot go together. It is unfortunate that they have gained ascendancy in the polity of Nepal.

This has grave implications not only for Nepal but also for India, given the close nexus between Maoists on both sides of the border. The prime minister is right in characterising Communist extremism or Naxalism as the biggest threat to India's internal security. It is also a threat to our democracy. Why then has the United Progressive Alliance government remained a silent onlooker, with Communists in India playing the role of a colluder, when constitutional monarchy was disbanded recently under the pressure of the Maoists? The monarchy in Nepal was a symbol of its unique national identity and a source of its stability.

Also, why did the Indian Communists applaud when the identity of Nepal as a Hindu kingdom was erased even before the Constituent Assembly had discussed it? Would they demand that Pakistan or Bangladesh cease to be Islamic republics?

The examples of Israel-Palestine, Afghanistan and Nepal raise two important questions: Should India and other countries in Asia get entrapped in the Western-sponsored normative discourse on Asia's political evolution, or should we imbibe from our traditional values and norms? The former path is likely to ensure that we become the plaything of external powers seeking to shoot guns off our shoulders.

The second question is: Can Asia, or for that matter, the rest of the world, rest in peace if ideologies of religious extremism, exclusivism and global domination -- and these ideologies neither respect democracy nor tolerate secularism and plurality -- are allowed to grow in our midst?

India's proud record in defending democracy

It is against this background that I wish to present a few salient aspects of India's democratic tradition and our approach to conflict-resolution. This tradition and approach have been fundamentally influenced by Hindu philosophy and cultural ethos. Hindu philosophy since the dawn of our civilization has been pluralistic in its outlook and teachings. As a result, India is inherently a rare state in the international system, insofar as it is unwilling to impose a set of ideals and principles on other equally proud nations. Which is why, throughout her millennial history, India never sent out her armies to conquer other lands and exterminate or coerce the native populations or cultures.

It is because of this faith in pluralism and respect for the other's viewpoint that India, after independence, naturally accepted democracy and secularism. We did not import these from the West. Ask yourselves a simple question: Why is it that there has never been a military coup in a vast and diverse country like India, where a large section of the population is poor and less-literate? Never a violent change of power? How did India succeed in having regular elections, which are free and fair, and whose outcome has always been accepted by all political parties?

Yes, there was a brief eclipse of democracy during the Emergency. But the people voted against the Emergency regime so angrily, that even a leader as tall as Indira Gandhi was defeated.

Five tasks for strengthening India's role in the world

The challenge before us in India is: How do we strengthen the voice and role of India in the affairs of Asia and the world? Let me identify five tasks:

The first task is to ensure the success of India's own socio-political-economic story, which would in turn serve as a model for others to emulate.

Without comprehensive national success -- material, political, technological, and social progress, combined with military might to defend ourselves against any external threat -- the credibility/attraction of India's soft power (that is, the repertoire of ancient Indic knowledge, spiritual traditions, cultural heritage etc) will remain perfunctory. In fact, derogatory western commentary toward India and Hindus stemmed from our poor performance on the economic front, the inaction that stifled the strengthening of our polity, and the inefficient execution of our developmental objectives.

The second task is to regain and rebuild pride in our own national heritage -- spiritual, cultural, intellectual, scientific, technological and military.

Sadly, in the name of a distorted and perverted understanding of secularism, a section of our political and intellectual elite is busy belittling, denying and denigrating all that is Hindu. A nation that is not proud of its past can never attain greatness, nor can it command respect in the eyes of the world.

Thirdly, India should further strengthen an omni-directional foreign policy that seeks to engage with all the major centres of power.

The end of the Cold War brought with it the gradual dilution of a bloc-based system. The evolution of Indian diplomacy since the 1990s has been a structural response to such a world. The proliferation of our numerous 'strategic partnerships' that India has entered into in the past 15 years attests to the geopolitical diversity around us.

Fourthly, we have to vastly expand the size and strength of our foreign service personnel; business platforms; media organisations and think tanks with global reach; personalities associated with cinema, arts, music and literature; academics; NGOs; and cultural and spiritual ambassadors. We should also leverage the valuable resources of the approximately 20-million Indian Diaspora.

India's current diplomatic infrastructure and resources -- in the political, economic, cultural and academic-intellectual fields -- are far too inadequate for us to play an effective role either in Asia or around the world.

Lastly, India must intensify its efforts aimed at reform and restructuring of multilateral organisations at the Asian and global levels, beginning with the United Nations.

India's current role in these organisations is far from being commensurate with our present strength and future potential. If India is seeking a permanent seat in the UN Security Council, it is not because of some prestige value. Rather, it is out of our conviction that any global system that does not fully recognise the role of an ancient and newly resurgent nation, one which is the world's largest democracy and accounts for one-fifth of humanity, is inherently flawed.

I believe that systematic, unsentimental pursuit of all the above-mentioned five tasks will enable India to play a benign/constructive role in promotion of democracy and conflict-resolution in our own immediate neighbourhood, in wider Asia, and in the world at large. This is what we mean by our goal of working towards India reclaiming her rightful place in the comity of nations.

Excerpted from a speech by Leader of the Opposition and Bharatiya Janata Party leader L K Advani at a summit organised by the Dainik Jagran group in New Delhi recently.

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Anyone following the Sanatan Dharma is doomed and has to face the state-sponsored apartheid. As long as no one is there to question or correct this, communal governments with the help of corrupt media will go to any extent to tarnish our native culture, traditions and heritage.

-- Media bias and apartheid in Kerala
India should confront Malaysia on ethnic mess created by Malaysian Govt.

India should confront Malaysia on ethnic mess created by Malaysian Govt.
Confront Malaysia
The Pioneer Edit Desk (Jan. 9, 2008)

The Government of Malaysia is rapidly taking its anti-Indian and anti-India bias -- which is really official policy to stamp out Hindu culture, faith and identity from that Muslim majority country -- to absurd limits. On Tuesday, the Malaysian Government has made public its offensive policy of imposing a ban on Indian workers, including temple priests. It is believed that the work permits of Indians who are working in Malaysia will not be renewed. A ban has also been imposed on employing "non-Malaysian" in airports. Curiously, this obnoxious decision was taken on December 18, but kept under wraps -- possibly because the Malaysian Government did not want to derail Defence Minister AK Antony's visit to Kuala Lumpur from which Malaysians stand to gain by way of India training their security forces. It stands to reason why Mr Antony's interlocutors in Kuala Lumpur should have slyly kept quiet on the ban order till the Defence Minister's official visit was over. Malaysia's Works Minister Samy Vellu, now in Delhi for the Pravasi Bharatiya Divas jamboree, has sought to deflect attention from the outrageous decision of his Government by denying any such policy. Mr Vellu's politics is based on public demonstrations of loyalty to Malaysian Prime Minister Abdullah Badawi. But why is Minister for Overseas Indian Affairs Vyalar Ravi so eager to jump to the defence of the patently anti-Indian Badawi Government's defence? That he did not have the foggiest idea about the decision to ban Indian workers is bad enough; it is worse that he should try to gloss over it now that it has been revealed. Rather than strive to give Mr Badawi's repugnant regime a clean chit, Mr Ravi should be incandescent with rage. And the Prime Minister should seek an explanation from the Indian High Commission in Kuala Lumpur as to why it has been caught napping; it is not good enough for the mission to say it is "in touch with authorities". Much more is expected from diplomats posted abroad.

Meanwhile, the Government of India must urgently review the situation and take stock of the plight of people of Indian origin in Malaysia who are being victimised for no other reason than their faith. Hindu temples continue to be demolished, Hindus are being denied funerary rites, Hindus are excluded from jobs and welfare programmes, and Hindu protesters are brutalised in the most shocking manner. Now, Indians have been virtually banned from entering Malaysia, unless they are travelling to that country to sustain its tourism industry. There should be two responses to the appalling attitude of Mr Badawi and his Islamist colleagues. First, the Government of India must reconsider allowing Malaysian businesses access to the Indian market. Discrimination cannot be a one-way traffic. Nor is diplomacy about allowing an unfriendly Government to have its way. Of course, this calls for muscle-flexing, and it is anybody's guess as to whether the effete UPA Government can summon the courage to confront Malaysia and contest its sinister anti-Indian policies. In all probability, it will remain silent lest Islamists at home feel offended and 'secularists' are upset by the Government of India speaking up for Indians. Second, Indians must stand up as a nation and decide to boycott Malaysia as a tourist destination. This is about national pride and national interest. If the Government cannot do the right thing, let Indians take the lead.

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Minoritism is an evil that should under no circumstances be tolerated. Caste or religion-based political parties should be immediately banned. They are a menace to the unity of India.

-- UPA’s reservation mess spells danger: Nation’s unity in peril
Pravasi Divas Expose On Samy Velu and Malaysian Indian Plight

Expats blame Samy Vellu for Malaysia row
10 Jan 2008, 0135 hrs IST,Ashish Sinha,TNN

NEW DELHI: It was a volcano waiting to erupt and the Pravasi Bharatiya Diwas meet, which closed here on Wednesday, came as a godsend for many Indian expatriates in Malaysia to vent their feelings on what had gone "terribly wrong" with them in the south-east Asian nation.

As the Malaysian government went into a denial overdrive, insisting it never even imagined freezing recruitment of workers from India, the expatriates squarely blamed works minister Samy Vellu, part of the government for almost three decades now, for the "serious plight" of Indians, who constitute a substantial minority there. The burst came as several delegates from Malaysia, despite "the fear of being hounded" back home if their "identities became known", went on to detail "what was really happening" there.

The minister, also in Delhi for the convention, met PM Manmohan Singh, Congress chief Sonia Gandhi and foreign minister Pranab Mukherjee. Vellu, the only Indian in the cabinet, had on Tuesday denied reports on recruitment freeze, and Malaysia's home minister Radzi Sheikh Ahmad echoed his words on Wednesday.

"In the real sense, recruitment freeze is a non-issue. PIOs in Malaysia, down now to 8% of population, are being systematically persecuted and marginalized in several other ways. Vellu, who uses his Indian origin for cosmetic purposes, has actually supervised this discrimination over the years," a senior second-generation delegate told TOI . The government's main idea, he said, was to give priority to ethnic Malays and Bhumiputras, who constitute 60% of the population with special rights under the constitution, and the Indians were the most to suffer under the practice.

"Our economic rights are under serious threat. There is a clear design to establish the social supremacy of the ethnic majority, and the mismatch between the civil (common) and Shariat laws has come as a tool for the persecution of Indians. Islamisation is another way in which we are being marginalised," he said.

Another delegate said the discrimination began way back in 1969 when the country witnessed "race riots", adding that the "big change" in the recent past was that Indians had become more organised.

"That is why anti-government protests rocked Malaysia in November last year. Vellu has been part of the decision-making process in the government, and to maintain his monopoly, he did not let the strength of Indians in the cabinet rise to even two in the 1990s. The number of Chinese cabinet ministers went up to six from three," he said.

Vellu is the head of Malaysian Indian Congress (MIC) that supports the ruling Barisan Nasional coalition. The delegates said under the present electoral and constitutional system, politicians enjoy absolute powers so much so that even the judiciary was accountable to the executive and free operation of the media was a distant dream.

"Naturally, electoral and political reforms were a big demand during the recent agitation, but activists of Hindu Rights Action Force (Hindraf) were branded anti-nationals and there was a move to press charges of treason against them. We do not feel secure," the delegate explained.

The Indians' share in the national equity basket was steadily declining. "Malaysia has nearly 1.8 million Indians and only 40% of them constitute the middle or upper-middle classes. The rest is blue-collar labour force. If there is one Indian diaspora experiment that has really failed, it is Malaysia. Unfortunately, the world is being told a different story," another delegate said.

ashish.sinha1@timesgroup.com

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When Kanchi Sankaracharya was arrested in November 2004 on Deepavali Day, the UPA Government in New Delhi maintained an attitude of 'strategic', 'suave' and 'secular' silence. When anything relates to Hindu Religion or Hindus, the UPA Government either overtly or covertly makes it very clear that it is no part of the allotted duty or constitutional responsibility of the Government of India to interfere in such religious matters. But the same UPA Government is always in a state of combat readiness to rush to the rescue, relief and succour of terrorists of Jihadic Islam or Angels of Service of Compassionate Christianity as and when required.

-- The Da Vinci tsunami
But for Communists India would have been a superpower

by Dina Nath Mishra

Had there been no Communist party in India, the country may have been a developed country, though not like France, Britain or the US but quite close.

The Communists are fundamentalists like Islamic jihadis in the economic sense of the word. By propaganda they create illusory truth, utopian reality and manufactured consent, thereby bringing a state of apathy in general public. Even Jawaharlal Nehru was carried away by their ideology, and adopted a part of it.

The slogan 'socialism' halted constructive thinking for 45 years. The Marxist variety of scientific socialism destroyed the natural course of economic development of the country for 50 years and of West Bengal for 30 years. Seventy to 80 per cent of the Communist movement history published by the CPM is either in praise of scientific socialism or against capitalism.

One can hardly forget that they destroyed the fourth industrially developed State resulting in migration of industries to other States. Obviously, they destroyed employment opportunities for Bengalis who went searching for jobs wherever these were available.

Up to the late 80s and even now, the slogan-shouting comrades ranting Tata-Birla murdabad while conducting gate meetings of factory employees and abusing owner and managers of the factories, was a regular feature. They instigate employees for work to rule, where work to rule was not prevalent. A friend of mine posted in West Bengal, often complained that the blue collar Bengali hardly ever do their duties and leave work incomplete which has to be done by managers. When the edifice of socialism crumbled and reforms came into being, generally our economy improved, more so during the BJP led NDA regime.

In West Bengal, two of its stalwarts have started praising capitalism in superlative terms. Recently, Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee said, "Socialism is not possible now. You want capital both from foreign and domestic. After all, we are working in the capitalist system. Socialism is our political agenda and was mentioned in our party documents. But capitalism would continue to be compulsion for the future."

Basu's comments in praise of capitalism are even more surprising. "We welcomed private capital for industrialisation. Socialism is a far cry. It will continue to be compulsion for future. We have learnt from the failure of socialism, we have learnt from the miracle of China. The same Basus and Bhattacharjees have used the word 'miracle of Soviet Union' in the past. Miracle of China, too, is a mixed bag. Western China suffers from abject poverty. Only the eastern coast can be described as a miracle, that, too with the help of Chinese from abroad and the US.

Hardcore fundamentalist Communist leadership of India has apparently become permissive capitalist. If only they could have woken up half a century earlier. But the Communist rhetoric had a tendency to live in the past. Take for example their negative attitude to disinvestments. It is a well known fact that if best public sector companies are allowed to disinvest without loosing control over the company, they could have gathered Rs 8 lakh crore, enough to take care of all infrastructure requirements, lack of which has a decelerative impact on our economy today. They want India to follow the same old confusing path. But for West Bengal, they are ready to welcome total capitalism leaving Marx behind. Not that this wisdom was not available to the first generation politicians; Chakravorty Rajgopalachari, Minoo Masani, Piloo Mody were ardent pleaders for doing away with quota, permit and licence-raj and confused concept of mixed economy.

The ideological dilemma of CPM and the Left is far more deep rooted than what meets the eye. In West Bengal the Forward Bloc and RSP have raised some fundamental questions towards the changed altitude of CPM stalwarts. Kerala Chief Minister VS Achyutanandan has diagonally opposed views on these issues openly. It is also a well known fact that the CITU continues to stick to ideological dogma as they are violently opposed to the red-carpet welcome to Tatas and other Indian companies.

The inhumanity has been perpetuated by party leaders in Nandigram and Singur with the help Government constabulary. Still the whole truth is yet to come out. Every now and then corpses are unearthered. There is no count as to how many persons lost their lives to this barbarism. Only an year back Bhattacharjee was at the peak of popularity. Today is he at the bottom. Notwithstanding continuous propaganda engineered against Narendra Modi the number of journalists from West Bengal praised the multifarious development of one term of Modi Government and hinted at its comparison to six-term rule of Communist Government in West Bengal.

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George Thundiparambil's essay titled CLOSING WORD: Who is afraid of the Hindu nation? has given a graphic description of how many NGOs in India function as instruments of hate and fratricide. To quote his appropriately lethal words in this context: 'For Indians who are aware of the anti-Hindu agendas of Christian, Islamic and Communist organisations in India and abroad, it is neither shocking nor surprising that numerous NGOs have sprung up throughout the Country, which act as sole-agent for these alien and hostile organisations.'

-- Four-fold menace - A nexus of enveloping evil
The word 'Dalit' unconstitutional: SC panel

January 19, 2008

Raipur (Chhattisgarh): The National Commission for Scheduled Castes has asked the state governments not to use the word 'Dalit' in official documents, saying the term was "unconstitutional."

The commission had stated that sometimes the word 'Dalit' was used as a substitute for Scheduled Caste in official documents, sources in State Tribal Department said in Raipur.

After consultation with the legal department, the commission said the 'Dalit' word was neither constitutional nor the word had been mentioned in the current laws.

Rather 'Scheduled Caste' was the appropriate and notified word as per the Article 341 of the Constitution, it said in a letter sent to all states.

Acting upon the order, the Chhattisgarh government had directed district collectors and its departments not to use 'Dalit' word in their documents, they said.

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Hindu students are an easy target for psychological indoctrination. One of the most telling examples of such policy in action is the cancellation of educational classes on Friday and Muslim holidays including the month of Muslim Ramadan. By using such psychological manipulation, Muslims succeed in creating anxiety, fear and panic among young Hindus. The atmosphere created by such acts casts a great shadow over Hindu society. Hindus also feel unsafe in their own homes and workplaces, daily life is disrupted, causing considerable harm to personal and family morale. Hindus in general are depressed, marginalized and demoralized. The Muslim message is: until you leave Malappuram district, you will not be safe.

-- Hindus are under siege in Malappuram
Monday, January 14, 2008
Hindu rights in peril

A Surya Prakash

The Punjab Government's decision to challenge the verdict of the Punjab and Haryana High Court that Sikhs are not a minority in the State has grave implications for the constitutional rights of Hindus in the country even as it raises the question whether the Indian state will be even-handed in the treatment of minorities in different regions of the country.

The reaction of the State Government and the brouhaha in Sikh religious institutions over the High Court judgement is inexplicable because the criterion for determining the majority or minority status of a community was laid down unambiguously by the Supreme Court in the TMA Pai Foundation Case in October 2002. In that momentous judgement, 10 of the 11 judges on the Bench that heard this case declared that the geographical unit to determine whether a group of citizens belonged to a linguistic or religious minority under Article 30 of the Constitution would be a State and not the whole of India. Yet, despite this overwhelming consensus among 10 judges of the apex court, the Government of Punjab claims that Sikhs, who constitute 59.9 per cent of the population in that State, are a "minority"!

The Punjab Government's response to the High Court's verdict is yet another example of how vote-bank politics can corrode secular principles, disturb the constitutional equilibrium and even challenge the law as laid down by the Supreme Court. Those who track demographic trends in the country will vouch for the fact that if the State of Punjab is allowed to get away with this obvious deception, it will encourage some other States to resort to similar subterfuge and eventually rob Hindus of their basic rights.

Notwithstanding the foolhardy attempt made by the Census authorities (at the behest of some pseudo-secular politicians in the ruling coalition at the Centre) to provide a fraudulent interpretation to the 2001 Census data, the numbers tell their own story. Here are some religious demographic truths. There is a visible decline in the percentage of Hindus in India over the past 30 years and Hindus are now in a minority in five States and one Union Territory. They are in a minority in Jammu & Kashmir (29.6 per cent of the population), Punjab (36.9 per cent), Nagaland (7.7 per cent), Mizoram (3.6 per cent) and Meghalaya (13.3 per cent). They are also a hopeless minority in the Union Territory of Lakshadweep (3.7 per cent).

Apart from these States, two other States -- Arunachal Pradesh and Manipur -- are witnessing a steep drop in the population of Hindus. For example, the percentage of Hindus in Manipur has crashed from 60.04 per cent to 46 per cent is just 20 years. The population of Hindus in Arunachal Pradesh is a mere 34.6 per cent. In some of these States, religious conversions have brought about unprecedented demographic changes. For example between 1981 and 2001, the Hindu population in Nagaland dropped from 14.36 to 7.7 per cent, while the Christian population jumped from 80.21 to 90 per cent.

The absurd argument of the Punjab Government notwithstanding, the Supreme Court's judgement in the TMA Pai Foundation case is critical for the protection of the minority rights of Hindus in these States. The majority view, expressed by Chief Justice BN Kirpal and five other judges -- Justice GB Pattanaik, Justice Rajendra Babu, Justice Balakrishnan, Justice Venkatarama Reddi and Justice Pasayat -- is as follows: The opening words of Article 30(1) make it clear that religious and linguistic minorities have been put on par in so far as this Article is concerned. India is divided into linguistic States and these States have been carved out on the basis of the language of the majority of people in that region. Therefore, since the State is regarded as the unit to determine a "linguistic minority" vis-à-vis Article 30 and since "religious minority" is on the same footing, the State has to be the unit in relation to which the majority or minority has to be determined. Further, although Parliament can legislate in regard to education after the 42nd Amendment, "the determination of who is a minority for the purpose of Article 30 cannot have different meanings depending upon who is legislating".

Finally, the court declared that for the purpose of determining a minority, the unit will be the State and not the whole of India and linguistic and religious minorities "have to be considered State-wise". Four other judges on the Bench concurred with the majority view expressed by these six judges. Only one judge dissented. Concurring with the majority, Justice Khare said, "There can only be one test for determining minority status of either linguistic or religious minority." Justice Quadri, Justice Variava and Justice Bhan said they agreed with the reasoning and conclusion of the majority.

Prior to the TMA Pai Foundation case, the larger issue of determining the unit for identifying a minority had already been considered by the court in two cases pertaining to DAV College. These cases also dealt with the question whether Hindus were a religious minority in Punjab. In both these cases, the Supreme Court took the State as the unit to settle the issue. It rejected the contention that since Hindus were a majority in India, they could not be a religious minority in Punjab.

Thus, 10 judges on an 11-Judge Bench of the Supreme Court have categorically declared in 2002 that the State is the unit to settle the question as to who constitutes a linguistic or religious minority. Further, in this judgement which was delivered over five years ago, the court had reminded all those who cared to listen that the specific question as to whether Hindus were a religious minority in Punjab had been settled by the court in two cases prior to the TMA Pai case. Yet, the Punjab Government goes about its business as if the TMA Pai case is not part of our case law!

Since we have the 2001 Census data before us, we need to ask all States and Union Territories where Hindus are in a minority whether they will follow the absurd, unconstitutional logic of Punjab or will adhere to the law as laid down by the Supreme Court. The attitude of Punjab vis-à-vis protection of a religious minority (Hindus) makes one wonder whether Hindus are in for a double whammy -- decline in demographic terms and deprivation of constitutional rights. It also raises the question whether Hindus are constitutional pariahs who have no right to claim the basic rights available to citizens belonging to other religious persuasions.

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So it is time India woke up and faced the inescapable truth. Which is: India is targetted because it is a Hindu nation.

-- Say it hard and true, at least now
Sunday, January 13, 2008
No compulsion to follow one religion

by Dina Nath Mishra

The concept of secularism born out of intra-Christian clashes in Europe was developed to sort out problems between the State and the Church. Its transplantation in the Constitution of India has created unparallel maladies of political, social, economic and even psychological nature in the last 60 years. The Indian polity is suffering because of this thoughtless transfusion. In no democratic country does a majority community have no rights which the minorities have. That's why we see sect after sect appealing to the Supreme Court seeking for treating them as minority.

Swami Vivekananda dazzled the World Religion Congress at Chicago some 100 years ago, inspired generations with his electrifying Hinduism. One can't think of this institution approaching Supreme Court for minority status. Swami Narayan movement is a symbol of Hinduism throughout the world and its Akshardham temple provides beacon light to Hindus in India and abroad. It, too, approached Supreme Court for minority status. There have been at least six cases of this nature in Supreme Court.

Why did they do it? Only because Articles 30 and 31 of the Constitution have robbed the majority community of its rights. While some of bigger Hindu temples are managed and controlled by the Government, the Government can't touch any minority religion's place of worships or their institutions. They are free to do whatever they want; they are free to teach Bible to all students including Hindus. Same is the case with Muslim institutions. Government institutions and the school managed by private institutions can't preach Hindu religion. Nowhere in the world does this anomaly exist.

A World Conference of Spiritual and Psychological issues is going on. I had an opportunity to meet some of them. One of them informed me that according to the survey conducted by some US University, among foreign students 85 per cent of the Christian students responded to the question as to what Christianity is, satisfactorily and so did 80 per cent Muslim students. But only 15 per cent Hindu students could answer questions on Hinduism satisfactorily. Why? Obviously our students in the schools are not taught about their dharma because of the constitutional inequality. That explains their ignorance about their religion. Three generations void in teaching about their dharma has played havoc with our society. They do not imbibe the value of dharma during their learning career.

Value deficiency of Hindu students is resulting in many inhuman tendencies. Through dharma we imbibe human values, which hold society in a wholesome way. Hindus do have religious freedom but not the religions. That is why Prime Minister spoke of minorities having "first right on the country's resources". That is why high subsidy of hundreds of crores are doled to Muslims. The whole electoral system has been polluted. The vote-bank politics tends to appease Muslims by accepting their most un-reasonable demands. That is why a senior leader in Bihar declared that if his party wins, there will be a Muslim Chief Minister. That is why Osama Bin Laden look-like are paraded during election campaigns. That is why Muslim voters distort the election results either by voting en-bloc in favour of or against some one. In fact, they enjoy a limited veto in the electoral process. Fictitiously tabulated grievances of the Muslim community by Sachar Commission provided alibi to the Government to dole out to the Muslims thousands of crores. Not only that, their separatist and politically motivated demands, too, have been conceded forgetting the lesson of the country's partition altogether.

Article 18 of the universal declaration of Human Rights pre-supposes concept of religion itself, concept associated with western religion and culture. But eastern and specially Hindu religion and culture have a different concept of religious freedom. Unless human rights discourse is able to harmonise these two concepts of religious freedom, there is bound to be conflict.

For example, in 1985 census of Japan 95 per cent of the population declared itself as followers of 'Shinto'. Simultaneously 75 per cent of the population declared themselves as Buddhists. The census in the West insists on one religion one individual. The multi-religious identity of the East applies to India to a greater extent. Here Hinduism, Buddhism, Jainism, Sikhism may have their primary identity of religion, but they may have association with another religion. There is no compulsion that an individual belongs to only one religion. But the Constitution of India, following British line injected one religion for one individual. The secularism born out of it breeds sectarianism and communalism whereas those who profess more than one religion tend to harmonise relations between sects and religions.

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George Thundiparambil's essay titled CLOSING WORD: Who is afraid of the Hindu nation? has given a graphic description of how many NGOs in India function as instruments of hate and fratricide. To quote his appropriately lethal words in this context: 'For Indians who are aware of the anti-Hindu agendas of Christian, Islamic and Communist organisations in India and abroad, it is neither shocking nor surprising that numerous NGOs have sprung up throughout the Country, which act as sole-agent for these alien and hostile organisations.'

-- Four-fold menace - A nexus of enveloping evil
Wednesday, January 09, 2008
Who is a secularist?

10 Jan 2008, 0014 hrs IST,Mahesh Jethmalani

Modi's stunning success in the recent elections has left the entire secular establishment — read politicians, the media and activists — distraught. While a magnanimous minority of Modi's detractors attributes his success to his charismatic leadership and the success of the bijli, sadak, paani programme, the majority believes that it is the result of acute communal polarisation by Modi within the state. The unpalatable truth is that it is the secular establishment, by its ineffectual handling of the communal issue, which has polarised the Gujarat polity. Worse, in adopting the cause of the Islamic terrorist as a part of the secular faith, it has confused the cause of the deserving Muslim with the undeserving one. This has widened the religious chasm in Gujarat. The repercussions are likely to be felt in the rest of India as well.

It is evident from the Gujarat election that it is the secularists who tend to communally polarise the polity. Evidence of this exists outside Gujarat as well. The Sri Krishna Commission report on the Mumbai communal riots of December 1992 and January 1993 has been gathering dust since its publication in February 1998, despite a “secular” government at the helm of affairs in Maharashtra since 1999. Only after the much-awaited judgment in the trial of those responsible for the Mumbai bomb blasts of March 1993 did the advocates of secularism clamour for its implementation. Special courts have now been belatedly established by Vilasrao Deshmukh to try the riot offenders.

The demand for justice for the riot-affected as also the state response to it have been based on the principle of equality of justice for Hindus and Muslims alike, the implicit suggestion being that if Muslim terrorists can be convicted then Hindu rioters must also be tried and punished. The obvious disconnect between terrorism and riots is lost in the process. It is their stand on terrorism that destroys utterly the credibility of so-called secular parties. Consider for example the new poster boys of the secular camp: Sanjay Dutt, Afzal Guru and Sohrabuddin.

Instead of seeking justice for the victims of the 1993 blasts, the entire focus during the trial was on Sanjay Dutt. Hardly had the judgment been passed when an orchestrated campaign commenced to rescue him. The merits of the case against Sanjay Dutt will undoubtedly be discussed in a more appropriate forum but what is indisputable is that long before and just prior to the blasts he was intimately connected with underworld elements.

In the case of Afzal Guru the rationale for seeking the commutation of his death sentence is singularly misconceived given the gravity of the crime in which he was involved. His mercy petition before the presi-dent complains of denial of procedural justice in the first instance and for that reason alone is abysmally weak. Others claim he became a terrorist because of the atrocities he was subjected to by the Special Task Force in Kashmir. Even if this were true it does not constitute a justification for the taking of innocent lives, just like secularists rightly remind Hindu fundamentalists that the train-burning incident in Godhra does not validate the reprisals that followed.

Sohrabuddin was a habitual criminal against whom cases were registered in four states. He was arrested on several occasions but miraculously escaped conviction. This is not to suggest that his antecedents justified his elimination in a fake encounter by the police but was Sohrabuddin's case singled out and highlighted by the media merely because he was a Muslim killed in Modi-ruled Gujarat?

Gujarat 2007 has exposed the secular establishment. Secularism in India no longer means justice for the poor and oppressed minority. On recent evidence it has become a convenient shibboleth to promote the interests of a sinister mafia. It is time for secularists to reflect and take stock. The alternative is to increasingly sound like apologists for foreign-inspired terrorists and subversives of every hue. The writer is a senior advocate.

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What is happening in India is a new historical awakening... Indian intellectuals, who want to be secure in their liberal beliefs, may not understand what is going on. But every other Indian knows precisely what is happening: deep down he knows that a larger response is emerging even if at times this response appears in his eyes to be threatening.

-- On ignoring history
Media tends to mislead

by Shailaja Chandran

Just look at how 24x7 television channels and newspapers got it all horribly wrong about the Gujarat Assembly election. Rather than feel the pulse of the people, media chose to listen to those willing to say what it wished to hear

Governments emp-loy intelligence agencies and corporates engage market sleuths to spy on rivals. While private sleuthing may yield results (at a price), highly placed people often remain cocooned from reality, hearing only what a chosen few tell them; or worse, depend on TV channels and newspapers that, as we know, are propelled by their own internal dynamics.

Take the example of the Gujarat Assembly election. I was in the rural areas of Vadodara district last November. It was clear as daylight that Mr Narendra Modi was coming back. The usual "kaun jitenge bataiye" questions which my companions were naive enough to ask only elicited the stock reply -- "maloom nahi, 50-50 hai". With election round the corner, few will divulge what they know -- not even to another local, not even to a family member -- because no one wants to feel a fool if the result is otherwise. Fifty-fifty is neither here nor there, but safe.

A page or two from history might act as an advisory for those who are naive enough to seek straight answers. Take the example of the 1994 Assembly election in Rajasthan. I was on election duty as an observer and had to tour the district of Chittorgargh for four days each on three separate occasions. Accompanying me were a tehsildar, a gunman and a driver -- different ones each time. As we drove around the constituency traversing miles and miles of barren countryside and visiting polling stations, no one talked politics. Even so my companions and others found ways of indicating whom they were backing.

Mr Bhairon Singh Shekhawat was seeking re-election as Chief Minister. If I made an observation about improved roads, pat would come the reply, "Yeh inke waqt me hua hai." No names and no comments. Inke and unke said it all. And predictably, Mr Shekhawat returned to power. Fourteen years later, my observation about a comparatively well functioning panchayati raj system elicited a similar catchphrase, but this time it was, "Gehlot sahib ke time me bahut kaam hua tha."

The statement innocuous as it sounds carries an implicit judgement on the perceived dearth of kaam at other times. Recall Queen Elizabeth's legendary comment to the Indian Prime Minister, "Islamabad is a very clean city," making a comparison with New Delhi inevitable.

Take Delhi in November 2003. The RWAs had found their feet and were strutting around enjoying their newfound importance. The CNG crisis was over. Delhi's forest cover had improved. Shining new buses had arrived. Spanking new flyovers had replaced grid locked intersections. The backlash on electricity meters, bills, privatisation of water had not yet been sparked. The commotion about unauthorised construction and encroachment on public land had not even started. The 'feel good' factor could be felt literally like the onset of good weather. Anyone could have predicted that Ms Sheila Dikshit would come back with a bang. The coalition at the Centre was BJP-dominated. The police, the bureaucracy, drivers, private secretaries -- all those who worked in proximity to important people chanted the 50-50 forecast to Centrally-appointed BJP functionaries, despite knowing what the electorate's intentions were. Just as traditional midwives do not want to be the first to break the 'bad news' about the birth of a girl child, hangers on cannot remain hangers on if they deliver bad news.

Take the India-US nuclear deal. Not for a moment did the Americans expect that anyone would have the temerity to question what the Government had undertaken to do. To be fair, no one could have predicted that the Cabinet decision on the 123 Agreement would be questioned, much less slowed down and halted. But once that reality became obvious, it is astonishing that the gravity of the "bluff", "bluster" and "posturing" was not apparent to the army of diplomats whose whole-time job it is to gauge perceptions. "It's all political," said the Americans as though that by itself was a revelation.

That India is a federal country and that a coalition is in power at the Centre is known to any school child. That decision-making involves huge interplay of ideological positions and regional interests is also well recognised. That different constituents of the coalition have reasons to back off or pull out, scuttle or revive, tolerate or castigate things to impress their party cadre is evident. This is the daily food of regional newspapers understood by Indians, educated as well as the hoi polloi. Yet, the nuclear deal dealers accorded an understanding reached with civil servants inviolability, without fully understanding the enormous pressure individual political parties can apply.

The moral of the story is this: Television, print media, office and drawing room conversations are fascinating. Talking to people we feel comfortable with is stimulating. But these inputs cannot capture underlying emotions, likes, dislikes, constituency compulsions and the need to play to the home gallery, all of which determine public perception and outcome. For that, one has to listen to the predictions of ordinary people. The most difficult part is to penetrate that ordinariness and interpret seemingly off-track remarks which collectively become harbingers for tomorrow.

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The whole world knows that six million Jewish people were murdered by Nazis. It is also known that 1.2 million Armenians were butchered by Turkish Muslims. But nobody knows about the Hindu Holocaust. There are various estimates on how many million Hindus have been slaughtered by Islamic invaders inspired by holy Quran. Prof Bill French of the Centre for the Study of Political Islam, Tennessee, who has conducted an in-depth research on the subject, told me that Muslims have killed 120 million human beings around the globe (including 40 million Hindus in India alone). Hugh Fitzgerald of Jihad Watch says that in sheer numbers, no group of people has suffered from Islam like the Hindus.

-- Roots of terrorism
Saturday, January 05, 2008
Infidels of the World, Unite!

By Vijay Ayyagari

To paraphrase Karl Marx, a specter is haunting the world… the specter of Universal Jihad. From New Delhi to New York, Moscow to Madrid, Bali to Bagdad, cosmopolitan cities the world over have experienced terror, mass murders and destruction by Universal Jihadists.

Universal Jihadists demand theological, racial, political and cultural supremacy—Islamic imperialism—over the rest of the world. This conflict is between the divine law of Islam and secular, man-made western jurisprudence. In Islam, religion and politics are inseparable. The Quran is not only the holy book of Muslims; it is also a political doctrine that clearly spells out how Muslims must deal with non-believers.

Islam’s message is limited to its believers. Islam has no universal message. Literal Islam is the eternal aggressor that pretends to be the perennial victim. The only choice that non-believers have, according to Islamic doctrine, is to convert, or submit and become dhimmis—subjugated under Islamic restrictions—or be annihilated.

Our war is for intellectual freedom and the alternative is unconditional surrender of the mind. Islamic civilisation is an oxymoron. Islamic civilisation is the conglomeration of the civilisations of conquered nations. For example, in mathematics, the so-called Arabic numeral system and algebra are of Hindu heritage. Most ostensible Arab scholars were Assyrian Christians, Sephardic Jews, Zoroastrian Persians, or Hindu and Buddhist Indians who had been forcibly converted and were usually only one or two generations away from their original traditions.

Demographic conquest is the most permanent form of conquest. The Indian state of Kashmir, for example, was a Hindu majority state for thousands of years. Through invasion, forcible evacuation and conversion lasting centuries, Kashmir became a Muslim majority state, leading to an armed insurgent conflict by separatist Muslims seeking to impose Sharia law. Pakistan, one of the modern day sponsors of Islamic terrorism, threatens to use nuclear weapons against India to take Kashmir. The jihadi struggle in Kashmir is a grand theological rehearsal. The ultimate goal of Muslim Pakistan is the total conquest and Islamisation of a divided and secular India. Why is that the United States shocked that Pakistan has turned into a dictatorship?

Terrorists are products of militant ideologies and not vice-versa. Unless we confront the ideology logically and persistently our efforts are futile. However, in the land of the brave and the home of the free we choke on the truth. Our culture is drowning in the growing cesspool of political correctness. The liberal left in the United States and Europe have become apologists for militant Islamic radicalism. They say that the terrorist attacks are the consequence of America’s foreign policy in the Middle East and its unconditional support for Israel rather than the continuation of 1,400 years of jihad. The left fails to understand the fact that there are few Americans or Jews in India, Thailand, the Philippines, Bali, Nigeria, Sudan, Russia and host of other countries where Islamic radicalism has been waging a relentless campaign of terror.

The left, by its silence on the issue of radical Islam, has betrayed its own ideals. The fight against political Islam should have been led by the liberal intellectuals in our universities, but instead they unwittingly support a seventh century totalitarian ideology that negates all forms of rational thinking, intellectual pursuit, and pluralism—the very ideals which are central to the philosophy of the left. Liberals have become the lackeys of Islamic imperialism in their words and deeds. They fail to mention the 1,400 years of Jihadists’ terror in this world. How can we cry for the genocide in Darfur and ignore the cause?

The Bush administration, in its response to the September 11 attacks, has been waging a War on terror in Afghanistan and Iraq for five years, and still a meaningful and lasting victory seems elusive. Its foreign policy lacks coherent and effective strategic goals—goals which should include absolute and unconditional surrender of the apologists of Universal Jihad.

The protracted war in Iraq and other policies of the Bush administration sends a schizophrenic message to the Islamic world. The administration opposes Wahabis, Al-Qaida and Bin Laden. But it supports Saudi Arabia, the source of the Wahabi doctrine. It supports Sunni Pakistan, calling it key ally against war on terror, and opposes Sunni Taliban which is the creation of Pakistani intelligence services. It opposes the Iranian regime of Shiite Ayatollahs and at the same time it supports the Iraqi Shiite-led government. The administration opposes Sunnis in Iraq and supports Sunnis in Saudi Arabia, Pakistan and Kuwait.

This administration’s myopia minimises the effectiveness of our military making it incapable of distinguishing a friend from a foe. George Bush is guilty of conducting a defensive war. He wants to protect the United States from terrorists, but fails to understand that terrorists are the product of their philosophical views and he fails to attack their philosophy which is Universal Jihad.

The progenitors of Universal Jihad are Iran, Pakistan and Saudi Arabia—the true Axis of Evil. Pakistan and Saudi Arabia are not our allies; they are our enemies. These outlaw nations must be demilitarised, secularised, and democratised. That should be the goal of our “War on Terror.” Make no mistake…unless these nations forego their fundamentalist and militarist theology and join the secular humanity there will not be a lasting peace in the world.

We are no longer Jews or Gentiles; Hindus or Buddhists; Americans or Australians; Saxons or Slavs; Armenians or Greeks; Nigerians or Sudanese Animists; Catholics or Protestant; Orthodox or Evangelicals; atheists or agnostics; white or black or brown. We are all victims of Jihad and Islamic Imperialism. We must refuse to be divided. We must refuse to be conquered by Islamic hegemony, terrorism and aggression. Infidels of the World, Unite!

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Opposite to secularism, both in ideas and in practice, is missionary activity, which is the attempt to convert the world to a single religious belief... Christianity is today, and has historically been, an anti-secular religion. Christian churches may tolerate the laws of living in secular countries, but they have not yet adopted a secular acceptance that many religious and spiritual paths can be valid and that no one religion has the last word.

-- Missionary Activity & Secularism : Pope's Visit
Hindu values and Gujarat resurgence

By M.V. Kamath

Just utter the word ‘Hindutva’ and the hall is filled with negative vibes. The proponent is instantly damned as communalist, fascist, murderer (what was it that Sonia Gandhi said of Narendra Modi?) and that ends all civilised discussion. In Hindustan, to feel proud to be a Hindu is a crime in Congress eyes. Leftists like Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee won’t even hesitate to insult Shri Ram. Which is why the Mumbai-based Shiv Sena exuberantly raised the cry of Garv se kaho hum Hindu hain. It was a cry of anger, frustration and rebellion.

To millions of Hindus, the word “secularism” is a word of slander and a denigration of their faith. It was that which among other reasons, led two crore Gujaratis to vote for Modi and his party. The Chief Minister was simply an instrument—nimitta matram—of a higher purpose. The secular dirty trick was to give Hindutva a bad name before attempting to destroy it. Thousands of Gujaratis felt they had enough of this slander. What does Hindutva mean? It means the “essence” of Hinduism. That “essence” can be described as tolerance and respect for all religions. And for practising that down the centuries they have suffered. They have been called kaffirs “to be kept at arm’s length like dogsy mlechchas and goodness knows what else.

Seekers of information are advised to read Bimal Prasad’s classical work Pathways to India’s Partition (Manohar, Vol I). No Hindu ruler has sent armies to Portugal or Spain to demolish churches and convert people to Hinduism. No Hindu rulers has dispatched armies to Saudi Arabia or Afghanistan or Muslim-dominated Central Asia to demolish masjids and build temples on their foundations. Muslims flourished under the Vijayanagar Empire as under Shivaji. R.C. Majmudar, the distinguished historian has been quoted as saying that “the worship of images which forms the most cherished element in the religious beliefs of the Hindus was an anathema in the eyes of Muslims and the long tradition of ruthless desecration of temples by them for nearly a thousand years formed a wide gulf between the two”.

One has to remember what happened to the Somnath Temple which, incidentally, is in Gujarat. Should one remember only Islamic tyranny under the Mughals or under Muslim Sultans of Gujarat and elsewhere and not anything good done by them? Shakespeare has an answer to that question. As he said of Julius Caesar, “the evil that men do lives after them, the good is often interred with their bones”. Secularists only remember post-Godhra, but not the torching alive of some 59 innocent women and children in the Sabarmati Express, which is plain hypocrisy. By constantly rubbing Gujarat’s faith the wrong way and by calling Modi names, the Congress forfeited Gujarati respect. Besides Gujaratis had every reason to be happy with its Chief Minister. He had provided them security. He had brought investment in millions of dollars to the State. He had managed to provide water to more villages than what all the previous governments could do. He did much the same in regard to electricity supply. And he himself remained incorruptible. By raising a personal attack against Modi, Sonia Gandhi did not only indulge in poor taste, she raised the ire of the people and we now know with what results.

Congress—and Sonia Gandhi—should remember two things: do not indulge in personal attacks against opponents. Two, do not run down Hindutva. And they may remember yet another point: do not hug BJP outcasts. They can only bring discredit to the party. The Assembly elections have brought this out in ample measure. And above all, do not trust our poll—and especially Exit-Poll—experts. They are over-rated.

Hinduism is not for desecration. It is a pragmatic religion which accepts dissent to the extent that the Buddha, who rebelled against the vedic rituals of his times has been accepted and elevated to the rank of an avatar! Which other religion can claim such freedom of thought? The Congress should have known better than to call the Gujarat Chief Minister a murderer. In the first place Congress hands are awash with Sikh blood and those of the CPM—its great ally-with the blood of Muslims. In the second place what happened in Godhra was an act of provocation, nothing more, nothing less. One can be assured that Muslims in Gujarat would never again take to violence. Whether anybody likes it or not Gujarat has shown that violence does not pay. For the Congress President to therefore make vile remarks against the Gujarat Chief Minister was both foolish and uncalled for. Her party has now been effectively shown the door. Congress leaders should remember that there is a limit beyond which Hindus will not let themselves be slighted in the name of secularism.

It needs to be said again and again that Hinduism is the most secular of all religions in the world. Think of leaders like Swami Vivekananda, Sri Aurobindo or Dayananda Saraswati. Were they communalists? This is not a question of ‘soft’ Hindutva. It is a question of facing reality. The word “secularism” must for ever be banned from the Congress vocabulary. It has long ceased to have any meaning. Today it is only an irritant. In all these years secularists have made every effort to suppress Hindu longings. The Gujarat Chief Minister has unlocked the gates of Hindu aspirations. That and that alone explains his success at the recent elections. That success goes beyond casteism and other factors. An insulted Hindu people will retaliate as now they have done in Gujarat. They have administered a resounding and just slap on Congress and Sonia’s face. The Congress party will do well to remember it. Yes, the Chief Minister of Gujarat is ruthless. But consider this: Thanks to his firmness there is little corruption in Gujarat. There will never again be another Godhra. There will be no more minority bullying. Investment will pour in steadily indicating a growing faith in the Gujarat Chief Minister. Al Qaeda may still seek to kill the leader but it should know that in due course it will get its comeuppance. That is not communalism or fascism. That is good government. All these years Hindu tolerance was mistaken for weakness and the people paid for it. No longer. The Gujarat Chief Minister has shown the way and Gujaratis have listened to him. That is where his success lies. Hindutva is the result of constant denigration of Hinduism by secularists.

It will disappear when Hinduism’s role in establishing a mighty India is acknowledged. In this, personalities do not count. It is the issue that is important, not its upholder. Treat Hinduism with respect and as a sustaining power in life and then witness what a great change comes over India. Every ‘ism’ is time locked. So is “secularism”. In this matter no two states in India are alike. But the message to Hindus is clearly stated in the Gita: Utthishtitha jagrata prapya varannibodhata: Arise, Awake and stop Not Till the Goal is Reached. That was Vivekananda’s message as well. And so is it Narendra Modi’s to the country.

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Government policy of Muslim appeasement, special privileges and financial aid exclusively for Muslims is what makes strategic threats of Muslims more harmful to Hindus.

-- Hindus are under siege in Malappuram
Hindu identity makes the difference

By Malarmannan

Though the Malaysian Mohammedan state boasts that its society is multi-cultural and multi-faith and that it is tolerant to other religions, Wahabism, the intolerant, high handed oppressive brand of Mohammedanism is gaining ground with every passing day in Malaysia. Quite contrary to its earlier shade, Malaysia’s official dark green is becoming darker and darker very fast.

When Malaysia’s Hindu Rights Action Force (HINDRAF) chairman and Barrister at Law (Lincoln’s Inn) Shri P. Waythamoorthy was in Chennai on a mission to garner moral support to the agitating minority Hindus for their basic rights in his country, even most of the mediapersons repeatedly questioned him as to why should they focus on their religion while calling their organisation instead of projecting themselves either as Malaysian citizens of Indian origin or Malaysian Tamils. The bewildered HINDRAF chairman was confused for a few seconds and soon recovered to retort: “It is because as Hindus by faith and culture that we face the challenge.”

The mediapersons were still uncompromising: If you call yourself an ethnic minority of Indian origin or Malaysian Tamils, it would be easier to get their voice heard at every quarter, they argued. Frankly speaking, this is the mindset of most of the people especially in Tamil Nadu, as a result of the ‘socio-political infection’ called pseudo- secularism and the seventy five years old influence of Dravidian movement that has sowed the seeds of parochialism in the minds of the gullible.

Shri Waythamoorthy sadly revealed that he had to face similar questions almost everywhere, even though he was explaining that the issues were related exclusively to the citizens of Malaysia as Hindus. In the guise of development and improving infrastructure, hundreds of Hindu temples are being razed to the ground in the Malaysian capital, whereas deviation takes place in haste from the original plan if a mosque stands in the way. And many of these temples are hundred years old; some seventy five or fifty, constructed during colonial days. Among those demolished, only a few were offered alternative sites but they are either adjacent to drainage or unfit for any congregation. Even then, after years of patience, Malaysian Hindus did not plan to air their objection to the Malaysian government. Their sole objective was to march peacefully to the office of the British High Commissioner to submit a memorandum to the queen of Britain to remind her Majesty’s moral responsibility in resolving their issues. Malaysian government, despite claiming to be a democracy, did not allow this normal democratic practice, and had also taken ruthless repressive measures to suppress their grievances, determined to teach them a lesson so that they do not dare in future to let off their steam in public.

Though the Malaysian Mohammedan state boasts that its society is multi-cultural and multi-faith and that it is tolerant to other religions, Wahabism, the intolerant, high handed oppressive brand of Mohammedanism is gaining ground with every passing day in Malaysia. Quite contrary to its earlier shade, Malaysia’s official dark green is becoming darker and darker very fast. This is the reality today, not only in Malaysia but all over the world, wherever Mohammedan community has its presence. Increase in the number of Mohammedan women in black burqua is the indication for Wahabism having taken deep and strong roots in their mohalla or jamat.

Issues before Malaysian Hindus for being Hindus are varied. Mother and child, husband and wife are forcibly separated if one’s name is mistakenly or purposely registered as Mohammedan. If any Hindu male gets converted to Mohammedanism, his wife and even major offsprings are automatically taken for granted to be Mohammedans. They are sent to religious reformation schools if they raise any objection to their forced conversion. It is needless to explain that these so-called religious reformation schools are nothing but similar to concentration camps of communist countries. If a Hindu finds his or her religion wrongly registered as Mohammedan and application for rectification is filed, there ends the peaceful and normal existence of that person. The religious reformation school alias concentration camp opens its iron gates and until the person changes his or her mind and consents to be a Mohammedan, he or she is virtually a prisoner. A recent case of this sort of arrogance is that of one young mother by name Revati, who was separated from her small baby and husband, and shut in the religious reformation school just because she wanted her religion to be corrected as Hindu in the records. All along, she had been a practising Hindu, living with her grand mother since her childhood, who is also a Hindu but her parents living elsewhere were converted to Mohammedanism at a point of time. That was enough for the administration to treat her also a Mohammedan. Again, a Hindu, just because either intentionally or inadvertently registered as a Mohammedan, when dies, is forcibly buried in a Mohammedan burial ground, deprived of Hindu rites.

These are some of the Hindu specific issues for people in Malaysia for being Hindus. And a Hindu wrongly recorded as Mohammedan wants to be officially corrected as Hindu so that he or she need not be under the purview of medieval Mohammedan civil code of Sharia that is in force in Malaysia. There is also much more socio-cultural neglect for being Hindus. In the light of these facts, it is quite essential for Malaysian Hindus to identify themselves as Hindus instead of projecting as citizens of Indian origin or Malaysian Tamils. Calling themselves as people of Indian origin will make them vulnerable to the charge of being unfaithful to the country that has accepted them as its own citizens, still fond of being identified as people of the country from where their forefathers migrated. And if they pose as Malaysian Tamils, they would be voluntarily limiting their scope to a narrow linguistic circle in drawing attention and sympathy.

Today, Hinduism has become universal, true to its ancient characteristics of Vasudhaivakutum-bakam. There are many non-Hindustanis who willingly and devotedly follow Hindu faith and its rich culture. In depth study of Hindu philosophy has drawn many non-Hindustanis to be staunch Hindus, without any need to getting converted to Hinduism ritually. And there are many Hindu organisations now with international reach to take up any Hindu cause. Also, many Hindus with the origin of Hindustan irrespective of the difference in their mother tongue are living as one community in various nations with legitimate citizenship.

Going by these factors, it is time not only for Malaysian Hindus but Hindus all over the world to identify themselves as Hindus so that the feel of oneness would solidly stand in support behind them in all their efforts to retain their faith and culture and assert their rights.

(The writer can be contacted at Second floor, 67/12, Bajanai Koil Street, Pallippattu Main Road, Chennai-600 113.)

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India maintains its secular status as a free society for all religions beliefs. Special status, privileges and rights are accorded to Muslims under the Indian constitution for fear of riots and Jihadi terrorism, and a special way to appease Muslims. Islam is not a party to any treaty with either secular or religious nations. It has one doctrine:conquer the world for Allah. If the Indian leadership believes it hasa bunch of secular Muslim leaders in India, Pakistan or any other Muslim nations, it is dead wrong. Thousands of Indians are slaughtered daily by Jihadi terrorists in Kashmir, Pakistan and Bangla Desh.Indian citizens are discriminated, tortured and humiliated in Islamic countries.

-- Islam is a dangerous ideology - Beware of it
UPA warned on anti-Hindu Sethu demolition plans

Historic rally in Delhi to protect Ram Sethu
By Pramod Kumar

The Ram Sethu Raksha Mahasammelan held on December 30, 2007, refreshed the memories of Ramjanmabhoomi movement. After the historic rally of 1991 held at Boat Club for Ram temple, it was for the first time that Delhi witnessed such a huge gathering. Over ten lakh Rambhaktas assembled at Swarna Jayanti Park of Rohini in West Delhi under the banner of Rameswaram Ram Sethu Raksha Manch to warn the UPA government against destruction of Ram Sethu. The protestors served an ultimatum to the government that if it files an affidavit against the sentiments of 90 crore Hindus on January 16 in the Supreme Court, the battle would be fought in every village of the country. They, through a resolution, also reiterated their demand of scrapping the Sethusamudram project, to declare the Ram Sethu a national protected heritage site and develop Rameswaram as a holy pilgrimage town.

Though it was the coldest day of this season in Delhi with mercury dipping to 3 Degree Celsius, the Rambhaktas had started marching to the Swarna Jayanti Park since early morning. Most of them were those who had come from the far-flung states by trains and had stayed at different temples, dharamshalas, schools, baratghars of Delhi. The VHP had booked more than 1,000 temples, 70 schools, 250 community centres and 50 dharamshalas for them. Those who had come from the neighbouring states had come on the same day. By 10 am, more than four lakh people had assembled at the Park.

The rally, which saw a galaxy of leaders from all sections of the society, had three huge platforms displaying the slogans in bold letter—-“Santon ka hai yeh sandesh, Ram ka Sethu, Ram ka desh”, Ram Sethu bachayenge, apana dharma nibhayenge, declare Ram Sethu a national protected heritage site and recognise Ram and Krishna as historical figures. The main dais had senior saints and VHP leaders who addressed the rally. The second dais had saints belonging to various sections of the society and the third platform had leaders belonging to various political and social organisations and Chief Ministers of Rajasthan (Smt. Vasundhara Raje), Madhya Pradesh (Shri Shivraj Singh Chouhan), Chhattisgarh (Dr Raman Singh), Uttarakhand (Shri B.C. Khanduri) and Himachal Pradesh (Prof. Prem Kumar Dhumal). Shankaracharya Swami Vasudevananda Saraswati presided over the Mahasammelan.

RSS Sarsanghachalak Shri K.S. Sudarshan, VHP president Shri Ashok Singhal, general secretary Dr Pravin Togadia, Ramjanmabhoomi Trust president Mahant Nrityagopal Das, Dr Ram Vilas Vedanti, Ramanandacharya Swami Rambhadracharya, Sadhvi Ritambhara, Shankaracharya Swami Divyananda Maharaj, Jain saint Shri Vijay Ratnasunder Surishwar, Buddhist monk Shri Bhante Janan Jagat, Pejawar Swami Shri Vishveshteertha Maharaj, Acharya Dharmendra, Swami Chidanand Muni, Mahant Naval Kishor Das and Mahant Adityanath were also present. BJP president Shri Rajnath Singh, senior party leaders Dr Murli Manohar Joshi, Shri Arun Jaitley, Smt. Sushma Swaraj, Shri Arjun Munda, Shri Bhagat Singh Koshyari, Shri Kidarnath Sahani, Shri Ramlal, Shri Vinay Katiyar, Shri Gopinath Munde and Janata Party president Dr Subramanian Swamy were also present.

The messages sent by AIADMK supremo Smt. J. Jayalalithaa, Punjab Chief Minister Shri Prakash Singh Badal, Dwarika Peethadhishwar Shankaracharya Swami Swaroopananda, Mata Amritanandamayi, Shringeripeetha-dhishwar Shankaracharya Shri Bharati Teerth, former Prime Minister Shri Atal Behari Vajpayee and Namdhari Sant Baba Jagjit Singh, endorsing the demand of protecting the Ram Sethu boosted the morale of the rallyists.

It appeared as if all the roads of Delhi led to Swaran Jayanti Park on that day. Though it was Sunday, all the roads leading to the Park were jammed with Rambhaktas carrying saffron flags, raising slogans like “Jai Shri Ram, Bachcha-bachcha Ram ka, Ram Sethu ke kaam ka” and saffron strips tied on their foreheads. The movement of Rambhaktas continued overnight on December 29 in the streets of Delhi. Those who had come by trains walked their destination beating the cold by raising slogans. After the rally also some of them walked back to railway stations from the venue. “We enjoyed the walk. Since it is our maiden visit to Delhi we wished to see Delhi also,” said Kashiram along with his friends who had come from Raisen district of Madhya Pradesh. Similar views were expressed by Akshya Jaiswal from Mumbai and Radhelal from Hingoli district of Maharashtra.

The message of the rally was clear—Ram Sethu ke liye ham kaal se bhi takara jayenge (We are ready to face even the death for Ram Sethu), which should open the eyes of the ruling coalition at the Centre. “Over ten lakh people came to Delhi and went back as peacefully as they had come. Not even a single unwanted incident was reported from anywhere. The rally had representations from all languages and regions of the country including all states, from Kerala to Jammu & Kashmir and from Gujarat to the north-east. There was representations from all revenue districts. Leaders of all religious sects including Buddhism, Jainism, Sikhism, Nirankaris, Nihangas and Namdharis were present on the dais,” said the overwhelmed joint secretary general of VHP Shri Champatrai standing behind the main dais.

By noon, the number of Rambhaktas inside the Park, were on the way or were stuck outside and inside Delhi as the Police had stopped their vehicles. According to VHP general secretary Dr Pravin Togadia more than 800 buses were stuck at different parts of Delhi and could not reach the venue. Some managed to reach the venue at 5 pm after the completion of the rally. Those who somehow entered into Delhi faced the problem of heavy traffic jam. Then they turned to the Metro Rail, which too soon became overcrowded. Later, the DMRC increased the frequency of trains and also deployed three more racks. Many of those who had come to Delhi for the first time also had a joyride in Metro Rail. According to the DMRC, more than 4.15 lakh people travelled by Metro Rail that day increasing additional revenue worth Rs 10 lakh. “Till 8 p.m. on December 30, we recorded 60,000 footfalls more than on an average Sunday on the Shahadara-Rithala line. Our revenue earning too was much higher today with total sale of tickets being Rs 10 lakh higher. We usually sell tickets worth Rs 42 lakh but on Sunday we had already earned Rs 52 lakh by 8 pm,” said DMRC spokesperson Shri Anuj Dayal. There were apprehensions that the Rambhaktas might damage the Metro Rail property. But not a single untoward incident was reported and everybody travelled only after taking the required ticket.

It was not easy to hold such a huge rally in Delhi in the biting chilly winter of December. The people of Delhi supported it wholeheartedly. About nine lakh food packets were collected from 4.5 lakh families. “It was the outcome of just one month preparations. The saints had taken the decision to organise this rally at their meeting in Ayodhya on November 13. The first all India meeting of Ram Sethu Raksha Manch was held on November 27. In fact, the preparations for the rally began from that day. The first problem was to decide the venue for such a huge crowed. Organisation of rallies at Boat Club is already banned. The Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium and the Ramlila Grounds were short and the Burari Grounds was preoccupied. Then the venue of Swarna Jayanti Park was decided on December 20. Only within ten days all the preparations were made by over 10,000 workers,” informed Shri Karuna Prakash, prant organising secretary of Indraprastha VHP.

He said the Ram Sethu Shilapujan mobilised people for the rally. Besides more than one lakh people from Delhi, about 30,000 from Punjab, one lakh from Haryana, one lakh from Rajasthan, one lakh from Uttar Pradesh, 250 vehicles from J&K, about 10,000 people from Tamil Nadu, Karnataka, Kerala and Andhra Pradesh who came mostly by trains, about 80,000 from Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh, about 50,000 from Maharashtra, 5000 from Gujarat, 20,000 from Bihar and Jharkhand, 1000 each from Assam and West Bengal and 3000 from Orissa attended the rally.

Addressing the gathering, Shri K.S. Sudarshan warned the government that the people of the country would not tolerate any damage to Ram Sethu. He asked Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh not to succumb to the pressure from the UPA ally, the DMK, to go ahead with the project. “Government will face the consequences if it does not scrap the project,” he said adding that the Prime Minister should not think about the survival of his government. “If he scraps the project, he will get good wishes from crores of Hindus worldwide.” Urging the Rambhaktas to take the responsibility of protecting the historic landmark, he explained the non-viability of the project and said not only the Hindus, but Muslims and Christians also oppose the project.

Shri Ashok Singhal said those who are bent upon destroying the Sethu have no right to stay in the country. He appealed to the rallyists to take the message of saints to all corners of the country. He also appealed to all the political parties to come forward in support of the Ram Sehtu irrespective of their vote bank, caste, region, language and political parties and also support the reconstruction of Shri Ram temple in Ayodhya.

Dr Pravin Togadia said if the UPA government does not declare Ram Sethu a protected historical heritage, the battle would be fought in 6.5 lakh villages of the country. He said every village of the country would be turned Rammaya during the Chaitra Navaratras when crores of people would chant Vijay Mantra of Sri Ram Jai Ram, Jai-Jai Ram.

Presiding over the rally, Sawmi Vasudevananda Saraswati appealed to political leaders of all parties to pressurise the government not to demolish the Sethu. Sadhvi Ritambhara administered the oath to the Rambhaktas to be ready to face even the death for the protection of Ram Sethu. The Rambhaktas responded to her call by raising their hands in unison. Mahant Nrityagopal Das appealed to the Rambhaktas to move to Ayodhya also in the similar huge strength for reconstruction of Ram Mandir. Swami Rambhadracharya said by destroying the Sethu the government wishes to push the whole nation into the mouth of pralaya. Pejawar Swami Shri Vishveshteerth, Jain saint Shri Vijay Ratnasunder Surishwar and Buddhist monk Shri Bhante Jnan Jagat also appealed to save the Ram Sethu. Shri Chaitanya Maharaj warned if even a single brick of the Sethu was touched, the government would not be able to protect the disputed structures of Kashi and Mathura. Swami Chidanand Muni said the government must declare the Sethu a national protected heritage site before January 16. Dr Ram Vilas Vedanti, Swami Prapannacharya, Swami Raghva-charya, Shri Gopal Baba, Swami Vivekananda Maharaj, Shankara-charya Divyananda Maharaj, Shri Chaitanya Maharaj, Swami Jananananda, Acharya Dharmendra, Mahant Naval Kishor Das, Shri Surajnath Maharaj and Mahamandaleshwar Shri Vishoka-nanda also spoke on the occasion.

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When Kanchi Sankaracharya was arrested in November 2004 on Deepavali Day, the UPA Government in New Delhi maintained an attitude of 'strategic', 'suave' and 'secular' silence. When anything relates to Hindu Religion or Hindus, the UPA Government either overtly or covertly makes it very clear that it is no part of the allotted duty or constitutional responsibility of the Government of India to interfere in such religious matters. But the same UPA Government is always in a state of combat readiness to rush to the rescue, relief and succour of terrorists of Jihadic Islam or Angels of Service of Compassionate Christianity as and when required.

-- The Da Vinci tsunami
“Ram Sethu fully qualifies to be declared and protected as ancient national monument”: J. Jayalalithaa

Expressing her support to the Ram Sethu Raksha Manch, the former Tamil Nadu Chief Minister and AIADMK chief J. Jayalalithaa sent the following message to the VHP president Shri Ashok Singhal. We reproduce the full text:

International conventions have consolidated the solidarity of nations in preserving historical/archaeological sites and India, being a party to these conventions, is obliged to preserve heritage sites like the Ram Sethu.

Dear Shri Ashok Singhalji

Right from the day the Ram Sethu bridge demolition issue came into focus, I have been issuing statements pointing out how the destruction of the bridge would be a grave threat to the environment, the flora and fauna of the region, apart from posing a very real danger of extinction to the marine life in the area, thereby seriously affecting the livelihood prospects of the fishing community for whom marine life is the only source of income. The historic and legendary association of the bridge with Lord Ram is deeply enshrined not only in the minds and hearts of the people of India but indeed in the minds and hearts of Hindus living all over the world.

Quite apart from the religious significance and historical importance of the Ram Sethu, and leaving aside the argument as to the origin of the bridge, whether it is man-made or a natural formation, it is an undeniable truth that the bridge is one of the wonders of the world and should be preserved for its value as a World Heritage Site. No government has the right to destroy this bridge, which is why my government refused to accord environmental clearance for the Sethusamudram Ship Canal Project despite enormous pressure from the central government.

When the union government recently constituted a committee to examine the project afresh before submitting a report to the apex court, I felt it was my duty to bring to the notice of the people the following facts:

This committee can hardly be described as a committee of experts as is being claimed by the union government. At least three of the members are historians and they can only vouch for the historical validity of the Ram legend. One represents NEERI (National Environmental Engineering and Research Institute) which, being an interested party, is bound to have biased views. One member, R.S. Sharma, is a witness in the Ramjanmabhoomi case. Shri S. Ramachandran, the chairman of the committee, has already expressed his views publicly supporting the Sethusamudram Project. He cannot be expected to take a different or unbiased view now. All these facts hardly inspire any public confidence about the neutrality of the members of the committee. More ominous is the fact that there are no social scientists to discuss the problems of the coastal people, particularly fishermen. To discuss navigational issues, there are no maritime or naval experts. There are no defence personnel to discuss security concerns, especially when the Sethusamudram Ship Canal becomes an international seaway. There are no oceanographers to discuss ocean currents and their effects especially as it comes within a tsunami-hit area. There are no economist to discuss economy-related issues especially when the Sethusamudram Project is being touted as one that will economically uplift Tamil Nadu. These conspicuous and glaring omissions raise serious doubts about the credibility of the committee and the possible veracity of its report.

While setting out the above facts, I made a demand that the committee be disbanded.

In this context I had also pointed out that the Sethusamudram Ship Canal Project as conceived would be of little use to the nation, as it would have a centrifugal effect on the economy, navigational tonnage of ships, the environment and the sentiments of the widest sections of our people.

I had also filed a writ petition in the Supreme Court under Article 32 of the Constitution of India to protect the Ram Sethu, a structure of immeasurable historical, archaeological and heritage value from being destroyed, in the garb of carrying out an infrastructure project, on the following irrefutable facts.

Ram Sethu would fully qualify to be declared and protected as an ancient national monument, because it falls within each one of the parameters laid down in the definition of “ancient monument” in the 1958 Act.

The Rama Sethu, which in geographical terms is described in various survey maps and historical texts as “Adam’s Bridge”, by reason of its antiquity and unique features qualifies to be treated as a World Heritage Site.

In a recent satellite image. NASA of the USA has spotted the ancient bridge and confirmed the physical existence of the bridge, which is a crucial structure of a bygone era, dating back millions of years and is estimated to be over 17,50,000 years old.

The bridge is of immeasurable sentimental value to millions of people in India and Hindus living all over the world and hence the structure is worthy of protection purely from a historical and archaeological standpoint.

The Sethusamudram Ship Canal Project proposes to dredge the shallow ocean floor near the Dhanuskodi end of Rama’s Bridge, to create enough leeway for ships to pass through the channel and will cut through the bridge, thus damaging it.

International conventions have consolidated the solidarity of nations in preserving historical/archaeological sites and India, being a party to these conventions, is obliged to preserve heritage sites like the Ram Sethu.

Even during the tsunami devastation the Ram Sethu bridge acted as a natural barrier, preventing direct devastation, thus establishing its utility in the ecological/geographical preservation of the area also.

I wish the rally to be held on 30.12.2007 in New Delhi by the Ram Sethu Raksha Manch all success as it reflects the strong sentiments of the vast majority of the people of our country.

With kind regards
Yours sincerely
J. Jayalalithaa

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George Thundiparambil's essay titled CLOSING WORD: Who is afraid of the Hindu nation? has given a graphic description of how many NGOs in India function as instruments of hate and fratricide. To quote his appropriately lethal words in this context: 'For Indians who are aware of the anti-Hindu agendas of Christian, Islamic and Communist organisations in India and abroad, it is neither shocking nor surprising that numerous NGOs have sprung up throughout the Country, which act as sole-agent for these alien and hostile organisations.'

-- Four-fold menace - A nexus of enveloping evil
Obnoxious application of secularism

(Organiser, 30-12-2007); For a long period of time, there has been a copious amount of humiliation to the Hindu society. Most of the media and pseudo-secularists are vehemently assaulting Hindu society everyday and that too in our own ancient homeland. These people must understand that it is the Hindu society, which is the only ancient society that had survived genocidal attacks from Islam and Christianity, and for sure, it will do this in future also. It was this society that had broken the back of Islamic imperialism; it was this society that had defeated the Christian missions from many countries. It was this society that had freed India from the British rule. It is the sacrifices of this Hindu society that the ruling elite had been placed in power. And this ruling Hindu elite is ashamed of being known as a part of the Hindu society. It loved to be known as communist, leftist and the rest, but never as Hindu. In some media, one who poses him to be a Hindu will be branded as a communalist, an obscurantist, and an enemy of national unity, but there is no such stigma attached to being a Christian or a Muslim. I think it is our duty as a Hindu to open the eyes of such mediapersons and those acting as pseudo-secularists. We must write and produce the genuine information expressing the truth of Sanatana Dharma in fields relating to art, politics, religion or philosophy and flood this information as letters to the editors of such media houses, throughout the country. Maybe we could change their mindset by some percentage points.

—AMIT BHATIA,
195 West Arjun Nagar, Agra

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The problem for new democracies of the post-colonial era like India is that foreign missionaries use the very freedom of a secular state to promote their anti-secular agendas.

-- Missionary Activity & Secularism : Pope's Visit
Tuesday, January 01, 2008
The Secular Hypocrisy

It is Modi's rejection of the hypocrisy of the self-styled secularists which makes him stand apart as a Hindu leader with a difference in the eyes of his admirers, enabling them to say, "Say You Are A Hindu, Hold Your Head High".

B. Raman

"Maut ka Saudagar", 'Liar", "the Ugly Indian" etc etc etc.

All the kind of epithets, the like of which till now used to come easily out of the mouth of President George Bush of the US and the pens of his Neo Conservative supporters.

Mr Bush should be worried that he has now a growing number of competitors in the coining of demonising epithets in the community of the self-styled secularists of India .

What epithets they did not use against Shri Narendra Modi for the last five years and particularly in the weeks before the recent elections to the Gujarat Legislative Assembly, in which the Modi-led Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) won a spectacular victory despite the best (or worst) efforts of these self-styled secularists to demonise him day in and day out!

The pathological dislike--even hatred--that some of our journalists--particularly in the electronic media--have for Modi could be seen or sensed as one watched the TV coverage of the counting of votes on December 23, 2007. Initially, as it appeared that the BJP might not do well in the final tally, there was excitement among many of the TV anchors. They thought they had tasted blood. After an hour, the BJP candidates started racing ahead and it became clear the the Congress (I) was in for a drubbing.

The disappointment on the faces of some of the anchors was to be seen to be believed. A five-star lady anchor could not help remarking: "Modi might be able to win the elections in Gujarat, but he still can't get a visa to go to the US and other Western countries." Some consolation!

Instead of spending their time searching for abusive expressions in the dictionary and in their copy-book of such expressions, if these self-styled secularists had only visited the web sites, discussion groups and blogspots of members of the Hindu community not only in India, but also in other countries of the world--particularly in the US-- they would have noticed something, which might have given them cause for introspection.

They would have noticed that Modi is becoming the icon of a growing number of Hindus not only in India, but also in the Hindu diaspora spread across the world. The support for him is not confined only to the Gujarati-speaking Hindus of the world. It is spread right across the Hindu spectrum--whatever be the language or ethnicity or place of origin of the Hindus concerned.

They would have noticed that in the Hindu diaspora in the West, more young people admire Modi than grown-ups. Many of his young admirers in the US were born and brought up there and had the benefit of the best of secular education. In spite of this, there is a sense of pride in them that the Hindu community has at long last produced a leader of the calibre of Modi.

What is it they see in him?

* His simple and austere living of the kind associated with the late Kamaraj of Tamil Nadu, but not seen in the leaders of today?
* His reputation as an incorruptible politician, the like of which is not found anywhere in India--not even in his own party?
* His style of development-oriented governance, which even his detractors on other grounds do not hesitate to praise?
* The fruits of his policy, which Gujarat and its people are already enjoying?
* His tough stance on terrorism?
* His lucid-thinking on matters concerning our national security?
* His defiance in the face of the greatest campaign of demonisation mounted against him, the like of which only Indira Gandhi had faced from her political opponents and sections of the media in the 1970s?

All these are factors, which influence their favourable perception of him, and which have already been highlighted and analysed in the articles on his impressive election victory.

But there is one factor, which is more important than these and which has not found mention in the analyses.

That is, for large sections of the Hindus--young and old, even more among the young than among the old-- he gave them a sense of pride in their identity as Hindus.

They feel that he removed from their minds long habits of defensiveness as Hindus carefully nurtured by the self-styled secularists.

As if to proclaim one's Hindu identity and to assert one's rights as Hindus in their own homeland in which they are in a vast majority (80 per cent of the population) is to be communal, is to become an ugly Indian.

For these self-styled secularists, a pretty Indian is a Hindu, who is all the time on the defensive, fights shy of proclaiming his Hindu personality and asserting his rights as a member of the majority community.

These self-styled secularists would not address their sermons of secularism to the Islamic countries, where for a Muslim to convert a non-Muslim into Islam is an act blessed by Allah, but for a non-Muslim to convert a Muslim into his religion is a crime calling for the death penalty.

For them, secularism is a virtue which a Hindu should practise towards others, but not others towards him.

It is Modi's rejection of this hypocrisy of the self-styled secularists, which makes him stand apart as a Hindu leader with a difference in the eyes of his admirers.

Bharathiyar, the Tamil poet who inspired millions of Tamil youth to join the independence struggle under Mahatma Gandhi, wrote: "Tamizhanenru Chollada, Talai Nimirndhu Nillada"

"Say You Are a Tamil, Hold Your Head High."

The growing legion of Modi's admirers in the Hindu community all over the world are saying: "Hindu Enru Chollada, Talai Nimirndu Nillada."

"Say You Are A Hindu, Hold Your Head High."

They are no longer prepared to be defensive in proclaiming their Hindu idenity, in asserting their rights as Hindus.

They are secular in the genuine sense of the word, but for them secularism does not mean developing a guilt complex about being a Hindu and all the time conceding the rights of others. They do not accept the argument that a Hindu, who asserts his rights, ceases to be a secularist.

B. Raman is Additional Secretary (retd), Cabinet Secretariat, Govt. of India, New Delhi, and, presently, Director, Institute For Topical Studies, Chennai.

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The Indian Marxists have learnt two vital lessons from USA and other Western Nations. By funding and supporting NGOs in India, these western powers are influencing social trends and political and economical policies in India. Secondly, they have understood the urgent public need to start their own flourishing anti-national industry called NGO-activism which would enable them to surreptitiously clothe their socially disruptive anti-Hindu activism in a facade of global respectability.

-- Four-fold menace - A nexus of enveloping evil


Surveying the History of India, Dr Suseelan pointed out that the Afghanistan was once Hindu and a part of the original India of that time. In 1947, Pakistan too was forcibly carved out of the Indian Territory by Islamists. Now, feverish efforts are on by all Islamic nations to wrest the Indian Kashmir from the Hindu India. Threats of violence, loot, murder and rape of Hindu people all familiar tools of terrorism have become a routine thing in the Indian Kashmir today.

-- Roots of terrorism

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