tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-97751742024-03-23T11:00:13.383-07:00Pseudo-SecularismHindu 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.Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger1846125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9775174.post-66903143696584711002009-06-23T00:50:00.001-07:002009-06-23T00:50:57.530-07:00A section of media playing double standard, alleges Puri Seer<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'><b><a href='http://www.organiser.org/dynamic/modules.php?name=Content&pa=showpage&pid=297&page=9'>A section of media playing double standard, alleges Puri Seer</a></b><br/>By Golakha Chandra Das<br/><br/>Bhubaneswar (Visakeo)- Sankaracharya of Puri Gobardan Pitha, Jagadaguru Swami Nischalanand Saraswati has alleged that a section of media, particularly the electronic media is playing double standards on various sensitive issues.<br/><br/>While addressing the media here on June 15, the Puri Seer argued that the whole electronic media kept their concentration on nun rape case in Kandhamal but not a single TV channel showed the brutal muder of Hindu seer Swami Laxmananda Saraswati and the side effects of conversion.<br/><br/>It is vinash and not vikas that is taking place, he observed, while talking to reporters here and said that India has turned directionless. He went on to refer to the Ram Setu controversy and the conversions that are taking place.<br/><br/>“Why is it that conversion is deemed not a problem in our neighborhood, be it due to the influence of Pakistan or China?” he questioned, before announcing that the politics of the ‘vote bank’ is squarely responsible for allowing large scale conversions to take place.<br/><br/>The seer went on to express concern over the onslaught on the Hindu religion and culture as well as the attacks on religious leaders.<br/><br/>Responding to questions on the recent murder of a head of one of the ashrams in Puri, he said it was “a matter of concern” that the State government is unable to protect sadhus.<br/><br/>“A couple of years ago, I used to take pride in telling people across the country about the safety of Puri. I used to say that even at 2.00 a.m. one could walk around Puri without any fear. But I can’t say the same thing now.”<br/><br/>Answering questions on the suspected links between Maoists and a religious group, the Puri seer said it was for the Chief Minister to spell this out. “Ask the CM, why are you asking me?” demanded the seer, before adding that he was not bothered about threat letters being sent to him.<br/><br/>“The CM should say who killed Laxmanananda Saraswati and who was behind the murder. Laxmanananda was attacked on nine previous occasions and he had escaped, but the tenth attack was committed by trained and armed people. This indicates that somebody had conspired and engaged trained people to eliminate Laxmanananda,” he said.<br/><br/></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com11tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9775174.post-67729508129665900862009-06-23T00:49:00.001-07:002009-06-23T00:49:12.813-07:00Oppose the visit of United States, Commission for International Religious Freedom to India - Ashok Singhal<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'><b><a href='http://www.organiser.org/dynamic/modules.php?name=Content&pa=showpage&pid=297&page=2'>Oppose the visit of United States Commission for International Religious Freedom to India - Ashok Singhal</a></b><br/>Press statement issued by Shri Ashok Singhal, International President, Vishwa Hindu Parishad<br/><br/>United States Commission for International Religious Freedom is a self-appointed committee as an expression of the big brother attitude of USA to enquire into the status of religious freedom in other countries. It was set up in 1998.<br/><br/>US has no moral right to set up such a commission poking its nose into the internal affairs of other nations and this commission has no legal sanction from UNO.<br/><br/>This commission is concerned only about the Christians in other countries whenever there is a hue and cry by the Church that the Christians are persecuted in such countries. They never bother about the status of religious and racial discriminations meted out to other religionists in the western countries including the US.<br/><br/>This commission has prepared a list of 13 countries wherein they feel the Christian missionaries have not been allowed to freely proselytise the local non-Christians disrupting the social fabric in those countries.<br/><br/>This list does not include any country wherein atrocities are perpetrated on the Hindus or the Buddhists like Bangladesh, Malaysia, Indonesia, Afghanistan, etc.<br/><br/>If anyone glances over the pages of the constitutions of the western countries, he will be able to realise that there are many restrictions on the religious freedom of the non-Christians in those countries.<br/><br/>But this so-called Commission for International Religious Freedom would not bother about the religious freedom of non-Christians in those countries. Is there absolute religious freedom for the non-Christians in US?<br/><br/>US is not secular as it proclaims to be. Various court decisions say so. Their laws and institutions are necessarily based upon and embody the teachings of the Redeemer of Mankind.<br/><br/>The operation of judicial system in US is directed by the tenets of Christianity. At least half of the ten commandments are on the statute books in one form or another.<br/><br/>There is a tendency to regard Hindu-based religious movements such as ISKCON, Transcendental Meditation groups, Rajnish groups etc, as cults.<br/><br/>Under the guise of being a cult, a religious organisation can be sued for millions of dollars if even one disgruntled or disappointed former disciple is found who feels he was taken advantage of.<br/><br/>Many Hindu-based and yoga movements in US and other western countries have been sued as cults.<br/><br/>The criticism against cults is that they are outside the cultural religious norms, that they are intolerant of majority religions, that they divide the families and turn individuals against their upbringing.<br/><br/>Precisely this is what the Christian missionaries are doing in India, nay the whole of non-Christian world.<br/><br/>People may believe that in America, all religions are treated equally. But this is not the fact of life.<br/><br/>For example, it is still very difficult for Hindus to build temples in the United States, particularly in areas in which fundamentalist Christians are strong.<br/><br/>To put it in perspective, one would say that it is over ten times harder in America to build a temple where Hindus live in large numbers than it is to build a church.<br/><br/>But in India churches crop up anywhere and everywhere even if there is not even a single Christian living in that area.<br/><br/>There are several restrictions in building temples in US. Temples must not outwardly look like a temple, but should look like a school or Church or the local government would not approve of it.<br/><br/>While there are a few Hindu-style temples in America, these are exceptional and special efforts to be allowed.<br/><br/>The textbooks in the western schools and the western media routinely portray Hinduism as cults, idolatry or even as eroticism.<br/><br/>Booklets and pamphlets denigrating Hindu religion and distorting the Hindu religious literature and epics are frequently distributed hurting the religious sentiments of Hindus in many parts of our country.<br/><br/>To quote Swami Vivekananda in this regard<br/>“...every Christian child is taught to call the Hindus ‘vile’ and ‘wretches’ and the most horrible devils on earth.<br/><br/>“Part of the Sunday school education for children in USA consists of teaching them to hate everybody who is not a Christian and the Hindus especially, so that from their very childhood, they may subscribe their pennies to the Christian missions abroad.<br/><br/>“...Look again at the books published in Madras against the Hindu religion. If a Hindu writes one such line against the Christian religion, the missionaries will cry fire and vengeance.” (Complete Works 1990, Vol. IV; p. 345)<br/><br/>So this commission has never done anything about the prevailing religious freedom in the West with several restrictions.<br/><br/>China has never allowed this commission to visit its country.<br/><br/>This commission has not visited Kashmir, the northeastern provinces and other such areas where the Hindus are a minority and are subjected to atrocities by the non-Hindu majority of those provinces. But it will express its concern over the minor attacks on Christians in Orissa, Gujarat and Karnataka.<br/><br/>We cannot grant any monopoly for the Americans to poke their nose into the internal matters of our country and a government with self-respect should not allow this commission to visit India.<br/><br/>If the government allows this commission to visit India, it would be opposed tooth and nail by Hindus all over the country.<br/><br/>India is a country which gave asylum to the Christians who were persecuted in Syria in Antioch and Damascus even in the 4th century. They have been living here peacefully till this date.<br/><br/>India gave asylum to the Persians when they had to flee Persia fearing forcible conversions by the Arabian invaders. These Zoroastrians who took asylum in Gujarat are all leading prosperous and fearless lives till this date.<br/><br/>When the Jews sought asylum in India after being driven out of their land, they have been taken care of by us. But this was not the case with the countries in the West where the Jews were persecuted.<br/><br/>We don’t need any certificate form the so-called commission about the religions freedom enormously enjoyed by Christians and Muslims in this land. Let US look at its back before poking its nose into our internal affairs.<br/><br/>This US Commission for International Religious Freedom was not allowed to visit India from 1998 to 2008.<br/><br/>But all of a sudden just before the recent elections the Government of India lifted the ban on the visit of this commission probably at the instance of Sonia Gandhi.<br/><br/>One more thing that has to be brought before the world is this—that the C¬¬church is misusing the freedom of religion guaranteed in our Constitution and is indulging in anti-national activities.<br/><br/>The Church has floated several outfits in the name of serving the oppressed and depressed classes in India and fighting for their rights.<br/><br/>In the north-eastern parts of our country alone 18 such outfits are functioning. Several such outfits are operating in the South also. These outfits instigate one community against another resulting in communal clashes.<br/><br/>When a large number of persons of both the clashing communities get displaced from their homes and villages these outfits in the name of setting-up relief camps for them, convert the people. This has been going on systematically for the past sixty years since Independence.<br/><br/>Several Church outfits have been indulging in anti-national activities in the north-eastern areas and tribal areas in Madhya Pradesh, Bihar, and Orissa promoting hatred among different communities and disrupting the social fabric.<br/><br/>This was exposed by the Niyogi Commission appointed by the then Congress government in Madhya Pradesh in the fifties.<br/><br/>As recommended by the Niyogi Commission, the Freedom ¬¬¬ of Religion Act was enacted in Madhya Pradesh to be followed by the Congress-ruled Orissa, Arunachal Pradesh and later on in Himachal Pradesh Tamil Nadu and Gujarat by the then ruling parties.<br/><br/>The Church has been protesting against these legislations which restrict only the fraudulent and forcible conversions.<br/><br/>Last year Swami Laxmanananda, who was rendering a yeoman’s service for the uplift of the tribals at Kandhamal District in Orissa was murdered by the Christian miscreants fearing that these service activities of Swamiji would block the road for free conversions among the tribals by the Church.<br/><br/>Similarly, Swami Shanti Kali Maharaj, a Hindu saint, was killed in Tripura for the same reason, a few years back.<br/><br/>In the light of the above facts we demand the setting-up of a commission by Government of India at the national level to probe into the nefarious activities carried on by the outfits backed by the Church in several parts of our country. The commission should also inquire into the flow of foreign funds to such organisations and how the funds are misused for conversions and promoting communal hatred among the different Hindu communities.<br/><br/></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9775174.post-15463178560404755162009-06-16T05:09:00.000-07:002009-06-16T05:09:00.197-07:00BJP lost because of hostile media<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'><b><a href='http://www.organiser.org/dynamic/modules.php?name=Content&pa=showpage&pid=296&page=29'>BJP lost because of hostile media</a></b><br/>By Subhash Bisaria<br/><br/>It was the media that did the BJP more harm with its focused, negative, venomous and malicious onslaughts than anyone else.<br/><br/>How many public meetings did Rahul Gandhi attend—100, 150 or 200? Even if we take 5000 as audience listening to him (of whom many would be party workers) how many people did he reach? Just 10 lakh out of 110 crore. A pittance! But media reached him to all. Contrast this with Shri Advani, Shri Narendra Modi and Shri Rajnath Singh’s much more qualitative and substantive public meetings, how many people did it reach? Media, out of necessity, showed a few glimpses of those portions specially that were unimportant or controversial or quoted out of context. Harm done? Double. Plus it did not fail to hold group discussions, or sought opinion from so-called experts thus establishing the bias deep down in the psyche of the people.<br/><br/>I remember one Jan Jagran Abhiyan held at Balrampur Gardens in Lucknow for which people deliberated, held meetings and month-long preparations were done. The yatra conducted state tour and was received into the city from Hardoi. About ten thousand people attended it, but it was hardly reported by the media though they were all there.<br/><br/>What I mean to say is that nationalist forces fail to get themselves across to people. Similarly, BJP has many issues before it, but it can’t build up the pressure in the absence of media. Neither Shri Modi nor Shri Varun Gandhi are responsible for the debacle of the BJP. In fact, Shri Modi tried to rejuvenate the masses (but his Hindutva was often deflected or communalised by the media) of the Congress and media propelled notions of secularism. Hindus today need mass awakening, awareness and revival and for that a vibrant, honest and fearless media is required. Attitude of 110 crore Indians can’t be changed overnight but it can be done.<br/><br/>What can the BJP’s media do?<br/><ul><li> Awaken 50 per cent non-voting class</li><li> Mitigate the adverse publicity made by the secular media that maligns the Hindu image</li><li> Restore the confidence and self esteem of the Hindus through short serials, documentaries etc on our great leaders like Shivaji, Rana Pratap, Vir Savarkar etc</li><li> Counter the propaganda against the saints, RSS, VHP or other Hindu bodies. Show the other side of the coin too on issues pending before the nation. For example, Kashmir problem, show the plight of the Pundits in camps repeatedly, how their properties are being seized by the local jehadis in Kashmir. Infiltration by the Bangladeshis and plight of the local Assamese and Bengalis.</li><li> Not to report the random cases of terrorism or conversions but to complete the jigsaw picture of converting India into the pockets of Islamic and Christian states and to seize power from the Hindus.</li><li> Issues of distortions in the text books</li><li> Convince how only swadeshi or India-centric policies can ensure food and employment to all</li><li> Pick every opportunity, festivals etc, for talking and discussing the Hindu customs, traditions and scientific values attached to it and removing the doubts created by the opposition and many more.</li><li> Teach Sanskrit and scriptures through TV</li><li> Importance of cow</li><li> Bring awareness to love-jehad where Hindu girls are purposely trapped by the paid Romeos then converted and married.</li></ul>The nationalist forces have all been painted in black by the media and the secular jamat. The challenge before the new channels would be highly challenging. As the secular brigade and the vested interests from the India and abroad would like to isolate and choke it to death as they do fervently to BJP, VHP or RSS.<br/><br/>Even backward looking and averse to technology, Muslims have launched a channel deceptively called Peace Channel.<br/><br/>India has 5 crore cable network connections and DTH and if there are five members in a family the cable has a direct access to 25 crore people especially in the urban sector and incidently it was in the urban sector where the BJP lost more than in rural or Vanvasi areas.<br/><br/>Media made the poor victims as the perpetrators of crime in the following and created a false public opinion abroad<br/><ul><li> Violence in Kandhamal</li><li> Killing of Swami Laxmanananda</li><li> Godhara retaliation</li></ul><br/>Remedies:<br/><ul><li> Party workers should be respected and listened to</li><li> No compromise on Hindu-centric ideology</li><li> Media savvy</li><li> Launch of at least two national magazines one in Hindi, the other in English and two TV news channels effectively managed and controlled.</li></ul><br/><br/><b><a href='http://www.organiser.org/dynamic/modules.php?name=Content&pa=showpage&pid=296&page=37'>Media has become partner of ruling party</a></b><br/><br/>Nothing is more distressing than to hear that corruption has entered the field of journalism. In pre-Independence days, journalism was a mission; now it has become business. And it is becoming increasingly difficult to take some of the more important newspapers as the last word in truth. Writing in the Free Press Journal (April 27) Sushma Ramachandran (described as an economic and corporate analyst) blasted business journalism in no uncertain terms. Here are some of her findings, which are extremely disturbing:<br/><ul><li> “Many financial dailies publish news items that are blatantly one-sided…</li><li> “There should be worries over the fact that puff pieces on the corporate sector seems to have become the order of the day. One leading mainstream English newspaper had a business editor for about a year who specialised in long articles praising one big business house after another.</li><li> “There is a view within the media community that despite the huge salaries now being paid to business journalists in the print and electronic media, the incidence of corruption remains the same as when scribes were paid a pittance.”</li></ul>According to Sushma Ramachandran, as far as the public issues are concerned there has been a pernicious practice of handing out envelopes filled with cash or cash vouchers to reporters at the press conference, so that they could buy “a small gift” for themselves. Some multinationals went to the extent of organising foreign junkets for obliging journalists. According to Sushma, “Rare are the cases where journalists can go on a trip without a clearance from their bosses.”<br/><br/>The Indian Express (May 23) carried a report on the same subject, the occasion being an address delivered by the chairman of the Press Council of India, Justice GN Ray, at a seminar organised by the Makhanlal Chaturvedi National University of Journalism and Communication. Justice Ray in his speech expressed serious concern over “the paid-news syndrome” in the media describing it as the worst form of misinformation or even disinformation. The chairman said that presently journalists are “working on package”, that “editors are being marginalised” and that they themselves have allowed “devaluation of the dignity” of their high and respected office. Or take what Sevanti Ninan writes about journalists in The Hindu (May 24). Asks Ninan: “Should you believe everything you read about a candidate in a newspaper” and she answers her own question by saying: “Not after these elections.” In Madhya Pradesh and in Andhra Pradesh, money was charged for press coverage of candidates which according to Ninan gave “a whole new dimension to the business of media impacting elections”. It would seem that in Andhra Pradesh, especially, every Telugu newspaper and some of the Telugu news channels charged for positive coverage “at the same column centimetre rate as they do for advertisements”.<br/><br/>Apart from misleading the voters, that helped candidates circumvent the limits on election spending. Or take the issue of exit polls. The Hitavada (May 14) provided a list of eleven TV channels that broadcast exit polls and not one of them came anywhere near the truth and they included Headlines Today, Times Now, India TV, Star News, CNN-IBN, Aaj Tak and NDTV. How can so many of them, all run by professionals, go wrong? One can understand a couple of them slipping, but all eleven of them? Many of the so-called professionals went wrong also in 2004. Obviously, an explanation is called for.<br/><br/>One learns that the media earns from an election more so than in a year of no-electioneering. According to a report, one broker offered an independent candidate three weeks of coverage in four newspapers for a sum of Rs 10 lakh. Learning that a certain newspaper was running a bad report on a candidate, the latter is supposed to have paid Rs 4 lakh to stop it. What can we call it: black mail? For many candidates, money apparently is of no great consideration. If Deccan Herald (April 30) is to be believed—and why shouldn’t we?—some 223 millionaires and 258 with criminal record were in the election fray. To such, what is a sum of just four lakh rupees?<br/><br/>In the last Parliament, there were apparently 128 people with a dubious past of whom 55 were allegedly involved in serious crimes. In the new Parliament just elected, according to The Indian Express ( May 25), there has been a 19.15 per cent increase in their numbers with the election of 74 MPs who are accused of grave crimes. Voters may have rejected communism, but they have obviously not been able to differentiate between an honest man and a criminal. Or have the voters also been sufficiently bribed for their tacit support? Who knows? But, after all is said and done, the one painful question remains to be answered: How come all exit polls failed? They were apparently carried out by “professionals” who knew their job. But from what they prophesied, they were anything but professional. Anyone who knows something about exit polls knows what “sampling” means.<br/><br/>Writing in The Hindu (May 24) Sevanti Ninan asks a sensible question: “If reporters talk to candidates more than voters, how can they get their predictions right?” But then there is another question of even greater relevance. Think of the CNN-IBN showing times without number the scene of Varun Gandhi making those remarks that put him in jail. What lay behind this show? Was it necessary to repeat Varun Gandhi’s performance to the point when one felt like throwing up? Then there was that interview that Barkha Dutt had with Priyanka looking all so coy and saying how much she admired both her mother and brother. While Narendra Modi was sounding harsh most of the time, Priyanka was sounding so nice and gentle. Was all that part of a well-organised public relations job? One suspects that the Congress had appointed a better public relations firm than the BJP. But all this is hindsight. One will never know why the voter behaved the way he did though several answers are available and all of them sound very credible. All that we do know is that the voter had foxed the professional twice. That raises an important question: Do our professionals understand the Indian mind? Was the voter interested only in continuity of a government and not so much in who ran it? And in stability of a government and not so much in its ideology? Only time can tell.</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9775174.post-88535451252077805292009-06-16T05:04:00.000-07:002009-06-16T05:04:00.342-07:00NCERT denigrates Hindu Dharma<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'><b><a href='http://www.organiser.org/dynamic/modules.php?name=Content&pa=showpage&pid=296&page=26'>NCERT denigrates Hindu Dharma</a></b><br/>By Himanshu Shekhar Jha<br/><br/>There is absolutely no doubt that the NCF (National Curriculum Framework) 2005 was designed not to serve the cause of national education for building up the moral character of school-going children and developing their knowledge and skill, but with the sole and sordid motive of dismantling the foundation of India’s culture on which stands the superstructure of her outstandingly excellent educational ideals. This is evident inter alia, from the highly flawed syllabi framed by the NCERT for schools.<br/><br/>Apart from gross grammatical mistakes, the textbooks published by the NCERT contain several statements which are factually wrong and misleading. Let us take, for example, a textbook in history for Class-VI captioned Our Pasts-I.<br/><br/>The said textbook which opens with the chapter entitled What, Where, How and When carries the photograph of a Muslim girl (page-1) which has no connection to a book of history. The last chapter superscribed Buildings, Paintings And Books gives a summary description about Lord Ram and Sita without their pictures which a book of history for children is expected to carry for various reasons. Lord Ram and Sita were not ordinary mortals, but great historical personages whom millions of Hindus and others worship even today as incarnations of God. The NCERT writers have introduced them to our children merely as a prince and his wife respectively (page 129).<br/><br/>A book of history is not only a record of arid facts but comprises anecdotes which enable readers and others to draw invaluable lessons from them. Children can learn a great deal from books like the Ramayana and the Mahabharata, but the NCERT has made no effort in this direction. The said textbook has been stuffed with materials which have no bearing on our past erroneously spelt as “pasts” by the NCERT writers.<br/><br/>Instead of telling schoolchildren why Lord Ram and Sita are greatly loved by countless people all over the world even after the lapse of lakhs of years, the NCERT’s so-called historians tell them that “Rama” (Mark the mistake in the name) was “a Prince of Kosala, who was sent into exile.” (page 129). It will be readily noticed that the usual lexical meaning of the word “exile” is enforced absence from one’s country for a long time as a punishment. Thus construed the meaning of the clause “Ram, a Prince of Kosala….. was sent into exile” would be that Ram, the Prince of Kosala, had been banished from his country as an award of punishment for a crime. Can there be anything historically more incorrect and mischievous than this? It is a universally known fact that Lord Ram had gone to the forest for fourteen years on his own accord to enable his father King Dasaratha to carry out a solemn and binding promise he had made to one of his wives named Kaikeyi at a critical moment. Any historian who writes about Lord Ram and his banishment must state the whole truth with utmost honesty expected from the writer of a book of history which has not been done by the writers of the NCERT textbook.<br/><br/>The textbook in question also contains incorrect and misleading statements about Hindu scriptures. It has been written “Like the Mahabharata, this (the Ramayana) was an old story that was now written down”. (page 129)<br/><br/>Firstly, neither the Mahabharata nor the Ramayana is a “story”. Both the voluminous books are authentic historical accounts related to two distinct periods in human history. It is a historically settled fact that the battle of the Mahabharata took place 5,000 years ago and the epic ‘The Mahabharata’ related thereto was composed by a great sage Sri Krishna Dwaipayana Vyas about the same time. The NCERT’s alleged historians have, however, fixed the date of the writing of the Mahabharata as 1500 years before the common Christian era which is palpably false and misleading. It is equally wrong and mischievous to say that “Like the Mahabharata, this (the Ramayana) was now written down (page 129). The word “now” which occurs in the book mentioned in the foregoing paragraphs is extremely vague and does not make out any sense. If explained with a frame of reference to the time of the composition of the Mahabharata it was written about the same time i.e. 1500 years ago. Thus according to the NCERT writers both the Mahabharata and the Ramayana were written during the same period only 1500 years ago.<br/><br/>The images of the famous Ram Sethu, taken by the NASA, on authentic American space agency reveal that it is a man-made bridge and had been built up 17,500,00 years ago. Coincidently that is the time when the Treta Yuga during which Lord Ram was born, existed. Since Valmiki popularly known as Adi Kavi, i.e. the first poet of the world, was Lord Ram’s contemporary and had written the historic epic ‘the Ramayana’ it is a brazen lie to say that “it was now” i.e. 1500 years before written down.”<br/><br/>It is also important to note that while writing about Islam which is in no way related to India’s past, the NCERT writers have expressed the view that it “laid stress on the equality and unity of all before Allah” (page 120)—a statement to which the events of the world history till date do'not testify. The NCERT writers did not forget to use the words “the sacred book of Islam” for the Kur’an (page 120) which is not free from objectionable verses, but they avoided to use the same expression i.e. “the sacred books of Hinduism” before “the Ramayana” and the Mahabharata”.<br/><br/>The National Curriculum Framework 2005 is a flawed instrument and there is an imperative need to alter it for serving the cause of education in the best possible way.<br/><br/>(The writer who is an Advocate in the Supreme Court of India and can be contacted at:A-207, Kalyani Apartments Sector-06, Vasundhara, Ghaziabad(U.P.))</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9775174.post-18068061739612194882009-06-16T04:57:00.000-07:002009-06-16T04:57:00.430-07:00Widespread complaints of EVM tampering in Orissa<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'><b><a href='http://www.organiser.org/dynamic/modules.php?name=Content&pa=showpage&pid=296&page=8'>Widespread complaints of EVM tampering in Orissa</a></b><br/>Parties unite in condemning BJD manipulation<br/>By Deepak Kumar Rath<br/><br/>The massive mandate in favour of BJD in Orissa has surprised the people of the state, who have raised their eyebrows at the election outcome and are questioning whether it is the people’s mandate or that of the electronic voting machines (EVMs). All predictions and surveys have proved to be wrong including that of the special branch of the government.<br/><br/>The election in Orissa was conducted in two phases—on April 16 and 23. In the first phase, EVM tampering was allegedly done in some selected pockets of Ganjam district. In the second phase, it was reported to have been done on a massive scale. As a result of this, the BJD with its partners was able to capture 64 assembly seats out of 77 seats and seven parliamentary seats out of 11 seats in that phase alone. After the counting was over, it was found that the candidates, who were sure to lose even according to their own estimation, won the election by an unbelievable margin of 30 thousand to 50 thousand votes.<br/><br/>It is learnt from the reliable sources that some BJD MLAs, who had never dreamt of winning the election, are attributing their win to the blessings of the BJD chief and his loyal official machinery, which allegedly helped in tampering the EVMs. Some of the BJD MLAs before the counting of the votes were told by some of the collectors that they would definitely win the election by some definite margin, which was confirmed after the counting.<br/><br/>Senior Congress leader and former Chief Minister Shri JB Patnaik alleged that the BJD had won the election by distributing huge amount of black money and tampering with EVMs. He demands an inquiry into the matter so that all the misdeeds of BJD could be exposed. At a press conference, the Congress leaders like Shri Sivananda Ray, state vice president, Shri Lalatendu Bidyadhar Mahapatra, state working president, and Shri Ramakrishna Patnaik also made allegations of tampering with EVMs.<br/><br/>The BJP legislative party leader Shri KV Singhdeo, while talking to Organiser, said: “The issue of EVM tampering cannot be ruled out. This needs to be inquired into by a non-government international agency, involved in software development and electronic. An all-party panel should be formed, which would monitor the inquiry so that the issue could be put to rest for all time to come.” He pointed out that after the polling was over, the EVMs stored in the strong rooms, were not sealed up to 36 to 48 hours under the pretext of segregating and bifurcating votes cast to MPs and MLAs into one envelope. No political party was allowed entry within 100 metres of the strong rooms. What actually happened during that period is anybody’s guess, Shri Singhdeo added.<br/><br/>The BJP state core committee presided by BJP state president Shri Suresh Pujari and attended by Shri BB Harichandan, Shri Jual Oram, Shri Dilip Roy, Shri Bijoy Mahapatra, Shri Dharmendra Pradhan and others made the similar allegations of blatant tampering with EVMs. Orissa state president of Samajwadi Party Shri Kailash Mishra and the Samrudha Orissa state president Shri Jyotish Mahanty also made accusations of tampering with EVMs citing various instances. For instance, take the case of Bhubaneswar, which this correspondent I very closely observed when he toured all over the state to observe the election there. Shri BB Harichandan, who was not only the leader of the BJP legislative party but as a minister had handled many portfolios since 1977 very effectively. In the assembly elections of 2000 and 2004, he won from the same Bhubaneswar constituency by massive margins of 96,000 and 86,000 votes respectively against his nearest rivals. Those were the highest margins in the state in both the elections. In the 2009 election, his rival the BJD candidate who appeared unworthy in the estimation of the people, won from this constituency. This was not the scenario in Bhubaneswar alone, on all the 77 assembly seats and 11 Lok Sabha seats in the second phase of election, all the popular leaders of the opposition, i.e. BJP and Congress, have been defeated, which the people are not prepared to believe.<br/><br/>Tampering with EVMs was allegedly detected at many places in the state. At the Nima Sahi booth in Cuttack it was detected that all votes are recorded on the BJD symbol, though different buttons were pressed by the voters. After this issue was brought to light by the BJP candidate Shri Samir Day, there was public pressure and re-polling was conducted at this booth. Although there were similar complaints from Bhubaneswar and different parts of the state, they were not entertained.<br/><br/>Another surprising factor is that the original Bhubaneswar assembly constituency has now been divided into three constituencies. In all the three constituencies, the BJP candidates including Shri Harichandan got about 11 thousand votes each—in Bhubaneswar (Central) 11,400, Bhubaneswar (Northern) 11,300 and Ekamra, (Bhubaneswar) 11,070. Not only that, in the three adjoining constituencies of Bhubaneswar, the BJP candidates got about 11 thousand votes, i.e. in Delang and Pipili 11,170 votes each and Jayadev 10,800. Is it a mere coincidence or a fishy political propaganda that all BJP candidates in those constituencies could get about votes to a definite figure, i.e., 11,000 votes? Thus, it confirms the belief that EVMs have been very meticulously programmed and tampered with.<br/><br/>There is another astonishing aspect in this election that all the wellknown and reputed leaders of the opposition both BJP and Congress, who were sure to win in the public estimation, have been defeated. BJP leaders like Shri Bijay Mahapatra, Shri Brijkishore Tripathy, Shri Jual Oram, Shri Kharvel Swain and Shri Dhamendra Pradhan, and Congress leaders like Shri Nalinikant Mohanty, Shri Ramakrishna Patnaik, Shri Lalatendu Bidyadhar Mahapatra, Shri Chandrasekhar Sahu, Shri Niranjan Patnaik, Shri Jayadev Jena, and Shri Soumyaranjan Patnaik have been defeated. It appears as if a list of such leaders was prepared and then they have been butchered in a planned manner with the help of EVMs. Therefore, in Orissa the election outcome is now called yantradesh, not janadesh, i.e. it is not the mandate of the people but of the EVMs. <br/><br/><b><a href='http://www.organiser.org/dynamic/modules.php?name=Content&pa=showpage&pid=296&page=3'>Sudarshanji questions EVMs’ credibility</a></b><br/>By Golak Chandra Das<br/><br/>Cuttack (Visakeo): The former RSS Sarsanghachalak Shri KS Sudarshan has questioned the credibility of Electronic Voting Machines (EVMs) that are being used during polls instead of ballot papers.<br/><br/>“The general elections have become a contempt of democracy as machines playing greater role than the voters,” Shri Sudarshan said while addressing the concluding ceremony of Sangh Shiksha Varga held at OMP Ground here. The Pratham Verga had kicked off on May 15 and concluded on June 4. A total of 219 youth participated in the Varga at Keonjhar and Bhawanipatana.<br/><br/>Second year camp started on May 15 and concluded on June 5. A total of 86 swayamsevaks participated in the second year Varga at Cuttack.<br/><br/>Various political parties have successfully tampered EVMs to keep power, which was witnessed in West Bengal in way back in 2004, he added.<br/><br/>“It was a shock for the democracy,” he said adding that the EVMs are not being used in developed countries like Germany and the USA.<br/><br/>The party with more than 50 per cent of the whole population opposing, is ruling now, Shri Sudarshan said indirectly referring to Congress.<br/><br/>Cuttack Gurudwara Prabandhak Committee secretary Gurudeb Singh, DD Patnaik, HJS national coordinator Harihar Nanda, Sah Kshetra Pracharak, Ajit Prasad Mohapatra, Kshetra Sharirik Pramukha, Ghanshyam Mohapatra, former Sanghachalak Bhupen Basu, Sah-Prant Sanghachalak Hemant Dhir, BMS national organising secretary KC Mishra, senior Pracharak Rangaraje, Sah-Prant Karyavah Durga P Sahoo and Anil Mishra, Prant Pracharak Jagadish P Khadanga, Sah-Prant Pracharak BB Nanda and Prant Sharirik Pramukh Sudarshan Das were also present on the occasion.</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9775174.post-24663030357516682202009-06-16T04:54:00.000-07:002009-06-16T04:54:01.117-07:00The only prescription for all the ills confronting the nation today lies in the philosophy of Hindutva<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>Third-Year Sangh Shiksha Varga concludes<br/><b><a href='http://www.organiser.org/dynamic/modules.php?name=Content&pa=showpage&pid=296&page=38'>It's the popular will, not politics that makes history - Mohan Bhagwat</a></b><br/>By Virag Pachpore<br/><br/>“<b>The RSS has been promoting this Hindutva to take the nation to the highest pinnacle of glory without deviating from the culture and heritage of this country</b>.” - Mohan Bhagwat<br/><br/>“When the Constitution was made, there were all-round attempts to make India a secular republic. In fact, some provisions of the Constitution were specially formulated for achieving that end.” - Justice (Retd.) KT Thomas<br/><br/>"<b>The only prescription for all the ills confronting the nation today lies in the philosophy of Hindutva</b>. <b>It is the bedrock of our national and social life. It connotes the way of life and encompasses all the faiths and languages in India</b>”, asserted Shri Mohan Bhagwat, Sarsanghachalak of Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS).<br/><br/>Speaking at the concluding function of the third-year Sangh Shiksha Varga (RSS training camp) at the sprawling Reshimbag grounds in Nagpur, Shri Bhagwat made a passionate appeal to all the people to join RSS in order to know and understand the organisation. “Our doors are open for all”, he said. “The RSS has been promoting this Hindutva to take the nation to the highest pinnacle of glory without deviating from the culture and heritage of this country”, Shri Bhagwat said and appealed to all to contribute in this task by joining the RSS.<br/><br/>Shri Bhagwat said that leaders, policies, administration and slogans cannot make the future of any country. It is the popular will that writes the destiny the way they want. Hence, awakening the popular will with full faith in our traditions and cultural ethos and injecting the spirit of selfless dedication to motherland will alone take our nation to the position of the world leader (vishwa guru). This might appear to be the longest way, but this is the only way and hence shortest too, Shri Bhagwat said and added that since last 85 years the RSS has been doing exactly the same.<br/><br/>Explaining that the word Hindu represents our national identity, Shri Bhagwat said that it is wrong to describe Hindu as a religion. “Hindu and Hindutva represent the cultural heritage of every Indian irrespective of his way of worship, religious faith and language. Hindutva encompasses Hindus, Muslims, Christians and Sikhs in India because it is the national identity of all of us,” she stated.<br/><br/>Taking a dig at those who prefer ‘Bharatiya’ to ‘Hindu’, the RSS Sarsanghachalak said that ‘Hindu’ does not connote the mere geographical boundaries of India while Bharatiya has a mere geographical connotation and cannot define the cultural dimensions associated with the word ‘Hindu’.<br/><br/>Giving historical proofs Shri Bhagwat said that those regions where the Hindu population was reduced to minority or converted to other faiths, got separated from India in the recent past. Loss of Hindutva is the main reason behind the recent problems of internal security, regionalism, separatism, etc, being faced by the country, he said.<br/><br/>Unity in diversity is our peculiarity. And this is our true identity also. Hindutva welcomes all good things and thoughts from all the directions and honour all faiths and views. There is no place for conversion. All other countries except India do not believe in this principle of unity in diversity. The concepts of conversion and imperialism often arise from bigotry and hatred of other religions and faiths, which has no place in Hindu culture, tradition and ethos, Shri Bhagwat pointed out.<br/><br/>Quoting Dr APJ Abdul Kalam and Dr Verghese Kurien, the Sarsanghachalak said that all great thinkers have said time and again that common people will have to be motivated to achieve the progress, prosperity and peace and to make India a world leader. Owing to the continuous neglect of harnessing the immense capabilities of the common man, the nation has failed to achieve this potential in various walks of life.<br/><br/>India has made progress after Independence but social problems like poverty, unemployment, internal security, terrorism, etc, are also increasing. To overcome these problems the only solution is to sacrifice all our qualities at the altar of our motherland, Shri Bhagwat said and added that the Sangh has been doing precisely this in a silent manner, and urged all to come close to RSS, participate in this task of national reconstruction and become a part of this great movement.<br/><br/>Former Supreme Court judge Justice KT Thomas, who could not make it to the concluding function due to personal problem, strongly advocated the need for bringing uniform civil code. He lamented that even after six decades of Independence no concrete steps were taken by the successive governments in this regard.<br/><br/>In his written speech, which was read out by camp Bouddhik Pramukh Shri Suresh, Justice (Retd.) Thomas said that when the Constitution was made, there were all-round attempts to make India a secular republic. In fact, some provisions of the Constitution were specially formulated for achieving that end. One such provision is Article 44. But the irony today is that anyone who pleads for enforcement of the directive principle enshrined in Article 44 is dubbed a communalist and those who oppose are hailed as secularists, Justice (Retd.) Thomas said in a sarcastic comment on secularism professed in present India.<br/><br/>He was all praise for the wonderful work the RSS is doing. “I have more admiration for the activities of RSS than criticism, unlike some other members of the minority communities who entertain prejudices towards this organisation”, he said adding that he “keeps an open mind in seeing the functions of RSS and hence have no prejudice against it”. He disclosed that he developed this admiration for RSS from the days of Emergency when the RSS suffered a lot for restoration of constitutional democracy in India.<br/><br/>“I have been watching the performance of this organisation and hearing the utterances of its leaders. I often feel that I have larger areas of agreement with this organisation than disagreement”, Justice (Retd.) Thomas stated.<br/><br/>The apex court's former judge credited Sardar Patel with integrating India immediately after Independence and passing of the Constitution. He, however, lamented that the picturisation of Indian nation by Pt Nehru as “unity in diversity” has remained a dream even after 60 years of Independence. Justice (Retd.) Thomas wondered as to how many Indians could proudly proclaim that he is Indian first. He criticised the media for not playing its due role in achieving uniform civil code. There can be no valid argument against bringing the whole nation under a uniform code of laws subject to provincial variations, he said.<br/><br/>Narrating his experience at a seminar on minority rights in one of the universities in Kerala, Justice (Retd.) Thomas said that one of the legal professionals belonging to minority community said that he has a feeling of insecurity with his religious identity. Justice (Retd.) Thomas told the gathering that despite being a member of a still smaller minority community he feels no such insecurity. He advised the member to shun his identity as a member of that religious faith and earn his identity as an Indian citizen and then he would have no reason to entertain this apprehension. Religious faith must be kept as an extremely personal matter and should not be allowed to intertwine with the citizenship identity.</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9775174.post-84550470000354559002009-06-11T17:17:00.001-07:002009-06-11T17:19:36.380-07:00Awaiting changes to a syllabus of hate in Pakistan<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'><div align='center'><b>by Nirupama Subramanian</b><br/></div><div align='center'><i><a href='http://www.hindu.com/2009/06/09/stories/2009060955850800.htm'>Awaiting changes to a syllabus of hate</a><br/></i></div><blockquote><i>All the focus is on madrasa reforms but Pakistan’s schools are also seen as encouraging extremism, while the government has shown little urgency about implementing a revised curriculum.</i><br/></blockquote>On a recent weekday afternoon, a small group of youngsters gathered at a meeting hall in Islamabad to discuss how to combat extremism, militancy and terrorism in Pakistan. Listed were top-notch speakers, including two members of Parliament and the well-known physicist, Pervez Hoodbhoy.<br/><br/>Dr. Hoodbhoy, who teaches at the Quaid-e-Azam University in the Pakistan capital, spoke passionately and at length, on a theme that he has worked to highlight for years: the education imparted to Pakistani children is flawed and encourages extremism, intolerance and ignorance. He showed the group, mostly undergraduate students, slides from an illustrated primer for the Urdu alphabet he picked from a shop in Rawalpindi: alif for Allah; bay for bandook (gun); tay for takrao (collision, shown by a plane crashing into the Twin Towers); jeem for jihad; kay for khanjar (dagger); and hay for hijab.<br/><br/>This was not a prescribed textbook, but another set of slides he showed had excerpts from a 1995 government-approved curriculum for Social Studies, which stated that at the end of Class V, the child should be able to acknowledge and identify forces that may be working against Pakistan; demonstrate by actions a belief in the fear of Allah; make speeches on jehad and shahadat (martyrdom); understand Hindu-Muslim differences and the resultant need for Pakistan; India’s evil designs against Pakistan; be safe from rumour-mongers who spread false news; visit police stations; collect pictures of policemen, soldiers, and National Guards; and demonstrate respect for the leaders of Pakistan.<br/><br/>“Instead of teaching our children about the nice things in this world like the colours of flowers, about the wonders of the universe, we are teaching them to hate,” he said. The school curriculum was one reason, he said, why Pakistanis were in denial that the militants and extremists now terrorising the entire country were home-grown products, and why many tended to externalise the problem with conspiracy theories about an “external” hand.<br/><br/>At the end of the discussion, which included a question-and-answer session, the group was asked how many thought Pakistan’s present problems were the consequence of an “Indian hand.” A quarter of the group put up its hands. Next, the students were asked how many thought the problems were the result of an American conspiracy to destabilise Pakistan and deprive it of its nuclear weapons: more than three-fourths of the group sent their hands up without a moment’s hesitation.<br/><br/>The irony was that this was the “youth group” of a non-governmental organisation, the Liberal Forum of Pakistan. The students had reserved their maximum applause for a speaker who projected the widespread line that Pakistan’s problems began only after 2001, and are the fallout of the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan.<br/><br/>“Was there a single incident of terrorism before that? A single suicide bombing? No.” he said. The speaker was an official of the Ministry of Youth Affairs.<br/><br/>In the search for solutions to the crisis sweeping Pakistan and threatening to tear it apart, the international community has tended to focus on madrasas as “terrorist factories.” But for Dr. Hoodbhoy and others who have been fighting a long battle for urgent changes in Pakistan’s national school curriculum and the prescribed school textbooks, children getting a government-approved education in the public school system are at equal risk.<br/><br/>“Madrasas are not the only institutions breeding hate, intolerance, a distorted world view. The educational material in government-run schools do much more than madrasas. The textbooks tell lies, create hatred, inculcate militancy…” This was the damning conclusion of a landmark research project by the Islamabad-based Sustainable Development Policy Institute.<br/><br/>For three years, 30 scholars commissioned by SDPI pored over textbooks in four subjects taught for Classes 1 to 12: Social Studies/Pakistan Studies, Urdu, English and Civics. The startling findings of their labour came out in a 2004 publication, “The Subtle Subversion: The State of Curricula and Textbooks in Pakistan.”<br/><br/>The much-written about research unleashed a huge debate on what was being taught in Pakistan’s schools, and became the basis for a major revision of the national curriculum undertaken by the Musharraf regime in 2006. The new curriculum has made several big changes. There is a conscious move to teach tolerance and respect for diversity, and the open vilification of India is absent. It also does not insist on imposing Islamic religious teaching on non-Muslim students. Religion is to be taught in focussed courses, rather than being infused in Social Studies, Civics, Urdu and English.<br/><br/>Unfortunately, so far, no move has been made to introduce new textbooks that reflect the changes.<br/><br/>“The revised curriculum is a huge departure from the earlier one. But whether the changes it prescribes will be implemented at all is not clear to us. The more it is delayed, the less and less we are sure it is going to come,” said A.H. Nayyar, research fellow at SDPI and one of the initiators of the project.<br/><br/>The changes in the curriculum are up on the Internet site of the Ministry of Education. For Grades 4 and 5 Social Studies, the curriculum has dropped the learning outcomes prescribed by the 1995 and 2002 curricula, focussing instead on providing an “unbiased” education that aims to build informed citizens equipped with analytical skills and “values such as equality, social justice, fairness, diversity, and respect for self and diverse opinions of others.”<br/><br/>The SDPI recommendation that history be taught as a separate subject instead of being lumped into Pakistan Studies was accepted by the framers of the revised curriculum. So, for the first time, a curriculum has been framed for history as a separate subject from Grades 6 to 8.<br/><br/>In contrast to the earlier approach in the Pakistan Studies curriculum, in which the history of Pakistan begins with the day the first Muslim set foot in India, the revised curriculum includes a study of the Indus valley civilisation, of Hinduism, Buddhism and Jainism, and of the ancient Maurya and Gupta dynasties.<br/><br/>The curriculum appears keen to emphasise a composite South Asian history from which Pakistan took birth including the “joint Hindu-Muslim” efforts in the struggle for independence. The Pakistan Studies curriculum for Grades 9 and 10 wants children to learn about the multicultural heritage of Pakistan and “get used to the idea of unity in diversity,” a big no-no earlier.<br/><br/>The revised curriculum also has a component on “peace studies” and conflict resolution.<br/><br/>One reason new textbooks based on the revised curriculum have not come out yet, Dr. Nayyar speculated, may be that the 1998 national educational policy introduced by the shortlived Nawaz Sharif government, remains in force till 2010. The Pakistan People’s Party-led government could be waiting to introduce its own education policy, and usher in the changes to the curriculum and the textbooks along with this, he said.<br/><br/>Even the draft new education policy is ready, based on a two-year-old White Paper. It too reflects a major shift from the 1998 policy, which laid down that education should enable the citizens to lead their lives as true practising Muslims according to the teachings of Islam as prescribed in the Quran and Sunnah. It also made the teaching of Nazra Quran a compulsory subject from Grades 1 to 8, and the learning of selected verses from the Quran thereafter, in clear violation of the Constitution that Islam will not be imposed on non-Muslims.<br/><br/>By contrast, the draft new policy makes it clear that only Muslim children will be provided instruction in Islamiyat, while minorities will be provided an education in their own religion. The new policy will provide the framework for the implementing the new curriculum and introducing new textbooks.<br/><br/>The bad news is that in April, the federal Cabinet put off approving the draft indefinitely. Only after the Cabinet approves the policy can it be placed before Parliament. A report in Dawn newspaper said the Cabinet wanted the Education Ministry to make the policy “more comprehensive, covering every aspect of education sector which needs improvement along with an implementable work plan.” But no urgency is visible in the Ministry to get cracking on this task. Another concern is that the Education Minister is not known for his progressive views, especially on gender issues.<br/><br/>“My fear,” said Dr. Nayyar, a soft-spoken physicist who retired from teaching at the Quaid-e-Azam University some years ago, “is that the government may not have the political strength to bring in a progressive education policy. They may succumb to pressures of various kinds and end up bringing in a hopelessly muddled policy.”<br/><br/>Yet the need for reforms in education has never been as urgent and necessary as now. As Dr. Hoodbhoy has pointed out in several recent articles, while a physical takeover of Pakistan by the Taliban may be a far cry, extremist ideology has taken root in young minds across the country, thanks to a flawed education system.<br/><br/>Compared to the 1.5 million who study in madrasas, an estimated 20 million children are enrolled in government schools. Dr. Nayyar laments that in the five years since the publication of the SDPI report, children who were 11 years old at the time have completed their matriculation. They read the old textbooks, and learnt a way of thinking about themselves and the world that will prove hard to change.<br/><br/>“Another generation has been lost because the process has taken too long,” he said. And until the new textbooks are introduced, millions of children will continue to learn in their Urdu lessons in schools about the differences between Hindus and Muslims in a hatred-generating way, about “India’s evil designs against Pakistan” in their Social Studies, and that Bangladesh was a result of a conspiracy by India with assistance from “Hindus living in East Pakistan.”</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9775174.post-28891751409310191002009-05-31T19:15:00.001-07:002009-05-31T19:15:39.996-07:00Sena: why this “fond treatment” to Kasab?<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'><b><a href='http://www.thehindu.com/2009/05/31/stories/2009053159940800.htm'>Sena: why this “fond treatment” to Kasab?</a></b><br/><br/>Mumbai: The Shiv Sena on Saturday made a renewed call for hanging the Mumbai gunman, Mohammed Ajmal Amir ‘Kasab’.<br/><br/>While crores were spent on the 26/11 trial, the recently released report absolving the police force of any blame and the media’s obsession with Ajmal were making a mockery of the sacrifice of the martyrs and the plight of the victims of the terror attacks, Sena executive president Uddhav Thackeray said in a statement here.<br/><br/>The former Maharashtra Chief Minister Vilasrao Deshmukh, who resigned in the aftermath of the attacks, was rewarded with a berth in the Union Cabinet. This was like rubbing salt into the wounds of the bereaved people, the statement said.<br/><br/>“Why is Kasab being treated so fondly? By giving him defence, the government is mocking at the victims and the martyrs of the attacks. Lakhs of rupees are being spent on Kasab.”<br/><br/>It was the citizens who had to bear the cost of the Rs. 2-crore tunnel connecting his Arthur Road jail cell and the special court, a Rs. 6-crore van and the fees for his lawyer. But there were bureaucratic delays in providing high-end weapons to the police, whose officers were dying in naxal attacks, the statement said.<br/><br/>A Sena delegation would soon meet President Pratibha Patil with the demand for hanging of Ajmal and Afzal Guru, who was convicted in the Parliament attack case, Mr. Thackeray said.</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9775174.post-86589686303452424332009-05-14T19:41:00.001-07:002009-05-14T19:41:36.768-07:00Victimizing Varun – A case of ‘Secularist’ Vendetta<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'><a href='http://voi.org/20090509144/10610may2009/editorial/editorial/editorial:victimizingvarun%E2%80%93acaseof%E2%80%98secularist%E2%80%99vendetta.html'>Victimizing Varun – A case of ‘Secularist’ Vendetta </a><br/>By The Editorial Team, on 09-05-2009 23:40 <br/>Published in : Editorial, Editorial, <br/><br/>An advisory board of the Allahabad High Court has recommended revocation of the order to book Varun Gandhi under NSA. The advisory court's recommendation is binding on the state government which in effect has now revoked the order. With this the Supreme Court's observation that invoking NSA on Varun was too drastic a step now becomes true. Ironically, the secularist camp which pleaded for justice and justified NSA maintains a studied silence finding it very difficult to swallow the outcome. When NSA was unexpectedly invoked it was not surprising to note the ‘secularist' cam indulging itself in euphorically endorsing this authoritarian step evading any uncomfortable query as communal. Political parties too having displayed their obsession with "competitive secularism" endorsed the move understanding the implicit implications for their highly held vote bank.<br/><br/>Any neutral observer would not have given a second thought in realising the underlying political motives in invoking NSA, a law which is invoked in rarest of the rare case. Common people could have hardly appreciated such a move when many hardened criminals are roaming free and seeking tickets to contest elections. While these hardcore criminals even with proven links with terror network and mafia dons are rewarded by their political masters, a person like Varun Gandhi having not a single case against him was booked under NSA. Had the same kind of ‘speed' displayed by these ‘secularist' political parties India could have been freed from menace of terrorism and criminalization of society and politics - and the money stashed in Swiss Banks would have been recovered and Quattorcchi could have been cooling his heels in Tihar jail. It is an irony that in India law-breakers, terrorists and criminals are shamelessly sought to be defended by persons holding high offices. While the Jamia Vice Chancellor Mushirul Hassan declared legal aid to the SIMI activists arrested from the scene of Batla House encounter, the leaders of BSP, SP and Congress went along with Shahi Imam of Jama Masjid to express solidarity with the arrested SIMI activist Abu Bashir in relation to Ahmedabad blasts.<br/><br/>The ‘secularists' having failed in their bid to rationalize the terrorist attacks especially from jihadi groups through their half baked theories ranging from economic deprivation, lack of education, regional imbalances to attacks on the minorities have been in search of a new rationale. While SIMI was banned and its new avatara Indian Mujahideen went on bombing the Indian cities with serial blasts inflicting heavy casualities, attempts were made to find its Hindu equivalent in Bajrang Dal, Col. Purohit and Sadhvi Pragya Singh Thakur. On failing to collect clinching evidence and material proofs against them, the ‘secularist camp' was desperately looking for an escape route. It seems that Varun Gandhi was their new scape goat. While it is considered ‘secular' to hobnob with Madani and Muslim League in India, one refusing to toe this sacrosanct ‘secular' agenda is dealt with vengeance.</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9775174.post-67855376489610497992009-05-14T19:38:00.001-07:002009-05-14T19:38:56.346-07:00Sonia Congress Brand Secularism!<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>from hilda raja<br/>date Wed, May 13, 2009 at 4:36 PM<br/>subject Congress secularism<br/><br/>The most bandied word in India by the politicians is SECULARISM. Before one even dissects this word one should shed the biases and prejudices one has. It seems almost impossible to release secularism from its present hijackers and objectively dissect it. Two important prerequisites for this objectivity are:<br/><br/>1) secularism is not the monopoly of any one political party.<br/>2) secularism is not anti-hindutva.<br/><br/>It is ridiculous to note that the Congress party thinks that secularism is its monopoly. It has gone still further in giving itself the power to transform all those who ally with it the tag of secularism.<br/><br/>Any party/person who stands with the Congress is baptized as ‘secular’—and any party/person who stands with the BJP is communal. If the NDA (U) allies with the Congress than it is secular. If it allies with the BJP it becomes communal.<br/><br/>Narayana Rana was communal-but the moment he joined the Congress he became secular. It looks as though secularism is something which only the Congress has and only those who ally with it can be secular.<br/><br/>Against this it becomes extremely an onerous task to even define secularism. But can be understood if we analyze whether the Congress is secular.<br/><br/>Secularism is without bias and prejudice for or against a community, creed and caste. Secularism is objective, scientific in approach and above all stands impartial.<br/><br/>Secularism is not something which a person/party carries as a badge but is revealed only in the works and actions of that person/party. So a political party cannot become secular simply by thumping its own chest and proclaiming that it is secular. It needs to be proved.<br/><br/>As Mr Manmohan Singh said of his governance ‘the test of the pudding is the eating of it’. The test that the Congress is secular must be seen in its secular governance. In its various programs and its openness to all people irrespective of caste creed and region. Parties/persons who are secular will have no vested interest in governance.<br/><br/>If one has to review the performance of the Congress from this angle its mask of secularism will be torn apart and its can be perceived as the most communal party in a parliamentary democracy–be it in the Centre and the States. It is evident that the Congress was far from secular—Its whole approach was based on an appeasement policy labeled as ‘inclusive’ development with the sole objective of garnering the Muslim votes.<br/><br/>So it was sheer vested interest and greed for power that was the guiding and deciding factor in its whole governance. The Congress’ perception was thus jaundiced. It was visually handicapped in its outlook of India. Could not view the people of this country as citizens—as Indians but saw them as Muslims, Christians, and Hindus/north/south. To make it an variable to easily quantify— majority and minority—was inserted and this became the guiding index in its approach.<br/><br/>The basic premise for secularism thus evaporated from the Congress Party when its whole approach to governance is communal—based on religion. No matter its shrill trumpeting that it is the secular party and all those who stand with it are secular. The extension of secularism into politics thus became all pervasive—in spite of the media also tagging it as secular forces the reality picture thus became a ‘maya’.<br/><br/>There can be apologists who feel that the yardstick of Minority is valid because it denotes weakness—less clout, constantly under the threat from the majority etc and hence calls for special protection, and concessions. In the Indian reality this perception is valid as far as the Scheduled castes are concerned. But even that has slowly undergone a change. The Scheduled caste leaders keep the Scheduled castes in oppression and in poverty because they are the barters for their own power. It is in their powerlessness of the large section of the Scheduled caste people that that the SC leaders gain power. And it is in the pauperization of the larger section SCs that the SC leaders gain wealth. This is not a political statement but stating a fact that is very much in evidence. Take for example Mayawati—a simple distribution of all the money she has accrued and the huge amounts she is spending on massive structures with domes and stupas for Kanshi Ram, Ambedkar and herself will just wipe out the poverty of the Schedule caste in UP.<br/><br/>This kind of aggrandizement is not only sheer arrogance but also a negation of the rights of the scheduled castes by their own leaders. So who is sinning against them today—but their own leaders? True they were oppressed and denied equal rights but if under the leaders like Mayawati and Paswan the same situation continues then there is something basically wrong not only in the past but in the present. It seems that these leaders want to keep the Scheduled castes perpetually a downtrodden people.<br/><br/>Yet ours is the only Constitution in the world which has put in black and white our sins of omission and commission against the Scheduled Castes and has urged all the governments to change this situation. But after 59 years we still stand on the same plane and fault the nation as having deprived the Scheduled castes of their rightful share.<br/><br/>One area of empowerment was the Reservation policy—both in education and in employment. This has been hijacked by the creamy layer. The benefit of this policy does not percolate down. Another reason is among the different sub sects of the SCs—the Pallars are mostly landed and educated—while the Pariyars (scavengers) and the Arunthatiyars (cobblers) continue in the same misery and poverty. It is not that the SC leaders are unaware of it but they are least bothered to see that the Reservation policy benefits reach all. The whole process can be superimposed on the Most Backward and Backward castes.<br/><br/>It is communal politics that have kept the country’s population growing in its backwardness. The well of have siphoned all the benefits. Even Mr P Chidambaram in a TV channel accepted that he had benefited from the Reservation policy! Most of the IAS officers have used to benefit their own families.<br/><br/>It is thus a case in study when the same is extended towards the religious minorities and make them a show case for ‘inclusive’ development. Minority concept is not only a numerical concept but it denotes powerlessness, economic, political and social. The size of the community connotes a disadvantaged position against the majority it reveals a helplessness to compete, to face the constant threat from the majority. In certain countries this is true especially in our neighborhood countries. But in India it is not so. Minority is strength. Except for the numerical size the minority concept does not have the other concomitants.<br/><br/>It is interesting to note that a minority group can hold a majority group to ransom. It depends on the empowerment of the people than the numerical head count of the people. For example a single gun touting man can hold to ransom a whole group of people and instill fear in them. Numerical strength is no longer valid.<br/><br/>The power of bargaining—the leverage the minority holds and also the ability to activate global concerns and lobbies counts and we can safely determined that the Muslims and the Christians in India are more powerful in this respect— and do not suffer from any of the disadvantages that impinges on a minority people. Vastness and large numbers in today’s world is no longer a sign of power. At the press of a button the whole globe can be destroyed. Who controls that button –in that single individual all power is concentrated.<br/><br/>Except for the Arts 29 to 30 which granted the Religious Minorities rights to manage and administer their own education institutions the question of reservation on par with the SCs was never mooted by the Founding Fathers. But now Congress has brought in this divisive factor in other areas of employment, and other programs.<br/><br/>It has been a thoroughly communal outlook and communalization of governance that the Congress has been pursuing for the past five years. But had succeeded in projecting itself as the secular party thanks to the support of the electronic and print media.<br/><br/>Starting more Islamic institutions, funding the madrasas, increasing the subsidy of the Haj, setting up of a separate ministry with a separate budget all are not only communal in its inception but in the very process has communalized every aspect of the polity.<br/><br/>Now the line is demarcated in the political scenario. One side stands the Congress and the other side the BJP. All those who line up with the Congress become secular and all those who line up with the BJP become communal. The dance of democracy is over and the finale is being rehearsed. If the BJP is fishing for some catch, the Congress is poaching. That makes no difference for the conversion to secularism and to communalism becomes immediate.<br/><br/>Even a handshake makes a thoroughly secular person as Nitesh communal! But if he joins the Congress who is desperately wooing him he becomes secular. Remember the DMK one whose very political basis was on separatism was with the NDA when Murasoli Maran died and the allurements offered was not enough to appease the DMK it joined the Congress—and was converted as a secular party.<br/><br/>First the branding of Modi as communal and a murderer is a bit stale and will boomerang. If the Gujarat riots has made him communal then the 1984 Sikh genocide has made the Congress doubly communal and a fascist party. But that has to be buried states our Manmohan Singh who is in a permanent state of muddle.<br/><br/>You touch Modi you become communal that’s the litmus test. The big fight gives us insights into this comedy of errors. The bugle has been sounded by the secular captain ‘all those who want a secular government come and stand by me’ (where is Manmohan Singh—a caricature of his is also held aloft behind Mrs Sonia Gandhi).<br/><br/>Of course with the bugle call the allurements will be distributed in the dressing room. Those who are non communal will stand alongside with the ‘secular’ Congress. And one needs to quickly put on the communal spectacles to watch Lalu, Paswan, Mayavati, Karunanidhini, Karat et al as secular.<br/><br/>And there stands the captain of the BJP-LK Advani on the other side—he cannot thumb his chest because already the communal tags have been affixed on him and the whole array of NDA allies. But there is time for ‘conversion’ and it is so easy-step across the line and you become secular. This is the concept of secularism and communalism in India today.<br/><br/>Why dissect further and go to the root of the meaning of secularism. The Congress has a special vocabulary encyclopedia—one should get it and decode. Renunciation, secularism, communalism divine right, and India’s triumvirate (Nehru. Indira and Rajiv) monopoly—all these concepts/words and more one should learn and digest to become relevant to secular INDIA and the dance of democracy.<br/><br/>Dr Mrs Hilda Raja,<br/>Vadodadar</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9775174.post-9541433510252228292009-05-10T19:07:00.001-07:002009-05-10T19:07:42.973-07:00Mr. Secular Indian teaches secularism to his Gullible disciples who are pursuing a political career as a secular politician.<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>Elections are continuing till May 13 in several parts of the country...<br/><br/>from Gaurang G. Vaishnav<br/>date Sun, May 10, 2009 at 10:26 AM<br/>subject Election 2009:Secularism Course 101<br/><br/>Secularism Course 101:<br/>by Dr. Jagdish Tummala<br/><br/>As I sit in my home watching all the drama that is unfolding in the General Elections of 2009, I wonder how far the truth can be stretched. I am quite disillusioned by the definition of secularism being proscribed and prescribed to the Indian public. I was wondering what a lesson in secularism would be like if there was one; so, I thought of this fantasy classroom where secularism is being taught by a Mr. Secular Indian to his Gullible disciples who are pursuing a political career as a secular politician . Now tighten your seat belts and start thinking. Think what your definition of secularism is?<br/><br/>Mr. Secular Indian: I welcome you disciples to your first day in class. I know you people are obsessed with the idea of secularism, but I will help you build on this idea today which will benefit you tremendously in your political careers; so, let us start by taking some questions.<br/><br/>A Gullible disciple: I am confused about the idea of secularism. I feel I am a secular person, but when I see some of our English channels and listen to our politicians, I feel I am not - How do I get over this dilemma?<br/><br/>Mr. Secular Indian: What makes you feel as though you are not secular?<br/><br/>A Gullible disciple: I find myself agreeing to some of the views of BJP, especially on terror, international policies and common civil code etc. But the very next moment, when the panelists on these shows call it a farce and communal, I feel I am communal too.<br/><br/>Mr. Secular Indian: First things first. You cannot be called secular, If you agree with the BJP. You have to be a staunch opponent of BJP policies irrespective of whether you feel they are right or wrong. Be careful, you will be tagged as a communal instantaneously if you agree with them. It would not matter what you think about the upliftment of minorities.<br/><br/>A gullible disciple: Some politicians are even called communal if they go to a temple or wear saffron clothes, what do you think of that?<br/><br/>Mr. secular Indian: Well, you cannot wear any identity that could relate you to a majority community. You can go to the temple every now and then but make sure nobody is watching you. This might come to haunt you later in your political career. At the same time make sure you make frequent visits to churches and mosques and also meet some religious leaders, but this time makes sure you do it in front of the full glare of the media.<br/><br/>Meanwhile a Muslim gullible disciple jumps in and asks:<br/><br/>A gullible Muslim disciple: I go to mosques every Friday. Would I have to be careful too ? Also would I have to meet some swami jis in front of the media?<br/><br/>Mr. secular Indian: No, this does not apply to you as you belong to a minority community. In fact, if someone questions you about any aspect of your faith, just call for protection of your rights and your secular friends will take care of the rest. Talking about you meeting swamis, this could severely dent your chances of being a secular politician and your credentials might get questioned, even if you have to do that, do it behind the cameras.<br/><br/>A gullible Muslim disciple: I find myself agreeing with the BJP sometimes, especially about the introduction of a common civil code. I feel a different civil code for the Muslims is only alienating them and I do not agree with some of it’s clauses. How do I express this view?<br/><br/>Mr. Secular Indian: Again, the golden rule is, you cannot agree with the BJP at any cost. Even if the BJP is trying to do some good for the minorities, you will need to portray the evil in it. These are the times when your secular credentials will be tested. Remember, you being a Muslim and finding any of BJP’s comment acceptable, can spell doom to your political career. Common civil code might be necessary for the upliftment of the Muslims, but it is not acceptable to the Muslim masses. You can only take popular decisions in politics irrespective of the consequences.<br/><br/>A gullible disciple: I believe we would need to work hard for the upliftment of the minority masses to be called a secular.<br/><br/>Mr. secular Indian: Not necessarily, as long as you are anti-BJP and are making speeches condemning Hindutva, you need not do anything, just tell the minorities that you will protect them from the Hindutva forces and hope they might vote for you. At the same time, it can be dangerous if you try to bring a lot of development in the minority dominated areas as this would mean land occupations for roads, building, and schools instead of madrasas etc.. It might be popular among few, but the masses would not like it. Always stay away from such controversies in the minority dominated areas. Moreover, educating them might harm you in the long run, as you might not be able to use them as vote banks.<br/><br/>A gullible disciple: What are the advantages of being a secular politician?<br/><br/>Mr. secular Indian: Numerous! Firstly, it negates several ills. You can be a gangster, a rapist or a murderer and you can still be called a good politician with an honest ideology if you are secular. You will be acceptable to all the secular parties and will never be treated as an untouchable in politics. Moreover, if you have any criminal cases or CBI cases pending against you, just lend support to a secular party at the centre and be rest assured that all the CBI cases against you will be withdrawn. Another advantage is you can win elections without doing any public service. Look at all the states which are dominated by these secular parties. They do not have to do any public work or develop anything. These states continue to lag behind in all human development indices. They know that as long as they are secular, their chances of remaining in power are high.<br/><br/>A gullible disciple: How do I tackle riots which are so rampant in our society?<br/><br/>Mr. secular Indian: Wait until the riots have subsided, you need not mobilise any forces to tackle these riots. But make sure you put the entire blame on the hindutva forces for the riots. Also portray the BJP as an accomplice and be very vocal about it in the media. This will exonerate you from being complacent during the riots. Look at the Mumbai riots and Babri demolition for example. A secular government was at the centre on both these occasions. They even agreed to these events tacitly, if not directly involved and let nature take its own course. But they make sure even to this day that they blame the BJP for anything and everything that happened. I am sure they could have done something about it, but they opted not to. Instead, they used it to their advantage and portrayed the BJP as the only evil. This is a great example of how you can maintain your secular credentials by just blaming the BJP, even though you were involved yourself.<br/><br/>A gullible disciple: Can you tackle Jihadi terrorism and maintain your secular credentials?<br/>Mr. secular Indian: You have to be very careful when talking about tackling Jihadi terrorism. This is a condition you should be able to mend to your advantage. You should oppose every law that asks for a strong action against Jihadis. This will win you a lot of secular votes. In fact, if anybody tries to condemn Jihadis, reply to them by talking about Hindutva terrorism and always portray Hindutva terrorism to be a greater threat than the Jihadis. Also, try to magnify every violent incident associated with the Hindutva forces and make them look bigger and more threatening than the Jihadis. You will be surprised to know how many hearts you will win.<br/><br/>A gullible disciple: Muslims are equally affected by Jihadi terrorism. What if they do not agree to our idea of being soft on terror?<br/><br/>Mr. secular Indian: You have to create a fear psychosis among the Muslims and tell them that the fight against Jihadis is actually a fight against Islam. Tell them all the stories about how young Muslims are being tortured in the name of this fight against the Jihadis and that this fight would only create more terrorists.<br/><br/>A gullible disciple: What if the majority community gets angry with us for being soft on terrorism?<br/><br/>Mr. secular Indian: You have to make sure that the majority community is not majority anymore by dividing them into multiple factions in the name of caste or regions or languages and so on. Then select some large but disenchanted groups among them and promise them greater opportunity in every field. Now you will be left with a select few smaller groups which will question you. This is where you have to work like a salesman and try to sell your idea of secularism. If they still question you, threaten them with thoughts that they might be tagged communal if they support the same ideas as those being supported by the BJP. This works wonderfully and helps people soften their stance on terrorism.<br/><br/>A gullible disciple: How can we deal with the symbols of worship and religion and still be secular?<br/><br/>Mr secular Indian: You do not have to worry about the symbols of a majority religion like Ram Sethu etc., but make sure you divide the majority community so much that they start believing that the artificial lines created by you are more important than their religious identity. If they still persist on retaining their identity, then tell them that they could be identified with the communal forces. This helps even hardliners change their stance. Then you can even talk about destroying those symbols to appease the secular forces. At the same time make sure you never do anything to dilute the sentiments of a minority community. Remember, this sentiment is your bread and butter. Your entire survival depends on the minorities retaining their religious identity.<br/><br/>A gullible disciple: How can we tackle the media?<br/><br/>Mr. secular Indian: The media will give you a red carpet welcome. Remember, Indian media is the mouth piece of secular forces. They have been either created by the secular forces or been made to buy our idea of secularism. They cannot exist in this country if they differ from our viewpoint. The fear psychosis we have created helps us to make the media dance to our tunes. When in any TV debates, you can score a lot of points by making anti BJP rhetoric’s. If you find yourself in any trouble, just raise the issue of Gujarat riots and portray Narendra Modi as a devil. You are sure to come out of any troubled situation.<br/><br/>A gullible disciple: If you are tagged as a communal, is there anything we can do to get back to the secular brigade?<br/><br/>Mr. secular Indian: This is very simple. It is like conversion from one religion to the other. The easier we make it, the more it boosts our strength. Even if you are in the communal alliance for sometime for your own political advantage, you can dump these communal forces whenever you feel they are redundant and join the secular brigade. Remember Naveen Patnaik. He was tagged communal and his party was called a principal architect of the Kandhmal violence by the Indian media and the secular forces alike. Though as soon as he dumped the BJP on the question of ‘winnability’, he became the poster boy for secularism and everything that happened in Kandhmal was portrayed as a BJP conspiracy. We made everyone believe that Naveen Patnaik was just having a difficult time dealing with them. Also remember Kalyan Singh, the principle architect of Babri demolition is now trying to jump into the secular bandwagon and the secular forces are trying every bit to find him a place in their bandwagon. You can perpetrate the most heinous communal crime, but you can be secular any time you renegade the BJP. Remember, BJP hatred is the core quality required to become secular and other factors do not matter as much.<br/><br/>I will stop here and hope all of you had a very good understanding of secularism. Now work hard on these principles and you will climb to great heights in your political career. We will discuss some other issues in the next class.<br/><br/>Throw Congress out Lock, Stock & Barrel<br/>HINDU VOTE IS SACRED! USE IT WISELY!<br/><br/><div class='zemanta-pixie'><img src='http://img.zemanta.com/pixy.gif?x-id=98feb68c-4908-8e9d-bcd1-cd21f3d1326f' class='zemanta-pixie-img'/></div></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9775174.post-3503310703133667442009-05-07T19:37:00.001-07:002009-05-07T19:37:47.093-07:00Pak 'sharia' chief wants Islamic law for entire world<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>Author: ANI<br />Publication: ExpressIndia.com<br />Date: February 19, 2009<br />URL: http://www.expressindia.com/latest-news/Pak-sharia-chief-wants-Islamic-law-for-entire-world/425126/<br /><br />After inking a deal with the North West Frontier Province (NWFP) government for implementation of Islamic law in the Swat Valley, the Tehreek-e-Nifaz-e-Shariat Muhammadi (TNSM) chief Sufi Muhammad, has expressed his desire of implementation of a similar law over the whole world.<br /><br />Expressing his hatred for people's rule, Muhammad said Islam does not have any mention of democracy or elections.<br /><br />"From the very beginning, I have viewed democracy as a system imposed on us by the infidels. Islam does not allow democracy or elections," 'The Daily Times' quoted Muhammad, as saying.<br /><br />He said that the continuous bloodbath in the region was due to the hesitant approach of different regimes in the country to accept the superiority of the Islamic law.<br /><br />"Had the government accepted our demands in 1994, we would have not seen the violence we are seeing today," he said.<br /><br />Muhammad said the authorities should have held dialogues with the Taliban before initiating military action against them, as it would have resulted in less violent activities.<br /><br />He hoped that the new accord signed with the government would help the Taliban in establishing a complete Islamic state.<br /><br />"I believe the Taliban government formed a complete Islamic state, which was an ideal example for other Muslim countries. Had this government remained intact, it could have led to the establishment of similar Islamic governments in many other countries," Muhammad said.<br /><br />TALIBAN RADICALS SET TO WALK FREE FOLLOWING 'SHARIA' CAPITULATION<br /><br /><br />The inking of the so called 'peace deal' between the North West Frontier Province (NWFP) government and Tehrik-e-Nifaz-e-Shariat-e-Mohammadi (TNSM) would see several of the captured Talibani operatives walk free due to a 'give and take' policy being the cornerstone of the whole deal.<br /><br />Talking to reporters here, NWFP Law Minister Arshad Abdullah said 'general amnesty' would be offered to the insurgents during the talks between Fazlullah led Taliban and Tehrik-e-Nifaz-e-Shariat-e-Mohammadi (TNSM) chief Sufi Mohammad.<br /><br />"Amnesty to the Swat Taliban will be part of the peace talks between Sufi Mohammad and Fazlullah. Without amnesty Taliban would never agree for disarming in the region," 'The Daily Times' quoted Abdullah, as saying.<br /><br />Stressing on the immediate need of restoring peace in the troubled Swat Valley, Abdullah said the prime objective of the government was to ensure return of routine life in the region, and disarmament of the militants.<br /><br />Replying to a question, he said that the NWFP government had first taken the army and Pakistan's top spy agency while signing 'sharia' agreement with TNSM for implementation of peace in Malakand division.</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9775174.post-60327998749818887802009-05-07T19:26:00.001-07:002009-05-07T19:26:55.184-07:00Saudi School Textbooks Incite to Hatred and Violence<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>Author: Dr. Sami Alrabaa<br/>Publication: Family Security Matters<br/>Date: January 23, 2009<br/>URL: http://www.islam-watch.org/Sami/Saudi-Textbooks-Hatred-Violence.htm<br/><br/>Ahmed Al-Sarraf cited in Al-Qabas (June 2, 2007) some passages from a Kuwaiti school textbook taught at the first secondary grade. Here is an English translation of passages from the book, "Jurisprudence", page 38:<br/><br/>Who is, or who is not, punished in a Muslim society:<br/><ul><li>A Muslim who kills an apostate or someone who commits adultery against an infidel is not punished.</li><li>If a Muslim kills an infidel or a slave, he is not punished.</li><li>If a Muslim man, father, or grandfather kills someone from his offspring, he is not punished.</li></ul><br/>I went through school textbooks taught in Saudi Arabia and Indonesia. Here is an English translation of some passages from these books.<br/><br/>A fourth grade textbook on Monotheism and Religion instructs students:<br/><br/><blockquote><b><i>"Any other religion other than Islam is invalid (false)." (P. 29 )</i></b><br/><br/><b><i>"Hate (yakrah) the polytheists and the infidels" as a requirement of "true faith." (P. 86)</i></b><br/></blockquote><br/>5th Grade. Book: Monotheism and Religion:<br/><i><b><br/></b></i><blockquote><i><b>*"Every religion other than Islam is invalid." (P. 33)</b></i><br/><br/><i><b>*"It is not permitted to be a loyal to non-Muslims, and to those who oppose God and His Prophet." (P. 14)</b></i><br/><br/><i><b>*"Whoever obeys the Prophet and accepts the oneness of God cannot be loyal to those who oppose God and His Prophet, even if they are his closest relatives." (P. 71)</b></i><br/><br/><i><b>*"A Muslim, even if he lives far away, is your brother in religion. Someone who opposes God, even if he is your brother by family tie, is your enemy in religion." (P. 73)</b></i><br/><br/><i><b>*"Just as Muslims were successful in the past when they came together in a sincere endeavor to evict the Christian crusaders from Palestine, so will the Arabs and Muslims emerge victorious, God willing, against the Jews and their allies if they stand together and fight a true jihad for God, for this is within God's power." (P. 75)</b></i><br/><br/><i><b>*"Jews are the people of the Sabbath, whose young people God turned into apes, and whose old people God turned into swine to punish them." "As cited in Ibn Abbas: The apes are Jews, the keepers of the Sabbath; while the swine are the Christian infidels of the communion of Jesus." (P. 83)</b></i><br/><br/><i><b>*"The clash between our [Muslim] community (umma) and the Jews and Christians has endured, and it will continue as long as God wills. In this hadith, Muhammad gives us an example of the battle between the Muslims and the Jews." (P. 113)</b></i><br/><br/><i><b>*"Narrated by Abu Hurayrah: The Prophet said, the hour [of judgment] will not come until the Muslims fight the Jews and kill them. [It will not come] until the Jew hides behind rocks and trees. [It will not come] until the rocks or the trees say, 'O Muslim! O servant of God! There is a Jew behind me. Come and kill him.'." (P. 114)</b></i><br/><br/><i><b>*"Muslims will triumph because they are right. He who is right is always victorious, even if most people are against him." (P. 117)</b></i><br/><br/><i><b>"A woman who shows in public any part of her body except that of her eyes will be punished by hellfire by almighty Allah." (P. 194)</b></i><br/><br/><i><b>"The infidels have established Christian hospitals and clinics and send medics all over the world. As one of the Christianizers said, 'Where you find people, you find pain. And where there's pain, there's a need for a doctor. And where there's a need for a doctor, there's an appropriate opportunity for missionary activity [Christianization].'" (P. 163)</b></i><br/><br/><i><b>"The infidels have founded many schools and universities in the Muslim world at various educational levels. These include: the American Universities of Beirut and Cairo, the Jesuit University, Robert College in Istanbul, Gordon [Memorial] College in Khartoum, and others too numerous to mention. (P. 186)</b></i><br/></blockquote><br/>Teacher's Manual:<br/><br/>Grade 5:<br/><blockquote><b><i>Teach that after their death, non-Muslims will be sent to hell. (P. 30)<br/><br/>Quiz: Is it permissible to love the Jews and Christians? Of course no. Explain why. (P. 15)<br/></i></b></blockquote><br/>Grade 8:<b><i><br/></i></b><blockquote><b><i>*Command Muslims to "hate" Christians, Jews, polytheists and other "unbelievers," including non-devout Muslims." (P. 14)</i></b><br/><br/><b><i>*Teach that the Crusades never ended, and identify the American Universities in Beirut and in Cairo, other Western and Christian social service providers, media outlets, centers for academic studies of Orientalism, and campaigns for women's rights as part of the modern phase of the Crusades. (P. 15)</i></b><br/><br/><b><i>*Teach that "the Jews and the Christians are enemies of the [Muslim] believers" (P. 16) and that "the clash between the two realms "continues until the Day of Resurrection." (P. 18)</i></b><br/><br/><b><i>*Instruct students not to "greet," "befriend," "imitate," "show loyalty to," "be courteous to", or "respect" non-believers. (P. 24)</i></b><br/></blockquote><br/>Grade 9:<br/><blockquote><i><b>*Define jihad to include "wrestling with the infidels by calling them to the faith and battling against them," (P. 25) and assert that the spread of Islam through jihad is a "religious obligation." (P. 26) [the word qital, translated here as "battle," is derived from the verb qatala, "to kill," and is virtually never used metaphorically.]</b></i><br/><br/><i><b>*Instruct that "the struggle between Muslims and Jews" will continue "until the hour [of judgment]" and that "Muslims will triumph because they are right" and "he who is right is always victorious." (P. 27)</b></i><br/></blockquote><br/>Grade 10:<br/><blockquote><i><b>*Cite a selective teaching of violence against Jews, while in the same lesson, ignoring the passages of the Quran and hadeeths [narratives of the life of the Prophet, Peace be upon Him, that counsel tolerance. (P. 28)<br/><br/>*Teach the Protocols of the Elders of Zion as historical fact and relate modern events to it. (P. 29)<br/><br/>*Discuss Jews in violent terms, blaming them for virtually all the "subversion" and wars of the modern world. (P. 30)<br/><br/>*"Give examples of false religions, like Judaism, Christianity, paganism, etc." (P. 66)<br/><br/>*"Explain that when someone dies outside of Islam, hellfire is his fate." (P. 67)<br/></b></i></blockquote><br/>By the way, over 20 Saudi schools, each chaired by the local ambassador from Saudi Arabia, are located throughout the world, in Bonn, Berlin, Washington, Algiers, Ankara, Beijing, Djibouti, Islamabad, Istanbul, Jakarta, Karachi, Kuala Lumpur, London, Madrid, Moscow, Paris, Rabat, Rome, and Tunis.<br/><br/>In fact, you can find some of the above stuff in many school textbooks in all the Arab Gulf countries, Egypt, Kuwait, The United Arab Emirates, Qatar, and Jordan. Fourteen-year-old boys' and girls' brains are stuffed with intolerance, animosity towards other religions and their followers.<br/><br/>Al Sarraf wonders, what is the point in devoting $150 million of Kuwaiti money to spend on disseminating tolerance and moderation in society when the foundation of society, the youth, are taught religious fanaticism and religio-centricism? Islam is a tolerant and moderate religion, but some zealous Muslims have hijacked it and are determined to interpret it their own way.<br/><br/>I disagree with Al Sarraf over the last point. Islam is partially tolerant and moderate. When you check out the Koran and Hadeeth (the prophet Muhammad's comments), you find out that Islam is also a violent faith. It preaches hatred and violence against non-Muslims and discriminates against women. (Check out "Is Islam a Violent Faith?").<br/><br/>What does all that imply in terms of the war on terror?<br/><br/>The war on Islamic terror will remain futile unless the free world forces Saudi Arabia and the other Arab oil countries on the Persian Gulf to remove hatred and violence from their school textbooks. The root causes of Islamic terror must be rooted out. This is not an internal issue and has nothing to do with freedom of speech. It impacts all of us and the world peace at large. The West must use all its leverage vis-à-vis these states to achieve this goal if it truly wants to gain the war on terror.<br/><br/>I'm also pretty sure that the more and more Muslims around the world who read the Koran thoroughly, many more of them would turn their back to Islam. According to a recent survey by Berlin University, 13% of male Muslims have read the Koran and among women it is only 7%.<br/><br/>Many Muslims around the globe, in particular non-Arabs, do not understand the Koran which is written in an old archaic Arabic. They learn about Islam from what their fanatic imams preach.<br/><br/>- FamilySecurityMatters.org Contributing Editor Dr. Sami Alrabaa, an ex-Muslim, is a professor of Sociology and an Arab-Muslim culture specialist. Before moving to Germany he taught at Kuwait University, King Saud University, and Michigan State University.<br/><br/><br/> <b><big><big>Middle East Mired in a Culture of Hatred</big></big></b><br/><br/>Author: Dr. Sami Alrabaa<br/>Publication: Islam Watch<br/>Date: February 25, 2009<br/>URL: http://www.islam-watch.org/Sami/Middle-East-Mired-in-Culture-of-Hatred.htm<br/><br/>A Palestinian presenter at Hamas's Al-Aqsa Television asks a little girl on a program for kids, "What do you want to become when you grow up?<br/><blockquote>The girl replies, <b>"I want to become a mujahida [fighter]. I want to liberate Palestine. I want to throw all the Jews out of beloved Palestine. But before I die and join the Palestinian martyrs in paradise, I want to kill as many Israelis as possible like Reem Riyashi."<br/></b></blockquote>This is the kind of culture Hamas TV is spreading around amongst young Palestinians and other Arabs in the region. Hamas has its own satellite TV channel, radio station and newspapers and has used them to garner political support during its power struggle with Fatah.<br/><br/>Back in 2007, Hamas's Al-Aqsa TV aired a weekly show featuring a Mickey Mouse look-alike who urged children to support armed resistance against Israel. The character was beaten to death in the show's final episode by a character portraying an Israeli. The Hamas media effort is bankrolled by its leader in exile, Khaled Mashaal, who sends suitcases of cash, filled with money from Saudi Arabia, Iran, and Syria, which are smuggled into Gaza through tunnels from Egypt.<br/><br/>Secular and moderate Palestinians are appalled by the extremist propaganda of Hamas TV. Iyad Barghouthi, the director of the Ramallah Human Rights Center, says Al-Aqsa TV is a disturbing milestone in the rise of Islamist forces. Hamas's practices are reminiscent of those of the Taliban, he said. Barghouthi told Der Spiegel on-line, "Al-Aqsa TV is not only encouraging violence, it is also spreading fanatic Islamism and racism."<br/><br/>Hamas defied widespread criticism among Palestinians for using a young mother as a suicide bomber and even published photographs of her and her two small children, posing with weapons. Reem Riyashi, 22, blew herself up in 2004 and killed four Israelis at a Gaza border crossing after faking a disability to bypass a security check.<br/><br/>The anti-Israel media landscape throughout the Arab world is no better. In particular, the Syrian, the Saudi, and the Egyptian media are hawkish and propagandistic. Fair and objective analysis and information are non-existent.<br/><br/>The Syrian Minister of Tourism, Saadalla Agha al-Qalaa, told the newspaper Tishreen: "The Zionists are spreading bad propaganda about Syria to prevent tourists from visiting our country." That is apparently the main reason why few tourists, especially Westerners, come to Syria to spend their holidays, rather than the bad services which the country offers tourists. When I was in Damascus in 2006, I watched how tourists had to wait at least an hour before their passports were processed at the airport police control. There are only two categories of hotels: either first class or no class at all.<br/><br/>The Ba'ath regime is not interested in tourism. Tourists could infect the local population with ideas about democracy and human rights. Tourists would also tell the Syrians another story about the "decadent" and "unfair" West.<br/><br/>When I visited the southwestern border of Syria with Israel several years ago, I told my companion, a member of the Ba'ath party, "Look how green the Israeli side of the Golan Heights is." He interrupted, "It is all propaganda. With the help of the Americans, the Israelis have made it green, just to show off." I countered, "Why don't you allow the locals who were displaced during the 1973 war to return to their homes and make this part of Syria also green?" He responded, "It's dangerous. The Israelis could attack us any time."<br/><br/>Not just the media blame Israel for all the problems the Arab world has. School text books in all Arab countries depict an aggressive image of Israel. The gist of this image goes like this: Israel is an alien limb in the heart of the Arab nation. Palestine must be liberated from the Zionists as Saladin liberated Jerusalem from the Crusaders.<br/><br/>The culture of hatred must stop. Western governments must pressure Arab countries to introduce genuine freedom of speech, i.e., free media. Arab journalists and writers who deliver balanced articles on the Arab-Israeli conflict are banned from publishing. Arab regimes are suspicious of these people and, more often than not, they are arbitrarily put behind bars and accused of spying for the arch enemy, Israel.<br/><br/>I am one of those who have tried to publish articles in the Arab press about the Arab-Israeli conflict telling readers that the image of Israel as presented in the belligerent Arab discourse is distorted and fabricated. I have also stressed that if the Arab countries were as democratic as Israel, the conflict would disappear, and Israelis and Arabs would live in peace, side by side. If Arabs were objectively informed, they would choose to coexist with their Israeli neighbors. Ethnic and religious minorities are integrated in Israeli society and enjoy the same political rights as Jews. Muslim and Christian Arabs, for example, sit in the Knesset and say whatever they want and a Muslim Arab is a cabinet minister.<br/><br/>My articles have never been published. Arabs are not allowed to know the truth.<br/><br/>Western governments have to re-educate, at least, their Arab allies, as the Allies did with the Germans after World War II. The war on terror does not make any sense unless the root causes of extremism are uprooted in the media and in the schools.</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9775174.post-18696959882010371982009-05-05T18:59:00.001-07:002009-05-05T18:59:52.010-07:00Kashmir's Pandits accuse Election Commission of discrimination against them<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>New Delhi, May 4 (ANI): Kashmir's Pandits staged a silent protest here, saying their names were struck off from the voters' list.<br/><p>Most of Kashmiri Pandits live in Jammu, and the rest who fled the region reside mostly in New Delhi and other cities across the country. Only about 3,000 still reside in the Kashmir valley.</p><p>The number of Kashmiri Pandits on the voters' list has dropped from nearly 150,000 in 1996 to just 71,000 during the ongoing parliament polls.</p><p>Angry Pandits accused the independent Election Commission of discriminating against them.</p><p>Right to vote is the biggest asset in democracy, which the Election Commission of India is depriving us of. Our voting strength has been reduced from two hundred thousand to seventy thousand. Imagine the condition of Narendra Modi in Gujarat if 70,000 Muslim voters were removed from the voters list, but since it is a Hindu issue, therefore nobody is speaking, said Prashnik Kher, a protestor.</p><p>According to the National Human Rights Commission, about 300,000 Kashmiri Pandits have been forced to leave Kashmir. But Kashmiri groups peg the number of migrants closer to 500,000. (ANI)</p><br/><br/><div class='zemanta-pixie'><img src='http://img.zemanta.com/pixy.gif?x-id=e92fea3d-91a9-8fd3-9fc7-1920cbb68728' class='zemanta-pixie-img'/></div></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9775174.post-41715868872849134992009-05-05T18:54:00.001-07:002009-05-05T18:54:25.939-07:00First punish all real murderers of Swamiji and stop conversions to start peace process in Kandhamal<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>Source: http://www.orissadiary.com/ShowOriyaColumn.asp?id=12419<br/><br/>By Sai Prasan, Kandhamal: The associates of Swami Laxmananada Saraswati’s Ashram located at Jalaspata in Kandhamal are not convinced with Orissa government’s projection of Maoist theory behind the murder of Hindu reformer last year August. They are furious, agitated as well as depressed that the internationalization of Nun rape case by the global media has slowed down the investigations of Swami’s murder case. They argue that Swami’s constant tussel with Christian leaders on the issues like Cow-slaughter and conversion over the years in Phulbani district is responsible for the brutal murder of Swamiji.<br/><br/>In fact, it is very interesting to witness the route to Jalaspata Ashram which is around 40-KM from Baliguda in Kandhamal. The road leading to Ashram is as good as any national highway, though a very houses are located at both the sides of the road. The entry of any stranger into the Ashram is allowed by the security forces after a through checking. The Ashram has been virtually cordoned off by the central security forces.<br/><br/>After the entry into the Ashram, the Ashramites also ask all kinds of questions to ensure that the visitors are not the representatives of Christian world. In a half-a-day long interaction, Kavichandra Nath, head of Jalaspata Ashram, has narrated how the murderers, a group of 12-15, have entered into the Ashram premises by jumping the boundary wall at 7.30 PM on August 23, 2008. The killers first killed two followers of Swamiji and then attacked Swamiji and pumped rest of the bullets into his body to ensure that he does not survive. The deep bullet marks still remain on the walls of the Ashram.<br/><br/>On the question of why Maoists killed Swamiji, Kavichandra Nath gets emotional and retorted back, “first you should understand the historical perspective of Swamiji’ murder, then you can come to a conclusion who killed him – Maoists or Christian missionaries”.<br/><br/>It is know to the people of Kandhamal that Swamiji had frequent tussles with the Christians leaders since his entry into Kandhamal way back in 1969. He had vehementally opposed conversions of Hindus into Christians. “Christian’s attacked him ten times earlier and he was killed on the eleventh attack”, he said. The previous attack on him was on December 24, 2009 in Darangbadi where Christian leader RK Naik has a strong hold.<br/><br/>Nath alleged that Christian leaders were considering Swami a hurdle to carry their agenda of conversions. He had time and again exposed the fake SC-ST certificates used by the Christians to avail the benefit of the government reservation. This irked Christian leadership including RK Naik and they developed a grudge against Swamiji. “The local police in tandem with the then SP of the district were also responsible for the murder of Swamiji”, he said.<br/><br/>Nath questioned, “why Maoists should murder Swamiji. They never had any clash with him”. The projection of Maoist theory behind Swamiji’s murder is misleading and far away from the truth.<br/><br/>With regards to conversions, “Christian missionaries use foreign funds to lure Hindus to convert. They offer education, medicine, cloths and all other things to convince people to convert”, he said.<br/><br/>Nath said a delegation of Peace Mission approached me to restore peace in Kandhamal. ”I asked them to first ensure to stop conversion of Hindus into Christianity to start peace process in the district. They returned back without commenting anything”, he said.<br/><br/>The Ashramites are yet to get over from the shock of Swamiji’s murder. The Ashram has 191 tribal girls studying from Class 6th to 10th. They study Indian culture and Sanskrit in their course curriculum. <br/><br/>The people of Kandhamal including Ashramites still suspect RK Naik and his associates responsible for the Swamijis murder. But, they get defensive when asked ”why Orissa government, where BJP was also a constituent, had withdrawn security cover just five days before his murder?”.<br/><br/>There appears to be a deep rooted political conspiracy behind Swamiji;s murder. Only an independent enquiry by a better equipped investigating agency like CBI can unearth the truth behind the murder of Swami Laxmanand Saraswati.<br/><br/><div class='zemanta-pixie'><img src='http://img.zemanta.com/pixy.gif?x-id=5bccab44-ca42-850a-99c5-30c46c562c46' class='zemanta-pixie-img'/></div></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9775174.post-30201075493416091082009-05-01T21:17:00.001-07:002009-05-01T21:17:20.268-07:00The innocent and unarmed Hindu victims of Godhra train massacre have not yet been heard even once in our loaded Courts of Law<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>from S. Kalyanaraman<br/>date Fri, May 1, 2009 at 8:10 AM<br/>subject Godhra by Nicole Elfi<br/><br/>GODHRA by Nicole Elfi<br/>http://www.jaia-bharati.org/nicole-elfi/ni-godhra.htm<br/>http://sites.google.com/site/hindunew/gujarat-riots-myth(including English translation)<br/><br/>Godhra, a city of the Indian State of Gujarat, was the lead story in all Indian newspapers on February 27th-28th, 2002. A shattering piece of news: 58 Hindu pilgrims had been burned alive in a train. “57 die in ghastly attack on train” ran the Times of India’s headline; “Mob targets Ramsevaks [Devotees of Rama] returning from Ayodhya”; “58 killed in attack on train with Karsevaks [volunteers]” (The Indian Express); “1500-strong mob butcher 57 Ramsevaks on Sabarmati Express” (The Asian Age). But the BBC’s announcement had a very different tone: “58 Hindu ‘extremists’ burned to death” … or Agence France Press on March 2nd: “A train full of Hindu ‘extremists’ was burnt.”<br/><br/>A deluge of anguished news followed about a “Muslim genocide”: “Mass killings of Muslims in reprisal riots” (NYT, March 5th), “The authorities … share the prejudices of the Hindu gangs who have been busy pulping their Muslim neighbours” (The Observer, March 4th). We were told that Narendra Modi, Chief Minister of Gujarat, intended to eradicate Muslims from the State — more than 9% of Gujarat’s population, in other words five million people. We read that the police was conniving in the mass slaughter and did nothing to prevent it. Narendra Modi<br/>was compared to Hitler, or Nero. We shuddered reading the reports describing rapes and various horrors, supposedly inflicted on Muslims by Hindus.<br/><br/>Today, six years later, with the noises and cries of the wounds having fallen silent, what emerges from those events? What are the facts?<br/><br/>At 7:43 A.M. on February 27th, 2002, the Sabarmati Express rolled into the Godhra station, fortunately with a four-hour delay, in broad daylight. This train transported more than 2,000 people, mainly karsewaks on their way back to Ahmedabad after participating in the Poorna Ahuti Yagya at Ayodhya, a ritual at the traditional birthplace of Rama.<br/><br/>As it pulled out of the station, the train was pelted with stones and bricks, and passengers from several bogeys were forced to bring down their windows to protect themselves. Someone pulled the emergency chain: the train came to a halt about 100 metres away from the platform, surrounded by a large crowd of Muslims. The railway police managed to disperse the crowd, and the train resumed its journey.<br/><br/>Within minutes, the emergency chain was simultaneously pulled again, from several coaches. It halted at about 700 metres from the station. A crowd of over 1,000 surrounded the train, pelting it with bricks, stones, then burning missiles and acid bulbs, especially on the S-5, S-6 and S-7 coaches.<br/><br/>The vacuum pipe between coaches S-6 and S-7 was cut, thereby preventing any further movement of the train. The doors were locked from outside. A fire started in coach S-7, which the passengers were able to extinguish. But the attack intensified and coach S-6 caught fire and minutes later, was in flames. Passengers who managed to get out of the burning compartment were attacked with sharp weapons, and stoned. They received serious injuries, some were killed. Others got out through the windows and took shelter below the coach.<br/><br/>Fifty eight pilgrims were burned alive, including twenty-seven women and ten children.<br/><br/>The whole attack lasted 20-25 minutes. What transpired then, in the Indian press? Let’s imagine a coach of French pilgrims coming back from Lourdes, burned alive. Strangely, instead of clearly, straightforwardly condemning the act, the Indian English-language press tried to justify it: “Pilgrims provoked by chanting pro-Hindu slogans” (they were not slogans but bhajans, or devotional songs, ending with “Jai Sri Ram” (Victory to Sri Rama). “It’s because they were returning from Ayodhya, where they asked for the reconstruction of a temple at the traditional birth place of Rama; this offends the feelings of the Muslims.” In sum, the victims, roasted alive, were guilty.<br/><br/><div class='zemanta-pixie'><img src='http://img.zemanta.com/pixy.gif?x-id=fe94fdc6-d850-8a00-9c07-9b263058456d' class='zemanta-pixie-img'/></div></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9775174.post-19294798125589736872009-05-01T21:12:00.001-07:002009-05-01T21:12:57.075-07:00Shamelessly communal and biased Indian media<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>from Yashwini<br/>date Fri, May 1, 2009 at 9:41 AM<br/>subject MEDIA COMMUNALISM<br/><br/>If the media really believed that Varun Gandhi’s speech would cause unrest among a section of the people, did the repeat telecasts of the speech make any sense? S R RAMANUJAN finds the media’s indignation hypocritical.<br/><br/>In one of his responses to media "interrogation", Jawaharlal Nehru's great grandson and a political debutant Varun Gandhi said that he was being targeted simply because he was a "Gandhi".<br/><br/>What he probably meant was that because he was an "estranged Gandhi", he was on the firing line of his rivals (no prizes for guessing who they are) and specially the English media. The speech that was attributed to him, doctored or otherwise, was certainly not in good taste.<br/><br/>His defence that the fact that his speech did not incite any single individual for nearly 15 days was by itself a pointer that there was no malice on his part, may not wash either.<br/><br/>However, the role of media is certainly open to question. While reporting that it was a "hate speech" "blatantly communal" etc, did the media behave responsibly by telecasting the tape umpteen times a day for the last few days?<br/><br/>If the media really believed that the speech was intended to or likely to cause unrest among a section of the people, do the repeat telecasts of the speech make any sense, or does it show the media as a responsible institution?<br/><br/>When the Election Commission sincerely believes that it was indeed a "hate speech" and might cause communal disturbances, it should have intervened and restrained the media from repeat telecast. They did their job by reporting the event with the CD supplied to all channels by a mysterious source.<br/><br/>Follow up stories need not always be with the same offensive CD. Finding an excuse to repeat the telecast of the CD only exposes the channels' real intentions. It also helps those who charge the mainline channels of being anti-majority.<br/><br/>Though conventional ethics demands that the source need not be disclosed, on instances like this, where the CD is not the result of the efforts put in by the reporting staff, revealing the source might help viewers make up their mind as to the intentions of those behind the CD that is dished out to them at least a dozen times a day, irrespective of the genuineness of the CD. Particularly so when Varun is harbouring a conspiracy theory. This is analogous to the tendency of both print and electronic media to decry obscenity while showing obscene pictures on the pretext of dealing with the subject, in the process titillating readers and viewers.<br/><br/>Varun Gandhi made certain observations relating to the context in which he made objectionable statements. He was citing atrocities, real or imaginary, committed on the majority community in the border constituency of Pilibhit.<br/><br/>Should not the media make its own independent investigation into the charges made by the fresher in politics rather than repeating the telecast of the same CD? Is the media afraid that it will not help its ultra secular image?<br/><br/>When National Conference leader Omar Abdullah made a speech during the Trust Vote in the Lok Sabha stating that he was proud to be a Muslim and an Indian, the fell all over his speech, declaring it the best speech in recent times in Parliament. He was equivocal on the Amarnath issue during the speech and his role during the Amarnath agitation is no secret to the citizens of this country. But the media did not think he was communal or practising divisive politics when he spoke for Muslims.<br/><br/>Take the case of the Majlis-e-Ittehaadul Muslimeen (MIM). Everyone knows how rabidly communal the party is. The MIM was an ally of the UPA in the last elections. Now, the party wants to have the veto power in the appointment of Police Commissioners or Director General of Police in Andhra Pradesh.<br/><br/>MIM President Asaduddin Owaisi petitioned the Chief Electoral Officer (CEO) of AP against the inclusion of a particular officer in the panel for the top Police post stating that his "communal and high-handed" behaviour had alienated him from "the Muslims of Andhra Pradesh". So, the basic pre-condition for appointment to the top police post, it seems, is that he/she should enjoy the confidence of the minority community. If the majority community makes a similar demand, we know what the reaction of the media will be. The community or its leaders will attract instant criticism that they are divisive and communal. But the national media is silent over the MIM's demand.<br/><br/>Abdul Nassar Madhani's alleged terror links and the Kerala CPI-M's proximity to him is no news for the national media. Interestingly, while the chief minister betrays his helplessness on the issue stating that it takes time for him to get information from his intra-party rival and the state home minister, the latter feels there is no need for an enquiry into Madanis' terror links. The party wants Madani's PDP support to win elections. Never mind the fundamentalist nature of the PDP's policies and programmes. For the uninitiated, Madani was accused of master-minding the Coimbatore blast in the nineties to assassinate L K Advani who, however, had a narrow escape.<br/><br/>(Madani was acquitted of all charges in this case in 2007. Ed.)<br/><br/>The latest is Imran Kidwai's Chandigarh speech. Though he made the "hate speech" on March 15 closer to Delhi and not in far off Pilibhit, and the BJP petitioned the EC on March 19 with the CD which was circulated to the media by the party, the national media do not seem to have picked up the story. Imran Kidwai is a senior Congress leader and he said "I regret not being a mufti. Had I been one, I would have issued just one fatwa that going with the BJP amounts to committing kufr".<br/><br/>AICC in-charge for Punjab Moshina Kidwai and party candidate and Union Minister Pawan Bansal were reportedly present at the public meeting in which Imran is alleged to have made this statement. This seems to be a perfectly secular sermon for our media. Hence, the deafening silence?<br/><br/>In contrast, on the same day, Mallika Sarabhai's decision to take on Advani in Gandhinagar was a great developing story for most of the national channels. There was a "live" debate with her in at least two English channels. While the anchors conceded that there was "negligible" chance of her winning, and that her real intention may be to hog publicity, the debate, nevertheless, continued for quite some time. Of course, in all fairness to her, she maintained that her foray into electoral politics was not to score a point or two on secularism.<br/><br/>An interesting side-show to this secular-communal diatribe is the petition filed by the "Vaishnavites" of Andhra Pradesh before the CEO, Hyderabad, against the CPI-M state secretary B V Raghvulu who asked the state finance minister K Rosaiah to wear "namam" and roam the streets of Andhra Pradesh as a mendicant. Vaishnavites felt that their sentiments were hurt by Raghavulu's statement as he ridiculed their sacred "namam". For the uninitiated, what the Chief Election Commissioner Gopalaswamy wears on his forehead is "namam". Even this story had no takers in the national media.<br/><br/>The lesson, therefore, is that communalism, whether prefixed with the labels like "majority" or " minority", is not confined to men occupying political space in this country. The media is also not untainted by it.<br/><br/><div class='zemanta-pixie'><img src='http://img.zemanta.com/pixy.gif?x-id=3aa34ccc-3fe7-8057-92b4-3e72e19479d3' class='zemanta-pixie-img'/></div></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9775174.post-33389695349381507492009-04-29T19:40:00.001-07:002009-04-29T19:40:36.297-07:00Is "Tamil Eelam" a Christian agenda?<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>B R Haran<br/>29 Apr 2009<br/> <br/>The White Christian Church has the unique characteristic of gaining entry into non-White, non-Semitic civilizations, by slow infiltration of important establishments to influence them and create unrest by dividing the local populace along communal or linguistic lines, with the sole objective of Christianising those countries.<br/><br/>Several instances in history confirm this. The Church has been partially successful in India, as evidenced by the Christianisation of north-eastern states such as Meghalaya, Nagaland, Mizoram, etc., and a few pockets in other States. While interior states have been able to withstand the Christian onslaught, the southern coastal states of Kerala, Tamil Nadu, Karnataka and Andhra Pradesh have been vulnerable to the evil designs of the Church. This was made possible only because of the help provided by self-serving political leaders in the guise of secularism. <br/> <br/><b>Influencing politics in Tamil Nadu and Sri Lanka</b><br/> <br/>The Dravidian Movement of Tamil Nadu comprised only such leaders, who even went to the extent of requesting the British to continue their hegemony over Tamil Nadu. Since then, the unholy ‘Christian-Dravidian’ nexus has worked consistently for the cause of ‘Tamil Nation,’ extending it to the north-east of Sri Lanka as well.<br/><br/>Just as it divided the Tamil people through the bogus ‘Aryan (Brahmin) – Dravidian (Non-Brahmin) Theory,’ to alienate non-Brahmins from the ‘Hindu’ fold along linguistic lines (Aryan Sanskrit – Dravidian Tamil), the Church similarly divided the Sri Lankan people along linguistic (Sinhala-Tamil) lines. On the one hand, it backed the LTTE fully against the government, and on the other, it successfully infiltrated the Sri Lankan establishment and influenced the government through Sinhala Christian leadership. <br/> <br/>When Sri Lankan Prime Minister Solomon West Ridgeway Dias Bandaranaike introduced the “Sinhala only Act” in 1956, the Island’s first anti-Tamil riots took place. Prior to Solomon Bandaranaike, the Sri Lankan government was headed by leaders like Don Stephen Senanayake and John Kotelawala, and his successors were Sirimavo Bandaranaike, Dudley Senanayake, Junius Richard Jayewardene, Premadasa, Ranil Wickramasinghe, Chandrika Bandaranaike Kumaratunge (married a Christian), Percy Mahinda Rajapakse, who were all either Christians, or Buddhist converts, or married to Christian spouses. <br/> <br/>The first Sri Lankan Tamil leader who started the demand for separatism was a Christian - Samuel James Velupillai Chelvanayakam; he also called for a “Greater Dravida Nadu” on both sides of the Palk Straits.<br/><br/>It can be said that LTTE just followed his footsteps, backed by the Church and missionaries. Ever since ethnic riots took place in 1983, Anton Balasingham, a Roman Catholic, assumed the mantle of LTTE’s political leadership and was second only to Prabhakaran, also a Christian.<br/><br/>Ironically, the 85% Hindu majority of Sri Lankan Tamils came totally under the control of a Christian minority leadership, thanks to the Machiavellian machinations of the Church and missionaries. It is difficult to swallow this bitter truth, especially when recalling the glorious past of Sri Lankan Tamil Hindus under the leadership of great Shaivite scholars like Arumuga Navalar, great men like Ponnambalam Ramanathan and Ponnambalam Arunachalam, and intellectuals like the Coomaraswamys. All were widely respected by the Buddhists in Sri Lanka and Ponnambalam Ramanathan was the one who pushed for “Wesak” or “Buddha Purnima” to be a public holiday in colonial Sri Lanka. <br/> <br/>As for Tamil Nadu, though the Church suffered a slight setback when M.G. Ramachandran left DMK and founded the AIADMK, deviating from “Atheism” to “Theism” (moving closer to Hindu religion), and his successor Jayalalithaa followed his footsteps (at least for a while), it seemed to have cleverly moved its coins to influence AIADMK too. Now we have a host of Dravidian parties changing alliances at the drop of a hat and even at each others’ throats, but remaining perennially close to the Church.<br/><br/>So, whichever party is in power, the Church is able to have its say and continue with its agenda of de-Hinduising the state. Similarly, in Sri Lanka, the Church has been able to influence the leadership of both LTTE and the Sri Lankan government, while causing the death of thousands of Hindus and Buddhists in the decades-long conflict. The Church has also been indulging in blatant conversion activities in both Tamil Nadu and Sri Lanka. <br/> <br/><b>Influencing Jayalalithaa for the greatest assault on Hinduism</b><br/> <br/>At one point, the Church found it difficult in Tamil Nadu, due to the enormous influence of Melmaravathur Adiparasakthi Movement and Sabarimala Pilgrimage on Scheduled Caste Hindus, and the various activities undertaken by Kanchi Mutt to reach out to them, besides the enactment of the anti-conversion law by the Jayalalithaa regime.<br/><br/>But the Church finally succeeded in influencing Jayalalithaa after her party’s rout in the 2004 parliament elections, resulting in two telling actions. First, she repealed the anti-conversion law, enacted by her own government, to appease the Christian community; secondly, she went to the extent of denigrating and destroying the sanctity of a 2500-year-old institution established by Adi Sankara and flawlessly maintained by his order of disciples as ‘Jagath Gurus’ for millions of Hindus.<br/><br/>Not surprisingly, in October 2004, she received the ‘Golden Star for Dignity and Honour’ (Thanga Tharakai) award from a Ukraine-based Christian organisation named International Human Rights Defence Committee, controlled by America and funded by ‘US Agency for International Development’ (USAID).<br/><br/>The Indian representative for IHRDC was Mallavarappu Prakash, Bishop of Vijayawada and later Chairman of Tamil Nadu Minorities Welfare Commission! In February 2005, the ‘India International Society’, USA, proposed a tribute for her together with 'Barath Jyothi' award, after which evangelist K.A. Paul came to Tamil Nadu in a private jet to give thousands of crores of rupees for Tsunami relief. <br/> <br/><b>Jaya pursuing Christian agenda</b><br/> <br/>Since then, Jayalalithaa has clearly sided with the Christian clergy. Last year, while terming the spontaneous ‘retaliatory’ attacks on Christians in Kandhamal, Orissa, as a “disgrace” to the nation, she conveniently ignored the dastardly murder of Swami Laxmanananda and his disciples, and the distribution of blasphemous literature and pamphlets denigrating Hindu Gods and Goddesses, by his opponents. When the Rama Sethu Protection Movement was at its peak, she spoke against the Sethusamudram Project, not with true faith in Sri Rama, but with an eye on the votebank. And while protesting against the Sethu Project, she exhibited her 'secular' credentials by pointing out that ‘Adams Bridge’ (Ramar Sethu) was significant to Muslims and Christians as well, a myth which no Christian or Muslim scholar has so far endorsed!<br/><br/>Even the present election manifesto of her party makes only a passing mention of Rama Sethu! Yet it gives exclusive commitments for Christians, such as Reservation for Dalit Christians (unconstitutional), subsidy for Jerusalem pilgrimage, ‘All Souls Day’ to be made a holiday, hostels with all facilities at nominal charges in towns of minority religious significance, and addressing the ‘security’ concerns of minorities. <br/> <br/>But she gave no commitments regarding repeal of the DMK government’s ordinance on Tamil New Year or returning the Chidambaram Temple administration to the Dikshidars, or any issue concerning Hindus. As if to confirm allegiance to the Christian agenda, she deviated from her original stand on the Sri Lankan ethnic issue and sat on a day-long fast on 9 March 2009, condemning the Indian government’s alleged inaction on the issue and addressed the LTTE as “fighters” instead of her usual remark of “terrorists”. Now she has openly supported the Christian agenda of creation of a separate Tamil Eelam, which amounts to supporting the LTTE and nothing else. After all, the Church-backed LTTE leadership is also fighting for the same cause!<br/> <br/><b>Sabotaging the legislation on conversion in Sri Lanka </b><br/> <br/>In 2003, Sri Lankan Buddhist and Hindu leaders joined hands to draft a legislation, at the request of Hindu Affairs Minister T. Maheswaran, to legally stop conversion activities by the Church. Despite the pressure applied by this joint committee which worked for six months to draft the new act for parliament, the Church-influenced Sri Lankan government has been reluctant to enact the law.<br/><br/>As the Church foresaw that Buddhist-Hindu unity - unity between majority (Buddhists) and the largest minority (Tamil Hindus) - could lead to permanent peace in the war-struck Island, it sabotaged the process of legislation by favouring the creation of an inter-religious council to hammer out a solution. This so-called inter-religious council is a typical Christian strategy (much like the Church-backed inter-faith dialogues in non-Christian countries) to thwart all attempts to ban conversions by an act of parliament; the same has been adopted by the Vatican to stop such legislations in India as well. Though organizations such as ‘All Ceylon Hindu Congress’ (though pro-LTTE), ‘Hindu Council of Sri Lanka’ and ‘National Council of Buddhist Clergy’ are dead against conversion activities, the Church has been able to influence the political leadership across the spectrum to sabotage the legislation of the anti-conversion law <br/>(http://www.ipsnews.net/interna.asp?idnews=20884 ).<br/> <br/>In this context, it must be noted that the former Hindu Affairs Minister in Ranil Wickramasinge’s cabinet T. Maheswaran escaped an assassination attempt in 2004, but was finally assassinated on 1 January 2008 while worshipping in a Shiva Temple. Till date, the government has not completed investigations in to the murder, though it has been blamed for allegedly reducing his security level and for continuing minister Douglas Devananda, widely alleged to be involved in the assassination. The government put the blame squarely on LTTE and Douglas Devananda also denied the allegation of involvement. The BBC Sinhala.com reported, “The DNA samples taken from the murder suspect of a Tamil legislator matched with the blood samples taken from the gun used for the killing, Sri Lankan judiciary said. The legislator’s security guard managed to shoot the suspect, identified as Johnson Collin Wasanthan Valentine<br/>(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T._Maheswaran and<br/>http://www.bbc.co.uk/sinhala/news/story/2008/02/080201_maheswaran_dna.shtml ). <br/> <br/><b>Importance of Hindu-Buddhist relationship</b><br/> <br/>As early as June 1998, ‘Tamilnet’ reported that an International conference on Hinduism condemned attacks on Hindus and the destruction of Hindu places of worship by Sri Lankan security forces, and urged Colombo to halt such attacks. The report said that, the ‘First International Conference on Hindu Solidarity’ was held in Paris on 27-28 June at the UNESCO auditorium and attended by delegates from several countries, including functionaries from BJP and VHP (http://www.tamilnet.com/art.html?catid=13&artid=1691).<br/><br/>Though this seems like a conflict between Buddhist and Hindu communities, it must be understood that the security forces are controlled by a political leadership owing allegiance to the Church. The centuries-old cultural relationship and largely peaceful existence of both the Sinhala Buddhists and Tamil Hindus can be ascertained from two facts.<br/><br/>First, their coming together to draft a legislation against conversion activities of the Church and missionaries, and second, the statement from the Hindu Council of Sri Lanka that the long-standing cordial relationship between the two religious communities in the Island Nation would go a long way in solving the present crisis and creating peace and harmony.<br/><br/>It is pertinent to note that Buddhists worship Hindu Gods and Goddesses and Hindus worship Buddha as an Avatar of Maha Vishnu, and both communities follow the same calendar and celebrate the same day as New Year. While condemning the politicisation of the ethnic conflict by self-serving politicians of Tamil Nadu, the Hindu Council felt that areas of common interests must be identified and along with religious commonality and cordiality, local capacities built for peace. It opined that furthering political interests and fanning Tamil chauvinism must be discouraged as it would complicate the situation and inhibit the capacity of the Indian government to help find a lasting solution by bringing both the Sri Lankan government and the Tamils to the negotiating table. <br/> <br/><b>BJP-led NDA government’s proactive role in the peace process</b><br/> <br/>Journalist M.R. Narayan Swamy (IANS) reported that the Vajpayee government played a secret but vital proactive role in the peace process between Sri Lanka and LTTE, brokered by Norway: “Overseen by New Delhi, a truce document began to be drafted. Norway was deeply involved in the exercise, roping in some of its veteran diplomats. Eventually, this translated into CFA. India also told Norwegian diplomats to let the LTTE know about the Indian involvement in the entire effort. On Feb 21, 2002, LTTE chief Velupillai Prabhakaran signed the CFA. Wickramasinghe put his signature a day later.”<br/><br/>By sheer coincidence, both Ranil Wickramasinghe and A.B. Vajpayee lost power almost at the same time (April-May 2004) and J.N. Dixit, appointed NSA by Sonia-led UPA regime, passed away within a few months of his appointment, with all the details about India’s role in bringing the CFA, which he learnt from Ranil Wickramasinghe, when the later visited India after demitting office. It is natural for a Hindu nationalist party to be deeply concerned about the well-being of a country who’s Buddhist and Hindu people are both tied to Hindu India by an umbilical cord; hence it is no surprise that it tried to bring peace in the interests of both countries. Why did the CFA fail and whether the Sonia-led government pursued the policy of the Vajpayee government with regard to Sri Lanka remain unknown?<br/>(http://www.tamilnet.com/art.html?catid=79&artid=24710 ). <br/> <br/><br/><b>The present scenario</b><br/> <br/>At present, all Dravidian parties are wreaking havoc in the run-up to the general elections, using the inflammatory Eelam issue as an election talking point. Each party is trying to whip up emotions in Tamil Nadu to bring about a ceasefire in Lanka and thereby save Prabhakaran and the LTTE.<br/><br/>When the Father Jagat Gasper Raj-Kanimozhi combine floated the “Chennai Sangamam” cultural extravaganza in 2007, Jaya TV went to town with investigative reports on the LTTE connections of Gasper Raj; Jayalalithaa wasted no time condemning the government’s association with the project. But last year, both Jayalalithaa and her TV channel kept a conspicuous silence during the Chennai Sangamam festival.<br/><br/>During the last week alone, Father Gasper Raj has been promoted by mainstream electronic media as a representative of Sri Lankan Tamils! Participating in debates on electronic news channels, he blatantly supports LTTE in the guise of voicing human rights concerns, criticizes the Indian government, and in one debate on Times Now Channel had the audacity to call Dr. Subramanian Swamy a “paid agent of Rajapakse”! Yet it is unclear if he is a Sri Lankan refugee or an Indian citizen. His antecedents and present activities in India/Tamil Nadu need thorough investigation. <br/> <br/>AIADMK leader Jayalaithaa, who condemned Karunanidhi for saying Prabhakaran was not a terrorist, has not reacted to her ally PMK leader Ramadoss’ identical statement! Why does Jayalalithaa, who questioned Sonia’s silence on Karuna’s statement, remain silent on Ramadoss’ statement? <br/> <br/>And what has the Italian-Christian-led UPA done for Sri Lankan Tamil Hindus in the last five years? Why didn’t the Sonia-led regime follow the NDA policy with regard to the Sri Lankan Tamil issue? Why was her government silent when the Geneva round of talks failed despite the presence of a live CFA? <br/> <br/><b>Sad irony, and civilisational opportunity</b><br/> <br/>Actually, the West and the Church want to Christianise Sri Lanka and Tamil Nadu and form a larger Tamil Christian State. Hence a Sinhala-Tamil divide has been created with the help of the Tamil-Christian leadership of the LTTE and the Sinhala-Christian leadership of Sri Lanka.<br/><br/>Caught in between are the Sinhala Buddhist and Tamil Hindu civil populace. To keep the issue alive without any solution, the Christian leadership of India and the Dravidian, irreligious leadership of Tamil Nadu have been used, just as this diabolic group is using Dravidian politicians and Christian NGOs who have been harvesting souls in both Tamil Nadu and Sri Lanka. It is a sad irony that the interests of hapless Tamil Hindus of Sri Lanka, who have been persecuted for long by both the Christian leadership of LTTE and the Christian leadership of Sri Lankan government, have been represented by the unholy Christian-Dravidian nexus in Tamil Nadu. <br/> <br/>As things stand in Sri Lanka, it looks as though the West might be able to save the LTTE leadership. It will try to send missionaries and NGOs to help the rehabilitation process, so it can clandestinely achieve its evangelical agenda also.<br/><br/>It is said that President Rajapakse instructed setting up of a chapel in the ‘welfare villages’ to look into the spiritual needs of the internally displaced persons and refugees, who number up to 200,000. Sensing the danger of evangelization, the Hindu Council, the Hindu Women’s Society (Saiva Mangaiyar Kazhagam), the Sai Samithi, along with other organizations, swung into action to provide medicines, clothes, soaps, detergents and sanitary napkins and other articles of basic necessity, to augment the shelter, food and water provided by the government. The Hindu Council has also organized singing of Tamil devotional hymns (Thevaram and Thiruvasagam); the Sai Samithi has organized bhajans. These organizations are likely to take care of orphaned children by sending them to orphanages run by the Sri Ramakrishna Mission.<br/><br/>The present situation must be seen as an opportunity to revive Hindu-Buddhist unity and Hindu religious heads from India, especially from Tamil Nadu, would do well to establish contact and communication channels with Buddhist leaders of Sri Lanka. This will go a long way in bringing peace and harmony to the Island Nation. For this to happen, we need a strong “Hindu” political leadership in India. Let us hope it gets ‘elected’ now.<br/><br/>The author is a senior journalist; he lives in Chennai<br/><br/><div class='zemanta-pixie'><img src='http://img.zemanta.com/pixy.gif?x-id=dba796da-ecf5-8e0f-b430-867a7411766f' class='zemanta-pixie-img'/></div></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9775174.post-77511974276700171562009-04-29T19:29:00.003-07:002009-04-29T19:29:38.858-07:00Cry O my beloved India: look at what Thy children have done to Thee<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'><span style='font-family: verdana; color: rgb(153, 0, 0); font-size: 130%;'><span style='font-weight: bold;'>While traitors are unhanged, monks suffer</span></span><br/><span style='font-family: arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 153); font-weight: bold;'>Francois Gautier</span><br/><span style='font-family: georgia; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);'>New Indian Express</span><br/><span style='font-family: georgia; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);'>April 26, 2009</span><br/><span style='font-family: georgia; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);'> </span><br/><span style='font-family: georgia;'>When Alan Paton wrote Cry The Beloved Country he was lamenting how the whites could devise, construct and implement race and colourbased social and economic injustices over the blacks in apartheidera South Africa. ‘Cry O my Beloved India’ could be very well applied to our politics, for things have gone to such a pitch of unfair, blatant and outrageousness that it baffles the mind. Yet neither the politicians, nor most of the press find anything wrong in it. Just a few examples: Varun Gandhi spent nearly three weeks in jail under the NSA, just because he said something that might be reprehensible.</span><br/><br/><span style='font-family: georgia;'>But many mullahs spew fire and venom in their Friday discourse in numerous mosques in India — and none ever gets arrested, because riots would erupt immediately.</span><br/><br/><span style='font-family: georgia;'>Sadhvi Pragnya, a Hindu woman monk, has been languishing in jail for months, even though no conclusive proof has been brought forward of her direct involvement in the Malegaon blasts case. Recently she was assaulted by a Muslim inmate at Byculla Jail and sustained injuries to her face, nose and neck. But you have the Islamist leader Abdul Nasser Madani, a prime accused in the Coimbatore bomb blasts, which cost the life of 60 people, who is standing for election in Kerala with the full backing of the CPI-M.</span><br/><br/><span style='font-family: georgia;'>In Orissa, the police arrested the BJP candidate from Kandhamal constituency, Ashok Sahu, because he accused the church of using foreign money to induce innocent tribals to convert — which is a well documented fact, please read Tehelka’s cover story.</span><br/><br/><span style='font-family: georgia;'>Yet terrorist Ajmal Amir Kasab, who went on killing people as if he was strolling in a mall, is enjoying a royal life. The entire Arthur jail has been vacated for him. 11.000 pages of his indictment charges are going to be translated in Urdu, just because he has asked for it and the court has even sanctioned the absurdity of DNA tests to determine his age. The entire country wants him judged quickly and hanged, but to please a minority, the Congress is dithering.</span><br/><br/><span style='font-family: georgia;'>In the same way, the President of India, who is pliant to the will of the Congress, will not allow Afzal Guru, who has committed treason against his own country, to be hanged, till elections are over, for fear of alienating the Muslim vote. Yet the Congress keeps telling us Indian Muslims are patriotic. Then, why should it fear losing its votes when it hangs a traitor? Nobody thought two times about hanging Godse.</span><br/><br/><span style='font-family: georgia;'>The LTTE blew up Rajiv Gandhi in a totally senseless and cruel manner, just because he was on the verge of becoming PM again. But today, because of Tamil Nadu votes, Rajiv’s widow, Sonia, sent emissaries to Sri Lanka to pressure the government to effect a ceasefire just as it is about to wipe out the LTTE after 25 years of a bloody civil war. Does it make sense to you?</span><br/><span style='font-family: georgia;'> </span><br/><span style='font-family: georgia;'>India is about equality and rising above castes; yet since 1947, politicians of this country, particularly the Congress, and later V P Singh, Mulayam Singh, or Lalu Prasad, have divided India along castes and religious lines.</span><br/><br/><span style='font-family: georgia;'>But Mayawati tops them all: she gave a push to her prime ministerial aspirations, promising Scheduled Caste status to 16 more castes if she takes power at the Centre.</span><br/><br/><span style='font-family: georgia;'>In India, you are supposed to be elected with Rs 10 lakh of white money. But everybody knows that to become an MP today, you need Rs 10 crore, as you have to boast of a hundred-car caravan when you go campaigning, hire private planes, helicopters, gift free saris, dhotis, televisions, cash even, more and more. So where do you get the balance in black money? From corrupt businessmen, from the mafia, from kickbacks.</span><br/><br/><span style='font-family: georgia;'>The tragedy is that the Indian press does not play its role, because not many mainstream newspapers or television channels complained when Varun Gandhi was in jail, while Madani, a criminal who has the lives of 60 innocent people on his hands, was not only scot free, but was standing for MP with the full backing of a political party, whose leader just said that he would not refuse the post of Prime Minister.</span><br/><br/><span style='font-family: georgia;'>The real problem is that India has been colonised for too long, contrary to China whose people remain proud of their culture and intensely nationalistic. It has resulted in a deep-rooted inferiority complex in the Indian psyche, where every intellectual is always looking towards the West for approval and Indians are so obsessed with having the western type of democracy, without adapting it to the Indian conditions.</span><br/><br/><span style='font-family: georgia;'>The system has become so perverted that only radical surgery to remove the diseased parts will start the indispensable cleansing process.</span><br/><br/><span style='font-family: georgia;'>Cry O my beloved India: look at what Thy children have done to Thee…</span><br/><br/><div class='zemanta-pixie'><img src='http://img.zemanta.com/pixy.gif?x-id=395f19ea-ffc0-8414-84d4-36ceacba1855' class='zemanta-pixie-img'/></div></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9775174.post-68812600361954742032009-04-29T19:29:00.001-07:002009-04-29T19:29:17.094-07:00Over zealous crusader<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'><span class='style54'>Wednesday, 22 April, 2009 , 02:34 PM </span><span class='style24'><br/></span><span class='style54'><span class='style62'>By: V Sundaram </span></span><br/><span class='style24'> <table border='1' align='center'><tbody><tr><td><img height='117' width='165' alt='Active Image' src='http://www.newstodaynet.com/images/stories/columns/sharpshot/2009-images/2204-sun1.gif' style='width: 165px; height: 117px;'/></td></tr></tbody></table><p align='justify'><font color='#000000'><span style='font-size: 8pt; font-family: Verdana;'><strong>In these columns, on 22 February 2008, </strong></span><span style='font-size: 8pt; font-family: Verdana;'>under the title <strong>‘From Haj Subsidy to Bethlehem Subsidy’, </strong>I had observed as follows: ‘<strong>Make no mistake. Y Samuel Rajasekara Reddy is a known Seventh Day Adventist Christian committed to the cause of evangelical destruction of Hinduism, Hindu Society and Hindu Culture. First he tried to initiate a process of Evangelical Conversion through devious means by attempting to convert the whole Thirupathi Venkatachalapathy Hill Temple Complex <em>(together with all the sacred Hills surrounding it)</em> into a Seventh Day Adventist Christian Church Complex.<span> </span>This led to massive public protests all over India and the world.<span> </span>And Y Samuel Rajasekara Reddy was forced to withdraw not so much as to protect Lord Venkateshwara of Thirupathi as to protect the temporary seals of his Office as Chief Minister.</strong></span></font></p> <p class='MsoNormal' style='margin: 0in 1.4pt 0pt; text-indent: 5.65pt; line-height: 10.5pt; text-align: justify;'><span style='font-size: 8pt; font-family: Verdana;'/></p><p class='MsoNormal' style='margin: 0in 1.4pt 0pt; text-indent: 5.65pt; line-height: 10.5pt; text-align: justify;'><span style='font-size: 8pt; font-family: Verdana;'><font color='#000000'>Earlier in these very columns on <strong>4 July 2006, </strong>I had <strong>brought to public view the anti-Hindu maneuveres </strong>of this Chief Minister in these telling words:</font></span></p><span style='font-size: 8pt; font-family: Verdana;'/> <p align='justify' class='MsoBodyText' style='margin: 0in 1.4pt 0pt; text-indent: 5.65pt; line-height: 10.5pt;'><strong><em><span style='font-size: 8pt; font-family: Verdana;'><font color='#000000'><span> </span>‘In Andhra Pradesh we have a Congress Government under a Christian Chief Minister who takes instructions from an effete UPA Government in New Delhi. The Andhra Pradesh Government has been using its official Agencies for purposes of State-sponsored, State-aided and State-abetted Proselytism in Andhra Pradesh in a shamelessly flagrant manner during the last two years.<span> </span>Y Samual Shekara Reddy seems to be under the mistaken impression that he behave like Henry VIII (1509-1547) of Tudor England and that he can take Andhra Pradesh back to the 16th century using the International Roman Catholic might of the UPA Government in New Delhi.<span> </span>.......<span> </span>Y. Samuel Rajasekara Reddy is actively promoting the physical and psychological encroachment upon the sacred spaces of Hinduism in a planned manner through carefully planted Christian Missionary Agencies.’</font></span></em></strong></p><strong><em><span style='font-size: 8pt; font-family: Verdana;'/></em></strong> <p class='MsoNormal' style='margin: 0in 1.4pt 0pt; text-indent: 5.65pt; line-height: 10.5pt; text-align: justify;'><font color='#000000'><strong><span style='font-size: 8pt; font-family: Verdana;'>The legitimate fears expressed by me on 4 July 2006 and later reiterated again on 22 February, 2008, have come true today.</span></strong><span style='font-size: 8pt; font-family: Verdana;'><span> </span><strong>I AM GIVING BELOW IN BROAD OUTLINE THE DETAILS OF THE ABOMINABLE AND PREPOSTEROUS SCHEMES OF ANDHRA PRADESH GOVERNMENT TO PROMOTE THE WELFARE OF CHRISTIANS AND MUSLIMS ONLY,</strong> <strong>TO THE STRICT EXCLUSION OF ALL THE HINDUS</strong>. <strong>With an eye on Parliamentary Elections in 2009, Y Samuel Rajashekara Reddy announced at the beginning of 2008 that his Government will</strong> <strong>‘<em>extend the Haj pilgrim scheme to Christian minorities also for their religious visits to Christian holy lands in Israel’</em>. No other Roman Catholic Christian country like France or Italy in Europe or any other Roman Catholic Country in South America gives any subsidy to any of its citizens to go on holy pilgrimages to Bethlehem!!</strong></span></font></p><p class='MsoNormal' style='margin: 0in 1.4pt 0pt; text-indent: 5.65pt; line-height: 10.5pt; text-align: justify;'><font color='#000000'><span style='font-size: 8pt; font-family: Verdana;'><strong><br/></strong></span></font></p><p class='MsoNormal' style='margin: 0in 1.4pt 0pt; text-indent: 5.65pt; line-height: 10.5pt; text-align: justify;'><font color='#000000'><span style='font-size: 8pt; font-family: Verdana;'/></font></p><p class='MsoNormal' style='margin: 0in 1.4pt 0pt; text-indent: 5.65pt; line-height: 10.5pt; text-align: justify;'><strong><span style='font-size: 8pt; font-family: Verdana;'><font color='#000000'>In another article in these columns in March 2008, I stated as follows: ‘It clearly brings out the disgusting state of appalling ignorance that prevails in the higher echelons of the State Government about the underlying principles of a secular state defined under the Indian Constitution.<span> </span>This is nothing but craven and blatantly discriminatory MINORITY APPEASEMENT POLITICS at its worst and this has been done with focus only on the Parliamentary Elections to take place next year.<span> </span>During the last two years, Samuel Rajasekara Reddy has taken a subterranean disingenuous route to introduce job and education quotas for Muslims in order to avoid legal scrutiny. And now through his Christian subsidy for pilgrimages to Bethlehem and Jerusalem by plundering the public exchequer, he earnestly hopes that he will be able to swing the votes of Christians, who comprise 1.5 per cent of the State’s population, in favour of the Congress.<span> </span>Viewed on a larger national canvas, Samuel Rajasekara Reddy’s deplorable ploy is only a logical extension of the Congress game of subsidy politics introduced by Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru after our independence on 15 August 1947.<span> </span>India is the only country in the world which gives the subsidy to the Haj Muslim Pilgrims.<span> </span>No Islamic country in the world gives this benefit to the Muslims.’</font></span></strong></p><strong><span style='font-size: 8pt; font-family: Verdana;'/></strong> <p class='MsoNormal' style='margin: 0in 1.4pt 0pt; text-indent: 5.65pt; line-height: 10.5pt; text-align: justify;'><font color='#000000'><strong><span style='font-size: 8pt; font-family: Verdana;'>For those who want documentary evidence regarding the excessive pro-Christian or pro-Islamic zeal of Andhra Pradesh Government, I would say here it is. </span></strong><span style='font-size: 8pt; font-family: Verdana;'>I have collected all the <strong>Government Orders (GO)</strong> by the Government of AP allotting funds to various Churches in Andhra Pradesh. My source of information is no secret either. It is the online portal of Govt of Andhra Pradesh listing all the <strong>GOs</strong> it has issued. The government portals are treasure houses of information; you just have to know how to dig out what you need.<span> </span>I am just giving samples of two <strong>GOs</strong> below relating to sanction of Government Money for the Construction of Churches!</span></font></p><font color='#000000'><span style='font-size: 8pt; font-family: Verdana;'/></font> <font color='#000000'><strong><em><u><span style='font-size: 8pt; font-family: Verdana;'>http://suryassk.googlepages.com/AP_GOs.htm</span></u></em></strong><strong><em><span style='font-size: 8pt; font-family: Verdana;'> </span></em></strong></font><strong><span style='font-size: 8pt; font-family: Verdana;'><br/><br/><font color='#000000'>GRANT-IN-AID SANCTIONED BY GOVERNMENT OF ANDHRA PRADESH TO VARIOUS CHRISTIAN CHURCHES FROM FEB 2008 TO JAN 2009</font></span></strong> <p class='MsoNormal' style='margin: 0in 1.4pt 0pt; text-indent: 5.65pt; line-height: 10.5pt; text-align: justify;'><strong><span style='font-size: 8pt; font-family: Verdana;'><font color='#000000'>(DATA COLLECTED FROM <u>OFFICIAL PORTAL FOR GO’S OF GOVT OF ANDHRA PRADESH</u>. PLEASE REFER TO THE SITE FOR THE COMPLETE PDFS OF THE GO’S)</font></span></strong></p><p class='MsoNormal' style='margin: 0in 1.4pt 0pt; text-indent: 5.65pt; line-height: 10.5pt; text-align: justify;'><strong><span style='font-size: 8pt; font-family: Verdana;'><font color='#000000'><br/></font></span></strong></p><p class='MsoNormal' style='margin: 0in 1.4pt 0pt; text-indent: 5.65pt; line-height: 10.5pt; text-align: justify;'><strong><span style='font-size: 8pt; font-family: Verdana;'/></strong></p><strong><span style='font-size: 8pt; font-family: Verdana;'><font color='#000000'><table border='1' align='center'><tbody><tr><td><img height='141' width='516' alt='Active Image' src='http://www.newstodaynet.com/images/stories/columns/sharpshot/2009-images/2204-sun2.gif' style='width: 516px; height: 141px;'/></td></tr></tbody></table></font></span></strong><p class='MsoNormal' style='margin: 0in 1.4pt 0pt; text-indent: 5.65pt; line-height: 10.5pt; text-align: justify;'><span style='font-size: 8pt; font-family: Verdana;'/></p><p class='MsoNormal' style='margin: 0in 1.4pt 0pt; text-indent: 5.65pt; line-height: 10.5pt; text-align: justify;'><span style='font-size: 8pt; font-family: Verdana;'><font color='#000000'><br/></font></span></p><p class='MsoNormal' style='margin: 0in 1.4pt 0pt; text-indent: 5.65pt; line-height: 10.5pt; text-align: justify;'><span style='font-size: 8pt; font-family: Verdana;'><font color='#000000'>The Christians are the most favoured citizens. Likewise the Muslims are also the favoured Children of the state. I am giving below some samples regarding GRANT-IN-AID to Wakf boards. <br/></font></span></p><p class='MsoNormal' style='margin: 0in 1.4pt 0pt; text-indent: 5.65pt; line-height: 10.5pt; text-align: justify;'><span style='font-size: 8pt; font-family: Verdana;'><font color='#000000'><br/></font></span></p><span style='font-size: 8pt; font-family: Verdana;'/> <strong><span style='font-size: 8pt; font-family: Verdana;'><font color='#000000'>GRANT-IN-AID SANCTIONED BY GOVERNMENT OF ANDHRA PRADESH TO VARIOUS WAKF BOARDS FROM FEB 2008 TO JAN 2009<br/><br/></font></span></strong> <p class='MsoNormal' style='margin: 0in 1.4pt 0pt; text-indent: 5.65pt; line-height: 10.5pt; text-align: justify;'><strong><span style='font-size: 8pt; font-family: Verdana;'><font color='#000000'>(DATA COLLECTED FROM <u>OFFICIAL PORTAL FOR GO’S OF GOVT OF ANDHRA PRADESH</u>. PLEASE REFER TO THE SITE FOR THE COMPLETE PDFS OF THE GO’S)</font></span></strong></p><p class='MsoNormal' style='margin: 0in 1.4pt 0pt; text-indent: 5.65pt; line-height: 10.5pt; text-align: justify;'><strong><span style='font-size: 8pt; font-family: Verdana;'><font color='#000000'><br/></font></span></strong></p><p class='MsoNormal' style='margin: 0in 1.4pt 0pt; text-indent: 5.65pt; line-height: 10.5pt; text-align: justify;'><strong><span style='font-size: 8pt; font-family: Verdana;'/></strong></p><strong><span style='font-size: 8pt; font-family: Verdana;'><font color='#000000'><table border='1' align='center'><tbody><tr><td><img height='166' width='510' alt='Active Image' src='http://www.newstodaynet.com/images/stories/columns/sharpshot/2009-images/2204-sun3.gif' style='width: 510px; height: 166px;'/></td></tr></tbody></table></font></span></strong><p class='MsoNormal' style='margin: 0in 1.4pt 0pt; text-indent: 5.65pt; line-height: 10.5pt; text-align: justify;'><font color='#000000'><strong><em/></strong></font></p><p class='MsoNormal' style='margin: 0in 1.4pt 0pt; text-indent: 5.65pt; line-height: 10.5pt; text-align: justify;'><font color='#000000'><strong><em><span style='font-size: 8pt; font-family: Verdana;'><br/></span></em></strong></font></p><p class='MsoNormal' style='margin: 0in 1.4pt 0pt; text-indent: 5.65pt; line-height: 10.5pt; text-align: justify;'><font color='#000000'><strong><em><span style='font-size: 8pt; font-family: Verdana;'>The following is the summary of the data I have collected from the </span></em></strong><strong><span style='font-size: 8pt; font-family: Verdana;'>GO Portal<em>:</em></span></strong></font></p><p class='MsoNormal' style='margin: 0in 1.4pt 0pt; text-indent: 5.65pt; line-height: 10.5pt; text-align: justify;'><font color='#000000'><strong><span style='font-size: 8pt; font-family: Verdana;'><em><br/></em></span></strong></font></p><font color='#000000'><strong><span style='font-size: 8pt; font-family: Verdana;'/></strong><span style='font-size: 8pt; font-family: Verdana;'/></font> <strong><span style='font-size: 8pt; font-family: Verdana;'><font color='#000000'>1.<span> </span>The GO portal is active only from February 2008, hence the data I have given relates only to 1 year (i.e., Feb 2008 to Jan 2009). An amount of 263.07 lakh has been shown as aid given to Christian institutions. This amount is the minimum spent on them, not the maximum.</font></span></strong><font color='#000000'><strong><span style='font-size: 8pt; font-family: Verdana;'>2. More than 258 churches benefited from these grants for construction/renovation of churches.</span></strong><span style='font-size: 8pt; font-family: Verdana;'/></font><font color='#000000'><strong><span style='font-size: 8pt; font-family: Verdana;'>3. An amount of 1316.54 lakh was given as aid to various Muslim institutions through Wakf boards.<span> </span></span></strong><span style='font-size: 8pt; font-family: Verdana;'/></font><font color='#000000'><strong><span style='font-size: 8pt; font-family: Verdana;'>4. Not a single GO granting any aid to a Hindu temple can be found. This in spite of the fact that in AP, the Hindu temples are managed by the Endowments Ministry (<em>put it simply they take all the money which the temples generate and divert it for the benefit of only the Christians and the Muslims).<span> <br/> </span></em></span></strong><em><span style='font-size: 8pt; font-family: Verdana;'/></em></font><p class='MsoNormal' style='margin: 0in 1.4pt 0pt 17pt; text-indent: -12.75pt; line-height: 10.5pt; text-align: justify;'><strong><span style='font-size: 8pt; font-family: Verdana;'><font color='#000000'>5. Govt takes away all the money which Hindu temples generate, but do not grant a single penny to any of its temples. It does not touch the money from Christian and Muslim institutions, but grants them huge amounts of money collected from Hindu temples.</font></span></strong></p><strong><span style='font-size: 8pt; font-family: Verdana;'/></strong> <p class='MsoNormal' style='margin: 0in 1.4pt 0pt; text-indent: 5.65pt; line-height: 10.5pt; text-align: justify;'><font color='#000000'><strong><span style='font-size: 8pt; font-family: Verdana;'><span> </span>Dr. Hanuman Chowdhry, Chief Editor</span></strong><span style='font-size: 8pt; font-family: Verdana;'> of ‘<strong>BHARATIYA PRAGNA’</strong> and <strong>VEER HANUMAN </strong>of all the <strong>Hindutva forces</strong> in <strong>Andhra Pradesh</strong> has observed: ‘<strong><em>Thus as never before in the history of Andhra Pradesh is there now an organized assault on Hinduism and Hindus and their temples during the last five years in the state. It is seen that this assault is assisted and even masterminded by some chief functionaries of the Government of Andhra Pradesh. A series of measures openly discriminating and discriminatory against Hindus and their places of worship have been launched during the last five years.’</em></strong> Some serious and most glaring ones are:</span></font></p><p class='MsoNormal' style='margin: 0in 1.4pt 0pt; text-indent: 5.65pt; line-height: 10.5pt; text-align: justify;'><font color='#000000'><span style='font-size: 8pt; font-family: Verdana;'><br/></span></font></p><p class='MsoNormal' style='margin: 0in 1.4pt 0pt 17pt; text-indent: -12.75pt; line-height: 10.5pt; text-align: justify;'><strong><span style='font-size: 8pt; font-family: Verdana;'><font color='#000000'>A.<span> </span>Giving a subsidy of Rs 25,000 for Christians in state to make pilgrimage to Jerusalem and other places in Israel/Palestine.<span> </span>I am giving below some samples from the Government website:</font></span></strong></p><p class='MsoNormal' style='margin: 0in 1.4pt 0pt 17pt; text-indent: -12.75pt; line-height: 10.5pt; text-align: justify;'><strong><span style='font-size: 8pt; font-family: Verdana;'><font color='#000000'><br/></font></span></strong></p><strong><span style='font-size: 8pt; font-family: Verdana;'/></strong> <strong><span style='font-size: 8pt; font-family: Verdana;'><font color='#000000'>ANDHRA PRADESH STATE MINORITIES FINANCE CORPORATION<br/><br/></font></span></strong> <p class='MsoNormal' style='margin: 0in 1.4pt 0pt; text-indent: 5.65pt; line-height: 10.5pt; text-align: justify;'><strong><em><span style='font-size: 8pt; font-family: Verdana;'><font color='#000000'>Statement showing the selected list of pilgrimage to Holy land of Jerusalam (2nd Batch)</font></span></em></strong></p><p class='MsoNormal' style='margin: 0in 1.4pt 0pt; text-indent: 5.65pt; line-height: 10.5pt; text-align: justify;'><strong><em><span style='font-size: 8pt; font-family: Verdana;'><font color='#000000'><br/></font></span></em></strong></p><strong><em><span style='font-size: 8pt; font-family: Verdana;'><font color='#000000'><table border='1' align='center'><tbody><tr><td><img height='167' width='500' alt='Active Image' src='http://www.newstodaynet.com/images/stories/columns/sharpshot/2009-images/2204-sun4.gif' style='width: 500px; height: 167px;'/></td></tr></tbody></table></font></span></em></strong><p class='MsoBodyTextIndent' style='margin: 0in 1.4pt 0pt; text-indent: 5.65pt; line-height: 10.5pt;'><span style='font-size: 8pt; font-family: Verdana;'/></p><p class='MsoBodyTextIndent' style='margin: 0in 1.4pt 0pt; text-indent: 5.65pt; line-height: 10.5pt;'><span style='font-size: 8pt; font-family: Verdana;'><font color='#000000'><br/></font></span></p><p class='MsoBodyTextIndent' style='margin: 0in 1.4pt 0pt; text-indent: 5.65pt; line-height: 10.5pt;'><span style='font-size: 8pt; font-family: Verdana;'><font color='#000000'>THUS THE GOVERNMENT OF ANDHRA PRADESH (GOAP) IS THE MOST EFFECTIVE TRAVEL AGENCY FOR CHRISTIAN PILGRIMS IN ANDHRA PRADESH!</font></span></p><p class='MsoBodyTextIndent' style='margin: 0in 1.4pt 0pt; text-indent: 5.65pt; line-height: 10.5pt;'><span style='font-size: 8pt; font-family: Verdana;'><font color='#000000'><br/></font></span></p><span style='font-size: 8pt; font-family: Verdana;'/> <strong><span style='font-size: 8pt; font-family: Verdana;'><font color='#000000'>B.<span> </span>There is the well established communal practice of over Rs.35,000 subsidy to Muslims for their pilgrimage to Mecca. No such subsidies are given to Hindus. On the other hand, Hindu devotees are required to buy tickets, make payments to see their god in the temples; they don’t get any subsidy for their pilgrimage to their holy places like Tirupati, Amaranth, Kasi, Somnath, Ujjain, Guruvaur, Manasarovar etc.</font></span></strong><strong><span style='font-size: 8pt; font-family: Verdana;'><font color='#000000'>C.<span> </span>A grant of Rs 15,000 grant is made to Muslims and Christians when they get married. No such financial assistance is given to the Hindus from the coffers of the government.</font></span></strong><font color='#000000'><strong><span style='font-size: 8pt; font-family: Verdana;'>D.<span> </span></span></strong><span style='font-size: 8pt; font-family: Verdana;'>Now the <strong>GOAP</strong> is celebrating at its expense <strong>SEEMANTHAM</strong> of Christian and Muslim couples only</span></font><font color='#000000'><strong><span style='font-size: 8pt; font-family: Verdana;'>E.</span></strong><span style='font-size: 8pt; font-family: Verdana;'><span> </span><strong>GOAP </strong>is implementing 4 per cent reservation for Muslims simply because they happen to be Muslims for admissions to professional colleges.<span> </span>Muslims are running many professional colleges for engineering, medicine, MBA, BCA, Dentistry, etc. This 4% reservation has been contested in the Courts and despite the Court adversely commenting on the grant of this concession; the <strong>GOAP</strong> is implementing this reservation scheme. Y Samuel Rajasekhara Reddy is waiting for the correct political moment to extend this concession to the Christians as well.<br/><br/></span></font> <p class='MsoNormal' style='margin: 0in 1.4pt 0pt 17pt; text-indent: -12.75pt; line-height: 10.5pt; text-align: justify;'><font color='#000000'><strong><span style='font-size: 8pt; font-family: Verdana;'>F.<span> </span>GOAP</span></strong><span style='font-size: 8pt; font-family: Verdana;'> <strong>is putting up huge hoardings with the Chief Minister wearing a scull cap, praying to Allah and invoking him for conferring some good to the state during the period of Haj Pilgrimage. Government is spending its money to bid farewell when and welcome to Haj pilgrims while no such thing is forthcoming for Hindus pilgrimages to Amaranth or Manasarovar or Tirupati or Kasi or Ayodhya or Somnath or Vaishnodevi or Rameshwaram or Dakshineswar or Shabarimalai or Kanya Kumari and many other temples</strong>.</span></font></p><font color='#000000'><span style='font-size: 8pt; font-family: Verdana;'/></font> <p><strong><span style='font-size: 8pt; font-family: Verdana;'><font color='#000000'>For GOAP only the Christians and Muslims are the favoured citizens of the State.<span> </span>The Hindus in Andhra Pradesh are being treated worse than the refugees from Bangladesh or Sri Lanka.</font></span></strong></p></span><br/><br/><div class='zemanta-pixie'><img src='http://img.zemanta.com/pixy.gif?x-id=6ae8bf5f-a483-8a94-a552-213c4394f402' class='zemanta-pixie-img'/></div></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9775174.post-60201184650812814302009-04-23T22:44:00.001-07:002009-04-23T22:44:54.415-07:00Over zealous crusader<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'><span class='style54'>Wednesday, 22 April, 2009 , 02:34 PM </span><span class='style24'><br/></span><span class='style54'><span class='style62'>By: V Sundaram </span></span><br/><span class='style24'> <table border='1' align='center'><tbody><tr><td><img height='117' width='165' alt='Active Image' src='http://www.newstodaynet.com/images/stories/columns/sharpshot/2009-images/2204-sun1.gif' style='width: 165px; height: 117px;'/></td></tr></tbody></table><p align='justify'><font color='#000000'><span style='font-size: 8pt; font-family: Verdana;'><strong>In these columns, on 22 February 2008, </strong></span><span style='font-size: 8pt; font-family: Verdana;'>under the title <strong>‘From Haj Subsidy to Bethlehem Subsidy’, </strong>I had observed as follows: ‘<strong>Make no mistake. Y Samuel Rajasekara Reddy is a known Seventh Day Adventist Christian committed to the cause of evangelical destruction of Hinduism, Hindu Society and Hindu Culture. First he tried to initiate a process of Evangelical Conversion through devious means by attempting to convert the whole Thirupathi Venkatachalapathy Hill Temple Complex <em>(together with all the sacred Hills surrounding it)</em> into a Seventh Day Adventist Christian Church Complex.<span> </span>This led to massive public protests all over India and the world.<span> </span>And Y Samuel Rajasekara Reddy was forced to withdraw not so much as to protect Lord Venkateshwara of Thirupathi as to protect the temporary seals of his Office as Chief Minister.</strong></span></font></p> <p class='MsoNormal' style='margin: 0in 1.4pt 0pt; text-indent: 5.65pt; line-height: 10.5pt; text-align: justify;'><span style='font-size: 8pt; font-family: Verdana;'/></p><p class='MsoNormal' style='margin: 0in 1.4pt 0pt; text-indent: 5.65pt; line-height: 10.5pt; text-align: justify;'><span style='font-size: 8pt; font-family: Verdana;'><font color='#000000'>Earlier in these very columns on <strong>4 July 2006, </strong>I had <strong>brought to public view the anti-Hindu maneuveres </strong>of this Chief Minister in these telling words:</font></span></p><span style='font-size: 8pt; font-family: Verdana;'/> <p align='justify' class='MsoBodyText' style='margin: 0in 1.4pt 0pt; text-indent: 5.65pt; line-height: 10.5pt;'><strong><em><span style='font-size: 8pt; font-family: Verdana;'><font color='#000000'><span> </span>‘In Andhra Pradesh we have a Congress Government under a Christian Chief Minister who takes instructions from an effete UPA Government in New Delhi. The Andhra Pradesh Government has been using its official Agencies for purposes of State-sponsored, State-aided and State-abetted Proselytism in Andhra Pradesh in a shamelessly flagrant manner during the last two years.<span> </span>Y Samual Shekara Reddy seems to be under the mistaken impression that he behave like Henry VIII (1509-1547) of Tudor England and that he can take Andhra Pradesh back to the 16th century using the International Roman Catholic might of the UPA Government in New Delhi.<span> </span>.......<span> </span>Y. Samuel Rajasekara Reddy is actively promoting the physical and psychological encroachment upon the sacred spaces of Hinduism in a planned manner through carefully planted Christian Missionary Agencies.’</font></span></em></strong></p><strong><em><span style='font-size: 8pt; font-family: Verdana;'/></em></strong> <p class='MsoNormal' style='margin: 0in 1.4pt 0pt; text-indent: 5.65pt; line-height: 10.5pt; text-align: justify;'><font color='#000000'><strong><span style='font-size: 8pt; font-family: Verdana;'>The legitimate fears expressed by me on 4 July 2006 and later reiterated again on 22 February, 2008, have come true today.</span></strong><span style='font-size: 8pt; font-family: Verdana;'><span> </span><strong>I AM GIVING BELOW IN BROAD OUTLINE THE DETAILS OF THE ABOMINABLE AND PREPOSTEROUS SCHEMES OF ANDHRA PRADESH GOVERNMENT TO PROMOTE THE WELFARE OF CHRISTIANS AND MUSLIMS ONLY,</strong> <strong>TO THE STRICT EXCLUSION OF ALL THE HINDUS</strong>. <strong>With an eye on Parliamentary Elections in 2009, Y Samuel Rajashekara Reddy announced at the beginning of 2008 that his Government will</strong> <strong>‘<em>extend the Haj pilgrim scheme to Christian minorities also for their religious visits to Christian holy lands in Israel’</em>. No other Roman Catholic Christian country like France or Italy in Europe or any other Roman Catholic Country in South America gives any subsidy to any of its citizens to go on holy pilgrimages to Bethlehem!!</strong></span></font></p><p class='MsoNormal' style='margin: 0in 1.4pt 0pt; text-indent: 5.65pt; line-height: 10.5pt; text-align: justify;'><font color='#000000'><span style='font-size: 8pt; font-family: Verdana;'><strong><br/></strong></span></font></p><p class='MsoNormal' style='margin: 0in 1.4pt 0pt; text-indent: 5.65pt; line-height: 10.5pt; text-align: justify;'><font color='#000000'><span style='font-size: 8pt; font-family: Verdana;'/></font></p><p class='MsoNormal' style='margin: 0in 1.4pt 0pt; text-indent: 5.65pt; line-height: 10.5pt; text-align: justify;'><strong><span style='font-size: 8pt; font-family: Verdana;'><font color='#000000'>In another article in these columns in March 2008, I stated as follows: ‘It clearly brings out the disgusting state of appalling ignorance that prevails in the higher echelons of the State Government about the underlying principles of a secular state defined under the Indian Constitution.<span> </span>This is nothing but craven and blatantly discriminatory MINORITY APPEASEMENT POLITICS at its worst and this has been done with focus only on the Parliamentary Elections to take place next year.<span> </span>During the last two years, Samuel Rajasekara Reddy has taken a subterranean disingenuous route to introduce job and education quotas for Muslims in order to avoid legal scrutiny. And now through his Christian subsidy for pilgrimages to Bethlehem and Jerusalem by plundering the public exchequer, he earnestly hopes that he will be able to swing the votes of Christians, who comprise 1.5 per cent of the State’s population, in favour of the Congress.<span> </span>Viewed on a larger national canvas, Samuel Rajasekara Reddy’s deplorable ploy is only a logical extension of the Congress game of subsidy politics introduced by Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru after our independence on 15 August 1947.<span> </span>India is the only country in the world which gives the subsidy to the Haj Muslim Pilgrims.<span> </span>No Islamic country in the world gives this benefit to the Muslims.’</font></span></strong></p><strong><span style='font-size: 8pt; font-family: Verdana;'/></strong> <p class='MsoNormal' style='margin: 0in 1.4pt 0pt; text-indent: 5.65pt; line-height: 10.5pt; text-align: justify;'><font color='#000000'><strong><span style='font-size: 8pt; font-family: Verdana;'>For those who want documentary evidence regarding the excessive pro-Christian or pro-Islamic zeal of Andhra Pradesh Government, I would say here it is. </span></strong><span style='font-size: 8pt; font-family: Verdana;'>I have collected all the <strong>Government Orders (GO)</strong> by the Government of AP allotting funds to various Churches in Andhra Pradesh. My source of information is no secret either. It is the online portal of Govt of Andhra Pradesh listing all the <strong>GOs</strong> it has issued. The government portals are treasure houses of information; you just have to know how to dig out what you need.<span> </span>I am just giving samples of two <strong>GOs</strong> below relating to sanction of Government Money for the Construction of Churches!</span></font></p><font color='#000000'><span style='font-size: 8pt; font-family: Verdana;'/></font> <font color='#000000'><strong><em><u><span style='font-size: 8pt; font-family: Verdana;'>http://suryassk.googlepages.com/AP_GOs.htm</span></u></em></strong><strong><em><span style='font-size: 8pt; font-family: Verdana;'> </span></em></strong></font><strong><span style='font-size: 8pt; font-family: Verdana;'><br/><br/><font color='#000000'>GRANT-IN-AID SANCTIONED BY GOVERNMENT OF ANDHRA PRADESH TO VARIOUS CHRISTIAN CHURCHES FROM FEB 2008 TO JAN 2009</font></span></strong> <p class='MsoNormal' style='margin: 0in 1.4pt 0pt; text-indent: 5.65pt; line-height: 10.5pt; text-align: justify;'><strong><span style='font-size: 8pt; font-family: Verdana;'><font color='#000000'>(DATA COLLECTED FROM <u>OFFICIAL PORTAL FOR GO’S OF GOVT OF ANDHRA PRADESH</u>. PLEASE REFER TO THE SITE FOR THE COMPLETE PDFS OF THE GO’S)</font></span></strong></p><p class='MsoNormal' style='margin: 0in 1.4pt 0pt; text-indent: 5.65pt; line-height: 10.5pt; text-align: justify;'><strong><span style='font-size: 8pt; font-family: Verdana;'><font color='#000000'><br/></font></span></strong></p><p class='MsoNormal' style='margin: 0in 1.4pt 0pt; text-indent: 5.65pt; line-height: 10.5pt; text-align: justify;'><strong><span style='font-size: 8pt; font-family: Verdana;'/></strong></p><strong><span style='font-size: 8pt; font-family: Verdana;'><font color='#000000'><table border='1' align='center'><tbody><tr><td><img height='141' width='516' alt='Active Image' src='http://www.newstodaynet.com/images/stories/columns/sharpshot/2009-images/2204-sun2.gif' style='width: 516px; height: 141px;'/></td></tr></tbody></table></font></span></strong><p class='MsoNormal' style='margin: 0in 1.4pt 0pt; text-indent: 5.65pt; line-height: 10.5pt; text-align: justify;'><span style='font-size: 8pt; font-family: Verdana;'/></p><p class='MsoNormal' style='margin: 0in 1.4pt 0pt; text-indent: 5.65pt; line-height: 10.5pt; text-align: justify;'><span style='font-size: 8pt; font-family: Verdana;'><font color='#000000'><br/></font></span></p><p class='MsoNormal' style='margin: 0in 1.4pt 0pt; text-indent: 5.65pt; line-height: 10.5pt; text-align: justify;'><span style='font-size: 8pt; font-family: Verdana;'><font color='#000000'>The Christians are the most favoured citizens. Likewise the Muslims are also the favoured Children of the state. I am giving below some samples regarding GRANT-IN-AID to Wakf boards. <br/></font></span></p><p class='MsoNormal' style='margin: 0in 1.4pt 0pt; text-indent: 5.65pt; line-height: 10.5pt; text-align: justify;'><span style='font-size: 8pt; font-family: Verdana;'><font color='#000000'><br/></font></span></p><span style='font-size: 8pt; font-family: Verdana;'/> <strong><span style='font-size: 8pt; font-family: Verdana;'><font color='#000000'>GRANT-IN-AID SANCTIONED BY GOVERNMENT OF ANDHRA PRADESH TO VARIOUS WAKF BOARDS FROM FEB 2008 TO JAN 2009<br/><br/></font></span></strong> <p class='MsoNormal' style='margin: 0in 1.4pt 0pt; text-indent: 5.65pt; line-height: 10.5pt; text-align: justify;'><strong><span style='font-size: 8pt; font-family: Verdana;'><font color='#000000'>(DATA COLLECTED FROM <u>OFFICIAL PORTAL FOR GO’S OF GOVT OF ANDHRA PRADESH</u>. PLEASE REFER TO THE SITE FOR THE COMPLETE PDFS OF THE GO’S)</font></span></strong></p><p class='MsoNormal' style='margin: 0in 1.4pt 0pt; text-indent: 5.65pt; line-height: 10.5pt; text-align: justify;'><strong><span style='font-size: 8pt; font-family: Verdana;'><font color='#000000'><br/></font></span></strong></p><p class='MsoNormal' style='margin: 0in 1.4pt 0pt; text-indent: 5.65pt; line-height: 10.5pt; text-align: justify;'><strong><span style='font-size: 8pt; font-family: Verdana;'/></strong></p><strong><span style='font-size: 8pt; font-family: Verdana;'><font color='#000000'><table border='1' align='center'><tbody><tr><td><img height='166' width='510' alt='Active Image' src='http://www.newstodaynet.com/images/stories/columns/sharpshot/2009-images/2204-sun3.gif' style='width: 510px; height: 166px;'/></td></tr></tbody></table></font></span></strong><p class='MsoNormal' style='margin: 0in 1.4pt 0pt; text-indent: 5.65pt; line-height: 10.5pt; text-align: justify;'><font color='#000000'><strong><em/></strong></font></p><p class='MsoNormal' style='margin: 0in 1.4pt 0pt; text-indent: 5.65pt; line-height: 10.5pt; text-align: justify;'><font color='#000000'><strong><em><span style='font-size: 8pt; font-family: Verdana;'><br/></span></em></strong></font></p><p class='MsoNormal' style='margin: 0in 1.4pt 0pt; text-indent: 5.65pt; line-height: 10.5pt; text-align: justify;'><font color='#000000'><strong><em><span style='font-size: 8pt; font-family: Verdana;'>The following is the summary of the data I have collected from the </span></em></strong><strong><span style='font-size: 8pt; font-family: Verdana;'>GO Portal<em>:</em></span></strong></font></p><p class='MsoNormal' style='margin: 0in 1.4pt 0pt; text-indent: 5.65pt; line-height: 10.5pt; text-align: justify;'><font color='#000000'><strong><span style='font-size: 8pt; font-family: Verdana;'><em><br/></em></span></strong></font></p><font color='#000000'><strong><span style='font-size: 8pt; font-family: Verdana;'/></strong><span style='font-size: 8pt; font-family: Verdana;'/></font> <strong><span style='font-size: 8pt; font-family: Verdana;'><font color='#000000'>1.<span> </span>The GO portal is active only from February 2008, hence the data I have given relates only to 1 year (i.e., Feb 2008 to Jan 2009). An amount of 263.07 lakh has been shown as aid given to Christian institutions. This amount is the minimum spent on them, not the maximum.</font></span></strong><font color='#000000'><strong><span style='font-size: 8pt; font-family: Verdana;'>2. More than 258 churches benefited from these grants for construction/renovation of churches.</span></strong><span style='font-size: 8pt; font-family: Verdana;'/></font><font color='#000000'><strong><span style='font-size: 8pt; font-family: Verdana;'>3. An amount of 1316.54 lakh was given as aid to various Muslim institutions through Wakf boards.<span> </span></span></strong><span style='font-size: 8pt; font-family: Verdana;'/></font><font color='#000000'><strong><span style='font-size: 8pt; font-family: Verdana;'>4. Not a single GO granting any aid to a Hindu temple can be found. This in spite of the fact that in AP, the Hindu temples are managed by the Endowments Ministry (<em>put it simply they take all the money which the temples generate and divert it for the benefit of only the Christians and the Muslims).<span> <br/> </span></em></span></strong><em><span style='font-size: 8pt; font-family: Verdana;'/></em></font><p class='MsoNormal' style='margin: 0in 1.4pt 0pt 17pt; text-indent: -12.75pt; line-height: 10.5pt; text-align: justify;'><strong><span style='font-size: 8pt; font-family: Verdana;'><font color='#000000'>5. Govt takes away all the money which Hindu temples generate, but do not grant a single penny to any of its temples. It does not touch the money from Christian and Muslim institutions, but grants them huge amounts of money collected from Hindu temples.</font></span></strong></p><strong><span style='font-size: 8pt; font-family: Verdana;'/></strong> <p class='MsoNormal' style='margin: 0in 1.4pt 0pt; text-indent: 5.65pt; line-height: 10.5pt; text-align: justify;'><font color='#000000'><strong><span style='font-size: 8pt; font-family: Verdana;'><span> </span>Dr. Hanuman Chowdhry, Chief Editor</span></strong><span style='font-size: 8pt; font-family: Verdana;'> of ‘<strong>BHARATIYA PRAGNA’</strong> and <strong>VEER HANUMAN </strong>of all the <strong>Hindutva forces</strong> in <strong>Andhra Pradesh</strong> has observed: ‘<strong><em>Thus as never before in the history of Andhra Pradesh is there now an organized assault on Hinduism and Hindus and their temples during the last five years in the state. It is seen that this assault is assisted and even masterminded by some chief functionaries of the Government of Andhra Pradesh. A series of measures openly discriminating and discriminatory against Hindus and their places of worship have been launched during the last five years.’</em></strong> Some serious and most glaring ones are:</span></font></p><p class='MsoNormal' style='margin: 0in 1.4pt 0pt; text-indent: 5.65pt; line-height: 10.5pt; text-align: justify;'><font color='#000000'><span style='font-size: 8pt; font-family: Verdana;'><br/></span></font></p><p class='MsoNormal' style='margin: 0in 1.4pt 0pt 17pt; text-indent: -12.75pt; line-height: 10.5pt; text-align: justify;'><strong><span style='font-size: 8pt; font-family: Verdana;'><font color='#000000'>A.<span> </span>Giving a subsidy of Rs 25,000 for Christians in state to make pilgrimage to Jerusalem and other places in Israel/Palestine.<span> </span>I am giving below some samples from the Government website:</font></span></strong></p><p class='MsoNormal' style='margin: 0in 1.4pt 0pt 17pt; text-indent: -12.75pt; line-height: 10.5pt; text-align: justify;'><strong><span style='font-size: 8pt; font-family: Verdana;'><font color='#000000'><br/></font></span></strong></p><strong><span style='font-size: 8pt; font-family: Verdana;'/></strong> <strong><span style='font-size: 8pt; font-family: Verdana;'><font color='#000000'>ANDHRA PRADESH STATE MINORITIES FINANCE CORPORATION<br/><br/></font></span></strong> <p class='MsoNormal' style='margin: 0in 1.4pt 0pt; text-indent: 5.65pt; line-height: 10.5pt; text-align: justify;'><strong><em><span style='font-size: 8pt; font-family: Verdana;'><font color='#000000'>Statement showing the selected list of pilgrimage to Holy land of Jerusalam (2nd Batch)</font></span></em></strong></p><p class='MsoNormal' style='margin: 0in 1.4pt 0pt; text-indent: 5.65pt; line-height: 10.5pt; text-align: justify;'><strong><em><span style='font-size: 8pt; font-family: Verdana;'><font color='#000000'><br/></font></span></em></strong></p><strong><em><span style='font-size: 8pt; font-family: Verdana;'><font color='#000000'><table border='1' align='center'><tbody><tr><td><img height='167' width='500' alt='Active Image' src='http://www.newstodaynet.com/images/stories/columns/sharpshot/2009-images/2204-sun4.gif' style='width: 500px; height: 167px;'/></td></tr></tbody></table></font></span></em></strong><p class='MsoBodyTextIndent' style='margin: 0in 1.4pt 0pt; text-indent: 5.65pt; line-height: 10.5pt;'><span style='font-size: 8pt; font-family: Verdana;'/></p><p class='MsoBodyTextIndent' style='margin: 0in 1.4pt 0pt; text-indent: 5.65pt; line-height: 10.5pt;'><span style='font-size: 8pt; font-family: Verdana;'><font color='#000000'><br/></font></span></p><p class='MsoBodyTextIndent' style='margin: 0in 1.4pt 0pt; text-indent: 5.65pt; line-height: 10.5pt;'><span style='font-size: 8pt; font-family: Verdana;'><font color='#000000'>THUS THE GOVERNMENT OF ANDHRA PRADESH (GOAP) IS THE MOST EFFECTIVE TRAVEL AGENCY FOR CHRISTIAN PILGRIMS IN ANDHRA PRADESH!</font></span></p><p class='MsoBodyTextIndent' style='margin: 0in 1.4pt 0pt; text-indent: 5.65pt; line-height: 10.5pt;'><span style='font-size: 8pt; font-family: Verdana;'><font color='#000000'><br/></font></span></p><span style='font-size: 8pt; font-family: Verdana;'/> <strong><span style='font-size: 8pt; font-family: Verdana;'><font color='#000000'>B.<span> </span>There is the well established communal practice of over Rs.35,000 subsidy to Muslims for their pilgrimage to Mecca. No such subsidies are given to Hindus. On the other hand, Hindu devotees are required to buy tickets, make payments to see their god in the temples; they don’t get any subsidy for their pilgrimage to their holy places like Tirupati, Amaranth, Kasi, Somnath, Ujjain, Guruvaur, Manasarovar etc.</font></span></strong><strong><span style='font-size: 8pt; font-family: Verdana;'><font color='#000000'>C.<span> </span>A grant of Rs 15,000 grant is made to Muslims and Christians when they get married. No such financial assistance is given to the Hindus from the coffers of the government.</font></span></strong><font color='#000000'><strong><span style='font-size: 8pt; font-family: Verdana;'>D.<span> </span></span></strong><span style='font-size: 8pt; font-family: Verdana;'>Now the <strong>GOAP</strong> is celebrating at its expense <strong>SEEMANTHAM</strong> of Christian and Muslim couples only</span></font><font color='#000000'><strong><span style='font-size: 8pt; font-family: Verdana;'>E.</span></strong><span style='font-size: 8pt; font-family: Verdana;'><span> </span><strong>GOAP </strong>is implementing 4 per cent reservation for Muslims simply because they happen to be Muslims for admissions to professional colleges.<span> </span>Muslims are running many professional colleges for engineering, medicine, MBA, BCA, Dentistry, etc. This 4% reservation has been contested in the Courts and despite the Court adversely commenting on the grant of this concession; the <strong>GOAP</strong> is implementing this reservation scheme. Y Samuel Rajasekhara Reddy is waiting for the correct political moment to extend this concession to the Christians as well.<br/><br/></span></font> <p class='MsoNormal' style='margin: 0in 1.4pt 0pt 17pt; text-indent: -12.75pt; line-height: 10.5pt; text-align: justify;'><font color='#000000'><strong><span style='font-size: 8pt; font-family: Verdana;'>F.<span> </span>GOAP</span></strong><span style='font-size: 8pt; font-family: Verdana;'> <strong>is putting up huge hoardings with the Chief Minister wearing a scull cap, praying to Allah and invoking him for conferring some good to the state during the period of Haj Pilgrimage. Government is spending its money to bid farewell when and welcome to Haj pilgrims while no such thing is forthcoming for Hindus pilgrimages to Amaranth or Manasarovar or Tirupati or Kasi or Ayodhya or Somnath or Vaishnodevi or Rameshwaram or Dakshineswar or Shabarimalai or Kanya Kumari and many other temples</strong>.</span></font></p><font color='#000000'><span style='font-size: 8pt; font-family: Verdana;'/></font> <p><strong><span style='font-size: 8pt; font-family: Verdana;'><font color='#000000'>For GOAP only the Christians and Muslims are the favoured citizens of the State.<span> </span>The Hindus in Andhra Pradesh are being treated worse than the refugees from Bangladesh or Sri Lanka.</font></span></strong></p></span><br/><br/><div class='zemanta-pixie'><img src='http://img.zemanta.com/pixy.gif?x-id=ab899937-7bfa-8b7d-a713-a6169eb06157' class='zemanta-pixie-img'/></div></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9775174.post-81677349027528121592009-04-23T22:39:00.001-07:002009-04-23T22:39:49.315-07:00Now it is the turn of the 10 rupee coin!<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'><span class='style54'>Tuesday, 21 April, 2009 , 03:20 PM </span><span class='style24'><br/> <p align='justify' class='MsoNormal' style='margin: 0in 0in 0pt;'><big><big><big><font color='#000000'><strong><span style='font-size: 8pt; font-family: Verdana;'>Long awaited Rs. 10 Coin is now officially in circulation. Please go through the enclosed notification issued by RBI.</span></strong></font></big></big></big></p><p align='justify' class='MsoNormal' style='margin: 0in 0in 0pt;'><br/><font color='#000000'><strong><span style='font-size: 8pt; font-family: Verdana;'/></strong></font></p></span><p align='justify' class='MsoNormal' style='margin: 0in 0in 0pt;'><font color='#000000'><strong><span style='font-size: 8pt; font-family: Verdana;'/></strong></font></p> <p align='justify' class='MsoNormal' style='margin: 0in 0in 0pt;'><span style='font-size: 8pt; font-family: Verdana;'/></p><span style='font-size: 8pt; font-family: Verdana;'><font color='#000000'><table cellspacing='0' cellpadding='0' border='1' align='center'><tbody><tr><td> <img height='213' width='282' alt='Active Image' src='http://www.newstodaynet.com/images/stories/columns/sharpshot/2009-images/2104-sun1.gif' style='width: 282px; height: 213px;'/></td></tr></tbody></table><br/>The <strong>Central Government</strong> has issued a new <strong>10 Rupee Coin</strong> with a ‘<strong>Christian crusader’s cross’</strong> on side of the coin presented on the <strong>right</strong> above. Though the year 2006 is inscribed on one side of the coin displayed above, yet the fact that has to be noted is that it has been reported only today that such a coin has just been issued. In 2006, the UPA Government had issued a <strong>2 Rupee Coin</strong> with the <strong><em>same</em></strong> <strong>Christian Crusader’s Cross</strong> on one side. <strong>Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi had taken this issue to the pointed attention of the people of Gujarat during his campaign in December 2007 Gujarat Assembly election rallies. After much popular protest this coin was surreptitiously withdrawn without much ado.</strong> I am displaying below the photographs of <strong>TWO SIDES of both the 2 Rupee Coin and the 1 Rupee Coin, </strong>to illustrate my point.<br/><br/></font></span><span class='style24'><span style='font-size: 8pt; font-family: Verdana;'><font color='#000000'><table cellspacing='0' cellpadding='0' border='1' align='center'><tbody><tr><td><img height='100' width='268' alt='Active Image' src='http://www.newstodaynet.com/images/stories/columns/sharpshot/2009-images/2104-sun2.gif' style='width: 268px; height: 100px;'/></td></tr></tbody></table><br/><font color='#000000'><strong><span style='font-size: 8pt; font-family: Verdana;'>The Double-Barreled Christian Cross</span></strong><span style='font-size: 8pt; font-family: Verdana;'> <strong>can be seen on</strong> <strong>2 Rupee Coin on the left side above. The common and usual market-place Christian Cross can be seen on 1 Rupee Coin on the right side above. Later when there were wide-spread protests, the UPA Government, in the manner of an illicit distiller and dealer in contra-band opium, quietly withdrew those coins from circulation and replaced those coins with the newly designed coins shown below.<br/><br/></strong></span></font></font></span><font color='#000000'><span style='font-size: 8pt; font-family: Verdana;'><strong/><table cellspacing='0' cellpadding='0' border='1' align='center'><tbody><tr><td><img height='127' width='249' alt='Active Image' src='http://www.newstodaynet.com/images/stories/columns/sharpshot/2009-images/2104-sun3.gif' style='width: 249px; height: 127px;'/> </td></tr></tbody></table><p align='justify'><strong><br/><span style='font-size: 8pt; font-family: Verdana;'><font color='#000000'>Please see the <strong>Thumbs Up</strong> design of <strong>1 Rupee Coin</strong> on the <strong>left above</strong>. Please also see the 2 finger sign on the <strong>2 Rupee Coin</strong> on the <strong>right above.<br/><br/></strong></font></span><strong><span style='font-size: 8pt; font-family: Verdana;'><font color='#000000'>What is the difference between the Christian Cross seen on 2 Rupee Coins minted in 2006 and 1 Rupee Coins minted in 2005? The Christian Cross put into the 2 Rupee Coins issued in 2006 was a calculated and mischievous pseudo-secular experiment deriving its sanction from Suppressio Veri Suggestio Falsi (<em>suppression of truth and suggestion of falsehood</em>) for which the UPA Government in general and the Congress Party in particular own global monopolistic patents. Perhaps there was an element or grain of vagueness about it. Such vagueness or ambiguity or ambivalence as existed about the Christian Cross on the 2 Rupee Coins of 2006, was completely removed in respect of the 1 Rupee Coins of 2005. The Christian Cross inscribed on the 1 Rupee Coins of 2005 makes it loud and clear that it is a routine Christian Cross and the main aim of the UPA Government is the enforced Evangelization of India.<br/><br/></font></span></strong><strong><em><span style='font-size: 8pt; font-family: Verdana;'><font color='#000000'>This indeed is unfortunate. Who is behind all this calculated national mischief? Is it the Congress Party and its pseudo-secular anti-Hindu allies? Is it Sonia Gandhi and her caucus with its own convoluted conduit pipes? Is it an over enthusiastic Christian bureaucrat dreaming of a Padma Award or some sinecure post of Governor of a State or Diplomatic post abroad after his retirement? These are the questions that can be asked by every responsible and enlightened patriotic citizen heroically fighting against national subversion and national sabotage in India today.<br/><br/></font></span></em></strong><font color='#000000'><strong><span style='font-size: 8pt; font-family: Verdana;'>This nefarious process set in motion in 2004 has been taken to the next definitive stage with the recent notification of the RBI relating to the new 10 Rupee Coins bearing the same Christian Crusader’s Cross</span></strong><span style='font-size: 8pt; font-family: Verdana;'> <strong>which was put on 2 Rupee Coin minted in 2006</strong>. <strong>Anybody can see that the 2 Rupee Coin minted in 2006 bearing the ‘Christian Crusader’s Cross’</strong> shown above resembles the Gold Coin issued by <strong>Louis the Pious (778 AD-840 AD), also known as Louis I, Louis the Fair, and Louis the Debonaire. He was Emperor and King of France from 814 to his death in 840. He issued a coin bearing a Christian Crusader’s Cross which has been copied by the Mint Master who included the same Cross on one side of the new 2 Rupee coin minted in 2006</strong>.<strong> Now the same Christian Crusader’s Cross has again been minted on one side of the 10 Rupee Coin presented at the top of this article.<span> </span>I am presenting below the photographs of the two sides of the Gold Coin issued by Louis the Pious in 820 AD.<br/><br/></strong></span></font></strong></p><strong/></span></font><font color='#000000'><span style='font-size: 8pt; font-family: Verdana;'><strong><table cellspacing='0' cellpadding='0' border='1' align='center'><tbody><tr><td><img height='114' width='248' alt='Active Image' src='http://www.newstodaynet.com/images/stories/columns/sharpshot/2009-images/2104-sun4.gif' style='width: 248px; height: 114px;'/></td></tr><tr><td><p align='center'><span><strong><font color='#000000'>Gold Coin issued by Louis the Pious in 820 AD</font></strong><strong><font color='#000000'> </font></strong></span></p></td></tr></tbody></table><br/></strong></span></font><strong><span style='font-size: 8pt; font-family: Verdana;'><font color='#000000'>Please see the Christian Crusader’s Cross on the Left side of the coin above.<span> </span>The same Crusader’s Cross was minted on one side of the 2 Rupee Coin in 2006 which has also been displayed above. As I have observed earlier, the Government of India used the routine Cross on one side of the 1 Rupee Coin minted in 2005.<span> </span>When there was a massive public outcry against these Christian Coins, the UPA Government quietly withdrew these coins from circulation.<span> </span>After observing a lull period of cultural armistice against the besieged Hindus of India, Sonia led UPA Government has now come out with 10 Rupee Coin bearing the same Christian Crusader’s Cross of Louis the Pious (<em>French Emperor from 814 AD to 840 AD</em>).<br/><br/></font></span></strong><font color='#000000'><strong><span style='font-size: 8pt; font-family: Verdana;'>I am presenting below the different types of Crosses, including the Crusader’s Cross issued by Louis the Pious in the 9</span></strong><strong><span style='font-size: 8pt; font-family: Verdana;'>th</span></strong><strong><span style='font-size: 8pt; font-family: Verdana;'> Century.<br/><br/><table cellspacing='0' cellpadding='0' border='1' align='center'><tbody><tr><td> <img height='169' width='266' alt='Active Image' src='http://www.newstodaynet.com/images/stories/columns/sharpshot/2009-images/2104-sun5.gif' style='width: 266px; height: 169px;'/></td></tr></tbody></table><br/></span></strong></font><strong><span style='font-size: 8pt; font-family: Verdana;'><font color='#000000'>The VIII Cross shown above is the Christian Crusader’s Cross which was minted in 2 Rupee Coin in 2006 and has again been minted in 10 Rupee Coin also shown as minted in 2006. <em>Even a casual observer cannot miss noticing the fact that there is usually a planned gestation period of 4 years in the Gorilla cultural assaults on the soul of Bharat Mata launched by the UPA Government!<br/><br/></em></font></span></strong><strong><span style='font-size: 8pt; font-family: Verdana;'><font color='#000000'>In VIII Christian Crusader’s Cross shown above, we can see that there are 4 Dots in the Cross, two on either side of the vertical line of the Cross. During the days of the Crusades and the Byzantine Empire, they were known a Besant or Besants. Besant was also called solidus, a gold coin of the Roman Empire used in Europe until the 15th century. Four dots (Besants) on the cross of Louis the Pious (9th century) later evolved into the ‘Jerusalem Cross’ which was used as a coat of arms for the Latin kingdom in Jerusalem. It was also called ‘Crusader’s Cross’ during the Crusades. The four small dots <em>(later small crosses) </em>are symbolic of the four Gospels proclaimed to the four corners of the earth, beginning in Jerusalem. Four canonical gospels are attributed to the Four Evangelists: <em>Gospel of Matthew, Gospel of Mark, Gospel of Luke and Gospel of John</em>. The large cross symbolizes the person of Christ. <em>‘Go into the whole world and proclaim the Gospel to every creature. He who believes and is baptized will be saved; he who does not believe will be condemned’</em> (Mk 16:15-16).<br/><br/></font></span></strong><strong><span style='font-size: 8pt; font-family: Verdana;'><font color='#000000'>Two years back, when the UPA government issued 2 Rupee Coin with the same Christian Crusader’s Cross (Jerusalem Cross) on one side. Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi strongly took up this issue to the notice of the people in Gujarat during the December 2007 Gujarat assembly election meetings. After much public protest this coin was withdrawn.<br/><br/><table cellspacing='0' cellpadding='0' border='1' align='center' style='width: 278px; height: 182px;'><tbody><tr><td><img height='150' width='282' alt='Active Image' src='http://www.newstodaynet.com/images/stories/columns/sharpshot/2009-images/2104-sun6.gif' style='width: 282px; height: 150px;'/></td></tr><tr><td><span><strong><font color='#000000'><p align='center'><strong><span style='font-size: 8pt; font-family: Verdana;'><font color='#000000'>Narendra Modi showing to the people 2 Rupee Coin with Christian Crusader’s Cross</font></span></strong></p></font></strong></span></td></tr></tbody></table><br/><br/></font></span></strong><strong><span style='font-size: 8pt; font-family: Verdana;'><font color='#000000'>Now again, the central government has come with Rs 10 coin depicting the same Christian Crusader’s Cross (Jerusalem cross). It is same story again as was the case couple of years ago with 2 rupee coin.<br/><br/></font></span></strong><font color='#000000'><strong><em><span style='font-size: 8pt; font-family: Verdana;'>In this terrible context of UPA Government’s savage assault on the soul of Bharat Mata (Our Nation) today, I cannot help quoting the immortal words of </span></em></strong><strong><span style='font-size: 8pt; font-family: Verdana;'>Shri Aurobindo from his last political speech at Uttarpara on 30 May, 1909: ‘I say it again today, but I put it in another way. I say no longer that nationalism is a creed, a religion, a faith; I say that it is the SANATAN DHARMA WHICH FOR US IS NATIONALISM. This Hindu nation was born with the Sanatan Dharma; with it, it moves; and with it, it grows. When the Sanatan Dharma declines, then the nation declines, and if the Sanatan Dharma were capable of perishing, then along with the Sanatan Dharma, the nation would also perish. The Sanatan Dharma, is indeed nationalism. This is the message that I have to speak to you’. If India is held together, it is because of SANATANA DHARMA’’.<span> </span><em>The ideology of Sonia Congress Government today is to decimate every trace of Sanatana Dharma on the soil of India.</em></span></strong></font></span><span class='style24'/><br/><br/><div class='zemanta-pixie'><img src='http://img.zemanta.com/pixy.gif?x-id=532868c7-7e02-8b9e-9824-19b479ef6779' class='zemanta-pixie-img'/></div></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9775174.post-82533640821424559092009-04-23T22:30:00.001-07:002009-04-23T22:30:03.228-07:00Chargesheet against Sonia (Maino) Gandhi and Her CongressParty<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>Narain Kataria's Chargesheet against Sonia (Maino) Gandhi and her Congress Party.....<br/>Raspal Bhabra<br/><br/>Shocking collection of data:<br/><br/> * In the last five years, Sonia (Antonia Maino) Gandhi, the President of Congress Party, and UPA Chairperson, has emerged as a very powerful woman in India. She is a devout Catholic Christian. To the dismay and disenchantment of Hindus, instead of adopting Hinduismafter her marriage to Rajiv Gandhi, she / her family allegedly made it a pre-condition of her marriage that Rajiv Gandhi convert to Catholicism. Or at least that her children (Raul aka Rahu Gandhi and Bianca aka Priyanka) be raised as Christians.<br/><br/> * Because of her belief rooted in the Christian faith that her religion is superior to the native Hindu Dharma, she feels herself more comfortable in the company of non-Hindus. It is thus natural that she surrounds herself with mostly the Christian and Muslim advisors. For that reason, she is very close to Ahmed Patel, A. K. Anthony, Oscar Fernandes, Abdul Rahman Antulay, E. Ahmed, Y. S. Rajasekhara Reddy (a Christian), Dr. Shakeel Ahmad, Shafi Qureshi, John Dayal, Mohammad Hamid Ansari, and Ambika Soni (also a Christian).<br/><br/> * During the Congress rule in the last five years, the condition of Hindus has gone from bad to worse. The worst form of repression has been unleashed on Hindus. Hindus today feel helpless, rudderless, leaderless and under an invisible asphyxiating hold. Hindu icons have been arrested (Shankaracharya of Kanchi Sri Jayendra Sarasvati), Hindu saints (Swami Laxmananda Saraswati) murdered, Hindu Sadhvis (Pragya Singh) tortured, patriotic Hindus treated like hard-core criminals (Col. Purohit), armed forces weakened and demoralized (Batla House incident), Hindu Dharma vilified and demonized (Ram Sethu), and the minorities pampered at the cost of national security (Afzal Guru).<br/><br/> * In addition, under the “Muslims-First” program initiated by the robot Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, “sites for Haj houses, waiver of loans to the tune of Rs. 500 crore for Muslims in Andhra Pradesh alone, Rs. 140 crore worth scholarships to Muslim boys and girls in Andhra Pradesh, payment of Rs. 200,000 per year for 20,000 Muslims students studying engineering and Rs. 50,000 per year for several thousand Muslims studying medicine” (Dr. T.H. Chowdhary in Organizer) – even pension to the children of terrorists – have been announced!<br/><br/> * In order to garner the Moslem votes, a staggering sum of Rs. 550 corers has been allocated in the next Five Year Plan for promotion of an Urdu televisionchannel. [http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/NEWS/India/Efforts_on_to_promote_Urdu_channel_Govt/articleshow/811680.cms].<br/><br/> * In this connection, it should be noted that during Islamic rule in India, Tipu Sultan had imposed Urdu on Karnataka Hindus and Nizam of Hyderabad had done the same on Telegu speaking Hindus.<br/><br/> * In a step closer to imposing the Islamic legal system, Sharia, in largely Hindu India, the India’s Human Resources and Development (HRD) Ministry is now all set to treat the madrasa certification as being equivalent to the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE).<br/><br/> * In order to further accelerate the Islamization of India, the Ministry of Home Affairs has instructed the Central Para-military Forces to make certain that 20 percent of their recruitment is made from the Muslim community.<br/><br/> * With a clear view to appease Muslims, the Government of India led by the Congress Party has consistently avoided executing the orders of the Supreme Court to hang Mohammed Afzal Guru, the convicted mastermind of the vicious armed attack on Indian Parliament in December 2001.<br/><br/> * “There are approximately 207,000 Hindu temples in Karnataka with a total income of about 72 crores. Out of these, the (Congress) government spends merely 6 crores on the upkeep of temples; the rest, though collected from the Hindu devotees, is recklessly spent on Muslim madrasas and Christian churches; a phenomenal Rs 50 crores on madrassas and Rs 10 crores on churches”. (Sri Sri Ravi Shankar, India Today, in 2003)<br/><br/> * The government control of Hindu temples in secular India is a blatant violation of religious freedom in the country. In Andhara Pradesh alone, the 85 percent of the temple revenues from The Tirupati Devasthanam –- a whopping Rs. 3,100 crores –- are transferred into the state exchequer, which then are freely spent on Muslim and Christian causes.<br/><br/> * On encouragement of the local Congress Rajya Sabha member, the converted Christian tribals who recently joined Maoist groups had Swami LakshmanandaSarasvati and his four disciples murdered in the State of Orissa.<br/><br/> * Instead of expelling the Bangladeshi Muslim infiltrators, the Congress government’s anti-Hindu stance came to fore when 1,500 Hindu refugees from Bangladesh, now settled in Kendrapara district of Orissa, were issued the Quit India notices!<br/><br/> * The Congress Party government at the Center made a big blunder by repealing the Prevention of Terrorist Activities Act (POTA). This action emboldened the Islamic terrorists to ravage and batter with impunity the 20 million people of Mumbai on November 26, 2008, thereby killing over 200 Indian citizens and humiliating the entire nation in front of the whole world. What a disgrace!<br/><br/> * Then, as if to sprinkle salt on the wounds of Indians (read Hindus) recovering from the shock of Mumbai massacre, the India’s Minister of State for External Affairs E. Ahmed , a fundamentalist Islamist and the President of Indian Union Muslim League, had the temerity to force India’s Consul General Prabhu Dayal in New York to celebrate the Eid festivity at the Consulate within weeks of the terrible carnage. <br/><br/> * Mumbai Police Commissioner admitted on February 12, 2009, that 14 to 16 Indian Muslims too were involved in the 26/11 Mumbai attacks, besides the Pakistani attackers. But UPA government led by the Congress party Chairperson Sonia Gandhi keeps misleading the nation by saying that all jihadists were Pakistanis.<br/><br/> * The Central Human Resources and Development Minister, Shri Arjun Singh has concluded an agreement with Saudi Arabia under which a few billion dollars will be given to the Islamic universities in India for the purpose of establishing Islamic Centers. This is a very dangerous development. We firmly believe that this ill-conceived move is not onlyanti-Hindu and anti-India but it also is treacherous activity designed to pull India fast into the vortex of World Pan-Islamic movement.*<br/><br/> * While the Foreign Minister Pranab Mookerjee has been exhorting on Pakistan to shut down the terrorist training centers in their country, no drastic steps are taken in our own country – Azam Garh, in U.P., and in the State of Kerala – to stop the jihadists from transforming India into a trainingground for the home-grown terrorists.<br/><br/> * Most of the newspapers in India are controlled by the Government and are the classic example of suppressio veri or the concealment of truth (e.g. the attack by Muslim goons on Telegraph Newspaper in Kolkata was blacked out) and suggestio falsi or a statement of a falsehood amounting to being a fraud (e.g. negative publicity was given to attack on pubs in Bangaluru with a mal-intent to slander the Hindu groups).<br/><br/> * Now, a few words about Aam Admi, the Sonia Gandhi’s pet political expression to describe the country’s common man… <br/><br/> * According to M.J. Akbar’s article in The Pioneer, when the present Sonia government came to power in year 2004, there were 270 million people in country below the poverty line. The number of the poorpeople, however, has increased by 55 million, or 20% – a horrifying rise.<br/><br/> * In the past India was ruled by Muslims and Christians. It is a matter of shame and disgust that India is still being ruled by the minorities. Hindus cannot count on the UPA government to protect their interests, life and property. Since Hindus make up about 83% of the total population, it is obligatory on them to be more vigilant and circumspect. <br/><br/> * Hindus should galvanize the public distrust of Gandhi dynasty. They should throw out the eminences grise (persons exercising power orinfluence without holding an official position) of India in the next general elections and reclaim political power for the majority population. If<br/><br/> * Hindus shed their centuries old torpor, and work in unison, the artificially assembled UPA government will fall like ninepins.<br/><br/><div class='zemanta-pixie'><img src='http://img.zemanta.com/pixy.gif?x-id=07710b9f-bdea-8b26-8229-c160ad278b22' class='zemanta-pixie-img'/></div></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9775174.post-4291597560325836302009-04-22T19:08:00.001-07:002009-04-22T19:08:58.932-07:00For the good of India, her civilisation, her immense spirituality and culture, Sonia Gandhi has to go<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'><div align='center'><b>Sonia’s presence in Delhi is costing India dearly</b><br/><br/>Francois Gautier<br/>expressbuzz.com<br/>Dec 02, 2008<br/></div><br/>In 1898, the French writer Emile Zola wrote an open letter to the then French president in the newspaper L’Aurore, titled j’accuse (‘I accuse’), where he accused the French government of anti- Semitism towards Captain Alfred Dreyfus, a Jewish officer unfairly condemned for treason.<br/><br/>Now it is time for the people of India to say openly that which many, including within the Congress, think secretly and may utter in the privacy of their chambers.<br/><br/>It is not about Manmohan Singh, it is not even about Shivraj Patil, the fall guy; it is about that one person, the Eminence Grise of India. She who pulls all the strings, She whose shadow looms menacingly over so many, She who holds no portfolio, is just a simple elected MP, like 540 others, but rules like an empress.<br/><br/>Sometimes, one’s very physical presence at the top is enough to move things, to influence the course of events. One word from Her, a glance, a frown, are enough to put the whole heavy, inert, unwilling machinery of India’s bureaucracy and political system in full motion. Sometimes She need not say anything: in the true tradition of Bhakti, Her ministers, Her secretaries, interpret Her silences and rush to cater to Her western and Christian identity.<br/><br/>Nevertheless, she has said and acted enough so that one day she may stand accused on the pages of History for what she must have done to India.<br/><br/>I accuse Sonia Gandhi as being responsible for the tragedy of Mumbai, having emasculated India’s intelligence agencies by stopping them from investigating terror attacks in the last four years, including the Mumbai train blasts. She has also neutralised the ATS by ordering them at all costs to ferret out ‘Hindu terrorism’, which if it exists, has wrought minuscule damage compared to what Islamic terror has done since 2004. Did the US send a warning to India that there may be an attack on Mumbai and that the Taj would be one of the targets? Were these ignored because the ATS was too busy chasing Hindu ‘terrorists’ on Sonia’s orders?<br/><br/>I accuse Sonia and her government of having made the NSG the laughing stock of the world. How many times did the NSG (who took ten hours to reach Mumbai) claim that it had “sanitised the Taj and that the operation was over” and how many times did a bomb go off immediately after? For the last 20 years, the NSG has guarded VIPs and has become soft. See the comments of Israeli terror specialists, who said the NSG should have first sanitised the immediate surroundings of the places of conflict, kept the bystanders and press (who gave terrorists watching TV in the Taj rooms a perfect report of the security forces’ whereabouts) out of the place, gathered enough information about the position of the terrorists and hostages before taking action, instead of immediately engaging the terrorists, and ensuring the deaths of so many hostages.<br/><br/>I accuse Sonia of having let her Christian and Western background, in four years, divide India on religious and caste lines in a cynical and methodical manner.<br/><br/>I accuse Sonia of weakening India’s spirit of sacrifice and courage, so that 20 terrorists (or less) held at ransom the financial capital of India for more than three days.<br/><br/>I accuse Sonia Gandhi of always pointing the finger at Pakistan, when terrorism in India is now mostly homegrown, even if it takes help, training, refuge and arms from Pakistan; of not warning Indians of the grave dangers of Islamic terror for cynical election purposes.<br/><br/>I accuse Sonia of being an enemy of the Hindus, who always gave refuge to persecuted minorities, and who are the only people in the world to accept that God may manifest under different names, in different epochs, using different scriptures.<br/><br/>I accuse Sonia Gandhi of taking advantage of India’s respect for women, its undue fascination with the Gandhi name, and its stupid mania for White Skin.<br/><br/>I accuse Sonia of exploiting the Indian Press’ obsession with her. She hardly ever gave interview in 20 years, except scripted ones to NDTV, yet the Press always protects her, never blames her and keeps silent over her covert role.<br/><br/>I accuse Sonia and her government of trying to make heroes of subservient and inefficient men to hide the humiliation of Mumbai 26/11. Before going to his death, Hemant Karkare, the ATS chief, was shown on television clumsily handling his helmet, as someone who uses it very rarely. Why did he die of bullet wounds in the chest when he was wearing a bullet-proof vest? Either Indian vests are inferior quality or he was not wearing one.<br/><br/>How did the terrorists who killed him and his fellow officer escape in the same vehicle used by the ATS chief ? Why did he and his officers go into Cama Hospital without ascertaining where the terrorists were? We honour his death, but these facts say a lot about the ATS’ battle-readiness.<br/><br/>Will someone in the Congress, someone who feels more Indian than faithful to Sonia, stand up and speak the truth? Who said, “Go after Hindu terrorists”? Who insisted on putting pressure on BJP governments in Karnataka or Orissa for so-called persecution of Christians, when Christians have always practised their faith in total freedom here, while their missionaries are converting hundreds of thousands of innocent tribals and Dalits with the billions of dollars given by gullible westerners? Who said, “Go soft on Islamic terrorism”? Who wants to do away with India’s nuclear deterrence in the face of Pakistani and Chinese nuclear threats, by pushing at all costs the one sided Indo-US nuclear deal, which makes no secret of its intention to denuclearise India militarily?<br/><br/>I am sure Sonia Gandhi has good qualities: she probably was a good wife to Rajiv, a good daughter in law to Indira and by all accounts, she is a good mother to her children. One also hears first-hand reports about her concern for smaller people, her dignity in the suffering that befell her when her husband was blown to pieces, and her courtesy with visitors.<br/><br/>Nevertheless, she is a danger to India.<br/><br/>Her very presence, both physical and occult, open the doors to forces inimical to India. Even Indian Christians should understand that she is not a gift to them: her presence at the top has emboldened fanatics like John Dayal or Valson Thampu, who practise an orthodox Christianity prevalent in the West in the early 20th century, but no longer, to radicalise their flock. Indian Christians should recognise that they have a much better deal here than Christians or Hindus have in Pakistan, Bangladesh, Indonesia or Saudi Arabia.<br/><br/>Under Sonia’s rule, Indian Muslims, too, have been used as electoral pawns. They have been encouraged to shun the Sufi streak, a blend of the best of Islam and Vedanta, for a hard-line Sunni brand imported from Saudi Arabia, Pakistan and Afghanistan.<br/><br/>For the good of India, her civilisation, her immense spirituality and culture, Sonia Gandhi has to go and a government that thinks Indian, breathes nationalism and will protect its citizens must be voted to power.<br/><br/><div class='zemanta-pixie'><img src='http://img.zemanta.com/pixy.gif?x-id=8cb9bf2f-d3ee-8e22-b168-53f418f27497' class='zemanta-pixie-img'/></div></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9775174.post-3792059160926281042009-04-21T22:47:00.001-07:002009-04-21T22:47:35.258-07:00UP schools converting to madrassas: Report<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>Press Trust of India<br/><br/>Monday, April 20, 2009, (New Delhi)The Centre has sought a status report from the Uttar Pradesh government on media reports that several private schools in the state have converted into madrassas in the last two months to avail of special benefits.<br/><br/>Taking cognisance of reports that scores of private schools converted into madrassas, the Ministry of HRD has asked the state government to conduct an enquiry and submit a report, stating the factual position.<br/><br/>According to reports, schools have been converted with the aim to get benefit from the Scheme for Providing Quality Education in Madarassa (SPQEM), launched by the Union government in February this year.<br/><br/>In the letter to the state government, the ministry said they should find out the affiliations and standing of the schools which have been reportedly converted.<br/><br/>“The state government has been asked to state the action taken by it in curbing the trend, if such conversion is happening,” a senior ministry official said in New Delhi.<br/><br/>Reports said most of these schools are run by Muslims and do not have more than one year of standing. However, as per norms madrassas, which have been in existence at least for three years and registered under central or state government Acts or Madrassa Board or with WAKF Boards or NIOS shall be eligible to apply for assistance under this programme.<br/><br/>“Ultimately the state government will recommend the madrassas for consideration under the scheme. So they should be careful while recommending the madrassas,” the official said.<br/>Reports said the schools which have been converted were formal schools and were following syllabus and textbooks of the state education board.<br/><br/>At present, about 3000 madrassas from Uttar Pradesh are getting funding from the government under several schemes, including Madrassa Modernisation Programme.<br/><br/>The government launched the SPQEM scheme in February which aims at improving quality education in madrassas by introducing modern subjects and providing vocational training to students.<br/><br/>The scheme will provide funds to madrassas and maktabs to introduce modern subjects like Science, Mathematics, Social Studies, Hindi and English in their curriculum. The scheme envisages an expenditure of about Rs 325 crore in the Xith Plan.<br/><br/>The financial assistance will be given yearly under the scheme through the state governments/Union Territory Administrations in whose jurisdiction the institution is situated.<br/><br/><div class='zemanta-pixie'><img src='http://img.zemanta.com/pixy.gif?x-id=a6e6881b-822f-890b-b8f8-0a6f0b4ef764' class='zemanta-pixie-img'/></div></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0