CHETAN BHAGAT
Sunday : Time of India : New Delhi : Aug, 29.2010
August 29, 2010
I am not going to harp on about how messed up the Commonwealth Games are. Enough has been written. The CWG 2010 is, by far, the biggest and most blatant, exercise in corruption in independent India’s history. Not only have they stolen public money, they’ve made a mess of the job at hand. Delhi is dug up and the official anthem (and ringtone) of the Games should be the neverending sound of drilling. If you worry about whether or not the work will finish on time, imagine the plight of Delhi’s residents after the Games. The dug-up roads will never be repaired; the potholes will remain as souvenirs, symbolic of the great daylight robbery of 2010.
Posturing, something this government has a PhD in, is in full progress. Enquiry reports, vague statements, tossing responsibility from one person to the other will continue, until the Games are over. After that, fingers crossed, people will forget. Bollywood stars will do the closing ceremony and the entertainment provided will somewhat compensate for the loot-fest.
In the middle of all this, there will be propaganda campaigns to ‘save India’s image’ and get the Games done somehow. People will be expected to support the event - after all, the pride of India is at stake. The great Indian youth will be called upon to fill stadiums and add energy to the event.
However, if we, the Indian people, support these Games, it will be a big mistake. This is a golden chance for citizens to put this corrupt and insensitive government to shame. Usually corruption issues are local in nature and they never really get the national traction or resonance that these Games have offered.
The CWG is an amazing opportunity because all Indians have been robbed at the same time. Add to that the fact that the government is desperate to save face. Now is when we can get them. And the way to do it is simply what the father of our nation pioneered in his time — noncooperation. Yes, and i’ve deliberated long before saying this — do not watch these Games. Do not go to the venues. Do not watch them on TV. You cannot become a cheerleader to an exercise in cheating. The Indian people have been exploited enough, but to expect us to smile through it is a bit much. If they can walk out of Parliament, we can walk out of stadiums.
Some might say, shouldn’t we support the Games on account of our country’s pride? The word ‘pride’ reminds me of a little story. When i was a child, our neighbours were a violent man and his battered wife. The woman would cover her bruise marks with make-up, suffering silently. Whenever we visited them, the couple presented the perfect picture of a happy couple. She even praised her husband. I asked my mother why the woman behaved in that way and didn’t expose her husband to show him in his true colours. My mother told me it doesn’t look nice to portray an unhappy home. She has to save the family pride. Over time, the bruises turned to fractures, and the fractures became near-fatal injuries. Until one day, police cars and ambulances came in and took both husband and wife away respectively.
Yes, such is Indian culture. We are ready to cover up injustice on account of a fake sense of honour that needs to show everything is in order. In the case of the CWG, the organizers are the oppressive husband, the Indian people the battered wife. But modern Indian wives do not stay silent and suffering anymore.
College unions, schools and individuals should take a stand and make clear — we do not support these Games. Just as Gandhiji figured, the oppressor can oppress us; it cannot make us cooperate. Brand ambassadors lending their names to these Games should think twice before lending their image to cover up corruption. The foreign media could present the full picture, namely that it is not the Indian people’s fault, it is a bunch of losers who didn’t think twice before looting the coffers of a poor country. The foreign media could use the situation to explain why India doesn’t win Olympic medals — not because we don’t have the talent but because people who run sports would rather stuff their pockets with stolen gold than help their country win a gold medal.
This government came to power just a little more than a year ago. They had a clear majority and enjoyed stability. They could have, if they wanted, shown exemplary governance for the next five years. Instead, they’ve given the Indian people nothing but extreme inflation and extreme corruption. Way to go, leaders. You guys are really great role models for our youth.
The opposition parties have a big chance to capitalize on all this. But first they need to get along, not mix religion with politics and get aspirational leaders who are clean and work hard. They would be back before you know it.
And if the ruling party wants to get out of this mess, there is only one way. No, it isn’t to execute the Games well — nobody cares about the silly Commonwealth club anyway. The only way to get out of this is to punish the people who did it, irrespective of their stature, and punish them hard. Use this as an opportunity to kill corruption, not to put on a grand, fake show. Otherwise, those holes you are digging in Delhi will be nothing but your political graves. People in India tolerate a lot, but when they get upset, they cause upset. Fix the mess, or the Indian people will soon be telling you — game over.
Tuesday, August 31, 2010
Tuesday, August 24, 2010
Is West Bengal Slipping away? Can Hindus stop Muslim Terrorism and infiltration ???
Is West Bengal Slipping away? Can Hindus stop Muslim Terrorism and infiltration; One Hindu’s Fight Continues; Help Fight for the survival of Hinduism
[GHHF] Is West Bengal Slipping away? Can Hindus stop Muslim Terrorism and infiltration; One Hindu’s Fight Continues; Help Fight for the survival of Hinduism
Stand up and fight! Not one step back, that is the idea. Fight it out, whatever comes. Let the stars move from the spheres! Let the whole world stand against us! Death means only a change of garment. What of it? Thus fight! You gain nothing by becoming cowards. Taking a step backward, you do not avoid any misfortune! ... Arise! Awake! Stand up and fight! Swami Vivekananda
Hindus have to fight for survival. They are being strangled from all directions. They are being suffocated by the government indifference; they are being throttled by Muslim terrorism; they are being chased from their lands through unrestrained infiltration from Bangladesh, Their Temple are being ransacked; their murthies are being mutilated; their houses are ransacked; their wives and daughters are being kidnapped, converted and raped; their are being driven out from their home state West Bengal. Neither Central government nor state government would take any action against this terrorism, and infiltration from Bangladesh.
The eviction of Hindus from West Bengal state of India (bordering Bangla Desh) by Islamic Jihadis has begun in the process of establishing Mughalisthan from Kashmir to Bangla Desh.
Below are the pictures and Videos of the origin of Hindu Samhati, the daily atrocities of land grabbing, the rape, assault and sex trafficking of Hindu women and the brave valiant fight of Hindu Samhati .
Video of slide show of the presentation (slide images are also given below)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BHiHiW3mlTs
Video of the cry of Hindu father whose daughter was kidnapped by Islamists 4 days before his daughter marriage and has nowhere to go:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LVqoCu5JArs
As Swami Vivekananda stated that Hindus have to stand up and fight. Very little time left for Hindus to regroup. Time is now to act. All Hindus are urged to support the efforts of different organizations that have taken up this task of protecting Hinduism and Hindu population from the relentless terror and atrocities.
Please read again and again and help Sri Tapan Kumar Ghosh, who is struggling to let Hindus survive in West Bengal and in East, against the onslaught of Muslims by various senseless and criminal means. He can be reached at hindusamhati@gmail.com. Help him to fight and donate for our survival. Please pass on this information to your friends
Global Hindu Heritage Foundation is established for the purpose of preserving Hinduism and Hindu Temples from the government's intolerant and discriminatory policies. For more information:
Please visit our website: http://savetemples.org
V. V. Prakasa Rao, PhD, 601-918-7111 (cell), 601-856-4783 (home); Prasad Yalamanchi (630-832-2665; 630-359-5041), D. Satya 732-939-2060 / Vinay 248-842-6964 /Srinivas Murthy 212-538-8716 / Dr. K. R. Venkatramaiah (Canada) 416-925-8167. Nemana Satya 732-762-7104, Sekhar Reddy 954-895-1947, Tulasichand Tummala 408-786-8357, Raju Polavaram 919-959-6141; Pramod Kumar (615) 306-9403.
[GHHF] Is West Bengal Slipping away? Can Hindus stop Muslim Terrorism and infiltration; One Hindu’s Fight Continues; Help Fight for the survival of Hinduism
Stand up and fight! Not one step back, that is the idea. Fight it out, whatever comes. Let the stars move from the spheres! Let the whole world stand against us! Death means only a change of garment. What of it? Thus fight! You gain nothing by becoming cowards. Taking a step backward, you do not avoid any misfortune! ... Arise! Awake! Stand up and fight! Swami Vivekananda
Hindus have to fight for survival. They are being strangled from all directions. They are being suffocated by the government indifference; they are being throttled by Muslim terrorism; they are being chased from their lands through unrestrained infiltration from Bangladesh, Their Temple are being ransacked; their murthies are being mutilated; their houses are ransacked; their wives and daughters are being kidnapped, converted and raped; their are being driven out from their home state West Bengal. Neither Central government nor state government would take any action against this terrorism, and infiltration from Bangladesh.
The eviction of Hindus from West Bengal state of India (bordering Bangla Desh) by Islamic Jihadis has begun in the process of establishing Mughalisthan from Kashmir to Bangla Desh.
Below are the pictures and Videos of the origin of Hindu Samhati, the daily atrocities of land grabbing, the rape, assault and sex trafficking of Hindu women and the brave valiant fight of Hindu Samhati .
Video of slide show of the presentation (slide images are also given below)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BHiHiW3mlTs
Video of the cry of Hindu father whose daughter was kidnapped by Islamists 4 days before his daughter marriage and has nowhere to go:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LVqoCu5JArs
As Swami Vivekananda stated that Hindus have to stand up and fight. Very little time left for Hindus to regroup. Time is now to act. All Hindus are urged to support the efforts of different organizations that have taken up this task of protecting Hinduism and Hindu population from the relentless terror and atrocities.
Please read again and again and help Sri Tapan Kumar Ghosh, who is struggling to let Hindus survive in West Bengal and in East, against the onslaught of Muslims by various senseless and criminal means. He can be reached at hindusamhati@gmail.com. Help him to fight and donate for our survival. Please pass on this information to your friends
Global Hindu Heritage Foundation is established for the purpose of preserving Hinduism and Hindu Temples from the government's intolerant and discriminatory policies. For more information:
Please visit our website: http://savetemples.org
V. V. Prakasa Rao, PhD, 601-918-7111 (cell), 601-856-4783 (home); Prasad Yalamanchi (630-832-2665; 630-359-5041), D. Satya 732-939-2060 / Vinay 248-842-6964 /Srinivas Murthy 212-538-8716 / Dr. K. R. Venkatramaiah (Canada) 416-925-8167. Nemana Satya 732-762-7104, Sekhar Reddy 954-895-1947, Tulasichand Tummala 408-786-8357, Raju Polavaram 919-959-6141; Pramod Kumar (615) 306-9403.
Monday, August 23, 2010
Hidden Muslim Agenda !!!
Adapted from Dr. Peter Hammond's book: Slavery, Terrorism & Islam:
Historical Roots and Contemporary Threat:
This is absolutely true - I've seen this whole
> phenomenon from the absolute minority to the majority - the behavior of whole Muslim race has been summed up.
This is an excellent analysis and makes one think!
Awareness is important and simply forwarding to your other friends is educational.
Please read and reflect!
> Islamization begins when there are sufficient Muslims in a country to agitate for their religious privileges.
> When politically correct, tolerant, and culturally diverse societies agree to Muslim demands for their religious privileges, some of the other components tend to creep in as well.
Here's how it works.
As long as the Muslim population remains around or under 2% in any given
country, they will be for the most part be regarded as a peace-loving minority,and not as a threat to other citizens. This is the case in:
> United States--Muslim 0.6%
> Australia -- Muslim 1.5%
> Canada -- Muslim 1.9%
> China -- Muslim 1.8%
> Italy -- Muslim 1.5%
> Norway -- Muslim 1.8%*
>
> *At 2% to 5%,
> they begin to proselytize from other ethnic minorities and
> disaffected groups, often with major recruiting from the
> jails and among street
> gangs. This is happening in:
>
> Denmark -- Muslim 2%
> Germany -- Muslim 3.7%
> United Kingdom -- Muslim 2.7%
> Spain -- Muslim 4%
> Thailand -- Muslim 4.6%* *
>
> From 5% on, they exercise an inordinate influence in
> proportion to their
> percentage of the population. For example, they will push
> for the introduction
> of halal (clean by Islamic standards) food, thereby
> securing food preparation
> jobs for Muslims. They will increase pressure on
> supermarket chains to feature halal on their shelves -- along with threats for failure to comply.
This is occurring in:
>
> France -- Muslim 8%
> Philippines -- Muslim 5%
> Sweden -- Muslim 5%
> Switzerland -- Muslim 4.3%
> The Netherlands -- Muslim 5.5%
> Trinidad & Tobago -- Muslim 5.8%
>
> At this point, they will work to get the
> ruling government to allow them to
> rule themselves (within their ghettos) under Sharia, the
> Islamic Law. The
> ultimate goal of Islamists is to establish Sharia law over
> the entire world.* *
>
>
> When Muslims approach 10% of the population, they tend to
> increase
> lawlessness as a means of complaint about their conditions.
> In Paris ,
> we are already seeing car-burnings. Any non-Muslim action
> offends Islam, and results in uprisings and threats, such as
> in Amsterdam, with opposition to Mohammed cartoons and films
> about Islam. Such tensions are seen daily,particularly in Muslim sections in:
> Guyana -- Muslim 10%
> India -- Muslim 13.4%
> Israel -- Muslim 16%
> Kenya -- Muslim 10%
> Russia -- Muslim 15%* *
>
> After reaching 20%, nations can expect
> hair-trigger rioting, jihad militia
> formations, sporadic killings, and the burnings of
> Christian churches and
> Jewish synagogues, such as in:
>
> Ethiopia -- Muslim 32.8%* *
>
> At 40%,
> nations experience widespread massacres, chronic terror
> attacks,
> and ongoing militia warfare, such as in:
>
> Bosnia -- Muslim 40%
> Chad -- Muslim 53.1%
> Lebanon -- Muslim 59.7%*
>
> From 60%, nations experience unfettered
> persecution of non-believers of all
> other religions (including non-conforming Muslims),
> sporadic ethnic cleansing
> (genocide), use of Sharia Law as a weapon, and Jizya, the
> tax
> placed on
> infidels, such as in:
>
> Albania -- Muslim 70%
> Malaysia -- Muslim 60.4%
> Qatar -- Muslim 77.5%
> Sudan -- Muslim 70%* *
>
> After 80%, expect
> daily intimidation and violent jihad, some State-run
> ethnic cleansing, and even some genocide, as these nations
> drive out the infidels, and move toward 100% Muslim, such as
> has been experienced and in some ways is on-going in:
>
> Bangladesh -- Muslim 83%
> Egypt -- Muslim 90%
> Gaza -- Muslim 98.7%
> Indonesia -- Muslim 86.1%
> Iran -- Muslim 98%
> Iraq -- Muslim 97%
> Jordan -- Muslim 92%
> Morocco -- Muslim 98.7%
> Pakistan -- Muslim 97%
>
> Palestine -- Muslim 99%
> Syria -- Muslim 90%
> Tajikistan -- Muslim 90%
> Turkey -- Muslim 99.8%
> United Arab Emirates -- Muslim 96%* *
>
> 100%
> will usher in the peace of 'Dar-es-Salaam' -- the
> Islamic House of
> Peace. Here there's supposed to be peace, because
> everybody is a Muslim, the
> Madrasses are the only schools, and the Koran is the only
> word, such as in:
>
>
> Afghanistan -- Muslim 100%
> Saudi Arabia -- Muslim 100%
> Somalia -- Muslim 100%
> Yemen -- Muslim 100%
>
> Unfortunately, peace is never achieved, as in these
> 100% states the most
> radical Muslims intimidate and spew hatred, and satisfy
> their blood lust by
> killing less radical Muslims, for a variety of reasons.
>
>
> 'Before I was nine I had learned the basic
> canon of Arab life. It was me
> against my brother; me and my brother against our father;
> my family against my
> cousins and the clan; the clan against the tribe; the tribe
> against the world,
> and all of us against the infidel. -- Leon Uris,
> 'The
> Haj'
>
> It is important to understand that in some countries, with
> well under 100%
> Muslim populations, such as France, the minority Muslim
> populations live in
> ghettos, within which they are 100% Muslim, and within
> which they live by
> Sharia Law. The national police do not even enter these
> ghettos. There are no national
> courts nor schools nor non-Muslim religious facilities. In
> such situations,
> Muslims do not integrate into the community at large. The
> children attend
> madrasses. They learn only the Koran. To even associate
> with an infidel is a
> crime punishable with death. Therefore, in some areas of
> certain nations,
> Muslim Imams and extremists exercise more power than the
> national average would
> indicate.
Historical Roots and Contemporary Threat:
This is absolutely true - I've seen this whole
> phenomenon from the absolute minority to the majority - the behavior of whole Muslim race has been summed up.
This is an excellent analysis and makes one think!
Awareness is important and simply forwarding to your other friends is educational.
Please read and reflect!
> Islamization begins when there are sufficient Muslims in a country to agitate for their religious privileges.
> When politically correct, tolerant, and culturally diverse societies agree to Muslim demands for their religious privileges, some of the other components tend to creep in as well.
Here's how it works.
As long as the Muslim population remains around or under 2% in any given
country, they will be for the most part be regarded as a peace-loving minority,and not as a threat to other citizens. This is the case in:
> United States--Muslim 0.6%
> Australia -- Muslim 1.5%
> Canada -- Muslim 1.9%
> China -- Muslim 1.8%
> Italy -- Muslim 1.5%
> Norway -- Muslim 1.8%*
>
> *At 2% to 5%,
> they begin to proselytize from other ethnic minorities and
> disaffected groups, often with major recruiting from the
> jails and among street
> gangs. This is happening in:
>
> Denmark -- Muslim 2%
> Germany -- Muslim 3.7%
> United Kingdom -- Muslim 2.7%
> Spain -- Muslim 4%
> Thailand -- Muslim 4.6%* *
>
> From 5% on, they exercise an inordinate influence in
> proportion to their
> percentage of the population. For example, they will push
> for the introduction
> of halal (clean by Islamic standards) food, thereby
> securing food preparation
> jobs for Muslims. They will increase pressure on
> supermarket chains to feature halal on their shelves -- along with threats for failure to comply.
This is occurring in:
>
> France -- Muslim 8%
> Philippines -- Muslim 5%
> Sweden -- Muslim 5%
> Switzerland -- Muslim 4.3%
> The Netherlands -- Muslim 5.5%
> Trinidad & Tobago -- Muslim 5.8%
>
> At this point, they will work to get the
> ruling government to allow them to
> rule themselves (within their ghettos) under Sharia, the
> Islamic Law. The
> ultimate goal of Islamists is to establish Sharia law over
> the entire world.* *
>
>
> When Muslims approach 10% of the population, they tend to
> increase
> lawlessness as a means of complaint about their conditions.
> In Paris ,
> we are already seeing car-burnings. Any non-Muslim action
> offends Islam, and results in uprisings and threats, such as
> in Amsterdam, with opposition to Mohammed cartoons and films
> about Islam. Such tensions are seen daily,particularly in Muslim sections in:
> Guyana -- Muslim 10%
> India -- Muslim 13.4%
> Israel -- Muslim 16%
> Kenya -- Muslim 10%
> Russia -- Muslim 15%* *
>
> After reaching 20%, nations can expect
> hair-trigger rioting, jihad militia
> formations, sporadic killings, and the burnings of
> Christian churches and
> Jewish synagogues, such as in:
>
> Ethiopia -- Muslim 32.8%* *
>
> At 40%,
> nations experience widespread massacres, chronic terror
> attacks,
> and ongoing militia warfare, such as in:
>
> Bosnia -- Muslim 40%
> Chad -- Muslim 53.1%
> Lebanon -- Muslim 59.7%*
>
> From 60%, nations experience unfettered
> persecution of non-believers of all
> other religions (including non-conforming Muslims),
> sporadic ethnic cleansing
> (genocide), use of Sharia Law as a weapon, and Jizya, the
> tax
> placed on
> infidels, such as in:
>
> Albania -- Muslim 70%
> Malaysia -- Muslim 60.4%
> Qatar -- Muslim 77.5%
> Sudan -- Muslim 70%* *
>
> After 80%, expect
> daily intimidation and violent jihad, some State-run
> ethnic cleansing, and even some genocide, as these nations
> drive out the infidels, and move toward 100% Muslim, such as
> has been experienced and in some ways is on-going in:
>
> Bangladesh -- Muslim 83%
> Egypt -- Muslim 90%
> Gaza -- Muslim 98.7%
> Indonesia -- Muslim 86.1%
> Iran -- Muslim 98%
> Iraq -- Muslim 97%
> Jordan -- Muslim 92%
> Morocco -- Muslim 98.7%
> Pakistan -- Muslim 97%
>
> Palestine -- Muslim 99%
> Syria -- Muslim 90%
> Tajikistan -- Muslim 90%
> Turkey -- Muslim 99.8%
> United Arab Emirates -- Muslim 96%* *
>
> 100%
> will usher in the peace of 'Dar-es-Salaam' -- the
> Islamic House of
> Peace. Here there's supposed to be peace, because
> everybody is a Muslim, the
> Madrasses are the only schools, and the Koran is the only
> word, such as in:
>
>
> Afghanistan -- Muslim 100%
> Saudi Arabia -- Muslim 100%
> Somalia -- Muslim 100%
> Yemen -- Muslim 100%
>
> Unfortunately, peace is never achieved, as in these
> 100% states the most
> radical Muslims intimidate and spew hatred, and satisfy
> their blood lust by
> killing less radical Muslims, for a variety of reasons.
>
>
> 'Before I was nine I had learned the basic
> canon of Arab life. It was me
> against my brother; me and my brother against our father;
> my family against my
> cousins and the clan; the clan against the tribe; the tribe
> against the world,
> and all of us against the infidel. -- Leon Uris,
> 'The
> Haj'
>
> It is important to understand that in some countries, with
> well under 100%
> Muslim populations, such as France, the minority Muslim
> populations live in
> ghettos, within which they are 100% Muslim, and within
> which they live by
> Sharia Law. The national police do not even enter these
> ghettos. There are no national
> courts nor schools nor non-Muslim religious facilities. In
> such situations,
> Muslims do not integrate into the community at large. The
> children attend
> madrasses. They learn only the Koran. To even associate
> with an infidel is a
> crime punishable with death. Therefore, in some areas of
> certain nations,
> Muslim Imams and extremists exercise more power than the
> national average would
> indicate.
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Sunday, August 22, 2010
An Open Letter to the Prime Minister of India on Discrimination/ Persecution of Hindus ~ by Dr. Jagan Kaul & Krishan Bhatnagar
Hon'ble Dr. Manmohan Singh
Prime Minister of India;
New Delhi,
India
Subject: Hindus are seriously discriminated in India and persecuted in Muslim majority Kashmir Valley, a part of India. This irrational, divisive and disintegrative policy must end to forestall another partition.
Hon'ble Prime Minister,
Recently we have sent a missive to the P.M. of Pakistan bringing to his attention the deliberate policy of discrimination, ethnic cleansing and political disenfranchisement of Hindus and Sikhs in his country that threatens peace in the sub continent (Ref 1).
Yet another reason behind forwarding this missive is to ask your Govt. to examine its own policy towards Hindus in India and notice some of the striking similarities between the two policies. How shocking it is that the two Governments, one wearing the Islamic and the other secular covers, supposedly heading towards two diametrically different destinations and building entirely different polities follow largely similar anti-Hindu policies.
1) Despite the secular character of the Indian political system and theoretically its neutrality and equidistance from all religious influences, the birth place of Hinduism i.e., India, is grinding under the heals of an out right anti-Hindu policy matching the one enforced by the Muslim Mogul tyrants who conquered, enslaved and plundered India for centuries, killed and forcibly converted hundreds of lakhs of Hindus and massively destroyed their culture and historic places of religious importance. Many parts of this inimical policy towards the Indian Hindus were accepted as a legacy from another imperial power, the British Raj, and adopted by the very first Congress Govt. which took over the governance of India in 1947. In view of such unending anti-Hindu hostility and subjugation imposed by all brands of foreign and foreign trained Indian rulers, a sizable volume of Hindu populace has come to believe that independence and freedom has remained as illusive for them as before.
If there were any doubts about that belief they were removed forever by your own categorical, undemocratic and unconstitutional public declaration that the Muslims have the first claim upon the national resources. You did not explain how a small minority as against 80% Hindus could have that claim. Even Mr. M.A. Jinnah, the creator of Pakistan, did not make this kind of a demagogic proclamation. Such demagoguery by the Premier of the largest democracy in the world simply betrays a lack of belief in democracy and exposes his extreme political opportunism. Using the same divisive philosophy and ill-logical justification your Govt. has afforded to Muslims and Christians a number of unconstitutional privileges. These discriminatory tactics have become a vehicle of the administration for polarizing Indian public pitting one community against the other on the basis of religion, abetting distrust and hatred among Indians and building politically motivated permanent walls of separation between the minorities and the mainstream.
This divisive policy has not only shredded but also poisoned the concept of national unity:
ü One People ,
ü One Nation and
ü One Flag.
2) How discriminatory and constitutionally unsound it is that on the one hand the Indian Govt. subsidizes the "Hajj" pilgrimage of the Muslims to over Rs. 800 crores annually, provides Rs. 1000 crores per year for Imams salaries, state Governments build Hajj houses, and reservations are made on the basis of minority status, but on the other hand they are crusading to destroy the self- supporting foundations and structures of Hindu places of worship by bringing them under the control of hostile state regimes? Without any legitimate authority these regimes also usurp their funds and assets.
3) It is highly offensive for more than a billion Hindus worldwide that in the Kashmir valley, Hindus and Sikhs are persecuted as if in a totalitarian fundamentalist medieval Islamic state. The global community cannot believe that India’s own Govt., largely the one created by Hindus, gives Muslims preferential status and looks the other way when the J&K Adm. levies taxes (Jaziya) on vehicles transporting pilgrims to Hindu shrines through the state, and when the Hindu religious and educational institutions are destroyed. With the help of the federal Govt. the communal regime in J&K has succeeded to a large degree in establishing the foundations of “Nizam-e-Mustafa”. Gone are the days when Indian leaders in their determined and unwavering voices told the world that “Kashmir is an integral and unbreakable part of India”. Indian authorities have lost the courage to boldly state that the Islamist upheaval in J&K is essentially a part of the “civilizational war” aiming at denying freedom and breading inter-religious hatred to disintegrate India. This policy deserves to be trashed and replaced by a well thought out “doctrine of national integration”.
4) Mr. Prime Minister, your Administration owes truthful answers to the Indian nation as to why in utter disregard of the principles of secularism the Muslims are awarded religion based benefits?
a) As per your own pronouncement why, despite being a small minority, do Muslims have the first claim on national resources and why are they given special grants in the five year plans?
b) Why was the infamous Sachar Commission created in an attempt to legitimize the inadmissible treatment for Muslims?
c) Why were unjustifiable reservations created in jobs, education and even in higher institutions of learning like IITs and IIMs for Muslims?
d) Why are Muslim and Christian students given disproportionately many more high value scholarships in comparison to the SC and ST students, while the poor students from the so called upper castes don't get even a "paisa"?
5) How can your Administration eradicate Terrorism, militancy and Jihad threatening India’s national security when its patronage and appeasement encourages them beyond comprehension?
Major Islamic terrorist strikes have taken place in New Delhi, Bangalore, Ahmadabad, Ayodhya, Mumbai, Varanasi, Hyderabad, Malegaon, Panipat, Ajmer, Ludhiana, Lucknow, Faizabad, Kashmir, Jammu and multiple attacks in Assam, etc. killing Hindu men, women and children by the thousands. In these terrorist attacks nothing, not even Govt. offices, Parliament, court houses, hospitals, police, railway and bus stations and above all Hindu temples, homes and market places were spared. This should give an idea about the magnitude and strength of the terrorist networks and organizations within India engaged in executing anti-India and anti-Hindu agendas at their time of choice. Even the Ex-Home Minister Patil admitted that presently there were more than 800 terrorist cells in India. It should be worth noting that in the US not a single terrorist attack has taken place after the one at the World Trade Center in New York. The reason for the collapse of terrorist attacks by Islamists has been the stringent preventive measures taken by the US Homeland Security Administration. For want of political support the Indian regime seems to be so compromised that it can think of taking such measures only on its own peril.
6) A Govt. dependant upon the support by minor groups is compelled to adopt policies patronizing minorities and in the process penalize majority and its religion, Hinduism. There exist volumes of evidence to prove this contention. A few irrefutable instances are:-
a) violating the faith of over a billion (100 crores) Hindus by questioning the existence of Lord Ram and calling him a mythical being and by supporting demolition of Ram Sethu to further inflict injury upon the majority community's sensitivities, faith and religious practices;
b) Letting states usurp temples and their properties in an attempt to regulate Hinduism, control the Hindu religious infrastructure for Govt. profiteering and to sabotage the self sufficiency of shrines;
c) remaining indifferent on the arrest of the most revered H.H. Kanchi Shankaracharya in Tamil Nadu, on phony charges over five years ago. Though out of jail now he is not yet exonerated. This has rendered a prime Hindu religious institution dysfunctional;
d) Unable to control Islamic and Maoist terrorism, diverting public attention by concocting the phony idea of Hindu terrorism and arresting Sadhvi Pragya;
e) Enforcing religion based reservations and Hajj subsidies for Muslims in violation of the secular constitution thus resurrecting the Mogul Jaziya tax on Hindus;
f) Remaining indifferent, inactive and silent on the cleansing of Hindus and Sikhs in Kashmir and on the continuous demolition of their history and religious infrastructure;
7) Hindu Institutions are being destroyed at an unprecedented Scale in Kashmir -- The law and order situation in the Valley since 1986 has deteriorated progressively and desecration of temples has become the order of the day.
The process of desecration, looting, vandalizing and the destruction of temples has continued in J&K under the anti-Hindu Islamic rule through generations with the intent to wipe out all traces of religious and cultural symbols of Hindus. These targets besides the temples included libraries, schools, universities and ashrams. After the departure of the British colonials and Kashmir’s accession to the Union of India in 1947, the destruction and desecration of temples under the new Islamic regimes wearing secular turbans received added impetus and acceleration. Dr. Singh, you have earned the distinction of being the Premier during whose time Kashmir became the first “sharia state” in secular India. No Islamist or Pakistani could boast of having scored such an achievement. Being yourself a refugee from Pakistan and knowing what Pak. Muslim regimes have done to both Sikhs and Hindus, the Indian nation expected much better from your Govt.
8) Going back to the calculated conversion and subversion of Kashmir - Temple lands, cremation grounds and other such entities belonging to Hindus were usurped and utilized for the expansion of the Islamic populace. The famous Bhairavnath temple of Chattabal, Srinagar was locked up by the police. More than half a century has passed but the judicial case pending in court concerning this historic temple was never allowed to be decided. What an example of independent judiciary! Precious lands around Hari Parbat hill, Durganag temple of Srinagar and lands at several Hindu places of worship in the Valley were slowly and steadily turned into lands under occupation of the Muslim trusts (Maqboozai-Ahali-Islam).
In 1967, Shivala temple, Chotta Nazar, Srinagar was desecrated. Again in 1984 Shri Hanuman temple at Hari Singh High Street was damaged and in the same year Arya Samaj temple of Wazir Bagh, Srinagar was burnt down. All these communal hate crimes were claimed to be part of the struggle for freedom.
A list of numerous Temples desecrated and damaged in Kashmir from 1990 to December 1992 may be seen in Attachment A.
These examples represent only a fraction of the systematic mass destruction of thousands of temples in J&K after independence of India when the Islamists assumed the total and unfettered control of the state. They are listed in detail in our letter of February 21, 2008 to Chief Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad of J&K (Ref 2) .
9) Hon'ble Dr. Singh, the government's indifference towards the temple security and their functioning can only be interpreted as tacit support of the persecution of Hindus and the denial of their religious freedom: the Govt. must realize that the temples and their endowments have been built over the centuries by our forefathers and therefore, it is the community which is their real owner. Accordingly the community must have the final say in the management and utilization of temple resources and management of educational institution as is allowed for institutions of other religions.
The Indian Parliament adopted a law in 1991 specifically requiring that –“the status of religious places, as on August 15, 1947 shall be retained". Accordingly it is obligatory upon the Govt. to maintain the integrity of religious entities as it stood in 1947 throughout the country. The J&K Govt. while flouting the national law, very conveniently divorced itself from this commitment. Characteristically the Indian authorities looked the other way.
10) Given the militant exposition, aggressive domineering traits and expansionist designs of the majority Muslim community - the Hindus and Sikhs as a minority in J&K need & must get special protection, reserved representation, scholarships, admissions, Govt. jobs, contracts etc. as is afforded to Muslims as a minority in India ;
Formation of a Waqf-like autonomous Hindu Board for Hindu institutions' and their governance under the Hindu community’s guidance is essential: Dr. Singh, we strongly believe that for social, religious, educational and community affairs & services and temple administration there must be a representative autonomous Hindu Board with full jurisdiction over temple governance and management. Since the right of freedom to manage religious places is available to the Muslim community across India, which also constitutes the majority in the state, where is the justification to deny this right to Hindus?
11) The Islamist Govt. of J&K is playing a dangerous game -- while a part of India, they are surreptitiously and brazenly doing everything to cleanse the state from non- Muslims (particularly Hindus, Sikhs and Buddhists) to transform it into a Nizam-e-Mustafa, eventually a forerunner for the second partition of India. The recent Mutiny cry from Mosques should leave us in no doubt about their ultimate objective. (Attachment B). The cleansing of Hindus from the valley started in a similar fashion more than 20 years ago. Similarly in the South Kerala Chief Minister, V S Achuthanandan, has warned the nation that the radical outfit Popular Front of India (PFI) was aiming to convert Kerala into a Muslim majority state in the next 20 years (Attachment C).
Temples, Gurdwaras, Churches, Mosques and Monasteries are places of worship and not for unleashing violence, militancy and schemes to plunder, murder and kill. But that is exactly what the mosques in J&K are used for as fortress and cells of Jihad. Every single directive, scheme or plan against India and non-Muslims is hatched there and then given to Umma at large for execution. Authorities in the state and New Delhi have full knowledge of the abuse and exploitation of Islam in this fashion yet not a single mullah or a mosque leader has been apprehended. Under secularism which your administration claims to believe in religious and places of worship are supposed to be off limits to politics. Yet Muslims have all along flouted and seriously violated this legal and national disciplinary tradition. Strangely enough the authorities do not even question the mosque hierarchies about this abuse of religious properties. You might remember Dr. Singh when your leader Indira Gandhi ordered the Indian Army to storm into the Golden Temple to apprehend the Sikh militants and confiscate their weaponry. Why that policy is not being put to use in case of mosques in Kashmir? Justifiably there also exists a strong case for the Govt. to exclude these properties from the “tax exempt” status.
12) To instill fear among Sikhs, Hindus and Buddhists recently a Sikh boy's hair was chopped off in Kashmir by radical Islamists when he refused to recite kalma and become a Muslim. This latest hate crime ignited public protests, agitation, condemnation and demonstrations throughout J&K and all non-Muslim minorities with one voice demanded action against the criminals who deliberately participated in this savagery. Neither the federal nor state authorities have taken into custody the people responsible for perpetrating such heinous crimes. Earlier during the intense anti-India and anti-Hindu agitation massacres of the Sikh population in the inner regions of Kashmir took place and shamelessly the people in power failed to take necessary action to enforce law. In the present case the young man, his family and the entire Sikh community deserve appropriate compensation and an apology from the Govt. for this unbelievably serious hate crime.
13) Hon'ble Prime Minister: Please note the following developments during the past six decades in J&K:
** Intensity of the Jihadi strife in J&K;
** complete ethnic cleansing of non-Muslim in the Kashmir region;
** Their disenfranchisement and hounding them out of their natural and traditional habitat by the Islamists, followers of Osama bin laden and Pakistan;
** Illegal occupation of non-Muslim movable and non-movable properties;
**massacres, kidnappings, forcible conversions; destruction of non-Muslim places of worship;
** Open hostility towards India, Hindus, Sikhs and Indian army;
** Slogan mongering by millions asserting “we are Pakistanis”;
** Demand of virtual independence or greater autonomy;
** Discriminative policies towards minorities;
** replacing traditional names of significant places and monuments with Muslim ones;
** Complete Islamization of Kashmir region;
** Pilgrimage to Hindu religious places only under Islamists conditions;
** Attacks and murders of Hindu pilgrims who dared to visit Hindu shrines;
** Imposition of Jaziya tax upon Hindu pilgrims;
** Extra territorial loyalty, loyalty to Osama Bin Laden, Pakistan and not to mother country;
** Unequal allocation of resources & eco-aid to non-Muslim regions of the state;
** Electoral gerrymandering to deny representation to pro-India minorities;
** “Quit J&K” campaign against India, Indian army and every thing Indian;
** setting up Muslims colonies and towns in non-Muslim regions;
** Destruction of pluralism in favor of communalism & separatism;
** Raising Pakistani flags and burning tri-colors;
** Chanting provocative & offensive slogans like:
Kashmir Mein Agar Rehna Hai – Illah o Akbar Kehna Hai
Azadi Ka Matlab Kiya – La illaha illalaha
Ai Zalimo Ai Katilo - Kashmir Hamara Chhod Do
Asi Gachi Pakistan – Batav Ross Ta Batnev Saan
Yehan Kiya Banega – Nizam-e-Mustafa
These and other highly provocative, anti-national, anti-Hindu developments under the Muslim regimes in Kashmir have vindicated the demand by the nationalist forces and provided immeasurable justification for the four-way reorganization of J&K state providing autonomous homes for Pandits & Sikhs of Kashmir; Muslims of Kashmir; Buddhists of Ladakh and Dogras of Jammu. Taking note of the above developments no Indian worth his or her salt should force patriotic Kashmiris to be ruled by the people whose loyalty and religious affiliation lies with a country built on anti-India and anti-Hindu foundations.
14) Without meaning to be personal, Dr. Singh, when you yourself did not accept such conditions and escaped from Pakistan to live in free India how can your Govt. ask the patriotic Hindus, Buddhists and Sikhs of J&K to risk their lives, faith and future and live under the tyranny of a hateful Islamic regime? These Islamists are unwilling and unable to modify their modus operandi because terrorism and Wahabbism brings them greater rewards through Pakistan and Petro-dollars. That unlike Kashmiri Muslims, 14 crore Indian Muslims live in harmony with 80 crore Hindus. But it does not convince them for making a course correction. Accordingly J&K's patriotic column must not be forced to surrender before the unpatriotic secessionists, separatists and communalists who do not consider India to be their motherland. In the fast changing world situation it is only a matter of time when the federal leadership will have to consider the reorganization plan. The Dogras, Pandits, Sikhs, Buddhists and others have always opposed the ill-logical Kashmir policy of federal authorities.
At no price are they willing to sacrifice their age old societies, cultures and homelands, at the alter of New Delhi’s unsustainable, perverted and illusionary secularism. Ignoring the patriotic thought process and flirting with secessionists & communalists may prolong the life of the Govt. in office but ultimately it will cost India so dearly. Sacrificing national interest for temporary partisan gain is the greatest sin any party can commit.
15) Hon'ble Dr. Singh -- In conclusion we respectfully urge you to:
a) Take immediate measures for ending Vote banks politics (VBP) that has become a major tool for promoting divisive regionalism, communalism, minorityism & political corruption. Regrettably VBP has been introduced solely for gaining electoral advantages by engineering and promoting fragmentation and division in the general public. In time its role has transcended the electoral domain and is now being used to illegally and unethically reward participating members with political, economic, educational, religious, employment and other advantages. They are also utilized as instruments to fracture Hindu society into castes, sub-castes, Dalits, OBCs and tribes and defectors are handsomely rewarded.
b) For Jammu & Kashmir: i) In order to protect and defend the nationalist segments of the Kashmiri population, in addition to taking necessary political measures, Govt. must also take prompt action for safeguarding Hindu, Sikh and Buddhist educational institutions, temples and their properties from illegal sales. Therefore, all sales that took place after 1988 be declared as “sales under duress.” Your long standing diplomatic and administrative skills and resources could be extremely helpful to enforce the provisions of the secular Constitution of India in this turmoil torn state.
ii) Almost all of the budgetary expenditures in the J&K state are gifted by the Indian Govt. with taxes mostly paid by Hindus. Surely these taxpayers do not fund the Kashmir Govt. so it could destroy the age old foundations of Hinduism and its infrastructure for realizing the forced talibanization of the state. Equality for all, irrespective of religious background as specified by the Indian Constitution must be guaranteed here as well.
iii) We further urge that the absolutely illegal Jaziya tax levied on vehicles carrying Hindu pilgrims in the state be abolished forthwith and the harassment of pilgrims by the state officials and Islamists must be made punishable under law. We must again restate that India pays over Rs. 800 crores per year as subsidy to Muslims for Hajj. Least the J&K regime could do in return is to abolish these draconian practices. c) With the provocative anti- national, anti- Hindu developments during the past six decades detailed earlier, to save the minority non- Muslims, the demand by the nationalist forces has immeasurable justification for the four-way reorganization of J&K state providing autonomous homes for Pandits & Sikhs of Kashmir; Muslims of Kashmir; Buddhists of Ladakh and Dogras of Jammu.
Thank you Mr. Prime Minister. We are looking forward to your response and prompt action towards resolving these highly explosive but solvable issues.
Sincerely,
Dr. Jagan Kaul
Krishan Bhatnagar
Hindu Jagran Forum (USA)
Email: krishan.kb@verizon.net
August 15 , 2010
Ref 1: http://www.bharatjagran.com/ ; Pakistan: Hon'ble PM Gillani: Please stop Persecution of non- Muslim minorities in Pakistan (July 30, 2010)
Ref 2: http://www.bharatjagran.com/ ; J & K - Hon'ble CM : Massive destruction of temples in J&K and Talibanization of the state (Feb. 21, 2008)
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Attachment A
Temples desecrated and damaged in Kashmir from 1990 to December 1992
1. DASHNAMI AKHARA, SRINAGAR
2. GANPATYAR TEMPLE
3. RAGHUNATH MANDIR, SRINAGAR
4. SHIVA TEMPLE, JAWAHAR NAGAR, SRINAGAR
5. HANUMAN MANDIR, SRINAGAR
6. SHIVA TEMPLE, BARBAR SHAH, SRINAGAR
7. JAI DEVI TEMPLE, BIJBEHARA
8. VIJESHWAR TEMPLE, BIJBEHARA
9. SHIVA MANDIR, BIJBEHARA
10. RAGHUNATH TEMPLE, ANANTNAG
11. GAUTAM NAG TEMPLE, ANANTNAG
12. THREE TEMPLES OF LUKHBHAVAN, LARKIPURA, ANANTNAG
13. WANPOH MANDIR, ANANTNAG
14. SHAILPUTRI TEMPLE, BARAMULLA
15. DAYALGAM MANDIR, ANANTNAG
16. BHAIRAVANATH MANDIR, BARAMULLA
17. BHAIRAVANATH MANDIR, SOPORE
18. RUPABHAVANI MANDIR, VASAKURA
19. KHIRBHAVANI MANDIR, GANDERBAL
20. SHIVA TEMPLE, GANDERBAL
21. MATTAN TEMPLE, ANANTNAG
There have been reports of further destruction of some 39 temples in Kashmir after December 6, 1992 for which FIR were filed. Please note that FIRs on all destruction cases were not filed with the authorities in view of the complicity of the administration and warnings of retaliation against the complainants by the Islamic terrorists. According to local eye witnesses accounts there were additional 38 temples that were vandalized after December 6, 1992.
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Attachment B
Mutiny cry from mosque
- Shrine loudspeakers blare pro-freedom chants in Valley; eight-year-old among eight dead
MUZAFFAR RAINA\
The Telegraph, Aug 3, 2010
Srinagar, Aug. 2: Mosque loudspeakers crackled across Kashmir today, blaring not a call to prayer but a call for rebellion.
The shrines turned protest pulpits overnight in a throwback to the early 1990s when the governor of the day, Jagmohan, had dubbed them “centre of revolution (sic)”.
The trigger for the return to a tactic used 20 years ago was the death of eight civilians in clashes with security forces yesterday, the bloodiest day of the seven-week unrest that started in the second week of June.
Today’s death count was also eight, but a boy injured yesterday was among those who died. Sameer Ahmad, an eight-year-old from Srinagar who is the youngest victim of the current spell of violence, died of injuries suffered during a clash. The police blamed his wounds on a stampede. The seven other victims included at least two school-going teenagers, one of whom died in hospital after a tear-gas shell hit him on Saturday.
The death toll has risen to 39 since the violence began on June 11. Twenty-two of the deaths have occurred in the past four days.
Today’s flash point was Budgam, where a mob of hundreds torched two state government offices and a portion of the railway station, the police said.
At Rajpura, also in Pulwama, protesters set fire to all the four buildings in a police station, injuring 20 people. The incident mirrored yesterday’s raid on the Khrew police station, 20km from Srinagar, by a mob that unknowingly torched an explosives-packed storeroom, triggering a blast that killed five people.
At Kralpora in north Kashmir’s Kupwara, a mob looted arms from a police post, triggering retaliation that killed one person. The agitators fled with four rifles.
One person was killed in police firing after agitators attacked a police post and attempted to set fire to it in Kulgam. At neighbouring Sangam in Anantnag, CRPF personnel fired on a stone-throwing mob. The stampede that followed claimed a life.
The continued violence came on a day chief minister Omar Abdullah discussed the situation with Prime Minister Manmohan Singh in Delhi.
If the streets were on fire, mosques appeared to rekindle a familiar spark.
A police officer who had been on duty in Srinagar in 1990 highlighted the parallels between the events then and now. “People know the power of mosques. They had used it with perfection during Jagmohan’s stint as governor and they tried to repeat it today.”
Mosques, the officer said, serve two purposes for protesters. “It amplifies their call. The slogans coming from mosques make one feel as if the entire population has joined the protests. It frustrates the government. Plus, they (the people) feel safe, thinking they are protesting peacefully inside and will not be harmed by the police.”
Jagmohan mentioned several incidents in his book, My Frozen Turbulence in Kashmir. “The subversives used mosques extensively for rearing, nursing and fanning their activities. In fact, one of the instructions was to make mosques centre of revolution (sic).”
History was repeating itself today as scores of mosques reverberated with azaadi songs, and pro-freedom and anti-India slogans. Thousands, including the elderly and children, flocked to such mosques. Some went even at night.
At many places, the crowd spilled onto the streets. But at the forefront were mostly teenagers or youths in their early twenties — described as the “children of conflict” because they were born during the past 20 years of strife. Many were painting roads and walls with the slogan: “Go India go”.
“It’s a do-or-die situation for us. Either we’ll get it (azaadi) now or never,” said a 17-year-old in Srinagar’s Hazratbal as he joined a dozen-odd youngsters in pulling down concertina wires strung together by the police to block traffic in the curfew-bound city.
The group’s next step was to put up hurdles to deny the policemen access to their locality and use the obstacles as shields to launch a form of attack that has become common for months now: stone-throwing.
“Our parents picked up the gun to fight for azaadi but we want to achieve it through peaceful means. If that is not allowed, we will pick up stones,” the 17-year-old said.
The authorities aren’t unaware of the trouble that can be fomented from mosques, and Jagmohan’s “centre of revolution” phrase is on their mind. That could explain why they have not permitted prayer gatherings in some mosques. That includes the Jamia Masjid, Kashmir’s main mosque, where Friday prayers have not been allowed for five weeks now.
Residents in Srinagar’s old city said they had heard gunshots throughout last night, apparently fired by security forces to keep the people indoors. But in several other places,cops watched helplessly as protesters marched.
Officials said reinforcements were rushed to such spots before dawn to enforce the curfew, but many mosques, mostly on the city outskirts, continued to draw protesters
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Attachment C
Bid on to convert Kerala into a Muslim state: CM
Thiruvananthapuram, July 24, DHNS:
Deccan Herald.com http://www.deccanherald.com/content/83631/bid-convert-kerala-muslim-state.html
Kerala Chief Minister V S Achuthanandan on Saturday said that the radical outfit Popular Front of India (PFI) was aiming to convert Kerala into a Muslim-majority state in the next 20 years.
The chief minister ’s revelation has raised many eyebrows as the police has been keeping under wraps all information they had unearthed in their continuing crackdown on the organisation following the ‘palm-chopping’ of a professor.
“The organisation has been pumping money to attract youths. They have also been trying to convert youths from other communities and persuading them to marry Muslim girls,’’ Achuthanandan told reporters in New Delhi.
The chief minister was responding to a question whether the ongoing crackdown would not prove counterproductive. Achuthanandan ’s statement also points an accusing finger at the PFI for encouraging ‘love jihad’, something the organisation has been vehemently denying.
Several activists of the organisation have been arrested in the palm-chopping incident allegedly carried out to protest against the “insulting of the prophet” in a question paper. Incriminating literature, proof of big cash transactions and seditious CDs have been seized from the houses of PFI activists.
The chief minister said that such dangerous organisations should be isolated. The PFI was under the police scanner, which had already banned their annual statewide “freedom march” on August 15.
Meanwhile, Home Minister Kodiyeri Balakrishnan said here that the police were trying to find out whether the PFI was a reincarnation of the banned SIMI.
“The organisation was trying to attract Muslim youths towards the path of terrorism. However, a majority are not following them. The state government’s policy was not to harass or victimise the Muslim community in the name of the ongoing investigations as the Opposition had alleged,” he said.
Prime Minister of India;
New Delhi,
India
Subject: Hindus are seriously discriminated in India and persecuted in Muslim majority Kashmir Valley, a part of India. This irrational, divisive and disintegrative policy must end to forestall another partition.
Hon'ble Prime Minister,
Recently we have sent a missive to the P.M. of Pakistan bringing to his attention the deliberate policy of discrimination, ethnic cleansing and political disenfranchisement of Hindus and Sikhs in his country that threatens peace in the sub continent (Ref 1).
Yet another reason behind forwarding this missive is to ask your Govt. to examine its own policy towards Hindus in India and notice some of the striking similarities between the two policies. How shocking it is that the two Governments, one wearing the Islamic and the other secular covers, supposedly heading towards two diametrically different destinations and building entirely different polities follow largely similar anti-Hindu policies.
1) Despite the secular character of the Indian political system and theoretically its neutrality and equidistance from all religious influences, the birth place of Hinduism i.e., India, is grinding under the heals of an out right anti-Hindu policy matching the one enforced by the Muslim Mogul tyrants who conquered, enslaved and plundered India for centuries, killed and forcibly converted hundreds of lakhs of Hindus and massively destroyed their culture and historic places of religious importance. Many parts of this inimical policy towards the Indian Hindus were accepted as a legacy from another imperial power, the British Raj, and adopted by the very first Congress Govt. which took over the governance of India in 1947. In view of such unending anti-Hindu hostility and subjugation imposed by all brands of foreign and foreign trained Indian rulers, a sizable volume of Hindu populace has come to believe that independence and freedom has remained as illusive for them as before.
If there were any doubts about that belief they were removed forever by your own categorical, undemocratic and unconstitutional public declaration that the Muslims have the first claim upon the national resources. You did not explain how a small minority as against 80% Hindus could have that claim. Even Mr. M.A. Jinnah, the creator of Pakistan, did not make this kind of a demagogic proclamation. Such demagoguery by the Premier of the largest democracy in the world simply betrays a lack of belief in democracy and exposes his extreme political opportunism. Using the same divisive philosophy and ill-logical justification your Govt. has afforded to Muslims and Christians a number of unconstitutional privileges. These discriminatory tactics have become a vehicle of the administration for polarizing Indian public pitting one community against the other on the basis of religion, abetting distrust and hatred among Indians and building politically motivated permanent walls of separation between the minorities and the mainstream.
This divisive policy has not only shredded but also poisoned the concept of national unity:
ü One People ,
ü One Nation and
ü One Flag.
2) How discriminatory and constitutionally unsound it is that on the one hand the Indian Govt. subsidizes the "Hajj" pilgrimage of the Muslims to over Rs. 800 crores annually, provides Rs. 1000 crores per year for Imams salaries, state Governments build Hajj houses, and reservations are made on the basis of minority status, but on the other hand they are crusading to destroy the self- supporting foundations and structures of Hindu places of worship by bringing them under the control of hostile state regimes? Without any legitimate authority these regimes also usurp their funds and assets.
3) It is highly offensive for more than a billion Hindus worldwide that in the Kashmir valley, Hindus and Sikhs are persecuted as if in a totalitarian fundamentalist medieval Islamic state. The global community cannot believe that India’s own Govt., largely the one created by Hindus, gives Muslims preferential status and looks the other way when the J&K Adm. levies taxes (Jaziya) on vehicles transporting pilgrims to Hindu shrines through the state, and when the Hindu religious and educational institutions are destroyed. With the help of the federal Govt. the communal regime in J&K has succeeded to a large degree in establishing the foundations of “Nizam-e-Mustafa”. Gone are the days when Indian leaders in their determined and unwavering voices told the world that “Kashmir is an integral and unbreakable part of India”. Indian authorities have lost the courage to boldly state that the Islamist upheaval in J&K is essentially a part of the “civilizational war” aiming at denying freedom and breading inter-religious hatred to disintegrate India. This policy deserves to be trashed and replaced by a well thought out “doctrine of national integration”.
4) Mr. Prime Minister, your Administration owes truthful answers to the Indian nation as to why in utter disregard of the principles of secularism the Muslims are awarded religion based benefits?
a) As per your own pronouncement why, despite being a small minority, do Muslims have the first claim on national resources and why are they given special grants in the five year plans?
b) Why was the infamous Sachar Commission created in an attempt to legitimize the inadmissible treatment for Muslims?
c) Why were unjustifiable reservations created in jobs, education and even in higher institutions of learning like IITs and IIMs for Muslims?
d) Why are Muslim and Christian students given disproportionately many more high value scholarships in comparison to the SC and ST students, while the poor students from the so called upper castes don't get even a "paisa"?
5) How can your Administration eradicate Terrorism, militancy and Jihad threatening India’s national security when its patronage and appeasement encourages them beyond comprehension?
Major Islamic terrorist strikes have taken place in New Delhi, Bangalore, Ahmadabad, Ayodhya, Mumbai, Varanasi, Hyderabad, Malegaon, Panipat, Ajmer, Ludhiana, Lucknow, Faizabad, Kashmir, Jammu and multiple attacks in Assam, etc. killing Hindu men, women and children by the thousands. In these terrorist attacks nothing, not even Govt. offices, Parliament, court houses, hospitals, police, railway and bus stations and above all Hindu temples, homes and market places were spared. This should give an idea about the magnitude and strength of the terrorist networks and organizations within India engaged in executing anti-India and anti-Hindu agendas at their time of choice. Even the Ex-Home Minister Patil admitted that presently there were more than 800 terrorist cells in India. It should be worth noting that in the US not a single terrorist attack has taken place after the one at the World Trade Center in New York. The reason for the collapse of terrorist attacks by Islamists has been the stringent preventive measures taken by the US Homeland Security Administration. For want of political support the Indian regime seems to be so compromised that it can think of taking such measures only on its own peril.
6) A Govt. dependant upon the support by minor groups is compelled to adopt policies patronizing minorities and in the process penalize majority and its religion, Hinduism. There exist volumes of evidence to prove this contention. A few irrefutable instances are:-
a) violating the faith of over a billion (100 crores) Hindus by questioning the existence of Lord Ram and calling him a mythical being and by supporting demolition of Ram Sethu to further inflict injury upon the majority community's sensitivities, faith and religious practices;
b) Letting states usurp temples and their properties in an attempt to regulate Hinduism, control the Hindu religious infrastructure for Govt. profiteering and to sabotage the self sufficiency of shrines;
c) remaining indifferent on the arrest of the most revered H.H. Kanchi Shankaracharya in Tamil Nadu, on phony charges over five years ago. Though out of jail now he is not yet exonerated. This has rendered a prime Hindu religious institution dysfunctional;
d) Unable to control Islamic and Maoist terrorism, diverting public attention by concocting the phony idea of Hindu terrorism and arresting Sadhvi Pragya;
e) Enforcing religion based reservations and Hajj subsidies for Muslims in violation of the secular constitution thus resurrecting the Mogul Jaziya tax on Hindus;
f) Remaining indifferent, inactive and silent on the cleansing of Hindus and Sikhs in Kashmir and on the continuous demolition of their history and religious infrastructure;
7) Hindu Institutions are being destroyed at an unprecedented Scale in Kashmir -- The law and order situation in the Valley since 1986 has deteriorated progressively and desecration of temples has become the order of the day.
The process of desecration, looting, vandalizing and the destruction of temples has continued in J&K under the anti-Hindu Islamic rule through generations with the intent to wipe out all traces of religious and cultural symbols of Hindus. These targets besides the temples included libraries, schools, universities and ashrams. After the departure of the British colonials and Kashmir’s accession to the Union of India in 1947, the destruction and desecration of temples under the new Islamic regimes wearing secular turbans received added impetus and acceleration. Dr. Singh, you have earned the distinction of being the Premier during whose time Kashmir became the first “sharia state” in secular India. No Islamist or Pakistani could boast of having scored such an achievement. Being yourself a refugee from Pakistan and knowing what Pak. Muslim regimes have done to both Sikhs and Hindus, the Indian nation expected much better from your Govt.
8) Going back to the calculated conversion and subversion of Kashmir - Temple lands, cremation grounds and other such entities belonging to Hindus were usurped and utilized for the expansion of the Islamic populace. The famous Bhairavnath temple of Chattabal, Srinagar was locked up by the police. More than half a century has passed but the judicial case pending in court concerning this historic temple was never allowed to be decided. What an example of independent judiciary! Precious lands around Hari Parbat hill, Durganag temple of Srinagar and lands at several Hindu places of worship in the Valley were slowly and steadily turned into lands under occupation of the Muslim trusts (Maqboozai-Ahali-Islam).
In 1967, Shivala temple, Chotta Nazar, Srinagar was desecrated. Again in 1984 Shri Hanuman temple at Hari Singh High Street was damaged and in the same year Arya Samaj temple of Wazir Bagh, Srinagar was burnt down. All these communal hate crimes were claimed to be part of the struggle for freedom.
A list of numerous Temples desecrated and damaged in Kashmir from 1990 to December 1992 may be seen in Attachment A.
These examples represent only a fraction of the systematic mass destruction of thousands of temples in J&K after independence of India when the Islamists assumed the total and unfettered control of the state. They are listed in detail in our letter of February 21, 2008 to Chief Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad of J&K (Ref 2) .
9) Hon'ble Dr. Singh, the government's indifference towards the temple security and their functioning can only be interpreted as tacit support of the persecution of Hindus and the denial of their religious freedom: the Govt. must realize that the temples and their endowments have been built over the centuries by our forefathers and therefore, it is the community which is their real owner. Accordingly the community must have the final say in the management and utilization of temple resources and management of educational institution as is allowed for institutions of other religions.
The Indian Parliament adopted a law in 1991 specifically requiring that –“the status of religious places, as on August 15, 1947 shall be retained". Accordingly it is obligatory upon the Govt. to maintain the integrity of religious entities as it stood in 1947 throughout the country. The J&K Govt. while flouting the national law, very conveniently divorced itself from this commitment. Characteristically the Indian authorities looked the other way.
10) Given the militant exposition, aggressive domineering traits and expansionist designs of the majority Muslim community - the Hindus and Sikhs as a minority in J&K need & must get special protection, reserved representation, scholarships, admissions, Govt. jobs, contracts etc. as is afforded to Muslims as a minority in India ;
Formation of a Waqf-like autonomous Hindu Board for Hindu institutions' and their governance under the Hindu community’s guidance is essential: Dr. Singh, we strongly believe that for social, religious, educational and community affairs & services and temple administration there must be a representative autonomous Hindu Board with full jurisdiction over temple governance and management. Since the right of freedom to manage religious places is available to the Muslim community across India, which also constitutes the majority in the state, where is the justification to deny this right to Hindus?
11) The Islamist Govt. of J&K is playing a dangerous game -- while a part of India, they are surreptitiously and brazenly doing everything to cleanse the state from non- Muslims (particularly Hindus, Sikhs and Buddhists) to transform it into a Nizam-e-Mustafa, eventually a forerunner for the second partition of India. The recent Mutiny cry from Mosques should leave us in no doubt about their ultimate objective. (Attachment B). The cleansing of Hindus from the valley started in a similar fashion more than 20 years ago. Similarly in the South Kerala Chief Minister, V S Achuthanandan, has warned the nation that the radical outfit Popular Front of India (PFI) was aiming to convert Kerala into a Muslim majority state in the next 20 years (Attachment C).
Temples, Gurdwaras, Churches, Mosques and Monasteries are places of worship and not for unleashing violence, militancy and schemes to plunder, murder and kill. But that is exactly what the mosques in J&K are used for as fortress and cells of Jihad. Every single directive, scheme or plan against India and non-Muslims is hatched there and then given to Umma at large for execution. Authorities in the state and New Delhi have full knowledge of the abuse and exploitation of Islam in this fashion yet not a single mullah or a mosque leader has been apprehended. Under secularism which your administration claims to believe in religious and places of worship are supposed to be off limits to politics. Yet Muslims have all along flouted and seriously violated this legal and national disciplinary tradition. Strangely enough the authorities do not even question the mosque hierarchies about this abuse of religious properties. You might remember Dr. Singh when your leader Indira Gandhi ordered the Indian Army to storm into the Golden Temple to apprehend the Sikh militants and confiscate their weaponry. Why that policy is not being put to use in case of mosques in Kashmir? Justifiably there also exists a strong case for the Govt. to exclude these properties from the “tax exempt” status.
12) To instill fear among Sikhs, Hindus and Buddhists recently a Sikh boy's hair was chopped off in Kashmir by radical Islamists when he refused to recite kalma and become a Muslim. This latest hate crime ignited public protests, agitation, condemnation and demonstrations throughout J&K and all non-Muslim minorities with one voice demanded action against the criminals who deliberately participated in this savagery. Neither the federal nor state authorities have taken into custody the people responsible for perpetrating such heinous crimes. Earlier during the intense anti-India and anti-Hindu agitation massacres of the Sikh population in the inner regions of Kashmir took place and shamelessly the people in power failed to take necessary action to enforce law. In the present case the young man, his family and the entire Sikh community deserve appropriate compensation and an apology from the Govt. for this unbelievably serious hate crime.
13) Hon'ble Prime Minister: Please note the following developments during the past six decades in J&K:
** Intensity of the Jihadi strife in J&K;
** complete ethnic cleansing of non-Muslim in the Kashmir region;
** Their disenfranchisement and hounding them out of their natural and traditional habitat by the Islamists, followers of Osama bin laden and Pakistan;
** Illegal occupation of non-Muslim movable and non-movable properties;
**massacres, kidnappings, forcible conversions; destruction of non-Muslim places of worship;
** Open hostility towards India, Hindus, Sikhs and Indian army;
** Slogan mongering by millions asserting “we are Pakistanis”;
** Demand of virtual independence or greater autonomy;
** Discriminative policies towards minorities;
** replacing traditional names of significant places and monuments with Muslim ones;
** Complete Islamization of Kashmir region;
** Pilgrimage to Hindu religious places only under Islamists conditions;
** Attacks and murders of Hindu pilgrims who dared to visit Hindu shrines;
** Imposition of Jaziya tax upon Hindu pilgrims;
** Extra territorial loyalty, loyalty to Osama Bin Laden, Pakistan and not to mother country;
** Unequal allocation of resources & eco-aid to non-Muslim regions of the state;
** Electoral gerrymandering to deny representation to pro-India minorities;
** “Quit J&K” campaign against India, Indian army and every thing Indian;
** setting up Muslims colonies and towns in non-Muslim regions;
** Destruction of pluralism in favor of communalism & separatism;
** Raising Pakistani flags and burning tri-colors;
** Chanting provocative & offensive slogans like:
Kashmir Mein Agar Rehna Hai – Illah o Akbar Kehna Hai
Azadi Ka Matlab Kiya – La illaha illalaha
Ai Zalimo Ai Katilo - Kashmir Hamara Chhod Do
Asi Gachi Pakistan – Batav Ross Ta Batnev Saan
Yehan Kiya Banega – Nizam-e-Mustafa
These and other highly provocative, anti-national, anti-Hindu developments under the Muslim regimes in Kashmir have vindicated the demand by the nationalist forces and provided immeasurable justification for the four-way reorganization of J&K state providing autonomous homes for Pandits & Sikhs of Kashmir; Muslims of Kashmir; Buddhists of Ladakh and Dogras of Jammu. Taking note of the above developments no Indian worth his or her salt should force patriotic Kashmiris to be ruled by the people whose loyalty and religious affiliation lies with a country built on anti-India and anti-Hindu foundations.
14) Without meaning to be personal, Dr. Singh, when you yourself did not accept such conditions and escaped from Pakistan to live in free India how can your Govt. ask the patriotic Hindus, Buddhists and Sikhs of J&K to risk their lives, faith and future and live under the tyranny of a hateful Islamic regime? These Islamists are unwilling and unable to modify their modus operandi because terrorism and Wahabbism brings them greater rewards through Pakistan and Petro-dollars. That unlike Kashmiri Muslims, 14 crore Indian Muslims live in harmony with 80 crore Hindus. But it does not convince them for making a course correction. Accordingly J&K's patriotic column must not be forced to surrender before the unpatriotic secessionists, separatists and communalists who do not consider India to be their motherland. In the fast changing world situation it is only a matter of time when the federal leadership will have to consider the reorganization plan. The Dogras, Pandits, Sikhs, Buddhists and others have always opposed the ill-logical Kashmir policy of federal authorities.
At no price are they willing to sacrifice their age old societies, cultures and homelands, at the alter of New Delhi’s unsustainable, perverted and illusionary secularism. Ignoring the patriotic thought process and flirting with secessionists & communalists may prolong the life of the Govt. in office but ultimately it will cost India so dearly. Sacrificing national interest for temporary partisan gain is the greatest sin any party can commit.
15) Hon'ble Dr. Singh -- In conclusion we respectfully urge you to:
a) Take immediate measures for ending Vote banks politics (VBP) that has become a major tool for promoting divisive regionalism, communalism, minorityism & political corruption. Regrettably VBP has been introduced solely for gaining electoral advantages by engineering and promoting fragmentation and division in the general public. In time its role has transcended the electoral domain and is now being used to illegally and unethically reward participating members with political, economic, educational, religious, employment and other advantages. They are also utilized as instruments to fracture Hindu society into castes, sub-castes, Dalits, OBCs and tribes and defectors are handsomely rewarded.
b) For Jammu & Kashmir: i) In order to protect and defend the nationalist segments of the Kashmiri population, in addition to taking necessary political measures, Govt. must also take prompt action for safeguarding Hindu, Sikh and Buddhist educational institutions, temples and their properties from illegal sales. Therefore, all sales that took place after 1988 be declared as “sales under duress.” Your long standing diplomatic and administrative skills and resources could be extremely helpful to enforce the provisions of the secular Constitution of India in this turmoil torn state.
ii) Almost all of the budgetary expenditures in the J&K state are gifted by the Indian Govt. with taxes mostly paid by Hindus. Surely these taxpayers do not fund the Kashmir Govt. so it could destroy the age old foundations of Hinduism and its infrastructure for realizing the forced talibanization of the state. Equality for all, irrespective of religious background as specified by the Indian Constitution must be guaranteed here as well.
iii) We further urge that the absolutely illegal Jaziya tax levied on vehicles carrying Hindu pilgrims in the state be abolished forthwith and the harassment of pilgrims by the state officials and Islamists must be made punishable under law. We must again restate that India pays over Rs. 800 crores per year as subsidy to Muslims for Hajj. Least the J&K regime could do in return is to abolish these draconian practices. c) With the provocative anti- national, anti- Hindu developments during the past six decades detailed earlier, to save the minority non- Muslims, the demand by the nationalist forces has immeasurable justification for the four-way reorganization of J&K state providing autonomous homes for Pandits & Sikhs of Kashmir; Muslims of Kashmir; Buddhists of Ladakh and Dogras of Jammu.
Thank you Mr. Prime Minister. We are looking forward to your response and prompt action towards resolving these highly explosive but solvable issues.
Sincerely,
Dr. Jagan Kaul
Krishan Bhatnagar
Hindu Jagran Forum (USA)
Email: krishan.kb@verizon.net
August 15 , 2010
Ref 1: http://www.bharatjagran.com/ ; Pakistan: Hon'ble PM Gillani: Please stop Persecution of non- Muslim minorities in Pakistan (July 30, 2010)
Ref 2: http://www.bharatjagran.com/ ; J & K - Hon'ble CM : Massive destruction of temples in J&K and Talibanization of the state (Feb. 21, 2008)
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Attachment A
Temples desecrated and damaged in Kashmir from 1990 to December 1992
1. DASHNAMI AKHARA, SRINAGAR
2. GANPATYAR TEMPLE
3. RAGHUNATH MANDIR, SRINAGAR
4. SHIVA TEMPLE, JAWAHAR NAGAR, SRINAGAR
5. HANUMAN MANDIR, SRINAGAR
6. SHIVA TEMPLE, BARBAR SHAH, SRINAGAR
7. JAI DEVI TEMPLE, BIJBEHARA
8. VIJESHWAR TEMPLE, BIJBEHARA
9. SHIVA MANDIR, BIJBEHARA
10. RAGHUNATH TEMPLE, ANANTNAG
11. GAUTAM NAG TEMPLE, ANANTNAG
12. THREE TEMPLES OF LUKHBHAVAN, LARKIPURA, ANANTNAG
13. WANPOH MANDIR, ANANTNAG
14. SHAILPUTRI TEMPLE, BARAMULLA
15. DAYALGAM MANDIR, ANANTNAG
16. BHAIRAVANATH MANDIR, BARAMULLA
17. BHAIRAVANATH MANDIR, SOPORE
18. RUPABHAVANI MANDIR, VASAKURA
19. KHIRBHAVANI MANDIR, GANDERBAL
20. SHIVA TEMPLE, GANDERBAL
21. MATTAN TEMPLE, ANANTNAG
There have been reports of further destruction of some 39 temples in Kashmir after December 6, 1992 for which FIR were filed. Please note that FIRs on all destruction cases were not filed with the authorities in view of the complicity of the administration and warnings of retaliation against the complainants by the Islamic terrorists. According to local eye witnesses accounts there were additional 38 temples that were vandalized after December 6, 1992.
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Attachment B
Mutiny cry from mosque
- Shrine loudspeakers blare pro-freedom chants in Valley; eight-year-old among eight dead
MUZAFFAR RAINA\
The Telegraph, Aug 3, 2010
Srinagar, Aug. 2: Mosque loudspeakers crackled across Kashmir today, blaring not a call to prayer but a call for rebellion.
The shrines turned protest pulpits overnight in a throwback to the early 1990s when the governor of the day, Jagmohan, had dubbed them “centre of revolution (sic)”.
The trigger for the return to a tactic used 20 years ago was the death of eight civilians in clashes with security forces yesterday, the bloodiest day of the seven-week unrest that started in the second week of June.
Today’s death count was also eight, but a boy injured yesterday was among those who died. Sameer Ahmad, an eight-year-old from Srinagar who is the youngest victim of the current spell of violence, died of injuries suffered during a clash. The police blamed his wounds on a stampede. The seven other victims included at least two school-going teenagers, one of whom died in hospital after a tear-gas shell hit him on Saturday.
The death toll has risen to 39 since the violence began on June 11. Twenty-two of the deaths have occurred in the past four days.
Today’s flash point was Budgam, where a mob of hundreds torched two state government offices and a portion of the railway station, the police said.
At Rajpura, also in Pulwama, protesters set fire to all the four buildings in a police station, injuring 20 people. The incident mirrored yesterday’s raid on the Khrew police station, 20km from Srinagar, by a mob that unknowingly torched an explosives-packed storeroom, triggering a blast that killed five people.
At Kralpora in north Kashmir’s Kupwara, a mob looted arms from a police post, triggering retaliation that killed one person. The agitators fled with four rifles.
One person was killed in police firing after agitators attacked a police post and attempted to set fire to it in Kulgam. At neighbouring Sangam in Anantnag, CRPF personnel fired on a stone-throwing mob. The stampede that followed claimed a life.
The continued violence came on a day chief minister Omar Abdullah discussed the situation with Prime Minister Manmohan Singh in Delhi.
If the streets were on fire, mosques appeared to rekindle a familiar spark.
A police officer who had been on duty in Srinagar in 1990 highlighted the parallels between the events then and now. “People know the power of mosques. They had used it with perfection during Jagmohan’s stint as governor and they tried to repeat it today.”
Mosques, the officer said, serve two purposes for protesters. “It amplifies their call. The slogans coming from mosques make one feel as if the entire population has joined the protests. It frustrates the government. Plus, they (the people) feel safe, thinking they are protesting peacefully inside and will not be harmed by the police.”
Jagmohan mentioned several incidents in his book, My Frozen Turbulence in Kashmir. “The subversives used mosques extensively for rearing, nursing and fanning their activities. In fact, one of the instructions was to make mosques centre of revolution (sic).”
History was repeating itself today as scores of mosques reverberated with azaadi songs, and pro-freedom and anti-India slogans. Thousands, including the elderly and children, flocked to such mosques. Some went even at night.
At many places, the crowd spilled onto the streets. But at the forefront were mostly teenagers or youths in their early twenties — described as the “children of conflict” because they were born during the past 20 years of strife. Many were painting roads and walls with the slogan: “Go India go”.
“It’s a do-or-die situation for us. Either we’ll get it (azaadi) now or never,” said a 17-year-old in Srinagar’s Hazratbal as he joined a dozen-odd youngsters in pulling down concertina wires strung together by the police to block traffic in the curfew-bound city.
The group’s next step was to put up hurdles to deny the policemen access to their locality and use the obstacles as shields to launch a form of attack that has become common for months now: stone-throwing.
“Our parents picked up the gun to fight for azaadi but we want to achieve it through peaceful means. If that is not allowed, we will pick up stones,” the 17-year-old said.
The authorities aren’t unaware of the trouble that can be fomented from mosques, and Jagmohan’s “centre of revolution” phrase is on their mind. That could explain why they have not permitted prayer gatherings in some mosques. That includes the Jamia Masjid, Kashmir’s main mosque, where Friday prayers have not been allowed for five weeks now.
Residents in Srinagar’s old city said they had heard gunshots throughout last night, apparently fired by security forces to keep the people indoors. But in several other places,cops watched helplessly as protesters marched.
Officials said reinforcements were rushed to such spots before dawn to enforce the curfew, but many mosques, mostly on the city outskirts, continued to draw protesters
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Attachment C
Bid on to convert Kerala into a Muslim state: CM
Thiruvananthapuram, July 24, DHNS:
Deccan Herald.com http://www.deccanherald.com/content/83631/bid-convert-kerala-muslim-state.html
Kerala Chief Minister V S Achuthanandan on Saturday said that the radical outfit Popular Front of India (PFI) was aiming to convert Kerala into a Muslim-majority state in the next 20 years.
The chief minister ’s revelation has raised many eyebrows as the police has been keeping under wraps all information they had unearthed in their continuing crackdown on the organisation following the ‘palm-chopping’ of a professor.
“The organisation has been pumping money to attract youths. They have also been trying to convert youths from other communities and persuading them to marry Muslim girls,’’ Achuthanandan told reporters in New Delhi.
The chief minister was responding to a question whether the ongoing crackdown would not prove counterproductive. Achuthanandan ’s statement also points an accusing finger at the PFI for encouraging ‘love jihad’, something the organisation has been vehemently denying.
Several activists of the organisation have been arrested in the palm-chopping incident allegedly carried out to protest against the “insulting of the prophet” in a question paper. Incriminating literature, proof of big cash transactions and seditious CDs have been seized from the houses of PFI activists.
The chief minister said that such dangerous organisations should be isolated. The PFI was under the police scanner, which had already banned their annual statewide “freedom march” on August 15.
Meanwhile, Home Minister Kodiyeri Balakrishnan said here that the police were trying to find out whether the PFI was a reincarnation of the banned SIMI.
“The organisation was trying to attract Muslim youths towards the path of terrorism. However, a majority are not following them. The state government’s policy was not to harass or victimise the Muslim community in the name of the ongoing investigations as the Opposition had alleged,” he said.
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Friday, August 20, 2010
Quran vs Hadith ???
Why the followers of the Quran are Murtad? Why the followers of Hadith are Muslim? Why the Quran is so unimportant and unpopular? Why the Hadith is so important and popular? Why most of us do not know much about the Quran? Why most of us are scholars on Hadith? The probable reasons are:
1. The Quran commands us to worship God Alone. The Hadith encourages us to worship Muhammad, Ali, Imams, Peer, Auliya, Mullahs, etc. beside God.
2. The Quran prohibits shirk. The Hadith encourages us to commit shirk to get favors from Muhammad, Ali, Imams, Peer, Auliya, Mullahs, etc.
3. The Quran states that Muhammad was mortal. The Hadith states that Muhammad was created out of light.
4. The Quran states that Muhammad was himself a follower of Abraham. The Hadith tells us Muhammad is the leader of all the prophets.
5. The Quran condemns sectarian division. The Hadith helps us create castes and sectarian divisions.
6. The Quran states that all Monotheists regardless of the name of their religions will be saved. The Hadith tells us only post Quranic Muslims will be saved.
7. The Quran states that there will be no advocate who can influence God's judgment in Hereafter. The Hadith states that Muhammad, Ali, Imams, Peer and Auliya will be the advocate for Muslims and they will save them.
8. The Quran followers believe it has all the details for our salvation. The Hadith followers believe the Quran does not have all the details for our salvation and therefore Hadith is needed.
9. Quran does not tell us how the prophet looked like, how long was his hair, how many wives he had, what kind of food he liked, how did he observe salat, how did he walk, how did he perform his hajj, how did he perform ablution, how did he treat Christians and Jews, how did he take shower, how did he perform his toilet, how did he perform..... But the Ahadith do tell us all about.
10. Quran tells us not to prevent a widow from (02:232) remarrying her former husband. Hadith insists upon Halala for women.
1. The Quran commands us to worship God Alone. The Hadith encourages us to worship Muhammad, Ali, Imams, Peer, Auliya, Mullahs, etc. beside God.
2. The Quran prohibits shirk. The Hadith encourages us to commit shirk to get favors from Muhammad, Ali, Imams, Peer, Auliya, Mullahs, etc.
3. The Quran states that Muhammad was mortal. The Hadith states that Muhammad was created out of light.
4. The Quran states that Muhammad was himself a follower of Abraham. The Hadith tells us Muhammad is the leader of all the prophets.
5. The Quran condemns sectarian division. The Hadith helps us create castes and sectarian divisions.
6. The Quran states that all Monotheists regardless of the name of their religions will be saved. The Hadith tells us only post Quranic Muslims will be saved.
7. The Quran states that there will be no advocate who can influence God's judgment in Hereafter. The Hadith states that Muhammad, Ali, Imams, Peer and Auliya will be the advocate for Muslims and they will save them.
8. The Quran followers believe it has all the details for our salvation. The Hadith followers believe the Quran does not have all the details for our salvation and therefore Hadith is needed.
9. Quran does not tell us how the prophet looked like, how long was his hair, how many wives he had, what kind of food he liked, how did he observe salat, how did he walk, how did he perform his hajj, how did he perform ablution, how did he treat Christians and Jews, how did he take shower, how did he perform his toilet, how did he perform..... But the Ahadith do tell us all about.
10. Quran tells us not to prevent a widow from (02:232) remarrying her former husband. Hadith insists upon Halala for women.
HEART ATTACK PROCEDURE: When you are alone
HEART ATTACK PROCEDURE':
Everybody should know that not every heart attack symptom is going to be the left arm hurting.
Be aware of intense pain in the jaw line.
You may never have a chest pain during the course of a heart attack.
Nausea and intense sweating are also common symptoms.
Sixty percent of people who have a heart attack while they are asleep do not wake up.
Pain in the jaw can wake you from a sound sleep.
Let's be careful and be aware.
The more we know the better chance you have to survive....
A cardiologist says if everyone who gets this mail sends it to 10 people, you can be sure that we'll save at least one life.
Read this...It could save your life!!
Let's say it's 6.15 pm and you're driving home.
Suddenly you start experiencing severe pain in your chest that starts to radiate out into your arm and up into your jaw.
You are only about five miles from the hospital nearest your home.
Unfortunately you don't know if you'll be able to make it that far.
You have been trained in CPR, but the guy that taught the course did not tell you how to perform it on yourself.
'HOW TO SURVIVE A HEART ATTACK WHEN ALONE':
Since many people are alone when they suffer a heart attack, without help,
The person whose heart is beating improperly and who begins to feel faint, has only about 10 seconds left before losing consciousness.
However, these victims can help themselves by coughing repeatedly and vigorously.
A deep breath should be taken before each cough, deep and prolonged, as when producing sputum from deep inside the chest.
A breath and a cough must be repeated about every two seconds without let-up until help arrives, or until the heart is felt to be beating normally again.
Deep breaths get oxygen into the lungs and coughing movements squeeze the heart and keep the blood circulating.
The squeezing pressure on the heart also helps it regain normal rhythm.
This allows the heart attack victim to get to a hospital.
Tell as many people as possible about this.
It could save their lives!!
Everybody should know that not every heart attack symptom is going to be the left arm hurting.
Be aware of intense pain in the jaw line.
You may never have a chest pain during the course of a heart attack.
Nausea and intense sweating are also common symptoms.
Sixty percent of people who have a heart attack while they are asleep do not wake up.
Pain in the jaw can wake you from a sound sleep.
Let's be careful and be aware.
The more we know the better chance you have to survive....
A cardiologist says if everyone who gets this mail sends it to 10 people, you can be sure that we'll save at least one life.
Read this...It could save your life!!
Let's say it's 6.15 pm and you're driving home.
Suddenly you start experiencing severe pain in your chest that starts to radiate out into your arm and up into your jaw.
You are only about five miles from the hospital nearest your home.
Unfortunately you don't know if you'll be able to make it that far.
You have been trained in CPR, but the guy that taught the course did not tell you how to perform it on yourself.
'HOW TO SURVIVE A HEART ATTACK WHEN ALONE':
Since many people are alone when they suffer a heart attack, without help,
The person whose heart is beating improperly and who begins to feel faint, has only about 10 seconds left before losing consciousness.
However, these victims can help themselves by coughing repeatedly and vigorously.
A deep breath should be taken before each cough, deep and prolonged, as when producing sputum from deep inside the chest.
A breath and a cough must be repeated about every two seconds without let-up until help arrives, or until the heart is felt to be beating normally again.
Deep breaths get oxygen into the lungs and coughing movements squeeze the heart and keep the blood circulating.
The squeezing pressure on the heart also helps it regain normal rhythm.
This allows the heart attack victim to get to a hospital.
Tell as many people as possible about this.
It could save their lives!!
Thursday, August 19, 2010
Muslim appeasement was an inseparable part of Gandhi’s quack doctrine of Non-violence.
Posted on July 12, 2010 by Santosh Bhatt's Blog
It is now well known that Muslim appeasement was an inseparable part of Gandhi’s quack doctrine of Non-violence. But many do not know why he, while he was in South Africa, adopted, or compelled to adopt this dirty policy in 1908.
At that time the South African government imposed an unjust tax of £ 3 on every Indian living in South Africa and Gandhi initiated talks with South African government on this matter. But the Muslims did not support this move and were displeased with Gandhi. In addition to that Gandhi, in one occasion,
Gandhi made some critical comments on Islam while he was speaking at a gathering. Furthermore, he tried to make a comparative estimate of Hinduism, Islam and Christianity, which made the Muslims furious.
A few days later, on 10th February 1908, a group of Muslims under the leadership of a Pathan called Mir Alam entered Gandhi’s house and beat him mercilessly. When Gandhi fell on the ground the Muslim attackers kicked him right and left and beat him with sticks.
They also threatened to kill him. From this incident onward, Gandhi stopped to make any critical comment on Muslims as well as on Islam. According to Dr. B.R. Ambedkar, this incident was a milestone in Gandhi’s life and afterwards Gandhi began to over look even the most heinous crime committed by the Muslims.
An example would help the reader to understand the matter. On 23rd December 1926, a Muslim assassin called Abdul Rashid stabbed Swami Shraddhananda to death, when the swami was ill and lying on his bed. The reader may recall that Swami Shraddhananda was a pracharak (whole time worker) of Arya Samaj and he started a Suddhai Yajna to bring the converted Muslims of this country back to Hinduism.
But his activity was detested by the Muslims. A couple of months earlier a Muslim woman came to the Swami and expressed her desire to return to Hinduism with her children. However her husband brought an allegation of abduction in the court of law against the Swami. But the court quashed the allegation and set the Swami free. The incident turned the Muslims extremely furious and within a few days Abdul Rashid assassinated him.
After a few days of this incident, Gandhi went to Gauhati to deliver his speech at the national conference of Indian National Congress. The atmosphere was depressed and gloomy due to unusual death of Shraddhananda.
But Gandhi made everyone dumbfounded and began his speech by addressing the assassin Abdul Rashid as “Bhai Abdul Rashid”. Without caring for the reaction of the listeners, he continued, “Now you will perhaps understand why I have called Abdul Rashid a brother,
and I repeat it. I do not even regard him as guilty of Swami’s murder. Guilty indeed are those who excited feeling of hatred against one another.” Thus he indirectly held Swami Shraddhananda responsible for his murder, as he was propagating hatred through his Suddhi Yajna.
Moreover, he wrote in the obituary note, “He (the Swami) lived a hero. He died a hero.” In other words, if a Hindu falls victim to the knife of a Muslim’s assassin, Hindus should consider it a heroic death.
It should be pointed out here that the said policy of Muslim appeasement originated by Gandhi, under the garb of (pseudo) secularism was responsible for the Partition of the country in 1947. Many of our countrymen, still today, firmly believe that Gandhi was against partition as in the public meetings, he used to say, “Vivisect me, before you vivisect India”.
When he was saying this in public meetings, he was expressing just the opposite view through his writings. The reader may recall that, on March 26, 1940, the leaders of the Muslim League raised the issue of creation of Pakistan as a separate homeland for them. Hardly a couple of weeks later, supporting demand, Gandhi wrote, “Like other group of people in this country, Muslims also have the right of self determination.
We are living here as a joint family and hence any member has the right to get separated.” (Harijan, April 6, 1940). A couple of years later, he also wrote, “If majority of the Muslims of this country maintain that they are a different nation and there is nothing common with the Hindus and other communities, there is no force on the earth that can alter their view. And if on that basis, they demand partition that must be carried out. If Hindus dislike it, they may oppose it”, (Harijan, April 18, 1942).
The reader should also recall that the Congress Working Committee, in its session on June 12, 1947, decided to place the partition issue to be placed before the All India Congress Committee (AICC) for a debate and the AICC approved the issue in its session held on June 14-15, 1947.
In the beginning of the debate, veteran Congress leaders like Purusottamdas Tandon, Govindaballav Panth, Chaitram Gidwani and Dr S Kichlu etc. placed their very convincing speeches against the motiom. Then Gandhi, setting aside all other speakers, spoke for 45 minutes supporting partition. The main theme of his deliberation was that, if Congress did not accept partition (1) other group of people or leaders would avail the opportunity and throw the Congress out of power and (2) a chaotic situation would prevail throughout the country. Many believe that, in the name of ‘chaotic condition’, he tacitly asked the Muslims to begin countrywide communal riot, if the Congress did not accept the partition. Till then, Sardar Ballavbhat Patel was on the fence regarding the partition. But Gandhi’s speech turned him into a firm supporter of partition and he influenced other confused members to support the issue. In this way, Congress approved the partition issue (History of Freedom Movement in India, R C Majumdar, Vol-III, p-670).
It may appear to many that, up to partition, Gandhi’s policy of nonviolence and Muslim appeasement in the name of secularism indeed harmed the country a lot. But a close look will reveal, it has done severe damage even after partition, or to speak the truth, it is causing serious damage even today. During independence, the Muslim population in undivided India was 23 per cent and this 23 per cent Muslims, got 32 per cent land area as Pakistan. The most appropriate step after partition was to carry out population transfer, or send the entire Muslim population of the divided India to Pakistan and bring all Hindus from Pakistan to India. This population transfer was included in the proposal for Pakistan by the Muslim League and after communal riot in Bihar, M A Jinnah requested the Government of India to carry out population transfer as early as possible. But Gandhi was hell bent not to undertake out the process and said that it was an impractical and fictitious proposal.
Mount Batten, the then Governor General of India, was a staunch supporter of the said population exchange and advised Jawaharlal Nehru to do the same without delay. But Nehru submitted to the will of Gandhi and refrained from doing so. It is needless to say that, from the practical point of view, the said population exchange was urgently necessary and had it been carried out at that time, many problems of today would not have arisen. But due to the policy of Muslim appeasement of Gandhi, Muslims happily stayed back in this country, while Hindus had no alternative but to come to India as refugees or penniless beggars.
Many of us perhaps do not know that due to strong opposition by Gandhi, “Bande Mataram” could not be accepted as the National Anthem” of this country. In his early life, Gandhi had a great affinity for the song and while he was in South Africa, he wrote “It is nobler in sentiment and sweeter than the songs of other nations. While other anthems contain sentiments that are derogatory to others, Bande Mataram is quite free from such faults. Its only aim is to arouse in us a sense of patriotism. It regards India as the mother and sings her praise.” But later on when he could discover that the Muslims dislike the song, he at once stopped singing or reciting the same at public places. Hence ultimately the “Jana Mana Gana” was selected as the National Anthem. During the debate over the matter in the Constituent Assembly, Nehru argued that Bande Mataram is not suitable to sing along with military band while Jana Gana Mana is free from this difficulty.
In the present context, it should also be pointed out that Gandhi was not pleased with Tri Color, the National Flag of today’s India because the Muslims disliked the same. In this regard, Sri Nathuram Godse has narrated an incident in his “Why I Assassinated Gandhi”, which deserves to be noted in this context. During his Noakhali tour in 1946, a Congress worker put a tricolor over the temporary house where Gandhi was staying. One day an ordinary Muslim passer by objected to it and Gandhi immediately ordered his men to bring flag down. So, to please an ordinary Muslim, Gandhi did not hesitate to disgrace and dishonor the flag revered by millions of Congress workers. (pp-75-76). It should also be pointed out here that in his early life, Gahdhi was very fond of the Hindi language and used to say that it was the only language having the potentiality to play the role of the national language. But to please the Muslim, he, later on tried his best to make Urdu, under the garb of Hindustani, the National Language of India. (Koenrad Elst, Gandhi and Godse, Voice of India, p – 89).
A few months before the partition, when Hindu and Sikh refugees started to come from West Punjab in droves and crowding the refugee camps of Delhi, one day Gandhi visited a refugee camp and said, “Hindus should never be angry against the Muslims even if the latter might make up their minds to undo their (Hindus’) existence. If they put all of us to the sword, we should court death bravely. … We are destined to be born and die, then why need we feel gloomy over it?” (speech delivered on April 6, 1947
In a similar occasion he said, “The few gentlemen from Rawalpindi who called upon me, asked me, “What about those who still remain in Pakistan?” I asked, why they all came here (Delhi)? Why they did not die there? I still hold on to the belief that we should stick to the place where we happen to live, even if we are cruelly treated, and even killed. Let us die if the people kill us, but we should die bravely with the name of God on our tongue.” He also said, “Even if our men are killed, why should we feel angry with anybody? You should realize that even if they are killed, they have had a good and proper end” (speech delivered on November 23, 1947)
In this context, Gandhi also said, “If those killed have died bravely, they have not lost anything but earned something. … They should not be afraid of death. After all, the killers will be none other than our Muslim brothers.” (Shri Nathuram Godse, Why I Assassinated Gandhi, p-92,93; as quoted by Koenrad Elst in Gandhi versus Godse, Voice of India, p-121). In another occasion when he was talking to a group of refugees, said, “If all the Punjabis were to die to the last man without killing (a single Muslim), Punjab will be immortal. Offer yourselves as nonviolent willing sacrifices.” (Collins and Lapierre, Freedom at Midnight, p-385). There is no doubt that if someone reads all these utterances of Gandhi, he would take him either a fool or a lunatic, but we are worshiping him as a Mahatma or a Great Soul.
Gandhi believed that Muslims were brothers of the Hindus and hence they should never take arms or wage a war against the Muslims. He used to say that the foreign policy of independent India should always be respectful to Islam and the Muslims. Moreover, independent India should never invade a Muslim country like Arabia, Turkey etc. Gandhi also said that Rana Pratap, Guru Govinda Singh, Raja Ranjit Singh and Raja Shivaji were misguided patriots because they fought war with the Muslims. In his eyes Goerge Washington, Garibaldi, Kamal Pasha, D Valera, Lenin etc. were misguided patriots as they encouraged violence.
Gandhi’s utterances painting respected Hindu heroes as misguided patriots aroused widespread commotion among the Hindus. Most importantly, calling Raja Shivaji a misguided patriots put entire Maharastra on boil. Later on, Nehru could pacify their anger partially by begging apology on behalf of Gandhi.
The Muslims whenever attack a Hindu settlement, they, in addition killing innocent people, setting their houses on fire, loot and burglary as their routine work, rape Hindu women. It is evident that, they commit all such oppressions according to the instructions of the Koran, revealed by Allah. During the Muslim rule that lasted for nearly 800 years, raping Hindu women became a common affair. To save their honour and sanctity from the lecherous Muslims, millions of Hindu women used to sacrific their lives in flames. In the wake of partition most of the Hindu families became victims of Muslim oppression and raping Hindu women was an inseparable part of their attacks. When Hindus were butchered in Noakhali in 1946, thousands of Hindu women were raped by the Muslims.
Many Hindus of this country do not know, what Gandhi, the Great Soul and the Apostle of nonviolence, thought about this behavior of the Muslims. In the 6th July, 1926, edition of the Navajivan, Gandhi wrote that “He would kiss the feet of the (Muslim) violator of the modesty of a sister” (Mahatma Gandhi, D Keer, Popular Prakashan, p-473). Just before the partition, both Hindu and Sikh women were being raped by the Muslims in large numbers. Gandhi advised them that if a Muslim expressed his desire to rape a Hindu or a Sikh lady, she should never refuse him but cooperate with him. She should lie down like a dead with her tongue in between her teeth. Thus the rapist Muslim will be satisfied soon and sooner he leave her. (D Lapierre and L Collins, Freedom at Midnight, Vikas, 1997, p-479).
From the above narrations, it becomes evident that Gandhi was never moved by the sufferings and miseries of the Hindus and, on the contrary, he used to shed tears for the Muslims. His idea of Hindu-Muslim amity was also extremely biased and prejudiced. Only Hindus are supposed to make all sacrifices for it and they should endure all the oppressions and heinous crimes of the Muslims without protest. And that was the basis of Gandhian nonviolence and secularism. So a Muslim called Khlifa Haji Mehmud of Lurwani, Sind, once said “Gandhi was really a Mohammedan” (D Keer, ibid, p-237)
It is now well known that Muslim appeasement was an inseparable part of Gandhi’s quack doctrine of Non-violence. But many do not know why he, while he was in South Africa, adopted, or compelled to adopt this dirty policy in 1908.
At that time the South African government imposed an unjust tax of £ 3 on every Indian living in South Africa and Gandhi initiated talks with South African government on this matter. But the Muslims did not support this move and were displeased with Gandhi. In addition to that Gandhi, in one occasion,
Gandhi made some critical comments on Islam while he was speaking at a gathering. Furthermore, he tried to make a comparative estimate of Hinduism, Islam and Christianity, which made the Muslims furious.
A few days later, on 10th February 1908, a group of Muslims under the leadership of a Pathan called Mir Alam entered Gandhi’s house and beat him mercilessly. When Gandhi fell on the ground the Muslim attackers kicked him right and left and beat him with sticks.
They also threatened to kill him. From this incident onward, Gandhi stopped to make any critical comment on Muslims as well as on Islam. According to Dr. B.R. Ambedkar, this incident was a milestone in Gandhi’s life and afterwards Gandhi began to over look even the most heinous crime committed by the Muslims.
An example would help the reader to understand the matter. On 23rd December 1926, a Muslim assassin called Abdul Rashid stabbed Swami Shraddhananda to death, when the swami was ill and lying on his bed. The reader may recall that Swami Shraddhananda was a pracharak (whole time worker) of Arya Samaj and he started a Suddhai Yajna to bring the converted Muslims of this country back to Hinduism.
But his activity was detested by the Muslims. A couple of months earlier a Muslim woman came to the Swami and expressed her desire to return to Hinduism with her children. However her husband brought an allegation of abduction in the court of law against the Swami. But the court quashed the allegation and set the Swami free. The incident turned the Muslims extremely furious and within a few days Abdul Rashid assassinated him.
After a few days of this incident, Gandhi went to Gauhati to deliver his speech at the national conference of Indian National Congress. The atmosphere was depressed and gloomy due to unusual death of Shraddhananda.
But Gandhi made everyone dumbfounded and began his speech by addressing the assassin Abdul Rashid as “Bhai Abdul Rashid”. Without caring for the reaction of the listeners, he continued, “Now you will perhaps understand why I have called Abdul Rashid a brother,
and I repeat it. I do not even regard him as guilty of Swami’s murder. Guilty indeed are those who excited feeling of hatred against one another.” Thus he indirectly held Swami Shraddhananda responsible for his murder, as he was propagating hatred through his Suddhi Yajna.
Moreover, he wrote in the obituary note, “He (the Swami) lived a hero. He died a hero.” In other words, if a Hindu falls victim to the knife of a Muslim’s assassin, Hindus should consider it a heroic death.
It should be pointed out here that the said policy of Muslim appeasement originated by Gandhi, under the garb of (pseudo) secularism was responsible for the Partition of the country in 1947. Many of our countrymen, still today, firmly believe that Gandhi was against partition as in the public meetings, he used to say, “Vivisect me, before you vivisect India”.
When he was saying this in public meetings, he was expressing just the opposite view through his writings. The reader may recall that, on March 26, 1940, the leaders of the Muslim League raised the issue of creation of Pakistan as a separate homeland for them. Hardly a couple of weeks later, supporting demand, Gandhi wrote, “Like other group of people in this country, Muslims also have the right of self determination.
We are living here as a joint family and hence any member has the right to get separated.” (Harijan, April 6, 1940). A couple of years later, he also wrote, “If majority of the Muslims of this country maintain that they are a different nation and there is nothing common with the Hindus and other communities, there is no force on the earth that can alter their view. And if on that basis, they demand partition that must be carried out. If Hindus dislike it, they may oppose it”, (Harijan, April 18, 1942).
The reader should also recall that the Congress Working Committee, in its session on June 12, 1947, decided to place the partition issue to be placed before the All India Congress Committee (AICC) for a debate and the AICC approved the issue in its session held on June 14-15, 1947.
In the beginning of the debate, veteran Congress leaders like Purusottamdas Tandon, Govindaballav Panth, Chaitram Gidwani and Dr S Kichlu etc. placed their very convincing speeches against the motiom. Then Gandhi, setting aside all other speakers, spoke for 45 minutes supporting partition. The main theme of his deliberation was that, if Congress did not accept partition (1) other group of people or leaders would avail the opportunity and throw the Congress out of power and (2) a chaotic situation would prevail throughout the country. Many believe that, in the name of ‘chaotic condition’, he tacitly asked the Muslims to begin countrywide communal riot, if the Congress did not accept the partition. Till then, Sardar Ballavbhat Patel was on the fence regarding the partition. But Gandhi’s speech turned him into a firm supporter of partition and he influenced other confused members to support the issue. In this way, Congress approved the partition issue (History of Freedom Movement in India, R C Majumdar, Vol-III, p-670).
It may appear to many that, up to partition, Gandhi’s policy of nonviolence and Muslim appeasement in the name of secularism indeed harmed the country a lot. But a close look will reveal, it has done severe damage even after partition, or to speak the truth, it is causing serious damage even today. During independence, the Muslim population in undivided India was 23 per cent and this 23 per cent Muslims, got 32 per cent land area as Pakistan. The most appropriate step after partition was to carry out population transfer, or send the entire Muslim population of the divided India to Pakistan and bring all Hindus from Pakistan to India. This population transfer was included in the proposal for Pakistan by the Muslim League and after communal riot in Bihar, M A Jinnah requested the Government of India to carry out population transfer as early as possible. But Gandhi was hell bent not to undertake out the process and said that it was an impractical and fictitious proposal.
Mount Batten, the then Governor General of India, was a staunch supporter of the said population exchange and advised Jawaharlal Nehru to do the same without delay. But Nehru submitted to the will of Gandhi and refrained from doing so. It is needless to say that, from the practical point of view, the said population exchange was urgently necessary and had it been carried out at that time, many problems of today would not have arisen. But due to the policy of Muslim appeasement of Gandhi, Muslims happily stayed back in this country, while Hindus had no alternative but to come to India as refugees or penniless beggars.
Many of us perhaps do not know that due to strong opposition by Gandhi, “Bande Mataram” could not be accepted as the National Anthem” of this country. In his early life, Gandhi had a great affinity for the song and while he was in South Africa, he wrote “It is nobler in sentiment and sweeter than the songs of other nations. While other anthems contain sentiments that are derogatory to others, Bande Mataram is quite free from such faults. Its only aim is to arouse in us a sense of patriotism. It regards India as the mother and sings her praise.” But later on when he could discover that the Muslims dislike the song, he at once stopped singing or reciting the same at public places. Hence ultimately the “Jana Mana Gana” was selected as the National Anthem. During the debate over the matter in the Constituent Assembly, Nehru argued that Bande Mataram is not suitable to sing along with military band while Jana Gana Mana is free from this difficulty.
In the present context, it should also be pointed out that Gandhi was not pleased with Tri Color, the National Flag of today’s India because the Muslims disliked the same. In this regard, Sri Nathuram Godse has narrated an incident in his “Why I Assassinated Gandhi”, which deserves to be noted in this context. During his Noakhali tour in 1946, a Congress worker put a tricolor over the temporary house where Gandhi was staying. One day an ordinary Muslim passer by objected to it and Gandhi immediately ordered his men to bring flag down. So, to please an ordinary Muslim, Gandhi did not hesitate to disgrace and dishonor the flag revered by millions of Congress workers. (pp-75-76). It should also be pointed out here that in his early life, Gahdhi was very fond of the Hindi language and used to say that it was the only language having the potentiality to play the role of the national language. But to please the Muslim, he, later on tried his best to make Urdu, under the garb of Hindustani, the National Language of India. (Koenrad Elst, Gandhi and Godse, Voice of India, p – 89).
A few months before the partition, when Hindu and Sikh refugees started to come from West Punjab in droves and crowding the refugee camps of Delhi, one day Gandhi visited a refugee camp and said, “Hindus should never be angry against the Muslims even if the latter might make up their minds to undo their (Hindus’) existence. If they put all of us to the sword, we should court death bravely. … We are destined to be born and die, then why need we feel gloomy over it?” (speech delivered on April 6, 1947
In a similar occasion he said, “The few gentlemen from Rawalpindi who called upon me, asked me, “What about those who still remain in Pakistan?” I asked, why they all came here (Delhi)? Why they did not die there? I still hold on to the belief that we should stick to the place where we happen to live, even if we are cruelly treated, and even killed. Let us die if the people kill us, but we should die bravely with the name of God on our tongue.” He also said, “Even if our men are killed, why should we feel angry with anybody? You should realize that even if they are killed, they have had a good and proper end” (speech delivered on November 23, 1947)
In this context, Gandhi also said, “If those killed have died bravely, they have not lost anything but earned something. … They should not be afraid of death. After all, the killers will be none other than our Muslim brothers.” (Shri Nathuram Godse, Why I Assassinated Gandhi, p-92,93; as quoted by Koenrad Elst in Gandhi versus Godse, Voice of India, p-121). In another occasion when he was talking to a group of refugees, said, “If all the Punjabis were to die to the last man without killing (a single Muslim), Punjab will be immortal. Offer yourselves as nonviolent willing sacrifices.” (Collins and Lapierre, Freedom at Midnight, p-385). There is no doubt that if someone reads all these utterances of Gandhi, he would take him either a fool or a lunatic, but we are worshiping him as a Mahatma or a Great Soul.
Gandhi believed that Muslims were brothers of the Hindus and hence they should never take arms or wage a war against the Muslims. He used to say that the foreign policy of independent India should always be respectful to Islam and the Muslims. Moreover, independent India should never invade a Muslim country like Arabia, Turkey etc. Gandhi also said that Rana Pratap, Guru Govinda Singh, Raja Ranjit Singh and Raja Shivaji were misguided patriots because they fought war with the Muslims. In his eyes Goerge Washington, Garibaldi, Kamal Pasha, D Valera, Lenin etc. were misguided patriots as they encouraged violence.
Gandhi’s utterances painting respected Hindu heroes as misguided patriots aroused widespread commotion among the Hindus. Most importantly, calling Raja Shivaji a misguided patriots put entire Maharastra on boil. Later on, Nehru could pacify their anger partially by begging apology on behalf of Gandhi.
The Muslims whenever attack a Hindu settlement, they, in addition killing innocent people, setting their houses on fire, loot and burglary as their routine work, rape Hindu women. It is evident that, they commit all such oppressions according to the instructions of the Koran, revealed by Allah. During the Muslim rule that lasted for nearly 800 years, raping Hindu women became a common affair. To save their honour and sanctity from the lecherous Muslims, millions of Hindu women used to sacrific their lives in flames. In the wake of partition most of the Hindu families became victims of Muslim oppression and raping Hindu women was an inseparable part of their attacks. When Hindus were butchered in Noakhali in 1946, thousands of Hindu women were raped by the Muslims.
Many Hindus of this country do not know, what Gandhi, the Great Soul and the Apostle of nonviolence, thought about this behavior of the Muslims. In the 6th July, 1926, edition of the Navajivan, Gandhi wrote that “He would kiss the feet of the (Muslim) violator of the modesty of a sister” (Mahatma Gandhi, D Keer, Popular Prakashan, p-473). Just before the partition, both Hindu and Sikh women were being raped by the Muslims in large numbers. Gandhi advised them that if a Muslim expressed his desire to rape a Hindu or a Sikh lady, she should never refuse him but cooperate with him. She should lie down like a dead with her tongue in between her teeth. Thus the rapist Muslim will be satisfied soon and sooner he leave her. (D Lapierre and L Collins, Freedom at Midnight, Vikas, 1997, p-479).
From the above narrations, it becomes evident that Gandhi was never moved by the sufferings and miseries of the Hindus and, on the contrary, he used to shed tears for the Muslims. His idea of Hindu-Muslim amity was also extremely biased and prejudiced. Only Hindus are supposed to make all sacrifices for it and they should endure all the oppressions and heinous crimes of the Muslims without protest. And that was the basis of Gandhian nonviolence and secularism. So a Muslim called Khlifa Haji Mehmud of Lurwani, Sind, once said “Gandhi was really a Mohammedan” (D Keer, ibid, p-237)
Is Obama trying to be Muslim missionary???
Posted: August 16, 2010
By Chuck Norris
Unlike any other time in U.S. history, our First Amendment freedoms of speech and religion are in jeopardy. As if recently passed “hate-crime” laws and a politically correct culture weren’t bad enough, now our president is using internationalpressure and possibly law to establish a prohibition against insulting Islam or Muslims.
Let me remind us how we got here.
Speaking for most founders in his day, John Jay, America’s first chief justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, appointed by George Washington himself, said, “Providence has given to our people the choice of their rulers, and it is the duty, as well as the privilege and interest of our Christian nation to select and prefer Christians for their rulers.”
Two hundred years later, President Obama has already denied America’s rich Judeo-Christian heritage before the eyes and ears of other countries, as he publicly declared in Turkey on April 6, 2009, for the whole world to hear: “We do not consider ourselves a Christian nation.”
Then there was Cairo in June 2009, when President Obama vowed to establish “a new beginning between the United Statesand Muslims around the world … I also know civilization’s debt to Islam. … I also know that Islam has always been a part of America’s story. … And since our founding, American Muslims have enriched the United States. … So I have known Islam on three continents before coming to the region where it was first revealed.”
He goes on to say, “That experience guides my conviction that partnership between America and Islam must be based on what Islam is, not what it isn’t. And I consider it part of my responsibility as president of the United States to fight against negative stereotypes of Islam wherever they appear.”
That last line is really one of the most unique U.S. presidential religious passions and missions stated to date: “And I consider it part of my responsibility as president of the United States to fight against negative stereotypes of Islam wherever they appear.”
Another big question is: What did the president mean when he said, “That experience guides my conviction that partnership between America and Islam must be based on what Islam is, not what it isn’t”? It makes no sense at all to refer to a partnership between a country and religion – America and Islam. Why not say partnership between America and Muslim nations or a partnership between Americans and Muslims or even a partnership between Christianity and Islam? That comment is very strange to me and has a much deeper meaning.
Roughly six months later, in February 2010, Obama appointed Rashad Hussain to serve as his special envoy to theOrganization of the Islamic Conference, or OIC, an inter-governmental body of 56 Muslim countries that also forms an official body represented in the United Nations. (Where is the same treatment from this White House for countries that uphold Judeo-Christian values to unite and have the same treatment that allows them to form an official body represented in the U.N.? Or any religion, for that matter? There’s something rotten in the state of Denmark!)
Obama rejoiced, “I’m proud to announce today that I am appointing my special envoy to the OIC – Rashad Hussain. As an accomplished lawyer and a close and trusted member of my White House staff, Rashad has played a key role in developing the partnerships I called for in Cairo. And as a hafiz of the Quran, he is a respected member of the American Muslim community, and I thank him for carrying forward this important work.”
In 2007, then President George W. Bush explained the initial purpose for a OIC representative: “Our special envoy will listen to and learn from representatives from Muslim states, and will share with them America’s views and values. This is an opportunity for Americans to demonstrate to Muslim communities our interest in respectful dialogue and continued friendship.”
But Obama has considerably upped the OIC ante. Today, the White House purports from its website that special envoy, Muslim and hafiz of the Quran, Rashad Hussain, “will deepen and expand the partnerships that the United States has pursued with Muslims around the world since President Obama’s speech in Cairo last June.”
Again, notice the differences between the Bush and Obama plans with the special OIC envoy: from Bush’s mission to “listen and learn from representatives” to Obama’s mission to “deepen and expand the partnerships.”
The OIC members (including U.S. Special Envoy Rashad Hussain) pledge to its charter mission to rid the world of “the defamation of religion.” But the “defamation of religion” translates to mean “defamation of Islam.” An article on the OIC website explains, “Western foreign policy is considered to be the single most significant factor determining the attitudes of many Muslims toward the West. … Unfortunately, Islam often conjures in the Western minds images of authoritarian government, subjugation of women, cruel punishments of Shariah law and violence in the popular Western mind.”
“Unfortunately”?!
The world also just learned recently from the assistant secretary for public affairs in the State Department, P.J. Crowley, that theWhite House has repeatedly sent out as an American ambassador of peace the Islamic fundamentalist and executive director of the Ground Zero mosque, Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf, who is being sponsored by the U.S. State Department for repeated trips to the Middle East, where he is teaching on Muslim life in America and promoting religious tolerance.
But doesn’t one who called the U.S. an “accessory” to Sept. 11 just a few weeks after the tragic event and one who still refuses to call Hamas a foreign terrorist organization seem a strange choice for a U.S. ambassador of peace who promotes religious tolerance?
It is absolutely no surprise, therefore, though gravely unfortunate and disappointing for our commander in chief to blurt out last Friday night, while celebrating the holy month of Ramadan at a White House dinner, that he is in favor of building the mosque near Ground Zero!
The president explained the next day, “I was not commenting and I will not comment on the wisdom of making the decision to put a mosque there. I was commenting very specifically on the right people have that dates back to our founding. That’s what our country is about.”
White House spokesman Bill Burton reiterated the next day about Obama’s stance on constructing the mosque: “Just to be clear, the president is not backing off in any way from the comments he made last night. It is not his role as president to pass judgment on every local project. But it is his responsibility to stand up for the constitutional principle of religious freedom and equal treatment for all Americans. What he said last night, and reaffirmed today, is that if a church, a synagogue or a Hindu temple can be built on a site, you simply cannot deny that right to those who want to build a mosque.”
But I could not agree more with Sally Regenhard, whose firefighter son was killed at the World Trade Center on Sept. 11: “As an Obama supporter, I really feel that he’s lost sight of the germane issue, which is not about freedom of religion. It’s about a gross lack of sensitivity to the 9/11 families and to the people who were lost.”
And Debra Burlingame, a spokeswoman for some Sept. 11 families and the sister of one of the pilots killed in the attacks, summed it up perfectly: “Barack Obama has abandoned America at the place where America’s heart was broken nine years ago, and where her true values were on display for all to see.”
Obama is not just rebooting America’s image in the Muslim world. He’s deepening and expanding Islamic belief, practice, culture around the world, like a Muslim missionary.
(Next week in Part 2, I will discuss how the Obama administration has changed course in just this past year regarding passing anti-First Amendment defamation of religion resolutions, as well as demonstrate how Obama has been prejudice in his treatment of Islam versus Christianity).
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By Chuck Norris
Unlike any other time in U.S. history, our First Amendment freedoms of speech and religion are in jeopardy. As if recently passed “hate-crime” laws and a politically correct culture weren’t bad enough, now our president is using internationalpressure and possibly law to establish a prohibition against insulting Islam or Muslims.
Let me remind us how we got here.
Speaking for most founders in his day, John Jay, America’s first chief justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, appointed by George Washington himself, said, “Providence has given to our people the choice of their rulers, and it is the duty, as well as the privilege and interest of our Christian nation to select and prefer Christians for their rulers.”
Two hundred years later, President Obama has already denied America’s rich Judeo-Christian heritage before the eyes and ears of other countries, as he publicly declared in Turkey on April 6, 2009, for the whole world to hear: “We do not consider ourselves a Christian nation.”
Then there was Cairo in June 2009, when President Obama vowed to establish “a new beginning between the United Statesand Muslims around the world … I also know civilization’s debt to Islam. … I also know that Islam has always been a part of America’s story. … And since our founding, American Muslims have enriched the United States. … So I have known Islam on three continents before coming to the region where it was first revealed.”
He goes on to say, “That experience guides my conviction that partnership between America and Islam must be based on what Islam is, not what it isn’t. And I consider it part of my responsibility as president of the United States to fight against negative stereotypes of Islam wherever they appear.”
That last line is really one of the most unique U.S. presidential religious passions and missions stated to date: “And I consider it part of my responsibility as president of the United States to fight against negative stereotypes of Islam wherever they appear.”
Another big question is: What did the president mean when he said, “That experience guides my conviction that partnership between America and Islam must be based on what Islam is, not what it isn’t”? It makes no sense at all to refer to a partnership between a country and religion – America and Islam. Why not say partnership between America and Muslim nations or a partnership between Americans and Muslims or even a partnership between Christianity and Islam? That comment is very strange to me and has a much deeper meaning.
Roughly six months later, in February 2010, Obama appointed Rashad Hussain to serve as his special envoy to theOrganization of the Islamic Conference, or OIC, an inter-governmental body of 56 Muslim countries that also forms an official body represented in the United Nations. (Where is the same treatment from this White House for countries that uphold Judeo-Christian values to unite and have the same treatment that allows them to form an official body represented in the U.N.? Or any religion, for that matter? There’s something rotten in the state of Denmark!)
Obama rejoiced, “I’m proud to announce today that I am appointing my special envoy to the OIC – Rashad Hussain. As an accomplished lawyer and a close and trusted member of my White House staff, Rashad has played a key role in developing the partnerships I called for in Cairo. And as a hafiz of the Quran, he is a respected member of the American Muslim community, and I thank him for carrying forward this important work.”
In 2007, then President George W. Bush explained the initial purpose for a OIC representative: “Our special envoy will listen to and learn from representatives from Muslim states, and will share with them America’s views and values. This is an opportunity for Americans to demonstrate to Muslim communities our interest in respectful dialogue and continued friendship.”
But Obama has considerably upped the OIC ante. Today, the White House purports from its website that special envoy, Muslim and hafiz of the Quran, Rashad Hussain, “will deepen and expand the partnerships that the United States has pursued with Muslims around the world since President Obama’s speech in Cairo last June.”
Again, notice the differences between the Bush and Obama plans with the special OIC envoy: from Bush’s mission to “listen and learn from representatives” to Obama’s mission to “deepen and expand the partnerships.”
The OIC members (including U.S. Special Envoy Rashad Hussain) pledge to its charter mission to rid the world of “the defamation of religion.” But the “defamation of religion” translates to mean “defamation of Islam.” An article on the OIC website explains, “Western foreign policy is considered to be the single most significant factor determining the attitudes of many Muslims toward the West. … Unfortunately, Islam often conjures in the Western minds images of authoritarian government, subjugation of women, cruel punishments of Shariah law and violence in the popular Western mind.”
“Unfortunately”?!
The world also just learned recently from the assistant secretary for public affairs in the State Department, P.J. Crowley, that theWhite House has repeatedly sent out as an American ambassador of peace the Islamic fundamentalist and executive director of the Ground Zero mosque, Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf, who is being sponsored by the U.S. State Department for repeated trips to the Middle East, where he is teaching on Muslim life in America and promoting religious tolerance.
But doesn’t one who called the U.S. an “accessory” to Sept. 11 just a few weeks after the tragic event and one who still refuses to call Hamas a foreign terrorist organization seem a strange choice for a U.S. ambassador of peace who promotes religious tolerance?
It is absolutely no surprise, therefore, though gravely unfortunate and disappointing for our commander in chief to blurt out last Friday night, while celebrating the holy month of Ramadan at a White House dinner, that he is in favor of building the mosque near Ground Zero!
The president explained the next day, “I was not commenting and I will not comment on the wisdom of making the decision to put a mosque there. I was commenting very specifically on the right people have that dates back to our founding. That’s what our country is about.”
White House spokesman Bill Burton reiterated the next day about Obama’s stance on constructing the mosque: “Just to be clear, the president is not backing off in any way from the comments he made last night. It is not his role as president to pass judgment on every local project. But it is his responsibility to stand up for the constitutional principle of religious freedom and equal treatment for all Americans. What he said last night, and reaffirmed today, is that if a church, a synagogue or a Hindu temple can be built on a site, you simply cannot deny that right to those who want to build a mosque.”
But I could not agree more with Sally Regenhard, whose firefighter son was killed at the World Trade Center on Sept. 11: “As an Obama supporter, I really feel that he’s lost sight of the germane issue, which is not about freedom of religion. It’s about a gross lack of sensitivity to the 9/11 families and to the people who were lost.”
And Debra Burlingame, a spokeswoman for some Sept. 11 families and the sister of one of the pilots killed in the attacks, summed it up perfectly: “Barack Obama has abandoned America at the place where America’s heart was broken nine years ago, and where her true values were on display for all to see.”
Obama is not just rebooting America’s image in the Muslim world. He’s deepening and expanding Islamic belief, practice, culture around the world, like a Muslim missionary.
(Next week in Part 2, I will discuss how the Obama administration has changed course in just this past year regarding passing anti-First Amendment defamation of religion resolutions, as well as demonstrate how Obama has been prejudice in his treatment of Islam versus Christianity).
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Tuesday, August 10, 2010
Malaysian woman fails to nullify conversion to Islam when 7, vows to fight for Hindu rights
By The Associated Press (CP) – 6 days ago
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia — A Malaysian woman lost a court battle Wednesday to nullify her conversion to Islam when she was a child, but vowed to fight on to be recognized as a Hindu.
The interfaith dispute could further anger non-Muslims who have long complained that their religious rights are being sidelined in Muslim-majority Malaysia, and may erode minority support for the government.
Malaysia's secular High Court ruled it had no jurisdiction to hear the case as Banggarma Subramaniam is a Muslim and should refer to the Islamic Shariah court, said her lawyer Gooi Hsiao Leung.
Banggarma has said she and her three siblings were under the care of a government orphanage in northern Penang state when she was converted to Islam by welfare officials in 1989 when she was seven years old.
She ran away when she was 16 and got married two years later in 2001 in a traditional Hindu ceremony. When she returned to the home to collect her identity card and other documents, she was given the Muslim conversion certificate which listed her name as Siti Hasnah Vanga-rama Abdullah.
She has been unable to register her marriage or name her husband as the father of their two children in their birth certificates as she is listed a Muslim. Banggarma's husband must convert to Islam to legally wed her as marriage between Muslims and non-Muslims is not allowed in the country.
Banggarma said she was disappointed with the court ruling and planned to take the case to the Appeals Court.
"Why must I be forced to accept Islam?" Banggarma said. "I was born an Indian, a Hindu and I remain so until I die. They have no rights over me."
The welfare department claims Banggarma was converted in 1983 by her father and that she must go to the Shariah court to verify her status.
Gooi, however, said her conversion certificate was dated 1989 and that under Penang Islamic laws, minors below 18 cannot be converted to Islam without the consent of their parents.
Malaysia has a dual court system with civil courts for non-Muslims and Shariah courts for Muslims. In interfaith disputes involving Islam, the Shariah courts typically get the last word, which has upset non-Muslims who fear they cannot get justice in such courts.
If she renounces Islam, Banggarma risks being charged with apostasy, which in Malaysia — as in many Islamic nations — is regarded as a crime punishable by fines and jail sentences. Offenders are often sent to prison-like rehabilitation centres.
Minorities are increasingly becoming worried that their rights have become subordinate to those of ethnic Malay Muslims, who form nearly 60 per cent of Malaysia's 28 million people.
The unhappiness over racial discrimination erupted in an unprecedented street protest three years ago by tens of thousands of ethnic Indians. The demonstration emboldened the minorities into voting against the government, which returned to power with its worst performance ever in the March 2008 general elections.
Copyright © 2010 The Canadian Press. All rights reserved.
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia — A Malaysian woman lost a court battle Wednesday to nullify her conversion to Islam when she was a child, but vowed to fight on to be recognized as a Hindu.
The interfaith dispute could further anger non-Muslims who have long complained that their religious rights are being sidelined in Muslim-majority Malaysia, and may erode minority support for the government.
Malaysia's secular High Court ruled it had no jurisdiction to hear the case as Banggarma Subramaniam is a Muslim and should refer to the Islamic Shariah court, said her lawyer Gooi Hsiao Leung.
Banggarma has said she and her three siblings were under the care of a government orphanage in northern Penang state when she was converted to Islam by welfare officials in 1989 when she was seven years old.
She ran away when she was 16 and got married two years later in 2001 in a traditional Hindu ceremony. When she returned to the home to collect her identity card and other documents, she was given the Muslim conversion certificate which listed her name as Siti Hasnah Vanga-rama Abdullah.
She has been unable to register her marriage or name her husband as the father of their two children in their birth certificates as she is listed a Muslim. Banggarma's husband must convert to Islam to legally wed her as marriage between Muslims and non-Muslims is not allowed in the country.
Banggarma said she was disappointed with the court ruling and planned to take the case to the Appeals Court.
"Why must I be forced to accept Islam?" Banggarma said. "I was born an Indian, a Hindu and I remain so until I die. They have no rights over me."
The welfare department claims Banggarma was converted in 1983 by her father and that she must go to the Shariah court to verify her status.
Gooi, however, said her conversion certificate was dated 1989 and that under Penang Islamic laws, minors below 18 cannot be converted to Islam without the consent of their parents.
Malaysia has a dual court system with civil courts for non-Muslims and Shariah courts for Muslims. In interfaith disputes involving Islam, the Shariah courts typically get the last word, which has upset non-Muslims who fear they cannot get justice in such courts.
If she renounces Islam, Banggarma risks being charged with apostasy, which in Malaysia — as in many Islamic nations — is regarded as a crime punishable by fines and jail sentences. Offenders are often sent to prison-like rehabilitation centres.
Minorities are increasingly becoming worried that their rights have become subordinate to those of ethnic Malay Muslims, who form nearly 60 per cent of Malaysia's 28 million people.
The unhappiness over racial discrimination erupted in an unprecedented street protest three years ago by tens of thousands of ethnic Indians. The demonstration emboldened the minorities into voting against the government, which returned to power with its worst performance ever in the March 2008 general elections.
Copyright © 2010 The Canadian Press. All rights reserved.
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