tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-80140616385684400242024-03-05T12:46:46.557-08:00GanashaktiAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11490405927751525925noreply@blogger.comBlogger36125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8014061638568440024.post-43542205278573244002012-11-01T04:05:00.000-07:002012-11-01T04:05:33.892-07:00Joys of Muslim Women <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">by Nonie Darwish</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">In
the Muslim faith a Muslim man can marry a child as young as 1 year old and
have sexual intimacy with this child, consummating the marriage by 9. The
dowry is given to the family in exchange for the woman (who becomes his
slave) and for the purchase of the private parts of the woman, to use her as
a toy.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">Even though a woman is abused she can not obtain a divorce. To prove
rape, the woman must have (4) male witnesses. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Often
after a woman has been raped, she is returned to her family and the family must
return the dowry. The family has the right to execute her (an honor killing) to
restore the honor of the family. Husbands can beat their wives 'at will' and
the man does not have to say why he has beaten her.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">The husband is permitted to have 4 wives and a temporary wife for an hour
(prostitute) at his discretion.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">The Shariah Muslim law controls the private as well as the public life of the
woman.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: 12pt;">In the Western World (UK) Muslim men are starting to demand Shariah Law so the
wife can not obtain a divorce and he can have full and complete control of her.
It is amazing and alarming how many of our sisters and daughters attending
American Universities are now marrying Muslim men and submitting themselves and
their children unsuspectingly to the Shariah law.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: 12pt;">By passing this on, enlightened women may avoid becoming a slave under Shariah
Law.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">Ripping the West in Two. Author and lecturer Nonie Darwish says the goal
of radical Islamists is to impose Shariah law on the world, ripping Western law
and liberty in two.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: 12pt;">She recently authored the book, Cruel and Usual Punishment: The Terrifying
Global Implications of Islamic Law.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">Darwish was born in Cairo and spent her childhood in Egypt and Gaza before
immigrating to America in 1978, when she was eight years old. Her father died
while leading covert attacks on Israel . He was a high-ranking Egyptian
military officer stationed with his family in Gaza .</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: 12pt;">When he died, he was considered a "shahid," a martyr for jihad. His
posthumous status earned Nonie and her family an elevated position in Muslim
society.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: 12pt;">But Darwish developed a skeptical eye at an early age. She questioned her own
Muslim culture and upbringing. She converted to Christianity after hearing a
Christian preacher on television.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: 12pt;">In her latest book, Darwish warns about creeping Shariah law - what it is, what
it means, and how it is manifested in Islamic countries?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: 12pt;">For the West, she says radical Islamists are working to impose Shariah on the
world. If that happens, Western civilization will be destroyed. Westerners
generally assume all religions encourage a respect for the dignity of each
individual. Islamic law (Shariah) teaches that non-Muslims should be subjugated
or killed in this world.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: 12pt;">Peace and prosperity for one's children is not as important as assuring that
Islamic law rules everywhere in the Middle East and eventually in the world.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: 12pt;">While Westerners tend to think that all religions encourage some form of the
golden rule, Shariah teaches two systems of ethics - one for Muslims and
another for non-Muslims. Building on tribal practices of the seventh century,
shariah encourages the side of humanity that wants to take from and subjugate
others.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: 12pt;">While Westerners tend to think in terms of religious people developing a
personal understanding of and relationship with God, shariah advocates
executing people who ask difficult questions that could be interpreted as
criticism.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: 12pt;">It's hard to imagine, that in this day and age, Islamic scholars agree that
those </span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">who criticize Islam or
choose to stop being Muslim should be executed. Sadly, while talk of an Islamic
reformation is common and even assumed by many in the West, such murmurings in
the Middle East are silenced through intimidation.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: 12pt;">While Westerners are accustomed to an increase in religious tolerance over
time, Darwish explains how petro dollars are being used to grow an extremely
intolerant form of political Islam in her native Egypt and elsewhere.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: 12pt;">In twenty years there will be enough Muslim voters in the U.K. To elect the
Prime Minister by themselves! Rest assured they will do so... You can look at
how they have taken over several towns in the USA ... Dearborn Michigan , is
one... And there are others...</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">I think everyone in the USA , Australia , UK , should be required to read this,
but with the ACLU there is no way this will be widely publicized unless each of
us sends it on!</span></span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11490405927751525925noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8014061638568440024.post-76962088367771771762012-10-18T14:16:00.000-07:002012-10-18T14:16:10.503-07:00Defining al Qaeda<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">The
Obama administration's efforts to counter the threat posed by al Qaeda and the
wider jihadist movement have been a contentious topic in the U.S. presidential
race. Political rhetoric abounds on both sides; administration officials claim
that al Qaeda has been seriously crippled, while some critics of the
administration allege that the group is stronger than ever. As with most
political rhetoric, both claims bear elements of truth, but the truth depends
largely on how al Qaeda and jihadism are defined. Unfortunately, politicians
and the media tend to define al Qaeda loosely and incorrectly.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; padding: 0in;">The
jihadist threat will persist</span><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>regardless
of who is elected president, so understanding the actors involved is critical.
But a true understanding of those actors requires taxonomical acuity. It seems
worthwhile, then, to revisit Stratfor's definitions of al Qaeda and the wider
jihadist movement.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">A Network of Networks<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Al
Qaeda, the group established by Osama bin Laden and his colleagues, was never
very large -- there were never more than a few hundred actual members. We often
refer to this group, now led by Ayman al-Zawahiri, as the al Qaeda core or al
Qaeda prime. While the group's founders trained tens of thousands of men at
their camps in Afghanistan and Sudan, they initially viewed themselves as a
vanguard organization working with kindred groups to facilitate the jihad they
believed was necessary to establish a global Islamic caliphate. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Most
of the men trained at al Qaeda camps were members of other organizations or
were grassroots jihadists. The majority of them received basic paramilitary
training, and only a select few were invited to receive additional
training in terrorist tradecraft skills such as surveillance, document forgery
and bomb making. Of this select group, only a few men were invited to join the
al Qaeda core organization.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Bin
Laden envisioned another purpose for al Qaeda: leading the charge against
corrupt rulers in the Muslim world and against the United States, which he
believed supported corrupt Muslim rulers. Al Qaeda sought to excise the United
States from the Muslim world in much the same way that Hezbollah drove U.S.
forces out of Lebanon and Somalia forced the U.S. withdrawal from Mogadishu.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Al
Qaeda became a network of networks -- a trait demonstrated not only by its
training methods but also in bin Laden's rhetoric. For example, bin Laden's 1998
"World Islamic Front" statement, which declared jihad against Jews
and Crusaders, was signed by al-Zawahiri (who at the time was leading the
Egyptian Islamic Jihad) and leaders of other groups, including the Egyptian
Islamic Group, Jamiat-ul-Ulema-e-Pakistan and the Jihad Movement of Bangladesh.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Following
the 9/11 attacks, the United States applied against the al Qaeda core the full
pressure of its five counterterrorism levers: intelligence, military, law
enforcement, diplomacy and financial sanctions. As a result, many al Qaeda
members, eventually including bin Laden, were captured or killed and their
assets were frozen. Such measures have ensured that the group remains small for
operational security concerns. The remaining members of the group mostly are
lying low in Pakistan near the Afghan border, and their isolation there has
severely degraded their ability to conduct attacks. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">The
al Qaeda core is now relegated to producing propaganda for guidance and
inspiration for other jihadist elements. Despite the disproportionate amount of
media attention given to statements from al-Zawahiri and Adam Gadahn, the al
Qaeda core constitutes only a very small part of the larger jihadist movement.
In fact, it has not conducted a successful terrorist attack in years.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">However,
the core group has not been destroyed. It could regenerate if the United States
eased its pressure, but we believe<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;">that will be difficult given the loss of the charismatic bin Laden</span><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>and his replacement by the irascible
al-Zawahiri.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">In
any case, the jihadist movement transcends the al Qaeda core. In fact, Stratfor
for years published an <span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;">annual forecast of al Qaeda</span>,
but beginning<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;">in 2009, we intentionally changed the title of the forecast</span><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>to reflect the isolation and
marginalization of the al Qaeda core and the ascendance of other jihadist
actors. We believed our analysis needed to focus less on the al Qaeda core and
more on the truly active and significant elements of the jihadist movement,
including regional groups that have adopted the al Qaeda name and the array of
grassroots jihadists.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Franchises and Grassroots<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">An
element of the jihadist movement that is often loosely referred to as al Qaeda
is the worldwide network of local or regional militant groups that have assumed
al Qaeda's name or ideology. In many cases, the relationships between the
leadership of these groups and the al Qaeda core began in the 1980s and 1990s.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Some
groups have publicly claimed allegiance to the al Qaeda core, becoming what we
refer to as franchise groups. These groups include al Qaeda in Iraq, al Qaeda
in the Islamic Maghreb and al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula. Even though these
franchises bear the al Qaeda name, they are locally owned and operated. This
means that the local commanders have significant latitude in how closely they
follow the guidance and philosophy of the al Qaeda core.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Some
franchise group leaders, such as AQAP's Nasir al-Wahayshi, maintain strong
relationships with the al Qaeda core and are very closely aligned with the
core's philosophy. Other leaders, such as Abu Musab Abd al-Wadoud of AQIM, are
more distanced. In fact, AQIM has seen severe internal fighting over these
doctrinal issues, and several former leaders of Algeria's Salafist Group for
Preaching and Combat left the group because of this conflict. Further, it is
widely believed that the death of Somali al Qaeda leader Fazul Abdullah
Mohammed was arranged by leaders of Somali jihadist group al Shabaab, which he
had criticized sharply.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">The
last and broadest element of the global jihadist movement often referred to as
al Qaeda is what Stratfor refers to as grassroots jihadists. These are
individuals or small cells of individuals that are inspired by the al Qaeda
core -- or increasingly, by its franchise groups -- but that may have little or
no actual connection to these groups. Some grassroots jihadists travel to
places such as Pakistan or Yemen to receive training from the franchise groups.
Other grassroots militants have no direct contact with other jihadist elements.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">The
core, the franchises and the grassroots jihadists are often interchangeably
referred to as al Qaeda, but there are important differences among these actors
that need to be recognized.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Important Distinctions<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; padding: 0in;">There
are some other important distinctions that inform our terminology and our
analysis</span>.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;">Not all jihadists are linked to al Qaeda</span>, and not all
militant Islamists are jihadists. Islamists are those who believe society is
best governed by Islamic law, or Sharia. Militant Islamists are those who
advocate the use of force to establish Sharia. Militant Islamists are found in
both Islamic sects. Al Qaeda is a Sunni militant Islamist group, but Hezbollah
is a Shiite militant Islamist group. Moreover, not all militant Muslims are
Islamists. Some take up arms for tribal, territorial, ethnic or nationalistic
reasons, or for a combination of reasons. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">In
places such as Iraq, Afghanistan, Yemen, Libya and northern Mali, several
militant groups are fighting foreign forces, their government or each other --
and sometimes all of the above. Some of these groups are jihadists, some are
tribal militias, some are brigands and smugglers, and others are nationalists.
Identifying, sorting and classifying these groups can be very difficult, and
sometimes alliances shift or overlap. For example, Yemen's southern separatists
will sometimes work with tribal militias or AQAP to fight against the
government; other times, they fight against these would-be allies.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;">We have seen similar dynamics
in northern Mali</span> among groups such as AQIM, Ansar Dine, the Movement
for Unity and Jihad in West Africa, various Tuareg groups and other tribal
militias in the region.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Taxonomy
becomes even more difficult when a group uses multiple names, or when multiple
groups share a name. Groups adopt different names for discretion, confusion or
public relations purposes. AQAP called itself Ansar al-Shariah during its fight
to take over cities in southern Yemen and to govern the territory. But radical
cleric Abu Hamza al-Masri, who was arrested in the United Kingdom in 2004 and extradited
to the United States in 2012, has long led a movement likewise called Ansar
al-Shariah. Even<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;">the Libyan jihadist militia that attacked the U.S. Consulate in
Benghazi</span> uses the same name. But just because these groups share a name,
and just because members or leaders of the groups know each other, does not
necessarily mean that they are chapters of the same group or network of groups,
or that they even subscribe to the same ideology. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">As
we mentioned long before Moammar Gadhafi was ousted in Libya,<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;">jihadists and other militants
thrive in power vacuums</span>. This assertion has proved true in Afghanistan,
Iraq and Somalia, and more recently in Libya, northern Mali and now Syria.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;">Weapons flooding into such
regions</span> only compound the problem. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Militant
Islamists have seized the opportunity to grow in influence in such places, as
have the subset of militant Islamists we call jihadists. So in this context,
while the al Qaeda core has been crippled, other portions of the jihadist
movement are thriving. This is especially so among those that aspire to mount
local insurgencies rather than those more concerned with planning transnational
attacks. The nuances are important because<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;">as the composition and objectives of jihadist groups change, so do
their methods of attack</span>. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><b><span style="font-size: 12pt;">(October
13, 2012, Kandy, Sri Lanka Guardian) </span></b><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Buddhist petitioners have
successfully filed a case at the Indian Supreme Court seeking to overturn the
Bodh Gaya Temple Act of 1949. That legislation had enabled a shared Hindu and
Buddhist management of Bodh Gaya. Nehru sponsored this consensus arrangement in
order to roll back the Saivite Mahant's, until then, exclusive control over
temple administration. The Buddhists are now keen to secure monopoly control
over what they consider to be their sacred space. It is likely that the panel
of two Supreme Court judges looking into the case will rule in their favor,
unless checked.</span><span style="color: #444444; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Any
change in the shared administrative arrangements of Bodh Gaya should be linked
to a resolution of the long-standing dispute over who controls the entirety of
the sacred space in Varanasi (Benares) and Mathura, not to mention how Hindu
temples are administered in Tamil Nadu and Kerala.</span><span style="color: #444444; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Hindu
activists should make the case for there to be a uniform policy framework that
governs all religious institutions in India, be they Christian, Muslim, Sikh,
Buddhist or Hindu. One can not have separate principles, differentiated by
religion, to govern the administration of places of worship where Hindus alone
lack say in the running of their own sacred sites.</span><span style="color: #444444; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">A Supreme
Court ruling that removes a centuries-old Hindu presence in the management of
Bodh Gaya will reinvigorate neo-Buddhist radicalism in India. The Ambedkarites
will proceed to launch similar litigation to retrieve other alleged Buddhist
sites. The long-term goal is to secure international status for Bodh Gaya akin
to what the Vatican enjoys and what is claimed for Jerusalem by the Roman
Catholic church. The objective is to ensure that the Bodh Gaya enclave is an
international entity insulated from Indian law.</span><span style="color: #444444; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">The
Buddhist petitioners at the Supreme Court include the Japanese-born Bhante Arya
Nagarjun Shurai Sasai and ethnic Tibetan Wangdi Tshering of Darjeeling. Bhante
Arya Nagarjun is linked to President Mahinda Rajapakse of Sri Lanka. He is a
Buddhist radical who routinely attacks Hinduism. He should be extradited to his
native Japan where he can preach to his own people whose adherance to Buddhism
has been in terminal decline.</span><span style="color: #444444; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">The Mauryas
and the Guptas helped build and refurbish the temple at Bodh Gaya. The Guptas,
while sponsors of the Hindu high tradition, protected Buddhism in the spirit of
Hindu tolerance. The Delhi Sultanate sacked Bodh Gaya in the 13th century which
was then abandoned and neglected for three hundred years until Ghamandi Giri, a
Saivite Hindu Mahant moved into the premises in 1590 thereby preserving the
structure. Had he not moved in, the temple would have collapsed due to neglect.
The Hindu Mahants had maintained the temple for 300 years. Hinduism, after all,
embraces all humanity and promotes religious pluralism.</span><span style="color: #444444; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><b><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Varanasi
and Mathura</span></b><span style="color: #444444; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">This
brings us to the subject of Hindu control of their sacred space in Varanasi and
Mathura. The Gyanvapi or Alamgiri Mosque dominates the Varanasi skyline and
overshadows the Kashi Vishwanath Temple, Hinduism's most sacred place on earth.
Hindus consider Varanasi to be the holiest city in the world. The 17th century
mosque is situated on the original site of the Kashi Vishwanath temple that was
demolished by Aurangzeb. The 71 meter high Islamic minarets are the most
conspicuous feature in this epicenter of Hinduism. The mosque was recently
expanded and towers above the Hindu sanctum sanctorum.</span><span style="color: #444444; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">The
Krishna janma bhoomi in Mathura is likewise a very sacred Hindu site. The
Shah-i-Idgah mosque stands on the original site of the Krishna Temple
demolished by Aurangzeb. The modern Kesava Deo Temple was only rebuilt in 1965
adjacent to the original site.</span><span style="color: #444444; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">If the
Supreme Court were to rule that Bodh Gaya be under the exclusive management of
Buddhists, then the same should apply to the control of Hindu sacred space in
Varanasi and Mathura. The immediate linking of the two separate issues will
immediately give reason to the Supreme Court and to India's Attorney General to
pause before making any hasty judgement on the Bodh Gaya issue.</span><span style="color: #444444; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><b><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Hindu
Religious and Charitable Endowments</span></b><span style="color: #444444; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">The
Buddhist petitioners demand exclusive Buddhist control over the management of
Bodh Gaya. Yet the administration of centuries-old Hindu temples under the
Hindu Religious and Charitable Endowments Act of Tamil Nadu and the Hindu
Religious Institutions Act of Kerala is often subject to ideological and
political interference by ruling state governments where atheists with an
ideological animus against Hinduism are placed in charge of Temple Management
Boards or Devaswoms when ever the DMK and the CPI (M) are in power. Such
individuals divert Hindu resources for non-Hindu activity. Hindus need to
regain control over the administration and finances of their own temples in
Tamil Nadu and Kerala.</span><span style="color: #444444; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Should
the Supreme Court over rule the Bodh Gaya Temple Act, it should in similar
fashion over turn the Hindu Religious and Charitable Endowments Act and the
Hindu Religious Institutions Act.</span><span style="color: #444444; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><b><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Buddhist
Belligerence</span></b><span style="color: #444444; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Many a
Hindu activist would claim that Hinduism and Buddhism are one and the same.
Buddhists do not make that claim or emphasize that affinity. They view
themselves as a separate and distinct dispensation.</span><span style="color: #444444; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Buddhist
exclusivism has impacted adversely on Hindu interests in Myanmar where one
million Tamil, Bengali and Marwari Indians, many of whom were Hindu, were
expelled in 1962. It impacted on Bhutan which evicted 107,000 Hindus of
Nepalese antecedents between 1985 and 1991. These people had lived in Bhutan
since the 1890s.</span><span style="color: #444444; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">A
Buddhist-sponsored intolerance impacted on Sri Lanka. Sri Lanka disenfranchised
one million Tamil Hindu plantation workers of Indian antecedents in 1948 and
proceeded to repatriate many of them to India in the 1960s and 1970s. I will
omit reference to the subsequent civil war in Sri Lanka that pitted the
Sinhalese and indigenous Tamils, 85% of whom are Hindu, with several tens of
thousands killed in a 25 year period.</span><span style="color: #444444; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Buddhists
have been intruding into Hindu space in Sri Lanka with Buddhist images placed
this year within the precincts of the ancient Saivite Hindu temples of
Tirukoneswaram (Trincomalee) and Tirukethiswaram (Mannar). Literary evidence
indicates that Tirukoneswaram existed as a Hindu place of worship in the 4th
century while Tirukethiswaram was already an established and revered Hindu
temple in the 7th century.</span><span style="color: #444444; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Kathirkaamam,
an old Hindu place of worship dedicated to Skanda or Kartikeya, that may
likewise date back 700 years or more, is now exclusively managed by Buddhists.
The medieval-era Vishnu Temple at Dondra has a similar Buddhist management. The
objective is to erase the distinct Hindu character of these places and to
Buddhicize them with a view to deny the Hindu presence in Sri Lankan history.</span><span style="color: #444444; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Nepalese
Buddhists led the movement to dis-establish Hinduism as the official religion
of Nepal in 2008. They successfully demanded that the 10 day national holiday
of Dussehra or Dasain be pruned down to accommodate Buddhist holidays. In all
four cases i.e. Bhutan, Myanmar, Nepal and Sri Lanka, Hindu interests were
impacted.</span><span style="color: #444444; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Buddhist
monks have likewise intruded into the sacred space of the largest Hindu temple
in the world - Angkor Wat dedicated to Vishnu in Cambodia.</span><span style="color: #444444; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">The
Ambedkarite Neo-Buddhist movement in India, inspired by rabid Sinhalese monks
such as Saddhatissa Thera, is viciously anti-Hindu. Its denunciations of the
Hindu religion are severe, harsh and continuous. They erroneously claim that
India's scheduled castes were originally Buddhists and that the Devadasis were
descendents of Buddhist nuns! The Ambedkarite neo-Buddhists reject the cardinal
Hindu-Buddhist doctrine of rebirth and Samsara. They reject the veneration of
the Hindu Gods, revered in traditional Theravada Buddhist societies. The latest
litigation at Bodh Gaya is once again an example of the politics of hate. The
neo-Buddhist edifice in India is a house of false cards and twisted logic.</span><span style="color: #444444; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">It is
important therefore to prevent any immediate change in the Bodh Gaya
arrangement unless it is linked to a quid pro quo i.e. change in the current
arrangements in Varanasi and Mathura, and a revamp in the administration of
Hindu religious endowments and Devaswoms.</span><span style="color: #444444; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Further,
a change in Bodh Gaya would mean that the Congress party-introduced Places of
Worship (Special Provisions) Act of 1991 that froze the religious affiliation
of all places of worship as at 1947 would stand annulled. This would allow
Hindu activists to reopen the issue of Varanasi and Mathura, not to mention
ensure the institutional autonomy of the cash-rich Hindu Religious and
Charitable Endowments in Tamil Nadu and Kerala.</span><span style="color: #444444; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">The BJP,
in particular, has an obligation to keep a close watch on developments in Bodh
Gaya as it impacts on its core constituency in what is a caste-fractured swing
state with disproportionate impact on a closely fought national election in the
next year.</span><span style="color: #444444; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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account for a mere 4.6% of population, yet have been spreading fear among
the indigenous Buddhists of the region, using violence and brutality. They have
resorted to the random killing of Buddhists, including school teachers and
Buddhist monks.<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Muslim
separatists have increasingly and openly rallied against the central government
of Thailand,<span style="background: #EFEFEF;"> </span>accusing it of
ethnic-religious bias, discrimination and corruption. A brutal attack on a
Buddhist temple<span style="background: #EFEFEF;"> </span>in the town of Pattani
in 2005 is seen as an attempt by militants to deepen the religious divide
between<span style="background: #EFEFEF;"> </span>Muslims and Buddhists in
Thailand’s deep South.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; padding: 0in;">Although
separatist violence has occurred for decades in the southern region, the
campaign escalated in 2004. Over 4300 lives have been lost since the year 2004
owing to Islamic insurgency. <span class="apple-converted-space"><b> </b></span><strong>Buddhist
monks have been beheaded, children killed and civilians attacked.</strong><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>More than 500 people have been killed
in 2004 in three southern Thai provinces. Massive killings occurred throughout
the mid to late 2000s and as of 2010, nearly 4,000 people had been killed due
to insurgent violence.</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-style: inherit; outline: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; padding: 0in;">The death toll has increased to 2,579 by
mid-September 2007 and surpassed 3000 in March 2008. By the end of 2010,
insurgency-related violence had increased. In the first few </span>weeks of January
in 2011 nine<span style="background: #EFEFEF;"> </span>Buddhists have been killed
in Southern Thailand by Islamic terrorists. In a separate attack four
members of Thai armed forces have been killed. Many Buddhists have left their
traditional home in Southern Thailand in order to escape the ongoing Islamic
insurgency.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Southern
Thailand resembles modern day Afghanistan and Somalia because in both these
nations the radical Sunni Islamists show their extreme intolerance of other
faiths. In addition to Buddhists,<span style="background: #EFEFEF;"> </span>moderate
Muslims are also being killed by radical Sunni Islamic fanatics of Southern
Thailand. <b>The</b><strong><span style="background: #EFEFEF; border: none windowtext 1.0pt; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;"> </span></strong><b>methodology of killing is intended to
spread fear to all who oppose the Islamization of Southern Thailand.<o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">.Professor
Thitinan Pongsudhirak, a Professor of International Relations at Bangkok’s
Chulalongkorn<span style="background: #EFEFEF;"> </span>University says “The
gruesome fashion of beheadings of Buddhists by Muslim assailants … is not
normal violence…” “it is driven by deep animosity and hatred.” Muslim
extremists believe that violence, including killing civilians, is justified as
a means to restore sharia or Islamic law and maintain Islamic cultural
identity. According to the adherents of this brand of Islamist activism,
they are engaged in a jihad or a holy struggle against Islam’s enemies,
including even fellow Muslims who have abandoned what the extremists view as
“true” Islam.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">In
the last decade, there has been evidence that Islamic institutions of foreign
Muslim nations have been involved in promoting Islamic radicalization and the
doctrine of Islamic Jihad in<strong><span style="background: #EFEFEF; border: none windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;"> </span></strong>Thailand. Thai
authorities knew for quite some time that many Muslim Thai activists had been
to overseas Islamic schools, where they came under influence of hard-line
Muslim teachers. Some were reported to have joined the jihad against the Soviet
Army in Afghanistan and returned to Thailand as extremists.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">This
brand of Islamist extremism is not a new phenomenon. The basic sentiment of
today’s Muslim extremists has flourished in the Islamic world for decades. In
recent decades the newfound wealth of<strong><span style="background: #EFEFEF; border: none windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;"> </span></strong>the
oil-rich Middle Eastern Islamic countries and massive immigration of Muslims to
the West, Islamic fundamentalism has been on the rise and the dormant spirit of
Jihadism has been rekindled once again.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Overall,
it is clear that elements within Southern Thailand desire a non-Buddhist land.
The younger<span style="background: #EFEFEF;"> </span>generation of Muslims are
being brainwashed against Buddhists. This hatred and alienation of the<span style="background: #EFEFEF;"> </span>younger generation began after many studied
at international universities throughout the Middle East.<span style="background: #EFEFEF;"> </span>Funding from the Middle East is being used
to spread radical Sunni Islamic versions of Islam.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Although
the hidden war in Southern Thailand by radical Sunni Islamists is being aimed
at moderate<strong><span style="background: #EFEFEF; border: none windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;"> </span></strong>Muslims
and Buddhists alike, the Buddhists it is feared face complete annihilation
and one day<strong><span style="background: #EFEFEF; border: none windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;"> </span></strong>Southern
Thailand may end up like Afghanistan, Central Asia, and other areas which once
had thriving Buddhist communities.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">History
reveals vividly how Muslims invaded many former Buddhist countries and
subjugated their<span style="background: #EFEFEF;"> </span>people subjecting them
to extreme forms of violence and untold misery unless people converted to<span style="background: #EFEFEF;"> </span>Islam. There have been problems of a varied
nature in all countries where Muslims form a<span style="background: #EFEFEF;"> </span>minority.
Indonesia and Malaysia were Buddhist countries at a certain time in history.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">With
Muslim invasions most of the Buddhists in these places were either killed or
converted to Islam.<span style="background: #EFEFEF;"> </span>More recently in
2001, in the name of Islam, the Taliban destroyed the world renowned monumental<span style="background: #EFEFEF;"> </span>Bamiyan Buddha statues built in the 6th
century, citing that these were ‘idols’ which are forbidden<span style="background: #EFEFEF;"> </span>under Sharia law in Islam. These actions
show disrespect, disregard and sheer indifference towards<span style="background: #EFEFEF;"> </span>people of other religions. Such attitudes do
not allow any community to assimilate with other<span style="background: #EFEFEF;">
</span>communities, especially with mainstream communities in countries where
they live as a minority.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Source: <a href="http://www.barenakedislam.com/2012/02/13/thailand-muslims-in-the-south-are-slaughtering-buddhists-in-order-to-ethnically-cleanse-the-area-warning-graphic-images/">http://www.barenakedislam.com/2012/02/13/thailand-muslims-in-the-south-are-slaughtering-buddhists-in-order-to-ethnically-cleanse-the-area-warning-graphic-images/</a>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11490405927751525925noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8014061638568440024.post-11233060556067650952012-09-05T15:48:00.001-07:002012-09-05T15:48:27.573-07:00Letter of Resignation of Jogen Mandal <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 11pt;">Mr.
J.N. Mandal, </span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 11pt;"><div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: 11pt;">Minister for Law and Labour, </span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-size: 11pt;"><div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: 11pt;">Government of Pakistan </span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-size: 11pt;"><div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: 11pt;">On 8th October, 1950 </span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;">My Dear Prime Minister,</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 11pt;"><div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: 11pt;">It is with a heavy heart and a sense of utter
frustration at the</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">failure of my
life-long mission to uplift the backward Hindu masses of East</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Bengal that I feel compelled to tender
resignation of my membership of</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">your
Cabinet. It is proper that I should set forth in detail the</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">reasons, which have prompted me to
take this decision in this important</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">juncture
of the history of Indo-Pakistan Sub-continent.</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 11pt;"><div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: 11pt;">(1) Before I narrate the remote and immediate
causes of my resignation,</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">it may
be useful to give a short background of important events that</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">have taken place during the period of
my co-operation with the League. Having been approached by a few prominent
League leaders of Bengal in</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">February
1943, I agreed to work with them in the Bengal Legislative</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Assembly. After the fall of the Fazlul
Haque Ministry in March 1943, with a</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">party
of 21 Scheduled Caste M.L.As, I agreed to co-operate with Khwaja</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Nazimuddin, the then leader of the
Muslim League Parliamentary party who</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">formed
the Cabinet in April 1943. Our co-operation was conditional on</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">some specific terms in the such as the
inclusion of three Scheduled</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Caste
Ministers in the Cabinet, sanctioning of a sum of Rupees five lakhs</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">(Rs. 500,000) as annual recurring
grant for the education of the</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Scheduled
Castes, and unqualified implementation of the communal ratio rules</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">in the matter of appointment to
Government services.</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 11pt;"><div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: 11pt;">(2) Apart from those terms, the principal
objectives that prompted me</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">to
work in co-operation with Muslim League was, first that the economic</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">interests of the Muslim in Bengal
generally were identical with those</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">of
the Scheduled Castes. Muslims were mostly cultivators and labourers,</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">so were members of the Scheduled
Castes. One section of Muslims was</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">fishermen,
so was a section of Scheduled Castes as well and, secondly,</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">that the Scheduled Castes and Muslims
were both educationally backward. I</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">was
persuaded that my co-operation with the League and its Ministry</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">would lead to the undertaking on a
wide scale of legislative and</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">administrative
measures which, while promoting the mutual welfare of the vast</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">bulk of Bengal's population and
undermining the foundations of vested</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">interest
and privilege, would further the cause of communal peace and</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">harmony. It may be mentioned here that
Khwaja Nazimuddin took three</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Scheduled
Caste Ministers in this Cabinet and appointed three Parliamentary</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Secretaries from amongst the members
of my community.</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 11pt;"><div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: 11pt;">SUHRAWARDY MINISTRY</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 11pt;"><div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: 11pt;">(3) After the general election held in March
1946, Mr. H.S. Suhrawardy</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">became
the leader of the League Parliamentary Party and formed the</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">League Ministry in April 1946. I was
the only Scheduled Caste member</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">returned
to the Federation ticket. I was included in Mr. Suhrawardy's</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">cabinet. The 16th day of August of
that year was observed as "The Direct</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Action
Day" by the Muslim League. It resulted, in a holocaust.. Hindus</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">demanded my resignation from the
League ministry. My life was in peril. I</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">began
to receive threatening letters almost every day. But I remained</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">steadfast to my policy. Moreover, I
issued an appeal through our ournal</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">"Jagaran"
to the Scheduled Caste people to keep themselves aloof from</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">the bloody feud between the Congress
and the Muslim League even at the</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">risk
of my life. I cannot but gratefully acknowledge the fact that I was</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">saved from the wrath of infuriated
Hindu mobs by my Caste Hindu</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">neighbours.
The "Noakhali Riot" followed the Calcutta carnage in October 1946.</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">There, Hindus including Scheduled
Castes were killed and hundreds were</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">converted
to Islam. Hindu women were raped and abducted. Members of my</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">community also suffered loss of life
and property. Immediately after</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">these
happenings, I visited Tipperah and Feni and saw some riot-affected</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">areas. The terrible sufferings of
Hindus overwhelmed me with grief, but</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">still
I continued the policy of co-operation with the Muslim League.</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Immediately after the massive Calcutta
Killing, a no-confidence motion</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">was
moved against the Suhrawardy Ministry. It was only due to my efforts</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">that the support of four Anglo-Indian
Members and four Scheduled Caste</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">members
of the Assembly who had hitherto been with the Congress could</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">be secured, but for which the Ministry
would have been defeated.</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;">(4) In October 1946, most unexpectedly came to
me through Mr.</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Suhrawardy the
offer of a seat in the Interim Government of India. After a good</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">deal of hesitation and being given
only one hour's time to take my</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">final
decision, I consented to accept the offer subject to the condition</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">only that I should be permitted to
resign if my leader, Dr. B. R.</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Ambedkar
disapproved of my action. Fortunately, however, I received his</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">approval in a telegram sent from
London. Before I left for Delhi to take over</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">as
Law Member, I persuaded Mr. Suhrawardy, the then Chief Minister of</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Bengal, to agree to take two Ministers
in his Cabinet in my place and to</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">appoint
two Parliamentary Secretaries from the Scheduled Caste</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Federation Group.</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span></div>
</span>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 11pt;"><div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: 11pt;">(5) I joined the Interim Government on November
1, 1946. After about a</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">month when
I paid a visit to Calcutta, Mr. Suhrawardy apprised me of</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">the communal tension in some parts of
East Bengal, especially in</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Gopalganj
Sub-division, where the Namasudras were in majority, being very high.</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">He requested me to visit those areas
and address meetings of Muslims</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">and
Namasudras. The fact was that Namasudras in those areas had made</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">preparations for retaliation. I
addressed about a dozen of largely attended</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">meetings.
The result was that Namasudras gave up the idea of</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">retaliation. Thus an inevitable
dangerous communal disturbance was averted.</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span></div>
</span>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 11pt;"><div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: 11pt;">(6) After a few months, the British Government
made their June 3</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Statement
(1947) embodying certain proposals for the partition of India. The</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">whole country, especially the entire
non-Muslim India, was startled.</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">For
the sake of truth I must admit that I had always considered the</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">demand of Pakistan by the Muslim
League as a bargaining counter. Although I</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">honestly
felt that in the context India as a whole Muslims had</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">legitimate cause for grievance against
upper class Hindu chauvinism, I held the</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">view
very strongly indeed that the creation of Pakistan would never</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">solve the communal problem. On the
contrary, it would aggravate communal</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">hatred
and bitterness. Besides, I maintained that it would not</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">ameliorate the condition of Muslims in
Pakistan. The inevitable result of the</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">partition
of the country would be to prolong, if not perpetuate, the</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">poverty, illiteracy and miserable
condition of the toiling masses of both</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">the
States. I further apprehended that Pakistan might turn to be one of</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">the most backward and undeveloped
countries of the South East Asia</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">region.</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span></div>
</span>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 11pt;"><div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: 11pt;">LAHORE RESOLLUTION</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span></div>
</span>
</span><div style="text-align: justify;">
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 11pt;"><div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: 11pt;">(7) I must make it clear that I have thought
that an attempt would be</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">made, as
is being done at present, to develop Pakistan as a purely</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">'Islamic' State based on the Shariat
and the injunctions and formularies of</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Islam.
I presumed that it would be set up in all essentials after the</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">pattern contemplated in the Muslim
League resolution adopted at Lahore</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">on
March 23, 1940. That resolution stated inter alia that (1)</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">"geographically contiguous areas
are demarcated into regions which should be</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">constituted
with such territorial readjustments as may be necessary, that</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">the areas in which the Muslims are
numerically in majority as in the</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">north-
Western and eastern zones of India, should be grouped to constitute</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">independent States in which the
Constituent units shall be autonomous</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">and
sovereign " and (2) " adequate, effective and mandatory safeguards</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">should be specifically provided in the
Constitution for minorities in</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">these
units and in these regions for the protection of their religious,</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">cultural, economic, political,
administrative and other rights and</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">interests
in consultation with them." Implicit in this formula were (a) that</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">North western and eastern Muslim zones
should be constituted into two</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Independent
States, (b) that the constituent units of these States</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">should be autonomous and sovereign,
(c) that minorities guarantee should be</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">in
respect of rights as well as of interest and extend to every sphere</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">of their lives, and (d) that Constitutional
provisions should be made</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">in
these regards in consultation with the minorities themselves. I was</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">fortified in my faith in this
resolution and the professions of the</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">League
Leadership by the statement Quaid-e-Azam Mohammed Ali Jonah was</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">pleased to make on the 11th August
1947 as the President of the Constituent</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Assembly
giving solemn assurance of equal treatment for Hindus</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Muslims alike and calling upon them to
remember that they were all</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Pakistanis.
There was then no question of dividing the people on the basis of</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">religion into full- fledged Muslim
citizens and gummies being under the</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">perpetual
custody of the Islamic State and its Muslim citizens. Every one</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">of these pledges is being flagrantly
violated apparently to your</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">knowledge
and with your approval in complete disregard of the Quaid-e-Azam's</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">wishes and sentiments and to the
detriment and humiliation of the</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">minorities.</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span></div>
</span>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 11pt;"><div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: 11pt;">PARTITION OF BENGAL</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span></div>
</span>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 11pt;"><div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: 11pt;">(8) It may also be mentioned in this connection
that I was opposed to</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">the
partition of Bengal. In launching a campaign in this regard I had to</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">face not only tremendous resistance
from all quarters but also</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">unspeakable
abuse, insult and dishonour. With great regret, I recollect those</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">days when 32 crores of Hinduism
opposed my cations, but I remained</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">undaunted
and unmoved in my loyalty to Pakistan. It is a matter of gratitude</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">that my appeal to 7 million Scheduled
Caste people of Pakistan evoked a</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">ready
and enthusiastic response from them. They lent me their unstinted</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">support sympathy and encouragement.</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span></div>
</span>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 11pt;"><div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: 11pt;">(9) After the establishment of Pakistan on
August 14, 1947 you formed</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">the
Cabinet, in which I was included and Khwaja Nazimuddin formed a</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">provisional Cabinet for East Bengal.
On August 10, I had spoken to Khwaja</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Nazimuddin
at Karachi and requested him to take 2 Scheduled Caste</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Ministers in the East Bengal Cabinet.
He promised to do the same sometime</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">later.</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span></div>
</span>
</span><div style="text-align: justify;">
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 11pt;"><div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: 11pt;">What happened subsequently in this regard was a
record of unpleasant</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">and
disappointing negotiations with you, Khwaja Nazimuddin and Mr. Nurul</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Amin, the present Chief Minister of
East Bengal. When I realised that</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Khwaja
Nazimuddin was avoiding the issue on this or that excuse, I</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">became almost impatient and
exasperated, I further discussed the matter with</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">the Presidents of the Pakistan Muslim
League and its East Bengal</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Branch.
Ultimately, I brought the matter to your notice. You were pleased to</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">discuss the subject with Khwaja
Nazimuddin in my presence at your</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">residence.
Khwaja Nazimuddin agreed to take one Scheduled Caste Minister on</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">his return to Dacca. As I had already
become skeptic about the</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">assurance
of Khwaja Nazimuddin, I wanted to be definite about the time limit. I</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">insisted that he must act in this
regard within a month, failing which</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">I
should be at liberty to resign. Both you and Khwaja Nazimuddin agreed</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">to the condition. But, alas! You did
not perhaps mean what you said.</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Khwaja
Nazimuddin did not keep his promise. After Mr. Nurul Amin had</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">become the Chief Minister of East
Bengal, I again took up the matter with</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">him.
He also followed the same old familiar tactics of evasion. When I</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">again called your attention to his
matter prior to your visit to Dance</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">in
1949, you were pleased to assure me that a Minority Minister would be</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">appointed in East Bengal, and you
asked 2-3 names from me for</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">consideration.
In stat deference to your wish, I sent you a note stating the</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Federation Group in the East Bengal
Assembly and suggesting three names.</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">When
I made enquiries as to what had happened on your return from Dacca,</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">you appeared to be very cold and only
remarked: "Let Nurul Amin return</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">from
Delhi". After a few days I again pressed the matter.</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span></div>
</span>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;">ANTI-HINDU POLICY</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span></div>
</span>
</span><div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span></div>
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 11pt;"><div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: 11pt;">(10) When the question of partition of Bengal
arose, the Scheduled</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Caste people
were alarmed at the anticipated dangerous result of partition.</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Representation on their behalf were
made to Mr. Suhrawardy, the then</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Chief
Minister of Bengal who was pleased to issue a statement to the</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">press declaring that none of the
rights and privileges hitherto enjoyed by</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">the
Scheduled Caste people would be curtailed after partition and that</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">they would not only continue to enjoy
the existing rights and</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">privileges
but also receive additional advantages. This assurance was given by</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Mr. Suhrawardy not only in his
personal capacity but also in his</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">capacity
as a Chief Minister of the League Ministry. To my utter regret it is</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">to be stated that after partition,
particularly after the death of</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Quaid-e-Azam,
the Scheduled Castes have not received a fair deal in any</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">matter. You will recollect that from
time to time I brought the grievances</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">of
the Scheduled Castes to your notice. I explained to you on several</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">occasions the nature of inefficient
administration in East Bengal. I</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">made
serious charges against the police administration. I brought to your</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">notice incidents of barbarous
atrocities perpetrated by the police on</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">frivolous
grounds. I did not hesitate to bring to your notice the</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">anti-Hindu policy pursued by the East
Bengal government especially the police</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">administration
and a section of Muslim League leaders.</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span></div>
</span>
</span><div style="text-align: justify;">
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 11pt;"><div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: 11pt;">SOME INCIDENTS</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span></div>
</span>
</span><div style="text-align: justify;">
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 11pt;"><div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: 11pt;">(11) The first incident that shocked me took
place at a village called</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Digharkul
near Gopalganj where on the false complaint of a Muslim,</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">brutal atrocities were committed on
the local Namasudras. The fact was that</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">a
Muslim who was going in a boat attempted to throw his net to catch</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">fish. A Namasudra who was already
there for the same purpose opposed to</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">throwing
of the net in his front. This was followed by some altercations</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">and the Muslim got annoyed who went to
a nearby Muslim village and made</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">a
false complaint that he and a woman in his boat had been assaulted by</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">the Namasudras. At the time, the
S.D.O. of Gopalganj was passing in a</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">boat
through the canal who without making any enquiry accepted the</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">complaint as true and sent armed
police to the spot to punish the Namasudra.</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">The
armed police came and the local Muslims also joined them. They not</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">only raided some houses of the
Namasudras but mercilessly beat both men</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">and
women, destroyed their properties and took away valuables. The</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">merciless beating of a pregnant woman
resulted in abortion on the spot.</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">This
brutal action on the part of the local authority created panic over a</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">large area.</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 11pt;"><div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: 11pt;">(12) The second incident of police repression
took place in early part</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">of 1949
under P.S. Gournadi in the district of Barisal. Here a quarrel</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">took place between two groups of
members of a Union Board. One Group</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">which
was in the good book of the Police conspired to punish the</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">opponents on the plea of attack on the
Police Station, the O.C., Gournadi</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">requisitioned
armed forces from headquarters. The Police, helped by the</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">armed forces, then raided a large
number of houses in the area, took away</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">valuable
properties, even from the houses of absentee-owners who were</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">never in politics, far less in the
Communist Party. A large number of</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">students
of many High English Schools were Communist suspects and</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">unnecessarily harassed. This area
being very near to my native village, I was</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">informed
of the incident. I wrote to the District Magistrate and the</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">S.P. for an enquiry. A section of the
local people also prayed for an</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">enquiry
by the S.D.O. But no enquiry was held. Even my letters to the</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">District authorities were not
acknowledged. I then brought this matter to</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">the
notice of the highest Authority in Pakistan, including yourself but</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">to no avail.</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 11pt;"><div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: 11pt;">WOMEN FOR MILITARY</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 11pt;"><div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: 11pt;">(13) The atrocities perpetrated by the police
and military on the</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">innocent
Hindus, especially the Scheduled Caste of Harbinger in the Dist. of</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Sleet deserve description. Innocent
men and women were brutally</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">tortured,
some women ravished, their houses raided and properties looted by</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">the police and the local Muslims.
Military pickets were posted in the</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">area.
The military not only oppressed these people and took away stuffs</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">forcibly from Hindus houses, but also
forced Hindus to send their</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">women-folk
at night to the camp to satisfy the carnal desire of the military.</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">This fact also I brought to your
notice. You assured me of a report on</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">the
matter, but unfortunately no report was forthcoming.</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 11pt;"><div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: 11pt;">(14) Then occurred the incident at Nachole in
the District of Rajshahi</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">where in
the name of suppression of Communists not only the police but</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">also the local Muslims in
collaboration with the police oppressed the</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Hindus
and looted their properties. The Santhals then crossed the border</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">and came over to West Bengal. They
narrated the stories of atrocities</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">wantonly
committed by the Muslims and the police.</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 11pt;"><div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: 11pt;">(15) An instance of callous and cold-blooded
brutality is furnished by</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">the
incident that took place on December 20, 1949 in Kalshira under</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">P.S. Mollarhat in the District of
Khulna. What happened was that late at</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">night
four constables raided the house of one Joydev Brahma in village</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Kalshira in search of some alleged
Communists. At the scent of the</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">police,
half a dozen of young men, some of whom might have been Communists,</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">escaped from the house. The police
constable entered into the house and</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">assaulted
the wife of Joydev Brahma whose cry attracted her husband and</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">a few companions who escaped from the
house. They became desperate,</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">re-entered
the house, found 4 constables with one gun only. That perhaps</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">might have encouraged the young men
who struck a blow on an armed</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">constable
who died on the spot. The young men then attacked another constable</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">when the other two ran away and raised
alarm which attracted some</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">neighbouring people who came to their rescue. As
the incident took place</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">before
sunrise when it was dark, the assailants fled with dead body before</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">the villagers could come. The S.P. of
Khulna with a contingent of</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">military
and armed police appeared on the scene in the afternoon of the</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">following day. In the meantime, the
assailants fled and the intelligent</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">neighbours
also fled away. But the bulk of the villagers remained in their</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">houses, as they were absolutely
innocent and failed to realise the</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">consequence
of the happening. Subsequently the innocents of the entire</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">village encouraged the neighbouring
Muslims to take away their properties.</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">A
number of persons were killed and men and women were forcibly</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">converted. House- hold deities were
broken and places of worship desecrated</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">and
destroyed. Several women were raped by the police, military and local</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Muslims. Thus a veritable hell was let
loose not only in the village of</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Kalshira
which is half miles in length with a large population, but</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">also in a number of neighbouring Namasudra
villages. The village Kalshira</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">was
never suspected by the authority to be a place of Communist</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">activities. Another village called
Jhalardanga, which was at a distance of 3</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">miles
from Kalshira, was known to be a centre of Communist activities.</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">This village was raided by a large
contingent of police on that day for</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">hunt
of the alleged Communists, a number of whom fled away and took</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">shelter in the aforesaid house of
village Kalshira which was considered to</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">be a safe place for them.</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 11pt;"><div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: 11pt;">(16) I visited Kalashira and one or two
neighboring villages on the</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">28th
February 1950. The S.P., Khulna and some of the prominent League</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">leaders of the district were with me.
When I came to the village Kalshira,</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">I
found the place desolate and in ruins. I was told in the presence of</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">S.P.that there were 350 homesteads in
this village; of these, only</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">three
had been spared and the rest had been demolished. Country boats and</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">heads of cattle belonging to the
Namasudras had been all taken away. I</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">reported
these facts to the Chief Minster, Chief Secretary and Inspector</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">General of Police of East Bengal and
to you.</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 11pt;"><div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: 11pt;">(17) It may be mentioned in this connection that
the news of this</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">incident was
published in West Bengal Press and this created some unrest</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">among the Hindus there. A number of
sufferers of Kalshira, both men and</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">women,
homeless and destitute had also come to Calcutta and narrated the</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">stories of their sufferings which
resulted in some communal</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">disturbances
in West Bengal in the last part of January.</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;">CAUSES OF THE FEBRUARY DISTURBANCE</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span></div>
</span>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 11pt;"><div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: 11pt;">(18) It must be noted that stories of a few
incidents of communal</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">disturbance
that took place in West Bengal as a sort of repercussion of the</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">incidents at Kalshira were published
in exaggerated form in the east</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Bengal
press. In the second week of February 1950 when the Budget Session</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">of the East Bengal Assembly commenced,
the Congress Members sought</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">permission
to move two-adjournment motion to discuss the situation created</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">at Kalshira and Nachole. But the
motions were disallowed. The congress</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Member
walked out of the Assembly in protest. This action of the Hindu</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Members of the Assembly annoyed and
enraged not only the Ministers but</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">also
the Muslim leaders and officials of the Province. This was perhaps</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">one of the principal reasons for Dacca
and East Bengal riots in</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">February
1950.</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 11pt;"><div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: 11pt;">(19) It is significant that on February 10, 1950
at about 10 O'clock in</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">the
morning a woman was painted with red to show that her breast was</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">cut off in Calcutta riot, and was
taken round that East Bengal</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Secretariat
at Dacca. Immediately, the Government servants of the Secretariat</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">struck work and came out in procession
raising slogans of revenge against</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">the
Hindus. The procession began to swell as it passed over a distance</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">of more than a mile. It ended in a
meeting at Victoria Park at about</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">12O'clock
in the noon where violent speeches against the Hindus were</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">delivered by several speakers,
including officials. The fun of the whole</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">show
was that while the employees of the Secretariat went out in</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">procession, the chief Secretary of the
East Bengal Government was holding a</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">conference
with his West Bengal counterpart in the same building to find</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">out ways and means to stop communal
disturbances in the two Bengals.</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span></div>
</span>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 11pt;"><div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: 11pt;">OFFICIALS HELPED LOOTERS</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span></div>
</span>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 11pt;"><div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: 11pt;">(20) The riot started at about 1 p.m.
simultaneously all over the city.</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Arson,
looting of Hindu shops and houses and killing of Hindus,</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">wherever they were found, commenced in
full swing in all parts of the city. I</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">got
evidence even from the Muslims that arson and looting were</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">committed even in the presence of high
police officials. Jewellery shops</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">belonging
to the Hindus were looted in the presence of police officers. They</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">not only did not attempt to stop loot,
but also helped the looters with</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">advice
and direction. Unfortunately for me, I reached Dacca at 5</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">O'clock in the afternoon on the same
day, in Feb.10, 1950. To my utter dismay,</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">I
had occasion to see and know things from close quarters. What I saw</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">and learnt from first hand information
was simply staggering and</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">heart-rending.</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;">BACKGROUND OF THE RIOT</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 11pt;"><div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: 11pt;">(21) The reasons for the Dacca riot were mainly
five:</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 11pt;"><div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: 11pt;">(i) To punish the Hindus for the daring action
of their representatives</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">in the
Assembly in their expression of protest by walking out of the</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Assembly when two adjournment motions
on Kashira and Nachole affairs were</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">disallowed;</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 11pt;"><div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: 11pt;">(ii) Dissensions and difference between the
Suhrawardy Group and the</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Nazimuddin
in the Parliamentary Party were becoming acute;</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 11pt;"><div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: 11pt;">(iii) Apprehension of launching of a movement
for re-union of East and</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">West
Bengal by both Hindu and Muslim leaders made the East Bengal</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Ministry and the Muslim League
nervous. They wanted to prevent such a move.</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">They
thought that any large scale communal riot in East Bengal was sure</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">to produce reactions in West Bengal
were Muslims might be killed. The</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">result
of such riot in both East and East Bengal, it was believed, would</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">prevent any movement for re-union of
Bengals.</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 11pt;"><div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: 11pt;">(iv) Feeling of Antagonism between the Bengalee
Muslim and non-Bengalee</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Muslim in
East Bengal was gaining ground. This could only be prevented</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">by creating hatred between Hindus and
Muslims of East Bengal. The</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">language
question was also connected with it and</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 11pt;"><div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: 11pt;">(v) The consequences of non-devaluation and
Indo-Pakistan trade</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">deadlock to
the economy of East Bengal were being felt most acutely first in</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">urban and rural areas and the Muslim
League members and officials wanted</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">to
divert the attention of the Muslim masses from the impending</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">economic breakdown by some sort of
jehad against Hindus.</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;">STAGGERING DETAILS - NEARLY 10,000 KILLED</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 11pt;"><div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: 11pt;">(22) During my nine days' stay at Dacca , I
visited most of the riot-affected areas of the city and suburbs. I visited
Mirpur also under</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">P.S.Tejgaon.
The news of the killing of hundreds of innocent Hindus in</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">trains, on railway lines between Dacca
and Narayanganj, and Dacca and</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Chittagong
gave me the rudest shock. on the second day of Dacca riot, I met</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">the Chief Minister of east Bengal and
requested him to issue immediate</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">instructions
to the District authorities to take all precautionary</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">measures to prevent spreading of the
riot in district towns and rural</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">areas.
On the 20th February 1950, I reached Barisal town and was astounded</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">to know of the happenings in Barisal.
In the District of Hindus killed.</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">I
visited almost all riot-affected areas in the District. I was simply</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">puzzled to find the havoc wrought by
the Muslim rioters even at places</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">like
Kasipur, Madhabpasha and Lakutia, which were within a radius of</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">six miles from the District town and
were connected with motor able</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">roads.
At the Madhabpasha Zaminder's house, about 200 people were killed and</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">40 injured. A Place, called Muladi,
witnessed a dreadful hell. At</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Muladi
Bandar alone, the number killed would total more than three hundred,</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">as was reported tome by the local
Muslims including some officers. I</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">visited
Muladi village also, where I found skeletons of dead bodies at</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">some places. I found dogs and vultures
eating corpses on the riverside. I</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">got
the information there that after the whole-scale killing of all</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">adult males, all the young girls were
distributed among the ringleaders of</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">the
miscreants. At a place told Kaibartakhali under P.S. Rajapur, 63</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">persons were killed. Hindu houses
within a stone's throw distance from</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">the
said Thana office were looted, burnt and inmates killed. All Hindu</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">shops of Babuganj Bazar were looted
and then burnt and a large number of</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Hindus
were killed. From detailed information received, the</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">conservative estimate of casualties
was placed at 2,500 killed in the District of</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Barisal
alone. Total casualties of Dacca and East Bengal riot were</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">estimated to be in the neighbourhood
of 10,000 killed. I was really</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">overwhelmed
with grief. The lamentation of women and children who had lost</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">their all including near and dear ones
melted my hearts. I only asked</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">myself.
"What was coming to Pakistan in the name of lslam".</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;">NO EARNEST DESIRE TO IMPLEMENT DELHI PACT</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span></div>
</span>
</span><div style="text-align: justify;">
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 11pt;"><div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: 11pt;">(23) The large-scale exodus of Hindus from
Bengal commenced in the</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">latter
part of March. It appeared that within a short time all the Hindus</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">would migrate to India. Aware cry was
raised in India. The situation</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">became
extremely critical. A national calamity appeared to be inevitable.</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">The apprehended disaster, however, was
avoided by the Delhi Agreement</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">of
April 8. With a view to reviving the already lost morale of the</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">panicky Hindus, I undertook an
extensive tour of East Bengal. I visited a</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">number
of places in the districts of Dacca, Barisal, Faridpur, Khulna and</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Jessore. I addressed dozens of largely
attended meeting and asked the</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Hindus
to take courage and not to leave their ancestral hearths and</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">homes. I had this expectation that the
East Bengal Govt. and Muslim League</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">leaders
would implement the terms of the Delhi Agreement. But with the</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">lapse of time, I began to realise that
neither the East Bengal Govt.</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">nor
the Muslim League leaders were really earnest in the matter of</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">implementation of the Delhi Agreement.
The East Bengal Govt. was not only</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">much
to set up a machinery as envisaged in the Delhi Agreement, but also</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">was not willing it take effective
steps for the purpose. A number of</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Hindus
who returned to native village immediately after the Delhi</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Agreement were not given possession of
their homes and lands, which were</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">occupied
in the meantime by the Muslims.</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span></div>
</span>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;">MOULANA AKRAM KHAN'S INCITATIONS</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span></div>
</span>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 11pt;"><div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: 11pt;">(24) My suspicion about the intention of League
leaders was confirmed</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">when I read
editorial comments by Moulana Akram Khan, the President of</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">the Provincial Muslim League in the
"Baisak" issue of a monthly journal</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">called
Mahammadi. In commenting on the first radio-broadcast of Dr.</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">A.M. Malik, Minister for Minority
Affairs of Pakistan, from Dacca Radio</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Station,
wherein he said, "Even Prophet Mahammed had given religious</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">freedom to the Jews in Arabia",
Moulana Akram Khan said, "Dr. Malik would</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">have done well had he not made any
reference in his speech to the Jews</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">of
Arabia. It is true that Jews in Arabia had been given religious</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">freedom by Prophet Mahammed; but it
was the first chapter of the history.</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">The
last chapter contains the definite direction of prophet Mahammed</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">which runs as follows:-"Drive
away all the Jews out of Arabia". Even</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">despite
this editorial comment of a person who held a very high position in</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">the political, social and spiritual
life of the Muslim community, I</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">entertained
some expectation that the Nurul Amin Ministry might not be so</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">insincere. But that expectation of
mine was totally shattered when Mr.</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Nurul
Amin selected D.N. Barari as a Minister to represent the</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">minorities in terms of the Delhi
Agreement which clearly states that to restore</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">confidence in the mind of the minorities
one of their representatives</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">will
be taken in the Ministry of East Bengal and West Bengal Govt.</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span></div>
</span>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;">NURUL AMIN GOVT'S. INSINCERITY</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span></div>
</span>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 11pt;"><div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: 11pt;">(25) In one of my public statement , I expressed
the view that</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">appointment of D.N.
Barari as a Minister representing the minorities not only</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">did not help restore any confidence,
but, on the contrary, destroyed all</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">expectations
or illusion, if there was any in the minds of the</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">minorities about the sincerity of Mr.
Nurul Amin Govt. my own reaction was that</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Mr.
Nurul Amin's Govt. was not only insincere but also wanted to defeat</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">the principal objectives of the Delhi
Agreement. I again repeat that</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">D.N.
Barari does not represent anybody except himself. He was returned to</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">the Bengal Legislative Assembly on the
Congress ticket with the money</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">and
organisation of the Congress. He opposed the Scheduled Caste</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Federation candidates. Some time after
his election, he betrayed the Congress</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">and
joined the Federation. When he was appointed a Minister he had</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span></div>
</span>
<span style="background-color: white; font-size: 11pt;"><div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: 11pt;">ceased to be a member of the Federation too. I
know that East Bengal Hindus</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">agree
with me that by antecedents, character and intellectual</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">attainments Barari is not qualified to
hold the position of a Minister as</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">envisaged
in the Delhi Agreement.</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span></div>
</span>
</span><div style="text-align: justify;">
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 11pt;"><div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: 11pt;">(26) I recommended three names to Mr. Nurul Amin
for this office. One</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">of the
persons I recommended was an M.A., LL.B., Advocate, Dacca High</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Court. He was Minister for more than 4
years in the first Fazlul Huq</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Ministry
in Bengal. He was chairman of the Coal Mines Stowing Board,</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Calcutta, for about 6 years. He was
the senior Vice-President of the</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Scheduled
Caste Federation. My second nominee was a B.A.,LL.B. He was a member</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">of the Legislative Council for 7 years
in the pre-reform regime. I</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">would
like to know what earthly reasons there might be for Mr. Nurul Amin</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">in not selecting any of these two
gentlemen and appointing instead a</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">person
whose appointment as Minister I strongly objected to for very</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">rightly considerations. Without any
fear of contradiction I can say that</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">this
action of Mr. Nurul Amin in selecting Barari as a Minister in terms</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">of the Delhi Agreement is conclusive
proof that East Bengal Govt. was</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">neither
serious nor sincere in its profession about the terms of the</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Delhi Agreement whose main purpose is
to create such conditions as would</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">enable
the Hindus to continue to live in East Bengal with a sense of</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">security to their life, property,
honour and religion.</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span></div>
</span>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 11pt;"><div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: 11pt;">GOVT. PLAN TO SOUEEZE OUT HINDUS</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 11pt;"><div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: 11pt;">(27) I would like to reiterate in this
connection my firm conviction</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">that
East Bengal Govt. is still following the well-planned policy of</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">squeezing Hindus out of the Province.
In my discussion with you on more</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">than
one occasion, I gave expression to this view of mine. I must say that</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">this policy of driving out Hindus from
Pakistan has succeeded</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">completely
in West Pakistan and is nearing completion in East Pakistan too. The</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">appointment of D.N. Barari as a
Minister and the East Bengal</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Government's
unceremonious objection to my recommendation in this regard strictly</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">conform to name of what they call an
Islamic State. Pakistan has not</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">given
the Hindus entire satisfaction and a full sense of security. They</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">now want to get rid of the Hindu
intelligentsia so that the political,</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">economic
and social life of Pakistan may not in any way be influenced by</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span></div>
</span>
<span style="background-color: white; font-size: 11pt;"><div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: 11pt;">them.</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span></div>
</span>
</span><div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span></div>
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 11pt;"><div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: 11pt;">EVASIVE TACTICS TO SHELVE JOINT ELECTORATE</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span></div>
</span>
</span><div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span></div>
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 11pt;"><div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: 11pt;">(28) I have failed to understand why the
question of electorate has not</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">yet
been decided. It is now three years that the minority Sub-Committee</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">has been appointed. It sat on three
occasions. The question of having</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">joint
or separate electorate came up for consideration at a meeting of</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">the Committee held in December last
when all the representatives of</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">recognised
minorities in Pakistan expressed their view in support of joint</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Electorate with reservation of seats for
backward minorities. We, on</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">behalf
of the Scheduled Castes think this matter again came up for</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">consideration at a meeting called in
August last. But without any discussion</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">whatsoever
on this point, the meeting was adjourned sine die. It is not</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">difficult to understand what the
motive is behind this kind of evasive</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">tactics
in regard to such a vital matter on the part of Pakistan's</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span></div>
</span>
<span style="background-color: white; font-size: 11pt;"><div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: 11pt;">rulers.</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span></div>
</span>
</span><div style="text-align: justify;">
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 11pt;"><div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: 11pt;">DISMAL FUTURE FOR HINDUS</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span></div>
</span>
</span><div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span></div>
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 11pt;"><div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: 11pt;">(29) Coming now to the present condition and the
future of Hindus in</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">East Bengal
as a result of the Delhi Agreement, I should say that the</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">present condition is not only
unsatisfactory but absolutely hopeless and</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">that
the future completely dark and dismal Confidence of Hindus in East</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Bengal has not been restored in the
least. The Agreement is treated as</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">a
mere scrap of paper alike by the East Bengal Government and the</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Muslim League.</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span></div>
</span>
</span><div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span></div>
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 11pt;"><div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: 11pt;">That a pretty large number of Hindu migrants,
mostly Scheduled Caste</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">cultivators
are returning to East Bengal is no indication that confidence</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">has been restored. It only indicates
that their stay and rehabilitation</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">in
West Bengal, or elsewhere in the Indian Union have not been</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">possible. The sufferings of refugee
life are compelling them to go back to</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">their
homes. Besides, many of them are going back to bring movable articles</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">and settle or dispose of immovable
properties. That no serious communal</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">disturbance
has recently taken place in East Bengal is not to be</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">attributed to the Delhi Agreement. It
could not simply continue even if there</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">were
no Agreement or Pact.</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span></div>
</span>
</span><div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span></div>
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 11pt;"><div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: 11pt;">(30) It must be admitted that the Delhi Pact was
not an end in itself.</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">It was
intended that such conditions would be created as might</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">effectively help resolve so many
disputes and conflict existing between India</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">and
Pakistan. But during this period of six months after the Agreement,</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">no dispute or conflict has readily
been resolved. On the contrary,</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">communal
propaganda and anti-India propaganda by Pakistan both at home and</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">abroad are continuing in full swing.
The observance of Kashmir Day by</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">the
Muslim League all over Pakistan is an eloquent proof of communal</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">anti-India propaganda by Pakistan. The
recent speech of the Governor of</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Punjab
(Pak) saying that Pakistan needed a strong Army for the security</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">of Indian Muslims has betrayed the
real attitude of Pakistan towards</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">India.
It will only increase the tensions between the two countries.</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span></div>
</span>
</span><div style="text-align: justify;">
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 11pt;"><div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: 11pt;">WHAT IS HAPPENING IN E. BENGAL TODAY</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span></div>
</span>
</span><div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span></div>
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 11pt;"><div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: 11pt;">(31) What is to the condition in East Bengal?
About fifty lakhs of</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Hindus have
left since the partition of the country. Apart from the East</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Bengal riot of last February, the
reasons for such a large-scale exodus</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">of
Hindus are many. The boycott by the Muslims of Hindu lawyers, medical</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">practitioners, shopkeepers, traders
and merchants has compelled Hindus</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">to
migrate to West Bengal in search of their means of livelihood.</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Wholesale requisition of Hindu houses
even without following due process of</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">law
in many and non-payment of any rent whatsoever to the owners have</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">compelled them to seek for Indian
Shelter, Payments rent to Hindu</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">landlords
was stopped long before. Beside, the Ansars against whom I received</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">complaints all over are a standing
menace to the safety and security of</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Hindus.
Interference in matters of education and methods adopted by the</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Educational Authority for Islamisation
frightened the teaching staff of</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Secondary
Schools and Colleges out of their old familiar moorings. They</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">have left East Bengal. As a result,
most of the educational</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">institutions
ago the Educational Authority issued circular to Secondary Schools</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">enjoining compulsory participation of
teachers and student of all</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">communities
in recitation from the Holy Koran before the school work</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">commenced, Another circular requires
Headmasters of schools to name the</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">different
blocks of the premises after 12 distinguished Muslims, such as,</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Jinnah, Iqbal, Liaquat Ali,
Nazimuddin, etc. Only very recently in an</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">educational
conference held at Dacca, the President disclosed that out of</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">1,500 High English Schools in East
Bengal, only 500 were working. Owing to</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">the
migration of medical practitioners there is hardly any means of</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">proper treatment of patients. Almost
all the priests who used to worship</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">the
household deities at Hindu houses have left. Important places of</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">worship have been abandoned. The
result is that the Hindus of East Bengal</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">have
got now hardly any means to follow religious pursuits and perform</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">social ceremonies like marriage where
the services of a priest are</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">essential.
Artisans who made images of goddesses have also left. Muslims</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">have replaced Hindu Presidents of
Union Boards by coercive measures with</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">the
active help and connivance of the police and Circle Officers.</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Muslims have replaced Hindu
Headmasters and Secretaries of Schools. The life</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">of the few Hindu Govt. servants has
been made extremely miserable as</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">many
of them have either been superseded by junior Muslims or dismissed</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">without sufficient or any cause. Only
very recently a Hindu Public</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Prosecutor
of Chittagong was arbitrarily removed from service as has been</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">made clear in a statement made by
Srijukta Nellie Sengupta against whom</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">at
least no charge of anti-Muslim bias prejudice or malice can be</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">leveled.</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span></div>
</span>
</span><div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span></div>
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 11pt;"><div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: 11pt;">HINDUS VIRTUALLY OUTLAWED</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span></div>
</span>
</span><div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span></div>
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 11pt;"><div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: 11pt;">(32) Commission of thefts and dacoities even
with murder is going on as</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">before.
Thana office seldom record half the complaints made by the</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Hindus. That the abduction and rape of
Hindu girls have been reduced to a</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">certain
extent is due only to the fact that there is no Caste Hindu girl</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">between the ages of 12 and 30 living
in East Bengal at present. The few</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">depressed
class girls who live in rural areas with their parents are</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">not even spared by Muslim goondas. I
have received information about a</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">number
of incidents of rape of Scheduled Castes Girls by Muslims.</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span></div>
</span>
</span><div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span></div>
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 11pt;"><div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: 11pt;">Full payment is seldom made by Muslim buyers for
the price of jute and</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">other
agricultural commodities sold by Hindus in market places. As a</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">matter of fact, there is no operation
of law, justice or fair play in</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Pakistan,
so far as Hindus are concerned.</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span></div>
</span>
</span><div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span></div>
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 11pt;"><div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: 11pt;">FORCED CONVERSIONS IN WEST PAKISTAN</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span></div>
</span>
</span><div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span></div>
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 11pt;"><div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: 11pt;">(33) Leaving aside the question of East
Pakistan, let me now refer to</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">West
Pakistan, especially Sind. The West Punjab had after partition</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">about a lakh of Scheduled Castes
people. It may be noted that a large</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">number
of them were converted to Islam. Only 4 out of a dozen Scheduled</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Castes girls abducted by Muslims have
yet been recovered in spite of</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">repeated
petitions to the Authority. Names of those girls with names of their</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">abductors were supplied to the
government. The last reply recently</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">given
by the office-in- Charge of recovery of abducted girls said that "his</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">function was to recover Hindu girls
and stat "Achuts" (Scheduled</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span></div>
</span>
<span style="background-color: white; font-size: 11pt;"><div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: 11pt;">Castes) were not Hindus". The condition of
the small number of Hindus that</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">are
still living in Sind and Karachi, the capital of Pakistan, is simply</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">deplorable. I have got a list of 363 Hindu
temples and gurudwaras of</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Karachi
and Sind (which is by no means an exhaustive list) which are</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">still in possession of Muslims. Some
of the temples have been converted</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">into
cobbler's shops, slaughterhouses and hotels. None of the Hindus has</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">got back.</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span></div>
</span>
</span><div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span></div>
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 11pt;"><div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: 11pt;">Possession of their landed properties were taken
away from them without</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">any notice
and disturbed amongst refugees and local Muslims. I</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">personally know that the Custodian
declared 200 to 300 Hindus non- evacuees a</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">pretty
long time ago. But up till now properties have not been restored</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">to any one of them. Even the
possession of Karachi Pinjra Pole has not</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">been
restored to the trustees, although it was declared non-evacuee</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">property some time ago. In Karachi I
had received petitions from many</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">unfortunate
fathers and husbands of abducted Hindu girls, mostly Scheduled</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Castes. I Drew the attention of the
2nd Provisional Government to this</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">fact.
There was little or no effect. To my extreme regret I received</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">information that a large number of
Scheduled Castes who are still living</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">in
Sind have been forcibly converted to Islam.</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span></div>
</span>
</span><div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span></div>
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 11pt;"><div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: 11pt;">PAKISTAN 'ACCURSED' FOR HINDUS</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span></div>
</span>
</span><div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span></div>
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 11pt;"><div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: 11pt;">(34) Now this being in brief the overall picture
of Pakistan so far as</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">the Hindus
are concerned, I shall not be unjustified in stating that</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Hindus of Pakistan have to all intents
and purposes been rendered "</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Stateless
" in their own houses. They have no other fault than that they</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">profess Hindu religion. Muslim League
leaders that Pakistan is and shall</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">be
an Islamic State are repeatedly making declarations. Islam is being</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">offered as the sovereign remedy for
all earthly evils. In the matchless</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">dialectics
of capitalism and socialism you present the exhilarating</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">democratic synthesis of Islamic
equality and fraternity. In that grand</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">setting
of the Shariat Muslims alone are rulers while Hindus and other</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">minorities are jimmies who are
entitled to protection at a price, and you</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">know
more than anybody else Mr. Prime Minister, what that price is.</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">After anxious and prolonged struggle I
have come to the conclusion that</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Pakistan
is no place for Hindus to live in and that their future is</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">darkened by the ominous shadow of
conversion or liquidation. The bulk of the</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">upper
class Hindus and politically conscious scheduled castes have left</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">East Bengal. Those Hindus who will
continue to stay accursed promise</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">and
for that matter in Pakistan will, I am afraid, by gradual stages and</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">in a planned manner be either
converted to Islam or completely</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">exterminated.
It is really amazing that a man of your education, culture and</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">experience should be an exponent of a
doctrine fraught with so great a</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">danger
to humanity and subversive of all principles of equality and good</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">sense. I may tell you and your fellow
workers that Hindus will allow</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">themselves,
whatever the threat or temptation, to be treated as Jimmies</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">in the land of their birth. Today they
may, as indeed many of them have</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">already
done, abandon their hearths and home in sorrow but in panic.</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Tomorrow they strive for their
rightful place in the economy of life. Who</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">knows
what is in the womb of the future? When I am convinced that my</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">continuance in office in the Pakistan
Central Government is not of any</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">help
to Hindus I should not with a clear conscience, create the false</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">impression in the minds of the Hindus
of Pakistan and peoples abroad that</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Hindus
can live there with honour and with a sense of security in</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">respect of their life, property and
religion. This is about Hindus.</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span></div>
</span>
</span><div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span></div>
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 11pt;"><div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: 11pt;">NO CIVIL LIBERTY EVEN FOR MUSLIMS</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span></div>
</span>
</span><div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span></div>
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 11pt;"><div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: 11pt;">(35) And what about the Muslims who are outside
the charmed circle of</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">the League
rulers and their corrupt and inefficient bureaucracy? There</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">is hardly anything called civil
liberty in Pakistan. Witness for</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">example,
the fate of Khan Abdul Gaffar Khan then whom a more devout Muslim had</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">not walked this earth for many years
and of his gallant patriotic</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">brother
Dr. Khan Sahib. A large number of erstwhile League leaders of the</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Northwest and also of the Eastern belt
of Pakistan are in detention</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">without
trial. Mr. Suhrawardy to whom is due in a large measure the League's</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">triumph in Bengal is for practical
purposes a Pakistan prisoner who has</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">to
move under permit and can't open his lips under orders. Mr. Fazzul</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Huq, that dearly loved grand old man
of Bengal, who was the author of</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">that
now famous Lahore resolution, is ploughing his lonely furrow in the</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">precincts of the Dacca High Court of
Judicature, and the so called</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Islamic
planning is as ruthless as it is complete. About the East Bengal</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Muslims generally, the less said the
better. They were promised at Lahore</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">of
an independent State. They were promised of autonomous and sovereign</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">units of the independent State. What
have they got instead? East Bengal</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">has
been transformed into a colony of the western belt of Pakistan,</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">although it contained a population,
which is larger than that of all the</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">units
of Pakistan put together. It is a pale ineffective adjunct of</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Karachi doing the latte's bidding and
carrying out its orders. East Bengal</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Muslims
in their enthusiasm wanted bread and they have by the</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">mysterious working of the Islamic
state and the Shariat got stone instead from</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">the
arid deserts of Sind and the Punjab.</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span></div>
</span>
</span><div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span></div>
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 11pt;"><div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: 11pt;">MY OWN SAD AND BITTER EXPERIENCE</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span></div>
</span>
</span><div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span></div>
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 11pt;"><div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: 11pt;">(36) Leaving aside the overall picture of
Pakistan and the callous and</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">cruel
injustice done to others, my own personal experience is no less</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">sad, bitter and revealing. You used
your position as the Prime Minister</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">and
leader of the Parliamentary Party to ask me to issue a statement,</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">which I did on the 8th September last.
You know that I was not willing</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">to
make a statement containing untruths and half-truths, which were</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">worse those untruths. It was not
possible for me to reject your request so</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">long
as I was there working as a Minister with you and under your</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">leadership. But I can no longer afford
to carry this load of false</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">pretensions
and untruth on my conscience and I have decided to offer my</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">resignation as your Minister, which I
am hereby placing in your hands and</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">which,
I hope, you will accept without delay. You are of course at liberty</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">to dispense with that office or
dispose of it in such a manner as may</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">suit
adequately and effectively the objectives of your Islamic State.</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span></div>
</span>
</span><div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span></div>
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 11pt;"><div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: 11pt;">8th Oct. 1950</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span></div>
</span>
</span><div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span></div>
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 11pt;"><div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: 11pt;">Yours Sincerely,</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span></div>
</span>
</span><div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span></div>
<span style="background-color: white; font-size: 11pt;"><div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">J. N. Mandal</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="background-color: transparent;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;"> </span></span><span style="font-size: 20.5pt; letter-spacing: -0.7pt;"> </span></span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11490405927751525925noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8014061638568440024.post-51482214147347296702012-08-31T16:12:00.000-07:002012-08-31T16:12:14.491-07:00Close call? <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span class="intro"><b><i><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">The political class has let down India <o:p></o:p></span></span></i></b></span></div>
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<span class="intro"><b><i><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">By Gautam Sen <o:p></o:p></span></span></i></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Is the future of
the Indian Republic in doubt? Surveying published opinion and gauging political
postures, one gets ambiguous answers. Many retired senior administrative,
intelligence and defence officials write dispiritingly of India's immediate
prospects, which should cause worry. It also points to their lack of confidence
in the political masters they once served. The political masters can be divided
into three categories and views that can be reasonably imputed to them judged
accordingly. The first is the overwhelming swathe of political representatives
who currently dominate political life in States and, increasingly, the Centre.
The second are a smaller group of influential senior political leaders,
chairing parliamentary committees, etc., and have an impact on party stances.
The final and most significant are the politicians who are senior ministers,
led by the prime minister, a coterie privy to state secrets and approving
policies.</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="text-align: start;">The first group of
politicians are ingenious locals, possessing social clout, village cunning and,
often, felonious instincts. These skills allow this growing breed of politician
to win by twisting electoral outcomes and attain wealth and status. Although an
essentially malevolent group, they are tolerated while they cast their votes as
required, which is also the purpose of the occasional cine star nominated by
political party leaderships. The second group of politicos are largely managers
of the political apparatus inside Parliament and the assembly and retire into
obscurity unless elevated to ministerial status, the aspiration that consigns
them to faithful servitude. The prime minister and senior ministers, with final
oversight, actually make decisions though that does not automatically guarantee
action. Contemporary policy boasts, with eye-watering budgetary allocations,
seem to frequently fail in implementation, but manage to enrich a variety of
governmental insiders and their collaborators outside it.</span><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="text-align: start;">The prime minister
has always been the critical component in times of crises and when major policy
decisions are on the radar. In the past, India's ultimate decision-makers,
especially the prime minister, trusted ministerial colleagues and advisers,
have been of rather variable quality. The quality of this leadership in India
has only been effective twice, during Indira Gandhi's tenure and Atal Behari
Vajpayee's brief period in office. Indira Gandhi may have had her faults, but
it would be erroneous to overlook her uncompromising defence of India's
national honour, personal courage and ability to identify good advisers and
listen to them. Atal Behari Vajpayee steered government by force of
personality, despite lacking the requisite numbers in Parliament and
acquiescing in some wrongdoing by those close to him. However, he mostly
managed to deter the kind of egregious malfeasance that has become routine
following his departure. Since May 2004, the grievous disempowering of the
prime minister's office has become the single most important reason for the
virtual collapse of administrative decision-making and governance. It has
become so serious that it now threatens the viability of the polity.</span><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="text-align: start;">How very important
is the quality of leadership at the pinnacle, especially for India, cannot be
understated. A multitude of domestic divisions, dire poverty and grave
international challenges combine to constantly probe the durability of the
Indian polity. Excluding the hugely significant setback of Partition in 1947,
India has survived and indeed advanced on many fronts, industrialising the economy,
educating its people, feeding a vastly increased population, although not as
adequately as it should, and empowering disadvantaged groups. These are
respectable achievements that have occurred in the context of fractious
democratic politics. At the same time, India's political leadership was rarely
sagacious, but an essentially patient populace prevented recurrent setbacks
from becoming insuperable crises. Jawaharlal Nehru's self-confident but shallow
leadership at the outset was balanced by the astute and decisive Sardar
Vallabhai Patel, as the record of the Kashmir and Tibetan imbroglios
demonstrate. But Nehru persisted with his half-baked grasp of the wider world,
on which he imagined himself to be an expert, inviting the calamity of the
Himalayan blunder.</span><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="text-align: start;">In the aftermath of
Nehru and his redoubtable daughter, Indira Gandhi, a succession of mediocrities
and amateurs, with the exception of P.V.Narasimha Rao and Atal Behari Vajpayee,
has beset India. And they have been succeeded by a rank novice, with little
understanding of India's vast complexity, and a powerless prime minister. The
latter, shamefully, needed his finance minister, Pranab Mukherjee, to call
Cabinet meetings to order to begin them. Such weak leadership cannot either
inspire talented advisers or embrace their advice. The fact that a periodically
tottering India was not altogether prostrate earlier has been significantly due
to some of its committed and outstanding public servants, the likes of
V.P.Menon, L.K.Jha and some I have the privilege of knowing personally, among
them, M.K.Rasgotra, Ronen Sen, Shyam Saran, Prabhat Shukla, Ajit Doval,
Lieutenant- General JFR Jacob, and the late Ashok Saikia. But they cannot run
India, however capable they might be, since policy legitimacy and its decisive
implementation must derive from the political leadership.</span><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="text-align: start;">Over many months
now, India's highest decision-making apparatus has at best been going through
the motions of operating pretty much stalled policies and their implementation
indefinitely deferred. The shocking lapses of the UPA coalition must include
the dismal circus at the 2009 Indo-Pak meeting in Sharm-el Sheikh, where a
high-powered Indian delegation was shamefully wrong-footed by the Pakistanis,
mendacious and crafty as ever. It has been followed by a government floundering
over serial revelations of massive corruption and apparent befuddlement over
the on-going communal crisis in Assam and its serious fallout across India.
Government responses can only be deemed laughable unless they have been
maliciously intended to aggravate the situation for unfathomable political
purposes. And twenty more months remain before the general elections.
Unfortunately, it can be almost safely predicted that more impasse and
confusion are likely to ensue after it because the Indian Parliament is no
longer fit for purpose. Opposition leaders are mainly preoccupied to jostle for
future ministerial position and the Congress party paralysed by fear of losing
power and the consequent fate of its ruling dynasty. And nefarious regional
satraps harbour the utmost danger for the integrity of the Indian Union.</span><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="text-align: start;">India's rulers seem
somewhat unmindful of the urgent issue of collapsing economic performance,
heightened communal tensions, which begin to look like a prelude to widespread
armed conflict, and the possibility they could invite foreign assault. There is
even a suspicion that the two major political parties are colluding to avoid
political reform, since both are compromised on many counts, and choreographing
displays of faux contention to confound a gullible electorate. The Indian
media, with its reputation deeply tarnished by the Radia tapes for acting as
creatures of politicians, industrial houses and its obsession with celebrity,
is conspicuously self-serving and conceitedly amoral. It performs little
constructive role in sustaining the health of Indian society by informing
honestly and judging wisely.</span><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="text-align: start;">The question that
might be posed in these troubled times is how entrenched constituents of the
Indian establishment respond when the national applecart is threatened with
being comprehensively upset. Serious countries retain an embedded capacity,
short of a military coup d'etat, to thwart the dismantling of the State, with
all the incalculable consequences implied. On recent form, one may plausibly
doubt if higher echelons of India's decision-makers are capable of providing
the imperative breakwater today, although they may have proved invaluable for
India's welfare and functioning in the past.</span><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<i><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Dr
Gautam Sen taught Political Economy at the London School of Economics.<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></div>
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<a href="http://www.newsinsight.net/archivedebates/nat2.asp?recno=2341">http://www.newsinsight.net/archivedebates/nat2.asp?recno=2341</a></span></span><span style="background: white;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<b><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">S.K. Sinha <o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><st1:city w:st="on">Sparks</st1:city> from <st1:place w:st="on">Assam</st1:place> started dangerous fires in
Mumbai and some other places last week. Mercifully, these did not last long.
But they have the potential to start a gigantic fire engulfing the entire
nation. This is a chilling reminder of the Partition holocaust, one of the
greatest human tragedies in history.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Muhammed Ali Jinnah announced that his party would observe August
16, 1946, as Direct Action Day. He declared, “Today we bid good-bye to
constitutional methods. Today we have forged a pistol and are in a position to
use it. We mean every word of it.” <st1:place w:st="on">Bengal</st1:place> was
the only province in the country where the Muslim League was in power. Direct
Action was launched in <st1:place w:st="on">Calcutta</st1:place>.
Suhrawardy, the Muslim League chief minister, released his goons, as per plan.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">There was a massacre of non-Muslims on the first two days. It was
surprising that the British governor did not exercise his special powers to
dismiss the Muslim League ministry and impose Governor’s Rule. He remained a
mute spectator. From the third day, non-Muslims, primarily Sikh taxi drivers
and Bihari labourers, started retaliating in a big way and Muslims now suffered
equally. Suhrawardy asked for help from the Army to restore order. He now
turned on <st1:place w:st="on">East Bengal</st1:place>, which had a hapless
Hindu minority.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Hindu women were targeted and there was complete mayhem in
Noakhali region. The Mahatma undertook a padyatra in Noakhali to restore peace.
Thousands of Hindu refugees from East Bengal poured into <st1:place w:st="on">Bihar</st1:place>
seeking shelter. They narrated their tales of woe. Hindus in <st1:place w:st="on">Bihar</st1:place>
got inflamed and started attacking the local Muslim minority with a vengeance.
Widespread communal violence in rural areas took place for the first time. This
was difficult to control as it was spread over a vast area, devoid of suitable
communications. Hitherto communal riots used to be an urban phenomenon.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">The <st1:place w:st="on">Bihar</st1:place> government promptly
asked for Army assistance and normalcy was eventually restored. Several
thousand Muslim families were massacred and their houses destroyed. The only
redeeming feature was that Armymen remained totally impartial. Muslim priests
from <st1:city w:st="on">Peshawar</st1:city>, <st1:city w:st="on">Rawalpindi</st1:city>
and <st1:city w:st="on">Lahore</st1:city> visited <st1:place w:st="on">Bihar</st1:place>,
saw the mayhem and went back with pictures of the atrocities. Soon the whole of
North India, from <st1:city w:st="on">Delhi</st1:city> to <st1:place w:st="on">Peshawar</st1:place>, was in flames. The civil
administration virtually collapsed; the Army was widely deployed. Most of the
soldiers came from that region.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">They saw how their kith and kin had suffered. The impartiality of
the soldiers got seriously affected. With the announcement of Partition on June
3, 1947, the extent of violence increased further. Soldiers earmarked for
different dominions now had divided loyalty. Millions perished and millions
were uprooted in that holocaust.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">The current violence in <st1:place w:st="on">Assam</st1:place> has had a serious impact in
several places. <st1:place w:st="on">Pakistan</st1:place>
launched a cyber war by sending SMSes and MMSes to Muslims to inflame communal
passions. A mob of 50,000 Muslims collected at Azad Maidan in Mumbai to protest
against atrocities on Muslims in <st1:country -region="-region" w:st="on">Assam</st1:country>
and <st1:place w:st="on">Burma</st1:place>.
Some burnt cars, targeted media, attacked shops, molested policewomen on duty
and desecrated the Amar Jawan Smarak. Several policemen were injured. In <st1:place w:st="on">Lucknow</st1:place>, mobs burnt shops,
smashed cars and desecrated Buddha’s statue.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">There were similar incidents in <st1:place w:st="on">Allahabad</st1:place>. Besides, thousands of SMSes were
sent threatening students and others from the Northeast in Pune, Bengaluru, <st1:place w:st="on">Hyderabad</st1:place> and Chennai,
asking them to quit. Knowing how <st1:place w:st="on">Delhi</st1:place>
police had failed to provide security for students from the Northeast, they
panicked. An exodus of over 20,000 people took place. Intelligence about these
messages was available but no preventive measures were taken by the Central and
state governments. Against this background it was irresponsible for the state
government to permit the holding of the protest rally at Azad Maidan. It also
failed, miserably, to stop the mayhem.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">The Opposition in Parliament has very rightly announced full
support in tackling the grave crisis and not to take any political advantage.
Yet we must identify the fault lines. The biggest problem facing the Northeast
has been demographic aggression by the unabated influx of millions of illegal
migrants from Bangla-desh. Our vote-bank politicians have been blatantly
assisting this with total disregard for national security. If a repeat of what
happened at the time of Partition is to be avoided, the government must shed
its slothful and “chalta hai” approach. Good governance, prompt preventive
action and ability to foresee situations rather than be overcome by them are
imperative. National interests and security must never be ignored.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><i><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">The writer, a retired
lieutenant-general, was Vice-Chief of Army Staff and has served as governor of <st1:country -region="-region" w:st="on">Assam</st1:country> and <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:state w:st="on">Jammu
and Kashmir</st1:state></st1:place><o:p></o:p></span></i></b></div>
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<b><i><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">The EU is facing an era of vast social
change, reports Adrian Michaels, and few politicians are taking notice<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Britain and the rest of the European Union
are ignoring a demographic time bomb: a recent rush into the EU by migrants,
including millions of Muslims, will change the continent beyond recognition
over the next two decades, and almost no policy-makers are talking about it.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">The numbers are startling. Only 3.2 per cent
of Spain's population was foreign-born in 1998. In 2007 it was 13.4 per cent.
Europe's Muslim population has more than doubled in the past 30 years and will
have doubled again by 2015. In Brussels, the top seven baby boys' names
recently were Mohamed, Adam, Rayan, Ayoub, Mehdi, Amine and Hamza.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Europe's low white birth rate, coupled with
faster multiplying migrants, will change fundamentally what we take to mean by
European culture and society. The altered population mix has far-reaching
implications for education, housing, welfare, labour, the arts and everything
in between. It could have a critical impact on foreign policy: a study was
submitted to the US Air Force on how America's relationship with Europe might
evolve. Yet EU officials admit that these issues are not receiving the
attention they deserve.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Jerome Vignon, the director for employment
and social affairs at the European Commission, said that the focus of those
running the EU had been on asylum seekers and the control of migration rather
than the integration of those already in the bloc. "It has certainly been
underestimated - there is a general rhetoric that social integration of
migrants should be given as much importance as monitoring the inflow of
migrants." But, he said, the rhetoric had rarely led to policy.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">The countries of the EU have long histories
of welcoming migrants, but in recent years two significant trends have emerged.
Migrants have come increasingly from outside developed economies, and they have
come in accelerating numbers.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">The growing Muslim population is of
particular interest. This is not because Muslims are the only immigrants coming
into the EU in large numbers; there are plenty of entrants from all points of
the compass. But Muslims represent a particular set of issues beyond the fact
that atrocities have been committed in the West in the name of Islam.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">America's Pew Forum on Religion & Public
Life, part of the non-partisan Pew Research Center, said in a report: "These
[EU] countries possess deep historical, cultural, religious and linguistic
traditions. Injecting hundreds of thousands, and in some cases millions, of
people who look, speak and act differently into these settings often makes for
a difficult social fit."<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">How dramatic are the population changes?
Everyone is aware that certain neighbourhoods of certain cities in Europe are
becoming more Muslim, and that the change is gathering pace. But raw details
are hard to come by as the data is sensitive: many countries in the EU do not
collect population statistics by religion.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">EU numbers on general immigration tell a
story on their own. In the latter years of the 20th century, the 27 countries
of the EU attracted half a million more people a year than left. "Since
2002, however," the latest EU report says, "net migration into the EU
has roughly tripled to between 1.6 million and two million people per
year."<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">The increased pace has made a nonsense of
previous forecasts. In 2004 the EU thought its population would decline by 16
million by 2050. Now it thinks it will increase by 10 million by 2060. Britain
is expected to become the most populous EU country by 2060, with 77 million
inhabitants. Right now it has 20 million fewer people than Germany. Italy's
population was expected to fall precipitously; now it is predicted to stay
flat.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">The study for the US Air Force by Leon
Perkowski in 2006 found that there were at least 15 million Muslims in the EU,
and possibly as many as 23 million. They are not uniformly distributed, of
course. According to the US's Migration Policy Institute, residents of Muslim
faith will account for more than 20 per cent of the EU population by 2050 but
already do so in a number of cities. Whites will be in a minority in Birmingham
by 2026, says Christopher Caldwell, an American journalist, and even sooner in
Leicester. Another forecast holds that Muslims could outnumber non-Muslims in
France and perhaps in all of western Europe by mid-century. Austria was 90 per
cent Catholic in the 20th century but Islam could be the majority religion
among Austrians aged under 15 by 2050, says Mr Caldwell.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Projected growth rates are a disputed area.
Birth rates can be difficult to predict and migrant numbers can ebb and flow.
But Karoly Lorant, a Hungarian economist who wrote a paper for the European
Parliament, calculates that Muslims already make up 25 per cent of the
population in Marseilles and Rotterdam, 20 per cent in Malmo, 15 per cent in
Brussels and Birmingham and 10 per cent in London, Paris and Copenhagen.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Recent polls have tended to show that the
feared radicalisation of Europe's Muslims has not occurred. That gives hope
that the newcomers will integrate successfully. Nonetheless, second and third
generations of Muslims show signs of being harder to integrate than their
parents. Policy Exchange, a British study group, found that more than 70 per
cent of Muslims over 55 felt that they had as much in common with non-Muslims
as Muslims. But this fell to 62 per cent of 16-24 year-olds.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">The population changes are stirring unease on
the ground. Europeans often tell pollsters that they have had enough
immigration, but politicians largely avoid debate.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">France banned the wearing of the hijab veil
in schools and stopped the wearing of large crosses and the yarmulke too, so
making it harder to argue that the law was aimed solely at Muslims. Britain has
strengthened its laws on religious hatred. But these are generally isolated
pieces of legislation.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Into the void has stepped a resurgent group
of extreme-Right political parties, among them the British National Party,
which gained two seats at recent elections to the European Parliament. Geert
Wilders, the Dutch politician who speaks against Islam and was banned this year
from entering Britain, has led opinion polls in Holland.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">The Pew Forum identified the mainstream
silence in 2005: "The fact that [extreme parties] have risen to prominence
at all speaks poorly about the state and quality of the immigration debate.
[Scholars] have argued that European elites have yet to fully grapple with the
broader issues of race and identity surrounding Muslims and other groups for
fear of being seen as politically incorrect."<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">The starting point should be greater
discussion of integration. Does it matter at all? Yes, claims Mr Vignon at the
European Commission. Without it, polarisation and ghettoes can result.
"It's bad because it creates antagonism. It antagonises poor people
against other poor people: people with low educational attainment feel
threatened," he says.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">The EU says employment rates for non-EU
nationals are lower than for nationals, which holds back economic advancement
and integration. One important reason for this is a lack of language skills.
The Migration Policy Institute says that, in 2007, 28 per cent of children born
in England and Wales had at least one foreign-born parent. That rose to 54 per
cent in London. Overall in 2008, 14.4 per cent of children in primary schools
had a language other than English as their first language.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Muslims, who are a hugely diverse group, have
so far shown little inclination to organise politically on lines of race or
religion. But that does not mean their voices are being ignored. Germany
started to reform its voting laws 10 years ago, granting certain franchise
rights to the large Turkish population. It would be odd if that did not alter
the country's stance on Turkey's application to join the EU. Mr Perkowski's
study says: "Faced with rapidly growing, disenfranchised and increasingly
politically empowered Muslim populations within the borders of some of its
oldest and strongest allies, the US could be faced with ever stronger
challenges to its Middle East foreign policies."<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Demography will force politicians to confront
these issues sooner rather than later. Recently, some have started to nudge the
debate along. Angel Gurría, the OECD secretary-general, said in June:
"Migration is not a tap that can be turned on and off at will. We need
fair and effective migration and integration policies; policies that work and
adjust to both good economic times and bad ones."<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Source:
<a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/5994047/Muslim-Europe-the-demographic-time-bomb-transforming-our-continent.html">http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/5994047/Muslim-Europe-the-demographic-time-bomb-transforming-our-continent.html</a></span></span></div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11490405927751525925noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8014061638568440024.post-40683324260797813332012-08-04T15:22:00.001-07:002012-08-04T15:22:32.548-07:00Calls for change to Indonesia's mosque loudspeakers<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">For<span class="apple-converted-space"> Beringin Kusuma </span>whose living quarters
are only a short distance from a mosque, the Muslim month of<span class="apple-converted-space"> Ramadan </span>is not only a time for
fasting, but also for plugging his ears before bed every night.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Year-round,
like most urban dwellers in the world's largest<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><span class="yshortcuts">Muslim nation</span><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>that boasts 800,000 mosques, the
22-year-old university student has to contend with the "azan" that
begins at dawn and calls worshippers to prayer five times a day.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">But
during Ramadan the mosques go into overdrive. Their crackling speakers blare
out not only the azan, but also calls to worshippers to wake before the
pre-dawn sahur breakfast that begins the day-long fast, and Koran recitations
that go on almost all day and night.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">"It's
worse during Ramadan," complained Kusuma, who for the past three years has
lived in a rented room only 20 metres (65 feet) from the closest mosque.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">In
Indonesia, Ramadan -- a time of year when Muslims forgo food, drink and sex
between dawn and dusk -- started on July 21. Eid al-Fitr, the feast marking the
end of the fasting month, falls on August 19. Dates may vary elsewhere.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">But
while it is regarded as one of the most spiritual periods in the Islamic
calendar, for many it is also the most noisy.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">"Most
people wake up just before 4:30 am for a quick sahur, but the speakers start
calling the people to wake up at 2:30 am," said Kusuma.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">"They
repeat it many times, along with Koran recitations -- and then comes the azan
at dawn," he said.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Kusuma
compares the sound to "someone screaming in my ear" and says he usually
tries to return home after 9pm when at least the special evening Ramadan
prayers are over.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">"If
it wasn't for ear plugs, I wouldn't get a wink of sleep during all of
Ramadan."<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">With
hundreds of thousands of mosques in this nation of 240 million people, most
city and town dwellers are accosted every dawn by the intermingling cacophony
blaring out of three or four mosques, each broadcasting its own azan.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">For
some people -- especially non-Muslim foreigners unfamiliar with the routine and
naive enough to rent a place without checking the distance from the closest
mosque -- it can all be too much.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Two
years ago, an American running a guesthouse near a mosque on the tourist island
of Lombok snapped during a prayer reading and yanked the wire connecting the
speaker. He was sentenced to five months in jail for blasphemy.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Anita
Rizki, a 22-year-old secretary at a private hospital in Jakarta, said the
mosques were bad enough throughout the year, but became impossible during
Ramadan, which is one of the five pillars of Islam.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">"I
feel guilty for my non-Muslim neighbours, because the noises keep them up all
night," said Rizki, who lives 100-metres from a large mosque.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">"People
have different faiths. Our devotion doesn't need to be broadcast through a
loudspeaker. It only shows a lack of religious tolerance."<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">According
to ear specialist Ronny Suwento, "the noise level can reach dangerous
decibels for those who live very close to mosques, and that can cause hearing
loss over time."<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Historically,
the prayer leader at a mosque would climb the minaret and deliver the call to
prayer without amplification.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Kusuma,
the university student, said he believed that mosque loudspeakers are outdated.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">"It
doesn't work at all in our times. Thanks to technology, we can now even
download an alarm which plays the prayer call at its designated time."<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Mosques
are still governed by regulations from the religious affairs ministry that are
more than three decades old. The 1978 directives allow the use of loudspeakers
for calls to prayer, Koran recitations as well as sermons and religious
gatherings.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Earlier
this year, Vice President Boediono called on mosques to tone down their noise
and asked religious authorities for new guidelines on the use of loudspeakers.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">"The
soft sounds of azan heard faintly at a distance resonate more strongly and
reach deeper into the heart than those that are loud, scratchy and too close to
our ears," he said in April.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Boediono's
remarks received mixed reactions, with some people berating him for saying that
prayers to Allah should be toned down, and others praising his bravery for
speaking out on a sensitive topic. But his comments encouraged others to speak
up.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Before
the beginning of Ramadan earlier this month, a governor in central Kalimantan
province asked local mosques to refrain from having their soundsystems working
overtime.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">"Don't
use loudspeakers when reciting the Koran. Take pity on people of different
faiths who want to rest," local media quoted Achmad Diran as saying.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">But
Nasir Zubaidi, deputy secretary-general of the Indonesia Ulema Council that is
the nation's top Islamic body, said that mosque loudspeakers were important,
especially to women at home.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">"It's
good to use loudspeakers to broadcast Islamic sermons. Women at home can listen
while they are cooking so that they will eventually become enlightened."<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">Source: </span><span style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;"><a href="http://news.yahoo.com/calls-change-indonesias-mosque-loudspeakers-134751148.html">http://news.yahoo.com/calls-change-indonesias-mosque-loudspeakers-134751148.html</a></span></span></div>
</span></div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11490405927751525925noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8014061638568440024.post-43921854271167341462012-08-02T07:39:00.000-07:002012-08-02T07:39:21.814-07:00Being A Muslim Today: Who Is The Momin And Who Is The Kafir?<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Asif Merchant, New Age Islam<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">All over the world, it is as if, only the
Muslims keep trying to assert their religious identity at every stage. Even the
world is divided into only two parts. A country can be ‘Dar ul Harb’ (Abode of
war) or ‘Dar ul Islam’ (Abode of Islam or peace). How realistic is this? Can
Pakistan be called an ‘abode of Islam or peace’, a Dar ul Islam? Which
Muslim country can qualify as a Dar ul Islam? Are there other countries
which would qualify, but cannot because they are non-Muslim majority countries?
Our people should stop this hypocrisy. We should see through these attempts to
communalise every issue into Muslim versus non-Muslim. Such ideas have
contributed to disruption of peace the world over, and so can be said to be
anti-Islamic.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">When the Shah was ruling Iran, Ayatollah
Khomeini had to leave the country for his own safety. There are many Muslim
countries in the world, but he chose to go to France, a Dar ul Harb? Is it
because most of the Western countries provided peace and security even when
they disagreed with him? Till the events of September 2001, the Western
countries were a haven of peace for all Muslims. Dar ul Islam? A region where
one’s creativity could be fully explored and developed.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">After that, when so many Muslims claimed
credit for the events of 9/11 as proof of the greatness of Islam, it is natural
that all over the world, even innocent Muslims have been treated with
suspicion. All sorts of violent deeds are being committed in the name of Islam.
For years, there was very little condemnation of this by Muslim commentators.
Finally there came a ‘Fatwa’ that terrorism is un-Islamic. How shameful that a
Fatwa is needed to state the obvious. Even more shameful was the patronising
way with which non-Muslims applauded it. How low have we fallen?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">It is being drilled into Muslims that Islam
is incompatible with Democracy. The reasoning given is that in a Democracy,
sovereignty is with the people, whereas Islam recognises only the sovereignty
of God. Hence Democracy has no place in Islam. The question arises, “How is the
sovereignty of God exercised”? Obviously through some humans, but who? Is this
an attempt to have rule by the Ulema? Which country ruled by this so-called
‘sovereignty of God’ is an example to emulate?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">In practically every legitimate field,
Muslims are far behind everyone else. The Sachar Committee report bears this
out. So we look for the government to lift us up. All this, while there is so
much money with Muslims. There is plenty of money with Muslims, but the
culture of philanthropy is absent. An example is the Konkan coast of
Maharashtra, in which there are many Muslim families. Practically every family
has someone working in the Gulf. A lot of money is earned there and sent back
home. How is it spent? It is spent in trying to purchase a place in Heaven.
Mosques are constructed all over. Each one more luxurious than the other.
However, there are no schools. Children have to be sent to one of the boarding
schools of Panchgani. There are no hospitals. The sick have to be brought
all the way across the Mahabaleshwar hill down to Wai, which has decent Medical
facilities. In Wai, there is a fairly large Muslim population, but not a single
Muslim doctor. The only Muslim lawyers are from an earlier generation.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Muslims have definitely been led astray.
Surely this is not what the Holy Prophet visualised. Now the emphasis among
Muslims is on various rituals that will ensure a place in Heaven. Totally
self-centred. The so-called ‘Pillars of Islam’ do not contribute in any way to
the civilisational development of mankind, which was the Prophet’s mission.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Contrast this with the Hindus, who, many
Muslims look down upon. A few years ago, my sister was admitted to a hospital.
Every morning during the Ganpathi season, there would be a pooja conducted by the
doctor. He would end with a prayer for all humanity. Our property had been
bought by a Hindu family. They held a ‘Havan’ there and invited us. Muslims
generally avoid having non-Muslims for their functions. I attended, and was
even invited to sit with them for a while during the pooja. Here, each Sanskrit
‘shloka’ was followed by a Gujarati translation. This also ended with a prayer
for all humanity.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Who is the ‘Momin’ and who is the ‘Kafir’?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.7pt;">Asif Merchant is an
independent thinker, based near Panchgani, Maharashtra, India He writes an
occasional column for New Age Islam.</span><span style="letter-spacing: 0.7pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></i></div>
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<div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in; mso-line-height-alt: 10.2pt;">
<span style="font-size: 11pt; letter-spacing: 0.7pt;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Source: </span></span><span style="font-size: 11.0pt;"><a href="http://newageislam.com/the-war-within-islam/being-a-muslim-today--who-is-the-momin-and-who-is-the-kafir?/d/7855"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">http://newageislam.com/the-war-within-islam/being-a-muslim-today--who-is-the-momin-and-who-is-the-kafir?/d/7855</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">B. Raman<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">The persisting fissures in Assam, which periodically lead to
outbreaks of communal violence, are not between Indian Muslims and non-Muslims.
They are between Indian sons of the soil, whatever be their ethnicity, religion
or language, and Bangladeshi intruders.</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">The
failure of successive Governments to deal effectively with continuing illegal
immigration from Bangladesh by sealing the border, by strengthening border
controls and by identifying and throwing back the illegal immigrants is giving
rise to understandable concerns in the minds of the sons of the soil that they
are being inexorably reduced to a minority in their own homeland.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">There
are even suspicions and fears of political and administrative connivance in
facilitating the illegal migration and the integration of the illegal migrants
with our own citizenry. The extent of these suspicions and concerns was evident
from the observations of a Bodo student in an NDTV debate on the night of July
28,2012. He alleged that due to inaction by successive Governments the Muslims
constitute 75 per cent of the population in certain areas.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">While
his figures seemed to be exaggerated, officials in our intelligence and
security establishments agree that the failure of the State and Central
Governments to counter head-on the problem of illegal immigration is eroding
our internal security machinery in the North-East.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">There
are similar suspicions and concerns in the Rakhine State of Myanmar over the
non-stopping illegal immigration of Muslims, known as Rohingyas, from
Bangladesh. The anger among the sons of the soil over these intruders from
Bangladesh periodically leads to outbreaks of violence between Muslims and
non-Muslims.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">There
was one such outbreak recently in which there were about 80 fatalities and the
internal displacement of a large number of persons who live in camps. A state
of emergency was proclaimed by the Myanmar Government in the entire State and
the Army was deployed to restore and maintain order and communal peace. Despite
this, total normalcy has not yet been restored.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">The
Myanmar Government, security forces and political leaders including Aung San
Suu Kyi have been maintaining firmly that the problem in the Rakhine State is
one of effective enforcement of law against foreign intruders. Suu Kyi, who is
a strong defender of the ethnic rights of Myanmar’s ethnic minorities, has
steadfastly refused to recognise the Rohingyas as an ethnic group of Myanmar.
They are looked upon as intruders from Bangladesh who have no right to enjoy
the same rights as the citizens of Myanmar.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Despite
pressure from the UN , the Organisation of Islamic Countries and Western
non-governmental human rights organisations, the Myanmar Government has been
firmly adhering to the view that these illegal migrants should either go back
to Bangladesh or migrate to other countries that might be prepared to
accommodate them.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Compared
to India, Myanmar is a weak country. In spite of that, it has stuck to its
position that it cannot extend the same protection and legal benefits to
illegal migrants as it extends to its sons of the soil.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">We
call ourselves a big power. We pride ourselves on our national strength. And
yet, we do not have the national will to act firmly and decisively against the
Pakistan-based terrorists and the Bangladesh origin illegal migrants who are
slowly corroding our internal security.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">The
failure to admit and address the problems posed by the presence of a large
number of Bangladeshi intruders in Assam and the continuing further intrusion
is due to various factors such as political opportunism, political and
administrative complicity with the intruders and an inability and unwillingness
to understand the strategic threat posed by them to peace and harmony in Assam.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">The
problem is rendered even more explosive by the insensitive attitude of the
indigenous Muslims of Assam. They are one of us. They are our co-citizens
entitled to the same rights and protection as you and I. But their misplaced
feelings of religious solidarity with the Muslim intruders from Bangladesh and
their tendency to downplay the extent of illegal migration and the threats
posed by the migrants are creating suspicions in the minds of the non-Muslim
sons of the soil.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">The
indigenous Muslim sons of the soil should identify themselves with the
feelings, suspicions and concerns of the non-Muslim citizens. They should be in
the forefront of national solidarity. Otherwise, the wedge between the Muslim
and non-Muslim sons of the soil could grow wider and create more tensions and
violence.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">It
is time for the Governments at the Centre and in the State, the political
parties, the administration and leaders of the indigenous Muslims to do a
serious introspection over the gathering concerns in Assam and act unitedly
against the intruders from Bangladesh. Ideas being floated by some think-tanks
orchestrated from outside India for regularising the stay of the migrants by
issuing them work permits are harebrained and should not be touched.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">The
only solution is stopping further illegal immigration through border fencing
and identifying and <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">throwing
out those who have already come in. There is no question of their illegalities
being regularized.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><i>B.
Raman is Additional Secretary (retd), Cabinet Secretariat, Govt. of India, New
Delhi, and, presently, Director, Institute For Topical Studies, Chennai and
Associate, Chennai Centre For China Studies. E-mail:<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="mailto:seventyone2@gmail.com">seventyone2@gmail.com</a></i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Source:
<a href="http://www.eurasiareview.com/29072012-india-fissures-in-assam-sons-of-soil-vs-bangladesh-intruders-oped/">http://www.eurasiareview.com/29072012-india-fissures-in-assam-sons-of-soil-vs-bangladesh-intruders-oped/</a></span>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;">A major part of the history of </span><st1:place style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" w:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on">India</st1:country-region></st1:place><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"> is characterized by two major
foreign rules: the Islamic invasion and the British occupation. The Islamic
invasion started with the assault of Muhammad bin Qassim in 712 on the order of
Hajjaj, the governor of what is now </span><st1:country-region style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" w:st="on">Iraq</st1:country-region><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;">,
and it took until 1690 for the Muslim rulers to conquer </span><st1:place style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" w:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on">India</st1:country-region></st1:place><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"> completely. The fall of
Islamic rule started with the British East India Company's capture of Bengal in
1757, during the days of Industrial Revolution in </span><st1:place style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" w:st="on">Europe</st1:place><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;">.
The British rulers took almost 150 years to capture the entire sub-continent
from the hands of its Muslim rulers.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">Since childhood, the people of the subcontinent
keep hearing stories of the British occupation of </span><st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on">India</st1:country-region></st1:place><span style="background-color: white;"> and their 190 years of
exploitative imperial rule but the stories of the Islamic invasion and
centuries of Muslim domination are rarely being mentioned and discussed. This
amazing policy of silence regarding the Islamic invasion of the subcontinent is
interesting. And whatsoever is discussed about the Islamic rule in </span><st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on">India</st1:country-region></st1:place><span style="background-color: white;">
is all good and dandy and often glorious. Recently, a group of people from the
subcontinent have launched a call to celebrate "The Siraj-ud-Dowlah
Day" which will be an occasion to glorify the sacrifice of
Siraj-ud-Dowlah, the last Nawab of Bengal. He was defeated by the British
mercantile mercenaries in 1757 in the battlefield of Polashi (Plassey), which
marked the beginning of the British rule in </span><st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on">India</st1:country-region></st1:place><span style="background-color: white;">. The celebration of such an
event will definitely be another opportunity to vilify the British occupation
of </span><st1:country-region w:st="on">India</st1:country-region><span style="background-color: white;"> as well as to
glorify the rule of the last Muslim Nawab in </span><st1:place w:st="on">Eastern India</st1:place><span style="background-color: white;">.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">In recent years, some people from the
sub-continent have been daring to delve into the "other episode" of foreign
invasion of </span><st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on">India</st1:country-region></st1:place><span style="background-color: white;">,
i.e., the Islamic conquest, which hitherto has remained mostly shrouded in a
policy of silence or denial and a de-facto prohibition. While the liberals and
the rationalists of the subcontinent are adamant against critiquing the fallout
of the Islamic conquest, they have no problem criticizing the British
occupation and exploitation of </span><st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on">India</st1:country-region></st1:place><span style="background-color: white;">
with extreme vigor. They take refuge in the tradition of silence or negation
about the fallout of Islamic invasion and rule of </span><st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on">India</st1:country-region></st1:place><span style="background-color: white;"> and yet, they are highly
vocal in condemning the fallout of the British occupation. Interestingly,
however, some people have recently started asking for putting the fallout of
Islamic invasion and rule of </span><st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on">India</st1:country-region></st1:place><span style="background-color: white;">
in the spotlight alongside that of the British occupation.</span></div>
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<st1:place style="background-color: white;" w:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on"><span style="background: white;">India</span></st1:country-region></st1:place><span style="background-color: white;">, before the Islamic invasion, was one of the world's great
civilizations that matched its contemporaries, both in the East and the West,
in the realms of philosophy, mathematics, and natural science. Indian
mathematicians discovered the number zero and algebra (Bijganita in Sanskrit).
After the Islamic invasion, these texts were translated into Arabic and Persian
and were transmitted to the Islamic world and ultimately to Europe via <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on">Spain</st1:country-region></st1:place>.
Muslims mistakenly and unfairly take credit of these contributions to
Mathematics and Science as their won. <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on">India</st1:country-region></st1:place>'s sculptures were magnificent
and sensual and her architectures were ornate and spellbinding. Following the
Islamic invasion, many of these indigenous achievements, became part of
so-called Islamic civilization.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">There has been too much of talk about the
"divide and rule" policy of the British Raj where British
administrators had created division between Hindus and the Muslims during their
rule in </span><st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on">India</st1:country-region></st1:place><span style="background-color: white;">.
An overwhelming majority of the sub-continent people believe this policy to be
the root cause of communal troubles that we witness in </span><st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on">India</st1:country-region></st1:place><span style="background-color: white;"> today. There is a deeply
entrenched belief that the concept of religious intolerance between the Hindus
and the Muslims was totally absent in </span><st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on">India</st1:country-region></st1:place><span style="background-color: white;"> until the British devised
this malevolent scheme to keep the Hindus and Muslims engaged in fighting each
other. Many people in the sub-continent believe that this was a clever ploy so
that they (the British) could continue to rule </span><st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on">India</st1:country-region></st1:place><span style="background-color: white;"> while the people remained
divided over religious disharmony. There cannot be any bigger untruth than the
assertion that religious intolerance never existed in Indian soil until the
British invented it. The truth is that religious tolerance and harmony hardly
ever existed in the sub-continent throughout the centuries of Islamic rule.
Destruction of temples, oppression and forced conversion of the Hindus,
especially around the urban areas all over </span><st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on">India</st1:country-region></st1:place><span style="background-color: white;">, were common phenomenon
during the Islamic rule. The Bahmani sultans in central </span><st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on">India</st1:country-region></st1:place><span style="background-color: white;"> made it a rule to kill
100,000 Hindus a year. In 1399, Teimur killed 100,000 Hindus IN A SINGLE DAY,
and many more on other occasions [Negationism in </span><st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on">India</st1:country-region></st1:place><span style="background-color: white;">]. Even during the late period
of the Islamic domination of </span><st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on">India</st1:country-region></st1:place><span style="background-color: white;">,
Emperor Aurangzeb (rule 1658-1707) re-imposed the "religion tax or
Jiziya" on the Hindus and other people of indigenous religions. Aurangzeb
was a champion destroyer of Hindu temples. Amongst the famous temples he
destroyed were: the Kashi Vishvanath, one of the most sacred places of
Hinduism, Krishna's birth temple in Mathura, the rebuilt Somnath temple on the
coast of Gujurat, the Vishnu temple, overlooking Benares that was replaced with
the Alamgir mosque (Alamgir is another name of Aurangzeb), and the
Treta-ka-Thakur temple in Ayodhya. Aurangzeb's own official chronicles have
recorded mind-blowing figures of temple destruction. Aurangzeb had ordered his
provincial governors to destroy all schools and temples of the pagans and to
make a complete end to all pagan teachings and practices. The Aurangzeb's
chronicle sums up the temple destructions as follows:</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">"Hasan Ali Khan came and said that 172
temples in the area had been destroyed... His majesty went to Chittor and 63
temples were destroyed. Abu Tarab, appointed to destroy the idol-temples of
Amber, reported that 66 temples had been razed to the ground.." Aurangzeb
did not stop at destroying temples only, their users were also often wiped out;
even his own brother, Dara Shikoh, was executed for taking an interest in Hindu
religion. The Sikh Guru Tegh Bahadur Singh was beheaded because he objected to
Aurangzeb's forced conversions. Even during the rule of Mohammad Shah after
Aurangzeb's death, Persian ruler Nadir Shah invaded of </span><st1:country-region w:st="on">India</st1:country-region><span style="background-color: white;"> (1738-39) and killed an estimated 200,000
people in </span><st1:place w:st="on">Northern India</st1:place><span style="background-color: white;"> alongside plundering
and looting.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="background-color: white;">The Islamic assault on </span><st1:country-region w:st="on">India</st1:country-region><span style="background-color: white;"> started in the early 8th century, on the
order of Hajjaj, the ruler of present-day </span><st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on">Iraq</st1:country-region></st1:place><span style="background-color: white;">. Starting in 712 the raiders,
commanded by Muhammad bin Qasim, demolished temples, shattered sculptures,
plundered palaces and killed vast numbers of men. It took three whole days to
slaughter the inhabitants of the city of </span><st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">Debal</st1:city></st1:place><span style="background-color: white;">
followed by taking their women and children to slavery, including the taking of
young women as sex slaves. After the initial wave of violence, however, bin
Qasim tried to establish law and order in the newly-conquered lands, and to
that end he even allowed some degree of religious tolerance. But upon hearing
of such humane practices (contrary to the Koranic doctrine), his superior,
Hajjaj from Baghdad objected, writing:</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">"It appears from your letter that all the
rules made by you for the comfort and convenience of your men are strictly in
accordance with religious law. But the way of granting pardon prescribed by the
law is different from the one adopted by you, for you go on giving pardon to
everybody, high or low, without any discretion between a friend and a foe. The
great God says in the Koran [47.4]: "0 True believers, when you encounter
the unbelievers, strike off their heads." The above command of the Great
God is a great command and must be respected and followed. You should not be so
fond of showing mercy, as to nullify the virtue of the act. Henceforth grant
pardon to no one of the enemy and spare none of them, or else all will consider
you a weak-minded man."</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">In a subsequent communication, Hajjaj reiterated
that all able-bodied men were to be killed, and that their underage sons and
daughters were to be imprisoned and retained as hostages. Muhammad bin Qasim
obeyed, and on his arrival at the town of </span><st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">Brahminabad</st1:city></st1:place><span style="background-color: white;">
massacred between 6,000 and 16,000 men.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">Muhammad bin Qasim's early exploits of slaughter
and destruction were revived in the early eleventh century, when Sultan Mahmud
of Ghazni conquered </span><st1:place w:st="on">Punjab</st1:place><span style="background-color: white;"> in 17 attempts of
plundering expeditions between 997-1021. Alberuni, the great Islamic scholar
whom Mahmud brought to India, depicted Mahmud's invasion of India as:</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">"Mahmud utterly ruined the prosperity of
the country, and performed there wonderful exploits, by which the Hindus became
like atoms of dust scattered in all directions, and like a tale of old in the
mouth of the people. Their scattered remains cherish, of course, the most
inveterate aversion toward all Moslems."</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">The acts of destruction of Hindu temples and Buddhist
monasteries etc. by the Muslim invaders in </span><st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on">India</st1:country-region></st1:place><span style="background-color: white;"> have no parallel in the
history of any conquest. While blasting the British for their atrocities in </span><st1:country-region w:st="on">India</st1:country-region><span style="background-color: white;">, French journalist and political author
Francios Gautier writes, "The British were certainly not the Muslims,
whose ruthlessness and atrocities have never been equaled in </span><st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on">India</st1:country-region></st1:place><span style="background-color: white;">'s history. Nevertheless, they
did their fair share of harm to </span><st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on">India</st1:country-region></st1:place><span style="background-color: white;">,
which has not yet really recovered from two centuries of Raj. ["Facets of </span><st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on">India</st1:country-region></st1:place><span style="background-color: white;">:
Ancient and Modern"].</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">Even very late in the Mughal rule, ruler Haider
Ali [1722-1782] of </span><st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">Mysore</st1:city></st1:place><span style="background-color: white;">
used to order destruction of Hindu temples. In most incidences, after a mosque
was destroyed, the remains and especially the remains of the destroyed idols
were used as materials for the construction of the mosque. There have been
descriptions of slaughtering the Hindu priests or the protectors of the temples
as a ritual for purification of the place of idol-worship with the blood of the
infidels. Such vivid descriptions of savagery mostly come from the works of the
Muslim historians and writers, one of them include even the highly liberal and
benevolent disciple of great Sufi dervish, Nizamuddin Awliya. A few examples of
barbaric atrocities of Muslim invaders and rulers of </span><st1:country-region w:st="on">India</st1:country-region><span style="background-color: white;">,
recorded by the Muslim historians themselves, are listed below:</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">Shahab-ul-Din, King of Ghazni (1170-1206), put
Prithwi Raj, King of Ajmer and </span><st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">Delhi</st1:city></st1:place><span style="background-color: white;">,
to death in cold blood. He massacred thousands of inhabitants of </span><st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">Ajmer</st1:city></st1:place><span style="background-color: white;"> who opposed him,
reserving the remaining for slavery [The Kamiu-t Tawarikh, by Ibn-Asir].
Historian Hasan Nizami in his Taj-ul-Ma'sir gives the following account of
Ghouri's Lieutenant Qutbuddin Aibak's activities:</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">....after the suppression of a Hindu revolt at
Kol (modern day </span><st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">Aligarh</st1:city></st1:place><span style="background-color: white;">)
in 1193 AD, Aibak raised "three bastions as high as heaven with their
heads, and their carcasses became food for beasts of prey. The tract was freed
from idols and idol worship and the foundations of infidelism were
destroyed."</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">In 1194 AD Aibak destroyed 27 Hindu temples at </span><st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">Delhi</st1:city></st1:place><span style="background-color: white;"> and built the
Quwwat-ul-lslam mosque with their debris. According to Nizami, Aibak
"adorned it with the stones and gold obtained from the temples which had
been demolished by elephants".</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">In 1195 AD the Mher tribe of </span><st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">Ajmer</st1:city></st1:place><span style="background-color: white;"> rose in revolt, and the Chaulukyas of
Gujarat came to their assistance. Aibak had to invite reinforcements from
Ghazni before he could meet the challenge. In 1196 AD he advanced against
Anahilwar Patan, the capital of </span><st1:place w:st="on">Gujarat</st1:place><span style="background-color: white;">.
Nizami writes that after Raja Karan was defeated and forced to flee,
"fifty thousand infidels were dispatched to hell by the sword" and
"more than twenty thousand slaves, and cattle beyond all calculation fell
into the hands of the victors".</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">The city was sacked, its temples demolished, and
its palaces plundered. On his return to </span><st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">Ajmer</st1:city></st1:place><span style="background-color: white;">,
Aibak destroyed the Sanskrit College of Visaladeva, and laid the foundations of
a mosque which came to be known as 'Adhai Din ka Jhompada'.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">Conquest of Kalinjar in 1202 AD was Aibak's
crowning achievement. Nizami concludes: "The temples were converted into
mosques... Fifty thousand men came under the collar of slavery and the plain
became black as pitch with Hindus."</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="background-color: white;">Amir Khusru, a disciple of the great Sufi
Nizamuddin Awliya and recognized to be a liberal Sufi Muslim himself, writes in
his Tarikh-i-Alai:</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="background-color: white;">"Here he (Malik Kafur) heard that in
Bramastpuri (Chidambaram) there was a golden idol- He then determined on razing
the temple to the ground- It was the holy place of the Hindus which the Malik
dug up from its foundations with the greatest care, and the heads of brahmans
and idolaters danced from their necks and fell to the ground at their feet, and
blood flowed in torrents. The stone idols called Ling Mahadeo, which had been
established a long time at the place and on which the women of the infidels
rubbed their vaginas for (sexual) satisfaction, these, up to this time, the
kick of the horse of Islam had not attempted to break. The Musulmans destroyed
in the lings and Deo Narain fell down, and other gods who had fixed their seats
there raised feet and jumped so high that at one leap they reached the fort of
Lanka, and in that affright the lings themselves would have fled had they had
any legs to stand on".</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="background-color: white;">The world famous historian, Will Durant has
written in his 'Story of Civilization' that "the Mohammedan conquest of </span><st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on">India</st1:country-region></st1:place><span style="background-color: white;">
was probably the bloodiest story in history".</span></div>
</span>
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<st1:place style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" w:st="on"><div style="text-align: justify;">
<st1:place style="background-color: white;" w:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on"><span style="background: white;">India</span></st1:country-region></st1:place><span style="background-color: white;">, before the advent of Islamic imperialism, was not exactly a zone of
complete tranquility and peace like many other parts of the world. There were
plenty of wars fought by Hindu princes. Despite all these wars, the Hindus had
observed some time-honored conventions sanctioned by the Sastras. The Brahmins
and the Bhikshus were never molested. The cows were never killed. The temples
were never touched. The chastity of women was never violated. The
non-combatants were never killed or captured. A human habitation was never
attacked unless it was a fort. The civil population was never plundered. War
booty was an unknown item in the calculations of conquerors. The martial
classes, who clashed, mostly in open spaces, had a code of honor. Sacrifice of
honor for victory or material gain was deemed as worse than death.</span></div>
</st1:place>
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<span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="background-color: white;">Islamic imperialism came with a different code -
the Sunnah of the Prophet. It required its warriors to fall upon the helpless
civil population after a decisive victory had been won on the battlefield. It
required them to sack and burn down villages and towns after the defenders had
died fighting or had fled. The cows, the Brahmins, and the Bhikshus invited
their special attention in mass murders of non-combatants. The temples and
monasteries were their special targets in an orgy of pillage and arson. Those
whom they did not kill, they captured and sold as slaves. The magnitude of the
booty looted even from the bodies of the dead, was a measure of the success of
a military mission. And they did all this as mujahids (holy warriors) and
ghazls (kafir-killers) in the service of Allah and his Last Prophet.</span></div>
</span>
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<span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="background-color: white;">It is estimated that the Islamic conquest and
rule in </span><st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on">India</st1:country-region></st1:place><span style="background-color: white;">
may have resulted in killing of an estimated 50-80 million Hindus and other
indigenous religion people. Such savagery can only be compared to the one
committed by the Spaniards in the South American continent. Koenraad Elst
estimates that out of the population of native Continental South America of
1492, which stood at 90 million, only 32 million survived; terrible figures
indeed but who talks about them today [Negationism in India]? Such a towering
figure of destruction of human lives by the Muslim rulers of </span><st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on">India</st1:country-region></st1:place><span style="background-color: white;"> may appear a suspect.
However, in the war of independence of </span><st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on">Bangladesh</st1:country-region></st1:place><span style="background-color: white;">, the Pakistanis killed
2-3 million people in just 9 month in the age of modern civilization and the
world hardly took a notice of it. Hence, it is hardly impossible that Islamic
rulers might have had condemned up to 80 million indigenous people to death in
a vast region in a long span of almost 1000 years in the medieval age of
barbarity.</span></div>
</span>
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<span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="background-color: white;">The British rulers, on the other hand, ruled </span><st1:country-region w:st="on">India</st1:country-region><span style="background-color: white;"> mostly following a strategy of economic
exploitation, which was mainly aimed at producing revenues for funneling to </span><st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on">Britain</st1:country-region></st1:place><span style="background-color: white;">.
This was achieved by imposing high taxes on the farmers and often forcing the
latter into cultivating cash-crops (jute, cotton, tea, oil seeds) useful for
the Industries in </span><st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on">Britain</st1:country-region></st1:place><span style="background-color: white;">
but not for the Indian farmers. This had caused great hardship and suffering to
the Indian farmers including famines. Religious persecution, as unleashed by
the Portuguese (in </span><st1:place w:st="on">Goa</st1:place><span style="background-color: white;">) and the Islamic
rulers, was never a part of the British rule. Although there was an clandestine
and unofficial complicity to Evangelical Missionary activities, including
clandestine effort to convert the Indian soldiers. Yet there is no record of
mass destruction of mosques, temples or monasteries by the British rulers or
mass killing of the native people for their religions or for not converting to
Christianity. Neither did the British rulers ever allowed the Hindus or the
Muslims to destroy either Muslim mosques or the Hindu temples throughout the
great part of their rule in </span><st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on">India</st1:country-region></st1:place><span style="background-color: white;">.</span></div>
</span>
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<span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="background-color: white;">However, one prominent but ignored (and even
often condemned by the Muslims) aspect of the British rule was the long-due
empowerment of the Hindus over the Muslims after centuries of iron-handed
ruling and subjugation of the indigenous Indians by the Muslims. Although they
kept the critical power and positions in British hand, they did give the next
level of power to the hands of the Hindus, including allotment of the Zamindari
activities mostly to the Hindus. This again, was not so much unjust. Hindus got
those jobs because they were more educated and efficient and with their number
were more authoritative to do the job of tax collection. Muslims, on the other
hand, never conformed to modernity and never took interest in modern secular
education introduced by the British terming it un-Islamic and were left behind.</span></div>
</span>
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<span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="background-color: white;">It should be recognized that the Hindus and
other indigenous people were the rightful owner of </span><st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on">India</st1:country-region></st1:place><span style="background-color: white;"> both in terms of their number
and in being the indigenous people, and the power, if not shared, should have
been at the hands of the Hindus. The British Raj did a good deed towards the
empowerment of the Hindu over the Muslims after centuries of subjugation and
brutal suppression by the Muslim rulers.</span></div>
</span>
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<span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="background-color: white;">The much hyped up "divide and rule"
policy of the British has been consumed voraciously by the Hindus and the
Muslims, the progressive and the obscurantist, and the liberals and the zealots
alike. Yes, in the Sepoy Mutiny (Shipahi Biplob) of 1857, the Hindus did not
participate as vigorously as did the Muslims. Why should they, anyway? Muslim
rulers were still ruling some good parts of </span><st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on">India</st1:country-region></st1:place><span style="background-color: white;">. Was it going to be a wise a
decision for the Hindus to join hand with the Muslims to drive away the British
and establish the Nawabi and Mughal rule once again? They were definitely more
privileged under the British Raj than they were under the Muslim rulers. The
slavery of the Muslims once again was not a better choice, and the Hindus did
just the right thing. The British rulers might have had exploited the huge
chasm that existed between the Hindus and Muslims as a result of immense
atrocities on the majority indigenous religion people and of massive
destruction of their religious institutions by the Muslim invaders all throughout
the Islamic domination of India.</span></div>
</span>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
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<span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="background-color: white;">Only at the fag-end of the British rule in </span><st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">India</st1:place></st1:country-region><span style="background-color: white;">, the
Hindu-Muslim tension flared up in a dangerous way. There has been a lot of
talks and condemnations of the British role in creating Hindu-Muslim divide -
yet the contribution of the British rulers in this Hindu-Muslim tension and in
the resulting riots in the run-up to independence of </span><st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on">India</st1:country-region></st1:place><span style="background-color: white;"> has not been clearly
established. What we know for sure is the fact that, as </span><st1:country-region w:st="on">Britain</st1:country-region><span style="background-color: white;"> was counting days to end her imperial
rule in </span><st1:country-region w:st="on">India</st1:country-region><span style="background-color: white;">, the Muslims
started a vigorous campaign for a separate state fearing that they may have to
be under the majority Hindu rule in an independent and democratic </span><st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">India</st1:place></st1:country-region><span style="background-color: white;">. They
could never really forsake their pride of subjugating and persecuting the Hindus
for centuries. That was why they needed a separate state. As this religious
zealotry of the Muslims got strength, there arose the nationalistic Hindu
zealotry, and that led to the much of the tension and blood-bath between the
Hindus and the Muslims.</span></div>
</span>
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<span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="background-color: white;">And what else the Hindus could do? Muslims came
to </span><st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">India</st1:place></st1:country-region><span style="background-color: white;">
as barbaric invaders and ruled for centuries. In the process, Muslim rulers
mercilessly oppressed and even killed the indigenous people in great numbers,
looted their properties, destroyed their religious institutions and symbols,
took them as slaves and raped their women. Now, when British are about to leave
they wanted to divide their country as well. That was the perfect ground for
giving rise to religious zealotry amongst the Hindus, and for the first time in
the history of the Indian subcontinent, the Hindus, as a religious identity,
raised their heads as a militant force to deter the instigatory Islamic zealots
from dividing their country. The world witnessed what happened as a result of
that. Let us point fingers to the right place instead of blaming the British
for everything that happened around the Hindu-Muslim tensions and riots in the
run to the independence. It is important to sort out the facts from the hypes
and lies. It is time that we bury the hypes and lies in which our intellectuals
and the commoners have indulged in for too long.</span></div>
</span>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
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<span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="background-color: white;">Yet, the British Raj had its own share of
cruelty, whatever may be the magnitude. The bulk of the cruelty, that the
British inflicted, was during the event of Sepoy Mutiny or the first war of
independence in 1857. Surely, the British atrocity in the Sepoy Mutiny was
gory. But atrocities were committed by both sides involved in that war. It
should be understood that in the 1857 war, the British became more vindictive
and cruel only after the Cawnpore (</span><st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Kanpur</st1:place></st1:city><span style="background-color: white;">)
episode when Nana Sahib betrayed and some 210 women and children in his custody
were butchered with knives and hatchets into pieces and thrown down a well.
This cold-blooded murder of the innocent women and children enraged the
British, including the public in Britain, so much so, that every captured rebel
soldier, guilty or not, was ordered to be hanged or blow them from the mouth of
cannons if facilities existed. The latter was a traditional practice used by
the Muslim rulers which the British rulers had banned considering barbaric but
they reintroduced it following the </span><st1:place w:st="on">Cawnpore</st1:place><span style="background-color: white;">
incidence. Thus, although the British committed brutality in putting down the
Sepoy Mutiny, it never affected the non-combatants and the innocent women and
children as was the case with Islamic brutality in </span><st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">India</st1:place></st1:country-region><span style="background-color: white;">.</span></div>
</span>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="background-color: white;">It should also be understood that major cause of
discontent that lead to the Sepoy Mutiny, was all the good things the British
Raj did in India, including the abolition of child marriage, Sati Daha and
female infanticide and hunting down the deadly Thuggee cult (a cult of Kali who
used to do robbery and strangulation to death of their victims, mainly
travelers). Even the much-prided Indian Railway system, which started operating
in the early 1850s preceding the Sepoy mutiny, was also a cause of discontent,
since it was seen as a demon introduced by the British for keeping the Indians
subjugated.</span></div>
</span>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
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<span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="background-color: white;">Another salient point that must be understood
is: despite being largely an economically exploitative and often suppressive,
the British Raj instituted a system of educational and cultural intellectualism
that allowed the blooming of all the literary and scientific achievements,
which the people of the sub-continent are proud of today and would continue to
be proud of for a long time to come. Those Nobel laureates, the great literary
giants like Tagore, Nazrul and Allama Iqbal and the other famous scientists of
the subcontinents, including Professor Abdus Salam, were groomed by an educational
and intellectual culture which was instituted solely by the stewardship of the
British rulers. This glorious phase of intellectuality in </span><st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">India</st1:place></st1:country-region><span style="background-color: white;"> has
largely died off, since the British have left. The </span><st1:placename w:st="on">Dhaka</st1:placename><span style="background-color: white;">
</span><st1:placetype w:st="on">University</st1:placetype><span style="background-color: white;">, once known as the "</span><st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Oxford</st1:place></st1:city><span style="background-color: white;"> of the East",
has now lost all its prestige as an eminent educational institution with
severely fallen standard in every discipline of studies. The </span><st1:placename w:st="on">Qaide-e-Azam</st1:placename><span style="background-color: white;"> </span><st1:placetype w:st="on">University</st1:placetype><span style="background-color: white;">
of </span><st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Pakistan</st1:place></st1:country-region><span style="background-color: white;">,
which was a vibrant campus for intellectual exercise and science education, has
become nothing but a University of theological interest. So is the case with
the famous </span><st1:placename w:st="on">Muslim-administered</st1:placename><span style="background-color: white;"> </span><st1:placename w:st="on">Aligarh</st1:placename><span style="background-color: white;"> </span><st1:placetype w:st="on">University</st1:placetype><span style="background-color: white;">
in </span><st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">India</st1:place></st1:country-region><span style="background-color: white;">.</span></div>
</span>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
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<st1:country-region style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" w:st="on"><div style="text-align: justify;">
<st1:country-region style="background-color: white;" w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on"><span style="background: white;">India</span></st1:place></st1:country-region><span style="background-color: white;">, on the other hand, since the British have left, although has
maintained some good standard in education and science, yet has failed to keep
up with the pace of progress and advancement in the international stage. It may
be long wait before we will see another Nobel laureate emerges from the <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:placetype w:st="on">Land</st1:placetype> of <st1:placename w:st="on">Tagore</st1:placename></st1:place>, the Chandra Shekhars, Hargobind
Khorana and Abdus Salam. Nor will we see very often the likes of genius
scientists like Jagadish Chandra Bosu, Satyan Bose and Prafulla Chandra Roy et
al. to emerge from <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">India</st1:place></st1:country-region>.
Even the latest Nobel laureate from the subcontinent, Prof. Amartya Sen, was
groomed in the educational environment left by the British Raj in the forties
and early fifties. The great reformers of tradition and culture of the Indian
society, namely Raja Ram Mohan Roy and Ishwar Chandra Bidyasagar, were also the
product of intellectual and educational culture created by the British.</span></div>
</st1:country-region>
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<span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="background-color: white;">Furthermore, the British should be credited for
the admirable railway and road communication systems in </span><st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">India</st1:place></st1:country-region><span style="background-color: white;">. They
instituted the modern legal and judicial systems in </span><st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">India</st1:place></st1:country-region><span style="background-color: white;">. And of course, the much
prided democracy - the largest democracy in the world - is also what the
British left behind. One must ask the question: what would have been the
situation in </span><st1:country-region w:st="on">India</st1:country-region><span style="background-color: white;"> if the
British did not come and Islamic rulers had continued to rule </span><st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">India</st1:place></st1:country-region><span style="background-color: white;">?
Witnessing what is going on in the world vis--vis Islamic world, one thing that
can be said for sure is that the Muslims would still be ruling </span><st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on">India</st1:country-region></st1:place><span style="background-color: white;">
with an iron-hand. Satis would probably have still been burned and child
marriage would have been widespread, since it is compatible with Islam.
Education system would be characterized by the madrasas. Indeed, </span><st1:country-region w:st="on">India</st1:country-region><span style="background-color: white;"> had a very high standard in education and
science in pre-Islamic </span><st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">India</st1:place></st1:country-region><span style="background-color: white;">.
But the Muslim invaders and rulers destroyed all schools and educational
institutions and converted them into madrasas. As a result, </span><st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">India</st1:place></st1:country-region><span style="background-color: white;"> did not
make any notable contribution in these areas throughout the centuries of
Islamic rule. And given how the minorities are being treated in the Muslim
countries and what happened to the Hindus in Bangladesh (~33% in 1947 to ~10%
now) and Pakistan (~15% upon 1947 independence to ~1% now), one can be certain
that Hindus would still have been doing the slavery and experiencing
subjugation under the Muslims if the British never stepped onto India.</span></div>
</span>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
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<span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="background-color: white;">One may rise objections that such brutal and
potentially explosive facts should not be spoken about lest it causes religious
tensions. For this particular reason the modern historians of </span><st1:country-region w:st="on">India</st1:country-region><span style="background-color: white;">, mostly from the leftist background, are
probably indulging in the policy of silence, avoidance or cover-up about the
Islamic atrocity in </span><st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">India</st1:place></st1:country-region><span style="background-color: white;">.
Yet, those who agree to the atrocities of the Muslim conquerors attempt to
lighten the air by offering lame excuses such as temple destruction by the
Muslim rulers were not because of hatred against the Hindus but for plundering
the valuables and wealth kept there. But it is a fact that the Hindus hardly
ever used to keep their valuable assets in temples. Neither does that explain
as to why tens of thousands of Hindus were slaughtered on many occasions. Yet
those Islamic historians, who chronicled the Islamic atrocities often under the
patronage of many rulers and sometimes by the rulers themselves, never cited
any such reason for the destruction of temples. Plundering the wealth kept in a
temple does not require razing down the temples either. Such apologetic excuses
also do not explain why mosques had to be build at the sites of many famous
temples after their destruction. In fact, Indian Geological Survey has
identified hundreds of mosques across </span><st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">India</st1:place></st1:country-region><span style="background-color: white;"> that used materials for
construction from destroyed temples. A Geological Investigation team has
recently confirmed the presence of structures of temple beneath the very
controversial Babri mosque of Ayodhya.</span></div>
</span>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
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<span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="background-color: white;">Yet, it could the preferable for some people to
negate the Islamic atrocities in </span><st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">India</st1:place></st1:country-region><span style="background-color: white;"> or maintain silence about
them hoping that such a policy would maintain a semblance of harmony and peace
between the Hindu and Muslim communities. Although this appears a sensible
idea, yet at the same time such policy negates the recognition of such a
gigantic sacrifice by our forefathers of the Indian subcontinent. If we fail to
recognize this gravest of tragedy in the recorded history of </span><st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">India</st1:place></st1:country-region><span style="background-color: white;">, it will
be a terrible injustice to those who had to sacrifice their lives in such a
tragic manner. Yet, recognition of a tragedy has always borne fruit, whilst
failure to do so has resulted in repetition of the same. For the same reason,
the secular patriotic Bangladeshis and freedom fighters are so eager to have
the tragedy and sacrifice of Bengalis in 1971 war of independence recognized by
the perpetrators (</span><st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Pakistan</st1:place></st1:country-region><span style="background-color: white;">)
and by the world. For the same reason, we have the Holocaust/WWII museums in </span><st1:country-region w:st="on">Israel</st1:country-region><span style="background-color: white;">, </span><st1:state w:st="on">New York</st1:state><span style="background-color: white;">
and </span><st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Germany</st1:place></st1:country-region><span style="background-color: white;">.
</span><st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Japan</st1:place></st1:country-region><span style="background-color: white;">
have recognized and apologized for the atrocities they committed in the World
War II recently after 60 years of negation. </span><st1:country-region w:st="on">Germany</st1:country-region><span style="background-color: white;">
and </span><st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Italy</st1:place></st1:country-region><span style="background-color: white;">
has recognized and apologized for their atrocities during the WWII time and
again. And this recognition is not only meant for justice and recognition of
those who had fallen in the said tragedies but also for preventing such
tragedies from repeating in future.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="background-color: white;">Recognition of the fallout of Islamic invasion
of </span><st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">India</st1:place></st1:country-region><span style="background-color: white;">
may be argued against fearing that it may ignite explosive violence. Yet for
the sake of justice and recognition of the tragic sacrifice of our forefathers,
the modern world must be able to recognize and apologize for what happened in
the aftermath of Islamic occupation of </span><st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">India</st1:place></st1:country-region><span style="background-color: white;">. So should the world
recognize the victims of any other tragedy, be it the fallout of British
occupation of </span><st1:country-region w:st="on">India</st1:country-region><span style="background-color: white;"> or of
the barbaric Spanish crusade in the South America or of the barbaric Christian
atrocities in the so-called </span><st1:place w:st="on">Holy Land</st1:place><span style="background-color: white;">! If the
recognition and condemnation of the British atrocities in </span><st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">India</st1:place></st1:country-region><span style="background-color: white;"> is not a
problem, there should not be problem in recognizing and condemning fallout
about of Islamic invasion. In stead, recognition of the latter tragedy becomes
a moral responsibility for the sake of fairness and justice. One may argue that
recognition of the tragedies of WWII and the construction of WWII and </span><st1:place w:st="on"><st1:placename w:st="on">Holocaust</st1:placename> <st1:placetype w:st="on">Museums</st1:placetype></st1:place><span style="background-color: white;"> may cause tension and violence
between the Neo-Nazis/White Supremacists and the Jews and for that reason, we
should keep away from doing such things and maintain silence about those
tragedies. Same could be said about the </span><st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Bangladesh</st1:place></st1:country-region><span style="background-color: white;"> independence struggles
of 1971 fearing that it would cause trouble and tension between Bangladeshi and
Pakistanis. Yet, WWII memorials and Holocaust museums are being created not
only as recognition of sacrifices of the fallen but also in the hope that they
will act as reminders as well as deterrents for such tragedies from repeating
in the future. By this parity of reasons, whether it is the tragedies of
burning of millions of Satis in India, or burning millions of so-called witches
by the Clergy in Europe, or the massacre of millions by Genghis Khan or the
tragic fallout of the Islamic conquest in India - they should be recognized as
wrongs, they should be recognized and memorials should be built not only as a
symbol and gesture of honoring the sacrifice of the fallen but also as a
reminder to the current and future generations so that such terrible tragedies
never happen again.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="background-color: white;">There is a strong argument that talking about
such forgotten tragedies may ignite the victims, namely the Hindus in </span><st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">India</st1:place></st1:country-region><span style="background-color: white;">, into
violent actions. Yet, these are the fact recorded proudly by the Islamic
historians and rulers of India and available in original form in libraries
around the world and a section of the Hindus in India are becoming aware of
these tragic facts and a section of those informed Hindus are forming those
radical Hindu organizations such as RSS, Kar Sevaks and VHP etc. who are
seeking revenge by trying to rebuild their destroyed temples at the site of
now-standing mosques. Why these people are turning violent once they get to
learn about those hushed-up tragedies? It should also be recognized that highly
educated and rich Hindus, such as members of the VHP, are funding these
militant Hindu organizations. But why? The answer is simple. Those atrocities
were terrible and heart-rending and when Hindus suddenly get to find out what
has happened to their ancestors centuries ago, they feel shocked, they feel
indignation against Muslims and they want revenge in whatsoever way that might
be.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="background-color: white;">However, recognition of those terrible tragedies
that fell on the Hindus of India after Islamic invasion and during the Islamic
rule is likely to go a long way in pacifying indignant section of Hindus. An
apology would advance that cause immensely. Being grown up as a Muslim, I know
there is a good deal of angst amongst Muslims against the Hindus because of the
Hindu Zamindars' oppressive and harsh activities in the days of the British
rule. But the harshness caused by the Hindu Zamindars to Muslims is ignorable
if compared to what happened to the Hindus in the days of Islamic invasion and
rule of </span><st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">India</st1:place></st1:country-region><span style="background-color: white;">.
The Zamindars were harsh on the Hindu subjects as well - thanks to the British.
However if Muslims can recognize the atrocities caused by the Islamic invaders
and rulers on the Hindus, their own indignation against the Hindus vis--vis the
Zamindari activities would surely be reduced, which can help strengthen
relationship between both communities. Yet the facts about the Islamic
atrocities, unrivalled in the history of </span><st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">India</st1:place></st1:country-region><span style="background-color: white;">, are coming out into the
public domain anyway - thanks to the historical details left by the Muslims
historians and rulers themselves. The sooner the people of </span><st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">India</st1:place></st1:country-region><span style="background-color: white;"> and the
Muslims in particular take steps to recognize those terrible atrocities to
honor the victims, the better it is for harmonious relationship between the
Hindus and Muslims living there.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;">Source: </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><a href="http://hindubd.blogspot.in/2012/04/putting-fallouts-of-islamic-invasion.html">http://hindubd.blogspot.in/2012/04/putting-fallouts-of-islamic-invasion.html</a>
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</div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11490405927751525925noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8014061638568440024.post-29468430676888246782012-07-19T08:01:00.003-07:002012-07-19T08:01:59.060-07:00What lies in our future?<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><st1:country-region w:st="on">Pakistan</st1:country-region>’s future has never seemed more uncertain
than it appears today. The country faces difficulties on many fronts. The
economy is weakening; it appears highly unlikely that the governing coalition
in <st1:city w:st="on">Islamabad</st1:city>
will be able to take the steps to bring growth back to the level needed to
absorb two million additional workers that join the work force every year. The
IMF has recently estimated that the economy needs to expand by seven per cent a
year to keep unemployment from increasing. It expects that rate of growth at
3.4 per cent in 2012-13. The country’s external situation is weakening as it
gets ready to service the large amount of accumulated debt, in particular, the
amount owed to the IMF.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<div class="NoSpacing" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">The recent
agreement with the <st1:country-region w:st="on">US</st1:country-region> on
opening the NAATO supply route to <st1:country-region w:st="on">Afghanistan</st1:country-region> will bring some
financial rewards. The Obama Administration will send Congress a request to
appropriate $1.2 billion for <st1:country-region w:st="on">Pakistan</st1:country-region>.
This money is owed to <st1:city w:st="on">Islamabad</st1:city>
for the services that have already been provided. <st1:country-region w:st="on">Pakistan</st1:country-region> estimates the owed money
at more the $3 billion. There is, however, no mention of the flow of funds from
the Kerry-Lugar-Bermen bill, which was supposed to put Pakistan-US relations on
a firmer ground. Even if Congress acts with dispatch — not certain that it
will, given Pakistan’s very low reputation in that body — it might ease the
financial situation for a while. But the basic arithmetic will not change. <st1:country-region w:st="on">Pakistan</st1:country-region> spends
more than it collects in taxes; it buys more imports that it is able to earn
from exports.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<div class="NoSpacing" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">In fact, exports
are doing poorly and the trade deficit has widened. While Raja Pervaiz Ashraf,
the new prime minister, has made solving the deepening energy crisis his first
priority, prospects don’t look promising. Electricity shortage has resulted in
loadshedding of more than half of the day in many areas, particularly in <st1:place w:st="on">Punjab</st1:place>. There are also shortages of natural gas. The
people are becoming restive and many have taken to demonstrating in the
streets. The State Bank of <st1:place w:st="on">Pakistan</st1:place>
has begun to lose reserves and the rupee is under pressure as its value has
declined by more than five per cent in 2012.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">There are no
signs of any easing of tension between the government led by President Asif Ali
Zardari and the senior members of the judiciary. The Supreme Court has been
relentless in pursuing cases of alleged corruption by members of the
administration, including the president. It forced Yousaf Raza Gilani out of
premiership and has begun to move against his successor.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">“The point is
that the prospect of disaster, no matter how obvious, is no guarantee that
nations will do what it takes to avoid that disaster,” wrote Paul Krugman, the
Nobel Laureate, in a recent column<span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="color: #222222;"> </span></span>in<span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="color: #222222;"> </span></span><em><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: #222222; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;">The
New York Times</span></em>. His reference was not to <st1:country-region w:st="on">Pakistan</st1:country-region>
but to <st1:place w:st="on">Europe</st1:place>, where a dithering leadership
was letting the continent slip towards an economic abyss. But the possibility
of disasters on several fronts does not seem to have focused the minds of the
policymakers in <st1:country-region w:st="on">Pakistan</st1:country-region>,
either. There is a consensus both inside and outside <st1:country-region w:st="on">Pakistan</st1:country-region> that most systems in the
country are now dysfunctional. The most worrying development of recent years is
the emergence of extremism, a movement joined in by those who are working
towards a radical change in the system of governance. For them, liberal
democracy the rest of the world has decided is the best way to govern is an
anathema. These groups and people have to be reintegrated into society. Their
anti-state activities have cost the economy dearly and ruined the country’s
reputation in the international community.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">It would take a
multi-pronged approach to bring <st1:country-region w:st="on">Pakistan</st1:country-region>
out of the deep crisis it faces at this time on many fronts. In the area of
economics, public property will have to address the issue of poor governance.
It will need to deal with the failure of the state to raise sufficient
resources for delivering public goods to an increasingly frustrated and
disgruntled citizenry. It must overcome serious shortages of goods and services
critical for industrial output as well as household consumption. There is work
to be done to reduce interpersonal and inter-regional income inequalities.
Physical infrastructure needs to be improved and what has already been built
needs to be maintained. It has not fully dawned on the policymakers that global
warming is likely to prove disastrous for <st1:country-region w:st="on">Pakistan</st1:country-region>, making the already
stressed water situation even more problematic. The list of ‘dos’ is a long
one.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<div class="NoSpacing" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Experiences from
other parts of the world show that appropriate sets of economic policies and
good quality leadership can quickly turn the situation around. This happened in
<st1:place w:st="on">Latin America</st1:place> in the 1990s. It is happening
now in some parts of <st1:place w:st="on">Africa</st1:place>. But these changes
always occur when those who lead are committed to improving general welfare and
not their own economic situation and that of their families and close
associates. It requires political will to take difficult decisions when they
are not favoured by some powerful segments of society. Most of these conditions
don’t exist in <st1:country-region w:st="on">Pakistan</st1:country-region>.
But they may appear as a consequence of the cleaning of the political house
that may result from the next general election. One can only hope that
this wait will not be a long one.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Source: <a href="http://tribune.com.pk/story/409031/what-lies-in-our-future/">http://tribune.com.pk/story/409031/what-lies-in-our-future/</a></span>
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</div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11490405927751525925noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8014061638568440024.post-58292264847867012052012-07-17T14:16:00.000-07:002012-07-17T14:16:10.633-07:00Nepal Gearing Up for a Hindu Revolution<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<b><i><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">When
Nepal lost the Hindu statehood three years ago, it marked the decline of
nationalism also. When the King had failed to serve the country, that space was
hijacked by the deadly ideology of communism/ Maoism<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><i>by</i><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>Dipin Damodharan<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Every nation has its own identity
or what we called soul, and only that identity it can nurture its society. As
far as the Himalayan country Nepal is concerned, that identity or soul lies in
the very concept of Hinduism.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">When Nepal lost the Hindu
statehood three years ago, it marked the decline of nationalism also. When the
King had failed to serve the country, that space was hijacked by the deadly
ideology of communism/ Maoism. They have succeeded in brainwashing a particular
group of Nepali society and now the command of this old Hindu nation lies in
the hands of the so-called revolutionaries.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">But the great Nepali citizens who
bear the legacy of Buddha not seem to be happy in the instable, timid rule of
Prachanda and Co. who has been wiping out their indigenous traditions and
cultural symbols with their alien communist ones.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">A survey conducted in 2010
clearly depicted the Nepali mood. 52.2% of people participated in the survey
called for the restoration of Hindu Statehood.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">The signs of displeasure have
becoming evident now as more and more protest symbols, that show the insecurity
of Nepal citizens, appeared on the walls of Nepal streets recently. The
Communist endeavours to control and capture the Hindu cultural centres came out
to irritate the budding nationalists and traditional Royal loyalists in the
same manner.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Nepal is slowly but concretely
gearing up for a Hindu revolution. The youth has realized that it is the time
for them to rise from lethargy to a national renaissance. It has to be happened
also. When we look at the history of Nepal it is crystal-clear that the country
has its roots in Hindu culture. The great Indian King Janaka’s Mythila Kingdom
that mentioned in Indian Hindu scripture Ramayana now belongs to Nepal, the
Kingdom of Gautam Buddha’s (the founder of Buddhism) father, Kapilavasthu, now
located in Nepal. Along with India Nepal also shares the legacy of the grand
Indian Mourya Empire.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">The mountain people share a lot
of cultural similarities with the Indian people, in terms of worship, way of
living, etc. When they cross the borders, they never feel that they are in an
alien land. But the Maoists have ruined all these bonds with the support of
China by inculcating the drastic ideology of communism.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">How can the land of Buddha be a
Communist citadel? How Nepali people can consider their real brothers, the
Indians, as their unforgivable enemy? Unfortunately, all these happening in
Nepal under the tutelage of Communist rule.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">To add-on, the dragon nation
China is rapidly expanding their tentacles across Nepal in diverse fields in
the guise of companies like Huawei. The recent incident, Nepal’s rejection of
India’s appeal to start a second consulate in the Himalayan Republic, also
points out the growing Chinese influence there. But the Nepali students and
youth are not ready to give up their land.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Inspiration from the RSS<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Even though the term modern
nationalism was coined by Johann Gottfried Herder in the late 1770s, the origin
of Nepali nationalism can be traced back to the early 1990s. It assumed an
organized form in 1992 when some college students had given life to Hindu
Swayamsevak Sangh (HSS), an organization akin to that of India’s powerful
Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS). Since its origin HSS has been getting the
mental and ideological support from the RSS. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">When RSS was founded by great
visionary Dr Keshav Rao Baliram Hedgewar in 1925, it succeeded in attracting
people of all ages. Similar to that HSS is attracting people of all facets of
society cutting the barriers of age, caste etc.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Like RSS, HSS also believes and
propagates that selfless service to nation is the highest form of worship. They
aimed at extending Hindutva to a comprehensive concept from just a religious
identity. Many political thinkers have the opinion that HSS will soon become a
common platform for anti-Maoists.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">A substantial cog of Nepali
society is of the view that the 2006 Jan Andolan movement was only against King
Gyanendra, not against Nepal’s Hindu state hood. But in the backdrop of that
movement Nepal was declared as a secular state also.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">When most of the Muslim nations
and Christian nations in the world have been curtailed the freedom of other
religions, the erstwhile Hindu Nepal was an exception. All other religions were
free to propagate their ideology here, yet the so-called secular world joined
their hands with inhuman Maoists to declare Nepal as secular. Since then the
people have been feeling unsafe in the country. The Hindu nationalists should
exploit this annoyance very well, then only they will be able to take their
movement forward.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">Source: </span><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;"><a href="http://www.theviewspost.com/story.php?id=267">http://www.theviewspost.com/story.php?id=267</a></span></span></div>
</span></div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11490405927751525925noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8014061638568440024.post-26728550004532692862012-07-13T16:06:00.002-07:002012-07-13T16:06:40.905-07:00The Islamist ascendancy<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="author">Charles Krauthammer</span><b> </b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Post-revolutionary Libya<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><span style="color: black; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;"><a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/middle_east/outgoing-leader-says-libya-wont-be-ruled-by-islamists-unlike-egypt-tunisia/2012/07/11/gJQABwv9cW_story.html">a</a>ppears to have elected</span><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>a
relatively moderate pro-Western government. Good news, but tentative because
Libya is less a country than an oil well with a long beach and myriad tribes.
Popular allegiance to a central national authority is weak. Yet even if the
government of Mahmoud Jibril is able to rein in the militias and establish a
functioning democracy, it will be the Arab Spring exception. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Tunisia and Morocco, the most
Westernized of all Arab countries, elected Islamist governments. Moderate, to
be sure, but Islamist still. Egypt, the largest and most influential, has
experienced an Islamist sweep. The Muslim Brotherhood didn’t just<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><span style="color: black; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;"><a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/middle_east/morsi-named-new-egyptian-president/2012/06/24/gJQAMZaazV_story.html">w</a>in the presidency</span>.
It won nearly half the seats in parliament, while more openly radical Islamists
won 25 percent. Combined, they command more than 70 percent of parliament —
enough to control the writing of a constitution (which is why the generals
hastily dissolved parliament).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">As for Syria, if and when Bashar
al-Assad falls, the Brotherhood will almost certainly inherit power. Jordan
could well be next. And the Brotherhood’s Palestinian wing (Hamas) already
controls Gaza.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">What does this mean? That the
Arab Spring is a misnomer. This is an Islamist ascendancy, likely to dominate
Arab politics for a generation.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">It constitutes the third stage of
modern Arab political history. Stage I was the semicolonial-monarchic rule,
dominated by Britain and France, of the first half of the 20th century. Stage
II was the Arab nationalist era — secular, socialist, anti-colonial and
anti-clerical — ushered in by the 1952 Free Officers Revolt in Egypt.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Its vehicle was military
dictatorship, and Gamal Nasser led the way. He raised the flag of pan-Arabism,
going so far as changing Egypt’s name to the United Arab Republic and merging
his country with Syria in 1958. That absurd experiment — it lasted exactly
three years — was to have been the beginning of a grand Arab unification,
which, of course, never came. Nasser also fiercely persecuted Islamists — as
did his nationalist successors, down to Egypt’s Hosni Mubarak and the
Baathists, Iraqi (Saddam Hussein) and Syrian (the Assads) — as the reactionary
antithesis to Arab modernism.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">But the self-styled modernism of
the Arab-nationalist dictators proved to be a dismal failure. It produced
dysfunctional, semi-socialist, bureaucratic, corrupt regimes that left the
citizenry (except where papered over by oil bounties) mired in poverty,
indignity and repression.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Hence the Arab Spring, serial
uprisings that spread east from Tunisia in early 2011. Many Westerners naively
believed the future belonged to the hip, secular, tweeting kids of Tahrir
Square. Alas, this sliver of Westernization was no match for the highly
organized, widely supported, politically serious Islamists who effortlessly
swept them aside in national elections.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">This was not a Facebook
revolution but the beginning of an Islamist one. Amid the ruins of secular
nationalist pan-Arabism, the Muslim Brotherhood rose to solve the conundrum of
Arab stagnation and marginality. “Islam is the answer,” it preached and carried
the day.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">But what kind of political Islam?
On that depends the future. The moderate Turkish version or the radical Iranian
one?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">To be sure, Recep Erdogan’s
Turkey is no paragon. The increasingly authoritarian Erdogan has broken the
military, neutered the judiciary and persecuted the press. There are more<a href="http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/comment/2012/03/turkeys-jailed-journalists.html"><span style="color: black;">journalists in prison</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>in
Turkey than in China. Nonetheless, for now, Turkey remains relatively
pro-Western (though unreliably so) and relatively democratic (compared to its
Islamic neighborhood).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">For now, the new Islamist
ascendancy in Arab lands has taken on the more benign Turkish aspect.
Inherently so in Morocco and Tunisia; by external constraint in Egypt, where
the military sees itself as guardian of the secular state, precisely as did
Turkey’s military in the 80 years from Ataturk to Erdogan.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Genuinely democratic rule may yet
come to Arab lands. Radical Islam is the answer to nothing, as demonstrated by
the repression, social backwardness and civil strife of Taliban Afghanistan,
Islamist Sudan and clerical Iran.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">As for moderate Islamism, if it
eventually radicalizes, it too will fail and bring on yet another future Arab
Spring where democracy might actually be the answer (as it likely would have
been in Iran, had the mullahs not savagely crushed the<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/06/25/AR2009062503361.html"><span style="color: black;">Green Revolution</span></a>). Or it might adapt to
modernity, accept the alternation of power with secularists and thus achieve by
evolution an authentic Arab-Islamic democratic norm.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Perhaps. The only thing we can be
sure of today, however, is that Arab nationalism is dead and Islamism is its
successor. This is what the Arab Spring has wrought. The beginning of wisdom is
facing that difficult reality.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">Source:
</span><a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/charles-krauthammer-the-islamist-ascendancy/2012/07/12/gJQArj9PgW_story.html?hpid=z2&socialreader_check=0&denied=1" style="background-color: white; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/charles-krauthammer-the-islamist-ascendancy/2012/07/12/gJQArj9PgW_story.html?hpid=z2&amp;socialreader_check=0&amp;denied=1</a></span></div>
</span></div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11490405927751525925noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8014061638568440024.post-65059494769695184252012-06-28T07:45:00.001-07:002012-06-28T07:45:27.301-07:00Pak kids taught 'A' for Allah, 'B' for bandook<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">Citing
stark examples from school curriculum, a prominent</span><span class="apple-converted-space"> Islamabad</span><span style="background-color: white;">-based
scholar has said that extremely religious and anti-India views fed into
children in schools reinforced the cycle of extremism that showed no signs of
receding in </span><st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on">Pakistan</st1:country-region></st1:place><span style="background-color: white;">.
Pervez Hoodbhoy, nuclear physicist and prominent commentator on current issues,
showed the examples at a lively</span><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><span style="background-color: white;">seminar held in the King's
College on the role of education in combating terrorism, organised by the Democracy
Forum.</span><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">The examples showed by Hoodbhoy included images
and text from a primer that mentioned the<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span style="background-color: white;"> Urdu </span><span style="background-color: white;">equivalent of A as<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><em>Allah</em>,
B as<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><em>bandook</em>, Te as<em>takrao</em>,
J as<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><em>jehad</em>, H as<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><em>hijab</em>,
Kh as<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><em>khanjar</em><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>and Ze as<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><em>zunoob</em>. Hoodbhoy, whose presentation title was
'How education fuels terrorism in the Islamic Republic of Pakistan', also
showed a college which is seen as going up in flames, containing images of
things considered sinful: kites, guitar, satellite TV, carrom board, chess,
wine bottles and harmonium. Examples cited by Hoodbhoy from another curriculum
document for Class V students included tasks such as discussion on: 'Understand
Hindu-Muslim differences and the resultant need for Pakistan', 'India's evil
designs against Pakistan', 'Make speeches on shehadat and jehad'.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">"There has been a sea change in </span><st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on">Pakistan</st1:country-region></st1:place><span style="background-color: white;">
in the last six decades. The poison put into education by Gen Zia-ul-Haq was
not changed by subsequent regimes. Attitudes have changed over the years, makes
my country alien to me," Hoodbhoy said. Recalling his growing up years in </span><st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">Karachi</st1:city></st1:place><span style="background-color: white;">, he said the city
was home to Hindus, Parsis and Christians: "They are all gone. The same is
true of much of </span><st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on">Pakistan</st1:country-region></st1:place><span style="background-color: white;">.
Minorities have no place in </span><st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on">Pakistan</st1:country-region></st1:place><span style="background-color: white;">
today," he said. He held madarsas partly responsible for the situation,
and regretted that efforts initiated during the regime of Gen Pervez Musharraf
to reform them did not go far. After the 2007 Lal Masjid incident, liberal
voices were also less welcome in </span><st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on">Pakistan</st1:country-region></st1:place><span style="background-color: white;">’s 's news media, he said.</span><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="background: white;"><div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="background-color: white;">"Every attempt at education reform has
failed to remove the hate material in curriculum, but there is a minority that
wants change. The situation will remain in free fall, until something drastic
is done to change the situation," he said. Stressing the need for pluralism
and secularism in education, former Indian diplomat G Parthasarathy said
tensions began when education did not foster respect for diversity and for
other religions. There was more to terrorism than education, because some of
the recent perpetrators were well educated, he said.</span><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></div>
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<span style="background: white;"><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="background-color: white;">"The most important part of education is
that diversity should be cherished, that unity does not mean uniformity,"
Hoodbhoy added. Other speakers on the occasion included King's College experts
Professor Jack Spence from the Department of War Studies and Shiraz Maher from
the International Centre for the Study of Radicalisation.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 12pt;">Source: </span><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 12pt;"><a href="http://news.oneindia.in/2012/06/24/pak-kids-taught-a-for-allah-b-for-bandook-1023942.html">http://news.oneindia.in/2012/06/24/pak-kids-taught-a-for-allah-b-for-bandook-1023942.html</a></span></span></div>
</span></div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11490405927751525925noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8014061638568440024.post-16901775768917518972012-06-27T06:47:00.001-07:002012-06-27T06:47:50.911-07:00Religious Conversion for Marriage: A Message to Dharmics<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<i style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Summary:
The proud Hindu parents and youths need to learn to simply say “NO” to a
religious conversion request (Baptism, Bris, Shahadah/Sunat; BBS) for an
interfaith marriage involving a Christian, Jew or Muslim. This is a true test
to help identify a potential religious fanatic. By saying NO to the BBS
request, one will increase chances of a guilt-free and long lasting happy
married life even if it is an interfaith marriage.</span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">Proselytism and religious conversion of poor and less fortunate Hindus in </span><st1:place style="background-color: white;" w:st="on">India</st1:place><span style="background-color: white;">
is of major concern to many, however silent religious conversions of most
educated and blessed our young adults and their children in the West has not
raised eye brows of most.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">Thirty
eight percent of marriages of Hindus, Jains and Sikhs (Dharmics) in </span><st1:place style="background-color: white;" w:st="on">America</st1:place><span style="background-color: white;">
are to Christians, Jews and Muslims (Abrahamics). Forty five percent of Muslims
in </span><st1:place style="background-color: white;" w:st="on">America</st1:place><span style="background-color: white;">
marry to non-Muslims. However, there is a limited tolerance for Hindus and
Hindu practices of praying multiple forms of the God in Abrahamics’ exclusivist
supremacist monotheist religious beliefs1, 2, 3, 4. For this exact reason they
expect conversion by the BBS of the Hindu spouse. It is unbelievable but still
true today that many marriages in Christian churches and to a Muslim there is a
must requirement for religious conversion of Hindus by Baptism and Shahadah,
respectively, to the faith of intended spouse. In some cases, a Christian or
Jew may not ask for a religious conversion for marriage but will certainly ask
to declare the interfaith child as a Christian by Christening/Baptism or Jew by
Bris circumcision ceremony, respectively.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Considering divorce rate in interfaith marriages is estimated up to 70%, why
would a Hindu gives up birth religion for some intolerant Abrahamic? If Mahatma
Gandhiji has to rewrite his famous statement today, probably he would say…“Your
religion is like your mother. Just because your intended spouse is demanding
that you adopt your mother-in-law as your dear mother, you are not going to
abandon your birth mother!”</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">In all most all cases, the Abrahamic love mate will start by telling a Hindu
youth that “I don’t care for all these BBS rituals,” “It is only a formality,”
and “do it just to please my parents or grandmother” but don’t underestimate
the inner desire of this Abrahamic. Don’t be in a wrong impression that the BBS
is a hollow ritual devoid of meaning. Further, the religious conversion is not
a onetime event; you are setting a new tone for your life. If you feed a shark,
it will come back again for more food. Similarly, religious conversion for
marriage will be followed by the expectation of a declaration of faith for your
children via Baptism, Bris or Sunat. Later, you may be forbidden to practice
your own religion so children would not learn and follow it. Also, your spouse
or his/her family may not like to be part of a Hindu religious ceremony while
at your parent’s home. When your fantasy love period ends and it transformed
into a routine married life, then these issues will become sore points in your
life.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Consider
the BBS as a “tip of iceberg.” Let’s take example of the Bollywood star
Sharmila Tagore. She converted to Islam to marry Mansur Ali Khan and changed
her name to Begum Ayesha Sultana. All her 3 children have Muslim names and were
raised as 100% Muslims. Their son, Saif Ali Khan's wife, Amrita Singh, had the
same fate as Sharmila except later she got talak (divorce). Further, if Kareena
Kapoor marries to Saif, probably the same saga will continue. For your daughter
(or son), do you wish for the same religious fate like Sharmila? Would you not
say “no” to the “unintended” BBS and divert the love Titanic away from a major
disaster?</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">If your doctor tells you that you have a high cholesterol or blood pressure,
would you not be concerned about future massive heart attack or stroke? A
request for the BBS of a Hindu for marriage should be considered as an alarming
sign for a major trouble coming 15 years into your marriage life.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">If your intended spouse (or in-laws) is expecting the BBS religious conversion,
especially for your children, then you have one of two choices: 1) accept his
or her Abrahamic faith and be prepared to give up your birth religion and
cultural heritage completely or 2) clarify that you have pride in your birth
religion and ask for equality by denying the BBS religious labeling request.
Promise only what you mean. A married life based on misleading assurances or
lies will have serious consequences later for both. The married life is a long
journey; do not start in a wrong direction.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Many times, without realizing long term consequences, Hindu youths may opt to
accept a new religion just to please their intended spouse and in-laws.
Further, in many cases, the Hindu parents allow Hindu children or grand
children to convert to the other religion just to please their in-law. There
could be 101 reasons to say “no” to Abrahamic’s proselytism tactics, while
there is not one good reason for a proud Dharmic parents to say “wonderful son,
go for the BBS” other than parent’s lack of courage to speak out.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">These days, most Abrahamics are not religious fanatic, are open minded and thus
will not expect the BBS from the intended Hindu spouse. But you want to make
sure the one you are dealing with is not an intolerant for what you are. Keep
in mind that the “tolerance” and “open mindedness” are not measurable
characteristics and could change with the wind. However, the denial of BBS is a
simple litmus test to find out the “true color” of the intended spouse. So
Hindus youths and parents need to learn to ask a simple question: is there any
expectation for the children of this marriage to have Baptism, Bris or Sunat?</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">Love is often not a planned event. Further, love is said to be blind to
religion. If so then why only a Hindu is expected to be blind? Check if it is the
love of his or her Abrahamic faith or a love for you comes first. It is Dharmic
parents’ responsibility to guide their love-blinded children for equally of
both faiths. The BBS has no place in an interfaith marriage with equality.</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="background-color: white;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">In many cases, when a Hindu adamantly deny the conversion for marriage and for
their progeny; the other party considers and will understand it. When there are
other options available, why not ask for it? Bollywood star Rhitik Roshan and
Suzanne Khan kept two religions out and got married by a civil wedding, and it
is an admirable act. A similar message has been given in Jodhaa Akbar, Gadar
and Namastey London movies. If the BBS, which is nothing more than a religious
conversion, is an absolute requirement from your potential Abrahamic in-law,
why you will want to tolerate some one’s intolerance for what you are? Further,
by submitting to the BBS request, you are nurturing and propagating Abrahamic’s
intolerance practices against other innocent Hindu youths.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Marriages are made in heaven; however very high percent of interfaith marriages
end in divorce. With such a high failure rate, why one would want to give up
own birth religion irreversibly? In many cases, a divorce costs lot more than
the marriage. The BBS promise will certainly have legal consequences, and after
the BBS, Hindu will find difficult to win a child custody case against an
Abrahamic. Check with your lawyer and view this video before submitting to the
BBS request.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">When it comes to college education, Hindu parents will do anything possible to
make sure their children have noting but the best. For example, if their son or
daughter gives up a high flying medical carrier for a bar tender job and finds
a real joy of life, the Hindu parent will sure to give hell till the child
changes his or her mind. Similarly, if a Hindu young adult becomes a cocaine
addict, the parents will not support it by saying that “we want to see you
happy and you decide what ever is right for you.” Contrary to that, when it
comes to religious conversion for marriage many Hindu parents have no guts to
guide their children or courage to face the Abrahamic in-law. In this Obama’s
tolerant </span><st1:place style="background-color: white;" w:st="on">America</st1:place><span style="background-color: white;">,
it is time for a “change.” It is time to say NO to the BBS.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">In general Hindu parents are great bargainers when it comes to purchasing a car
or a house; why not use the same negotiation skills when your son or daughter
selects an Abrahamic interfaith marriage mate? One needs to respectfully deny
for conversion by stating that we are Hindus and wish to remain exactly the
same after the marriage. More specifically, tell your potential in-laws that we
will not tolerate Baptism for a church wedding or Shahadah for Nikaah, the
Islamic wedding. Further, proactively tell them that we will not tolerate
Baptism, Bris or Sunat religious circumcision label for the grand children,
especially when there is no scientific merit to the circumcision. Your tolerant
potential in-laws will surely consider your request. At least one should ask
just to learn of their “true color.”</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">If your Hindu daughter found a handsome and well educated Hindu and if that
intended spouse later asks for - - $5,000 dowry - - as a pre-condition for the
marriage, what would you think of that guy? Probably you may ask your daughter
to reconsider her decision with the fear that this junwani (old timer) may
bring more troubles later in her life. Similarly, why any one should tolerate
if some junwani Abrahamic asks for your - - religious pride as dowry - - for
the marriage?</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Many parents tolerate the intolerance and accept the thought of religious
conversion for their children thinking this is an easy fix to the marital
grid-lock. Further, there is no risk to their prestige in the Hindu community
since no one will find out. However, time will come when for these proud
Hindus, now grandparents, will have a guilt feeling seeing their grand children
following a different faith. It will not be pleasant for these proud Hindu
grandparents to drive their Abrahamic grand children to a Church or synagogues
or Mosque/Madrasas for religious education. This guilt feeling will get worst
when time comes to pass your hard earned life estate for the benefit of the
believers of the Abrahamic faith. At that time you may wish, instead of this
“my way or no ways” BBS deal; the grand children had an option being Hindus.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">You may be a Hindu for hundreds of generations. Is your Abrahamic son or
daughter in-law worth so much that you are willing to end the Hindu heritage
now? Was that the dream you came to the West with?</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">The BBS is a social evil for interfaith couples. No youth will bring up the
talk of BBS in an early dating period with the fear of being labeled an
intolerant. To present the BBS demand after years of romantic relationship is
an ugly form of proselytism. No honest Abrahamic youth believes in imposing the
BBS on their intended interfaith spouse; however they end up doing it because
of pressure from their intolerant community and religious institutions.
Unfortunately, instead of enjoying the most quality time, the couple has to
resolve the BBS issue by uncomfortable discussion just before their marriage.
It is hoped that soon there will be an end to the BBS religious conversion
practices for interfaith marriages.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Well-informed and well-thought out decisions for selecting a life mate will
certainly bring long lasting happiness in a married life, even if it is an
interfaith marriage. But most importantly is that one wants to make sure you
will have the freedom to follow your traditions and raise your children to do
the same without threats to this liberty created by the Abrahamic in-law and
his or her religious institutions. One of the most important things a Hindu,
Jain, Sikh or Buddhist parents and youths need to do is to pro-actively say
“no” to the BBS religious conversion practices of Christians, Jews and Muslims.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Even in the dog days of summer, the quiet
paddy fields that mark the border between India and Bangladesh look as supple
and green as the soft stems of herbs grown in a window box. But the daytime
tranquillity belies a stark reality. This delta region of the Ganges river is a
place of often deadly conflict that underpins an activity many in India would
rather not discuss. Every year, hundreds of thousands of cows – considered
sacred in India, with export of the beasts banned – are illegally smuggled into
Bangladesh where they are turned into shoes, belts, bone china crockery and, of
course, meat.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">"There is smuggling here
every day," said Umesh, a member of a three-man Indian Border Security Force
(BSF) team on duty at a watchtower near the village of Kaharpara, just a few
hundred yards from the Bangladesh border. "The smugglers will take 50, 100
or 200 cattle at a time. We try to create an ambush and surround the
smugglers."<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">The story of the annual smuggling of an
estimated 1.5 million cattle says much about modern India – about the sometimes
hypocritical treatment of supposedly sacred cows, the political power of
right-wing Hinduism and the corruption that allows the £320m illegal trade to
flourish. But ultimately this story is about supply and demand. Hindu-majority
India has an estimated 280 million cows but killing and eating them is legal in
only a handful of states. Meanwhile, Muslim-majority Bangladesh, where beef is
eaten with relish, suffers from a shortage of cattle. Half of the beef consumed
in Bangladesh comes from its large, western neighbour.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">The snaking border that divides the two
countries runs for 1,300 miles. Here in the Murshidabad district of West
Bengal, 150 miles north-east of the state capital Calcutta, large sections of
it are unfenced. It is a lure both for human traffickers and gangs from both
sides of the border smuggling cows.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Villagers, who claimed not to know any
smugglers but appeared to know the intricacies of the operation, said cattle
were brought by truck from states across eastern India such as Bihar, Orissa
and Jharkhand. Some may even be brought from further away. Despite the effort
involved, the mathematics is persuasive. An animal that might sell for £60-£80 in
the country's cow-belt hinterland will here fetch £130. Once inside Bangladesh,
they could change hands for £225 or more.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">"Those buying the cows always look to
see how fat it is. They feed them husks from the paddy," said Mohammed
Ashraf, a blacksmith who was hammering into shape a glowing curved sickle that
locals use to cut the rice crop that is harvested three times a year.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Yet the trade comes with a deadly price. The
BSF has been accused of killing hundreds of cattle smugglers, as well as
civilians not involved in the trade. A 2010 report published by Human Rights
Watch (HRW) suggested that more than 900 people had been killed with impunity
by the BSF over the past 10 years. It also said locals claimed some BSF members
were complicit with the smuggling and took bribes. This year, an incident in
which an alleged smuggler was badly beaten by the security force personnel was
captured on video.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">"Over the last decade, they used
excessive and indiscriminate force, shooting at villagers on suspicion that
they were smugglers," said Meenakshi Ganguly, HRW's south Asia director.
"While many may have been engaged in cattle rustling, the BSF ignored the
most basic principles of protecting the right to life. Instead of arresting
suspects, they shot and killed them. The BSF claimed they had to use lethal
force as self-defence, an argument hard to believe since the police reports on
the weapons recovered usually [refer to] sickles and sticks."<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Asked about the allegations, a BSF spokesman
said: "The BSF is a disciplined and professional force [and] exercises
utmost restraint in the use of any force. The BSF has also an impeccable record
of upholding human rights."<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Ms Ganguly said that since issuing its
report, the BSF had started using rubber bullets which led to a drop in
fatalities. But, villagers said their evenings were still sometimes disrupted.
"We hear the gunshots at night-time. Sometimes the smugglers get shot.
It's mainly people from the other side of the border," said Mr Ashraf.
Locals said the smugglers often used teenagers to transport the cattle across
the border in the belief the security forces were less likely to shoot a
youngster.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">There is a clear antagonism between the
guards and the villagers. Some locals said the BSF troops retaliated against
anyone they could find. Matir Rahaman, a rice farmer who was cycling back from
the fields, said he had been badly beaten by BSF personnel. "One night the
cows came over the border and the paddy got smashed. I went to the BSF and
said, 'Why is this happening'. They said, 'You are smugglers' and they attacked
us with [metal-tipped bamboo sticks]," he alleged.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Ashfaqur Rahman, a retired Bangladesh
diplomat who now chairs the Dhaka-based Centre for Foreign Affairs Studies,
said the matter was sensitive but that legalising the export of cows or beef
would put an end to corruption and violence. "There needs to be wise
counsel on both sides," he said.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">An irony is that India is expected to become
the world's largest exporter of beef – from non-sacred buffaloes, rather than
cows – by next year. According to an estimate recently published by the US
Department of Agriculture, India is likely to export 1.5 million tons of beef
in 2012, a 25 per cent increase from last year. Its biggest markets are
south-east Asia, the Gulf and Africa.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Cows have been considered sacred in India for
centuries, and in only a few states is killing and eating them legal. More
recently, a movement by Dalits, or so-called untouchables, demanding the right
to eat cows has gathered pace. In 2004, Indian historian DN Jha published the
controversial The Myth of the Holy Cow, which argued that during the period
when a number of the most important Hindu religious texts were produced, people
in India ate cows.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Kancha Ilaiah, a Dalit activist and a
professor at Maulana Azad National Urdu University in Hyderabad, believes Aryan
invaders of Hindu promoted the (white) cow over the (black) buffalo. "The
buffalo predates the Aryans," he said.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">There have been attempts by the Indian
authorities to review the ban on cow exports. Earlier this year, a report by
the government's central planning committee suggested changing the law to allow
the export of beef. The plan was hastily dropped and explained away as a
"clerical error" amid an angry backlash from right-wing Hindu organisations
such as the Vishwa Hindu Parishad and so-called "cow protection"
groups.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Among those who complained was the
UN-affiliated International Organisation for Animal Protection. The group's
India director, Naresh Kadyan, said: "It is the fundamental duty of
Indians that [everyone] should respect all animals. We strongly opposed the
lifting of the ban and the government made a U-turn," he said. "The
cow is a very important animal for Hindus."<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<strong style="outline: none;"><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Revered and worshipped: Saintly beasts<o:p></o:p></span></strong></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">In Thailand, the elephant is considered the
national animal, and it is also revered in Burma, Cambodia and Laos.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Particularly auspicious is the white elephant
– not a distinct species but an albino or elephant with particularly pale skin
– which Buddha's mother is said to have dreamt about before the birth of her
son. The appearance of a white elephant in the reign of a monarch or leader is
meant to signify good fortune and power.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">The ancient Egyptians took their worship of
animals to artistic heights with statues to honour their feline gods, which
frequently featured cats' heads on human bodies.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Cats were prized for their useful
rat-catching abilities, and some argue they were first domesticated in the
region.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">While cats are no longer worshipped as gods
in modern Egypt, they are certainly preferred as pets to dogs, which are
traditionally considered unclean in Islam.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Their association with the Hindu faith – the
monkey god, Hanuman, helped Lord Rama defeat the evil king Ravana – has largely
protected India's monkeys in the face of much annoyance at their mischievous
and sometimes aggressive ways.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Delhi's tens of thousands of monkeys are a
frequent nuisance, stealing food, breaking into homes, and even attacking
people. But residents continue to feed them. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">The statement given by Bangladeshi High
Commissioner to India Ahmed Tariq Karim on Monday that power-struggle between
India and Pakistan may increase the tension in whole South Asian region is
enough to suggest that the latter may use its nuclear weapons against the
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<span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Karim has handed over the pamphlet of 19
pages to senior BJP leader Lal Krishna Advani alarming India against nefarious
intensions of Pakistan. Advani has endorsed the letter in his blog in which
Karim has said that Pakistan may wage nuclear war against India.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>In the pamphlet, Karim has cited
seven reasons which has created political crisis in Pakistan and weakened the
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principles imposed on Hindus. He further alleged that Pakistan is dominating
Bangladesh. Strained US-Pak relations and Pakistan’s closeness to Iran and
China is the sole reason behind the conflict between both the countries.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">While agreeing to the statement given by the Bangladeshi
High Commissioner, Advani wrote in his blog that the fierce competition between
India and Pakistan to procure missile and nuclear arms and ammunitions is the
reason for souring relations between the two countries.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11490405927751525925noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8014061638568440024.post-63162760563812916102012-06-05T06:05:00.003-07:002012-06-05T06:05:39.960-07:00Hope floats<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span class="intro"><b><i><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">Rural and new urban voters will ultimately save India from
the venal governing class, avers Gautam Sen.</span><o:p></o:p></span></i></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Structural and
sociological factors are major reasons for the far-reaching socio-economic
debacle India has ended within its sixty-fifth year of independence. I have
argued earlier that the adoption of a parliamentary system of government was a
huge error of judgement. A more insulated, presidential form, would have
allowed balancing of diverse sectarian demands under the overarching umbrella
of a national vote, constraining accentuation of deeply-rooted faultlines in
Indian society. The parliamentary system has given full play to every socio-political
division and real or imagined grievance instead of allowing them to be
addressed with a combination of measured policy assuagement by rulers and
accommodation by the ruled.</span><span style="background: white;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><span style="text-align: -webkit-auto;">The attempt to
resolve every perceived injustice completely, which must inevitably eventually
result in endless bloodshed, is in grave danger of being achieved in India. Its
long-suffering, meek people have now developed a taste for wilful truculence
and its self-seeking educated has filed for moral and intellectual bankruptcy,
forgetting self-restraint and sacrifices are imperative for nationhood. India's
ruling national elites themselves are well on the way to abandoning all
pretence of governing their fissiparous country and are engaged in shameless
personal enrichment. In this hapless melee a deeper dynamic is nevertheless in
play and understanding it might provide a better grasp of the likely fate of
India.</span></span><span style="background: white;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><span style="text-align: -webkit-auto;">The political
elites of India, including its vast bureaucracy, have become somewhat detached
from purposive governance that seeks to achieve national societal goals
essentially on their intrinsic merits. Huge spending targets are not evidence
of goal-oriented purpose when they are unable to connect effectively with
implementation. They indicate a certain inertia and imprisonment by past
choices that listlessly and powerfully propel movement without real direction.
A clue to this reality is provided by the disjuncture between a Planning
Commission, unable to provide direction, and reckless foreign spending by its
most senior official. He might have paused to reflect on the dire poverty of
most of its citizens, whose interests are supposedly the organization's raison
d'etre, since his political bosses constantly resort to Mahatma Gandhi's pious
injunctions on self-restraint.</span></span><span style="background: white;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><span style="text-align: -webkit-auto;">India's governing
classes may be grimly rational in behaving with egregiously self-serving
abandon, stealing and lying. Offered an uncertain future as rulers, though
highly privileged and rewarded, and unable to truly impact on policy outcomes,
this was always a likely scenario. Indeed, idealism is driven out quickly and
any misguided souls entertaining aspirations to assist the nation advance are
likely to fall by the wayside. In time, opportunists and crooks have come to
dominate Indian political life and plunder the country, as the shocking
statistics on the criminal backgrounds of legislators underline. In the final
stages of decay, few upright politicians remain to curb the damage that
relentless looting and dishonesty precipitates. And that seems to be the stage
India has reached under UPA 2, ironically led by a man initially celebrated for
his shining rectitude. The exaggerated analysis above is necessary to
illustrate the inference that India has acquired pronounced symptoms of having
become, in essence, a predatory state. Such a predilection is usually a matter
of degree and the Indian polity has slid dramatically towards the end of the
spectrum characterised by predation of late.</span></span><span style="background: white;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><span style="text-align: -webkit-auto;">The second
dimension relates to economic entrepreneurs large and small having two
contrasting types of relationships with India's governing elites, on a spectrum
that ranges from collusion in joint plunder to obligations to bribe in order to
operate as economic agents. Although both relationships can prevail
concurrently, the consistent position on the spectrum is likely to depend on
size, with the larger conspiring conjointly for mutual gain. Smaller players
are consigned to the end that mostly necessitates bribing the governing
classes, directly and indirectly (money bribes and excessive charges for
services like transportation and energy, etc.), to operate.</span></span><span style="background: white;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><span style="text-align: -webkit-auto;">Some formally
constituted private economic enterprises are in fact owned, indirectly at arms
length, by members of the governing class themselves. These profiteer massively
by obtaining lucrative government contracts and siphoning off major
nationally-owned resources like land and mines. Other essentially private
economic operators benefit from similar larceny, but many also position
themselves strategically in the marketplace through licensing and other
privileges granted by political benefactors. It enables them to extract vast
revenues from consumers through entrepreneurial activities, which they share
with the governing class. The extent of economic growth is a spin-off from this
operational reality and the critical cross-over point that determines its rate
is the forbearance of the governing class in plunder because excesses lower the
growth rate.</span></span><span style="background: white;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><span style="text-align: -webkit-auto;">The third dimension
of India's political interstices is occupied by external protagonists. They
pursue their short and long-term goals with greater freedom as the Indian state
atrophies and the governing class is preoccupied with individual political
survival and personal enrichment. The external agents within India include a
vast number of social NGOs and economic entities. The former are often anything
but innocuous charities seeking to relieve poverty and promote empowerment, as
they purport. In fact, many engage in cajoling and bribing politicians and the
government in order to operate freely and achieve sinister objectives. Their
activities range from longer-term goals like religious conversion to create
extra-territorial loyalties, of which the Koondankulum episode is one poignant
example, to suborning governments to win contracts and influence policy
decisions. Manipulating economic policy decisions creates highly profitable
opportunities entailing lucrative contracts awarded by state enterprises and policies
that allow dubious investment vehicles like Participatory Notes.</span></span><span style="background: white;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><span style="text-align: -webkit-auto;">More worryingly, in
recent years, important national policy perspectives seem inexplicably poised
to discard long-held certainties, without adducing compelling arguments for
them. There are grounds for suspicion that such puzzling behaviour is a product
of the susceptibility of the ruling elite, many of whom harbour criminal
backgrounds, to blackmail by well-informed external players and their dedicated
Indian associates. Blackmail has become a hugely significant problem in the
Indian polity, endangering its very survival.</span></span><span style="background: white;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><span style="text-align: -webkit-auto;">The hapless
majority of India comprises the fourth dimension of its polity, facing awesome
impending outcomes of which they are perhaps only vaguely aware. There is nothing
to be said of a largely purchased Indian media which foxtrots to the tune of
assorted venal paymasters while avowing improbable high purpose and concern for
the ordinary citizens of India.</span></span><span style="background: white;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><span style="text-align: -webkit-auto;">Unfortunately, the
vast anonymous masses are vulnerable to mobilization by prize rascals who have
developed pushing the right buttons of instinctive prejudice and resentment
into an art form. Yet, there are gratifying signs that they do not unfailingly
deliver the desired goods. A majority of the criminals who had put themselves
forward at the recent Uttar Pradesh assembly elections were rejected and the
crass hate-mongering earlier of Nitish Kumar's opponents in Bihar also suffered
ignominious setback. Perhaps the dire necessity of daily survival eventually
sanitizes the mind, even if false promises initially confound judgement.</span></span><span style="background: white;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><span style="text-align: -webkit-auto;">It may also be
anticipated that the ordinary voter across the length and breadth of India,
struggling to find their daily roti or rice, will deliver a resounding verdict
on the serial revelations of incredible corruption that ultimately rob them of
the basics of survival. Middle class India itself doesn't yet count, partly
because many don't vote though they seem to have a pretty shrewd idea of what
is happening to their country. Their numbers are growing rapidly, with India's
urban population predicted to exceed 600 million by 2030. The diverse
constituents of urban India share an understanding that reasonable governance
is essential for tolerable living, as Gujarat's voters have repeatedly reaffirmed
by voting for Narendra Modi. They and rural voters, with whom the majority of
these recent migrants to urban India have much in common, may be the saving of
India. Together, they will be in a position to choose a government they deserve
and its genuine nationalist credentials will surely be a pregnant issue.</span></span><span style="background: white;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<b><i><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="text-align: -webkit-auto;">Dr Gautam Sen taught Political Economy at the London School
of Economics and Politics.</span><o:p></o:p></span></span></i></b></div>
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</div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11490405927751525925noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8014061638568440024.post-10182834414083131072012-05-28T14:05:00.000-07:002012-05-28T14:05:03.484-07:00Demographic coup of Islam: Agony of Hindu Civilization<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">R K Ohri</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">India faces a major demographic upheaval. The sharply rising
Muslim numbers, both in absolute and percentage terms, and a corresponding
decline in the population of Hindus, Sikhs, Jains and Buddhists has the
potential to escalate fault-line conflicts and create a Lebanon-like situation.
Data from the last six censuses held since 1951 suggests that in percentage
terms there has been a relentless increase in the population of only one
community, the Muslims; all other communities are in a declining mode. Since
1981, Muslim population growth has been in a fast forward mode, growing at
almost 45% higher rate than Hindus and Christians. In terms of percentage, Sikh
population has recorded the steepest decline since independence.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-size: 11pt;">Census 2001 put the decadal growth rate of Muslims at around 36%, while Hindu
growth rate declined from 23% to 20%. On the eve of the Maharashtra Assembly
elections, an unseemly political controversy was manufactured by the government
on the ground that since no census had taken place in J&K in 1991, the
conclusions drawn in terms of Census 2001 data were faulty. This led to a very
clumsy fudging of Census 2001, by omitting from the census 3.67 crore people
living in Jammu & Kashmir and Assam, States having high Muslim population.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-size: 11pt;">In 1981, no census could be held in Assam due to disturbed conditions, but that
did not result in any political ruckus, nor was fudging of census data done at
that time because no elections were due then. The most extraordinary aspect of
this fudging of the population profile was the deletion with retrospective
effect of population data of these two sensitive states from every Census held
since 1961 - something never done before in any democratic country.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-size: 11pt;">In a lucid article, professional demographers, late P.N. Mari Bhat and A.J.
Francis Zavier, wrote that “the fertility of Muslims, which was about 10 per
cent higher than that of Hindus before independence, is now 25 to 30 per cent
higher than the Hindu rate”. This means the Muslim population is now growing at
a rate nearly 45% higher than that of Hindus.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-size: 11pt;">The authors added that the assertion in a section of English media that Census
2001 had revealed a higher reduction in the growth rate of Muslims than Hindus
was incorrect. The decline in Hindu growth rate was higher at 12.2% as against
10.3% decline in Muslim growth. Fast growth of Muslim population, especially in
non-Muslim countries, is a global phenomenon, they averred. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-size: 11pt;">There is no truth in the assertion that higher Muslim fertility was due to
poverty or illiteracy. Since </span><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 11pt;">36% Muslims live in urban areas, as against only 26% Hindus, and as Muslims
have a higher life expectancy at birth than Hindus, logically their fertility
should have been lower than Hindus. But Muslim fertility continues to be higher
despite their greater urbanization and lower incidence of infant and child
mortality. Within 7-8 years, the gap between the longevity of Hindus and
Muslims has widened to 3 years, i.e., 68 years for Muslims as against only 65
years for Hindus [National Family Health Survey of
2005-2006]. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-size: 11pt;">Acceptance of family planning by Muslims is lower at least by 25 percent than
Hindus and other Indic communities. Late Mari Bhat and Francis Zavier
highlighted the fact that in non-Muslim countries there is a general trend towards
higher growth rate of Muslim populations. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-size: 11pt;">According to the National Family Health Survey-2 of 1998-99, in Kerala where
the literacy level of the two communities was almost equal (and due to large
remittances from Gulf countries Muslims are economically better off than
Hindus), the growth rate of Muslims remained much higher than Hindus by almost
45 percent. Analysis of Census 2001shows that on an average every Muslim woman
is giving birth to at least one more child than her Hindu counterpart. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-size: 11pt;">Indians must understand the mindboggling import of Statement 7 of Census 2001
Religion Data Report (page xlii) which gives the religion-wise breakup of
children in the 0-6 year age group. It shows that the percentage of 0-6 year
old Muslim cohorts (a term commonly used in demographic parlance) is 21% higher
than Hindu cohorts. This gives Muslims an advantage of 7.6% over Hindus as and
when these cohorts enter reproductive age, say roughly between 2012 and 2016.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="background-color: white; font-size: 11pt;">This gives a vital clue to the demographic crisis likely to engulf India
anytime after 2011 or latest by 2021. These 0-6 yrs old cohorts (enumerated in
2001) will become reproductively active between 2012 and 2016 and continue to
reproduce for the next 30-40 years. With a 21% higher cohort population and at
least 25 percent less acceptance of family planning, the growth in Muslim
population during the next few decades is likely to become even more
fast-paced.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="background-color: white; font-size: 11pt;">The Census 2001 Religion Data Report further reveals that among all religious
groups, the Muslim population of 0-6 year cohorts was highest at 18.7%. The
lowest percentage was seen among Jains (10.6%) and Sikhs (12.8%). In coming
years, the percentage increase in the population of these two religious groups,
important components of Indic civilization, will be slower than the growth
recorded in Census 2001, and their share in the population will decline
further, possibly at a faster pace.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-size: 11pt;">In terms of percentage increase, the biggest quantum jump in Muslim population
in coming decades will occur in Haryana where the ratio of Muslim cohorts is
almost 60% higher than Hindu cohorts! Next in descending order registering fast
Muslim growth will be Assam, West Bengal, Uttaranchal, Delhi, Nagaland and
Bihar. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-size: 11pt;">A further analysis of 0-6 year cohorts’ data reveals that out of 35 States and
Union Territories listed in Statement 7, the percentage of Muslim cohorts was
higher than Hindu cohorts in as many as 31 States and UTs. The percentage of
0-6 year Hindu cohorts was marginally higher than Muslims only in Sikkim and
Madhya Pradesh and the UTs of Daman & Diu and Andaman & Nicobar
Islands. In coming decades, Muslim population will grow at a higher rate than
that of Hindus in 31 States and Union Territories. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-size: 11pt;">Statement 7 of Census 2001 Religion Data Report is self explanatory and vividly
depicts the looming shadow of future demographic changes across India.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 11pt;">Trapped in a suicidal cult of political correctness, most Indian intellectuals
refuse to understand the reasons which prompted former British Prime Minister Tony
Blair to advise all British couples to opt for the 5 children norm.
Incidentally, his wife Cherry Blair gave birth to their fourth child while her
husband was Prime Minister. Indeed, in recent years many European countries
have announced liberal cash bonuses to couples who opt for more children. Peter
Costello, Australia's Chancellor of the Exchequer, urged every couple to have
at least 3 children, preferably more – “one child for father, one for the
mother and one for the country”.</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="background-color: white; font-size: 11pt;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-size: 11pt;">Apprehensive of population growth in Indonesia, Peter Costello announced an
incentive of 2000 Australian dollars for every child born after June 2004. Many
keen observers of global population trends like Niall Ferguson, Bernard Lewis,
Robert Costello, Bruce Bawer and Mark Steyn are alerting their countrymen to
the threat posed by demographic changes to their civilisational values.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="background-color: white; font-size: 11pt;">India has many bleeding heart liberals who will ask why this global panic? The
answer is that in 1900, Muslims constituted only 12% of the world population;
they grew to 18% in 1992-93 (when Huntington published his first thesis on
clash of civilizations). Today Muslims constitute 24% of global population.
Samuel Huntington pointed out that by 2025, they will constitute 30% of world
population. [Source: Spangler,</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="background-color: white; font-size: 11pt;"> </span><em style="background-color: white; font-size: 11pt;">The
Decline of the West</em><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 11pt;">].</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-size: 11pt;">According to some demographic estimates, Muslims might constitute 37% to 40% of
world population by 2100 AD. In recent years the number of jihads worldwide has
also multiplied; Thailand is the latest entrant to the growing list of jihadi
conflict zones.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="background-color: white; font-size: 11pt;">In India, the Hindu birth rate is fast approaching the European average.
According to Census 2001, the decadal Total Fertility Rate of Hindus of Kolkata
district (West Bengal) was barely 1.0%, much lower than the birth rates of
Germany, Italy and Spain. In Kerala too the Hindu TFR at 1.64 is below the
replacement level of 2.1in 2001.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="background-color: white; font-size: 11pt;">Kerala has witnessed a massive increase in Muslim population from approx.
23,75,000 in 1951 to 78,64,000 in 2001. During the same period the population
of Hindus grew from 83,48,000 to 1,79,2000, while that of Christians increased
from 28,26,000 to 60,57,000. During the last five decades the Hindu percentage
in Kerala’s population declined from 61.61 to 56.28, while that of Muslims rose
from 17.53 to 24.70 percent. The percentage share of Christians declined from
20.86 in 1951 to 19.02 in 2001. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-size: 11pt;">The Indian middle class and opinion makers must grasp the long term
consequences of the demographic crisis. In a different context, while analyzing
socio-economic aspects of Census 2001, demographer Ashish Bose
estimated that in 49 districts Muslims already constitute more than 30% of the
population. A back-of-the envelope calculation made in the light of Muslim
growth rate in the last two decades shows that Muslims will attain majority
status in all these 49 districts between 2091 and 2111, perhaps even earlier. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-size: 11pt;">According to a study published by the Centre for Policy Studies, around 2061,
the total Muslim population of the sub-continent (India, Pakistan and
Bangladesh, counted together) will exceed the total Hindu/ Sikh population.
This could lead to a fierce struggle for supremacy in the sub-continent.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-size: 11pt;">This is already visible in the chorus for more unmerited concessions for
Muslims. The Sachar Committee admitted, perhaps unwittingly, that by 2101
Muslim population in India will be around 32 to 34 crores. It was 13.8
crores in 2001 and barely 3.77 crores in 1951.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="background-color: white; font-size: 11pt;">In recent times, there have been strident demands by Muslim leaders for greater
share in jobs and elected bodies. In 2006, Mohammad Azam Khan of the Samajwadi
Party called for carving a Muslim Pradesh out of Western UP, instead of a Harit
Pradesh advocated by the Rashtriya Lok Dal. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="background-color: white; font-size: 11pt;">A similar demand to create four or five Muslim-dominated enclaves was voiced by
Dr. Omar Khalidi in an interview published in</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="background-color: white; font-size: 11pt;"> </span><em style="background-color: white; font-size: 11pt;">The
Times of India</em><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 11pt;">, New Delhi, June 2004. He later wrote in</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="background-color: white; font-size: 11pt;"> </span><em style="background-color: white; font-size: 11pt;">The Radiance</em><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 11pt;">, mouthpiece of
Jamaat-e Islami. He was assiduously following the roadmap for another partition
of India. Advocating the creation of Muslim-dominated enclaves in the Mewat
region of Haryana, certain parts of UP, Bihar, Andhra Pradesh and Karnataka,
Dr. Khalidi demanded reservations for Muslims on the pattern of Kerala,
Karnataka and Andhra Pradesh.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 15px;"><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br /></span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="background-color: white; font-size: 11pt;">The late Dr. Khalidi was in the forefront of the lobby seeking proportionate
representation for Muslims in various services, especially in the defence
services and para-military forces. He and G.M. Banatwala of the Muslim
League are believed to have indirectly used the Sachar Committee as a medium to
mount political pressure for seeking jobs for Muslims in proportion to their
growing population in government departments, especially the defence and
para-military forces, besides greater representation in Parliament and State
legislatures. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="background-color: white; font-size: 11pt;">Muslims are fully aware of their future empowerment through sharp growth in
their numbers. Many have started pushing the claim to disproportionate
political power in India. Sometime ago when Amethi MP Rahul Gandhi visited
Aligarh Muslim University, a student asked him how soon he visualized a Muslim
becoming Prime Minister of India. Obviously, the battle lines are being
drawn for another politico-religious conflict in India.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="background-color: white; font-size: 11pt;">In conclusion, it would be in order to recall late P.N. Mari Bhat and Francis
Zavier’s analysis that the fertility of Muslims was about 10% higher than that
of Hindus before independence and is now 25 to 30% higher than the Hindu rate.
Hindus have lost considerable ground since 1947. Yet no Hindu political or
spiritual leader has tried to rouse the millions of ill informed Hindus about
the looming threat of demographic decimation of their ancient faith and
civilisational values.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">The writing on the wall is clear. The Christians of Europe and Hindus of India
have pushed themselves to the edge of suicide by failure to understand the
dynamics of demography in this age of adult suffrage. Russian demographers
describe the rampant recourse to abortion by their countrymen in quest of the
small family norm as ‘do it yourself genocide’.</span><span style="font-size: 13pt;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Source: <a href="http://www.vijayvaani.com/FrmPublicDisplayArticle.aspx?id=2242">http://www.vijayvaani.com/FrmPublicDisplayArticle.aspx?id=2242</a></span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
</div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11490405927751525925noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8014061638568440024.post-1268777230785662282012-05-21T14:14:00.001-07:002012-05-21T14:14:42.888-07:00Hindu Self-Defence: Some Steps To Survive<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Dr Koenraad Elst<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><strong><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border: 1pt none windowtext; padding: 0in;">Some Hindus ask me,</span></strong><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="background-color: white;"> </span></span><span style="background-color: white;">as a sympathizing
outsider, if I have any advice for them when they want to revive their
fortunes. In principle, I have no advice; it would be arrogant to pretend to
know something that the people concerned are not so sure about. But then again,
Hindus are no different from others, they are subject to the same laws, so an
approximative knowledge of their condition is enough to predict where they are
moving and to say what they have to do to make the best of it. So, here goes.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<strong><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border: 1pt none windowtext; padding: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Self-knowledge<o:p></o:p></span></span></strong></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">The first thing Hindus have to do, is to know
themselves. The great problem of Hindus today is that they have become
sleep-walkers, forgetful of their civilization. It gets worse with every
passing year, as the ever-larger Hindu middle-class is becoming Americanized
both in consumer patterns and in values. Their knowledge of Western films and
music is becoming bigger as their knowledge of Hindu tradition is lessening.
And the worst is that increasing numbers take pride in their ignorance. In the
past, it didn’t matter if you skipped religion classes. You would just breathe
Hinduism.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><strong><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border: 1pt none windowtext; padding: 0in;">You would</span></strong><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="background-color: white;"> </span></span><span style="background-color: white;">know the tales from the
Mahabharata and the Puranas through songs and theatre plays performed in your
village square. Girls would learn Hindu traditions from their mothers and pass
them on to their own children. But that can no longer be taken for granted.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><strong><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border: 1pt none windowtext; font-size: 11pt; padding: 0in;">In a way</span></strong><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; font-size: 11pt;">, the world has become
more conducive to Christian-style religion. NRI-PIOs congregate in their
temples the way Christians gather in their churches. They organize Sunday
school for their children the way they learnt from their Protestant neighbours.
<st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on">India</st1:country-region></st1:place>
itself is becoming similar, if only because the same family pattern with two
wage-earners is being transplanted. You can study religion on your own, he way </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">the first Christians practised their
religion (even in secret), against or at least without support from your
surroundings.At any rate, unlike in the past, if you don’t make a deliberate
choice to do something about your religion, chances are that you won’t. To
Hindus, this is a new situation. In days gone by, religion was just
there, you fell in line with your surroundings, you did as everyone did. Now,
to an increasing extent, you have to make a choice for it.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">The law of inertia is no longer working
for Hinduism; it starts to work against it. The missionaries know this; the
Hindus, I am not so sure. But they can save their Hinduism by practising it.
The very first result is that they themselves will realize again what Hinduism
is all about. Not otherworldly Hinduism but the kind that <st1:place w:st="on">Krishna</st1:place> preached, on the Kurukshetra, with the real
enemies and opportunities and the real world.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; font-size: 11pt;"><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">For Hindus abroad,
depending on circumstances, knowledge of Indian languages is probably lost. In
a few places, native languages are perhaps viable, like Hindi in <st1:country-region w:st="on">Suriname</st1:country-region> or Tamil in <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on">Singapore</st1:country-region></st1:place>. If Hindu families can
speak their Indian language inside the home and transmit it to the children, so
much the better. But in mixed families and in oceans of powerful languages like
the Anglosphere, children or grandchildren are bound to take to the language of
their surroundings, so it is a waste to still your guilt feelings as an
immigrant by forcing your children to learn a smattering of Bengali or Kannada.
It is better to teach your children Hindu values, and if this has to take the
form of a language, let it be Sankrit, the key to the main Hindu scriptures.
For the rest, let them acquire a thorough grounding in Hindu stories and
ritual, in English or whatever vernacular they take to, rather than investing
your and their precious time in a language that is bound to die.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; font-size: 11pt;"><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">In <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on">India</st1:country-region></st1:place> itself, English should be
shown its place as first foreign language. Mind you, mine is a position against
self-interest, for I will never have more fluency in an Indian language than in
English; by contrast, all Indians and Westerners pleading for English happen to
be self-serving. At any rate, an anti-English stand is not voguish, now that
Indian politicians are not just sending their own children to English-medium
schools while promoting vernacular-medium education for the common man, but
openly replace vernacular with English schooling. This is a political choice:
either Panjabis and Malayalis will speak English with each other, like Danes
with Koreans or Congolese with Pakistanis; or they will speak an Indian
language. If you want Indian unity, you’d better aim for an Indian language
that will set India apart from the Anglosphere. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><strong><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border: 1pt none windowtext; font-size: 11pt; padding: 0in;">That Indian language can only
be Sanskrit</span></strong><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; font-size: 11pt;">. At this distance, we can say that it was a fateful day when
the first President of India, Rajendra Prasad, cast the deciding vote in the
Constituent Assembly in favour of Hindi as link language, to the detriment of
the other candidate, Sanskrit. Hindi was not accepted by the chauvinist
speakers of the other vernaculars. One of the good reasons was that it was but
a recent language, a common denominator between old literary languages like
Braj Bhasha, Awadhi, Rajasthani and others. Hindi as it is, was deemed vulgar
by speakers of highly civilized non-Hindi languages like Bengali or Telugu. It
didn’t have the kind of prestige that could overrule such objections. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><strong><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border: 1pt none windowtext; font-size: 11pt; padding: 0in;">By contrast,</span></strong><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; font-size: 11pt;"> </span></span><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; font-size: 11pt;">Sanskrit if chosen as the link language would have sent a cry
of admiration through countries like China and Japan, Russia and Germany,
France and America. The state of <st1:country-region w:st="on">Israel</st1:country-region>,
that chose to make Biblical Hebrew its first language, would have understood
very well that <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on">India</st1:country-region></st1:place>
made its main Scriptural medium into its second language. The Flemish, who
waged a struggle against French-language masses all while accepting Latin
masses as a matter of course, would have understood it if the Indians had
preferred their common sacred language over a vernacular. Even the Muslim world
would have understood it.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><strong><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; font-size: 11pt; padding: 0in;">Most importantly</span></strong><span style="font-size: 11pt;">, it would have been accepted by the Indian people. Speakers of
the constituent members of the Hindi commonwealth would have had no objection,
and speakers of non-Hindi languages (even Tamil chauvinists) would have had
fewer objections than against Hindi. As for the English-speaking elite, it
would militate no harder against one Indian language than against another.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">The vote in the Constituent Assembly, fifty-fifty between Sanskrit
and<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><em><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;">shuddh</span></em><span class="apple-converted-space"><i><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;"> </span></i></span>Hindi,
shows how far <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on">India</st1:country-region></st1:place>
has slipped, and what an outrageous and what an outrageous failure the
so-called Hindu Nationalist movement has been. If the vote were held today, it
would rather be fifty-fifty between English and Bollywood Hindi, i.e. Urdu. The
secularists were then a small coterie around Nehru, now the same stream of
opinion controls all the cultural and other institutions. Back then, a vote for
English would be unthinkable, now the same taboo counts almost for a vote
against English. The Muslims were only 10% and smarting under their guilt for
the Partition, not in a position to make demands; now they are 15% and growing
fast, and in active opposition to every language policy that smells of either
Hinduism or nationalism. Sanskrit has been borrowed heavily by the South-Indian
languages and would be welcomed by their speakers (so would<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><em><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;">shuddh</span></em><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>Hindi, for that matter, and for the
same reason), whereas “Hindustani” or Urdu brings Hindi a lot closer to the
official language of Pakistan but at a greater distance from the Southern
languages of India itself.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><strong><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border: 1pt none windowtext; font-size: 11pt; padding: 0in;">So, you have a choice</span></strong><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; font-size: 11pt;">. Supporting Bollywood
Hindi will make Indian unity weaker and the Muslim factor stronger. But more
importantly, supporting English will make Indian unity and democracy weaker,
and the hold of the secularist elite stronger. By contrast, supporting Sanskrit
will make Indian unity stronger, along with popular access to the Hindu
tradition. Whether <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on">India</st1:country-region></st1:place>
as a unified state survives, depends on many things, but English will certainly
not be a factor of unity. A Kannadiga may speak English with a native of <st1:city w:st="on">Karachi</st1:city> or <st1:city w:st="on">Chittagong</st1:city>, as
he would with a native of Hong Kong or <st1:city w:st="on">Cairo</st1:city> or
anywhere, without sharing a national state with them; and the same counts for a
native of Mumbai or <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">Delhi</st1:city></st1:place>.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><strong><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border: 1pt none windowtext; font-size: 11pt; padding: 0in;">Admittedly,</span></strong><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; font-size: 11pt;"> </span></span><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; font-size: 11pt;">Sanskrit is a difficult language, but then it is equally
difficult for everyone. And if one positive development can be mentioned since
1947, it is the decreased importance of caste pride, which led many upper-caste
people to have a sneaking sympathy for the Nehruvian anti-Sanskrit policy,
which at least kept Sanskrit out of the hands of the lower castes. One of the
formative episodes in Dr. Ambedkar’s life was when he was denied the right to
study Sanskrit in school because of his low caste. It helped make him a
partisan of Sanskrit as national link language, a choice not followed by his
so-called followers in the Dalit movement. They favour English, a choice
unthinkable to the freedom struggle generation.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><strong><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border: 1pt none windowtext; font-size: 11pt; padding: 0in;">So, the anti-Sanskrit</span></strong><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; font-size: 11pt;"> </span></span><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; font-size: 11pt;">forces are a lot stronger than in the late forties, when they
very narrowly won the day. Still Sanskrit is the only chance the lovers of <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on">India</st1:country-region></st1:place>
have. Hindi failed, and English will only weaken Indian unity, apart from
being an utterly undignified choice of link language. Brace yourselves for a
difficult struggle – or for national disintegration.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<strong><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border: 1pt none windowtext; font-size: 11pt; padding: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Build your own Hindu
organization<o:p></o:p></span></span></strong></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">It is counterproductive to hope for tangible results from the
Sangh Parivar. In most respects, they achieved nothing for the Hindus. A few
merits go to their credit, viz. relief work and, in some areas, security
for Hindus threatened by aggressive “minorities” (i.e. the local branches of
international religions with a lot of support from abroad). Important as these
merits undoubtedly are, they do not justify the Sangh Parivar’s national claims
for the <strong><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;">“awakening of the Hindus”.On the contrary, the Sangh Parivar has
done its bit for keeping the Hindus asleep.<o:p></o:p></span></strong></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">They have misdirected their flock and
neglected a number of concerns of those Hindus who were awake.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><strong><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; font-size: 11pt; padding: 0in;">One good thing</span></strong><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span></span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">the Sangh did, was to organize. I call
upon you to do the same. Unfortunately, the Sangh saw this as a goal in itself.
It forgot to make self-organization subservient to a Hindu vision, because it
had none.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><strong><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; font-size: 11pt; padding: 0in;">However</span></strong><span style="font-size: 11pt;">,
that criticism of the Sangh has been expressed enough times and on enough
forums. Repeating it is only one form of what Rajiv Malhotra calls: <strong><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;">“mouse-clicking Hindu activism”, </span></strong>a useless
activity that may be ego-flattering but otherwise makes no difference. It may
be necessary to keep Hindus from a mistaken line of involvement, but it has
mostly outlived its use now. The thing to do is simply to set up your own Hindu
centre of activity and ignore the ideological line of the Sangh.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">The focus may be very different depending
on local needs. Physical security is an important concern in areas where the
so-called minorities are strong and growing, like <st1:place w:st="on">West
Bengal</st1:place> and Kerala. That is why the Hindu Samhati in <st1:place w:st="on">West Bengal</st1:place> is so important: it promises to be more effective
than the RSS, and has so far also lived up to its promise. It channels the
natural Hindu capacity for self-defence. In opulent areas where Hindu
self-forgetfulness due to the invasionof American consumerism is a greater
menace, by contrast, the focus may be more on Hindu identity and the revival of
Hindu knowledge.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><strong><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; font-size: 11pt; padding: 0in;">The national</span></strong><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span></span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">and international dimension can be taken
care of far more easily that in the past, thanks to the internet. The pure
communication dimension of this transregional cooperation will take care of
itself. But is there a need of some more formal way of grouping along national
and international lines? In particular, shouldn’t there be a party like the
BJP?<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><strong><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border: 1pt none windowtext; font-size: 11pt; padding: 0in;">If there were an effective
lobby group</span></strong><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; font-size: 11pt;">, like the Jewish lobby in the <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on">US</st1:country-region></st1:place>, there would be no need of a
Hindu political party. There is no Jewish political party, but both the
Democrats and the Republicans do their best to curry the favour of the Jewish
lobby. For the impartisan form, the VHP (World Hindu Council) has in the past approached
all political parties with its “Hindu agenda”, but in practice it only counted
on the BJP. And even this party did not do the Hindu lobby’s bidding, e.g.
whereas the VHP’s Hindu agenda of 1996 contained an anti-abortion item, in
keeping with the Brahmanic-Shastric interdiction of abortion, the BJP programme
(in keeping with most other parties’ and governments’) was all for
birth-control by any means necessary, including legal abortion. So Hindus don’t
consist of the right human material to form an effective lobby-group
pressurizing political party.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><strong><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; font-size: 11pt; padding: 0in;">A party like the BJP</span></strong><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span></span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">is better than nothing, according to many
Hindus. While it fails to do anything for Hindu causes, at least when it is in
power nothing will be done against the Hindus, unlike the other parties; or so
they say. The opening of Indian media ownership under the NDA regime can be
given as a counterexample, a BJP-engineered disaster for Hindu society; but we
don’t want to be difficult. Well, let the BJP exist, it will do so anyway, but
let that not stop you from doing anything on your own.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><strong><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; font-size: 11pt; padding: 0in;">Once you’ve built up something,</span></strong><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span></span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">it will automatically become the lobby
that some were dreaming of. The BJP, and perhaps other parties, will seek your
approval when making its programme, your support during the campaign. It always
does so when it sees people who know what they want; it did so with the
secularists, and it will do so again with Hindus. This will put you in a
position to make demands. The BJP will make some of your programme its own if
it has the impression that you are consistent and credible. All this and
more will accrue to those who really do something and get started.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<strong><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border: 1pt none windowtext; font-size: 11pt; padding: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Let the facts speak for
themselves<o:p></o:p></span></span></strong></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">According to<span class="apple-converted-space"><b><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;"> </span></b></span><strong><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;">Rajiv Malhotra, </span></strong>Hindus
are : <span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><strong><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;">“under-informed and over-opinionated”. </span></strong>I already
had that impression, but being a foreigner, I had no business saying it.
However, if an Indian says it, it deserves to be quoted. They haven’t done
their<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><strong><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;">“Purva-Paksha”</span></strong>, their study of the opponent’s
viewpoint, and – now I quote<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><strong><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;">Sita Ram Goel</span></strong><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>—
yet: <strong><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;">they think they know everything about everything”</span></strong>.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">I have, for instance, made many an
argument with Hindus who claimed to know more of my home religion,
Christianity, than I myself did. Perhaps it is an atavistic behaviour pattern
dating back to the time when <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on">India</st1:country-region></st1:place>
was on top of the world, and when Indians had a superiority rather than their
present inferiority complex.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><strong><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; font-size: 11pt; padding: 0in;">On the internet</span></strong><span style="font-size: 11pt;">, I have come across many Hindus who were ill-mannered and
unwilling to abide by the general rules of good conduct. That will not
influence my opinions too seriously, because my mind has by now been made up,
but it will affect those of many others. What they prove is that a good
cause can be spoilt by bad servants. They give a good message a bad name by
their lack of self-control. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><strong><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; font-size: 11pt; padding: 0in;">They feel good</span></strong><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span></span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">about themselves because they had their
say. They think it is impressive if they shove it into the other side’s face.
But what they never do, is listen to feedback. Am I achieving what I set out to
achieve? Well, the problem with most of these folks is that they don’t really
want to achieve anything. The thought of getting somewhere just doesn’t cross
their minds. They merely want an emotional kick, a feeling of having said it in
a way that the other side, or more likely the sympathizing reader (they are not
aware of another side), is unlikely to forget. They want to live out what is
inside of them, and the result be damned.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><strong><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; font-size: 11pt; padding: 0in;">The fact</span></strong><span class="apple-converted-space"><b><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; font-size: 11pt; padding: 0in;"> </span></b></span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">that they are participating in discussions
on Hinduism and its plight at least proves they feel that something is not
right. Let that be a start. For the rest, you have your own teachers to go to.
You don’t need me to tell you that self-control (in Sanskrit: yoga) is better
for you and for everyone than self-indulgence. You have Hindu civilization for that.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><strong><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; font-size: 11pt; padding: 0in;">Hindu tradition</span></strong><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span></span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">teaches you all about<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><em><b><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;">Purva-Paksha</span></b></em>,
the “earlier wing” against which your own viewpoint is the counter-wing. It
teaches you that you first have to acquaint yourself with what the others are
saying before you can answer them. Short, it doesn’t want you to be lazy. It
doesn’t want you to take the laughable posture of pretending you know it all
without studying. By extension, it teaches you to take into account what the
others say in answering you. It wants you to learn from their feedback. Thus,
there has never been a Hindu who has convinced an outsider by means of a false
(P.N. Oak-ian) etymology, it has solely earned them ridicule; only Hindus fall
for this kind of “argument”, and that should tell you something.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><strong><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; font-size: 11pt; padding: 0in;">How does this work out in practice?</span></strong><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span></span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Instead of letting your emotions take
centre-stage, you should let the facts speak for themselves. That works best.
Isn’t it funny, Hindus who have the facts as their best friends yet want to
hide these behind their own anger? In making your point, you should first of
all let reality do the talking. Nothing convinces as much as reality does.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><strong><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; font-size: 11pt; padding: 0in;">And yet</span></strong><span style="font-size: 11pt;">,
reality is not enough. Some Hindus know how to let reality speak and how to
make their own emotions shut up, yet their performance is insufficient. For
instance, so many times already I have received copies of Nathuram Godse’s
speech about Mahatma Gandhi. Hindus think they are meritorious by spreading the
word and propagating Godse’s speech, because it stays close to the facts,and
because it is itself a historical fact. But except for a secularist of sorts
(Ashis Nandy), I am the only author of an analysis of Godse’s speech. Many
Hindus admire Godse, but they don’t bother to stop and think about his speech.
They merely repeat it, mantra-like, without adding anything to it.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><strong><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; font-size: 11pt; padding: 0in;">So</span></strong><span style="font-size: 11pt;">,
once in a while it is necessary to think things over.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><strong><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;">Was Nathuram Gods right?</span></strong><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>Was he <span style="background: white;">more
right in his words than in his act? What was the result of his act? Discussion
forums are an excellent place to make a start. The “wisdom of crowds” is
represented there, and I have already learnt a lot from it, even from the most
ordinary people who have their moments of brilliance too, and their area of
expertise. Hindus could learn a lot too, and train themselves in making up
their own minds and influencing other people’s.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">According to textbooks, Hindus and
especially low-castes (who were only induced into Hinduism by the evil Aryan
invaders) are fed up with “empty ritual”. That is, according to the secularists,
why they want to leave Hinduism. If you see Christians eat the flesh of Christ,
just remember that they would never want to be Hindus and condemned to doing
“empty rituals”.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><strong><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; font-size: 11pt; padding: 0in;">In reality,</span></strong><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span></span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">there may be some things in Hinduism that
trouble them, but “empty ritual” is not it. Take it from an eyewitness to the
slow death of a religious culture, Christianity in <st1:place w:st="on">Europe</st1:place>,
who has seen numerous contemporaries sigh: “Yes, Christianity is a pack of
fairy-tales, but where will I find such a good ritual setting for my funeral as
a mass in church, conducted by a real priest?” Religion may be nonsense, but
ritual is very important.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<strong><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; font-size: 11pt; padding: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">So, when I see Hindus on internet lists complain about “empty
ritual”, I know they are just rattling off what they learned in their Jesuit
school. Of course, the Jesuits know the value of ritual and also practice it,
but to Hindu pupils they teach about its emptiness.<o:p></o:p></span></span></strong></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Ritual will take care of itself, it gets
reborn easily, but some matters are more serious when they are made into
problems. One perfectly false issue that has been keeping Hindus busy for a
century and a half (if not for a thousand years) is polytheism vs.
monotheism. Pharaoh Akhenaten, Moses and Mohammed thought they
stumbled upon some important realization when they declared monotheism true and
polytheism false. Against tem, some Hindus defend their ancestral polytheism,
which nowadays is a brave thing to do.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><strong><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border: 1pt none windowtext; font-size: 11pt; padding: 0in;">Others, whom the Buddha called lickspittles</span></strong><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; font-size: 11pt;">, try to curry favour
with their enemies by espousing monotheism. To have an edge over other Hindus,
they declare that the others have not understood how a single God is hiding
behind the seeming multiplicity of Vedic gods.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">But the truth of the matter is that the
Vedic seers didn’t cared two hoots for this quarrel between monotheists and
polytheists. The divine manifests itself as one or as many, and both could be
lived with. You should not import into Hinduism a problem that only your
enemies created, and in the name of which they have destroyed your idols and
temples.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><strong><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; font-size: 11pt; padding: 0in;">A related “problem” is that of idolatry.</span></strong><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span></span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">For thousands of years, Hindus have
depicted the divine through paintings and sculptures. To be sure, they also
worshipped in the open air, with the wind as the natural idol of Vayu, the
thunder as the natural idol of Indra, and so on. But surely the culture of
artificial idols has so long and so intimately been interwoven with living
Hinduism that we can call idolatry Hindu par excellence.<span class="apple-converted-space"><b><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;"> </span></b></span><strong><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;">So, it is safe to ignore those Hindus who, wanting to cozy up to
their self-described enemies, suddenly “discover” that the Hindus have always
been oppressed by false and evil idolatry.</span></strong><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><strong><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border: 1pt none windowtext; font-size: 11pt; padding: 0in;">The so-called problems of polytheism</span></strong><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; font-size: 11pt;"> </span></span><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; font-size: 11pt;">and idolatry are false problems floated by those Hindus who
want to feel superior to other Hindus, viz. by bathing in the reflected
glory of Christianity and Islam. Hindus had better concentrate on real issues,
like how to maintain their Hinduism in a sea of hostile forces, or how to save
girl babies.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<strong><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border: 1pt none windowtext; font-size: 11pt; padding: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Creativity<o:p></o:p></span></span></strong></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><strong><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; font-size: 11pt; padding: 0in;">One very good</span></strong><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span></span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">thing by which Hinduism stood out, both in
its Vedic and its Puranic phase, was its unbridled creativity. Today, this is
what is sorely lacking. Sita Ram Goel diagnosed the Hindu activists among his
fellow students ca. 1940 as the most mediocre of the lot. Those who had nothing
to offer individually gravitated towards causes which tilted them above
themselves but to which they themselves had indeed little to offer. They
gave their time and energy, nobody can deny them this dedication, but a winning
movement cannot be built exclusively of such grey people.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><strong><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; font-size: 11pt; padding: 0in;">The creative people are on the other side.</span></strong><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span></span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Most Bollywood actors and directors are
either on the anti-Hindu or, at best, on the mindlessly Hindu side. They have
named their industry after its American counterpart and some say their product
is lousy, but at least they know how to attract money and they certainly have a
good time. Hindus ought to feel jealous, if at all they have the ambition to do
as well as Bollywood.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Creativity was to be found in the late
M.F. Husain, hated by the Hindus and disliked by a great many Muslims too. He
was driven by hate, old and uninspired hate, but undeniably he created things
in painting. Hindus could do nothing but demand a ban, the most humourless and
uncreative solution. No Hindu came forward to be the anti-Husain, let alone
some original way to silence him.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><strong><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border: 1pt none windowtext; font-size: 11pt; padding: 0in;">It was different once</span></strong><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; font-size: 11pt;">. Every art form was
steered to new heights by Hindu artists. Every <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:placetype w:st="on">province</st1:placetype> of <st1:placename w:st="on">India</st1:placename></st1:place>
had its own variation of the performing arts. In the visual arts, no tradition
was a match for the richness in characters that the fable collections, epics
and Puranas had to offer. Whereas Chinese and Japanese classical music are
museum pieces next to omnipresent Western classical music (at performing which
the East-Asians excel), Indian classical music </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">remains as the only rival. More individualistic yet more
complex, it differs from European classical music the way adult music differs
from children’s songs. Hindus are fairly good at maintaining what was great
among the inventions of their ancestors, but not so good at giving a creative
answer to today’s challenges.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">So, gird up your loins to start anew.
Create Hindu art. Let it not be an imitation of Western “modern art”, the West
is fed up with it and you have no need of Indians pretending to like it. Forget
about trying to be original, just be Hindu and your originality will take care
of itself. Except for calendar artists, no artist wants to be known as a Hindu,
so by doing Hindu art you automatically stand out.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<strong><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; font-size: 11pt; padding: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Celebrate<o:p></o:p></span></span></strong></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">The greatest thing about Hinduism for all
its adherents is its festivals. As long as people celebrate these, the religion
will exist. Just apply the Americans proverb: “If it’s fun, it gets
done.” The same counts for the more serious Hindu business, like meditation. It
is not airy-fairy, as Westerners imagine, but very down-to-earth, the most
realistic thing in the world. But it is also the happiest thing, the source of
joy.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">And judging by this criterion, Hinduism is
alive and kicking. So, I am not all that pessimistic about the future. You
simply have to do what it takes.</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Source:</span><span style="color: #666666; font-size: 11.0pt;"> </span></span><span style="font-size: 11.0pt;"><a href="http://www.hinduhumanrights.info/hindu-self-defence-some-steps-to-survive/"><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">http://www.hinduhumanrights.info/hindu-self-defence-some-steps-to-survive/</span></a><span style="color: #666666;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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Janaab Ali Sina,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">My real name is Qadir Sheikh, I am an Indian
and I was a Muslim till 7/7. I tried to find out what prompted these 3rd
generation Muslims in Britain to kill themselves and others, in that quest I
went to my local Maulvi in the mosque and in a bizarre twist of arguments and
counter arguments led to angered arguments and freely flying abuses and insults
from the Maulvi. My kuffr was that the Maulvi did not like the questions he
also did not have the answers and called it a highly unislamic behaviour to ask
forbidden questions which challenge the validity of the Quran. One of my
questions was that whom should a person owe more allegiance to, his
maadr-e-watan (motherland) or the Ummah (Nation of Islam)? Which led us to
argue how much a true Muslim each of us was and since how many generations? In
the end I was called a "kaafir" (some who commits a kuffr
[balsphemy]) and physically thrown out of the same mosque, where I had
offered my namaaz (obligatory prayer) for the last 37 years, by the
Maulvi's assistants.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">That led me to investigate the land records of
my family and led me to the identity of my Hindu ancestors (just five
generations back) and I have since decided to come back to the Hindu culture if
not the religion. I feel that my Hindu ancestors were subjected to torture and
humiliation and also had to pay jaziya taxes which they could not afford due to
drought in the region which finally led them to accept Islam. Though I continue
to keep my Muslim name (due to records in many places like my school
certificates, driving licence, bank a/c etc.) I have stopped practising Islam
and I have become a murtad (apostate), kaafir or both, as Islam classifies me.
I have added 786 to my email name because I believe there is something magical
and special about it as I believe that Allah (God) has as many names as there
are languages in this world. Allah means Bhagwaan/Ishwar in Hindi and God in
English. But the local mullahs anywhere in the world are still required to call
for azaan in Arabic language only. "Allah-u-Akbar" means "God is
great" or "Ishwar mahaan hai". This is nothing but cultural
dominance and imperialism of the Arabs via the vehicle of religion.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">But many Hindus think in <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on">India</st1:country-region></st1:place> that
"Allah-u-Akbar" is a war cry and a call to kill the non-Muslims. Oh
my God!.... what a blasphemy has been committed and is being committed in
Allah's name by the Muslims themselves. I realise that I have more Hindu blood
in my veins than Mughal blood and it's time that I woke up the rest of my
community in India to this fact and not get into clashes with their Hindu
brethren with whom they share genes, food, culture, motherland, economy,
language and everything else except this foreign religion brought in forcefully
by the Arab looters and invaders and forced upon them under the blade of sword.
Killing of Hindus in the past is nothing to be proud of by the Muslims but
should be a matter of sorrow for all Muslims in <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">India</st1:place></st1:country-region> because all our ancestors
were Hindus and were forced to convert to Islam under threat. Converting to
Islam does not mean that we Muslims in <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">India</st1:place></st1:country-region> become Arab. So I am trying
to awaken Muslims of all ethnicities in <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">India</st1:place></st1:country-region> to this fact that how they
are being misled by these mullahs everyday. Islam was suited to the kind of
social situation, which was prevalent in Arabia of Mohammed's times.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">I was recently very upset about the formulation
of Muslim marriage laws by AIMPLB (All India Muslim Personal Law Board) there
were hardly any women in the board meeting. I do not understand what kind of
marriage laws can be discussed and formulated without the participation of
women in equal numbers. What kind of marriage laws can be discussed by a group
consisting only (or mostly) of men? What is the guarantee of honour of my educated
and good sisters when they get married tomorrow under these Muslim marriage
laws formulated by someone in Arabia and interpreted by someone in <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">India</st1:place></st1:country-region>? How can
I prevent my future brother-in-laws from dumping my good sisters and marrying
other women? I realised that in the whole we Muslims are doing nothing but
marrying each others sisters only to use, abuse and dump them in the end like
Mohd. Azaharuuddin (former Indian cricket captain) has done by divorcing his
first wife who is much more beautiful and cultured then the (witch) Sangeeta
Bijlani that he has married. Whereas Janaab Sunil Dutt (a Hindu) remained
faithful to his wife Nargis (a devout Muslima) throughout his life and did a
lot of khidmat (service, care) to her while she was ill with cancer. She lived
and died like a true Muslima. She was never forced to convert to Islam by Sunil
Dutt.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Whereas Islam appeals to corrupt men like
Dharmendra (a famous actor in <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">India</st1:place></st1:country-region>)
who converted to it and use Islam to have two wives. I am still worried about
my sisters who are about to get married in a couple of years time according to
Muslim marriage laws that will be prevalent in India as the mullahs here are
hell bent upon making these laws more and more anti woman rather than man-woman
harmoniums relationship oriented. The mullahs are also demanding Qazi courts
(sharia courts) to be given recognition which in the end will totally bar
Muslim women from seeking justice through Indian laws in case of extreme abuse
and injustice under Muslim laws. My fiancée’s first question was whether I
would dump her or marry another girl if I started liking another girl after
marriage to her. It is of course easier to be tempted to give in to your baser
nature when your religious laws also encourage disloyalty to your wife.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Recently a Muslim woman called Imrana was raped
by her father-in-law and when she went to the mullahs for justice they first
rebuked her for making this matter public and then accused her of low morals
and then ordered her to marry her father-in-law. What an embarrassing and
shameful day it was for me in my office when my Hindu colleagues were
discussing this incident and enquiring from me rather innocently if it was the
norm in Muslim society?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Also disturbing is the arrival of rich old
Arabs in the Hyderabad city of India who marry young Indian Muslim girls in
connivance with the local mullahs for a period of 15-30 days, after satisfying
their lust using the Indians Muslim girls and enjoying the Indian hospitality,
these Arabs divorce the girls after robbing them of their virginity and respect
and return to their lands as respectable grand fathers and fathers. Their
shameful acts remain unknown to their own daughters and grand daughters of
equal age back home. What is disturbing is that these Arabs are even rented out
rooms made conveniently in the homes of these maulvies who perform these sham
marriages. In some cases these marriages last only 24 hours. In reality Islam
promotes prostitution and the mullahs are nothing but pimps. Very soon <st1:country-region w:st="on">India</st1:country-region> might become the centre of legalized,
sharia-approved prostitution, a <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">Mecca</st1:city></st1:place>
of fornication sought by Muslim men mostly from the Arab world.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">In the end I got my answers at your website<a href="http://www.faithfreedom.org/Authors.htm" target="_blank">http://www.faithfreedom.org/Authors.htm</a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>and
saw many Muslim names there. I like the many articles written by the ex-Muslims
rather than by the Christians who can sometimes criticize something without
knowing about it from inside. I want more and more ex-Muslims to write on your
site, which I believe will lend more credibility to the fact that Islam is
stifling the Muslims and hampering their progress in the 21st century. First of
all a faith should allow the freedom of questioning and debate, which Islam
does not allow. That's why I was humiliated and thrown out of the mosque
despite having been a devout Muslim and doing my namaaz prayers in the same
mosque for the last 37 years.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">My real hero is Janaab A.P.J. Abdul Kalaam who
is a great Indian scientist and has been rightly honoured by the majority Hindu
India by making him the president of <st1:country-region w:st="on">India</st1:country-region>,
rather than put to shame in front of the entire nation by the President of
Pakistan himself and later put into house arrest like Janaab A.Q. Khan of <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on">Pakistan</st1:country-region></st1:place>.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">My other heroes are Janaab Ali Sina (you),
Janaab Shah Rukh Khan, Janaab Salman Khan, Janaab Zayed Khan, Janaab Javed
Akhtar, Mohtarma Shabana Azmi, Janaab Sohail Ilyaasi, Janaab Salmaan Khursheed
and many other moderate Indian Muslim personalities. Though I am not a Muslim anymore.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">I need your teams' help in reaching out to all
the Muslims of Indian origin through this site.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Allah (God) Haafiz.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"><br />
Qadir Sheikh alias Kaafir786<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Source: <a href="http://www.faithfreedom.org/Testimonials/QadirSheikh50905.htm">http://www.faithfreedom.org/Testimonials/QadirSheikh50905.htm</a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
</div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11490405927751525925noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8014061638568440024.post-53732595187817596862012-04-30T06:31:00.001-07:002012-04-30T06:31:57.474-07:00Hindus in Pakistan<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span class="hp"><b>by Lt Gen NS Malik</b></span><b><o:p></o:p></b></div>
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"If
Muslims in <st1:country-region w:st="on">India</st1:country-region> constantly
crib to have no say and<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>no power, they should come to <st1:country-region w:st="on">Pakistan</st1:country-region> to see
the plight<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>of
minority Hindus with their own eyes. They'll never<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>complain
and learn to live peacefully with their Hindu<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>brethren in <st1:place w:st="on">India</st1:place>."<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>Asma
Jahangir, Human rights activist, <st1:place w:st="on">Pakistan</st1:place><span class="apple-converted-space"> <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Asma's
right. When pitted against the oppressed Hindus in<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><st1:place w:st="on">Pakistan</st1:place>,
the Muslims of India are indeed far better. A<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>few days back there was news that
Hindus in <st1:place w:st="on">Baluchistan</st1:place><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>region
are abducted and converted to Islam. The family<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>members
of those who've been abducted often avoid lodging<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>complaints
for fear of dire consequences. Many Hindus in<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><st1:country-region w:st="on">Pakistan</st1:country-region>'s
<st1:place w:st="on">Baluchistan</st1:place>, Sindh and NWFP regions, embraced<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>Islam
for survival. <span class="apple-converted-space"> <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b>Has any Muslim in <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on">India</st1:country-region></st1:place>
ever been forced to accept<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>Hinduism in order to live in this
country? <span class="apple-converted-space"> <o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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The
Marathas, who fought against Ahmadshah Abdali in 1761<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>and
couldn't return, are now languishing in <st1:place w:st="on">Pakistan</st1:place><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>doing
menial jobs. Most of them are sweepers and <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:placename w:st="on">Pakistan</st1:placename><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><st1:placename w:st="on">Military</st1:placename>
<st1:placetype w:st="on">Academy</st1:placetype></st1:place>, Kakul has the
descendants of those<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>Marathas
working as toilet-cleaners. <span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><o:p></o:p></div>
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June,
2000, Time carried an article (later banned and<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>deleted
from the net) written by Craig Gaverns. He<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
interviewed a few Hindu-Marathas (most of those Marathas<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>are
now forced Muslims) working as cleaners and<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>attendants at PMA. <span class="apple-converted-space"> <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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One
of them told him that once a Pakistani captain<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>continuously
slapped him and made him eat human excreta<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>for not polishing his shoes
properly. <span class="apple-converted-space"> <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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He
fearlessly told Gaverns to disclose his name (Nanji<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>Ubale)
despite Gaverns had grave doubts about that man's<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>safety.
His name was carried and within a couple of days,<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>he
was hacked to pieces. Even those Hindus who got<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>converted
to Islam are treated very badly. They're always<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>reminded
of their humble and infidel roots. <span class="apple-converted-space"> <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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One
such Hindu doctor Ratan Chitkara, who later embraced<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>Islam
and became Saeed Khan, was always denied promotion<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>to
become the C M H O (Chief Medical & Health Officer) at<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>a
hospital in Pakistan's Chitral province. <span class="apple-converted-space"> <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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The
reason was that he willy-nilly accepted Islam. 'Dil<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>se
nahin liya' (not accepted from the core of his heart)<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>observed
his born Muslim friend. <span class="apple-converted-space"> <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b>My point is: Did the
ancestors of the sub-continental<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>Muslims ever accept Islam DIL SE ? Were
they not<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>converted
to Islam by coercion? <span class="apple-converted-space"> <o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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BBC,
<st1:place w:st="on">London</st1:place>'s Roger
Amlett's big essay ' Conversions on<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>the sub-continent ' (1998) puts it
bluntly " Why do all<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>the 'converted Muslims' of the
sub-continent behave in a<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>manner as if their Allah directly
dropped them as Muslims<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>from an imaginary heaven? Why do they
(or their<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>forefathers)
forget that they were cajoled, coaxed and<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>coerced into embracing Islam?
" <span class="apple-converted-space"> <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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The
Hindus in <st1:place w:st="on">Pakistan</st1:place>
constitute 2.67 % of its<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>population, which is now close to 18
crores. According to<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
Pakistan-born Ibn Warraq, an ex-Muslim, " By 2015 this<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>ratio
will drop down to almost one percent as very many<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>existing
Hindus will have accepted Islam to save their<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>skins, precisely necks." <span class="apple-converted-space"> <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Here
in <st1:place w:st="on">India</st1:place>,
Muslims cry foul that they're<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>discriminated against. This happens
indeed. But don't<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></div>
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they also get their rights and rightful positions in<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><st1:place w:st="on">India</st1:place>? <span class="apple-converted-space"> <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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In
<st1:place w:st="on">India</st1:place>,
Muslims have become the heads of the state.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>There'd been so many top brasses in the
Armed Forces of<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>India,
who're Muslims. Can one show a single really big<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>and
influential Hindu in <st1:place w:st="on">Pakistan</st1:place>? <span class="apple-converted-space"> <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b>Why wasn't <st1:country-region w:st="on">Pakistan</st1:country-region>'s second Chief Justice Bhagwan Das, a<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>Sindhi-Hindu
from Shikarpur, Sindh, made the CJP (Chief<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>Justice of <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on">Pakistan</st1:country-region></st1:place>)? <span class="apple-converted-space"> <o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<div class="NoSpacing" style="text-align: justify;">
<b>Why was Neeraj Chawla
(actress Juhi Chawla's uncle, who<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>chose to stay back in <st1:country-region w:st="on">Pakistan</st1:country-region> following partition)<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>abducted
in spite of being a high official on <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on">Pakistan</st1:country-region></st1:place>'s<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>Film
Censor Board? <span class="apple-converted-space"> <o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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Despite
his seniority, he was not made the chief of the<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>Censor
Board of Pakistan.<span class="apple-converted-space"> <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b>Has any Muslim been
deprived of his rank in the sensitive<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>army because of his religion? <span class="apple-converted-space"> <o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<div class="NoSpacing" style="text-align: justify;">
<b>Didn't <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on">India</st1:country-region></st1:place> have Idris Hasan Latif as the
Air Chief<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>Marshal? <span class="apple-converted-space"> <o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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It's
very easy to condemn sitting on the fence and when<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>you're
getting everything without much efforts. Look from<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>a
broader and deeper perspective and you'll realize that<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>you're
much better and well-ensconced here than the poor<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>Hindus
in <st1:place w:st="on">Pakistan</st1:place>,
who get no representation at any<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>level. <span class="apple-converted-space"> <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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They
cannot even register their marriage in <st1:place w:st="on">Pakistan</st1:place>.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><st1:city w:st="on">Karachi</st1:city> and <st1:place w:st="on">Islamabad</st1:place>
universities abolished their Hindi<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>departments and even certificate
courses in Hindi because<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>it's the language of the Kafirs
(infidels). <span class="apple-converted-space"> <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Except
for Danish Kaneria, no Hindu ever played Test<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>cricket in <st1:place w:st="on">Pakistan</st1:place>, though Anil Dalpat came
closest to<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>playing
and getting included in the final eleven. <span class="apple-converted-space"> <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Why
was Nirmal Mukherjee, a Bengali Hindu of PIA, never<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>selected
for the <st1:place w:st="on">Pakistan</st1:place>
national hockey team? He was<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>PIA's vice captain in the early
seventies. <span class="apple-converted-space"> <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<div class="NoSpacing" style="text-align: justify;">
Veerbhadra
Seksaria, the only Hindu industrialist from<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><st1:country-region w:st="on">Pakistan</st1:country-region>,
never got an opportunity to set up a cement<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>factory in <st1:country-region w:st="on">Pakistan</st1:country-region>'s
lone industrial city, <st1:city w:st="on">Faisalabad</st1:city><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>(erstwhile
<st1:place w:st="on">Lyallpur</st1:place>). <span class="apple-converted-space"> <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<div class="NoSpacing" style="text-align: justify;">
Indian
media and some so-called secularists like Teesta<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>Seetalvad
(her husband's a Muslim), Arundhati Roy (a<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>Syrian Christian) and Mallika Sarabhai
(a Gujrati Hindu)<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>scream
from their rooftops when something 'wrong' happens<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>to
the Muslims in <st1:place w:st="on">India</st1:place>. <span class="apple-converted-space"> <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Why
can't these influential secularists raise their voice<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>in
unison against the treatment meted out to the Hindus<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>in <st1:place w:st="on">Pakistan</st1:place>
who live there as gentiles and lepers?<span class="apple-converted-space"> <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">Courtesy: <b>Various <span style="color: #222222;">Sources</span></b><span style="color: #222222;"> <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
</div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11490405927751525925noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8014061638568440024.post-77416164273628354442012-04-19T13:59:00.000-07:002012-04-19T13:59:14.187-07:00Hindus – stepchild of Secularism in India<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;">Is the chronicle of secularism doctored in the realm of India? This single issue has been confounding Indians, in particular Hindus, through decades and truly, the dispute refuses to end as with each day it passes, the same is getting more baffling. And the role of political parties in India, regardless of their (alleged) ideological inclinations, has been no less in fuddling the issue. Secularism, to cut a log story short, as per western tradition, happens to be a doctrine that does decline religion along with religious considerations or does portray an institution where biasness to any particular religion finds no place in administration. Moreover, the Secular State, on the whole, doesn’t have the right to mistreat or placate any individual or community on the basis of personal religion. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;">Are all these perceived in India? I am eagerly waiting for a favorable answer even if this prospect is as bleak as the sun rays in a cloudy day! <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;">Secularism in India, these days, is being exemplified through mounting minorityism – in short, the interest of minority communities, in particular Muslims, has got to prevail others come what may and in this respect, other minority communities (be it ethnic or linguistic or religious) can also be sacrificed.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;">Where are Hindus then? They are nowhere; the religion in spite of its ancient heritage and high-flown humanist values has failed to retain a clout in the dominion of post-1947 India. And this disrepute is also the consequence of its own humongous faults – inordinate generosity and failure to abide by its own martial ethics (and to change it to cope with the changing reality). <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;">And the situation is right before us. While following Hinduism is being looked upon as sheer animism, Islamists are being regarded as the followers of a triumphant ideology who must be provided the first position to evade vicious onslaughts. State power of India is infected with this notion posing a grave threat to Hindus altogether. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;">The following calendar depicting national holidays depicts it more.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><br />
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<tr style="height: 15.0pt; mso-yfti-firstrow: yes; mso-yfti-irow: 0;"> <td style="border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; height: 15.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .75pt; padding: .75pt .75pt .75pt .75pt; width: 263.25pt;" valign="bottom" width="351"> <div style="vertical-align: baseline;"><b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Holiday</span></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div></td> <td style="border-left: none; border: solid black 1.0pt; height: 15.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid black .75pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid black .75pt; outline-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding: .75pt .75pt .75pt .75pt; width: 74.25pt;" valign="bottom" width="99"> <div class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;">Date</span></b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div></td> <td style="border-left: none; border: solid black 1.0pt; height: 15.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid black .75pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid black .75pt; outline-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding: .75pt .75pt .75pt .75pt; width: 69.0pt;" valign="bottom" width="92"> <div class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;">Day</span></b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div></td> </tr>
<tr style="height: 15.0pt; mso-yfti-irow: 1;"> <td style="border-top: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; height: 15.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .75pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .75pt; padding: .75pt .75pt .75pt .75pt; width: 263.25pt;" valign="bottom" width="351"> <div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;">REPUBLIC DAY<o:p></o:p></span></div></td> <td style="border-bottom-color: initial; border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left-color: initial; border-left: none; border-right-color: initial; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top-color: initial; border-top: none; height: 15.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .75pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .75pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .75pt; outline-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding: .75pt .75pt .75pt .75pt; width: 74.25pt;" valign="bottom" width="99"> <div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;">26-01-2012<o:p></o:p></span></div></td> <td style="border-bottom-color: initial; border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left-color: initial; border-left: none; border-right-color: initial; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top-color: initial; border-top: none; height: 15.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .75pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .75pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .75pt; outline-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding: .75pt .75pt .75pt .75pt; width: 69.0pt;" valign="bottom" width="92"> <div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;">Thursday<o:p></o:p></span></div></td> </tr>
<tr style="height: 15.0pt; mso-yfti-irow: 2;"> <td style="border-top: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; height: 15.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .75pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .75pt; padding: .75pt .75pt .75pt .75pt; width: 263.25pt;" valign="bottom" width="351"> <div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;">PROPHET MOHAMMAD'S BIRTHDAY (ID-E-MILAD)<o:p></o:p></span></div></td> <td style="border-bottom-color: initial; border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left-color: initial; border-left: none; border-right-color: initial; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top-color: initial; border-top: none; height: 15.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .75pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .75pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .75pt; outline-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding: .75pt .75pt .75pt .75pt; width: 74.25pt;" valign="bottom" width="99"> <div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;">05-02-2012<o:p></o:p></span></div></td> <td style="border-bottom-color: initial; border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left-color: initial; border-left: none; border-right-color: initial; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top-color: initial; border-top: none; height: 15.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .75pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .75pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .75pt; outline-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding: .75pt .75pt .75pt .75pt; width: 69.0pt;" valign="bottom" width="92"> <div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;">Sunday<o:p></o:p></span></div></td> </tr>
<tr> <td style="border-top: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .75pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .75pt; padding: .75pt .75pt .75pt .75pt; width: 263.25pt;" valign="bottom" width="351"> <div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;">MAHAVIR JAYANTI<o:p></o:p></span></div></td> <td style="border-bottom-color: initial; border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left-color: initial; border-left: none; border-right-color: initial; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top-color: initial; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .75pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .75pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .75pt; outline-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding: .75pt .75pt .75pt .75pt; width: 74.25pt;" valign="bottom" width="99"> <div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;">05-04-2012<o:p></o:p></span></div></td> <td style="border-bottom-color: initial; border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left-color: initial; border-left: none; border-right-color: initial; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top-color: initial; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .75pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .75pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .75pt; outline-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding: .75pt .75pt .75pt .75pt; width: 69.0pt;" valign="bottom" width="92"> <div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;">Thursday<o:p></o:p></span></div></td> </tr>
<tr style="height: 15.0pt; mso-yfti-irow: 4;"> <td style="height: 15.0pt; padding: .75pt .75pt .75pt .75pt; width: 263.25pt;" valign="bottom" width="351"> <div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;">GOOD FRIDAY<o:p></o:p></span></div></td> <td style="border-bottom-color: initial; border-left-color: initial; border-right-color: initial; border-top-color: initial; border-top: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; height: 15.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .75pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .75pt; outline-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding: .75pt .75pt .75pt .75pt; width: 74.25pt;" valign="bottom" width="99"> <div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;">06-04-2012<o:p></o:p></span></div></td> <td style="border-bottom-color: initial; border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left-color: initial; border-left: none; border-right-color: initial; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top-color: initial; border-top: none; height: 15.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .75pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .75pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .75pt; outline-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding: .75pt .75pt .75pt .75pt; width: 69.0pt;" valign="bottom" width="92"> <div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;">Friday<o:p></o:p></span></div></td> </tr>
<tr style="height: 15.0pt; mso-yfti-irow: 5;"> <td style="border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; height: 15.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .75pt; padding: .75pt .75pt .75pt .75pt; width: 263.25pt;" valign="bottom" width="351"> <div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;">DR. B.R. AMBEDKAR'S BIRTHDAY<o:p></o:p></span></div></td> <td style="border-bottom-color: initial; border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left-color: initial; border-left: none; border-right-color: initial; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top-color: initial; border-top: none; height: 15.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .75pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .75pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .75pt; outline-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding: .75pt .75pt .75pt .75pt; width: 74.25pt;" valign="bottom" width="99"> <div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;">14-04-2012<o:p></o:p></span></div></td> <td style="border-bottom-color: initial; border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left-color: initial; border-left: none; border-right-color: initial; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top-color: initial; border-top: none; height: 15.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .75pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .75pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .75pt; outline-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding: .75pt .75pt .75pt .75pt; width: 69.0pt;" valign="bottom" width="92"> <div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;">Saturday<o:p></o:p></span></div></td> </tr>
<tr style="height: 15.0pt; mso-yfti-irow: 6;"> <td style="border-top: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; height: 15.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .75pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .75pt; padding: .75pt .75pt .75pt .75pt; width: 263.25pt;" valign="bottom" width="351"> <div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;">BUDDHA PURNIMA<o:p></o:p></span></div></td> <td style="border-bottom-color: initial; border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left-color: initial; border-left: none; border-right-color: initial; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top-color: initial; border-top: none; height: 15.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .75pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .75pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .75pt; outline-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding: .75pt .75pt .75pt .75pt; width: 74.25pt;" valign="bottom" width="99"> <div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;">06-05-2012<o:p></o:p></span></div></td> <td style="border-bottom-color: initial; border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left-color: initial; border-left: none; border-right-color: initial; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top-color: initial; border-top: none; height: 15.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .75pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .75pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .75pt; outline-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding: .75pt .75pt .75pt .75pt; width: 69.0pt;" valign="bottom" width="92"> <div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;">Sunday<o:p></o:p></span></div></td> </tr>
<tr> <td style="border-top: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .75pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .75pt; padding: .75pt .75pt .75pt .75pt; width: 263.25pt;" valign="bottom" width="351"> <div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;">INDEPENDENCE DAY<o:p></o:p></span></div></td> <td style="border-bottom-color: initial; border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left-color: initial; border-left: none; border-right-color: initial; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top-color: initial; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .75pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .75pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .75pt; outline-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding: .75pt .75pt .75pt .75pt; width: 74.25pt;" valign="bottom" width="99"> <div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;">15-08-2012<o:p></o:p></span></div></td> <td style="border-bottom-color: initial; border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left-color: initial; border-left: none; border-right-color: initial; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top-color: initial; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .75pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .75pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .75pt; outline-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding: .75pt .75pt .75pt .75pt; width: 69.0pt;" valign="bottom" width="92"> <div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;">Wednesday<o:p></o:p></span></div></td> </tr>
<tr style="height: 15.0pt; mso-yfti-irow: 8;"> <td style="border-top: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; height: 15.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .75pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .75pt; padding: .75pt .75pt .75pt .75pt; width: 263.25pt;" valign="bottom" width="351"> <div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;">IDU-UL-FITR<o:p></o:p></span></div></td> <td style="border-bottom-color: initial; border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left-color: initial; border-left: none; border-right-color: initial; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top-color: initial; border-top: none; height: 15.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .75pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .75pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .75pt; outline-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding: .75pt .75pt .75pt .75pt; width: 74.25pt;" valign="bottom" width="99"> <div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;">20-08-2012<o:p></o:p></span></div></td> <td style="border-bottom-color: initial; border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left-color: initial; border-left: none; border-right-color: initial; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top-color: initial; border-top: none; height: 15.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .75pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .75pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .75pt; outline-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding: .75pt .75pt .75pt .75pt; width: 69.0pt;" valign="bottom" width="92"> <div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;">Monday<o:p></o:p></span></div></td> </tr>
<tr style="height: 15.0pt; mso-yfti-irow: 9;"> <td style="height: 15.0pt; padding: .75pt .75pt .75pt .75pt; width: 263.25pt;" valign="bottom" width="351"> <div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;">MAHATMA GANDHI'S BIRTHDAY<o:p></o:p></span></div></td> <td style="border-bottom-color: initial; border-left-color: initial; border-right-color: initial; border-top-color: initial; border-top: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; height: 15.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .75pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .75pt; outline-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding: .75pt .75pt .75pt .75pt; width: 74.25pt;" valign="bottom" width="99"> <div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;">02-10-2012<o:p></o:p></span></div></td> <td style="border-bottom-color: initial; border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left-color: initial; border-left: none; border-right-color: initial; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top-color: initial; border-top: none; height: 15.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .75pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .75pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .75pt; outline-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding: .75pt .75pt .75pt .75pt; width: 69.0pt;" valign="bottom" width="92"> <div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;">Tuesday<o:p></o:p></span></div></td> </tr>
<tr style="height: 15.0pt; mso-yfti-irow: 10;"> <td style="border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; height: 15.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .75pt; padding: .75pt .75pt .75pt .75pt; width: 263.25pt;" valign="bottom" width="351"> <div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;">DUSSEHRA (VIJAYA DASHAMI)<o:p></o:p></span></div></td> <td style="border-bottom-color: initial; border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left-color: initial; border-left: none; border-right-color: initial; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top-color: initial; border-top: none; height: 15.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .75pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .75pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .75pt; outline-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding: .75pt .75pt .75pt .75pt; width: 74.25pt;" valign="bottom" width="99"> <div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;">24-10-2012<o:p></o:p></span></div></td> <td style="border-bottom-color: initial; border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left-color: initial; border-left: none; border-right-color: initial; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top-color: initial; border-top: none; height: 15.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .75pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .75pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .75pt; outline-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding: .75pt .75pt .75pt .75pt; width: 69.0pt;" valign="bottom" width="92"> <div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;">Wednesday<o:p></o:p></span></div></td> </tr>
<tr style="height: 15.0pt; mso-yfti-irow: 11;"> <td style="border-top: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; height: 15.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .75pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .75pt; padding: .75pt .75pt .75pt .75pt; width: 263.25pt;" valign="bottom" width="351"> <div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;">IDU-UL-ZUHA (BAKRID)<o:p></o:p></span></div></td> <td style="border-bottom-color: initial; border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left-color: initial; border-left: none; border-right-color: initial; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top-color: initial; border-top: none; height: 15.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .75pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .75pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .75pt; outline-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding: .75pt .75pt .75pt .75pt; width: 74.25pt;" valign="bottom" width="99"> <div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;">27-10-2012<o:p></o:p></span></div></td> <td style="border-bottom-color: initial; border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left-color: initial; border-left: none; border-right-color: initial; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top-color: initial; border-top: none; height: 15.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .75pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .75pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .75pt; outline-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding: .75pt .75pt .75pt .75pt; width: 69.0pt;" valign="bottom" width="92"> <div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;">Saturday<o:p></o:p></span></div></td> </tr>
<tr style="height: 15.0pt; mso-yfti-irow: 12;"> <td style="border-top: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; height: 15.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .75pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .75pt; padding: .75pt .75pt .75pt .75pt; width: 263.25pt;" valign="bottom" width="351"> <div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"> DIWALI (DEEPAVALI)<o:p></o:p></span></div></td> <td style="border-bottom-color: initial; border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left-color: initial; border-left: none; border-right-color: initial; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top-color: initial; border-top: none; height: 15.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .75pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .75pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .75pt; outline-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding: .75pt .75pt .75pt .75pt; width: 74.25pt;" valign="bottom" width="99"> <div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;">13-11-2012<o:p></o:p></span></div></td> <td style="border-bottom-color: initial; border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left-color: initial; border-left: none; border-right-color: initial; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top-color: initial; border-top: none; height: 15.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .75pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .75pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .75pt; outline-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding: .75pt .75pt .75pt .75pt; width: 69.0pt;" valign="bottom" width="92"> <div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;">Tuesday<o:p></o:p></span></div></td> </tr>
<tr style="height: 15.0pt; mso-yfti-irow: 13;"> <td style="border-top: none; border: solid black 1.0pt; height: 15.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid black .75pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid black .75pt; padding: .75pt .75pt .75pt .75pt; width: 263.25pt;" valign="bottom" width="351"> <div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;">MUHARRAM<o:p></o:p></span></div></td> <td style="border-bottom-color: initial; border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left-color: initial; border-left: none; border-right-color: initial; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top-color: initial; border-top: none; height: 15.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .75pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .75pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .75pt; outline-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding: .75pt .75pt .75pt .75pt; width: 74.25pt;" valign="bottom" width="99"> <div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;">25-11-2012<o:p></o:p></span></div></td> <td style="border-bottom-color: initial; border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left-color: initial; border-left: none; border-right-color: initial; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top-color: initial; border-top: none; height: 15.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .75pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .75pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .75pt; outline-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding: .75pt .75pt .75pt .75pt; width: 69.0pt;" valign="bottom" width="92"> <div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;">Sunday<o:p></o:p></span></div></td> </tr>
<tr style="height: 15.0pt; mso-yfti-irow: 14;"> <td style="border-top: none; border: solid black 1.0pt; height: 15.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid black .75pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid black .75pt; padding: .75pt .75pt .75pt .75pt; width: 263.25pt;" valign="bottom" width="351"> <div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;">GURUNANAK'S BIRTHDAY<o:p></o:p></span></div></td> <td style="border-bottom-color: initial; border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left-color: initial; border-left: none; border-right-color: initial; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top-color: initial; border-top: none; height: 15.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .75pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .75pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .75pt; outline-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding: .75pt .75pt .75pt .75pt; width: 74.25pt;" valign="bottom" width="99"> <div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;">28-11-2012<o:p></o:p></span></div></td> <td style="border-bottom-color: initial; border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left-color: initial; border-left: none; border-right-color: initial; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top-color: initial; border-top: none; height: 15.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .75pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .75pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .75pt; outline-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding: .75pt .75pt .75pt .75pt; width: 69.0pt;" valign="bottom" width="92"> <div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;">Wednesday<o:p></o:p></span></div></td> </tr>
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</div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">In the said calendar, Islamic festivals revel in four holidays; Christian festivals have been rendered two national holidays while the majority Hindu community ought to remain happy with two national holidays only. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Secularism believes in fair treatment to all and appeasement to none. Isn’t it?<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Do Hindus get fair treatment? <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">If one says so, two words – partisanship and nonpartisanship – must be banished from English dictionary straight away. <o:p></o:p></span></div><br />
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