12-09-2008, 06:26 PM
My letter to a radio show:
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Dear Katty Kay,
I am a huge fan of yours, you are one of the role models of your profession, in my opinion, as is Diane Rehm.
I would like to bring certain facts to light regarding today's DR show about India, Pakistan, and the Mumbai terror. I could not call in, since I was driving, plus I would have had to call in 4-5 times!
1. Your guest talked about the "pogrom" in Gujarat. Well, 750 muslims and 250 hindus dies in this "pogrom". Hardly a pogrom (in which you would expect no deaths on the part of the executioners of the pogrom). The Gujarat riots were thoroughly reprehensible, but hadly a pogrom. They occurred because a crowd of muslims burnt alive 56 hindus religious/social workers. These 56 hindus were travelling together in the same bogey on a train. The train was stopped, stones were thrown on the bogey -just one bogey, the perpetrators knew which one to target- to make the occupants shut the windows, and then the bogey was set ablaze.
You will note that Los Angeles burnt for two weeks after a black man was merely *beaten up* by white cops. Some perepective, please!
2. Your guest said educated hindu youth of the RSS were talking calmly about a "pure" India, implying intolerance for muslims.
The RSS is the most tolerant organization when it comes to religion, it is absolutely intolerant of people who want to disguise their disloyalty to India as a requirement of their religion:
--Muslims who care only when muslims are hurt around the world, but do not give a damn if hindus are killed in India itself.
--Muslims and Christians who have no problems asking for subsidies to travel to Mecca or Jerusalem, but who erupt in anger when Hindus want subsidies (or at least proper facilities) too. (Read about the recent Amarnath situation).
3. Hindu Nationalism and the BJP: The Hindu Nationalists are being called terrorists because they have the temerity to ask for an end to muslim/christian appeasement (an electoral gimmick of the present government to guarantee minority votes).
--Minorities get subsidies (out of taxpayer money) for their pilgrimages. Hindus dont. Minorities get
money from Hindu temples; the money donated by Hindu faithful is quietly diverted to support muslim and christian schools and other causes.
--Hindus dont even get to run their own schools without being called terrorists, forget about getting money!! Tens of thousands of illegal (muslim mostly) Bangladeshi imigrants are given citizenship by the current government, since it knows that it is just adding votes to its kitty.
There are many other examples of blatant appeasement. The west does not know, and many Indians do not either. The BJP and its followers certainly do keep tabs on what is going on in India, and the current government does not like Indians to know. It just wants to portray the BJP as an rabid, fundamentalist party that is angry at muslims and christians.
4. Muslims being disenfranchised: I have several educated muslim friends, whose families gave shown that if the chooses to be educated, he can live a well-rounded, affluent life. However, many muslims choose the other path available to muslims: have as many children as possible, and send them to madrassas of quasi-madrassas. The status of such parents increases in muslim society, and the children are alienated from the mainstream. Is that the hindus' fault?
5. Kashmir: When India was partitioned, the princely state of Kashmir said it wanted a year to decide whom to join, India or Pakistan. So it was given a year. But Pakistan could not wait a year. Within 2 months, the Pakistan Army and irregulars invaded Kashmir. They started looting and raping. The Hindu prince came to Delhi and asked for Indian aid, even the islamic spiritual head of Kasmit wanted India to stop the looting. India agreed on the condition Kashmir accede to India. The prince and the islamic spiritual head agreed, and so the Indian Army went in and drove out the invaders. We would have driven them all out, but Pakistan went to the UN, and so our army was called back. The part of Kashmir which was still to be liberated from teh invaders is called "Pakistan Occupied Kashmir".
Also, about the "indigenous freedom struggle" of the Kashmiris news outlets are fond of talking about: Does any news outlet care that 350,000 Hindu Kashmiris were cleansed out of the Kashmir valley by rape, arson, and lynching? These poor Hindus are living in tents in a state just south of kashmir.
Please challenge your guests (or any caller) about their opinions..use this email to do so. Or get an RSS spokesman on the panel. It is easy to label Nationalist Hindus as fanatics. But there must be a reason why the nationalist Hindu movement is gaining prominence in India! Hindus do not go on jihads or crusades. Many don't eat meat because they don't want to kill animals. Hindus don't even knock on your door and ask you to convert to Hinduism to avoid going to hell. But Hindu Nationalists are terrorists. Don't you think there is something wrong with this picture?
I am Hindu. If you think I am biased, please read articles by Francois Gautier if you want a non-Hindu's views on India. There are thousands of references I could send you to buttress my arguments, most of which you could google for yourself. Most are collated on Hindu Nationalist websites. But as long as such websites are seen as anathema, the truth will stay dispersed all over the web, and will never be visited.
Regards,
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Dear Katty Kay,
I am a huge fan of yours, you are one of the role models of your profession, in my opinion, as is Diane Rehm.
I would like to bring certain facts to light regarding today's DR show about India, Pakistan, and the Mumbai terror. I could not call in, since I was driving, plus I would have had to call in 4-5 times!
1. Your guest talked about the "pogrom" in Gujarat. Well, 750 muslims and 250 hindus dies in this "pogrom". Hardly a pogrom (in which you would expect no deaths on the part of the executioners of the pogrom). The Gujarat riots were thoroughly reprehensible, but hadly a pogrom. They occurred because a crowd of muslims burnt alive 56 hindus religious/social workers. These 56 hindus were travelling together in the same bogey on a train. The train was stopped, stones were thrown on the bogey -just one bogey, the perpetrators knew which one to target- to make the occupants shut the windows, and then the bogey was set ablaze.
You will note that Los Angeles burnt for two weeks after a black man was merely *beaten up* by white cops. Some perepective, please!
2. Your guest said educated hindu youth of the RSS were talking calmly about a "pure" India, implying intolerance for muslims.
The RSS is the most tolerant organization when it comes to religion, it is absolutely intolerant of people who want to disguise their disloyalty to India as a requirement of their religion:
--Muslims who care only when muslims are hurt around the world, but do not give a damn if hindus are killed in India itself.
--Muslims and Christians who have no problems asking for subsidies to travel to Mecca or Jerusalem, but who erupt in anger when Hindus want subsidies (or at least proper facilities) too. (Read about the recent Amarnath situation).
3. Hindu Nationalism and the BJP: The Hindu Nationalists are being called terrorists because they have the temerity to ask for an end to muslim/christian appeasement (an electoral gimmick of the present government to guarantee minority votes).
--Minorities get subsidies (out of taxpayer money) for their pilgrimages. Hindus dont. Minorities get
money from Hindu temples; the money donated by Hindu faithful is quietly diverted to support muslim and christian schools and other causes.
--Hindus dont even get to run their own schools without being called terrorists, forget about getting money!! Tens of thousands of illegal (muslim mostly) Bangladeshi imigrants are given citizenship by the current government, since it knows that it is just adding votes to its kitty.
There are many other examples of blatant appeasement. The west does not know, and many Indians do not either. The BJP and its followers certainly do keep tabs on what is going on in India, and the current government does not like Indians to know. It just wants to portray the BJP as an rabid, fundamentalist party that is angry at muslims and christians.
4. Muslims being disenfranchised: I have several educated muslim friends, whose families gave shown that if the chooses to be educated, he can live a well-rounded, affluent life. However, many muslims choose the other path available to muslims: have as many children as possible, and send them to madrassas of quasi-madrassas. The status of such parents increases in muslim society, and the children are alienated from the mainstream. Is that the hindus' fault?
5. Kashmir: When India was partitioned, the princely state of Kashmir said it wanted a year to decide whom to join, India or Pakistan. So it was given a year. But Pakistan could not wait a year. Within 2 months, the Pakistan Army and irregulars invaded Kashmir. They started looting and raping. The Hindu prince came to Delhi and asked for Indian aid, even the islamic spiritual head of Kasmit wanted India to stop the looting. India agreed on the condition Kashmir accede to India. The prince and the islamic spiritual head agreed, and so the Indian Army went in and drove out the invaders. We would have driven them all out, but Pakistan went to the UN, and so our army was called back. The part of Kashmir which was still to be liberated from teh invaders is called "Pakistan Occupied Kashmir".
Also, about the "indigenous freedom struggle" of the Kashmiris news outlets are fond of talking about: Does any news outlet care that 350,000 Hindu Kashmiris were cleansed out of the Kashmir valley by rape, arson, and lynching? These poor Hindus are living in tents in a state just south of kashmir.
Please challenge your guests (or any caller) about their opinions..use this email to do so. Or get an RSS spokesman on the panel. It is easy to label Nationalist Hindus as fanatics. But there must be a reason why the nationalist Hindu movement is gaining prominence in India! Hindus do not go on jihads or crusades. Many don't eat meat because they don't want to kill animals. Hindus don't even knock on your door and ask you to convert to Hinduism to avoid going to hell. But Hindu Nationalists are terrorists. Don't you think there is something wrong with this picture?
I am Hindu. If you think I am biased, please read articles by Francois Gautier if you want a non-Hindu's views on India. There are thousands of references I could send you to buttress my arguments, most of which you could google for yourself. Most are collated on Hindu Nationalist websites. But as long as such websites are seen as anathema, the truth will stay dispersed all over the web, and will never be visited.
Regards,