From the mailbox: Distorting to claim a mythical history

nov 14th

so much for the various claims of christists and (less so) mohammedans about their glorious history of 'secularism' in kerala.

the fact of the matter is:
1. christism came to kerala with thomas of kanaa in 345CE, a refugee from syria. the thomas apostle business is a complete fabrication intended to give a) christism the status of 'indigenous religion', b) to give the inferiority-complex ridden christists a claim to high caste.

2. christists and marxists are the people most concerned about caste in india. you have seen this on this very blog. the hindus are not bothered about caste, but the christists are very much bothered about it. you'll also have noticed that any christist who manages to snag a brahmin woman as wife and convert her to christism is mighty thrilled about it and will mention it all the time: 'my wife is a hindu brahmin'...

3. most christists in kerala are smart ezhavas, nairs and sc/st who realized that they were going to get some opportunities (monetary inducements in particular) and latched onto christism. now their descendants want to claim namboodiri ancestry. alas, there were *no* nambudiris in kerala when the alleged thomas came to kerala. nambudiris came to kerala around 500 CE. even if there were, the nambudiris would have had to be completely nuts to listen to some wild-eyed barbarian preaching some crazy stuff. because by converting, they would have gone from top of the heap land-owners to marginal peasants. nobody in their right mind would do this.

4. all the so-called 'records' christists claim exist about thomas and also all their great family traditions are, not surprisingly, church records! not exactly the most objective of records, shall we say? going by church history, fabrications and hoaxes are the name of the game.

5. one other thing we need to note. there were wealthy landowning families with tharavad/manorhouse names. their peasant serfs *did* not have tharavad names, but were known as xxx of abc tharavad. actually, i remember as recently as in my childhood my family's peasant serfs were referred to as 'our family xxxx' and so forth. so when these serfs converted, they would have been referred to as 'of abc tharavad' in the church records. now the christists claim, 'see, the abc tharavad, nambudiri landowners converted'.

6. the other rationale for making these claims of antiquity is for cultural appropriation. notice how a christist claimed here that 'onam is a kerala festival, not a hindu festival'. similarly, hindu cuisine has now become kerala cuisine and even 'syrian cuisine', hindu architecture has become 'traditional kerala architecture', hindu dress has become 'kerala dress', and hindu temple customs like the big oil lamps have become 'kerala customs', hindu ayurvedic traditions have become 'kerala traditions'. when they have fooled everyone that christism is an 'indigenous religion', they will then claim that the christists brought the cuisine, the dress, the architecture and the customs. that is the plan: and this is total expropriation of intellectual property, capture of regional appellations (like champagne) and so forth. big-time capture of the IPR in addition to the large-scale capture of the land, which the christists simply took, with the british and now the chandy-mani types in government colluding vigorously.

kerala is doomed, i tell you. it just remains to be seen when the first columns of hindu refugees will have to start travelling to bihar and orissa. because in the meantime tamil nadu and andhra would also have been completely christism-occupied.

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From: R
Date: Nov 7, 2005 9:11 AM
Subject: Distorting to claim a mythical history
To: rajeev

["As a part of the 'new strategy' church is following a less intransigent attitude towards birth control" - Please check the no. of kids for most of your X-ian family friends from India, It will be min. 3. This strategy they have been following for the last 2 decades, even after the govt. made the 2-child policy and it continues even now 'by mistake'...

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Distorting to claim a mythical history
Dr. C.I. Issac

The religious minorities of Kerala, particularly Christians and Muslims, are proud of their historical past. However, these days they have started to feel a sense of insufficiency of their historical value. Since the days of Portuguese, stories regarding the first century of Common Era (CE) origin and aristocratic beginning began to circulate widely amongst the Kerala Christians. Later on this articulated tradition got deep rooted with the Christian faith. Scholars even from amongst the Christian community began challenging the historicity of the legend that claims the noble descent and first century origin of Indian (Kerala) Christianity. Those who supported the first century origin of Christianity mainly highlighted some mystifying stories related to certain saints and churches. The veracity of the stories associated with these monuments is doubtful. This is because the architectural style that was adopted in constructing these churches (structures) does not match the style that prevailed in that period.

Similarly, the Muslims of Kerala were a peace loving national community until the days of the expeditions of Hyder Ali and Tippu Sultan. Thereafter, they were forced to transform themselves into fanatics. The seeds of fanaticism that were sowed by the Mysorian invaders were reaped in the bumper harvest during the days of the Mopla Riot of 1921 (Malabar Riot). The Muslim fanatics who were at the front of the Hindu massacre during the course of the Malabar Riot are now christened as freedom fighters and comrades, respectively, by the Right and Left coalitions of Kerala. This is the thumbnail portrait of the contemporary politico-social structure of the Muslim social formations of Kerala. But recently as a result of the GEB (Gulf Economic Boom), the Muslim community of Kerala also began to think of rewriting their history by incorporating the story of a rich and distant past. As the Christians of Kerala did they also coddled themselves in fabricating a so-called history of Islam in Kerala – a history of Hindu kings converting to Islam and attributed antique value to a few of their mosques.

In order to evade enquiries from the students of history, such monuments of religious importance are being demolished without preserving the relics of antique value and new and lofty structures are being contructed in their place with granite slabs (with inscriptions on them) claiming that at the site of the new building there was another one dating back to the days of the founder of their religion. Today the process of the demolition of churches and mosques is happening at an extensive and unprecedented rate. A set of would be secular historians with vested interest is supporting the Christian and Muslim historio-graphical exercise (distortions). All these necessitated an enquiry into the antique values of the Christian and Muslim places of worship that are subject to the demolition exercise and into the (religious hierarchical) social psychology behind their reconstruction. ...................................