aug 1st, 2006
from a correspondent: yes, why isn't anyone calling varkey a racist communalist imperialist running dog or whatever? where are you, n. ram?
besides, it's interesting to read between the lines:
1. the christist godman is implicitly admitting that it's better (for anyone) to live in a place where hindus are the majority rather than mohammedans. this is blindingly obvious to all, but godmen never admit this.
2. the mohammedans are increasing their numbers through massive fertility (malappuram district, which was carved out as a mohdan-majority district by marxists some time ago, has fertility that is at least double or triple that of other districts in kerala). the christist response: massive conversion of hindus and the grabbing of as much land as possible.
the poor hindus are being decimated and impoverished, and driven to suicide.
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The July 31, 2006 print edn of The Pioneer (New Delhi) carries on p.4 a report
titled "Kerala could become an `Islamic' state in 20 years: Cardinal Varkey",
primarily because, according to the Cardinal, Muslim men have more than one
wife, and Muslim wives are prolific breeders, told each to each produce six
little Muslims or more.
Readers will recall the "secular" uproar that follows any such demographic
projection or reasoning made by "Hindus". Now here is a Prince of the Church
saying what "Hindus" say! Let us see if our "secularists" condemn the Cardinal!
4 comments:
>>why isn't anyone calling varkey a racist communalist imperialist...
its obvious that doing so would hurt the 'minority' (read Christian) sentiments...and lest he be clubbed together with those 'communlaists' Hindu brigade...its better to keep mum.
Also, calling the messenger of God would amount to blasphemy, ain't it...and that would be tantamount to India shedding its culture of 'tolerance' (read: Hindus let the folks from other religions, and even ur own brethren walk all over you)...
Wait...till this guy retracts and blames media for distorting his pearls of wisdom and taking them totally out of context...
All,
Please indulge me in this rather lengthy reprisal to Mr. Tharoor ...
First of all of course, is the existential dilemma of the expatriate that Tharoor captures rather well. Everyone who is away from the motherland is in a state of Cognitive Dissonance. Racism (discreet or otherwise), a lack of moorings, phone conversations with friends and family etc. all causing a yearning for home. And when you go home the corruption, the sheer physical discomfort that is India (Bangalore in any case), the impending sense of doom - all leading to foreign shores. It's a case of Buyer's Remorse - not once but twice over.
That is where truthfulness of Tharoor's analysis ends. Here is why
1- Babbar Khalsa for Sikhs, Eelam for Lanka Tamils, IRA for American Irish - but has any American Hindu funded killers or terrorists? Is there empirical, documented evidence of American Hindus providing cash to killers - if not then why cast us in the same mould?
2- I love it when they drop names like the "Hindu humanist Swami Vivekananda" - If Tharoor the Prized Idiot had actually read what Swamiji wrote he would have realised it was not all that different from what the "extremist expats" proclaim.
Swamiji was a "rabid communalist" - to use todays label for such thought. Incidentally his stance on Christian Missionaries hardened as he spent more time in America. First (15 Sep 1893) telling them that they were also as everyone else, merely Koop Mendakahas - but when the calumny of the Christist was raised to a shrill pitch (21 Feb 1894) it lead to the famous mud flinging exhortation. Such hardening in 5 months!!!
If even Swamiji is hardened in 5 months, why is Tharoor agitated if ordinary mortals are "extreme"?
But even that is not the point. can you imagine what would happen if Swamiji came back and uttered those same words in Detroit? What would the likes of Tharoor say? will they be scurrying around appearances on CNN defending him as a "Hindu humanist"? Or will they publicly refute the works of a brilliant scientist called Nikola Tesla for being influenced by Swamiji's "extremist" thought?
3- Brother Tharoor - the exile is no more "Self-hating" than you are. In fact I can attest from the example of my own life (raised as a typical middle class Delhi Brown Sahib) that cultural awareness about our past started only when I became an American Suburbanite.Greater assurance of economic affluence, expanded opportunities to learn, all lead to a greater need for self understanding. And through self-understanding comes self-repect.
True self-hatred is exibited only by those that turn away from their own inheritance so that they can "fit in" into the "global culture"....or "be accepted" as it were . And for what? A spotlighted seat on the world's greatest gravy train. This is the extent of this "moderates" contribution to the world. To become a leading light in a body or irrelevance..... Oh for the joy of a steady UN job....
if we are severed digits yearning for a hand - you my kind friend are a servile head, yearning for an ass so that it may be raised in an effort to kiss!
Interesting site. Interesting author. Interesting comments. Kudos Rajeev, my first reply in about 6 years of following your articles.
GhostWriter's point 3 very well taken. If it was not for point 3 or Rajeev's and Varsha's articles, I would never have begun this journey of self-understanding...
Excellent points in 1,2 and 3.
How WELL WILL India's masses know and learn from point 2? How can it be made possible?
Have you ever given a thought as to why there are dozens, even hundreds of pseudo-secular, Hindu-hating Indian public figures? To my mind, there is only one logical explanation and that is - an average Indian is ignorant, unmindful of the excesses these people commit.
Think about it. There is enough carrot in writing against Hindus (Islamic and catholic money, China-Russian money, congress bakshis, underworld money and so on). There are enough sticks too. Anyone writing against Islam/catholic/Congress will be ostracized by mainstream media.
On the other hand, will Hindus ever retaliate? Will Hindus ever reward someone who will write for them and risk his career in media? Will BJP/RSS reward such people? I doubt. (BJP rewarded more secular journalists than congress did, I would guess. )
Hindus have no hope till 90% of them happily read Indian Express (and similar newspapers after paying for it) and watch NDTV. Simply put, there is no such entity as HINDU. Those living in India and not Muslim/Xtian/Parshee/Jew etc are Hindus. They are the remainders, not a prime group.
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