INDIAN INSTITUTE FOR RESEARCH INTO TRUE HISTORY
NEWSLETTER
NO. 54 OF 16 OCTOBER 2009
1.
NEWS AND CURRENT AFFAIRS
1.1 Package offered.
Godbole now offers a package of his books and a CD. The books are -
Taj Mahal: Simple Analysis of a Great Deception. (2nd edition 2007)
Why
Rewrite Indian History (2nd edition 2007).
The CD has nine PowerPoint presentations: -
1st is on historical arguments on Taj Mahal (125 slides)
2nd is called Unseen Taj Mahal (91 slides)
3rd is called How the Taj legend grew (240 slides)
Taj Chronology 1/2/3/4 (information in tabular form)
Taj
Mahal – a PPT presentation (useful for a one hour programme)
*
Special London Tour (see below)
On
4 July, Godbole handed over one set to Dr Prakash (son of Baba Amte who had devoted
his life for the service people affected by leprosy).
On 19 September, Godbole handed over one set to Anandiben Patel, Revenue Minister
in
Narendra Modi’s cabinet in Gujarath.
>
Shree Yelloji-rao Mirajkar from America wrote – “I have read the books and
presentation regarding Tejomahalaya and re-writing history. They are good.”
>
Dr M Godbole of Rochdale, purchased eight sets for distribution among his friends.
1.2 Article on Taj Mahal
Godbole’s article – Taj Mahal: It is time to tell the truth, was published in Bharat Speaks, published by Patriot’s Forum, New Delhi. The issue is Volume II/ Issue 2 (April- June 2009), pp 15 to 18.
* On 29 July Godbole received an E Mail from America
Dear Dr. Godbole, Namaste! “I read your research on Taj Mahal. I congratulate you for doing this research. When late P.N.Oak talked about it, people did not trust him. We need research to be checked by independent scholars. You have done that work. Thanks “ Dr N.R.Joshi
(Note – Godbole
did not set out to check Oak’s research. He simply wanted to find out the truth.)
* On 25 August Godbole received following E Mail from Hindusthan
Dear Sir,
Very recently I had read your Marathi article on Tajmahal referred to me by Dr. Vikas Amte (see 2.1 below). I had also read a book by Mr.P.N.Oak in Marathi (Taj Mahal he Tejo mahalaya ahe) on this very subject.
Surely Govt of India may not like to uncover this topic for obvious reason.
Many
many thanks for nice article.
Nitin Joshi (Jalagav – Maharashtra)
1.3 Godbole’s Website
All of Godbole’s research is now on the following web-site http://www.satyashodh.com/.
Summaries of ALL newsletters up to NL 47
have been added. Godbole is now working on summaries of newsletters 48 to 52.
1.4 Web-site on Savarkar
Please visit www.savarkar.org and let Godbole
have your reactions. Godbole came across a photo of Savarkar with his signature,
in a Marathi magazine named Deeplaxmi. He immediately sent it to Dr Shreerang
Godbole of Pune for inclusion in the web-site. It can be sent to you if you so
wish.
1.5 P N Oak’s petition to High Court
On 25 June 2009, Yogesh
Saxena sent us an E Mail from America. In it he proudly reproduced P N Oak’s
petition to High Court at Allahabad on Taj Mahal. We are appalled at such waste
of time and energy by P N Oak. The writ petition was made in 2004. Mr Godbole
asked Saxena, “What was the ruling of the High Court?” Saxena did not reply.
1.6 Dhingra remembered in England
On 17 August 1909 Madanlal Dhingra was executed in Pentonville Prison for killing Sir Curzon Wyllie, Political A.D.C to the then Secretary of State for India.
In
his memory, Godbole organised a Special Tour of London on 16 August.
On 15 August 2009 a public meeting was organised in Birmingham by Indian Workers Association (IWA) of Great Britain. The place was Holyhead School, Holyhead Road, Handsworth, Birmingham B21, 0HN
Speakers were – Atvar Jouhal – General Secretary of IWA.
Harpal Brar – Editor of Lalkar and President of Communist Party of Great Britain.
Dave
Roberts – Socialist Labour Party.
1.7 Our blame culture
We are always ready to blame others for our failures. On 30 May 2009, Hemant Padhya sent us an E Mail --
Anti-Savarkar Congress-led Central Government
has not done anything for 11 years on the project approved by the French Government!
Pune
(Maharashtra): Swatantryaveer Vinayak Damodar Savarkar had jumped into the sea
in France and the incident will complete 100 years on 8th July 2010. The French
Government has granted permission to erect a memorial of Swatantryaveer at Marseilles
port. But the proposal is lying with the Central Government for the last 11 years.
Fans of Savarkar have therefore, decided to start a signature campaign and submit
a representation to the President, Pratibhatai Patil.
Source: Daily Sanatan Prabhat
Godbole
wrote: “But MM Singh government had not been in power for last 11 years. What
were Bajpayee /Advani doing???
Dr
Madhukar Ambekar of London replied - “You are 100% right that Vajpayee/ Advani
did not do any thing BUT what about 55 Years of Rule of Congress who opposed
Savarkar's ideals? The Bureaucrats and Civil Servants who ought to be loyal to
Nation are subservient to Congress Leaders for their promotions and were heading
all & every Govt' departments during Vajpayee and Advani period. How can Vajpayee/Advani
change the whole system which is dependent on corruption in every walk of life?
We can not change our own kids to follow our ideals how can we expect the Civil
servant's and Bureaucrat's loyalty to change over night in five years.
Godbole
replied – “Well, why don't you ask the question to Bajpayee and Advani? Let
them answer the question. Let them speak. Why are they keeping quiet???. We are
not talking about changing the attitude of Civil servants overnight, just why
BJP Govt did nothing for Savarkar’s memorial at Marseilles?
There
was no reply. Dr Ambekar would not seek answer from Atal Bihari Bajyapee and L
K Advani. He is merely please by blaming the civil servants brought up under Congress
Party Governments!! That will not do.
1.8 Gandhi! Gandhi!!
On Sun, 5/4/09, Jyotishi
<jyotish2000@ yahoo.com> wrote to [media_monitor5@yahoogroups.
Subject: Obama says India, Pakistan's enemy should be poverty
KWQC-TV / The Associated Press / April 2, 2009
President Barack Obama says India and Pakistan's greatest enemy should be poverty, not each other. He met with Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh at the G-20 meeting in London And later told a news conference that he suggested it would "make sense" for the two nuclear-armed neighbours to have "a more effective dialogue." Obama says they discussed the terrorism emanating from Pakistan, but focused more broadly on how the U.S. and India can cooperate on counter-terrorism.
(Excerpt)
Read more at: http://www.kwqc. com/Global/ story.asp? S=10119960
Ram Gopal from New Delhi reacted -
Dear friends,
Obama
is absolutely wrong to say that India's and Pakistan's enemy should be poverty.
Even before the idea of 'Pakistan' was conceived, its parents knew that their
enemy was Hindu. After its birth, Pakistan's all time enemy number has been Hindu
India and its next major enemy is its own financer-cum- patron, the USA. Pakistan
differs from Osama Bin Laden in latter's priority, namely, for Laden, his first
enemy is the USA and India is just the second.
Manmohan Singh, India's Prime Minister, whom Obama was trying to sermonise is equally a blind man led by another blind man to think that (Hindu) India can have friendly relations with Pakistan.
Godbole wrote – “We can understand the smugness and arrogance of Obama. But why can't we pay him in his coin? He praises Mahatma Gandhi and sends 17,000 American troops to Afghanistan!!! Is that not hypocrisy? “
“What is he doing about the plight of Indian Tribes in America?”
“We
will never ask such questions as long as we have pictures of Gandhi on every single
Rupee Note whether 10 Rs or 1,000Rs.”
“And
that's why Americans love Gandhi so much.”
On this Devinderji Thakur of London commented -
Shree
Godboleji, You have raised a very interesting point about the hypocrisy of Obama
praising Gandhi, and at the same time sending 17,000 troops to Afghanistan. As
far as I know his admiration of Gandhi goes back to the days of the black Civil
Rights leader, Dr Martin Luther King and his peaceful movement about the rights
of the black American citizens and his admiration for Gandhi is matter of a personal
opinion. Sending troops to Afghanistan, on the other hand, is a matter for the
American state trying to fight the Islamic terror spearheaded by the Al Quaeda
and now by the Taliban Movement, which is not only threatening the American people
world wide but also other Nations.
You
then question the picture of Gandhi appearing on the Indian currency notes but
do not say what would you like to see it replaced by ??
Godbole
replied – “Dear Devinderji, The problem is that we do not have guts to ask
such questions. You can't pick and choose Gandhi's policies to suit you. Gandhi
loved Muslims who hounded Hindus (including Sikhs) out of Pakistan. Why can't
Obama love the Talibans and win them by non-violence?”
“We had grandson of Martin Luther King visiting Hindusthan praising Gandhi.
My
question is - why does he not go to Darfur (in Sudan) to preach Gandhi's philosophy
to the African women there???”
On this D Thakur replied -
Godboleji, The Gandhian
peaceful mass movement worked well where people had to fight for their rights
against a major (or imperial) power). I am afraid this principle does not apply
to the Taliban type of movement who want to spread their version of Islam throughout
the world by violent means. They are not missionaries of Islam. The fact that
they are now fighting other Muslims within an Islamic state proves the point.
Godbole’s comments – so, why was there so much blood-shed in Vietnam, Algeria, Rhodesia and many other parts of the world?
Shree Thakur
was born and lived in Punjab, had witnessed horrors of Partition. He now lives
in London and still he has the audacity to say – in place of Gandhi, whose photos
can we put on Indian currency notes? (Thakur suggest that there is no one else)
1.9 Caste system in Maharashtra
Ashok Chowgule noted an interesting article
Subject: [media_monitor5] Bhujbal lamblasts party men for caste hatred
Author: Express News Service / Publication: The Indian Express / Date June 11, 2009
In what might turn out to be an embarrassment for the NCP and its chief Sharad Pawar, deputy chief minister Chhagan Bhujbal has lambasted party-men for promoting caste hatred and thereby damaging the party.
Speaking at a meeting organised by the Mumbai unit of the NCP to celebrate the tenth foundation day of the party and felicitate newly elected MPs on Wednesday, Bhujbal said: "Don't insult anyone on the basis of his caste, even if he is from an opposition party, because when we do, it hurts the entire community to which the person belongs and the party has to pay a price for it".
Terming the victory of his nephew, Sameer, from Nashik Lok Sabha constituency as "historic and sensational" he urged party workers to shun casteism. Bhujbal, who is an OBC leader, was referring to the polarisation of Marathas against Sameer on the basis of caste. Sameer ended up winning with it slender margin of about 21,000 votes.
"Don't run down a person because he belongs to a particular caste," he said, "We always speak about secularism and then some of us indulge in casteism. It is wrong." He pointed out that while Pawar, as the chief minister, had taken decisions like accepting Mandal Commission recommendations and renaming Marathwada University after Dr Babasaheb Ambedkar, some NCP members were not able to rise to that level.
"People ask me why I speak so openly on issues which are not to be talked about. I think it is necessary because nobody else does. What do you do when you have fever? You call a doctor because unless he treats it, you won't be cured. You don't allow it to continue and suffer silently," he said. He urged party-men to accept the reality and take measures to set things right.
Referring to the issue in his speech, state NCP chief R R Patil said there was a need to fight for a secular outlook. "Even today there are some villages in Maharashtra where Dalits are not allowed entry in temples and access to water sources," he said, adding, "We can't allow these things to happen. We can't remain silent spectators. We have to crush these caste worms".
Comment – It is interesting to note that Brahmins are NOT being blamed for society’s ills. This had been the fashion till now.
1.10 Terrorist attack in Mumbai
Ashok Chowgule sent us another important E Mail on 23 June 2009.
Subject: [media_monitor5] Don't Play Games
Author: Editorial / Publication: Times of India / Dated: June 19, 2009
Intro: The Pradhan committee report is too important to be politicized
If the fracas over the tabling of the Ram Pradhan committee report in the Maharashtra legislative assembly is anything to go by, the lessons of the November 26 attack on Mumbai have taken a backseat to politics. The Congress-Nationalist Congress Party government has deemed the information contained in the report too sensitive to be made public, opting to table a watered down action-to-be-taken report instead. The opposition, predictably, has reacted furiously. And in the bickering over the apportioning of blame in the report, the basic fact that there were and remain gaping holes in the country's security architecture has been glossed over. This is not acceptable.
Chief minister Ashok Chavan's volte-face despite his assurances that the report would be tabled is not surprising. Claims that strategic security reasons and the ongoing Ajmal Kasab trial have necessitated it seem flimsy. The more likely reason is the state assembly elections that are coming up in a few months. The security lapses leading up to and during 26/11 could turn out to be a poll-time talking point. At such a time, a report that purports to investigate these lapses is bound to become politically sensitive. Allegations and counter-allegations about the police force's performance have been flying thick and fast. But to squabble over such issues is to miss the forest for the trees. The systemic flaws that were exploited in Mumbai and could be exploited again cannot be wished away. The Maharashtra police's plans to upgrade their equipment, for instance, have been stalled in red tape. Likewise, the state Security Council set up in the aftermath of the attack has done little to justify its existence. The coastline still remains vulnerable.
Given these exigencies, politicising the report could prove to be a dangerous misstep. The September 11, 2001attack on New York provides a comparable context. The 9/11 commission report published in its wake was an exhaustive, bipartisan effort. The country's security systems were examined and assessed, strengthened where needed and bolstered with new additions when necessary. The contrast is less than flattering. The only conscionable course of action is for the report to be tabled. If there are issues with some of its conclusions, they can be taken up subsequently. The opposition, for its part, must refrain from using it as a political football. The great danger is that the contentious issues in the report will divert attention from actionable conclusions and the security revamp plans drawn up in the aftermath of the Mumbai attack. Both political factions must ensure that this does not happen. The issues at stake are too serious to let petty politicking interfere.
1.11 Why we can’t tell the truth?
Many people still ask us the silly question, If what you say about Taj Mahal is true, why don’t Indian Historians support you?” Let us see what happens to those who speak the truth, today
Author: Editor Publication: Indian Express Dated: June23, 2009
In 1971, Daniel Ellsberg came across top-secret US defence documents on the Vietnam War. These Pentagon papers, as they came to be known, chronicled the lies told to justify the Vietnam War. Ellsberg made these documents public, turning the tide of US public opinion firmly against the war. For his services, he was prosecuted, threatened with violence, and his phone bugged. Though later acquitted, Ellsberg's tribulations first highlighted the need for protecting whistle-blowers.
Thirty-eight years later, the death of a Bihar PWD engineer only reiterates this need. Yogendra Pandey had upset powerful interests by cancelling a road contract for non-performance. In response he was beaten; the arrested culprit soon released on bail. Pandey then asked for police security, a request that was trapped in red tape before permission was finally granted a full year later. Even then, no cops were deployed around Pandey; when he died, he died alone. Preliminary indications suggest that Pandey joins the ranks of Satyendra Dubey and Manjunath Shanmugam - whistle-blowers whom the state failed to protect.
Pandey's killing also exposes a major flaw in the proposed whistle-blower protection laws that the government has floated. These proposals - like the Public Interest Disclosure (Protection of Informers) Bill 2002 and the Law Commission's 179th report - focus on ways to help whistle-blowers circumvent confidentiality agreements. This is necessary - often whistle-blowers are gagged by confidentiality contracts (in the private sector) or secrecy laws (in the public sector) that prevent them from revealing chicanery. These proposals also set up in-house disclosure mechanisms. But these proposals do not include physical protection for whistleblowers like Pandey against the inevitable retribution that his courage invited. A new law, with this addition, should be passed immediately.
That Pandey died while blowing the whistle on murky road contracts makes it all the more poignant. Improving India's creaky infrastructure is the new Central government's priority area. But pouring money into roads risks bloating the very elements who killed Pandey and makes people like him all the more critical. It is hoped that the lessons of his tragic death are heeded. (We still have courageous persons like him!)
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2.
AROUND LONDON TOUR OF PLACES ASSOCIATED WITH INDIAN FREEDOM FIGHTERS
2.1 Godbole conducted three such tours.
First
one was on 4th July 2009. It was in honour of Dr Prakash (son of late
Baba Amte who had devoted his life to the service of people affected by leprosy)
and his wife Mandakini. In addition to the couple, five men and three women attended,
all in their early 30s.
Second one was on 16th August. This was specifically organised to mark the centenary of Dhingra’s martyrdom. He was executed on 17 August 1909. Thirteen people participated. This time we visited Sir Curzon Wyllie’s house (10 Onslow Square),
St Paul’s Church nearby where
memorial service for Wyllie was held. Godbole read out a list of British dignitaries
who attended the service, including Lord Curzon, former Viceroy of India. The
group also visited Imperial College – site of former Imperial Institute –
where Dhingra killed Wyllie. They also visited the house where Dhingra lived.
Third one was on 10 October. The participants were – Rajiv Dixit, an associate of the Yoga teacher Ramdeobaba, Chandrakant – new Sangh Pracharak in Britain, Nilesh Sakpal, his wife and two friends, Shree Karkhanis and Danee. Shree Karkhanis had once travelled from Mumbai to Rome on a motor-bike. He also travelled from Mumbai to Calcutta on a motor-bike.
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2.3 This tour is mentioned on
(http://www.hinducounciluk.
3
Visit to Hindusthan
3.1 Muslim terrorists from Pakistan came to attack Mumbai in November 2008.
There are so many questions to be answered. Let us just mention two -
* No autopsy on dead Police officers. How did they die?
*
Boat seized by Muslims pretending to be on a sinking ship – see example of such
stupidity of Hindus in Dandekar’s book Baya Daar Ughad – on days before
birth of Shivaji. He describes similar incident in 1635. Have we learnt nothing
from our past?
4.
BEHAVIOUR OF CHRISTIANS AND MUSLIMS TODAY
4.1 The Muslims
UK: Muslim prisoners complain about sharing cells with infidels, are accommodated
"They were said to be unhappy at praying and eating near non-Muslims at Birmingham’s Winson Green jail." "Muslim prisoners get their own cells after sharing row," by Ian Gallagher for the Daily Mail, June 21, 2009:
A prison has agreed to give Muslims their own cells after they complained about sharing with other inmates. They were said to be unhappy at praying and eating near non-Muslims at Birmingham’s Winson Green jail.
It is thought to be the first time inmates have been segregated by religion. Prison bosses have decided to place them with other Muslims, or give them single cells when space is available. More than 1,400 inmates, including murderers and robbers, are housed at the jail.
‘So far around 15 Muslim inmates have been accommodated either by being moved to a cell with another Muslim or put on their own,’ said a prison source. ‘They initially asked for their own wing but this was turned down.’
In June 2006, a High Court judge warned that Ministers must find cash to cope with growing prison numbers and called for an end to forced cell sharing. Mr Justice Keith’s concerns were included in his report into the racist murder of Asian prisoner Zahid Mubarek by his cellmate Robert Stewart at Feltham Young Offenders’ Institution in West London.
The judge called for a new concept of ‘institutional religious intolerance’ to combat prejudice against Muslim inmates.
There has also been concern among the 200-strong Muslim contingent in Winson Green about the halal meat served there. It had been prepared on site but, after complaints, is now brought in by an authorised supplier at what is thought to be extra cost.
One prison officer said: ‘This has caused resentment because it is felt the Muslim inmates are getting special treatment.’ A Prison Service spokesman said: ‘Prisoner requests to share cells can be accommodated in some circumstances, such as prisoners sharing religious and dietary needs. All requests are subject to a risk assessment.’
About ten per cent of the 80,000-strong jail population in England and Wales is Muslim.
4.2 Caste system among Muslims
http://www.economist.com/
Grumbling and rumbling:SHIAS in the Gulf
Feb. 26,
2009
Shia unhappiness is rattling
regimes in Saudi Arabia and elsewhere in the Gulf
Like
the crude oil that lies in vast pools beneath the Persian Gulf, tensions between
the region’s Sunni and Shia Muslims tend to stay below ground. But when pressures
build and a ready channel is cleared, they can bubble to the surface with alarming
force. Thirty years ago the Islamic revolution in Shia-majority Iran inspired
a wave of unrest among fellow Shias of the opposite shore. Things then calmed
down. Nervous Arab rulers, all of them Sunnis, soothed their Shia subjects with
a few rights and promises of more, while Iran largely gave up trying to export
its revolutionary fervour.
But
with Iran lately sounding more aggressive under President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad,
small incidents are again triggering bigger eruptions. On February 20th, for instance,
a group of female pilgrims visiting the most revered Shia site in Saudi Arabia,
a cemetery in Islam’s second-holiest city, Medina, where hundreds of the Prophet
Muhammad’s descendants are said to have been buried, screamed when they spotted
what they guessed was a religious policeman filming them from on top of a security
wall. Male relatives, outraged by this invasion of modesty, demanded the footage.
Instead, the all-Sunni police
force arrested five of them, sparking a riot by thousands of Shia pilgrims, more
arrests and injuries. Repeated protests over several days then spread from Medina
to Saudi Arabia’s Eastern Province. That province contains many of the kingdom’s
Shia minority, numbering about 10% of Saudis, as well as most of its oil reserves.
As Shia clerics weighed in with
calls for an end to what they called systematic persecution, Sunni extremists
accused the rafida, an abusive term for Shias, meaning rejectionists, of
acting as a fifth column for Iran. “Today they besiege the religious police,”
howled one website commentator. “Tomorrow they will encircle the Eastern Province
along with the Shias of Bahrain and with Iranian backing.” The Saudi king should
“strike them with an iron fist”, declared the writer. Another suggested that
the Shias be hurled into the Red Sea or, better still, dropped onto the Iranian
shrine city of Qom.
Mention of
Bahrain carries particular resonance. It was in this tiny neighbouring island
kingdom, where two-thirds of the citizens are Shias and where the American Fifth
Fleet is based, that sectarian troubles loomed alarmingly in the 1980s. More recently,
in December, Bahrain’s authorities accused 35 Shias of plotting to overthrow
the state. Since then, sporadic riots have rocked the poor Shia villages that
ring Bahrain’s capital, Manama. In January three human-rights campaigners were
arrested. This week 21 people, including two of the human-rights activists, appeared
in court, accused of planning to ambush policemen and bomb public property, shopping
malls, markets and hotels.
Yet
when Iranian politicians recently sniffed that Bahrain used to be an Iranian province,
Bahrain’s main Shia parties were quick to reaffirm their Arab identity, joining
a chorus of Arab protest that led some commentators to remark pointedly that several
Iranian provinces happen to house large Arab and Sunni populations. Fearing damage
to the reputation it has tried to build as a defender of pan-Islamic causes, Iran
hastily apologised to Bahrain.
The
ugly nearby example of sectarian strife in Iraq, though it has subsided in the
past two years, has left little appetite in the region for more trouble of that
kind. Despite suspicions of their loyalty, Shia Arabs tend to look not to Iran
but to their own spiritual leaders for guidance.
Yet
with Iran determined to chase the Arabs’ American ally from the Gulf, and with
Shia Arabs often still suffering political exclusion and social stigma, unrest
is likely to break out from time to time. Considering local, regional and international
variables, a clash between the Saudi regime and its Shia citizens is a matter
of time, reads an ominous analysis on a popular Saudi website._.____
4.3 Muslims in
China
From: MediaWatch
To: mm ; geo-politics@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [media_monitor5] China asks Pakistan, other countries to unearth links with Urumqi violence
8
Jul 2009, 2045 hrs IST, Saibal Dasgupta, TNN
BEIJING:
Even as additional security personnel and machinery poured into Urumqi, the Chinese
foreign ministry has got into action asking several countries including Pakistan to prove their friendship by taking a stand on the issue. Beijing wants
several countries to unearth the links between their citizens and the World Uyghur
Congress.
A worried Hu Jintao,
secretary-general of the Communist Party of China
and the country's president left the G8 summit in Italy and rushed back to Beijing
on Tuesday night as it dawned on Chinese authorities that the Urumqi violence
might set off a chain reaction and eventually affect the party position.
The
Communist Party boss of Urumqi said the local government will seek death penalty
for those involved in the killing of 156 people during the orgy of violence on
Sunday. Li Zhi, the local party boss, said the streets of the city are totally
under the control of security forces.
The
authorities also launched a concentrated effort to connect with all communities
with the help of leaflets dropped from airplanes and appeals made through loud speakers telling people to stay calm and
eschew violence.
Li made a significant
revelation saying most of those detained for the violence were young students.
This may not be good news for authorities, who were hoping that the young would
be charmed by promises of modern development instead of carrying forward the old
struggle for an independent East Turkmenistan nation.
A
section of Uyghur Muslims have been demanding a separate nation in the northwest
Chinese region of Xinjiang for many years.
China
wants several countries including Pakistan, Afghanistan, Kazakhstan, Turkey, Germany
and the United States to help unearth links between their local citizens and the World Uyghur
Congress, which Beijing considers to be behind the violence in Urumqi. One report
suggested that foreign ministry officials are in talks with envoys of Afghanistan
posted in Beijing on the issue.
The
government had earlier issued a white paper, which showed that a large number
of Xinjiang terrorists have been trained in training bases in Pakistan. The Turkic
speaking Uygurs have close links with Kazakhstan and Turkey while the WUC operates
from Germany
and United States.
Russia came
out with a statement confirming that it "views the Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous
Region as an inalienable part of the People's Republic of China and considers
that events there are purely the internal affair of China". The statement was
apparently issued after persuasion from Beijing.
The
moves suggest that China has further evidence about rioters in Urumqi getting
support from sources based in foreign countries. But reports from the north-western
city suggest that there was still a high level of fear and distrust among both
the Ughyur and majority Han communities about a possible reoccurrence of violence.
Radhasyam Brahmachari sent us the following E Mail on 5 September 2009
Subject: [media_monitor5] Fresh protests in Urumqi - AFP
http://www.thestatesman.net/
URUMQI, 4 Sept: Chinese
police used tear gas to disperse fresh protests in the restive north-western city
of Urumqi today, state media reported, one day after tens of thousands took to
the streets here. The Xinhua news agency said the latest protest occurred in the
city centre at the entrance to Nanhu Square, where police were blocking about
1,000 protesters from entering. It did not give further details. The brief report
also said about 100 young protesters had massed on Jiefangnan Road near the Muslim
quarter. Earlier, an AFP journalist witnessed a separate protest involving about
1,000 demonstrators, most of them Han Chinese, who faced off with armed police,
denouncing the government and throwing plastic bottles at security forces. The
demonstration took place about a block away from the Xinjiang region’s government
headquarters in People’s Square, where mass protests involving tens of thousands
erupted yesterday. The crowd repeatedly scuffled with riot police, shouting “Release
him! Release him!” whenever they tried to subdue a protester who had challenged
them. At one point, protesters demanded the resignation of the regional Communist
Party chief, yelling: “Wang Lequan, step down!” Hundreds of regular and armed
police reinforcements rushed to the scene and eventually dispersed the crowd,
about one hour after the incident began. Not far from the scene, hundreds more
security forces were on standby. Armed police fanned out across the tense city
today, one day after tens of thousands of people protested over a series of mysterious
syringe attacks that residents blame on the region’s Uighurs, a mostly Muslim
ethnic group. “The government is really lame. Everybody can see that now. It’s
been two months and they still have not dealt with this properly. How can that
be?” asked Wang Jinren, who watched today’s protest from his jade store. ;AFP
From: yashwini1@yahoo.com
To: media_monitor5@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Saturday, July 18, 2009 5:17 AM
Why Indians Are Silent On Uighur Brutalities?
http://www.southasiaanalysis.
I was in receipt of a question from a Chinese reader of my articles on the Urumqi uprising asking why the Indians are silent on the brutalities committed by the Uighurs on the Han Chinese. The reply sent by me is given below:--
In India, people are worried over the brutality of the Uighur jihadis to the Han Chinese civilians. I personally support strong action by the Chinese security agencies against those involved in riots and violence. I am sure in their heart of hearts many Indians will feel the same way against the trouble-makers. At the same time, they don't say it openly because the Chinese authorities remained silent when the jihadi terrorists in Kashmir acted in the same way as the Uighur rioters.
Moreover, the Chinese delegation to the UN opposed the declaration of the Lashkar-e-Toiba as a terrorist organisation till the LET attacked in Mumbai in November last. Both India and China face jihadi terrorism emanating from Pakistan. They should jointly combat it. That is possible only if China stops helping Pakistan and considering it an ally.
(The writer is Additional
Secretary (retd), Cabinet Secretariat, Govt. of India, New Delhi, and, presently,
Director, Institute For Topical Studies, Chennai. He is also associated with the
Chennai Centre For China Studies.E-mail: seventyone2@gmail.com)
Our comments – (1) We must learn from our enemies. China is our enemy number one. We should take every opportunity to embarrass Chinese government. This time we must play the Human Rights card, shout for protection of minorities.
(2) It is absurd to suggest that India and China should be allies in fight against terrorism, just as foolish as Obama’s suggestion that India and Pakistan should fight poverty and not each other.
(3) What happened to the Islamic brotherhood of Man? We have been told time after time – you hurt one Muslim and the entire Muslim population of the world would be after you.
We did not see protests
anywhere in the world.
4.4
An important web-site dealing with growing Muslim problem all over the world
is www.jihadwatch.org,_._,___
4.5 Christians
4.5.1 Local Dalit Christians demand their own bishops
On
10 May yashwini1@aol.com sent the following
E Mail to: Unitedhindufront@googlegroups.
http://www.free-press-release.
May 4, 2009
Bhopal , May 5, 2009 : Mr. R.L. Francis is the National President of the Dalit Christians organization known as ‘Poor Christian Liberation Movement’ (PCLM). On May 2, 2009, in Bhopal, Mr. R.L. Francis along with his companions, Rev. Fr. William Premdass Chaudhary and Mr. P.B. Lomeo (Editor of the Church Restoration, Bhopal, Monthly) toured to the Christians colonies in Bhopal and listened and discussed local / Dalit Christians’ problems. Mr. Francis says that the churches are responsible for the pathetic condition for Dalit Christians in India.
Mr. Francis says that church authorities
are spending cores of rupees in order to spread their kingdom through preaching.
There are around two hundred (200) catholic dioceses, in India, which follow rules
and regulation of Vatican and in the coming of fifty years (50) there will be
more dioceses in India.
Mr. Francis
says that if Catholic Church spends more money for the development and enlistment
rather than on preaching then the condition of Dalit Christians, who are wounded
sheep of this fold, will improve their condition and they will have better opportunity
in their lives.
Mr. France says that the church authorities have best educational institutions in India. There are about four to five per cent Christian population in India but churches have hold on around twenty two per cent (22%) of educational institutions and thirty per cent (30%) of health care. Next to government, the churches are the biggest land owners in India.
In spite of having enough facilities with the church yet Dalit Christians’ condition is deteriorating. There are fifteen per cent (15%) Dalit Christians in the cities and forty per cent (40%) Dalit Christians in the rural areas are illiterate in spite of having best convent schools in the church. Thousand of Tribal girls are forced to do the work as Aaya in the rich families. These girls are coming from Tribal areas where there are no job opportunities. These girls (Aayas) are physically molested and mentally tortured.
source: FPR
Churches are not taking
enough care of these girls. In Madhya Pradesh (M.P.) alone, in spite of less Christians
population, catholic church have cores of rupees and enough means to provide better
education and job to Dalit Christians. In Madhya Pradesh the church have more
then one hundred and fifty (150) High schools and half of them are convent schools.
In Bhopal alone catholic church have the property, movable and unmovable, worth
of more than six hundred crores (600) yet Christians’ condition is not improved.
The church property and money are being used by the authorities as they wish.
The members of Poor Christian
Liberation Movement, Rev. Fr. William Predass Chaudhary and Mr. P.B. Lomio explained
to the local Christians about Mr, Anand Benard’s, who is the only member of
minority commission of Madhay Pradesh government, suggestion to the M.P. government
to form like a Waqf board.
4.5.2
Bigotry alive for Christian Dalits
By Sunil Raman
BBC News, Eraiyur
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/
sunanda
thali sent us this E Mail on 6 July 2009
The
village came up around the parish church, Lady of the Rosary Parish Centuries
ago, as their forefathers faced social and economic deprivation, many low-caste
Hindus embraced Christianity. But in one corner of southern India, their hopes
for equality remain unfulfilled hundreds of years on. Called "pariahs", hundreds
of Dalit Christians continue to face discrimination - not from Hindus but fellow
Christians.
More than 200km (124
miles) from Chennai, the capital of the southern state of Tamil Nadu, is the village
of Eraiyur. Home to about 3,000 Dalit Christians, mostly farm labourers and migrant
workers, the area witnessed violence last year when Dalits demanded equal treatment.
The village is dominated by Vanniyar Christians numbering 15,000, who own most
of the land and businesses. They imposed restrictions on Dalits even though they
had also converted to Christianity.
Restricted life
The village came up around the parish church, with Vanniyar houses closest to it. The Dalits were forced to build their small huts on the fringe of the village. It did not take long for the divisions within the Hindu social system to be reflected among the new Christians. The dominant Vanniyars created rules which restricted the movement of the Dalits. When they visited the parish church they were not allowed to walk on the main street leading to the building. Instead they had to use a side street that led to the church gate.
When Dalits died they were not allowed to be buried in the cemetery. Their burial ground is beyond the village and can only be accessed through a broken path. In addition, the funeral cart parked inside the church building can be used only by Vanniyars. "We were told not to touch any upper caste person, not to get too close to them, not to talk to them," says Mrs Peraiyamaka, 60, a farm labourer who has been visiting the parish church since childhood. "It is no different now." Mr Thomas, a 60-year-old labourer says there is also a fear of violence as young Dalits refuse to be submitted to such humiliation. He says this fear prompted the Dalits to build an alternative church. A single-room, white-washed brick structure with an iron grill for the entrance is set in a small open ground called Our Lady of Perpetual Help, the Dalit church has a coloured icon of Virgin Mary with Baby Jesus in her arms. She is flanked by plastic flowers and incense sticks burn on the sides.
The Dalits' demands of recognition for their church were rejected by local Catholic priests on the ground that a village can have only one parish church. There is no big change after we came to Christianity. We have very good Christian names, We read Bible and got to Church instead of temples.
Mr
Mathew, Dalit activist Mr Mathew is a Dalit activist who graduated from Madras
University. Having faced prejudice as a schoolboy, he has now decided to fight
for the rights of Dalits. His efforts to seek justice have created tension in
his village, forcing him to move to elsewhere. He is angry that although the constitution
has banned "untouchability" it continues to be practised in different ways. "My
family may get some minimum help or guidance from Christianity. That's all. There
is no big change after we came to Christianity," says Mr Mathew.
Vanniyars disgruntled
Dalits are demanding that their
church be recognised. As we walked out of the Dalit quarters towards the well
laid-out area where Vanniyar Christians live under the shadow of the whitewashed
parish church, we were greeted by a few angry women. They did not want us to take
pictures and asked us to leave. A few angry residents of Vanniyar quarters gathered
around us. They agreed to answer our questions. Emily, 25, was eager to give their
version of the story. "We have allowed them to use the road. They are creating
trouble," she says. We asked her how in a free country one group could dictate
to others on the use of a public road. "I don't know. It's been like this… but
we have now allowed them," Emily replied.
Similar
responses came from other Vanniyars we spoke to.Mr Arukadas, a retired government
teacher lives next to the parish church and he shared his unhappiness with the
Dalit Christians. Asked about using a common funeral van and a graveyard where
all Christians irrespective of their past Hindu caste identity can be buried,
he retorted: "It will take a long time for a common graveyard."
4.5.3 Divisions among Christians and Muslims
Another interesting E Mail came from Om Naidu
Sent:
Saturday, December 06, 2008 6:38 PM
You
know the Latin Catholic will not enter Syrian Catholic Church
These
two will not enter Marthoma Church
These
three will not enter Penthacost Church
These four will not enter Salvation Army Church
These
five will not enter 7th day Adventist Church
These
six will not enter Orthodox Church
These
seven will not enter Jacobite Church
Like
this there are146 castes in Kerala alone for Christianity, each will never share
their churches for Christians
Wonderful! One Christ, One Bible, One Jehova. What a unity!
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Among Muslims, Shia and Sunni kill each other in all Muslim countries.
The
religious riot in Muslim countries is always between these two.
The
Shia will not go to Sunni mosque
These
two will not go to Ahmadiya mosque.
These
three will not go to Sufi mosque
These
four will not go to Mujahiddin mosque
Like
this it appears there are 13 castes in among Muslims, killing, bombing, conquering,
massacring each other. (Note - there are far more castes among Muslims. See
the 1901 census of India carried out by the British)
4.6
Christians and Muslims
4.6.1 We had received an interesting E Mail through Media Monitor
Anti Islam Islamophobia
Italy Demolishes Verona Mosque
http://www.daily.pk/world/
Sunday, 25 May 2008 12:30
Italy's far-right, anti-immigrant Northern League party has started its mission in the new government with bringing down a mosque in the northern city of Verona.
"[The mosque destruction] reinforces Muslim fears of seeing the League in the ruling coalition," Ali Abu Shwaima, the head of Milan-based Islamic Centre, told. Bulldozers brought down last week a building housing a Muslim prayer room in the city. "I never felt at ease with this mosque," Elisonder Antonneli, the head of Verona city council, said. "This place will be turned into a park and a car parking space and will be named after (Italian writer) Oriana Fallaci."
Fallaci, who died in 2006, was notorious for anti-Islam stances. Following the 9/11 attacks, the far-right writer published a book entitled "Rage and Pride" in which she ridiculed the Noble Qur'an. She has also authored another book "The Force of Reason" in which she warned that Europe was turning into "an Islamic province, an Islamic colony" and that "to believe that a good Islam and a bad Islam exist goes against all reason."
The Northern League has four ministers in Silovio Berlusconi's government, including the portfolio of the Interior. The League grabbed 8 percent of the vote in last month's general elections, securing Berlusconi's right-wing coalition a comfortable majority in the parliament. The party has nearly doubled its parliamentary strength from 4.5 percent two years ago. The Northern League is widely accused of racism with many critics calling it the BNP of Italy, a reference to the British right-wing party. Its election campaign played on issues such as immigration crime and economic and cultural fears from immigration. Hard Time Abu Shwaima, the Muslim leader, said Italian Muslims will face hard times under the far-right league.
"We believe the life of Italian Muslims will get more complicated," he said. He said Muslims in the city of Verona used to find spiritual comfort at the razed mosque. "The mosque destruction is sign of spiralling Islam phobia in many European countries," he said.
There are nearly 20,000 Muslims in Verona.
"I used to pray in the mosque for years," an Italian Muslim in Verona told IOL, requesting anonymity. "But this Friday I went to the mosque for prayers but I could not as it was razed. "We live in a state of anticipation and fear after the mosque was destroyed and we want Arab and Muslim governments to pile pressures on Italy to stop anti-immigrant and anti-Islam policies." Abu Shwaima, the Muslim leader, has a similar message.
"We want to tell the Muslim world that mosques' construction in Italy is almost a mission impossible. "Except for the Milan-based Islamic Centre and the Rome mosque, there are no real mosques in Italy."
Last
November, former Italian deputy Education Minister and League member Mariella
Mazzetto angered Muslims after parading a pig on the site of a planned mosque
in the northern city of Padua. Two months earlier, League senator Roberto Calderoli
called for a "Pig Day" protest against the mosque construction in the northern
city of Bologna.
In 2006, protesters
left a pig's head at a mosque building site in the central Italian city of Tuscany.
Italy has a Muslim population of some 1.2 million, including 20,000 reverts, according
to unofficial estimates.
Comments – how interesting! We are always told that there is an Islamic Brotherhood of man. You hurt one Muslim and the entire Muslim world will pounce on you. What happened? We are not aware of any ripples in the Islamic world because of this demolition. It is all a fiction of imagination to scare Hindus. It is we Hindus who are always so scared of every body.
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4.6.2 Six Christians burnt alive in Pakistan violence
Sat Aug 1, 2009 10:23am EDT
http://www.faithfreedom.org/
Islamabad (Reuters) - Six Christians, including four women were burned alive in clashes with majority Muslims in a town in central Pakistan on Saturday, officials said. Tension has been running high between the two communities in Gojra town in central Punjab province over allegations that Christians had desecrated a Koran. Clashes erupted early on Saturday, with an exchange of fire from the members of the two communities. Television footage showed burning houses and streets strewn with blackened furniture and people firing at each other from their rooftops. Shahbaz Bhatti, minister for minorities, said a mob "misled by religious extremists," attacked a Christian neighbourhood and torched dozens of houses. "We have received six bodies of people who died of burn injuries. They included four women, one man and one child," Abdul Hamid, a Health Ministry official in the town told Reuters by telephone. Rana Sanaullah, provincial minister for law, who is also responsible for security matters of Punjab, condemned the attack and said an inquiry had been ordered. However, he said, a preliminary investigation showed there was no desecration of the Koran. "It was just a rumour which was exploited by anti-state elements to create chaos," he said. "I request both Muslim and Christian communities to show restraint," Sanaullah said, adding the government would take strict action against rioters and also police who failed to stop the violence.
Pakistan is a predominantly Muslim nation and religious minorities, including Christians, account for roughly 4 percent of the 170 million population. Muslims and minorities largely live in harmony but there have been periodic attacks on Christian targets in Pakistan since it became a U.S. ally following the September 11 attacks on the United States. (Reporting by Zeeshan Haider; Editing by Alison Williams)
Sent
by R Brahmachari on 2 August
What happened afterwards?
Pakistan Christians shut schools to mourn killings
Publication: The Times of India / Date: August 3, 2009.
Islamabad : Pakistan's Christian leaders say they have closed their schools and colleges across the Muslim-majority country for three days to mourn and protest the killings of eight of their religious brethren. Hundreds of Muslims stormed a Christian neighbourhood in Gojra city on Saturday, burning dozens of houses. Six Christians were burned to death and two died of gunshots. The violence was prompted by allegations that some Christians had desecrated a Quran. Bishop Sadiq Daniel says the Christians' want to register their anger and concern peacefully. He said Monday that the government must “bring all perpetrators of the crime to justice.”
A spokesman for Pakistan's president said a judicial panel will probe the incident.
Comment – How come Sonia Gandhi is
silent about this?
5. How history gets twisted, even today
5.1 History of Shivaji
On 14 June Ashok Chowgule informed us -
Subject: [media_monitor5] Govt 'changed history under pressure: Uddhav Thakare
Author: Express News Service Publication: The Indian Express / Date: June 7, 2009
Criticising the ruling Congress-NCP combine for changing school textbooks which mentioned Maratha warrior Dadoji Konddev as the martial art teacher of Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj, Shiv Sena executive president Uddhav Thackeray has said that the government bowed to pressure from caste groups.
Some Maratha groups had been advocating that Dadoji Kondev was not Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj's mentor and demanding the omission of his name from primary school history textbooks. Konddev's name has been substituted with Shivaji's father Shahaji Raje in this year's history textbook for the primary classes.
"Under pressure from caste groups, the Congress-NCP government has modified history," said Uddhav.
Uddhav also sought an explanation from the government and the Maratha organisations as to why, during Babasaheb Bhosale's tenure, the government had bowed to minority group pressure and removed sections about Shivaji's bravery. "Why are these people who bow before the minorities objecting to the glory of Dadoji Konddev?" Uddhav questioned.
Uddhav went on to say that the Sena's demand to rename Aurangabad as Sambhaji Nagar, was opposed by the same Maratha groups. Uddhav attacked the groups for being silent on several other 'Maratha' issues, and only sticking to their opposition to Konddev. He has warned the government against bending to pressure from these groups.
5.2
How history gets twisted even today
http://satyameva-/ jayate.org/ 2009/05/29/ eminent-historians-rebuttal/
"Eminent Historians": Lies & Lies
B. Shantanu
Many
of you must have read a report in The Hindu from a few weeks ago by unnamed “Eminent
Historians” titled, “From ‘India Shining’
to ‘India was Shining’“. The report
(dt. 3rd May) appeared to be an amateurish attempt at trashing some of the claims
made in the BJP’s manifesto regarding India’s past and heritage.
It
had excerpts from the BJP’s manifesto and brief counter-points dismissing the
claims and assertions. Curiously - in spite of being authored by “Eminent Historians”
- it was surprisingly light on references and historical sources.
Dr.
J. K. Bajaj and Dr. M. D. Srinivas of the Centre for Policy Studies,
Chennai subsequently compiled a detailed rebuttal which was published on several
sites on the web.
I am posting
some excerpts from the original news-report as well as the rebuttal for the sake
of record (and personal reference). If this is the first time you are hearing
about this matter, please read on:
First, some excerpts from report in The Hindu.
The excerpts from BJP’s manifesto are in italics. The comments by “Eminent Historians” are in blue.
Indian
civilisation is perhaps the most ancient and continuing civilisation of the world.
India has a long history and has been recognised by others as a land of great
wealth and even greater wisdom…Indians, particularly educated under the system
of education imposed by the Britishers, have lost sight of not only the cultural
and civilisational greatness of India, but also of its technological achievements
and abounding natural resources.
India
is not the most ancient civilisation. Civilisation is generally defined as having
city cultures and that would make Egypt, Mesopotamia and China older. Nor is it
the only continuous culture since China has a continuous culture that is older.
According
to foreigners visiting this country, Indians were regarded as the best agriculturists
in the world. Records of these travels from the 4th Century BC till early-19th
Century speak volumes about our agricultural abundance which dazzled the world.
The Thanjavur (900-1200 AD) inscriptions and Ramnathapuram (1325 AD) inscriptions
record 15 to 20 tonnes per hectare production of paddy.
Agricultural abundance varied over time and space. There was no uniform abundance at all times. Joshi quotes inscriptions from Thanjavur but does not say which one. In AD 1054 (the period he speaks of as producing 20 tons per hectare of paddy) there is also a record that the area of Alangudi in Thanjavur Dt. suffered severe famine, so severe that even the state could not help the people and they finally went to the temple and sold their land to the temple treasury to get money to buy food from elsewhere. [M.E.A.R. 1899-1900, 20]
Famine
was common and is mentioned in Indian texts. We do not have to go looking for
certificates of merit from foreign visitors. References are made to anavrishti
and ativrishti and locusts as the cause. Famine is referred to in the Ramayana
[1.8.12 ff] and the Mahabharata [12.139] and in the latter it led to people eating
all kinds of unsavoury things. The frequency of references to the 12-year famine
is found in many texts. Manu in his Dharma-shastra states that in times of famine
social codes can be dispensed with. [102 ff] The Jatakas refer to famines. [1.75,
etc;]
It has been established beyond doubt by the several reports on education at the end of the 18th Century and the writings of Indian scholars that not only did India have a functioning indigenous educational system but that it actually compared more than favourably with the system obtaining in England at the time in respect of the number of schools and colleges proportionate to the population, the number of students in schools and colleges, the diligence as well as the intelligence of the students, the quality of the teachers and the financial support provided from private and public sources.
Contrary
to the then prevailing opinion, those attending school and college included an
impressive percentage of lower caste students, Muslims and girls.
There
were no schools or colleges as we know them today in ancient India. Upper caste
children were educated in mathas, agraharas and sometimes monasteries. Children
following a profession were apprentices in that profession. Lower castes and women
were not educated generally. In Sanskrit plays they are the ones who speak the
vernacular language Prakrit whilst the upper caste, educated persons speak Sanskrit.
India
knew plastic surgery, practised it for centuries and, in fact, it has become the
basis of modern plastic surgery. India also practised the system of inoculation
against small pox centuries before the vaccination was discovered by Dr. Edward
Jenner.
India had no practice of plastic surgery until modern times. Nor did India know about vaccines.
Fa-Hian, writing about Magadha
in 400 AD, has mentioned that a well organised health care system existed in India.
According to him, the nobles and householders of this country had founded hospitals
within the city to which the poor of all countries, the destitute, the crippled
and the diseased may repair.
“They
receive every kind of requisite help. Physicians inspect their diseases, and according
to their cases, order them food and drink, medicines or decoctions, everything
in fact that contributes to their ease. When cured they depart at their ease.”
The Chinese pilgrims visiting India — Fa Hien and Hsuan Tsang — make a brief mention of sick persons being treated by having to fast for seven days and being given some medicine. This was probably the treatment given to sick monks in monasteries. There were no hospitals
.
Also
see :
http://indiaview/. wordpress. com/2009/ 03/13/muck- we-teach-
children/
http://www.youtube/. com/watch? v=zgf86k8C62g
http://www.youtube/. com/watch? v=56ycwBFCnBQbole G
Godbole
asked – why do YOU call them “eminent historians?” Why not just say so
called Historians?? The fault lies with us.
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