INDIAN INSTITUTE
FOR RESEARCH INTO TRUE HISTORY
NEWSLETTER NO. 39
OF
1. NEWS AND CURRENT AFFAIRS
1.1 An apology
We are sorry for
not being able to produce the newsletter due on 16 June.
1.2 Rationalism of Veer
Savarkar ( in English )
Progress so far
Prologue/ Preface
and parts 1 to 7 have been through revision 1 stage
Parts 8 and 9 are
being studied by Pandit Ramakrushnayya of London.
Part 10 remains
to be translated. It is hoped that the first draft of the book would be ready
by end of this year.
1.3 Lecture on
Veer Savarkar
RSS workers in
1.4 Visit to
In June, Godbole
went to
* Two
get-togethers were arranged. One in
* In
ON THIS SITE
BETWEEN SEPTEMBER 11 AND 27, 1893
SWAMI VIVEKANAND ( 1863 –1902 )
THE FIRST HINDU MONK FROM
TO TEACH VEDANTA IN
ADDRESSED THE WORLD’S PARLIAMENT OF
RELIGIONS, HELD IN CONJUNCTION WITH
THE WORLD’S COLUMBIAN EXPOSITION
HIS UNPRECENDENTED SUCCESS
OPENED THE WAY FOR THE
DIALOGUE BETWEEN EASTERN AND WESTERN RELIGIONS
*
Recently, Hindus
have built temples in
(1) Lord Ganesh
has the honour of being worshipped before any other gods. His statue must
therefore be at the front of any temple. He is not just one of the gods.
(2) Rama and
Krushna are both black and must not be depicted as white gods. Rama’s name is
Savalaram – dark as a shadow, while Krushna is called Ghanashyam – dark as
cloud.
*
In
And why do we
erect Gandhi’s memorials and print his picture on every currency note in
* Godbole was
shocked to find out that our Gujrati brothers in
1.5 Death of
Sudheer Phadake
Just six months
after release of the film on Veer Savarkar, Sudheer Phadake the producer died
in Mumbai on 29 July 2002. He was 83. An obituary by Godbole was published in
July/August issue of the magazine Sangh Sandesh.
1.6 Dog meat
Westerners always
laugh at Hindus for not eating beef. But when they realised that in South Asian
countries like
Dr Dog meat
muzzled as
“ Hounded by pet
lovers, a South Korean firm has scraped a conference promoting the eating of
dog meat, which was also intended to answer international critics ahead of the
World Cup finals there in June.”
“ One hundred dog
meat restaurant owners were due to take part in the event outside
Brigitte Bardot
the former famous French actress has also been protesting about eating dog
meat. We found the following letter in Metro, the
V Thornton of
Berkshire wrote, “ Rosie Nichhitta asks why Brigitte Bardot specifically picked
on South Korean dog-eating habits ( Metro 28 May). Is it not so much what they
eat but what they do to these poor creatures before killing them that is the
problem.”
“ Most of these
dogs are tortured to death. They are bludgeoned or electrocuted, then
blowtorched to burn off their hair and brown their skin, sometimes while still
alive. These horrific methods are used to ‘tenderise flesh and improve the
aphrodisiac quality of meat’ by the massive release of adrenaline into body
tissues.”
“The more the
creature suffers, the more flavourful and beneficial the meat is thought to be.
Although some disgraceful behaviour happens in our slaughterhouses, thankfully
this barbaric behaviour does not routinely happen to your Sunday roast beef.”
[ Our Comment -
What the reader says is true. Now we are faced with a dilemma. South Koreans are
Buddhists. Dr Ambedkar renounced Hindu Dharma and embraced publicly Buddhism in
1956. Veer Savarkar pointed out that the millions of Buddhists in South East
Asia eat all kinds of meat including that of rodent and asked how this was
compatible with Buddhism which is said to be a humane religion. Ambedkar and
his followers have kept quiet about this question for nearly 50 years. WHY ?
Moreover, how is
HALAL meat produced ? All the blood is drained from the animal, which must be
fully conscious when being killed!! It suffers terribly. Why is the western
media silent about this ? ]
1.7
On 10 July 2002,
Valerie Elliott, Consumer Editor, wrote for the Times on the Anti-Israeli
tactics of the West. She says :-
Supermarkets must
no longer use “produce of
The instruction
from the Government has angered Israeli diplomats and some businessmen, who
believe that the decision is connected to an aggressive campaign for a boycott
of Israeli goods.
The Israeli
Embassy’s official response is that it is still “studying” the likely impact of
the change, though privately representatives say they are shocked by the move.
It is the first time the Government has issued instructions that clearly
differentiate between
One senior
Israeli Embassy source yesterday accused ministers of succumbing to “pressure
from campaigners with an anti-Israeli political agenda.”
He added that the
Government may have “unwittingly bowed to groups that have nothing to do with
consumer interests but rather are seeking to score political points against
The change came
in a letter from Daniel Holliday, chief horticulture marketing inspector at the
Department for Environment, Food, and Rural Affairs ( Defra) to the British
Retail Consortium and Supermarket chains. The matter is to be taken up with
Margaret Beckett, the Rural Affairs Secretary, by Lord Young of Graff ham, a
former Trade and Industry Secretary, and now chairman of the British-Israeli
Chamber of Commerce.
Mr Holliday
wrote, “ Advice from the Foreign and Commonwealth Office and Department of
Trade and Industries is that produce from these occupied territories ought not
to be labelled as ‘Produce of Israel’, because these territories are not
recognised as part of
A spokesman
denied that the instruction was politically motivated, and said that the action
had been taken after inquiries by retailers asked by shoppers about the origin
of the produce. He said the instruction was agreed by the European Union and
applied to all member states.
It means that
produce from Israeli-owned co-operatives and farms in the occupied territories
will not qualify for preferential rates of import duties at ports. Exporters
will have to pick up the bill or pass on the cost to customers in
The Israeli
Embassy is unaware of any other EU state adopting such a policy.
Lord Young said
:” This has come like a bolt from the blue. We believe it is discriminatory and
unfair. I cannot believe that Foreign Office and DTI are behind this. This is
something that has come out of Defra, not from anyone high up, and does not
represent the views of the Government.”
Betty Hunter, of
the Palestine Solidarity Campaign, which has been campaigning for a boycott of
Israeli goods, said : “ We are extremely pleased. A lot of produce from illegal
Israeli settlements is being mixed up with goods from
Our Comments :-
We need to learn the ways of today’s world. A small print in an obscure
government department order can have a damaging effect on the party involved,
in this case
2. AROUND
2.1 Slide shows
Dr Agarkar of Kalyan,
(i) On 26
February 2002. Pradnya Prabodhini, a school managed by Savarkar Pratishthan in
Sangli, arranged the show. It was attended by 300 people and well appreciated.
(ii) On 28
February 2002, another show was organised by Marathi Vidnyan Parishad,
Gad-Hingalz, District Kolhapur
2.2
Godbole conducted
two tours.
* First one was
on 11 May. Five people attended. They included Shree Soni from Rajasthan, Shree
Agashe from
* The second tour
took place on 28 September. Eleven people participated, including three
computer Engineers from Hindusthan and their wives, Dr Vaidya of Grantham and
his family.
Publicity
* Ekata, a
Marathi magazine published in
* Shree Arvind
Bal of Pune had also requested the details of the tour
3.1 Zinoviev
letter was a fake, inquiry admits
In 1924, a few
days before general elections in
On 4 February
1999, Michael Smith wrote for The Daily Telegraph. He tells us
“ The
investigation, prompted by documents released by the former KGB and published
last year in The Daily Telegraph, concluded that the letter was widely
leaked by MI5 and MI6 to discredit the Labour Government.”
“ The letter,
leaked days before the 1924 election, was a call from the Soviet leadership to
“ But the KGB
file, released to The Daily Telegraph in
“ The idea of an
institutionalised international campaign, directed by MI6, to discredit both
the Bolsheviks and the Labour Government is not only unsubstantiated by the
documents, but seems inherently unlikely”, she said. Nevertheless, she conceded
that a number of officers from MI6 and MI5 were involved in leaking the forged
letter and that both agencies actively circulated it among Government
departments.”
“ It may have
suited certain persons to leak the letter”, Dr Bennett said, “ It probably was
leaked by members of MI6 to Conservative Party Office. The main person
responsible for this is named Desmond Morton, then in charge of intelligence
production within MI6, but later better known as intelligence adviser to Prime
Minister Winston Churchill during the Second World War. But Dr Bennett also
blames MI5 and in particular Joseph Ball, a senior officer who would later
become Director of Information for Conservative Party Central Office. In
circulating the letter, MI5 would have been well aware that it could only be a
matter of time before it was leaked to the press.” She said.
“ Its incitement
to insubordination and revolt in the Armed Forces was bound to have a powerful
impact on men who were already impatient at the refusal of successive
governments to denounce Soviet propaganda and subversive activities.”
“ The Zinoviev
Letter was alleged to have been written to the British Communist Party by
Gregori Zinoviev, the head of the Comintern, the organisation set up by
“ The letter,
which called on the British Communists to mobilise “sympathetic forces” in the
Labour Party, was leaked to the Daily Mail shortly before the October
1924 general election. The newspaper spread details of the letter across its
front page, headlined : “ Civil War Plot By Socialists’ Masters; Moscow Orders
To Our Reds; Great Plot Discovered.”
“ In fact, it is
not clear what effect the letter had on the election. Despite its defeat, the
Labour vote rose by a million. It was the defection of Liberal votes to the
Conservatives that handed them victory.”
“ But the letter
has continued to cause controversy with persistent claims that it was a forgery
aimed at preventing Ramsay MacDonald, the Labour Prime Minister from gaining a
second term. The KGB files show that the letter was forged by a White Russian
émigré in the Latvian capital
“
“ A most
extraordinary and mysterious business.”
Note :- This is
the real life. When the British Military Intelligence conspired to topple its
own government, how low would they and their masters sink to discredit Indian
patriots like Savarkar? One can only imagine.
3.2 Aftermath
of September 11, 2001
3.2.1 On September 11, 2001, Muslim suicide
bombers hijacked United Airlines planes and crashed into World Trade Centre in
Carol Rosenberg
reported for The Mail on Sunday on 13 January 2002 “ At least one
prisoner had been sedated on the flight and most offered little resistance as
they hobbled. … When two struggled, one of the military policemen at each arm
deftly dropped them to their knees then quickly pulled them up to show who was
in charge. Those considered the most dangerous had their legs shackled. Others
had goggles over their eyes. Reports from
“ The prisoners
had endured a 27-hour, 8,000 mile flight from
“ Amnesty
International said housing the detainees in the cages fell ‘below minimum
standards for humane treatment’. But to avoid being tied to the strict rules
regarding PoWs laid down by the Geneva Convention, America refuses to call them
Prisoners of War and wants to try Al Qaeda and Taliban captives on its own
terms.”
Our comment :-
Compare this, with the foolhardy treatment Hindus always gave to their defeated
enemies, be it in the days of Prithviraj Chauhan in 1192, or liberation of Goa
in 1961 or
3.2.2
Above news raised
the question – how did Americans treat their PoWs in the past? The Mail on
Sunday, a right wing paper, on the same page states
“ A history of
tough treatment”
“ Historians and
US soldiers have alleged that in spring 1945 General Eisenhower denied German
PoWs Geneva Convention rights and thousands died after being kept on starvation
rations in squalid open-air camps.”
[ This is indeed
true. Graphic details are given in the book entitled - Crimes and Mercies : The
fate of German civilians under allied occupation 1944-50 by James Bacque,
Little Brown and Co, 1997]
“ In the Korean
War, there were tales of American commanders ordering troops to fire on unarmed
civilians trying to surrender, and stories of mistreatment in the Vietnam War
are legion.”
[ There was a
programme about this on BBC2 on 1 February 2002 at 9 p.m. The caption in the
paper Metro of London reads - Timewatch
There is little
doubt that US Forces committed atrocities during the Korean War (1950-53),
although the Pentagon denies official responsibility for one of the worst
incidents, at the No Gun Ri railway tunnels – the subject of tonight’s
programme. In this sometimes harrowing episode of the history series, fresh
evidence and eyewitness accounts including disturbing memories from a survivor
of the massacre. Yang Hae-Sook (pictured), reveals that US military commanders
ordered the frenzied and indiscriminate killing of innocent women and children
in the tunnels, contradicting an official Pentagon report published last year.
Soldiers in the 7th
Cavalry – a regiment made famous under General Custer – claim that senior
officers told them: ‘Kill’em all.’ A grim episode in American history – and one
it won’t want to be reminded of.]
“ Now there are
signs Taliban and Al Qaeda prisoners are being mistreated, and that
On 15 January
2002, Philip Delves Broughton reported from
A painting of
King Charles II’s wife is to be removed from the civic hall of Queens, the
The decision to
remove the painting of Catherine of Braganza, a Portuguese, follows years of
pressure from historians and politicians who say any reference to her is an insult
to city’s African-Americans.
Though Catherine
of Braganza’s family profited from the slave trade, her links to it seem
tenuous. In her will, she even set aside money for the “redemption of slaves”.
But Helen
Marshall, the first black woman to become Queen’s borough president, has
ordered the portrait’s removal to reflect her borough’s “diversity”
Though she never
visited
( British) Queen.
Stanley Cogan, borough historian and president of the Queens Historical
Society, said : “ There has been a lot of conflict about the appropriateness of
her portrait hanging in the Civic Hall. A lot of people began to object to it,
and believed that it was not right for the borough to be named after her. I am
with those who say the portrait should be removed if the evidence shows her
links with slavery, though I think renaming the borough would be a bit much.”
Note :- In
Hindusthan we still have remnants of the British Raj like King Edward Memorial
(KEM) Hospital, Curzon Road Barracks, Queen’s Barracks, Queen’s Garden and many
others.
3.4 Muslim
Riots in
The ghastly
events of February 2002 in Godhra were no surprise. Hatred of Hindus in inborn
among Muslims. What is surprising is the sheer stupidity of Hindus.
Pandurangshastri
Athawale is a well-known social worker in
We wonder what
the learned Brahmin says now. With passage of time, hatred of Hindus by Muslims
has not diminished and Muslims are just as barbaric today as they were 1,000
years ago. We witnessed this in the treatment of Indian soldiers by Pakistanis
during the war in Kargil (
With friends like
him who needs enemies ?
4 Why we
cannot tell the truth.
4.1 ‘Professor
driven out for exposing hospital scandal’
Beezy Marsh
reported for the Daily Mail on 18 July 2001
The NHS
anaesthetist who blew the whistle on the
Professor Stephen
Bolsin, who emigrated with his family to
He said, ‘I felt
like a Russian dissident accused of psychiatric illness for not thinking the
right thoughts. No professional in the NHS should have to endure what I did.
Professor
Bolsin’s ordeal emerged on the eve of a damning 12 million public enquiry
report, which is expected to spell closure for half
Heart surgeon
James Wisheart, 62, who failed to perfect complex surgery techniques, has
already been struck off, among with former hospital chief executive John
Roylance, 69.
Surgeon Janardan
Dhasmana, 60 has been banned from operating on children for four years, but is
understood to have recently been observing operations at
Professor,
Bolsin, now head of anaesthesia at
His audit of
operations by Wisheart and Dhasmana eventually formed a key part of the General
Medical Council hearing at which they and Roylance were found guilty of serious
professional misconduct over the deaths of 29 babies and children.
But the
anaesthetist’s concerns were originally ignored by
Professor Bolsin,
48, said he was branded the ‘most hated anaesthetist in Europe’ and moved to
He left a year
after Dhasmana was allowed to go ahead with an operation on 18-month-old Joshua
Loveday who died during surgery. Professor Bolsin had tried to stop the
operation because he was so concerned about Dhasmanas’ ability.
He and his wife
Maggie, a nurse at the hospital, even discussed advising Joshua’s parents to
take him home and seek a second opinion. It was the baby’s death that finally
persuaded hospital authorities to investigate the cardiac unit.
After Professor
Bolsin was ‘driven out’ of
The report is the
result of a two-and-a-half year public enquiry, chaired by medical ethics
expert Professor Ian Kennedy, which looked at 2000 operations. It is expected
to call for radical reforms, which could close six of the 13 NHS paediatric
heart centres amid fears that smaller units do not have enough operations to
maintain skill levels.
Other
recommendations include closer monitoring of operation results – which could
force surgeons to reveal their death rates – and an end to the ‘macho medical
culture’, which saw doctors keeping parents in the dark about operation risks.
Note :- So much
for the freedom of expression in
4.2 Exam board
sacks GCSE whistle blower
On 24 October 2001
the Evening Standard reported, “ The man who blew the whistle on the
“fixing” of record GCSE results has been sacked by the exam board which
employed him in what he has described as a “conspiracy of silence” to hide the
truth about education standards, writes Tim Miles.”
“ Jeffrey
Robinson, a senior maths examiner with the Oxford, Cambridge and RSA exam board
before he retired this year, exposed in the Evening Standard how over 16
years he swathe marks required to achieve each exam grade steadily fall. Exam
boards, driven by competition, deliberately manipulated pass rates to offer
schools the best chance of league table success, he claimed. Now his employers
have accused him of “breaching confidentially” and he has been sacked from his
job as an examiner with the board’s international arm, Cambridge International
Examinations.”
“ Today, Mr
Robinson, 67, accused the board of acting out of “spite” because he had exposed
the truth. Several fellow maths examiners publicly disputed his claims but last
week he dismissed an inquiry into his allegations as a “whitewash” after
Education Minister Stephen Timms said the Qualifications and Curriculum
Authority found no evidence that grade boundaries had been lowered.”
“ Now he is
seeking support to win his job back. The
“ David Hart of
the National Association of Head Teachers, said he did not agree with Mr Robinson’s
claims about exam standards, but defended his right to speak out.”
Our comment :-
So, even today, in
Indian historians
are scared to speak the truth about Taj Mahal.
4.3 Do we want
to know the truth ?
We often hear of
the 6 million Jews killed by
The Times of 10 July 2002 reported on page 16 –
Polish massacre
Blalystock : An
investigation into a massacre in
An interesting
article by Michael Hanlon appeared in the Daily Mail on 13 February 2002
(p 37). He says :- Once fashionable with Pagans and Vikings, cremation was
outlawed until a century ago when Mrs Pickersgill of
Princess Margaret’s
instruction that she must be cremated rather than buried has been hailed as a
controversial break from Royal tradition. She will be the first senior member
of the Royal Family not to be buried or interred since the death of Princess
Louise, Queen
Yet Margaret’s
decision is in line with a growing trend away from burials in favour of what is
seen as a quick, cheap and clean alternative by most of the British public. It
seems incredible now – when more than 70% of people choose cremation over
burial – that as recently as the late 19th century, cremation was viewed with
horror and distaste. Its introduction – or more correctly, reintroduction –
into modern
Since Viking
times, cremation had been almost unknown in
No one knows when
cremation first became used as a way of disposing of bodies. Ancient humans and
Neanderthals buried their dead but the burning of remains became widespread
across Europe and the
It was the Romans
who adopted cremation with enthusiasm but, by the time
For the next
1,500 years, cremation remained rare in the West. Other cultures continued with
it, particularly the Hindus. Cremation was also used by the pagan Vikings who
burned the bodies of their noblemen on special ceremonial boats, built to carry
the remains of kings to
It wasn’t until
the 18th century that a growing number of Britons were beginning to
wonder if the practice of burying people underground might be less than ideal.
When it was established that diseases could be caused by microbes, doctors and
scientists pointed out that burying thousands of rotting corpses a few feet underground
in the middle of
Cremation
remained a matter of speculation, discussion and experiment among a few
intellectuals and scientists until at the Vienna Exposition in 1873, a
Professor Brunetti of
One of the
visitors to the Vienna Exposition was Sir Henry Thompson, Queen
The legal status
of cremation remained unclear, so in 1874 Sir Henry formed the Cremation
Society of England, which counted among its founder members not only medics and
scientists but the Pre-Raphaelite artist John Everett Millis and the writer
Anthony Trollop.
The first attempt
to build a crematorium in England – on land given to the society in a cemetery
in North London – failed because the Bishop of Rochester, within whose
jurisdiction the cemetery lay, prohibited the establishment of a crematorium on
public land.
The Society then gained
a site at Woking in
It was the Druid
high priest’s victory in
In 1885, a Mrs
Pickersgill became the first person to be cremated at
In the year 2000,
437,600 cremations took place in
In deciding to be
cremated, Princess Margaret has set a Royal seal of approval on this ancient
‘pagan’ practice.
Our Note :- After
all these years world has finally accepted the Hindu practice of cremation as
the only healthy way of disposing of dead bodies.
5.2 Eunuchs
and Christianity
We found an
interesting article on Eunuchs in the Daily Mail of 23 May 2002. Anne de
Courcy wrote :- A cut above the rest – The history of eunuchs is painful – but
often glorious.
“ … In 17th
and 18th –century
5.2 Ancients
cities are discovered : Time to rethink our past
Our Puranas
mention that the human life on earth was destroyed and started again several
times. For example in the Bhagvat, sage Shukadev tells Vidur,
‘ My son, this
earth was inundated several times before and life started, again and again.’
But, we have been
regarding this as superstitious nonsense. Recent discoveries have proved that
our Puranas had indeed been telling the truth.
On 11 April 2002,
Metro newspaper of
“Lost city is
found on seabed.”
Divers have found
submerged ruins thought to be the remains of a mythical city swallowed up by
the sea 2,000 years ago.
They made the
discovery in 75ft of water about a mile off the coast of
The paper then
gives a list of recent underwater discoveries
1. December 2001
: Remains of 6,000-tear-old, eight square mile city discovered in the
2. May 2001 :
Remains of ancient city 120ft below sea level and almost 9,500 years old
discovered in the Gulf of Cambay,
3. August 2001 :
1,000 to 1,500 –year-old remains of huge temple discovered beneath Lake
Titicaca in the
4. June 1999 : 2,500-year-old ruins of ancient
Greek city Heralkleion discovered off the coast of
[Our Note - Is it
not time to rethink about our ancient history ? More about such discoveries in
our next newsletter.]
5.3 Hindoostan
not
* While attending
the Sangh Shibir in Hounslow in August 2002 and visiting an exhibition arranged
by the organisers, Godbole came across a map of our motherland clearly marked
Hindoostan. It was published in
* For sometime
Godbole worked in an office near Covent Garden in
* In
What a pity we
are so obsessed with the word ‘
5.4 Fighting
is ‘allowed’ during the holy month of fasting ( Ramadan).
Recent crisis in
We came across an
interesting article in the Times of 18 December 1998 when American
President Bill Clinton was carrying out air-strikes against the forces of
Saddam Hussein in
“ The approach of
Ramadan, the Muslim holy month, has been a key factor in determining the timing
and duration of the British and American air-strikes on
His words
suggested strongly that the operation would end before Ramadan, expected to
begin on Sunday morning after the sighting of the new moon tomorrow.
Mr Clinton may
have been responding to reports that there would be an outburst of anger across
the Muslim world against allies if the attack continued into Ramadan. It is
certainly a convenient pretext to convince the Republican opponents that the
timing had nothing to do with the impeachment hearings. But, in fact, the
onset of Ramadan makes little difference.
According to
Koranic traditions - building on pre-Islamic customs – warfare is strongly
discouraged in the four lunar months after Ramadan. But no mention is made of
an injunction against fighting in Koranic chapter ( Sura al Baqara) specifying
observance of Ramadan.
“ It is a month
of heightened devotion, when Muslims fast during the day and should pray at
night.” A spokesman for the Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies said.
“ Any news of
violence or killing is therefore, very disturbing indeed, as it upsets the
spiritual atmosphere.” But he said that it was not more offensive to start a
war during the holy month than it was to continue fighting one.
Diplomats note
that neither
Well, the Americans did not stop their
military action in
Our Note :- Are
we going to learn from history ? Apparently not. When did Shivaji carry out his
daring attack on Shaistakhan, the General sent by Mughal Emperor Aurangzeb ?
During the days of Ramadan in 1663!! He always attacked when his enemies least
expected an attack. For centuries before him, Hindus had guaranteed that they
would never attack Muslims during the days of Ramadan. But Shivaji did and
that’s why he succeeded. On the other hand, George Fernandes, the Indian
Defence minister stopped India’a military action against Muslim invaders in
8. BEHAVIOUR OF CHRISTIANS AND
MUSLIMS TODAY
8.1 THE CHRISTIANS
On 29 January
2002 The Daily Mail reported on p37
The Pope
yesterday urged Roman Catholic lawyers and magistrates not to work on divorce
cases.
Speaking during
his annual meeting with members of the Italian legal profession, the pontiff
said the number of marriages ending in the law courts was ‘spreading like the
plague.’
Although his
comments were directed specifically at Italians,
The church is
vehemently opposed to divorce, which it says threatens the ‘natural
institution’ of the family.
‘ Divorce …. has
devastating consequences that spread in society like the plague.’ Said 81-year
old John Paul. As a result, judges and lawyers should refuse to use their
professional skills with the goal of ending marriages, he warned.
‘Marriage is
indissoluble’ he said. ‘It doesn’t make any sense to talk about the
‘imposition’ of human law, because it should reflect and protect natural and
divine law.
‘ Lawyers, who
work freely, should always decline to use their professions for an end that is
contrary to justice, like divorce,’ he said.
The Pope’s words
were criticised by Italian lawyers an interventionist. ‘The laws of the state
do not interfere in the laws of the church, so it would be right if the church
did not interfere in the realm of judges and lawyers,’ said divorce lawyer
Cesare Rimini.
Note – This just shows how Pope tries to
interfere in affairs of the state!! It is worth remembering that in 2002
leaders of all three political parties in
8.1.2
The Times published a report by Daniel McGrory on
11 February. He says
A senior official
in China’s National Security Ministry has smuggled documents to the West that
disclose orders to police chiefs to torture women members of Christian churches
as part of crackdown on religious groups.
Jubilee Campaign,
a British human rights group, has evidence of women being abused with electric
cattle prods, sexually assaulted and beaten into falsely confessing that they
had been raped by pastors. Death sentences have been passed on several leading
Christians in recent months, including a 30-year-old woman from the
The official who
leaked the documents is in hiding and the dossier has been passed to the White
House. President Bush visits
The testimony,
smuggled out of prison at the end of last year, will embarrass Chinese
officials, who claim that they have stopped such tactics after being included
in the World Trade Organisation and secured the 2008 Olympic Games.
One prisoner,
Yang Tongi, signed her testimony with a bloody fingerprint. She said that she
was forced to kneel for hours before her interrogation began. She was handcuffed
behind her back and, as they beat her, her captors boasted : “We can kill you
without causing any problems.”
Zhang Hongium,
20, said that guards at the Zhong Xiang detention centre shackled her hand and
foot and tortured her with electric prod. Others were forced to endure medical
examinations as police sought proof that they had sex with their pastor. Tongin
Li said that in the same jail she was threatened with sexual assault and a
guard jeered : “ This is not considered as raping, but just coping with people
like you.”
The Jubilee
Campaign has shown The Times some of the leaked documents from the
Ministry of Public security.
Our comments :-
(1) We never heard any more about this afterwards.
(2) The Times
published the news on page 16. Had it been a news from
8.1.3 Cruelty
to animals in
On 29 April the Metro
newspaper of
“Scandal of dogs
hung up to die”
Tens of thousands
of greyhounds are being hanged from trees, stoned, thrown into wells and set on
fire, an animal charity has revealed.
The cruel ritual,
in which the animals are strung up by their necks and tied to trees, takes
place in
Mr Owen said the dogs
were usually owned by the poor and were of no value to their owners or worth
keeping as pets. He added : ‘It is scandalous that
The next day (30
April 2002) the paper published a letter from Pantelis Kokkalis of Middlesex.
He said “ I was shocked but not surprised by the cruelty the Spaniards show to
animals. A nation that televises bull-fighting and throws goats from bell
towers for the sake of some local custom deserves to have its holiday industry
boycotted.
8.2 THE MUSLIMS
8.2.1 Shias
and Sunnis
Bomb blast at
On 27 April 2002
Zahid Hussain reported from
An outlawed
Islamic militant group is believed to be responsible for the bombing of a Shia
Muslim mosque in
The bomb exploded
around midnight yesterday in the women’s section of a large, segregated
gathering of worshippers in grounds belonging to a Shia mosque and cemetery in
the town, Bhakkar. Nine women and three children were killed immediately and 13
others suffered serious injuries. Thousands had assembled in the grounds to commemorate
the death of the grandson of the Prophet Muhammad who was killed at
“We can’t say
whether it was a hand grenade or a planted bomb” Sohail Naqvi, a local Shia
leader, said. Police had made no arrests.
Until late in the
night, mosques throughout the town were making announcements trying to trace
children lost in the chaos that followed the blast.
Ali Raza Gardezi,
a senior Shia leader, condemned the attack on women and children as an act of terrorism
aimed at creating unrest and sectarian disharmony. ‘We hope and expect that
those responsible for the bomb explosion will be given exemplary punishment’ he
said.
No one has
accepted responsibility, but police suspected that Sipah-I-Sahaba, an outlawed
Sunni extremist group, was involved. The pro-Taliban group has rounded on
the minority Shias, declaring them “non-Muslims”
President
Mushsrraf banned the group in January after a rise in sectarian violence. He
has vowed to eliminate extremism and the military Government has arrested
hundreds of activists, but it has not stopped violence.
Since January
dozens of Shia Muslims have died in targeted killings in
More than a dozen
Shia doctors have been killed in
Police said that
most of the Islamic militants supporting the Taleban had returned to
Our comment :-
When Muslims do not hesitate to kill Muslim women and children in cold blood,
what would they do to Hindu women?
8.2.2 Muslims
in
On 18 October
2001 Nick Britten reported for The Daily Telegraph (p16 )
“ Hindu girl
tells of school hall hammer attack.”
A teenage Hindu
girl who suffered a fractured skull when a gang of Muslim youths rampaged
through her school with hammers and axes and told of her ordeal yesterday.
Radhika Shulka,
15, was walking to the dinner hall at
Radhika was
chased, pushed to the floor and hit on the head with a hammer. She said:” I was
crying and trying to roll up in a ball as he was hitting me. I just closed my
eyes and hoped he would stop.”
She suffered a
fractured skull, internal bleeding in her ear, a black eye and bruising on her
back and shoulders.
Radhika said
inter-racial tension had increased dramatically since the terrorist attacks on
Radhika, from
Sunny Hill,
The attack
followed an argument between three girls last week over race and the events of
September 11. One girl, a Muslim, had her clothes torn. Radhika said : “ She
went away to get her family and one of the attackers was her cousin.”
Most of the group
were identified from the school’s closed-circuit television as pupils at nearby
David Roles,
Derby Moor’s head teacher, warned his pupils against carrying out revenge
attacks. Police protection was stepped up at two nearby multi-ethnic schools
and officers will remain at the gates until school breaks up tomorrow.
Radhika says she
is too scared to return to school. Her mother is trying to find her another
place to complete her GCSEs, which she takes next year.
Police said a boy
of 15 had been charged with two assaults on teachers and released on bail, as
had a 17-year-old over the attack on Radhika. Two other youths were arrested
yesterday and police expect more to follow.
Our comment :- It
is astonishing that Daily Telegraph, a normally anti-Hindu paper should
publish this news with photo of Radhika while all the Hindus of Britain stay
silent and say, ‘ all religions are the same’
8.2.3 (So called)
Islamic Brotherhood of man
On 3 April 2002
the Sun reported on page 17
Abdul Sattar, 35,
was stabbed with a broken bottle by two 16 year-olds he chased from his
off-licence in Norbury,
The thieves fled
as dad-of-three Abdul lay in the street. Hospital doctors were unable to save
his right eye. Abdul raged yesterday, “ I am very angry. The police don’t seem
to do anything for shopkeepers. They asked why I gave them chase, but I’ve had
100 incidents of shoplifting and six armed robberies in four years. Even if
someone is arrested, they’re out hours later. These two cut my eye out for a
6-pound drink. I put all my savings into the shop – now I’ve had enough.”
Our comment :- We
need to learn how to use such examples. What happened to the Islamic
brotherhood of man ? Indian Muslims have been telling us time and again that
ALL Muslims are one. You hurt one Muslim and the entire Muslim world would be
against you. So, what was the reaction to above incident in say
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