Persecution of Christians in “Hindu India”

ANTO AKKARA, ECUMENICAL NEWS INTERNATIONAL PO BOX 2100 CH - 1211 GENEVA 2 SWITZERLAND

Bangalore: Despite India remaining the world’s most populous and vibrant democracy, freedom of religion is steadily on the decline, says John Dayal, a journalist-turned- Christian activist, who is now national president of the 1919-founded All India Catholic Union and secretary-general of the All India Christian Council .

“Many of the rights have been systematically diluted over the years by governments, courts and fundamentalist forces,” Dayal told Ecumenical News International in an interview on Oct.13 about his soon-to-be- released book on religious freedom in India.

A Matter of Equity: Freedom of Faith in Secular India, is a critique of religious freedom in the country. Dayal says that this freedom, or lack of it, ranges from the steady dilution of constitutional guarantees to harsh treatment meted out to Christians and minorities in every corner of the country.

The book is a collection of articles Dayal wrote both as a journalist, and after he became outspoken on issues concerning India’s Christian community. In his writings, Dayal describes a steady upsurge in anti-Christian violence from the late 1990s, when the Hindu terrorist party (BJP) emerged as a strong political force.

The book is published by New Delhi-based Anamika Publishers (pp. 500, Rs. 800). The book is available from catholicunion@gmail.com, postage free

Brahminists glorify Kamasutra & suppress women to keep male hegemony

COM. AYYANKALI

Due to the ongoing extremely potent Manuwadi patriarchal Brahminical assault on women, Hindu upper caste women are becoming even more sexually frustrated and confused. Till every recently, I too used to blindly believe, unconsciously of course, that any woman can get sex any time they want, just like any crude male chauvinist. But that is simply not the case. Indian males have got prostitutes to go to. But average women cannot afford upmarket gigolos or metrosexual male prostitutes who service women. They simply go mad and end up in mental asylums, especially when their husbands are working in the Gulf.

BRAHMIN AFRAID OF FEMALE LIBIDO

I am not joking or exaggerating. Indian women are much more sexually frustrated and have no access to sex like we males think. In fact, “middle class” women are afraid of sexual blackmail if they have casual sex with someone. Indian women are so sexually repressed that they become demented and suffer from all sorts of psychological problems and neuroses due the Brahminical patriarchal system and its extreme repression of female sexuality. The Indian woman is full of sexual superstition. Even Brahmin women end up suffering, despite being economically privileged and educated. A Bengali Brahmin woman told me that since she had a very high libido and could not indulge in excesses, her father asked her to get out. This kind of barbarism is caused by Brahminical patriarchy. Brahminism is afraid of the female libido. But the Bahujans are not scared of it. Periyar E.V.R. clearly said that the so-called “virginity” is a curse on women and he was absolutely right. Mahatma Phule had to save pregnant Brahmin unwed mothers from committing suicide. Clearly, nothing has changed. Unless we burn out and destroy this fundamental contradiction of Brahminical barbarism root, branch, seed and pollen, nothing will change or improve for our women. So there is dire need for a genuine Dalit revolutionary feminism. Dalit Voice must help bring down the repressive superstructure of this Manuwadi mental asylum.

VAIDIKs FEAR SEX

The horrific effects of Brahminism on the female sexual psyche has not been exposed by any Hindu or Brahminical psychoanalyst, psychiatrist or sexologist so far and has been kept a secret even from the West. It is considered such a great secret, that it is not even privately whispered among Manuwadis themselves.

Perhaps only Sudhir Kakkar, trained under Anna Freud in Vienna, has alluded to this very indirectly as caste and hierarchy in a recent book.

Interestingly, just as Sigmund Freud, the Jew, criticised all religions except Judaism, Brahmin psychoanalysts and social psychiatrists too have never ever criticised, diagnosed or isolated Brahminical patriarchial barbarism as the main psychopathology afflicting the Indian female subconscious and repressing female sexuality in India leading to all kinds of neuroses. Not only that, these Brahminical quacks are still busy painting a false and glorified picture that Hinduism is a very “liberal” religion when it comes to expressing sexuality

But the fact is that it is always the Brahminical patriarchy which has projected this so-called “virginity” fetish bullshit in India to imprison women sexually.

Bahujan and Dalit culture is much more matriarchal as well as sexually liberal and does not bother too much about so-called “virginity” which is always a fetish treasured by those who value so-called purity of Aryan blood.

VIRGINITY A CURSE

Of course, the tragedy is Bahujans themselves are getting Brahminised. No wonder, it was the Tamil Nadu Dalit Panthers who criticised actress Khushboo for dishonouring the so-called “Tamil womanhood”. Not only that, it was some mischievous Tamil Brahmin who quoted Periyar E.V.R. saying “virginity is a curse for women” exactly like the devil quoting scriptures — to Manuwadically indicate that all Dalit women who believe Periyar’s words should make themselves available to the Brahmins and savarna males. None of our Brahmin firebrand women journalists quoted Periyar to put things back in the correct context and perspective. Instead, they wrote unsigned editorials like cowards criticising a Brahminised-Dalit Panthers and projected them as rural backward stupids. Not only that, not a single Brahmin woman journalist wrote any piece praising actress Khushboo advocating sexual freedom for women in a departure from prevailing Brahminical patriarchy.

Unlike these Brahminical women journalists, at least actress Khushboo had the guts to honestly tell Brahminical males to stop expecting “virginity” from women.

How many Brahmin women journalists have done that? Instead of supporting actress Khushboo, all these Brahmin women journalists were over enthusiastically playing the “I am a good girl” role. These are the very same scum who applaud when Taslima bashes up Islam.

WHY BRAHMINS SUPPORT TASLIMA

When Taslima bashes up Islam, Brahminical women journalists support her and pretend to be advocates of free sex, but when actress Khusboo unconsciously criticises prevailing non-Islamic patriarchial (read Brahminical) sexual hierarchy, all these otherwise very “revolutionary” women journalists, who are actually gender aristocrats, try to pin the blame on Dalit Panthers deflecting focus.

SEX-STARVED BRAHMIN WOMEN

The concrete reality is that under Brahminical patriarchial barbarism, even Brahmin women have become sex-crazed, but extremely repressed and demented, frustrated neurotic mad-caps.

In metros like Bombay, tired of impotent grass-eating Brahmin males, many Chitpawan Brahmin women, for example physician-turned-model, Dr. Aditi Gowitrikar, have married virile Muslims like Dr. Muffazzal Lakdawala. Others are busy having secret sexcapades with all sorts of Bahujan, Muslim, Christian and Dalit virile male sex objects, whom they will of course never even consider marrying.

In fact, the Outlook magazine has reported on the gigolo industry in the metros where rich metro-based savarna upper caste women hire the services of males.

IMPOTENT BRAHMINS

They have all realised that useless impotent grass-eating Aryan Brahminical buffoons are merely effeminate pre-mature ejaculators and impotent idiots.

No wonder movies like Fire are being made and appreciated. But despite hiring gigolos to satisfy their sexual needs, Brahmin gender aristocrat women refuse to support Periyar’s idea that “virginity is a curse on women”. Instead, these elite Brahmin women merely want to spend their husbands’ money on gigolos. To keep on getting this money supply, this educated urban savarna gender parasite aristocracy is ever ready to betray genuine feminism or ignore it completely.

CALL GIRLS

This is the very same class of “Brahminical timepasswallah feminazi feminist” women parasites who want prostitution legalised in India, so that they can occupy the highest paid ranks of the high class call girl industry. These are the types who glorify the Kamasutra, a male chauvinist Brahminical sex manual, and project Hinduism as a “liberal” religion when it comes to expressing sexuality.

Here is a verbatim statement made by one such Brahminical gender aristocrat lady to this correspondent:

“I don’t like feminism. Who wants to pay the bills?”

Naturally, Dalit women can never expect anything from such Brahmin women who are India’s Manuwadi gender aristocrat parasites. No real and revolutionary feminism can take root among urban educated Brahminical women who have become professional first-class extortion artists misusing domestic violence Act and dowry Act. This is the secret inside story of “How feminism failed in Hindu India”.

Feminism was murdered in cold blood in India by these urban Brahminical parasites.

But despite this sad state of affairs, the impotent grass-eating unmasculine Manuwadi morons can’t sleep at night. That is precisely why they have reared cowardly lumpens like Babu Bajrangi in Gujarat who captures upper caste Hindu girls who run away with Muslims and get them forcibly remarried to impotent Manuwadi morons. But how can grass-eating Manuwadi impotence be hidden by such stupid stunts?

DIABETIC INDIA

In any case, it is a well known medical fact that India is the diabetes capital of the world. It is also a well known medical fact that diabetes causes impotence. Yes, eating too many sweets causes diabetes and of course, impotence among the grass-eating Manuwadi morons. But they go on celebrating their festivals and develop diabetes and impotence. That is why RSS got sex education banned precisely to hide all this weakness, because even the mildest health education will expose all these secrets. RSS shakas teach that masturbation is not only a deadly sin but “weakness” virility of Hindu males — especially when they have to fight Muslims. It is to overcome such feelings of grass-eating impotence and disability vis-a-vis mutton biriyani- eating Muslim male virility, that they organise Godhra-style gangrapes to pretend that savarna males are not premature ejaculators.

The fact of the matter is that there is nothing that the sacred savarnas fear more than sex and the female libido. No wonder fake sex doctors and quacks are fooling people and making money due to the mass sexual ignorance and sexual superstitions spread by the RSS buffoons.

MANUWADI WOMB CONTROL

If all this became public knowledge, they fear that their beloved Brahminical Social Order will collapse. Surely, savarna sex quacks and “sexologists” like Dr. Prakash Kothari know the prevailing pathetic sexual and medical situation very well. But all they do is go on praising the Brahminical and patriarchial male chauvinist sex manual like the Kamasutra as if Brahminism guarantees sexual bliss to Indian women.

This grass- eating sex doctor keeps on braying that Islam and British-sponsored Victorian Christianity did the maximum damage to healthy sexual relations in India. Really? How is it that this grass-eating savarna doctor so very conveniently forgets the horrific damage done to sexual health in India due to the Manuwadi womb control so as to keep the caste system alive? Who stopped women from having sex with “outcastes”? Was it Brahminical Manusmriti or Quran and Bible? Why the sex doctors are so silent on how Brahminism has put even Brahmin women’s sexual lives in a suffocating gas chamber? Why they never, ever mention that the damage was done much before any Islam or Christianity came on the scene? Will he admit that Vaishnavas tortured and killed lesbians in medieval India?

They propagated that sex is the most sinful and ugliest thing on planet earth and that so-called “virginity” is to be cherished for the sake of Brahminical males who ejaculate prematurely? Most importantly, why has no savarna sex quack or medical association or psychiatrist association not passed any resolution against the muzzling of sex education by the Manuwadis? Perhaps, it is because these very sex quacks are grass-eating Manuwadis who blindly mugged up the medical syllabus in true unthinking Brahminical parrot style, merely to get a good dowry and somehow make a livelihood by crude quackery. Or is it because these impotent grass eating sex quacks lack a spinal cord? It is high time these quacks explained their position?

It must be pointed out that the biggest hurdle in the way of healthy sexual expression in India is the prevailing Brahminical caste apartheid and patriarchy, despite all the Khajuraho sculptures which are sold to gullible Western tourists.

PRIESTS ENJOYING DEVADASIS

India is being sexually and in every other way suffocated by this Brahminical patriarchy. Despite all this our Brahminical elites pretend that India is going through a major sexual revolution. When rural women don’t end up in mental asylums, they even end up becoming Devis, especially after pregnancy and delivery. How? When they go mad rural native superstition and the local Brahmin Pandit anoint her as a Devi saying “The goddess has come upon her and she has acquired divine powers”. Then of course, there is the legacy of Devadasi temple prostitutes who perform erotic temple dances and much more for the pleasure of temple priests — (example Puri Jagannath Temple).

MANUWADI BARBARISM

Even “highly educated” Brahminical elite NRIs living in the West are champions in female foeticide so that their so-called moksha is guaranteed only when a son performs their last rites. Such Brahminical belief is already leading to bride-burning, bride kidnapping and caste riots due to an abnormally skewed gender ratio, especially in the North Indian BIMARU cow belt. But the culprit called Brahminical Manuwadi barbarism is never named by any savarna medical association or feminists or human rightswallahs. Why?

Female foeticide is already harming female sexual health, with Draupadi-style polyandry making a comeback, especially in the cow belt. Not only that, according to an Indian Institute of Population Sciences (Deonar) report, female foeticide due to Manuwadi barbarism is directly causing mass situational lesbianism and homosexuality due to this abnormally skewed gender ratio.

BEAUTY CONTEST

Despite all this sexual suffocation, Brahminical males think that any Indian women can get lots of sex anytime they wish. Most of these Manuwadi monkeys want to marry only fair complexioned sex bombs who must also be virgins. It hardly matter if these Manuwadi premature ejaculators regularly indulge in “pre-marital sex” so as to test their very doubtful virility by expending their sterile hogwash into the bodies of Dalit prostitutes who instantly become touchable during the night. They can do anything but the bride must be virgin at any cost. What stunning Brahminical hypocrisy.

Brahminical males get starving Dalit prostitutes who are forced to sell their bodies. But average Indian women cannot afford upmarket gigolos or metrosexual male prostitutes who service women. They simply go mad and end up in mental asylums, especially when their husbands are working in the Gulf or elsewhere.

That is how Hindu women are much more sexually frustrated and have no access to sex at all. In fact, “middle class” women are very afraid of sexual blackmail if they have casual sex with someone.

Hindu women are so sexually repressed that they become demented and suffer from all sorts of psychological problems due the Brahminical partriarchial system and its extreme repression of female sexuality.

Hindu women are full of sexual superstition and sexual literacy. RSS opposes sex education and spreads the lie that “evil West invented sex to corrupt innocent Indians”. RSS opposes even beauty contests in which Brahmin girls eagerly participate. Such is the great and paranoid Brahminical fear of destabilising the female libido, despite all talk of the Kamasutra. Manu must always control the female libido but not the market. Look at the bloody Brahminical arrogance. Even their own women do not consider sex as a natural physical need like eating and pursue as such due to this Brahminical hypocrisy. This kind of barbarism is caused by Brahminical patriarchy.

It is Brahminism which is afraid of the female libido. The Bahujan proletariat is not.

That is why Periyar E.V.R. clearly said that so-called “virginity” is a curse on women. He was right. Mahatma Phule had to save pregnant Brahmin unwed mothers from committing suicide. Clearly, nothing has changed since then.

SEXUAL GAS CHAMBER

Unless we burn out and destroy this fundamental contradiction of Brahminical barbarism root, branch, seed and pollen, nothing will change or improve for our women. This is the India of the 21st century.

But Dalit Voice may even be ostracised for simply wondering aloud if this is the 21st century. Whatever happens, the doors of the Brahminical sexual gas chamber —that is present-day India— will continue to be tight shut. Only a most violent, bloody and revolutionary explosion by the Bahujan masses can explode this suffocating Brahminical barbaric sexual gas chamber once and for all.

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Woman-hating Hindus can’t love Taslima

We have received some criticisms to on our report: “Taslima becomes more important than millions of Muslims” (DV Dec.16, 2007 p.5). All of a sudden the “Hindu heart” starts bleeding for Muslim women and our innocent people get confused. We have made a deep study of this “Hindu heart” and its selective bleeding. Hence this clarification.

Poor Taslima doesn’t know that she is being used by the upper castes, who have distributed themselves in all “national” parties to fight the Muslims and thereby hinduise the non-Hindu Dalits, Tribals and Backward Castes. The notorious Bengali Manuwadi marxists — who want to keep the mere 8% upper castes, comprising Brahmin, Baidya and Kayasth as rulers of Bengal— are using Taslima. The Brahminical toilet papers are shedding gallons of tears over Taslima.

The whole thing is a cruel drama which the Taslimas of India do not realise.

The Hindu terrorist modus operandi of mass manufacture of Taslimas has to be understood in this background.

Why our Hindu heroes fall in love only with Muslim women, while reserving the most barbaric treatment to their own women?

Our innocent SC/ST/BCs and some stupid shudras, misled by this Hindu “compassion” for Muslim women, must note that the Brahminical males are the most anti-women fellows in the whole world. We have any amount of proof.

In their own Brahminical Mahabharata, Draupadi is publicly disrobed as the men enjoy the scene. There are endless instances of persecuting women in their scriptures — EDITOR.

COMMUNICATION : CLOSING DOWN DV

Thinking people are mad after DV : Editor under-estimating himself

S.S. GILL, DDPO (RETD), GATEWALI GALI NO.3, SAHEED JASDEV SINGH NAGAR, p.o. GILL, LUDHIANA dt. - 141 116

This refers to the Letter of Brother Anthony Sam of Trivandrum (DV Oct.16, 2007 p.6). More or less I agree with him. Dalit Voice is your life and soul. You cannot be without it.

Probably you underestimate yourself. You don’t know how much awakening you, your Dalit Voice and your books have brought about nationally and internationally. People who like good and meaningful readings are simply mad after your writings. In my view, you cannot close down Dalit Voice as long as you are with us.

I have a small library of my own. I have read some writings of Babasaheb Ambedkar and all your books. I am just a student (reader) whereas you are a genius. For me you are the present-day Babasaheb Ambedkar.

Be more angry: The people to whom you are writing and fighting — are mostly illiterate. The English-knowing ones are not fond of reading. If somebody likes reading he or she does not have the sharp intellect to understand your revolutionary and deep thought-provoking writings. It is always the wise man’s burden and responsibility to preach wisdom. So Brother, you cannot run away from your duty. You have to continue writing, fighting and become more and more angry.

I have been reading DV and your books for over 27 years. Some persons on my request became DV members. But they did not show any interest.

You asked each DV family member to enrol a new member. I enrolled two life members — Gurbax Singh and S. Ranjit Singh. They get DV but do not find time to read it. What can I do?

Brother Rajshekar, you are you. You cannot be somebody else.

Noble and revolutionary people generally suffer but always contribute their share for the humanity. You have made a tremendous contribution to the society.

The Spokesman is great: It is very good that you met Brother S. Joginder Singh of the Spokesman which in a very short time has left behind all Punjabi daily papers. This paper has become so popular that people can miss anything else but not reading this paper like the DV.Gujarat and HP elections have sharpened the contradictions. You and S. Joginder singh can help unite the non-Aryans. Unless Dalits and minorities, Sikhs unite there is no future for India. Do not bother about the rich among Hindus, Muslims, Sikhs, Christians or even Dalits. They all dress alike, talk alike and smile alike. They have nothing to do with the country or the humanity.

Jat Sikhs: As for the Chandigarh DV silver jubilee is concerned, I do not agree that the DV circulation is falling due to increasing rift between the Dalits and Jat Sikhs. I have worked for 40 years in the villages, being in the Panchayat Dev. Dept. Whenever there was any dispute between the two, it was only due to wages. Dalits work on the Jat Sikh land and demand more wages but the Jats are reluctant. It has nothing to do with caste. It is an employer-employees problem.

Labourers are coming in thousands from Bihar and UP. Jat Sikhs never ask their caste and they are enjoying their work and freedom. There is no complaint from them due to caste. Somebody wants to do politics out of this dispute.

I am a Jat Sikh and my relation from UK is also a Jat Sikh (B.S. Mangat) we both are life members and have read all your books and many other books, recommended by you and mentioned in DV.

Media Centre: Jat Sikh or Dalits do not believe in caste hatred. Caste is very much there but without hate. Caste is the child of Brahminism/Hinduism not of Sikhism. Jat Sikhs do not like Hindus who want to finish their very identity. Please work out the total expenditure for starting a “media centre”. You can get support of the Spokesman. I think jointly you can do wonders. DV family members will not let you down.

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This is the first time we are getting a different picture of Punjab with regard to Jat Sikhs and Dalits. If what Brother S.S. Gill says is true we will be happy. But the things are not so simple as he says. Brahminical hate-mongers are actively involved in widening the gulf between the two. They are active in both the camps. They are playing their historical role. But as our elder brothers it is the duty of Jat Sikhs not to play into Brahmin hands and go against Dalits. Sikhism was born to liberate the Dalits and all other oppressed but the Jats did not care to support DV even when they know the services rendered by DV right from 1986 when we were arrested and put in the Chandigarh jail for supporting the Sikh demand for self-determination — EDITOR.

English liberated us

A.L. RAWAL, NEW DELHI

It is true that Lord Macaulay wanted to use English as a tool of imperialism to raise an army of clerks who would be loyal to the British. He also wanted to raise an army of Black or Brown Englishmen who would be loyal to the British in every way.

But the Indians who learnt English also picked up ideas of “national liberation”, freedom from the West and thus started petitioning to the British. The small stream of petitions then snowballed into a full-fledged movement for the freedom of the country. Thus English actually has contributed a lot to the freedom struggle of the country and Macaulay should be honoured for it.

Earlier we were taught that this present life is the outcome of our past sins. We are atoning for the sins committed in the past lives. This life is only maya and everything is unreal. This kind of nonsense was taught to us to fool us. Those who taught us this made their own slavery comfortable by aligning with the British. They worship the rising sun and they worshipped every sun that rose on the political horizon of India. They were their advisers and members of jury in courts. They enjoyed pelf and power over the Hindus while the general populace grovelled in misery. But English liberated us from this ghetto to a great extent. (rawal_al@yahoo.co.in)

Orissa violence is “independent” India’s biggest attack on Christians

ALL INDIA CHRISTIAN COUNCIL (AICC), PO BOX -2174, SECUNDERABAD - 500 003

In the last few days, AICC leaders released two reports on the anti-Christian violence in Orissa which began on Christmas eve. Newly confirmed cases of arson, murder, and assault make this violence qualify as the biggest attack on the Christian community in the history of “democratic” India. Both reports show that the Dalits were the main group affected by the violence.

Four AICC leaders (Orissa) visited the affected villages from Jan. 3-5 and released their report on Jan. 7, 2008 saying 95 churches were vandalised or destroyed, 730 Christian homes burnt, and four Christians killed with many still missing and presumed dead.

To view the entire Fact Finding Report, see: http://indianchristians. in /news/content/view/1826/45/ . On Jan. 5, 2008, AICC Secretary-General John Dayal released a white paper after visiting the area. Advocate Nicholas Barla, a lawyer and human rights expert, and Hemant Nayak, a social scientist and human rights and development activist, were also part of the fact finding team. They concluded that the attacks on Christians included simultaneous, planned violence by extremist Hindu terrorists and complicity and consistent incompetence by police and local authorities. To view the entire white paper, see:

http://groups.google.com/group/JohnDayal/browse_ thread/thread/17aef1aebe4f1e70

Media reports said two members from India’s National Commission for Minorities (NCM), Dileep Padgaonkar and Zoya Hasan, are currently in Orissa to investigate the violence. Aicc leaders met with the NCM chairman on Dec. 27, 2007 in New Delhi.

Together with the All-India Confederation of SC/ST Organisations led by Udit Raj, the AICC held a “Stop Violence Against Christians” Rally in Bhubaneswar, on Jan. 10, 2008.

The violence began when Christians in Bamunigaon village in Kandhamal district of Orissa began to celebrate Christmas eve. Local Hindu terrorists opposed the event and a quarrel ensued. Also, a Hindu terrorist leader, Swami Saraswati, was attacked by unknown assailants — he alleged they were Christians. The next day a Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP)-affiliated group called for a strike and VHP members began attacking Christians across the state.

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Dalit Freedom Network must ask West to stop funding India

The AICC release describes the latest Orissa violence as the biggest attack on Christians in “independent” India. The ruling upper castes are fond of Christian institutions to educate their children in English. They take the best advantage of Christian institutions which are serving the upper caste rulers so well. This is so all over India. In spite of all the Christian services, and the Hindu praise for such services, the latest Orissa violence confirms that Christians continue to be hated by the upper castes.

DFN silence: They, however, don’t hate the upper caste Christians. No upper caste church is attacked in India. Upper caste Christians themselves hate the Dalit and Tribal Christians.

Indian upper caste rulers (15%) are great stooges of the West and America in particular. Leaders of the AICC say that the Dalit Freedom Network (DFN) they established in the West is supporting their work in India. If the DFN and its Western leaders have a command over the govt. in USA, UK etc. why they are not taking India’s Hindu Govt. to task when such large-scale attacks are launched in India on Christians?

This confirms our fear that the India’s Brahminical rulers who have joined hands with the American rulers in a big way are more influential with the West than India’s Christian leaders. That is why the DFN leaders in US and UK fell silent when Christians were attacked in India.

When these Brahminical rulers could silence Sonia Gandhi, herself a Christian, will they bother about the AICC leadership? Every time the country is made to witness an anti-Christian pogrom, our Christian leaders are put on the defensive.

Why AICC’s Western counterparts are silent? Why they are not asking the West to stop funding the anti-Christian Indian rulers? Mere protests and pres publicity will not end the Hindu violence — EDITOR.

BOOK REVIEW: -

Frank admission of caste among Muslims in North India

M.A. DELVI, NO.8 - 3RD CROSS, WILLIAMS TOWN EXTN., BANGALORE - 560 046

It is hazardous to review a book which has the ingredients and potentials of opening a pandora’s box. The book by Masood Alam Falahi falls under this category. To consider caste or social stratification in Muslim society is almost a taboo let alone study and follow its ramifications and impacts on society. The credit goes to Falahi to break this taboo and present this malady in all its crude nakedness. Although studies into the reasons for the persistence of Hindu caste structure, particularly among the middle and low caste converts to Islam were, studied in depth with uncertain results for the reason that the Muslim respondents refused to either admit such stratification or took defensive shelter behind Quranic injunctions. The concept of caste among the Indian Muslims with its attending disabilities and social stratification outside the Hindu fold is enigmatic and requires deeper studies. The book is very comprehensive and deals with the subject thoroughly which includes existence of this malady in the semitic religions in its rudiments.

TIPU’S GLORIOUS EXAMPLE

With the advent of Delhi Sultanate, the Muslim society as a state policy adopted the varna cult and thus evolved its own hierarchical caste system in terms of Ashraf, Ajlaf and Arzal which later consolidated into Syed, Sheikh, Mogul and Pathans.

Although in the beginning it was a pure artificial stratification conjured up in the courts of Sultanate for purposes of legitimisation which with the passage of time took roots and established itself as a reality. While the former two castes carry with it a pretentious claim the latter two connotes only their ethnic origin. Their respective ashrafiat ends there. The others were rubble and scum. What was most intriguing was the attitude of the historians of the time like Baruni to the present-day revered personalities like Sir Syed, ulemas of the stature of Moulana Ashraf Ali Thanavi and many others who not only condoned such practices but also practiced it.

It was the immigrants from Islamic lands who had monopolised and constituted the superstructure of power with the pretentious claims of Ashraf and the sultanate retained and patronised this social hierarchy for reasons of state craft. The natural fall-out was the formation of a rubble class outside this group. This artificial grouping was a contingency of state craft.

Since then Muslims live in two worlds. One an egalitarian where all are equal, the other the substratum which transcends the egalitarian sphere —an ideal Islam and a compromised Islam.

But the redeeming feature was the South wherein by and large these practices failed to get the required patronisation from the courts of Sultans. As a matter of fact it fell to the lot of the great saint-king Tupu Sultan to break up this conjured up caste hierarchy. His Ahmadi Risala consisting of converts were given the honorific prefix and affix of Syed and Khan to their names and were settled in his garrison towns all over his domain. In his administration the locals were given precedence over the migrants and for which he had to pay for by his life itself.

WELL-GUARDED SECRET

The one disappointing feature of the book happen to be its concluding chapter which failed to look beyond the Muslim conglomerate. It failed to provide any blueprint of action to break the barriers of religious borders and join hands with identically placed parallel section of the downtrodden and havenots in other societies on a revolutionary platform. The book deserves to be translated in other Indian languages preferably in English.

With the coming into print of the Basic Problem of OBC & Dalit Muslims, a well-guarded secret is out. That their exists large section within the fold of ummah who leads a subhuman status and who in the eyes of their ulemas do not deserve to be counted as Muslims at all. This in spite of projecting Islam as an egalitarian religion with its lofty quranic injunctions. The book has been scholarly edited by A.H. Ansari and the articles have been contributed to this volume by persons of eminence in their respective field ranging from academics to social scientists and political activists. Each of the article contributed is a treat in itself.

The principal role of class and caste in a religious conglomerate is the principal variable in a social structure of the community.

The Indian Muslim society is divided both vertically and horizontally and these divisions determine the society’s interaction between various groups.

It is to be noted that the caste structure obtaining among Muslims, especially in the cow belt, is by and large analogus to the hierarchical principle or a replica of Hindu caste system with all the attending disabilities. This in spite of the egalitarian and lofty Islamic principles of equality. The social structure formalised with an Ashraf caste on the top during the Sultanate period continued unabashedly post-mutiny as well. Its greatest protagonists range from Sir Syed Ahmed to plethora of ulemas including figures like Moulana Ashraf Ali Thanavi.

With India attaining “independence” and in its wake migration of a predominant section of Ashraf to Pakistan leaving behind the less fortunate to tend their own future there appeared a mobility not seen at any earlier time.

The political and social convulsions in Pakistan can be attributed to these Ashraf migrants coupled with the ulema combine are sufficient enough to bring its end sooner than later.

There is a subtle shift in this intercaste and intra-caste mobility as it is providing an impetus for interaction with the parallel categories of caste and class in other religious groups. This happen to be a welcome sign in a pluralistic society. Now the term OBC and Dalit which was earlier being used exclusively in respect of “Hindu caste” is now transformed into a class distinction for the Muslim sections of parallel caste or class. This progressive attitude transcending religious barrier is a welcome sign.

The most welcome feature of the book being its progressive outlook and a blueprint of action in a pluralistic society. The bold and rebellious exposures of the dark niche, the recesses and the cobwebs crowding the minds of the leadership of the community coupled with exposing the hypocrisy of assertion of equality but practicing an attitude of almost untouchability is the welcome feature.

Perhaps it may go a long way in jolting out the political and religious leadership from their smug attitude. Both books are a welcome addition on a subject very rarely traversed.

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1. HINDUSTHAN MEIN ZATPATH AUR MUSSALMAN

(In India, caste & Muslims)

Masood Alam Falahi

Al-Qazi
Abdul Fazl Enclave, New Delhi - 110 025

2. BASIC PROBLEMS OF OBC & DALIT MUSLIMS

Ashfaq Hussain Ansari

Serial Publications, New Delhi

The nonsense called Rama Sethu

P.S. SRIDHARAMURTHY, ADVOCATE, 25 - GANDHI BAZAR, BANGALORE - 560 004

The pre-Aryan, non-Aryan and non-Vedic Indus Valley Civilization thrived in the third millennium BC i.e. between 3,000 and 2,000 BC. Max Muller ascribed the latter half of the second millennium i.e. between 2,000 and 1,500 BC to Vedic period when iron was in use. Aryans were a rural people who never had townships — puras. Aryan invaders destroyed pre-Aryan, Dravidian towns and cities. Their god, Indra’s another name was Purandhara i.e. the destroyers of puras. The two puras mentioned in the Rig Veda are Asandivat and Kampila.

Sanskrit language had not come into existence in the third millennium BC when Prakrit, Tamil and Kannada were in use. There is a derogatory reference to Budha (566-486 BC) who lived in the 6th and 5th century BC in what is claimed as the Valmiki Ramayana, according to Dr.Narla Venkateswara Rao, an awardee of the Central Sahitya Academy.

Apart from iron, the concept of fire god i.e. Agnideva was not known to Indus people, while Sita was tested in fire i.e. by Agnideva. Ayodhya was a city, i.e. pura. Vasista, the royal priest, refers to Vedic shastras whenever the ruler—Dasharatha or Rama—sought guidance. Ravana is described as one of the experts in Sanskrit grammar. All these provide clues to the period of the Ramayana i.e. the period ascribed to Ramayana by those who conceived the story.

An important aspect of Vedic mythology—of which the Ramayana is a part — is the predominance of males. Goddesses like Saraswati, Pritvi, Aditi and Ushas occupy a very subordinate position. In contrast, in the earlier Indus culture, the mother goddess is co-equal with her male partner.

Sita was victimised more by Rama than by anybody else.

Even after subjecting her to fire-test (Agni Pariksha), he abandoned her to forest when she was pregnant because of a casual silly comment by a washerman — dhobi. In the end unable to bear his cruel accusations, she begs mother earth to swallow her and the earth obliges. In other words, she commits suicide.

Suspecting and torturing Sita was his chief sport and pastime. Shambhuka episode shows him as an enthusiastic soldier of Manuwad and as the very personification of the Vedic value system.

According vaidiks he is Vigrahvan dharma i.e. the embodiment of dharma viz the dharma of chaturvarna. All this very clearly establishes that the story contained in Valmiki’s fiction was conceived in the post-Indus period. It is the faith of all objective thinkers, Periyarists and Ambedkarites that Rama of Valmiki’s work was not only not divine, but not even human. Clash of faiths is therefore inevitable. The cry of the priest class, the exploiters and their apologists — when the exploited react and resent — that their feelings are hurt, is natural but absurd. Their record has been one of oppression and suppression.

WHAT RAJAJI SAYS

Rajaji, the author of the most popular and the best seller of all the Ramayanas, writes in his book:

The Ramayana is not history or biography. It is part of Hindu mythology... In Valmiki’s work, Rama is portrayed as a great and unique man, not as an incarnation of god”. (emphasis added).

Confusions, contradictions and disorder perplexes anyone who wants to know the whole of Ramayana. Not only there are so many Ramayanas but even in the same book inconsistencies can be seen. Even Rajai, despite his reputation for an incisive mind, states that Valmiki gathered the story from folklore, that he learnt it from Narada and that he was blessed with the knowledge of Rama story by the four-faced Brahma.

WORST WOMAN-HATER

Any student of Ramayana gets drowned in confusion worst confounded when he finds that the abandoned Sita gave birth to her twin sons in the hermitage of this very Valmiki. Discussing the pathetic episode of Rama abandoning the pregnant Sita, even Rajaji writes angrily:

“...my heart rebels against it... it mirrors the voiceless and endless suffering of our women folk”.

Rama is surely one of the most anti-women characters in the whole of world literature.

JAIN RAMAYANA

Long before Valmiki, there were several Rama stories in the folklore depicting Rama as an ideal king, at a time when there was clash on what made an ideal. In one story, Sita is Rama’s sister while in another she is Ravana’s daughter. In a Rama story of Budhist tradition by name Abhidhamma Vibasha, Budhist ideals and values are upheld. Jains have six Rama stories which uphold their concepts and values. Vimala Suri, Swaymbhu, Hema Chandra, Guna Bhadra, Pushpa Danta are the authors of these Jain Ramayanas. Of all the Jain Ramayanas, Padma Purana of Acharya Ravishena is very famous. Here Rama is known also as Padma.

At a time when the vaidiks needed a hero and a story to attract masses from Budhist and Jain fold, the fiction attributed to Valmiki developed. They had to send feelers that non-Brahmins too can command respect in Vedic social order. It is therefore not accidental that Rama, Viswamitra, Anjaneya and Valmiki have all been portrayed as non-Brahmins and Ravana their villain as Brahmin.

VAIDIK AS EXPERTS IN FORGERY

Renowned scholar, Dr. Suniti Kumar Chatterjee, states that it was Chyavana Mahrshi, a Brahmin who actually wrote the Sanskrit Ramayana and attributed it to Valmiki.

In order to validate and propagate the values and beliefs of their faiths, Jains, Budhists and vaidiks picked up the Rama story which was already there in the folklore and reshaped it to suit their needs, according to Dr. K.R. Srinivasa Iyengar, former VC of the Andhra University, as well as Dr. Sukumar Sen. Vaidiks were adept in plagiarism. According to some scholars the name Rama itself is of Jain origin. A Bengali text, Lakavatara Sutra, portrays Ravana as a Dravidian king who took to Budhism after rejecting the vedas, yajnas and yagas. Vaidiks had to demonise him in order to abuse him. The belief that by reading or listening to Ramayana, bliss (punya) can be attained, was spread.

The Ramayana thus became an oversized propaganda phamplet of Vedic religion.

VALMIKI’S TIME

Of late, in some Panchangas (vaidik almanac/calenders) the full moon day of Ashweeyuja month (26-10-2007) is shown as Valmiki Jayanti. A people who never cared to find out the century in which the poet might have lived are sure of his date of birth. Moris Winternitz and A.B. Keith are the two Western scholars who are extensively quoted in any serious discussion on ancient Sanskrit literature.

Both these scholars have determined that Valmiki lived during the 3rd century BC. Prof. Hopkins and Herman Jacobi who studied the various stages in the growth and development of Sanskrit language have held that the Valmiki Ramayana was composed when the Sanskrit language had reached almost the final stage of its evolution and had become completely refined and mature in view of the simplicity and beauty of the Valmiki Ramayana. Their finding is in conformity with what Winternitz and Keith have said about the time of Valmiki.

BUDHA’S BLOW TO BRAHMINS

Budha is the first great Indian whose dates of birth and death are not in dispute.

Budha was a historical figure while Rama was a cock and bull story.

He lived between 566 and 486 BC.

Valmiki, therefore lived two centuries after Budha. By attracting the masses who had been persecuted by the Vedic social order, Budha gave the first ever moral shock, intellectual jolt and sociological blow to the Brahminic religion.

Rama endlessly boasts about his lineage. Sita’s fidelity assumes disproportionate importance. The chief message of the Ramayana is that husband’s verdict on wife ought to be final. Rama was noticeably the anti-climax of everything that Budha stood for. Budha left his queen and child in palace and abdicated the throne. Rama stayed in the palace and abandoned the pregnant Sita to forest. Rama obeyed priests and shastras while Budha taught how to live without them.

On which century did Rama live? This question that does not arise since in all pre-Valmiki and post-Valmiki Ramayanas, Rama is only a character or at best the hero of an over-glorified novel. Let me repeat the words of the most respected among the Ramayana votaries, Rajaji:

Ramayana is not history or biography.

Even as the elephant headed Ganesha or four-headed Brahma could not have existed, Rama too is part of several or varieties of Ramayanas, all of which fictions.

RAMA SETHU

The hump beneath the sea between Dhanush Koti and Talai Mannar is described in all official and cartographic records as Adam’s Bridge. The unwarranted and unauthorised term Rama Sethu or Ramar Sethu is sought to be legitimised by vaidiks and their Hindu terrorist outfits to whom the media has always been helpful. Babri Masjid complex and Bababudangiri (in Karnataka) have been unauthorisedly named by these very outfits as Rama janmabhoomi and Dattapeeta.

The geological truth is that the island Ceylon, called Sri Lanka since about 40 years, was once a part of India and due to corrosion by sea during the past about 1 lakh years, the island was formed and the remnants of land — mixture of rocks and sand is the present Adam’s Bridge. The hue and cry of the saffron outfits over Rama Sethu can be easily put down by gathering expert opinion from geologists. The UPA Govt. unfortunately does not have the political will. The UPA led by Sonia Gandhi blundered by withdrawing the affidavits which contained unqualified truth about Rama and Adam’s Bridge, even as Narasimha Rao bungled at Ayodhya.

CONTROVERSY ON RAMA’S DATE

Human beings in the present form evolved about 1 lakh years ago when man began to live in caves, according to history of human evolution.

Geology and seismology too are clearly against the silly propaganda that Rama and vanaras built what is now seen as Adam’s Bridge.

At first they cried that Rama built this bridge 17 lakhs years ago. Someone among them recently came up with the wonderful discovery that Rama took birth in 5114 BC i.e. 51 centuries before Christ. According to the findings of the archaeological excavations at Ayodhya, the earliest occupation of the place by humans could not have taken place prior to 7th century BC (See: Indian Archaeology-A Review, 1976-77).

Ayodhya means “impregnable”. There is nothing impregnable about the present Ayodhya. All this shows that whoever discovered the years of Rama’s birth knows more than even Valmiki about the Ramayana. However our Brahminical media gave prompt and wide coverage for this celebrity of sorts.

Whenever our Hindu terrorists raise non-issues the media turns into a machinery of misinformation.

A very high profile article on Rama in the Indian Express (Sun, Oct.7, 2007) tells us that Valmiki according to historians lived anywhere between 800 BC and 400 BC, without giving us even a single name among those historians.

The biggest and the most propagated lie is that the nonsense dished out by the Hindu terrorists called Rama Sethu is the faith of millions of Hindus. Nearly half of world’s illiterate population lives in India and 47% of India’s children under the age of five are “chronically malnourished”, according to the United Nations report of 2005. Do our millions suffering from illiteracy and squalor have any time or interest in polemics over the events narrated in mythology?

HINDUISM - A MISNOMER

“The word Hindu... has lost all its meaning, for this word merely meant those who lived on the other side of the river Indus (in Sanskrit, Sindhu). This name was murdered into Hindu by ancient Persians... and during Mohammedan rule, we took up the word ourselves... all the people who live on this side of the Indus in modern times do not follow the same religion... therefore would not use the word Hindu... The other words which alone we can use are either the vaidiks, followers of the Vedas, or better still the Vedantists followers of the Vedanta.

“... all the people that live on this side of the Indus no longer belong to one religion. There are the Hindus proper, the Mohammedans, the Parsees, the Christians, the Budhists and Jains. The word “Hindu” in its literal sense ought to include all these; but as signifying the religion, it would not be proper to call all these, Hindus... This perhaps is certain that no man can have a right to be called a Hindu who does not admit the supreme authority of the Vedas”.

These are not the words of either Periyar or Dr. Ambedkar but of Swami Vivekananda (pages 118 and 228 of Vol.3 of the Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda).

It is a pity that the great Swami did not know that Lingayats (followers of Basavanna-12th century) and Sikhs (followers of Guru Nanak - 16th century) too rejected “the supreme authority of the Vedas”. It is a greater pity that the great Swami overlooked the fact that Vedas had persecuted whom the smritis called Chandals and who had to wait for 3,000 years in order to be called by an appropriate name Dalits.

GANDHI ON HINDUS

Truth itself had to wait in order to find an expression until Gandhi came to the conclusion: “the Hindus are really not the major community if you put the rest together”. Saffron disdain for Gandhi is understandable.

According to the Goutama Dharma Sutra (an important Smriti) if at all any shudra (whose rank is higher than Dalits) hears Vedas molten lead should be poured into his ears. Adi Shankara, the most adored Indian for the Hindu terrorist party, quotes this sanction against sudras with approval in the 38th verse of the 9th section of the 3rd part of the 1st chapter of his Bramhasutra Bhashyam.

On this such a famous non-issue called Rama Sethu, Chief Minister Karunanidhi truely represents the millions of non-cross-thread Hindus. In fact millions are indifferent to Rama and trillions are unconcerned about Rama Sethu.

HINDUTVA & ENVIRONMENT

Rama perhaps did not approve the demolition of Babri Masjid and did not bless the Hindu terrorist party in UP. The saffron mafia knows that Rama can become not only an electoral risk, but even a liability in Tamil Nadu, the land of Periyar. The non-issue of Rama Sethu may be of some marginal use elsewhere. They are therefore playing the environment card.

The mafia is adept in politicising every vaidik concern by mixing it with larger public concerns, banking on the gullibility of the misinformed masses. Hindu terrorists did not support environmentalists who had objected to Sardar Sarovar Project because no vaidik was affected. The affected poor villages and tribals had nothing to do with hamari Pracheen Parampara — our ancient Hindu heritage.

Of all the arguments related to Rama Sethu, the most unsound and funniest is the one advanced in the name of environment. Whenever a big building is built, railway line is laid, or a factory comes up, air and noise pollution is inevitable, trees are cut, nests are destroyed and earthworms are killed. Even boring a well is a sin since it affects ground water level.

RAMA DAMAGED ENVIRONMENT

It is argued that forms of life around Adam’s Bridge are covered by laws relating to environment. The truth is that the coral needs etc. and other forms of life get naturally replenished in due course according to geology.

If it were Rama that built what they call Rama Sethu, he must have been the first to damage the environment for purely personal reasons. Surely he did not go to Lanka for any public cause.

The argument that the Sethu Samudram Project will affect the lives of fishermen is even more funny. It is too well known that routine fishing on our coast has resulted in the extinction of many varieties of fish. For this irreparable environmental loss, fishermen and fish -eaters alone are to be blamed. It is a pity that fishing is free from any form of regulation.

UNTRUSTWORTHY CONGRESS PARTY

Archaeological excavations did take place with the specific object of finding the historicity of the Ramayana story at and around Ayodhya. No evidence was found.

Late Dr. Narla Venkateswara Rao, the great rationalist of Andhra, has discussed all this in detail in his book on the Ramayana. The UPA Govt. did great disservice to the country by victimising the officers of the ASI for telling the truth to the Supreme court on lack of archaeological evidence about the historicity of the Ramayana. The UPA Govt. is guilty of setting up a bad and dangerous precedent, by withdrawing the affidavits. The Congress intellectually surrendered to the Hindu terrorists fearing that Rama issue may swing votes.

The Ramayana as well as other epics contain a lot of incredible fairy tales. The chances are that the govt. machinery will in future be used to crush rationalist and scientific view on all these so-called sacred beliefs falsely paraded as the faith of millions of Hindus.

If you want to fight Hindu terrorists never trust Congress.

RAJASTHAN BAN ON RAVANA PUJA

The grand and great Greek epics, Illiad and Odissy, created by the celebrated poet, Homer, are read and enjoyed by Europeans. So are the Arabian Nights. However, no people on earth are so madly parading their mania for mythological characters with ulterior motives as our Hindu terrorists. In fact Rama devotees have been adoring Rama, Krishna, Siva etc. all these centuries irrespective of who ruled the country. Saffron mafia has turned Rama into a vote gathering gadget. Their perverse love for Rama is actually a morbid form of hate towards fellow Indians i.e. the non-cross-threaded Indians whom they want to subjugate and exploit.

Hindu terrorists do not tolerate freedom of worship. If proof is needed, one can see the Indian Express (Oct,28, 2007) that the BJP Govt. in Rajasthan banned Ravana Puja. Speaking on behalf of a subcaste of Shrimali Brahmins, the head priest Pandit Kamalesh Dave, said that they have deep respect for Ravana, the great scholar.