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Sep 2 08 6:37 AM

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Behind the soothing or stimulating intellectual posers and slogans lurks a demon with a war cry as his melody and half-truths and lies his allies.He will entice the brilliant and sensetive-the intellectuals and poets alike,with his hyponotic words and melodies.The others have always been easy to convert to the cause.
When you wake up ultimately and find yourself in the nightmarish realty that you have helped to create,there will be no escape,even if you tried.The demon will have usurped everything by then.If you try to redeem yourself by raising your voices,you too will have to share the fate of the dispossessed now whom you,unwittingly,made dispossessed by going silently with the demon,saying "yes"to his mesmeric but diabolic discourses,giving respectability to hatred,mistrust and ultimately to the murder.
He philosophizes and bring forth the convoluted logic based on half-truths to initiate the intellectual into the world of paranoia.He cooes lullabies of mistrust to take the sensitives into his nightmarish world.He speaks the language of religion-each to his own,sings the songs of past glories and promises utopian futures if your present can be mortgaged to him.He has only one purpose-TO DISPOSSESS YOU OF YOUR HUMANITY.He plays on your emotions by blowing out of proportion your real or imagined grievances.He ,very soothingly,prepares you,by reaping seeds of mistrust and hatred in you,to a state of mind where hatred is the only alternative and murder becomes necessity to teach lessons to the OTHER.
He is an active proselytizer with various tools of the trade to recruit you to his demonic cause.He is seemingly a harbinger of hope and new dreams but is,in fact,a shaman,giving out the poisons of false hopes and nightmares.Hitler,Reich,Final solution,concentration camps....That is where the road to intolerance,hatred and mistrust finally ends.It has been wisely said that those who do not learn from history are condemned to repeat it.
Come out of the spell of the demon-whether the demon is wearing the mask of a hindu,muslim,christian or sikh fundamentalist.Before it is too late to stop that demon,before civilization is sold cheap by this evil force.
Now join forces together-all intelligent and sensitive Hindus,Muslims,christian,sikhs and others alike.
Enlarge your circle by sending it to all your nears and dears.Actively speak against this demon of hatred among your family memeber,at your places of worship,at yoyr workplace and at your social getogethers.Let this pledge become a part of your daily prayers.

---------Brijinder"Sagar"-----------
brijinder11@yahoo.co.nz
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Sep 10 08 2:45 AM

A German's Point of View on Fanaticism


Here is something that was written in a German newspaper. I think you may find this view quite interesting as did I.

A little food for thought.
A man whose family was German aristocracy prior to World War II owned a number of large industries and estates. When asked how many German people were true Nazis, the answer he gave can guide our attitude toward fanaticism.'Very few people were true Nazis' he said, 'but manyenjoyed the return of German pride, and many morewere too busy to care. I was one of those who justthought the Nazis were a bunch of fools.

So, the majority just sat back and let it all happen.Then, before we knew it, they owned us, and we hadlost control, and the end of the world had come. Myfamily lost everything. I ended up in a concentrationcamp and the Allies destroyed my factories.'

We are told again and again by 'experts' and talkingheads' that Islam is the religion of peace, and thatthe vast majority of Muslims just want to live in peace.I also believe it to be so.Although this unqualified assertion may be true, it isentirely irrelevant. It is meaningless fluff, meantto take us feel better, and meant to somehow diminish the spectre of fanatics rampaging across the globe in the name of Islam.The fact is Islam has been hijacked by these fanatics.

The fact is that the fanatics rule Islam at this moment in history. It is the fanatics who march. It is the fanatics who wage any one of 50 shooting warsworldwide. It is the fanatics who systematically slaughter people or tribal groups throughout Africa and are gradually taking over the entire continent in an Islamic wave. It is the fanatics who bomb, behead, murder, or honor kill. It is the fanatics who take over mosque after mosque. It is
the fanatics who zealously spread the stoning and hanging of rape victims. The hard quantifiable fact is that the 'peaceful majority', the 'silent majority', is cowed and extraneous.

Communist Russia was comprised of Russians who just wanted to live in peace, yet the Russian Communists were responsible for the murder of about 20 million people. The peaceful majority were irrelevant by these fanatics.

China 's huge population was peaceful as well, but Chinese Communists managed to kill a staggering 70 million people.The peaceful majority was irrelevant by these fanatics.

The average Japanese individual prior to World War II was not a warmongering sadist. Yet, Japan murdered and slaughtered its way across South East Asia in an orgy of killing that included the systematic murder of 14 million Chinese civilians;most killed by sword, shovel, and bayonet. The peaceful majority was made irrelevant by these fanatics.

And, who can forget Rwanda , which collapsed into butchery. Could it not be said that the majority of Rwandans were 'peace loving'?The peaceful majority was made irrelevant by these fanatics.

History lessons are often incredibly simple and blunt, yet for all our powers of reason we often miss the most basic and uncomplicated of points:
Peace-loving Muslims have been made irrelevant by their silence.

Peace-loving Muslims will become our enemy if they don't speak up, because like my friend from Germany , they will awaken one day and find that the fanatics own them, and the end of their world will have begun.

Peace-loving Germans, Japanese, Chinese,Russians, Rwandans, Serbs, Afghanis, Iraqis,Palestinians, Somalis, Nigerians, Algerians, andmany others have died because the peaceful majoritydid not speak up until it was too late.

As for us who watch it all unfold; we must payattention to the only group that counts; the fanatics who threaten our way of life.

It is a serious heart-felt request from a german who saw the fanatics and criminals taking control of germany under Hitler JUST because of the silent majority.And we all had to take the blame for the crimes of those few and justifiably too.
My muslim friends,please do not let these fanatics with a narrow and intolerant world-view hijack your religion.Speak before it is too late....
It also a serious request to all others-Hindus,jews,sikhs,christians alike- to speak against such intolerant people and groups with in their own communities and also strengthen the hands of peace-loving muslim brethren by supporting them in their efforts.Let Klu Klux Klans,Vishv Hindu parishads or similar hate spitting organisations in any religions not flourish.
This can only be made possible by SPEAKING UP AGAINST THEM,MY FRIENDS.[B][U]

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Sep 11 08 4:12 AM

I am reproducing an article by karan Thapar where he asked Hindus to raise their voice against injustice which are being done in the name of their religion.I hope the same sane voice of NO to come from muslims as most of them are peace loving people l.
This article by Karan Thapar highlights the problem in India, currently in Orissa, and the need for everyone to speak out.

We must voice our opinions like Karan Thapar, co-opting the bulk of our Hindu brethren.



Who's the real Hindu?

By Karan Thapar

(published August 31, 2008, under Sunday Sentiments in Hindustan Times)

Does the VHP have the right to speak for you or I?
Do they reflect our views?
Do we endorse their behaviour?
They call themselves the Vishwa Hindu Parishad, but who says they represent all of us?

This Sunday morning, I want to draw a clear line of distinction between them and everyone else. My hunch is many of you will agree.
Let me start with the question of conversion — an issue that greatly exercises the VHP. I imagine there are hundreds of millions of Hindus who are peaceful, tolerant, devoted to their faith, but above all, happy to live alongside Muslims, Christians, Sikhs, Buddhists, Jains and Jews. (How about our dear Parsis!!)
If any one of us were to change our Faith how does it affect the next man or woman? And even if that happens with inducements, it can only prove that the forsaken faith had a tenuous and shallow hold.
So why do the VHP and its unruly storm troopers, the Bajrang Dal, froth at the mouth if you, I or our neighbours convert? What is it to do with them?
Let me put it bluntly, even crudely. If I want to sell my soul — and trade in my present gods for a new lot — why shouldn't I? Even if the act diminishes me in your eyes, it's my right to do so. So if thousands or even millions of Dalits, who have been despised and ostracised for generations, choose to become Christian, Buddhist or Muslim, either to escape the discrimination of their Hindu faith or because some other has lured them with food and cash, it's their right.
Arguably, you may believe you should ask them to reconsider, although I would call that interference, but you certainly have no duty or right to stop them. In fact, I doubt if you are morally correct in even seeking to place obstacles in their way.
The so-called Freedom of Religion Acts, which aim to do just that, are, in fact, tantamount to obstruction of conversion laws and therefore, at the very least, questionable. However, what's even worse is how the VHP responds to this matter. Periodically they resort to violence including outright murder. What happened to Graham Staines in Orissa was not unique. Last week it happened again.
Apart from the utter and contemptible criminality of such behaviour, is this how we Hindus wish to behave?
Is this how we want our faith defended?
Is this how we want to be seen?
I have no doubt the answer is no. An unequivocal, unchanging and ever-lasting NO!
The only problem is it can't be heard. And it needs to be. I therefore believe the time has come for the silent majority of Hindus — both those who ardently practice their faith as well as those who were born into it but may not be overtly religious or devout — to speak out.
We cannot accept the desecration of churches, the burning to death of innocent caretakers of orphanages, the storming of Christian and Muslim hamlets even if these acts are allegedly done in defence of our faith. Indeed, they do not defend but shame Hinduism. That's my central point.
I'm justju/c023.gif, but when I read that the VHP has ransacked and killed I'm not just embarrassed, I feel ashamed. Never of being hindu but of what some Hindus do in our shared faith's name.
This is why its incumbent on Naveen Patnaik, Orissa's Chief Minister, to take tough, unremitting action against the VHP and its junior wing, the Bajrang Dal. This is a test not just of his governance, but of his character. And I know and accept this could affect his political survival. But when it's a struggle between your commitment to your principles and your political convenience is there room for choice? For ordinary politicians, possibly, but for the Naveen I know, very definitely not.
So let me end by saying: I'm waiting, Naveen. In fact, I want to say I'm not alone.

There are hundreds of millions of Hindus, like you and me, waiting silently — but increasingly impatiently. Please act for all of us.
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Sep 14 08 4:45 AM

Just saw the horrible images of bomb blasts in Delhi....I ask those people who do not think for once taking innocent lives,"Is your "jannat" worth it,if it comes at the cost of inncent lives-hindu,muslim,old,young,children?"
I will loudly say NO to paradise if the price is loss of my conscience,my humanity.
Only if such acts can be boldy denounced from the pulpits of mosques,mandirs,gurudwaras n churches!!!!Honestly that will have a great effect on the masses.
Let us come out of our self-imposed justifications.Let us try to give a sesible,sane and hatred free future to our next generation.The material security that we provide for them is NOTHINg compared to what we will give by our clarity of vision and our conviction in the basic good of human being and respect for human life.
Regards

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