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From: Vikram Varma < >
Subject: FW: Tolerance

This was a reader’s ‘letter to the editor’ published in daily “SUN” last Sunday.

 

Read and think!! mTolerance ..

 

I am truly perplexed that so many of my friends are against another mosque being built in London on the Thames. I think it should be the goal of every Englishman to be tolerant. Thus the Mosque should be allowed, in an effort to promote tolerance.

 

That is why I also propose that two nightclubs be opened next door to the mosque, thereby promoting tolerance from within the mosque. We could call one of the clubs, which would be gay, “The Turban Cowboy”, and the other a topless bar called “You Mecca Me Hot.”

 

Next door should be a butcher shop that specializes in pork,

and adjacent to that an open-pit barbeque pork restaurant, called “Iraq o’ Ribs.”

 

Across the street there could be a lingerie store called “Victoria Keeps Nothing Secret”, with sexy mannequins in the window modeling the goods.

 

Next door to the lingerie shop there would be room for an adult sex toy shop, “Koranal Knowledge”, its name in flashing neon  lights,

 

and on the other side a liquor store called “Morehammered.”

 

All of this would encourage the Muslims to demonstrate the tolerance they demand of us, so the mosque problem would be solved.  

 

If you agree with promoting tolerance, and you think this is a good plan, please publish my letter.

 

From: N Kataria < >

JIHADISTS HAVE KILLED MORE THAN 30,000 INDIAN POLICE, ARMY ND PARAMILITARY PERSONNEL IN THE PAST 10 YEARS – DR. PRAVIN TOGADIA

Kasab Hanged; When Afzal & other Jehadis?

Asks Dr Pravin Togadia

New Delhi, November 21, 2012

Ajmal Aamir Kasab, a convict of November 26, 2008 Jehadi attack on Mumbai has been hanged to death today morning. Giving credit of such an accurate & speedy trial & punishment to Mumbai Police & especially to Advocate Ujjwal Nikam, Dr Pravin Togadia, International Working President of VHP said, “Hanging Kasab is a welcome beginning for war on terror that the Indian PM promises only on the foreign soils but back in Bharat, gets Hindus arrested & jailed. There is a long way to go in war against Jehadi Terror. The attacker of Bharat’s Parliament Afzal Guru & other hundreds of Jehadis are living gleefully in Indian jails like parasites eating up Indian tax payers’ hard earned money. They not only are a burden on Bharat but more importantly, they also pose a great danger of the Kandahar like incident which endangers Bharat’s safety & security immensely. Therefore, it is now essential that without any further delay in clearing Afzal Guru’s mercy petition, he should be hanged per the Hon. Supreme Court verdict & other Jehadis should be tried / hanged too. Mumbai blasts 1992 accused / convicts are still sitting in Indian jails & some are roaming free. Gujarat Sabarmati Train burning attack where Ram Bhakts were burnt alive, the main accused is ‘absconding’ yet & there are many such Jehadi attack cases. Union Gov’t & all state Gov’ts should act on these cases faster & give justice to the victims & also save Bharat from Kandahar like tragedies.”

Dr Togadia further demanded that all the attacks on the police, Army & paramilitary forces in Jammu & Kashmir be treated as Jehadi attacks & the culprits be hanged immediately as over 30,000 Indian police, Army / paramilitary personnel have been killed in past 10 years only in that region alone. Dr Togadia demanded the same system for Assam & rest of North East & urged the Govt to treat the violence by the Bangla Deshi Muslim Infiltrators in North East as Jehadi attacks on Bharat.

Shenanigans of Girish Karnad

Narain Kataria in New York

I was shocked at the vituperative tirade and disgustingly ignoble attacks in Mumbai the other day by Playwright Girish Karnad on learned Nobel Laureate V.S. Naipal for being anti-Muslim and tone deaf.

Mr. Girish Karnad’s assertion that the Islamic period of Indian history was rich and glorious period is based on false assumptions. It is devoid of factual data, motivated by a malicious design to obscure and falsify Indian history, misleads public opinion, and is just a preposterous nonsense.

In reality, the Islamic period of Indian History was a very dark and dismal period so far as the Hindus are concerned. It was a period of resistance, suffering and suffocation for Hindus. Islamic vandalism was so stark in its evil, so barbarian in its nature and so enormous in its magnitude that it demands eternal condemnation. Mr. V.S. Naipal has rendered a yeomen service to Hindu Samaj and deserves our kudos for telling the truth and enlightening us about the murder and mayhem perpetrated by uncivilized brutes on hapless Hindus.

For the information of readers and Mr. Girish Karnad, I give below some factual accounts of savagery and barbarism provided by Islamic/British chroniclers.

Babur was a beast. He used to derive sadistic pleasure by watching heads of slaughtered Hindus. “I ordered that a tower of Hindu heads be set up on the ground.” (Babur Nama, translated into English by A.S. Beveridge, p. 370)

Akbar was the slaughterer of Hindus. Jahangir, whose earlier name was Salim, wrote in his autobiography “Tarikh-i-Salim Shahi” that under Akbar and Jahangir “five to six hundred thousand (500,000 to 600,000) Hindus were killed.” (Tarikh-i-Salim: Trans. By Price, pp. 225-6).

In relation to Akbar’s conquest in Chittor (Rajputana), Abul Fazl recorded that “following Akbar’s order, eight thousand Rajput warriors were first disarmed and then slain and along with them forty thousand peasants were also slain.” (The Islamic treatment of PoW, Surah 8, Ayat 67, the Quran) (Akbarnama by Abul Fazl translated into English by H. Beveridge)

Abbas Khan Sherwani in his chronicle Tarikh-i-Farishtah recorded: “The Hindoos were pursued and slain by (Muslim) allies with such success, that the river was dyed red with their blood. It is computed by the best authorities that above one hundred thousand (100,000) infidels were slain during the action and in pursuit.”

It is a well-known historical fact that during the Jahangir’s rule in India, our fifth Guru Arjun Dev was made to sit on a hot iron plate.  Hot sand was poured over his body. Our tenth Guru Gobind Singh`s two young sons were bricked alive by Islamists. Many Sikh saints were sawed alive. Guru Teg Bahadur Sahib was put into a cage and his head was chopped off because he refused to convert to Islam.

In recent history, the Indian Muslims were responsible for the partition of our Motherland in 1947. Muslims forced Hindus to cede Sind, West Punjab, Balochistan, North West Frontier and East Pakistan. They gleefully warned Hindus: “Has ke Liya Hi Pakistan, Ladke Lenge Hindustan. (We took Pakistan with a smile; we will take Hindustan by fighting.)”  After the creation of Pakistan, a reign of loot, murder, rape and terror was unleashed against Hindus and Sikhs. Muslims drove out 10 million Hindus from Pakistan. Thus, they reduced the Hindu population in Pakistan from 23% in 1947 to 1% now. In Bangladesh the, Hindu population was reduced from 35-40% in 1947 to 8-9% now.

After consolidating their position, the Muslims turned their eyes on Kashmir. They tortured Hindu to such an extent that more than 400,000 Hindus fled their homes and hearths there. Now, the Muslims want to get rid of Hindus living in Jammu also.

In 1971, more than 3 million people were killed in Bangladesh, out of which 80% were Hindus. More than 30 million Bangladeshi Muslims have already illegally infiltrated into India. Muslim population in Assam is increasing with leaps and bounds. The situation has reached alarming proportions, and soon a Kashmir-like situation could arise there too.

Mr. Karnad seems to be a totally disingenuous and biased person. A feeling has crept in my mind that the guy is either suffering from cognitive disorder or from Stockholm syndrome – a tragic psychological phenomenon in which the hostages express empathy and have a positive feeling towards their captors.

In face of such voluminous and irrefutable evidence about the Islamic brutalities, Mr. Karnad has an audacity to state that Islamic period of Indian history was rich and glorious. Before putting his foot in his mouth, Mr. Karnad should have acquainted himself with the true History of India. By his idiosyncratic behavior, he has lowered his stature, exposed his abysmal knowledge about history and made himself a laughing stock in the eyes of all learned people.

Narain Katraria

President

Indian American Intellectuals Forum

(718) 478-5735

Email:  Katarian@aol.com

Blog:  Narainkataria.blogspot.com

 

 

From: Babu Sushilan < >

 

Islamic contributions to the world and especially to India is a big zero. Before the advent of brutal Islam, India was at its zenith of civilization. There was no poverty, discrimination, no beggars, and entire humanity lived in peace, tranquility, harmony and people were well educated.
The desert Deity, the brutal allah  invented by Mohamed, the slave trader, and wonton murderer was a shock to the world. Converted Muslims were forced to destroy the entire Babylonian civilization, Mesopotamia civilization, Egyptian civilization, Persian civilization and part of Indus civilization. Islam has introduced the world with terrorism, slaughter, sexual oppression, beheading of infidels, polygamy, terrorism, killing of innocent humans, sexual exploitation, and anti  human anti freedom, and anti democratic principles around the world.
Some disgruntled Indian writers and pseudo secular politicians praise Muslims and their contributions to the world. For the converted Muslims and ordinary infidels, it is time to think. Why should they follow the brutal philosophy of Saudi Arabia and promote Saudi imperialism. They should think creatively and why should they follow the merciless Saudi Imperialism and forget their culture which give them freedom, creativity and systemic thinking.  Those who are deceptively and forcefully converted into this out dated Saudi Arabian desert ideology which is closed, rigid dogma fir only for criminal activities, including plunder, torture, invasion and polygamy need to know about Islamic history. They need to ask questions not to follow the Imams and Mullahs who are directing the Saudi doctrine for world domination.
Rather  than following Baber, Aurangzeb, Idi Amin, Bin Laden, and Islamic terrorist leaders, converted Muslims must go back to their roots and draw inspiration from their own culture.

From: Deva Samaroo < >

 

WHY MANY MUSLIMS COUNTRIES  CHINESE AND JAPANESE HATE PAKISTANIS

 

 

Pakistanis evoke highly negative emotions worldwide, including in Muslim majority countries, says a US intelligent survey.  Not just the elites but the common Pakistani too is culpable in the country’s spectacular failure.

 

It has never been easy being a Pakistani.  Pick a terrorist act committed anywhere in the world and chances are it has Pakistani fingerprints all over it.  In many places, the word ‘Pakistani’ is a four-letter word.

 

So it must be a nasty kick in the guts for the Pakistanis to learn that their only allies, the Chinese, as well as the majority populations of several Muslim countries, including Egypt, Tunisia, Jordan and Lebanon, see them as a bunch of baddies.

 

A survey of 21 countries released on June 27, 2012 by the United States-based Pew Research Center suggests that Pakistan is not only a universally disliked country but the Pakistanis themselves have learnt nothing from their history, continuing to support the very actors who are responsible for their country’s negative image.

 

It is a measure of Pakistan’s penchant for exporting terrorists, counterfeit currency and drugs that India has constructed a 2043 km long steel fence across its border with its wayward western neighbour.  The floodlit fence is so bright it can be seen from space as a bright orange line snaking from the Arabian Sea to Kashmir.

 

Now Iran is building a 700-km steel and concrete security fence along its border with Pakistan “to prevent border crossing by terrorists and drug traffickers.”  When complete it will make Pakistan the most fenced-in country in the world.

 

You get the picture.  Pakistan is not exactly a popular tourist destination.

 

In four of the five predominantly Muslim nations covered by the American survey, over half give Pakistan negative ratings.  Jordan (57%), Lebanon (56%), Tunisia (54%) and Egypt (53%) had an unfavourable opinion of Pakistan.  The only exception is Turkey, where attitudes are divided (43% negative and 37% favourable).

 

In East Asia, 52% of Chinese see Pakistan unfavourably, as do 59% in Japan and 59% in India.  The Chinese response is not surprising as Pakistan-trained Uighur Muslims have launched terror strikes in China.  Japan, a nation historically distrustful of foreigners, decided not to take chances and deported more than 15,000 Pakistanis after 9/11.

 

 

Runaway Military Most Loved

 

Every country has an army but the Pakistan Army has a country.  The Pakistani military runs a $ 20 billion commercial empire that includes interests such as milk processing plants, bakeries, banks, cinemas, heavy industry and insurance.  Plus a good chunk of the billions of dollars in American aid goes straight into the pockets of the generals.

 

This corrupt empire is walled off from civilians.  Defence analyst Ayesha Siddiqa, author of Military Inc. : Inside Pakistan’s Military Economy, says there is little accountability and widespread siphoning of funds.  The Pakistani military operates a virtual apartheid where an increasingly poor civilian population faces discrimination at virtually every level of national life – from jobs to pensions.

 

Also, the Pakistani military has lost four wars against India.  After each of these wars Pakistan lost territory and the generals their credibility.  But bizarre as it sounds, this military is the most respected institution in the country.  As many as 77% say the military has a good influence on the country, nearly the same percentage (79%) as last year.  The Pakistanis are either very tolerant or very brainwashed.

 

Sure, the military’s ratings have slipped from a high of 86% in 2009, but all it takes is one border flare-up for the ratings to travel north.  The generals always oblige.

 

The media comes next with a 68% rating, followed by religious leaders at 66%.

 

President Asif Ali Zardari receives the most negative reviews.  Only 12% believe he has a good influence, while 84% dislike him.  Attitudes about Zardari are particularly negative in Punjab (96% bad influence) and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (95%).

Why is he so unpopular?  Well, Zardari has done more than any previous leader to normalise trade and diplomatic relations with India.  His mending fences approach lacks the customary anti-India sting.

 

 

Attitude Towards Militancy

 

Militant groups such as Al Qaeda and the Taliban have limited appeal among Pakistanis.  Relatively few Pakistanis express a positive view of either Al Qaeda (13%) or the Taliban (13%).  Attitudes toward groups affiliated with the Taliban fare no better in the eyes of the Pakistani public.  Tehrik-i-Taliban, an umbrella organization of Taliban-linked groups in Pakistan, and the Afghan Taliban are viewed positively by only 17% and 14% of Pakistanis, respectively.  The secretive Haqqani network, which is also associated with the Taliban movement, is viewed favourably by only 5% of Pakistanis.

 

The attitudes toward Lashkar-e-Taiba are somewhat more positive – 22% say they have a favourable opinion of this militant group.  This is hardly surprising because the Lashkar mostly targets India.

 

 

How Pakistanis See India

 

When asked which is the greatest threat – India, the Taliban, or Al Qaeda – a clear majority named India.  Roughly a quarter cited the Taliban and only 4% say Al-Qaeda.  This is despite the fact that Al Qaeda blew up the Karachi naval base last year.

 

Only 22% of Pakistanis have a favourable view of India, although this is actually a slight improvement from 14% last year.  Supporters of the two major opposition parties – former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif’s Pakistan Muslim League (PML-N) and cricketer-turned-politician Imran Khan’s Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) are much more likely to name India as the biggest danger (71% and 61%, respectively) than those that affiliate with Zardari’s governing Pakistan Peoples’ Party (PPP), where this view of India is held by 46%.

 

Pakistanis in Punjab and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa regions are more likely to dislike India.  For example, 84% in Punjab and 90% in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa see India as a serious threat, while 64% in Sindh and 61% in Baluchistan say the same.

 

This should alert liberal Indians who rush to the border to hold “candlelight vigils” for peace.  Most Pakistanis are united by their hatred and fear of India – it is only a matter of degree; some hate more, others less.

 

 

Biting The Hand That Feeds

 

India does not get any aid from the United States and yet among all 21 nations Pew surveyed, Indians seemed most favourably disposed towards it.  Only 12% said they had an unfavourable opinion of the United States.

 

On the other hand in Pakistan, which is heavily dependent on American cash and weapons, 80% had a negative opinion of America, with 74% regarding it as an enemy country.  Around four-in-ten (38%) said US economic aid is having a mostly negative impact on Pakistan, while just 12% believed it is mostly positive.

 

Curiously, 40% said American military aid is having a mostly negative effect, while only 8% said it is largely positive.  Pakistan’s military stockpile is largely American supplied.  Do the Pakistanis believe their North Korean knockoffs will do a better job?

 

 

Be Pakistani, Act Indian

 

One of the ironies of Pakistani life in the West is that they pose as Indians, the very people they hate so much.  According to Asghar Choudhri, the chairman of Brooklyn’s Pakistani American Merchant Association, a lot of Pakistanis can’t get jobs after 9/11, and after the botched Times Square bombing, it’s become worse.  “They are now pretending they are Indian so they can get a job,” he told a US wire service.

 

That is because Indians are among the highest educated and best paid ethnic groups, besides being highly integrated immigrants.  Pakistanis, on the other hand, have been accused of honour killings, cousin marriages, child sex rackets, and terrorist activities in the very lands that gave them shelter.

 

From Ramzi Yousef, who bombed the World Trade Center in 1993 (eight years before Osama Bin Laden) and is now serving a 240-year prison sentence to Mir Aimal Kansi, who shot dead two CIA agents and was later executed by lethal injection, to Faisal Shahzad, the Times Square “Idiot Bomber”, there is a long list of Pakistanis who have left a trail of terror.

 

 

Terror On Course

 

The Indian mask that many Pakistanis wear is to get around Western suspicions.  Back home, it’s business as usual.  Two incidents amply demonstrate that Pakistanis have learnt nothing about the dangers of flirting with terror.  One was the widespread outrage across the country over Bin Laden’s killing by American commandos.  The other was the unholy fracas over Kansi’s execution.

 

The day after a Virginia, United States, court handed the CIA shooter the death sentence, four Americans were shot dead on the streets of Pakistan.  After his execution in 2002, Kansi’s funeral was attended by the entire civilian administration in his hometown Quetta, the local Pakistani Corps Commander, and the then Pakistani ambassador to the United States.

 

Thousands of mourners turned out as Quetta city shuttered down.  Kansi’s coffin, draped in black cloth with verses from the Koran embroidered on it in gold, was carried on the shoulders of young men some 10 miles from the airport to his family’s home in Quetta.

 

In Islamabad, the capital city, lawyers and university students poured out on the streets in support of their newest ‘martyr’.

 

 

Veteran’s View

 

Veteran Indian writer Khushwant Singh is hardly the sort of person you would call anti-Pakistani.  In fact, he’s been accused of “trenchant secularism” because he often backs the Muslim view against the Hindu-Sikh narrative.  For decades, Singh’s house has been a watering hole for many of his Pakistani friends, who come to vent their frustrations.  His mostly tabloid rants aren’t taken too seriously but he has a finger on the Pakistani pulse.

 

In November 2008, 10 Pakistani terrorists raided the Indian city of Mumbai, killing 166 people – mostly innocent civilians.  How did the common Pakistani react when confronted with the fact that it was an operation planned and executed by their countrymen?

 

On the first anniversary of the attack here’s what Singh wrote in his column in the daily newspaper Hindustan Times: “To begin with, there was blank denial of any Pakistani being involved in the crime.  This was tinged with apprehension that India may retaliate by carrying out similar operations in Pakistan and trigger off yet another mutually destructive war.  When that fear proved baseless, it was replaced by a sense of achievement, a feeling of pride that their countrymen could plan and execute such a daring exploit with such finesse…Even the fact that among the innocent victims over 40 were Muslims was brushed aside.  The sense of false pride in performing a foul deed still persists.”

 

This is a snapshot of Pakistani society where the arrow of time is travelling backwards, taking it into a spiral of medieval madness.  Where the death of a terrorist merely means he will be instantly replaced by a hundred clones.

 

Is it any wonder that Paki is a four-letter

 

 

What is Consciousness

From: devindersingh < >

CONSCIOUSNESS is liberty, unconsciousness is slavery. When you are unconscious you are a prey to all kinds of forces and beings outside yourself and over which you have no control. You are a plaything in the hands of any power or influence that seeks to possess you and when you are in such a state it is the undesirable powers that seek and secure hospitality in you. It is only when you become conscious that you begin to react to the outside forces that try to control you or utilize you.

The individual being is only a field, a passive field for the play of cosmic or collective forces. It is in man, with the awakening of an individual consciousness in him, that a movement of self-assertion, of willed reaction has started in nature, that is to say, one is no more content with playing the role of a slave executing helplessly what is demanded of him by an external agent but is now making his own terms and propositions. That is how man is man because he is creating his own self and his own environment.

Consciousness, however, is not mere consciousness, that is to say, awareness; it is also power, power for organization and execution. It is unconsciousness that is or invariably leads to disorderliness, disorganization and confusion. It is the light of consciousness that brings order out of chaos, gives an organized direction to forces moving at random and with no purpose. Man has started organizing his life since he acquired the light of consciousness. He has been doing the yoga of the intelligent will (Gita’s buddhi-yoga) since his advent upon earth. But even in man this force of light, the energy of consciousness is not fully operative because man is not fully conscious, he is only partially so. His mind is conscious and has developed into intelligence (a little strayed into intellectuality); but there are large domains in him that are wholly unconscious, that is to say, move in mechanical rounds, a passive slave of external impacts. I am referring to his vital being and his physical being. Even like the mind these too must admit into themselves the light of the consciousness in order to free themselves from the influence of other external forces and attain the sense of their own truth and self-fulfillment.

Indeed each part, even each constituent element of our being has an individuality of its own, a personal being and consciousness. And it is because it is not aware of that inner reality, because it has fallen unconscious, therefore it has entered into this life of bondage and slavery and mechanical existence. When life becomes conscious, the life-energy becomes luminous, the vital being gradually gains self-control and self-direction. Instead of being moved about by irresponsible and irrepressible desires and impulses it attains a clarity as to what it should desire and what it should effectuate; and along with that light secures the strength also to act up to the directions of that light.

The body too similarly can be filled with light and light-energy; instead of being wholly at the mercy of the physical environment, the natural conditions around or even subject to its own innate or atavistic suggestions, it can be aware of its true reality, its inner nature, and its higher potentialities.

I have spoken of the light in the mind, the consciousness that has awakened there and has organised its activities as an autonomous unit. But we must not forget that it is only partially so. The autonomy is very limited, for a- good part of the human mind is far from being conscious, there is a part half-conscious and a part almost wholly unconscious. This hemisphere so to say is under the influence of the vital and the physical being with their unconscious and ill-organized influence. The true light comes from elsewhere; the mind in so far as it receives the light becomes conscious and proportionately autonomous. The light is always the spiritual light, the consciousness of the spirit which is above and beyond mind. Not only the mind but the vital too, and the physical too in order to be consciously organized and free and autonomous must know how to take in that light beyond the mind and bathe in its liberating influence.

I have laid stress on consciousness, but consciousness has three facets or steps. The first is simple consciousness; the next is self-consciousness and the last supra-consciousness. First you become conscious of a thing, next you become conscious that you are conscious of the thing, last something else is conscious in and through your consciousness. [Nolini Kanta Gupta]

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