Nationalists must protest against Indo-Pak cricket

From: J. G. Arora

Dear friends,

Though Indo-Pak cricket ties had been snapped after the Pakistan-sponsored terrorist attack on Mumbai in November, 2008 which claimed about 200 innocent lives, Indian Government has approved Indo-Pak cricket series to be played in India in December, 2012.

All nationalist individuals and organizations must peacefully protest against this shameful and self-destructive move since this invitation to Pakistan to play cricket in India conveys the following terrible messages:

i. Indo-Pak cricket justifies Pakistan’s frequent terrorist attacks which have killed thousands of innocents in India.

ii. Indo-Pak cricket means that the sentiments of families of countless innocents and martyrs who sacrificed their lives in terrorist attacks upon India do not matter.

iii. Indo-Pak cricket justifies Pakistan sponsored genocide of Kashmiri Hindus and their eviction from Kashmir during 1989-1990.

iv. Indo-Pak cricket implies that Pakistan was justified in driving out Hindus and Sikhs from its land after the creation of Pakistan in 1947.

v. Indo-Pak cricket means that Pakistan is justified in allowing the kidnapping and forcible conversion of Hindu girls and their marriage to Muslims in Pakistan.

vi. Indo-Pak cricket also legitimizes Pakistan’s school education which teaches hatred against India and Hindus.

vii. Indo-Pak cricket also condones infiltration of crores of Pak-Bangla nationals into India. 

With regards,

Jai

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Please describe how to protest and whom to press for effective action to ban Indo-Pak cricket. – Skanda987

 

Church will go to any extent to harvest souls

From: Satish Oberoi < >

Church will go to any extent to harvest souls.

 

In the context of a column on this subject in

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Please read this message by Dr Gopalakrishnan on Devasahayam Pillai.

 

Regards

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From: Indian Institute Of Scientific Heritage

 

 

DHARMA MESSAGES SERIES NO. 52

DEVASAHAAYAM PILLAI’S BENEDICTION (Devasahaayam pillai vaazhthapettavan);

Message  and news appeared  on the benediction of Devasahaayam Pillai (formerly Neelakantan Pillai) who died in 1757 January 14th in Kanyakumari District TN.

It is said that this benediction was based on the Bishop’s report to Pope in Vatican that Pillai was shot dead for embracing Christianity from the Hindu Nair family.  The sad part of this benediction was that there is not even a single report in the history of India on killing a person for embracing other religion. In fact many south Indian kings invited Christians and gave them facilities for building their commercial centers, churches and preaching the religion. Under this circumstances  who  shot dead Devasahaayam Pillai and for what purpose ? How it did not appear in the Indian history? Is this a similar fake story like that of St Thomas?

During 1757s, south India was the fighting ground and battle field for British, French and Portuguese for building their power. Many kings and even people were shot dead like Pazhassi Raja by the western invaders. No Hindu ruler has ever killed anyone in the name of religious conversion to Hindu dharma.

In fact the Portuguese missionary cruelly killed tens of thousands of Hindus for not converting to Christianity; and that fellow was declared as ‘Saint’ Francis Xavier. Hundreds of churches are built in his name. Still Hindus did not react then or now.
Under that circumstances shooting and killing Neelakanta Pillai for converting into Christianity is a fabricated story. That is either with the aim of tarnishing Indian culture and Hindus, or for converting the remaining Hindus of Kanyakumari and Tirunelveli district of Tamil Nadu by elevating a Hindu to Christian Benediction level.
By Keeping the Hindu name Pillai; the shrewd Christians know that a part of Hindus can be dragged into the fold of the churches.  The church is accepting the Hindu names, rituals, customs, books, methods and so on for converting the illiterate Hindus.

The Devasahaayam Pillai with chains in hands, cross nearby, in Tamilain dress on the Altar of every church can accelerate the conversion in Tamil regions using his name.

By creating such a false story, the Bishops are tarnishing the Hindu and Indian image of tolerance and sarva dharma sama bhaavana. They wanted to project that Hindus also killed Christian missionaries. However, no Hindu organization realized such a motto through the benediction of Devasahaayam Pillai.

Mr. Pillai was soldier in any one of the foreign army of British, Portuguese and French who fought each other for their supremacy and might have been shot dead for working for or against others.

Hindus do not bother elevating anyone inside or outside India to any level. But in the name of this Benediction what happened is that Hindu dharma and Indian culture got degraded, belittled, denigrated because it carries the message that Indians killed a Hindu for embracing Christianity through this fake story!

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When sovereignty belongs to a god, Claims of tolerance are often in self-interest

When sovereignty belongs to a god, Claims of tolerance are often in self-interest

Aakar Patel, Nov 22 2012

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A community demonstrates its secular and pluralistic credentials where it is a majority. As minorities, all communities make claims of tolerance because it’s in their self-interest. On the Indian subcontinent, which they know by the beautiful name Burr-e-Sagheer, Muslims are in a majority in three corners. West (Pakistan), north (Kashmir), east (Bangladesh). They are a minority in two regions. The centre they called Hindustan, from Sirhind, the head of Hind, to the Tapi river. From Surat, on the south bank of the Tapi, begins Dakhin. There is a continuity across the three geographical areas where Muslims are a majority. It is neither secular nor plural. First let’s see it in Pakistan’s constitution.

Sovereignty in that nation belongs not to Pakistan’s citizens and voters, but “to Allah Almighty alone”. Minorities get “adequate provision” to “freely profess and practise their religions and develop their cultures”. In 1951, the word “freely” was inserted. In 1985, it was removed. In 2010, it was reinserted. This is a commonplace in Muslim states, and I shall explain why later.

Pakistan’s constitution says the “principles of democracy, freedom, equality, tolerance and social justice as enunciated by Islam shall be fully observed”. How much democracy, freedom, equality and tolerance?

In Pakistan, no Sikh can become president [Article 41 (2)], no Christian can become prime minister (Article 91-5). The real villain is, of course, the Hindu. This is what Pakistani children are taught in class V: “The Hindu has always been an enemy of Islam” and “Hindus worship in temples, which are very narrow and dark places, where they worship idols”. In class VI: “Hindus live in small, dark houses” and Partition happened because the Congress “demanded that the Muslims should either embrace Hinduism or leave the country” (taken from A.H. Nayyar and Ahmed Salim’s work The Subtle Subversion).

To become a Pakistani legislator one must be “not commonly known as one who violates Islamic injunctions” (Article 62-1d), must have “adequate knowledge of Islamic teachings and practises obligatory duties prescribed by Islam” (Article 62-1e). Interior minister Rehman Malik was in September unseated by the Supreme Court, which observed that he was not a good enough Muslim. In Pakistan, you don’t decide what faith you belong to: Islam will determine this. Punjab’s finance minister Rana Asif Mahmood (also fired this year by the Supreme Court) is a Christian, as was his father, Rana Taj Mahmood. A few months ago, someone mistakenly recorded Asif Mahmood’sfaith in the national database as Islam. Mahmood now cannot change this because the punishment for leaving Islam is death. Once a Muslim, even by someone’s mistake, always a Muslim. This is not the saying of some cleric, it is the order of Pakistan’s chief justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry.

“Secular” is an allegation in Pakistani politics. It is a word of abuse. Its meaning is “la-deen” (outside Islam).

Now Kashmir.

The warriors of independence from India are Islam’s warriors, not secularists. No need to look too far to prove this. The two biggest Kashmiri leaders represent Islamic conservatism (Umar Farooq, the head cleric or Mirwaiz of Srinagar) and Islamic radicalism (Ali Shah Geelani of Jamaat-e-Islami). Both men want Shariah.

The freedom fighters are called Muhammad’s soldiers (Jaish-e-Muhammad), Muhammad’s army (Lashkar-e-Taiba) and Muhammad’s helpers (Harkat ul-Ansar, now known as Harket ul-Mujahideen). The freedom fighter is a mujahid, his cause is jihad against Hindus.

Will azadi from India mean Kashmir will be relocated to Arabia? No, it will remain on the Indian subcontinent, north of Jammu, west of Ladakh.

Kashmir’s azadi means freedom from India’s secular constitution. Azadi is the right of Kashmiri Muslims to persecute Kashmiri non-Muslims because that is what Shariah stands for in Pakistan as we have seen. Now Bangladesh.

The high culture of all Bengalis was Hindu because it is Rabindric. The politics of Bangladesh is split on whether this should continue (the position of Sheikh Hasina’s Bangladesh Awami League) or be dismantled and made Islamic (the position of Khaleda Zia’s BNP, or Bangladesh Nationalist Party), which is allied with the Jamaat-e-Islami).

Like in Pakistan, Islam is the religion of the state in Bangladesh. This was the doing of dictators. Hasina promised her Hindu voters she would change that democratically but couldn’t. This is because the majority of Bangladeshi Muslims prefer an Islamic state to a secular one. Bangladesh was a third Hindu at Partition. It, today, is about a 10th Hindu.

Bismillah ir Rahman ir Rahim was inserted into the Bangladesh constitution and removed by the Supreme Court. This has become a major issue in politics. I spoke earlier about the unease of Pakistan with the word “freely” when offering non-Muslims the right to practise their faith. This is because the Islamic state defines itself through discrimination. In fact, a state becomes Islamic through demotion of non-Muslims. Jizya, the tax for being born Hindu, was applied, then removed, reapplied and then removed by Maratha force during the Mughal period. The same thing, as we have seen, is happening in Pakistan’s constitution.

The second aspect of Muslim majority on the subcontinent is the depopulation of its minorities. Pakistan was 70% Muslim at Partition, today it is 97% Muslim. Having got rid of minorities, Muslims then turn on themselves. Takfiri (declaring one another kafir (non-believer) has been the primary pastime of Muslims through their history.

Since 2000, 10 times more Muslims have died on the subcontinent in religious violence at the hands of fellow Muslims than at the hands of Hindus. There is great discrimination, great oppression of Muslims on the subcontinent, but it is mostly from fellow Muslims.

Hindus are better off under Hindu majority. But the truth is that the Muslim is also better off under Hindu majority because he’s protected from his own mischief under Islam. There’s a bomb ticking in Pakistan’s constitution. It is Article 227 (1): “All existing laws shall be brought in conformity with the injunctions of Islam” and “no law shall be enacted which is repugnant to such injunctions.” Implementation of this is all that Taliban and al-Qaeda are demanding. They are on the right side of the law.

To me the Pakistani Muslim is the same as an Indian Muslim. He understands my words of abuse as I do his. Our wives both cook with garam masala. He’s my brother and we share a culture. A political line drawn a few decades ago doesn’t change that. My problem, looking at Pakistan dispassionately, is that it is not self-correcting. The question is why. Let’s look at an unusual place to find its answer next week.

Aakar Patel is a writer and a columnist. Send your feedback to replytoall@livemint.com

1962 war. The Army had no map – Claude Arpi

1962 war. The Army had no map – Claude Arpi

 

Ten truths about the 1962 WarBy Claude ArpiIssue Net Edition | Date : 23 Nov , 2012
Mules carrying ammunition over a mountain pass during 1962 War

Here are some truths about the 1962 China’s War which are not often mentioned in history books or Reports from the Government.

Of course, this list is not exhaustive.

1. The precise location of the border

In the Army HQ in Delhi as well as locally in the NEFA, nobody was really sure where exactly the border (the famous McMahon Line) was. It is the reason why the famous Henderson-Brooks report has been kept out of the eyes of the Indian public for fifty years. Till the fateful day of October 20, 1962, the Army bosses in Delhi were unable to tell the local commanders where the border in Tawang sector precisely was?

2. There was no map

Lt. Gen. Niranjan Prasad, GOC 4 Infantry Division wrote in his memoirs (The Fall of Towang): “It is hard to understand how any purposeful negotiation could have been conducted with Communist China [in 1960] when even such elementary details as accurate maps were not produced; or, if they were in existence, they were certainly not made available to the Army, who had been given the responsibility for ensuring the security of the border.”

…when Lt. Gen. Kaul was evacuated from the Namkha chu on October 8, having fallen sick due to the altitude, he was carried pick-a-back by ‘local’ porters. It was later discovered that one of them was a Chinese interpreter in a PoW camp in Tibet. The secrets were out!

The Army had no map.

There is the story of Capt. H.S. Talwar of the elite 17 Parachute Field Regiment who was asked to reinforce Tsangle, an advance post, north of the Namkha chu on October 16. Without map, he and his men roamed around for 2 days in the snow; they finally landed a few kilometers east at a 2 Rajputs camp (and were eventually taken PoWs to Tibet with Brig. John Dalvi on October 21).

3. Some troops fought extremely well

Take the example of the 2 Rajputs under the command of Lt. Col. Maha Singh Rikh who moved to the banks of the Namka chu river by October 10 as a part of 7 Infantry Brigade. The brigade was stretched out along nearly 20 kilometers front beside the river. It was a five-day march to walk from an end to the other (the confluence with the Namjiang chu). Not a single man from the Rajputs was awarded any gallantry medal, because there was no one left to write the citations; all the officers or JCOs who were not killed or seriously wounded were taken POWs. Out of 513 all ranks on the banks of the river, the 2 Rajput lost 282 men, 81 were wounded and captured, while 90 others were taken prisoners. Only 60 other ranks, mostly from the administrative elements got back.

Major B.K. Pant of 2 Rajput displayed exemplary heroism while wounded in the stomach and legs. Though his Company suffered heavy casualties, he continued to lead and inspire his men, exhorting them to fight till the last man. When the Chinese finally managed to kill him, his last words were “Men of the Rajput Regiment, you were born to die for your country. God has selected this small river for which you must die. Stand up and fight like true Rajputs.” Ditto for 4 Rajputs under Lt. Col. B. Avasthi in the Sela-Bomdila sector

The Indian troops fought pitches battles in the Walong sector of the NEFA and Chushul in Ladakh where the Chinese were inflicted heavy losses.

4. A complete intelligence failure

A flamboyant new Corps Commander, Lt. Gen. B.M. Kaul planned Operation Leghorn to ‘evict’ the Chinese by October 10. Kaul took over Corps IV, a Corps especially created ‘to throw the Chinese out’. On his arrival in Tezpur, Kaul addressed the senior officers: “The Prime Minister himself had ordered these posts [near the Thagla ridge] to be set up and he had based his decision on the highest Intelligence advice.” The ‘highest intelligence’ inputs from Mullik turned out to be a sad joke on the 7 Infantry Brigade.

Till the last fateful minute, the arrogant IB Chief, B.N. Mullick said the Chinese would not attack, they don’t have the capacity. Such a blunder!

The Prime Minister himself, at Palam airport on his way to Colombo told the waiting journalists that he had ordered the Indian Army “to throw the Chinese out”. He generously left the time to the discretion of the Army. This was on October 12, 1962, just 8 days before the fateful day. He had received intelligence inputs from Mullik.

5. Chinese spies

Just as today Beijing can hack into any computer system, in Mao’s days, the Chinese intelligence knew everything about Kaul’s and his acolytes’ plans.

The Chinese had infiltrated the area using different methods. In his memoirs, Prasad recalled: “From our own Signals channels I had received reports of a pirate radio operating somewhere in our area, but when we referred this to higher authorities the matter was dismissed: we were curtly told that there was no pirate radio transmitter on our side of the border. Subsequently it was confirmed that the Chinese had indeed sneaked in a pirate transmitter to Chacko (on the road to Bomdila) in the Tibetan labour camp. The aerial of their transmitter was concealed as a tall prayer-flagstaff so common in the Buddhist belt of the Himalayas.”

This is probably how Mao was aware of Operation Op Leghorn.

Some war veterans recall that on the way to Bomdila, there was a dhaba manned by two beautiful ‘local’ girls. All officers and jawans would stop there, have a chai and chat with the girls. It turned out later that they were from the other side.

An informant tells me that when Lt. Gen. Kaul was evacuated from the Namkha chu on October 8, having fallen sick due to the altitude, he was carried pick-a-back by ‘local’ porters. It was later discovered that one of them was a Chinese interpreter in a PoW camp in Tibet. The secrets were out!

6. Gallantry Awards

The entire operation theater was plunged in deep chaos due to contradictory orders from the Army HQ (Lt. Gen. B.M Kaul, the Corps Commander was directing the Operation from his sick-bed in Delhi). Adhocism was the rule before, during and after the Operations.

To give an example, the GOC, 4 Division was not informed that Subedar Joginder Singh was awarded the Param Vir Chakra for some actions in Bumla (he later died of a gangrenous foot in a PoW camp in Tibet). The awards were decided by Delhi without consulting the local commanders.

An officer who had run away was given the Maha Vir Chakra, the second highest gallantry award. The Government had distributed these lollipops to each regiment to show that everyone fought well.

7. The Role of some Monpas

A senior war veteran, Maj. Gen. Tewari who spent nearly 7 months as a PoW in Tibet wrote: “In Kameng Frontier Division (Tawang) itself, they had many local people on their pay roll. They had detailed maps and knowledge of the area, how otherwise can you explain that they were able to build 30 km of road between Bumla and Tawang in less than 2 weeks?”

According to local Monpas only a few villages sided with the Chinese under duress (after all they were ‘chinky’ like us, said the Chinese). Tewari recalled: “I was in for a still bigger shock when it was discovered that almost all the secondary batteries had arrived without any acid. I presume that what had happened is that the porters must have found it lighter without liquid and they probably decided to lighten their loads by emptying out the acid from all the batteries.”

It was an indirect collaboration with China, though the majority of the Monpas were rather patriotic.

8. Pensions and Pay

About 500 Indian jawans and officers were taken prisoner in the Tawang sector alone. As Brig. A.J.S. Behl says in his interview: “My family got two telegrams: ‘2nd Lt Behl missing, believed dead’.”

Till the Chinese authorities sent the names of the prisoners to the Indian Red Cross, all those killed and taken prisoners were considered as ‘missing-in-action’ and their salaries were cut. For no fault of theirs, their wives and families had to manage on their own.

9. Mao’s return to power

In early 1962, Mao was out of power due to the utter failure of his Great Leap Forward. Some 45 million Chinese had died after a 3-year man-made famine. Mao Zedong managed to come back on the political scene in September 1962. If he had not managed to return at that time, the war with India would have probably not taken place. Of course, with ‘if’ many sections of world history could be rewritten, but it is a fact that once Mao’s ideological hard-line prevailed in Beijing, it was difficult to avoid a clash.

10. The dirty American Role

Averell Harriman, the US Assistant Secretary of State and Duncan Sandys, the British Secretary for Commonwealth Relations visited India on November 22, 1962. This was the day China declared a unilateral ceasefire in the war with India. The visit was supposedly to assess India’s needs to resist Communist China; but both envoys “made clear their governments’ willingness to provide military assistance to India but pointed out the related need for negotiations to resolve the Kashmir dispute.”
A clear signal was given to India who had hardly recovered from the blackest month of her history: she had to compromise on Kashmir.

Consequently six rounds of talks between India and Pakistan were held to find a solution for the vexed issue, but to no avail. However, Ayub Khan, the Pakistani President, must have taken the Western intervention as an encouragement for his claim.

The Kennedy and later the Johnson Administrations thought of ‘re-balancing’ the assistance to Pakistan, with the condition that India should accept to ‘settle’ the Kashmir issue.

1962 War: Chinese claim they fought in self defence

Author Claude Arpi

Writes regularly on Tibet, China, India and Indo-French relations.

He is the author of 1962 and the McMahon Line Saga,
Tibet: The Lost Frontier and Dharamshala, and
Beijing: the negotiations that never were.
http://www.indiandefencereview.com/news/ten-truths-about-the-1962-war/

 

Validity demonstrated of the Vedic Yoga processes: A video – A Fire Yogi

From Satish Oberoi < >
Incredible. Mantras make man immune to fire and live with almost no food and water?.. Can science catch up?

It seems according to Aghori tradition, what we call Gayatri,  is actually Savitri mantra. Real Gayatri mantra is secret and is extremely powerful.

http://www.drishtikone.com/fire-yogi-who-is-in-union-with-fire-and-lies-on-firewood-in-flames-video/#.ULnj3E6dsBM.email

Origin of European gypsies traced to NW India

HYDERABAD, November 30, 2012

Origin of European gypsy population traced to north-

western India

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Scientists at Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology crack mystery surrounding the origin, migration of Roma population

Scientists at the Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology (CCMB) have said that they have cracked the mystery surrounding the origin and migration of the Roma (gypsy) population.

A team of international scientists led by CCMB’s Kumarasamy Thangaraj concluded that the aboriginal scheduled tribe and scheduled caste population of north-western India, traditionally referred as Doma and also as Dalits, are the most likely ancestral population of modern European Roma.

The development assumes significance in view of the curiosity surrounding the parental lineage of the European gypsy population.

Though linguistic and genetic studies of the European Roma have been traced to Eurasia, the exact parental population group and time of dispersal remained disputed in the absence of archaeological evidence and scanty historical documentation of the Roma.

The study found that the exile time of the Roma founders from India could be approximately put at 1,405 years ago.

The conclusion was arrived at after an exhaustive study involving screening of about 10,000 males around the world, including 7,000 hailing from 205 ethnic population of India to discern a more precise ancestral source of Romani (gypsy) population.

Single founder

Dr. Thangaraj explained that all males of a family or a population evolved from a single founder make and would possess the same Y chromosome.

Based on the genetic signature that exists on the Y chromosome, every male could be assigned to a specific group (haplogroup), enabling tracing of parental lineage using these signatures.

It was shown that the European Roma possessed the Y chromosome haplogroup Hlala. The most recent common ancestor of European Roma was not identified because of the absence of similar data from their putative homeland, India.

“We have compared the worldwide phylogeographical data for Indian Hlala haplotypes with Roma and concluded that Doma are most likely ancestral populations,” he said.

George van Driem, a linguist from University of Bern, Switzerland, who was part of the team, said the finding corroborated the similarity in the terms Roma and Doma and resolved the controversy about Gangetic Plain and Punjab in favour of north-western portion from where widespread range of Doma population diffused.

Linguistic, Indological studies

Another member Gyaneshwer Chaubey said it was noteworthy that the closest as well as matching haplotypes with Roma were found only in the SC/ST populations of northwest India.

This corroborated the linguistic evidence and most recent reconstruction of the likely ethno-linguistic origins and affinities of gypsies based on linguistic and Indological studies, he said.

 

M K Gandhi on Conversion

From: Sudhir Architect < >

 

1,240 CHRISTIANS INCLUDING A PASTOR COME BACK TO HINDUISM!

 

It will give you pleasure to know that 1240 converted Christians including a Pastor came back to Hinduism.  The program was organized by Dharma Jagran Vibhag, with the help of Gayatri Parivar and Arya Samaj.  Please read the complete report.

 

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USA president Obama gets Nobel peace prize for waging war

& Gandhiji does not get it because………..read below….

 

Mahatma Gandhi on Conversion

 

Gandhiji was not awarded the Nobel peace prize because he refused to be converted. Now that missionaries are spreading their tentacles far and wide in India converting people by allurement, inducement and fraud (In the north east killings and threats are becoming commonplace) Gandhiji’s message is all the more relevant in understanding and reacting to this problem. Missionary Terrorism will become as dangerous as Islamic terrorism if ignored. Please read & distribute.

 

Compiled by Swami Aksharananda

(Track No. 010119.1, Jan. 19, 2001)

 

I Call Myself a Sanatani Hindu

 

I call myself a Sanatani Hindu, because I believe in the Vedas, the Upanishads, the Puranas, and all that goes by the name of Hindu scripture, and therefore in avataras and rebirth; I believe in the varnashrama dharma in a sense, in my opinion strictly Vedic but not in its presently popular and distorted crude sense; I believe in the protection of cow. I do not disbelieve in murti puja. (Young India: June 10, 1921)

 

Why I am Not a Convert

 

Hinduism as I know it entirely satisfies my soul, and fills my whole being. When doubts haunt me, when disappointments stare me in the face, and when I see not one ray of light on the horizon, I turn to the Bhagavad Gita, and find a verse to comfort me; and I immediately begin to smile in the midst of overwhelming sorrow. My life has been full of tragedies and if they have not left any visible and indelible effect on me, I owe it to the teachings of the Bhagavad Gita. (Young India: June 8, 1925)

 

I Disbelieve in Conversion

 

I disbelieve in the conversion of one person by another. My effort should never to be to undermine another’s faith. This implies belief in the truth of all religions and, therefore, respect for them. It implies true humility. (Young India: April 23, 1931)

 

Conversion: Impediment to Peace

 

It is impossible for me to reconcile myself to the idea of conversion after the style that goes on in India and elsewhere today. It is an error which is perhaps the greatest impediment to the world’s progress toward peace. Why should a Christian want to convert a Hindu to Christianity? Why should he not be satisfied if the Hindu is a good or godly man? (Harijan: January 30, 1937)

 

No Such Thing as Conversion

 

I believe that there is no such thing as conversion from one faith to another in the accepted sense of the word. It is a highly personal matter for the individual and his God. I may not have any design upon my neighbor as to his faith which I must honor even as I honor my own. Having reverently studied the scriptures of the world I could no more think of asking a Christian or a Musalman, or a Parsi or a Jew to change his faith than I would think of changing my own. (Harijan: September 9, 1935)

 

No Conversion Designs Upon Me

 

I am not interested in weaning you from Christianity and making you Hindu, and I do not relish your designs upon me, if you had any, to convert me to Christianity. I would also dispute your claim that Christianity is the only true religion. (Harijan: June 3, 1937)

 

Conversion

 

Conversion must not mean denationalization. Conversion should mean a definite giving up of the evil of the old, adoption of all the good of the new and a scrupulous avoidance of everything evil in the new. Conversion, therefore, should mean a life of greater dedication to one’s country, greater surrender to God, greater self-purification. (Young India: August 20, 1925)

 

Aping of Europeans and Americans

 

As I wander about through the length and breadth of India I see many Christian Indians almost ashamed of their birth, certainly of their ancestral religion, and of their ancestral dress. The aping of Europeans by Anglo-Indians is bad enough, but the aping of them by Indian converts is a violence done to their country and, shall I say, even to their new religion. (Young India: August 8, 1925)

 

Why Should I Change My Religion

 

I hold that proselytization under the cloak of humanitarian work is unhealthy to say the least. It is most resented by people here. Religion after all is a deeply personal thing. It touches the heart.

 

Why should I change my religion because the doctor who professes Christianity as his religion has cured me of some disease, or why should the doctor expect me to change whilst I am under his influence? (Young India: April 23, 1931)

 

Missionary Aim: Uprooting Hinduism

 

My fear is that though Christian friends nowadays do not say or admit it that Hindu religion is untrue, they must harbor in their breast that Hinduism is an error and that Christianity, as they believe it, is the only true religion. So far as one can understand the present (Christian) effort, it is to uproot Hinduism from her very foundation and replace it by another faith. (Harijan: March 13,1937)

 

Undermining People’s Faith

 

The first distinction I would like to make between your missionary work and mine is that while I am strengthening the faith of people, you (missionaries) are undermining it. (Young India: November 8, 1927)

 

Physician, Heal Yourself

 

Conversion nowadays has become a matter of business, like any other. India (Hindus) is in no need of conversion of this kind. Conversion in the sense of self-purification, self-realization is the crying need of the times. That however is never what is meant by proselytization. To those who would convert India (Hindus), might it not be said, “Physician, heal yourself.” (Young India: April 23, 1931)

 

Missionaries: Vendors of Goods

 

When the missionary of another religion goes to them, he goes like a vendor of goods. He has no special spiritual merit that will distinguish him from those to whom he goes. He does however possess material goods which he promises to those who will come to his fold. (Harijan: April 3, 1937)

 

If I had the Power and Could Legislate

 

If I had the power and could legislate, I should stop all proselytizing. In Hindu households the advent of a missionary has meant the disruption of the family coming in the wake of change of dress, manners, language, food and drink. (November 5, 1935)

 

The Only Begotten Son of God?

 

I regard Jesus as a great teacher of humanity, but I do not regard him as the only begotten son of God. That epithet in its material interpretation is quite unacceptable. Metaphorically we are all sons of God, but for each of us there may be different sons of God in a special sense. Thus for me Chaitanya may be the only begotten son of God. God cannot be the exclusive Father and I cannot ascribe exclusive divinity to Jesus. (Harijan: June 3, 1937)

 

Western Christianity Today

 

It is my firm opinion that Europe (and the United States) does not represent the spirit of God or Christianity but the spirit of Satan. And Satan’s successes are the greatest when appears with the name of God on his lips. (Young India: September 8, 1920)

 

I consider western Christianity in its practical working a negation of Christ’s Christianity. I cannot conceive Jesus, if he was living in flesh in our midst, approving of modern Christian organizations, public worship, or ministry. (Young India: September 22, 1921)

 

Christianity and Imperialistic Exploitation

 

Christianity in India has been inextricably mixed up for the last one hundred and fifty years with British rule. It appears to us as synonymous with materialistic civilization and imperialistic exploitation by the stronger white races of the weaker races of the world. Its contribution to India has been, therefore, largely negative. (Young India: March 21, 1929)

 

No Room For Them

 

In the manner in which they are working there would seem to be no room for them. Quite unconsciously they do harm to themselves and also to us. It is perhaps impertinent to say that they do harm to themselves, but quite pertinent to say that they do harm to us. They do harm to those amongst whom they work and those amongst whom they do not work; i.e., the harm is done to the whole of India. The more I study their activities the more sorry I become. It is a tragedy that such a thing should happen to the human family. (Harijan: December 12, 1936)

 

Outrage!

 

Only the other day a missionary descended on a famine area with money in his pocket, distributed it among the famine stricken, converted them to his fold, took charge of their temple, and demolished it. This is outrageous. (Harijan: November 5, 1937)

 

Let the Hindu be a Better Hindu

 

I came to the conclusion long ago that all religions were true and also that all had some error in them, and whilst I hold by my own, I should hold others as dear as Hinduism. So we can only pray, if we are Hindus, not that a Christian should become a Hindu. But our innermost prayer should be a Hindu should be a better Hindu, a Muslim a better Muslim, a Christian a better Christian. (Young India: January 19, 1928)

 

Welcome Them Back

 

If a person through fear, compulsion, starvation, or for material gain or consideration goes over to another faith, it is a misnomer to call it conversion. Most cases of conversion have been to my mind a false coin. I would therefore unhesitatingly re-admit to the Hindu fold all such repentants without much ado. If a man comes back to the original branch, he deserves to be welcomed in so far as he may deem to have erred, he has sufficiently purged himself of it when he repents his error and retraces his steps. (Collected Works: Vol. 66, pp. 163-164)

 

“THE SPIRIT OF HINDU RELIGION” SOME THOUGHTS

“THE SPIRIT OF HINDU RELIGION”
SOME THOUGHTS

By Deva Samaroo < >

(Note – The inserts in italics are by skanda987)

What makes Hindu religion so great that, it survived nearly 1000 years of barbarian Arab oppression and retained its very existence? Tolerant Hindu faith is the soul of humanity and symbols of coexistence philosophy. (Tolerance of adharma is adharma and cowardice.) Under brutal Arab persecution Hindus in number never took sward; rather adjusted with the situation. (Rajputs, Marathaas, Sikhs, and others did fight against the invaders; but unfortunately there was no unity at national level even when there was (is) unity culturally.)In the middle age SRI CHAITTANYA Mahaprabhu preached tolerant VAISHNAV religion against barbarian Arab doctrine. [Vishnavism (the Bhakti panth/yoga) is with us since the time of Sanat Kumaras and Narad, theu sond of Bhrhmaa. The first Vaishnav Aacharya after Shankaracharya was Ramanujacharya in the period 1117 to 1137. Sri Chaitanya who appeared about 500 years ago was not tolerant as you describe. When the Muslim Kazi prohibited sankirtan parties in public, he did satyaagraha against him, and won. So, Gandhi was not the first to do satyaagraha. His follower – Bhakti-vedanta Swami Prabhupad has spread Krishna bhakti all over the world as predicated by Chaitanya. Prabhupad strongly debated against the Christian missionaries and no one could defeat him in the debate.] This may look as cowardly approach of Hindus, but in long term HINDUS survived and the doctrine of terror has evaporated from Indian society. Pakistan was created with the doctrine of hate against Hindus/ infidels in 1947, but bleeding with suicide bomb and gun fire every day.

Hitler raised Germany to a supper power from the ashes of 1st World war by preaching despise against Jews and grabbing their assets, but died like a dog in a bunker with no formal burial. After 2nd World War Joseph Stalin rebuilt Russia into a super power with slave labor and despise to the West and capitalism. China at present is following the same foot step of USSR to become super power, and may have the same consequences like USSR in near future. USSR evaporated and fell into pieces after defeat in Afghanistan. We saw the same consequences of Ottoman Empire after 1st World war. Ottoman Empire was also created with blood and sward and was defeated by the West with blood and sward (gun). Terror in long term never survives; it only succeeds in short term. (Islam however is different. It’s 1400 years life is full of terror, rapes, loots, wars, invasions, and conversions. We the Vedics are suffering from Islam since 1000 years. Now we need unity to purge Islam out of the Vedic desh, and make Bhaarat a Vedic state.)

After the end of cold war and defeat of USSR in Afghanistan, world observed an abrupt rise of radical Islam all over under the leadership of Bin Laden (Al-Qaida). Although US Navy seals killed Bin Laden in the fortress of Pakistan military camp after long ten years chasing, yet the doctrine of despise to other faith is still vive rent among the Arab followers. World is divided in two parts, one part is the followers of Islam and other part is the Infidels/ non Muslims as described by Islam. There might be a decisive war between the followers of terror and peace in near future. (Yes, we need it in Bhaarat; and there are non violent ways to fight, but violent war is the last option if nothing works. So, the Vedic need to get prepared well while pursuing non-violent ways like economic boycott of the Muslims till they give up Islam.)   Without defeating either of the one doctrine the peace will not come permanently. [Not correct. The asuric forces need to be defeated. If all the powers are crooks, there cannot be peace. Just see, the Muslims kill each other as well (but all kill us)].

It is no secret that jihad is aimed to kill or convert all non Muslim of the planet to ensure their space in the haven is the secret responsibility of all the Muslims. (Secret only till they are 15% of the population.) Moderate Islam has been weakening and Sufism is almost evaporated from the society. Religion is ones individual private belief (per the Vedas only), but in all Muslim majority country government and state performs that religious responsibility and encourages conversion by creating disparity in state privileges’. (This is because Islam does not separate religion and politics of daily life like Christianity. The Vedic dharma also does not separate dharma and rajkaaraN, but dharma does not tell us to force dharma on others. That is the value of the Vedic dharma which actually is universal religion for mankind.) Some time the disparity comes with infidel tax (JIJIYA TAX) or enemy property act (vested property act).

Despise and disparity initially begins against infidels and then spreads over their own society in the name of Shea, Kadiani, and Sunni sectarian conflict. The spree of blood in the Jihadist mind set never stops until death. Reforms in despise doctrine by secular education and preaching tolerance can abort another great world war like disaster. (Until the law forces them to give up Islam, this is not possible. Unfortunately the current constitution of Bhaarat is anti-Veddic, and so it is anti majority, and pro Islam and Pro- Christianity. This needs to be amended.)

Hindu (i.e. the Vedic) is the only religion which was not preached by any men or prophet, but is given by God Himself), it’s a way of life with complete social code. (To say it is not a religion is not correct and cannot help us at all. It is a universal religion for mankind, and that is why it is called dharma. It is not organized like the anti-Vedic religions. But we need to organize and unite now against them.) The most reasonable question in all human being is where from they have come and where they will go after death. To search answer of this inevitable question man started worshipping nature for fear of unknown. For consolation many doctrine has emerged in the society with different views.  Orthodox people make offensive comments about worshiping Deities and sometime decimate those deities with fanatic views. Hindu, Muslim, Christian, Buddhist and Sikhs all they worship some figure or object. Muslims performs prayer facing the stone square KABHA which is also an object.

That means there are similarities in prayers between the believers. Muslims pray facing KABHA and others facing their deities like Jesus, Buddha, and Guru Nanak ext. Some prays looking at the sky or blindfolded. During prayer one need to concentrate on an imaginary object, it could be a black stone or human figure. Prayer is a means of meditation which is scientific and helps grow your patience & tolerance level.  In some culture prayer is used to preach despise to other faith, which helps men to become animal.  During crisis men goes to warship for mental and psychological console. Hindu dharma created the Vedic culture which includes food habit also, disease and treatment as described in the VEDAS especially AYURVEDA.

In cave age agriculture was unknown to mankind and hunting was the only source of living.  (There was no cave age in Bhaarat; there are not many caves.)

Rituals and festivals began in early Hindu civilization when male used to return from hunting in groups, the females remained busy in cooking those prey for their love ones. (Not typical of Bhaarat.) While serving food celebrations began with some social activities which later turned in to festival. Behind every festival there is a reason, which has come from the human necessity. During festival people from around come together to exchange their views and share each other’s excess item/commodities. Our ancestors began their business by exchanging item with item and later on with minarets, gold, silver etc. Silver and gold coin was replaced by bank note granted by the tribal chief or administrator.

All this festival helps grow local economy, harmony with neighbor and share their wealth with each other. Hindus has more festival then others which helped their community economy moving without outside support, there are saying that, Hindus has thirteen festivals in twelve months, in fact festivals are much more then thirteen. Due to more rituals/ festivals, Hinds are by nature more tolerant than others. Violence and divorce are very rarely seen in Hindu society.  To-day the West has adopted RAKSHAA BANDHAN as friend ship day and many days’ like father day, mother day, valentine day etc to add more festival in their cultural life. The community which has less festival is cruel by nature and unkind to its neighbor. (It is not festival, but the religion itself.) Due to lack festival in the society man becomes unsocial, robotic and ruthless. Importance of festival in life is very important which not only creates friendship and social bondage but also helps develop social relation. Jihadist doesn’t allow cultural activities like song, dance, painting and sculptures. (This because Islam says so.)

In rural area MELA (CARNIVAL) is organized during festivals for villagers to market their products. Man can’t live without rituals, although some fundamentalist believers are against such festival activities in the society. Festivals will hinder the fundamentalists’ animalization process.  Only an animal can kill another animal, human never bites another human, and the creator didn’t gave men hunting teeth like tiger, so the policy of fundamentalists is to create more animals in the society to establish their ideology of terror. DURGA PUJA is the greatest festival of Bengali culture, all including Hindus enjoy this festival the most and share love and joy with others. The traditional SANAATAN DHARMA doesn’t encourage conversion to their faith from other religion. Due to this non reactive approach HINDUS have maintained harmony with other religions for centuries. (However, the Hindus are the target for the anti-Vedics for conversion. This we need to resist strongly and successfully.)

By practicing such harmonious philosophy HINDUS have successfully retained their 5000 years old culture even after many barbarians attack. Under occupation by barbarians HINDUS accepted humiliating JIJIYA TAX and protected their culture rather than spilling blood. (This was cowardice. Dharma does not tell to surrender to asuras like this.) These were only possible due to non violent culture and unconditional faith in SANAATAN DHARMA. MAHATMA GANDHI proved that non violent SATYAGRAHA is more powerful than weapon. NELSON MANDELA and MARTIN LUTHER KING followed GANDHji’S non violence philosophy and they succeeded in their effort like liberating South Africa peacefully. (Non violence works only against those who have some human decency or value. It cannot work against Islam or Hitlers or Ben Ladins or Idi Amins.)  It’s time for PALESTINIANS to consider GANDHIji’S  AHIMSA non violence philosophy and help liberate their people from any occupation. In last 60 years of suicidal bombings and JIHADI activities didn’t help the PALESTINIANS cause, rather caused more suffering to their people. (What are the ways to help the anti-Vedics to help them become Vedics?)Everyone has a right to exist and the Ancient HINDU WAY has proven right. Many THEOCRATIC RELIGIONs need to examine their activities, and do their activities such that the world can be peaceful. Adopt the HINDU WAY of life is the answer.

Many westerns are now studying HINDUISM and its spiritual strength; they started comparing HINDUISM with other faiths for their intolerance. In the environment of true secularism of Europe and America many intolerant faiths and cults had mushroom growth in the last century. (what specifically?) They are now threatening the very existence of secularism in Europe and America and the World. (Who, except Islam, and communism, are threatening secularism?)  HINDUS are fortunate by birth for their tolerant culture; HINDUS don’t encourage conversion from other faith or never forced their religion on others. (Yes, and the also need to understand dharma first, live per it correctly, and then know how to debate with the anti-Vedics.)

“THIS IS WHY HINDU FAITH IS THE GREATEST”.

A Vedic Examination of Abrahamism

From: Deva Samaroo < >
A Vedic Examination of Abrahamism

 

Extracted Dharma Pravartaka Chapter 3

The Abrahamic worldview is today represented by five closely aligned ideological tendencies: 1) Judaism, 2) Pauline Christianity, 3) Islam, 4) Marxism, and to a less significant extent 5) the Baha’i movement. Of these Abrahamic tendencies, Marxism is the only self-stated atheistic one, the others being religious in nature. The greatest real-world challenge and exact philosophical juxtaposition to the entire Dharmic worldview has historically been, and continues to this day to be, the Abrahamic mentality and worldview.

While some very important theological and ritual distinctions can be seen between them all, nonetheless the specifically religious-oriented aspects of Abrahamism – Judaism, Christianity and Islam – share a common worldview, psychological make-up, and guiding ethos. Judaism, Christianity and Islam are historically referred to as the “Abrahamic” religions because all three religions trace their origins to the prophet Abraham, and can thus be seen to be quite similar in many aspects of their respective outlooks. The following are only a few of the similarities that they all share.

1. All three religions have a shared acceptance of the teachings of the Old Testament prophets (Christianity, in addition to the accepting the Old Testament prophets, also accepts Jesus. Islam, in addition to the Old Testament prophets and Jesus, also accepts Muhammad).

2. Anthropomorphic monotheism. The supreme god of Abrahamism is seen in very human terms, including in his exhibition of such very human emotions as anger, jealousy, prejudice and vengeance.

3. A profound sense of religious exclusivity, creating two strictly delineated camps of “believers” in opposition to everyone else.

4. The belief that there is only the sole true faith, and that any other form of religious expression external to the “one true faith” is necessarily wrong.

5. The acceptance of terrorism, violence, mob action, looting and aggressive missionary tactics to spread their religion.

6. A common sense of being at a war to the death with the Dharmic (“Pagan”) world that preceded Abrahamic ascendency.

7. The centrality of unidirectional prayer to commune with their god, with systematic meditation practice playing either little or no part in the practice of their respective religions.

8. A belief in the existence of angels, the devil, demonic spirits, etc.

9. All three teach the bodily resurrection, the Final Judgment, the creation of the soul at the time of conception or birth (as opposed to the soul’s pre-existence, which all Dharmic spiritual traditions teach), the binding effects of sin, etc.

10. The importance of a specific holy day of the week set aside for prayer and rest: For Jews – Saturday. For most Christians – Sunday. For Muslims – Friday.

These are only a few of the elements of the Abrahamic worldview, of which mainstream Christianity is an integral part.

Up until 2000 years ago, the Dharmic worldview was by far the predominant worldview for most of humanity – from Ireland in the West to the Philippines in the East. Though there were thousands of diverse individual cultures, languages, foods, customs and traditions among the ancient Indo-European peoples, most of these ethnically varied cultures were united in their deep respect for, and attempted adherence to, the Natural Way (Dharma).

This ancient uniformity in adherence to Dharma was the case for tens of thousands of years until the radically anti-human and anti-nature Abrahamic ideology suddenly burst upon the world scene 4000 years ago with an evangelical fury, religiously-inspired violence, and zealous civilization-destroying vengeance the likes of which the civilized world had never seen previously. Never before had the multiple ancient and noble pre-Christian cultures of the world ever experienced such massive destruction, death, persecution, forced conversion, and cultural annihilation performed in the name of an artificially expansive religion as it witnessed at the hands of the new Abrahamic ideology that had arrived, seemingly out of nowhere, onto the world stage. It was in the wake of this never before experienced juggernaut of Biblically inspired destruction that the light of Dharma began to swiftly wane, and that Reality as it was known up till then was turned literally on its head.

Religiously inspired imperialism began with the more localized expansion of the Israelites in the Levant region two thousand years before the birth of Christianity. However, it was soon after the appropriation of the original teachings and spiritual movement of Jesus, and the massive expanse of this later, corrupt form of post-Constantine Christianity, that the expansion of the Abrahamic ideology began to take on truly global proportions. As the French thinker Alain de Benoist explains this catastrophe in the context of European history,

“. . . the conversion of Europe to Christianity and the more or less complete integration of the European mind into the Christian mentality, was one of the most catastrophic events in world history – a catastrophe in the proper sense of the word…”

With the ascent of the Abrahamic onslaught came the counter-proportional descent of the Indo-European world’s traditional Dharmic civilizations.

Christianity, in retrospect, was but one of several artificially constructed, new movements that all fall under the general term “Abrahamic”, named after the infamous founder of fanatical religious exclusivity, Abraham (1812 BC – 1637 BC). These four anti-nature ideologies are 1) Judaism, 2) Christianity, 3) Islam, and 4) Marxism. Whether we speak of Judeo-Christian “holy wars” and Inquisitions, or the bloody and unending Islamic jihads against “infidels”, or the genocide of over 100 million people in the name of Marxist revolution, all four of these Abrahamic movements have been responsible for more destruction, loss of life, and social mayhem than all other ideas, religions, and ideologies in world history combined.

The Abrahamic onslaught has been an unparalleled juggernaut of death. More, while all four ideologies have remained seemingly divided by dogmatic, sectarian concerns, all Abrahamic movements have been fanatically united in both their common origin, and in their shared aim of annihilating their perceived enemy of Dharma from the earth, and seeking sole domination of world power for themselves alone. While Judaism, Christianity and Islam have been at war with each other for millennia, they are all united in their insistence that Dharma is their principal hated enemy. The essential driving principle of Abrahamism is to bring about the immediate death of Dharma.

Dharma and Abrahamism are exact opposites in every way. Dharma and Abrahamism stand for two radically opposed visions for humanity’s future. Dharma stands for nature, peace, diversity, and reason. Abrahamism stands for artificiality, war, uniformity, and fanaticism. They are the only two real ideological poles of any true significance in the last two-thousand years. There has been an ongoing Two-Thousand Year War between these two opposing worldviews that has shaped the course of much of human history since this conflict’s start. Every philosophical construct, religious denomination, political ideology and general worldview of the past two millennia falls squarely into one camp or the other. Every human being living today falls squarely into one camp or the other. Dharma and Abrahamism are the only two meaningful ideological choices for humanity today. And for all too much of the duration of this Two-Thousand Year War, Dharma has been on the losing end as Abrahamism has continuously succeeded in its unrivalled ascendancy.

The destructive ascendancy of Abrahamism is, however, about to come to an end. We are now about to witness a period of Dharmodaya – of Dharma ascending – in this very generation. As is explained in thorough detail in the two books “The Dharma Manifesto” and “Sanatana Dharma: The Eternal Natural Way”, we are about to experience the rebirth of Dharmic and Vedic civilization throughout the totality of our world.

The Dharma world-view represents a positive moral and philosophical alternative to the many ills and cultural distortions of Abrahamic modernity. Vedic culture is human culture, because Vedic culture is the model of spiritual civilization. Our world is not without meaning. Our future is not without hope. Though the darkness of the Kali Yuga (our current “Age of Conflict”) and a civilizational crisis has now descended upon us, the Sun of Dharma will soon be seen again. No cloud can obscure our vision of the Sun forever. We will live to see Dharma triumphant again, and to see a Golden Age of compassion, true culture, and the Natural Way be firmly established.

Muslims curse Jews and Christian 17 times EACH day

From: Janet Levy < >

As part of the salat (5 times daily prayer), Muslims curse Jews and Christian 17 times EACH day.

In the text of the prayer below (blue bolded italics), the “straight path” that is referred to is Islam.  According to Islamic doctrine, we were all born Muslims but some of us refuse to acknowledge the supremacy of Allah and his prophet Mohammed and are thus doomed or relegated to dhimmitude.
The Jews are the MOST hated as they allegedly “abandoned” practicing the religion of Islam.  This is why there is “anger” or wrath against the Jews.
The Christians “lost” the true knowledge of Islam so they have “gone astray.”
These interpretations are confirmed by respected commentaries from Muslim clerics throughout the ages.  See article below for a more detailed explanation.
BTW, this prayer has been recited at important U.S. government functions, at universities and during invocations in various state legislatures.
“Guide us to the straight path, the path of those whom You have favored,
Not of those who have incurred your wrath, nor of those who have gone astray.”
 
Janet Levy,
Los Angeles
 
Muslim Prayers
by Louis Palme
Americans need to educate themselves about Muslim prayers. Since the prayers are recited in
Arabic, few realize how anti-Semitic and anti-Christian the Muslim prayers actually are.
 
A prayer is defined as a reverent petition to God. It could be a prayer of praise, of thanks, or of
supplication. Nothing warms the heart more than having someone say, “I/We prayed for you.”
Judeo-Christian prayers are for the most part spontaneous expressions of the individual making
the prayer.
 
Muslim prayers, on the other hand, follow a very elaborate, seventeen-part formula. The full
cycle of a prayer is called a rak’a, and it includes bowing, kneeling, and reciting certain phrases
and statements in a specified sequence. These prayers are repeated five times a day, and each
prayer includes multiple rak’as. While there is room for a spontaneous supplication in the dawn
prayer, the rest of the prayers stick to a strict formula. The guidelines for prayer cover 118
pages in Reliance of the Traveler, 166 pages in The Guidance (Al-Hidayah), and 273 pages in Fiqh
us-Sunnah. It is estimated that fulfilling the basic prayer requirements, including the necessary
ablution, consumes two and one-half hours a day.
 
So, what do Muslims actually pray for? The only supplication in the rak’a is the recitation of Al-
Fatihah (Surah 1 of the Quran). This is what they pray for:
 
Guide us to the straight path, the path of those whom You have favored,
Not of those who have incurred your wrath, nor of those who have gone astray.
 
The phrase ‘those who have incurred your wrath” comes from Surah 2:61 which says,
 
Shame and misery were stamped upon [the Israelites] and they incurred the wrath of
Allah; because they disbelieved Allah’s signs and slew His prophets unjustly; because
they were rebels and transgressors.
 
The phrase “those who have gone astray” comes from Surah 4:44 which says,
 
Consider those to whom a portion of the Scriptures was given [i.e., Christians]. They
purchase error for themselves and wish to see you go astray.
 
So the only supplication in the standard Muslim prayer is asking Allah to keep the Muslim from
the path of the Jews and from the path of the Christians. This prayer is recited seventeen times
a day by devout Muslims.
 
The interpretation above is confirmed in “Interpretation of the Meanings of the Noble Quran”
by Muhammad Muhsin Khan (1985). Other commentaries on the Quran verify that Jews
and Christians were those referred to in Surah 1. The interpretation is also confirmed by the
reliable Bukhari hadith, Vol. 1, Book 12, Number 749 which says:
 
Narrated Abu Huraira: Allah’s Apostle said, “Say Amen’ when the Imam says “Ghair-il-
maghdubi ‘alaihim wala-ddal-lin; not the path of those who earn Your Anger (such as
Jews) nor of those who go astray (such as Christians); all the past sins of the person
whose saying (of Amin) coincides with that of the angels, will be forgiven.
 
One of the first English translations of the Quran was by George Sale in 1734. This Quran is
sometimes called the “Jefferson Quran” because the President Thomas Jefferson owned a
copy. In a footnote to Surah 1, Sale explains the text, “not the way of the modern (i.e., 7 th
Century) Jews, whose signal calamities are marks of the just anger of God against them for their
obstinacy and disobedience; nor of the Christians of this age, who have departed from the true
doctrine of Jesus, and were bewildered in a labyrinth of error.”
 
The Friday prayer is even more offensive to Jews and Christians, as it requires not only two
recitations of Al-Fatihah, but also Surah 62 – The Friday Congregation — and Surah 63 – The
Hypocrites. Surah 62 specifically condemns Gentiles as being “in gross error,” and Jews are
compared with “a donkey laden with books.” Surah 63 condemns “hypocrites,” those who have
renounced their Muslim faith. “They are the enemy. Guard yourself against them.”
 
There is nothing arbitrary about the daily or the Friday prayers. The requirements were
established in Reliance of the Traveler, paragraphs F8.17 and F18.12, over 600 years ago. The
Quran urges Muslims to “keep up prayer” forty-four times. (Examples: Surahs 2:43, 6:72,
11:114, and 31:17). But the question that Muslims might ask of themselves is whether these
prayers are actually communication with the Creator or just a ritualistic exercise contrived to
have them continually swallow the poison-pill of anti-Jewish and anti-Christian bigotry.
 
Shame on Muslims when they pray in public and make public display of religious hatred and
intolerance!