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Combat Secularism Rs.100/- Per Annum (Pseudo) (The Peril we need to) "Secularism" Combat Truth on the Scaffold Patriotism Re-asserting Vol. 4 No. 3 Editor: Dr. T.H. Chowdary MARCH, 2006 Inside ... - Riots and Wrongs RIOTS AND WRONGS - Bharat is A Hindu country! P Parijata - Danish Queen on Tolerance One more amendment to the Constitution is proposed by the Sonia- - Hyderabad is Once Again Host led, CPM-controlled UPA government, through what is called the to Muslim “Immigrants”/ Suppression of Communal Violence Bill. The amendment to the Infiltrators constitution enables the Union Government to declare any particular - Sanatana Dharma area, communally disturbed and gives authority to the Union to deploy - Muslims lining in non-Muslim military to suppress the communal violence. So far, the state government countries beware has to request the Union government for deployment of army but the - Madrassas “Education” Prime Constitution Amendment Bill will give suo-moto power to the Union Cause of Muslim Backwardness and jihadi Mind-set government. In extreme cases, the state government will be dismissed or suspended or superseded with this amendment to the Constitution. * * * It is obvious that this move is at the behest of the communal and casteist Editor : Dr. T. H. Chowdary ‘secular’ parties which are trying to please and appease the real Associate Editor : Smt. P. Parijata communal forces; those that were responsible for the partition of our country, the creation of the Islamic states, to the west and east of India APPEAL and for the ethnic cleansing of non-Muslims, Hindus, Sikhs, Buddhists 5 years’ contribution : Rs.400/- and Jains from those Islamic states. Drafts may please be drawn in Communal riots and violence must be deprecated and put down favour of “Secularism” Combat with utmost speed and severity. The worst riots that took place payable in Hyderabad in India after partition were in Jabalpur, Delhi, and Ahmedabad (1969) Annual Contribution : Rs.100/- when the Congress party only was ruling, in Meerut, when the Janata * * * was ruling and in Godhra – Gujarat, when the NDA was ruling. Editor, Printer & Publisher: The truth is documented in the book Riots & Wrongs (India Dr. T.H. Chowdary for “Secularism” Combat First Foundation, New Delhi, 2004) written by R N P Singh, an 8, P&T Colony, ex-officer of India’s Intelligence Bureau who was honoured with Karkhana (Secunderabad), the President’s Police Medal and Indian Police Medal. Statistics Hyderabad - 500 009. cited by Sri Singh show that communal violence in India occurred Phone : +91 (40) 2784-6137 Fax : +91 (40) 2789-6103 in each and every year from 1954 to 1985. The total number of E-mail : [email protected] communal incidents in those 31 years was 8,449 (an annual average Legal Adviser: Sri CVL Narasimha Rao of 273), the total number of persons killed in that period was 7,229 (an annual average of 233), and the number of persons injured in All that is necessary for evil those incidents was 47,321 (an annual average of 1,526). After 1985, to triumph is for good men communal riots have also occurred in every year from 1986 to 1995, to do nothing and in 1997, 2002 (besides Gujarat), and 2003. - Edmund Burke The author analysed these and other riots, on the basis of unpublished Please visit us at: http://intellibriefs.com/sec_combat_MAR_06.pdf but deftly accessed inquiry reports against Scheduled Castes and Bharat is A Hindu country! The head of the Roman of governments following every Scheduled Tribes Act, to terrorize Catholic Church Cardinal O’brian communal riot. He throws the other Hindu castes. Just one publicly and gallantly stated that tremendous light as to who is has to complain to the police that Scotland is a Christian country causing and who is initiating the he is abused by the Scheduled and called upon the people to re- communal riots and which have been Castes name; the accused is Christianise it. When non controlled by whom and with what locked up under a non-bailable Christians demurred and criticized effect. This is worth reading by warrant. Such is the militancy of the him, he restated his position over the BBC Radio. All right thinking everyone who is interested in the neo-converts, the crypto-Christians people must congratulate the history of communal riots in our still nominally Hindu Harijans/dalits Cardinal for the courage of his country. in Census only. conviction and for stating the Now, there is one more Conversion is the root cause of correct position. community which is getting communal violence. It is not the Just as Scotland/England, increasingly involved in communal cause; it is violence. Any amount Germany, America and Australia riots, the Christian missionary- of denunciation and denigration and are essentially Christian countries, so is India essentially a Hindu inspired, S.C. converts to abuse of Hindus, Hindu Gods, Hindu country. The only difference is that Christianity, who in official records festivals, observances and social Hindus have been so much still pass off as Scheduled Castes. practices are loudly proclaimed by terrorized by the people professing Earlier we had witnessed only crypto- Christians under guidance and propagating intolerant, Muslim-Hindu riots. Now Christian- of Christian churches, evangelists aggressive faiths, abetted by Hindu riots are on the rise. In fact, and their fifth columns. Some Resident Non-Indians (Resident such will over-shadow the Muslim- religious texts of the Old Testament Non-Indias) and ‘secularists’ that Hindu riots very soon. The reason and some in the New Testament and no Hindu statesman, scholar, or theologian would make such a is the terribly aggressive, Koran have explicit exhortation to statement that Bharat that is, provocative, promotional, violence, denunciation of the other India is essentially a Hindu marketing of Christianity by gods and in the course of civilisation and a Hindu country. missionaries and their fifth propagation of the religions, these Christians in Europe and columns, the many NGOs like are acting as inspiration. I draw Americas are proudly saying that World Vision, Action Aid etc. attention to the Calcatta Koran they have got a Grec-Roman and Hundreds of these later category are Case to get a detailed explanation Christian heritage and their lands are Christian countries. Muslims operating all over India but in of how some Ayats attract the in Islamic countries are proudly concentrated form, with huge Indian Penal Code. It is worth noting and aggressively asserting that financial resources, modern aids that a number of American lawyers they are essentially Islamic states. like - electronic and print media, in and intellectuals are now studying Why cannot Hindus in their only south and north-eastern states. In the Calcatta Koran Case to agitate and holy land say that this is the south, about 70% to 80% of for ban on hate- literature, in the US. essentially a country of Hindu Harijans, i.e., Scheduled Castes are It is therefore necessary that civilisation and culture and people? With large number of people of already converted but the fact of Indian intelligentsia and Hindus non-Muslim faith, in Bangladesh conversion is not declared and exert to include the organized and Malaysia, these countries are registered to get the benefit of enterprises for proselytization and not saying that they have reservations meant for the Hindu conversion be treated as incitement composite culture but they assert Scheduled Castes. While nominally to communal violence and that that they are Islamic countries. remaining Hindu Harijans, they are therefore, such organisations and It is only those who have no self- inspired and infused with hatred individuals must be banned. Their respect, no self-confidence and and instilled with militancy and religious schools must be kept are still in the dhimmi mentality and whose minds are not aggressiveness against other under observance to prevent decolonised and those who are Hindu castes by missionaries, instilling in the minds of the young, terrorized by violence, riots and evangelists and their allies, intolerance, hate and jihad and aggressions of the proselytizing Christian NGOs. They are invoking urge to get converts and become faiths, that hesitate to call Bharat the 1989, Suppression of Atrocities martyrs (suicide-bombers).✰ an essentially Hindu country.✰ 2 “Secularism” Combat, March 2006 THE U-TURN THEORY: HOW DANISH QUEEN ON TOLERANCE THE WEST APPROPRIATES WE NEED A COUNTER-BALANCE INDIAN CULTURE A n Abstract of Sri Rajiv TO ISLAM, SAYS DANISH QUEEN Malhotra’s talk at The Department - Hannah Cleaver (Berlin) of Psychology, Delhi University: Westerners appropriate Indic Queen Margrethe II of Denmark up completely to their faith. But ideas through a process which Rajiv Malhotra has called the U-Turn. In has said her country needs to find there is likewise something its basic form the U-Turn Theory a “Counter-balance” to Islamic frightening about such a totality, states that a member of the fundamentalism, regardless of the which also is a feature of Islam. dominant Western culture first opproblium such a stance provokes “A counterbalance has to whole-heartedly learns the Indic abroad. be found, and tradition. He or she, for a variety of .....in overtly one has to, at reasons, then repackages it and political passages times, run the risk projects the knowledge gained from from an official of having India from within his/her own culture. biography.. unflattering The next thing you know is that s/ labels placed on he claims these ideas were always Courage of an integral part of Western culture. you. For there are Conviction – the Some, but not all, also start some things for Queen of Denmark demonizing the source Indic which one should (Hannah Cleaver traditions using a lot of pretexts, display no in Berlin) such as calling them “world tolerance.
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