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Here the Killer Becomes God Forum of Intentional Liars The Indian Communist/Christian Missionary/Islamist Nexus and Its Anti‐Hindu/Anti‐India Agenda Abhimanyu Arjun 7/31/2011 The above flag is not the flag of India, but a symbolic construct that captures the agenda of the axis of the Indian Communists, Christian Missionaries and Islamist Organizations in USA and in India Page || 1 Table of Contents Quotable Quotes ........................................................................................................................................... 3 About Me……… .............................................................................................................................................. 5 About This Report ......................................................................................................................................... 6 Structure of the Report ................................................................................................................................. 9 Chapter I. Background .......................................................................................................................... 10 Figure 1 – A Model of How the Nexus Manufactures Anti‐India/Anti‐Hindu Views and Shapes World Opinion .................................................................................................................................................... 12 Section 1.01 A Spotlight on Prominent FOIL Members and Their Affiliates ........................................ 13 (a) Romila Thapar ......................................................................................................................... 13 (b) Vijay Prashad ........................................................................................................................... 16 (c) Biju Mathew ............................................................................................................................ 18 (d) Angana Chatterji ...................................................................................................................... 20 (e) Vinay Lal .................................................................................................................................. 23 (f) Meera Nanda ........................................................................................................................... 26 Chapter II. FOIL on Hindus and Hinduism .............................................................................................. 28 Section 2.01 Sanatana Dharma ‐ A narrow version of Hinduism ......................................................... 28 Section 2.02 Critique of Biases Against Hinduism = an Attack on Free Speech ................................... 30 Section 2.03 Bhagavad Gita ‐ A Non‐Hindu Text with Non‐Humanist Teachings ................................ 33 Section 2.04 Ramayana Argues for Colonization ................................................................................. 41 Section 2.05 Sketchy South Asian History ........................................................................................... 47 Section 2.06 Shivaji ‐ A Questionable Monarch ................................................................................... 50 Section 2.07 Hinduism = Spiritual Fascism .......................................................................................... 52 Section 2.08 Maligning Hinduism in 6th Grade Textbooks is OK ......................................................... 58 (a) Important players who opposed the edits suggested by Hindu Groups ................................. 60 Section 2.09 NRIs ‐ Unintelligent, Hindu Extremists; Not Enough Drunks .......................................... 74 Section 2.10 Indian Independence ‐ Hegemonic Vision of National Community ................................ 81 Chapter III. A Graphical Illustration of the Connections between Leftist Organizations ........................ 84 Chapter IV. Organizations in the Communist/Christian Missionary/ Islamist Nexus – Their Activities, Positions and Agenda .................................................................................................................................. 87 (a) Campaign to Stop Funding Hate (CSFH) .................................................................................. 87 Page || 2 (b) Friends of South Asia (FOSA) ................................................................................................... 88 (c) Association for India’s Development (AID) ............................................................................. 96 (d) Asha for Education ................................................................................................................ 103 (e) SINGH Foundation ................................................................................................................. 111 (f) Sabrang Communications Private Limited ............................................................................ 118 (g) Indian American Muslim Council (IAMC) .............................................................................. 124 Chapter V. The Congregation of the Nexus ‐ Illustrations of Anti‐Hindu/Anti‐India Events and Partnerships…. .......................................................................................................................................... 130 (a) 2003 IAMC Convention ......................................................................................................... 130 (b) 2005 IAMC Convention ......................................................................................................... 137 (c) 2008 IAMC Convention ......................................................................................................... 138 (d) 2010 MIT Workshop .............................................................................................................. 138 (e) Cease and DESIst – A call for organizing against US Imperialism .......................................... 141 (f) Coalition Against Genocide ................................................................................................... 143 Conclusion…… ........................................................................................................................................... 145 Page || 3 Quotable Quotes The Ramayana argues for the colonization of the peoples of the subcontinent while the Ramcaritmanas argues for the worship of an iconic figure rather than, for instance, a consideration of the Upanishads' metaphysics. ‐ Vijay Prashad, Chair of South Asian History and Professor of International Studies, Trinity College. Founding member, Forum of Inqualabi Leftists Coming back to Samskara, we see that not surprisingly, humanist teachings in Hinduism arise not from our host of gods and goddesses whose life stories are many times filled with outrageous kinds of deceit, manipulations, selfishness and greed…Indeed, when one such God tried to play the role of a guru as seen above in the Gita, the teachings are quite clearly non‐ humanistic. ‐ Balmurli Natrajan, Assistant Professor of Anthropology, William Paterson University. Member, Forum of Inqualabi Leftists Hinduism is a religion of violence. All Hindu gods killed their enemies and became heroic images. This is the only religion in the world where the killer becomes god. Whom did they kill? From Brahma to Krishna, those who were killed were Dalitbahujans. Now these images and the stories and narratives and everything is out there in the civil society. Now, because of this, the consciousness of worshipping the killer or worshipping violence did not give any space for human rights… for Hindu dharma, resolving of a conflict is only by killing. There is no other discourse. Debate is not there. You have to kill the enemy. ‐ Kancha Ilaiah, author of ‘Why I am Not a Hindu’, in an interview written by Forum of Inqualabi Leftists The Marxists have long subscribed to the view that Gandhi was a ‘romantic’, a hopeless idealist and even hypocrite; to this a chorus of voices added the thought that Gandhi was an insufferable ‘puritan’. ‐ Vinay Lal, Associate Professor of History, UCLA. Member, Forum of Inqualabi Leftists I just returned from Patna, India, and am sending this praise note from Calcutta, en route Chennai. But the spectacular baptismal event that has dwarfed the others took place in Patna, where we had in all two batches of 135 converts baptized in the river Ganges – in the very ‘Holy river’, where millions of the idol and demon worshipping pagans go every once in awhile to have a holy dip. ‐ Bishop Ezra Sargunam, head of Evangelical Church of India [The] Patels began sponsoring a number of Hindu religious outfits and backing Hindutva organisations in the state, thus presenting themselves as ardent Hindus, and, therefore, as ‘high’ castes. One aspect of that newly constructed identity as super‐Hindus was a deep hostility towards Muslims. In fact, the Patels, who comprise more than 30% of the Gujarati population, played a major role in the 2002 anti‐Muslim genocide. ‐ Mukul Sinha, a speaker at Page || 4 the 2010 MIT Workshop organized by Indian American Muslim Council, in a 2007 interview with Yoginder Sikand, an affiliate of Forum of Inqualabi Leftists. [The NRIs’] 'patriotism' is simple: they are jingoistic for whomever will allow them the freedom to make money. Whether saffron or red/white/blue, these cats are heavily into the green…And what are issues that motivate desis? Things to do with the 'homeland' or
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