Bravo Sandhya Jain - Article on Gujarat Election Results and Shameless Partisan Reporting by India's Leftist English Press.

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Friends:

 

Read the article from Sandhya Jain

below. With all the Sanatana

Dharma and Bharatavarsha bashing English language leftist media in India,

Sandhya Jain’s article is a breath of fresh air.

yes"> It is good to know there is at least one person who is

willing to tell it like it is, (Rajeev Srinivasan, Francois Gautier, Arvind

Lavakare are others). Perhaps now

the shamelessly partisan, anti-Hindu reporting in the Indian English press will

begin to change. Otherwise

Narendra Modi, please make sure that you do this in Gujarat at least.

 

Yes, Hinduism as practiced has its

warts. Committed Hindus are

working hard to fix it. Let us be

very clear that the so-called minority communities – monotheistic non-Indic

religions Christianity and Islam have even bigger warts. As the Bible says:

 

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brother's eye, but considerest not the beam that is in thine own eye?"

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7.3, BIBLE (King James Version)

 

I have deliberately quoted the Bible

here rather than Chanakya or the Mahabharata.

yes"> How many Muslims and Christians care to make an objective

study of Hinduism? Inspite of all

the prating that they are religions of peace, at their core is the immutable

belief that our religion alone is correct and we have to convert others to it,

by fair means or foul. Yes, I mean

fair means and foul.

 

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of virtue to deceive and lie, when by such means the interest of the church

might be promoted”.

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Eusebius, 260-339 AD

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is a form of auto eroticism”.

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Lillah, Walhukmu Lillah."

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Earth belongs to Allah, and thus only Allah's rule should prevail all over the

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as_Saleh, Mabaheth Fi 'Ulum al- Qur'an, Dar al-'Ilm Lel-Malayeen, Beirut,

1983,p.269.]

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Sobhy, in a footnote, commends the opinion of a scholar named Zarkashi who

said: "Allah the most high and wise revealed to Mohammad in his weak

condition what suited the situation, because of his mercy to him and his

followers. For if He gave them the

command to fight while they were weak it would have been embarrassing and most

difficult, but when the most high made Islam victorious He commanded him with

what suited the situation, that is asking the people of the Book to become

Muslims or to pay the levied tax, and the infidels to become Muslims or face

death. These two options, to fight or to have

peace, return according to the strength or the weakness of the Muslims.” [ibid p. 270]

 

The above quotes are the real face of

Christianity and Islam. Hindus

have been mewling pacifists – a new breed of committed, in your face,

articulate Hindus are rising up.

They have shed colonial inferiority complexes and an Uncle Tom mentality

which has been engendered in us for centuries, under the Muslim yoke initially

and subsequently under British rule.

 

If Leftists/Marxists/Nehruvian

socialists reading this scream Saffron Wave and Hindu fundamentalism at my

comments, they can lump it. 50

years of Nehruvian Marxist, education from contemptible cabals like those at

JNU Delhi and Aligarh Muslim University has brought about this stinging

backlash. Even the worm turns

sometimes.

 

Garv say kaho hum Hindu hai!!!. As a friend of mine put it, so far,

“Hum dar se kahte hum Hindu hai.”.

 

Have a nice day now.

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12.0pt;color:black">Fwd: An article by Mrs. Sandhya Jain on recent

Gujarat elections

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12.0pt;color:black">Monday, December 16, 2002 03:04 AM

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12.0pt;color:black">For Pioneer, 17th December 2002

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12.0pt;color:black">Modi: taken at the flood

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12.0pt;color:black">By Sandhya Jain

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12.0pt;color:black">Few men in modern history have dared to meet a tide in

flood and ride out boldly into the open sea.

yes"> Yet, this is precisely what Narendra Modi has done. Baptised quite

literally by fire,

battered by a

sensation-mongering media, charge-sheeted by ideologically committed activists

and hounded by an irrationally oppositionist Election Commission, the cornered

Chief Minister batted formidable odds to present the BJP its most credible

electoral victory in recent years.

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12.0pt;color:black">The Gujarat elections are a major watershed in national

politics. First and foremost, they

have upheld Mahatma Gandhi’s desire to give India’s native religious and

cultural traditions a place in the public arena.

yes"> Gujarat has demonstrated that Hindus, whether Adivasis,

Dalits, or educated middle and upper classes, perceive themselves as one

community. Surely it is poetic

justice that this has happened in the Mahatma’s own state. Of course,

this centre- staging of the

nation’s civilizational ethos has gone down badly with Congressmen who blame

Modi’s ‘communal’ campaign for his

spectacular victory. But this only

proves that Congress was insincere in accommodating Hindutva in its electoral

strategy, and that it actually hoped to win the election on the basis of the

old formula of en bloc minority vote plus support from certain castes.

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12.0pt;color:black">Gujarat has given a fitting reply to such vulgar

communalism, which lacks respect for the dharma and way of life of the majority

community. It has demonstrated a

grand affirmation of Hindu identity and self-respect.

yes"> Henceforth, political parties hoping to come to power on a

minority of the total votes polled, and functioning on the basis of colonial

stereotypes about the Hindu community being a mere aggregation of castes, will

have to do serious re-thinking.

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12.0pt;color:black">I emphasize this because I have noticed the crystallization

of Hindu sentiment across the country, affecting the core support base of each

party. Therefore, no political

party will be able to trifle with Hindu sentiments while seeking votes on the

basis of caste affiliations and minority vote banks.

yes"> The Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister, Ms. Mayawati, was the

first major leader to discern this trend, and accordingly made startling

changes in the Bahujan Samaj Party’s political rhetoric and electoral

strategy. The Tamil Nadu Chief

Minister, Ms. Jayalalithaa, showed equal deference to Hindu concerns by

enacting the law against forcible conversions, brushing aside the protests of

rootless secularists. Now, following Gujarat, Hindu-baiting parties may find

the going politically counter-productive.

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12.0pt;color:black">Politicians, however, can be trusted to learn some lessons,

some times, but not so the media.

It would be an understatement to say that the media was biased against

Mr. Modi. Sitting in the capital

and subscribing to five newspapers daily, I can say that most newspapers failed

to even hint that the BJP was heading towards a landslide victory. Common sense

said that he could not lose

after Godhra; that after Akshardham even the Patel community could not

afford to sulk over the loss of Keshubhai; and that the people of Gujarat were

bound to give a sharp snub to the shameless aggression of Mr. J.M.

Lyngdoh. But I had no clue about

the mandate heading his way because the newspapers told me to place my bet on

Mr. Vaghela.

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12.0pt;color:black">Besides the biased coverage, what is unforgivable is the

complete failure of the media to introspect and take responsibility for the

communal polarization that it lays at Mr. Modi’s door. Now that the

elections are over, it is

time to state a few home truths.

The entire media approach towards Godhra was driven by the attitude that

it was a tragedy richly deserved by innocent children, women and men because

they had dared to visit the Ram Janmabhoomi

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Ayodhya. That Godhra

occurred without any provocation was simply blacked out. Even more despicable

was the manner in

which the subsequent riots were de-linked from the Godhra carnage and treated

as a suo moto aggression on the part of the Hindu community. The media-assisted international

vilification of India was simply outrageous.

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12.0pt;color:black">The scandalous commentary and visuals relayed by a

television channel during those troubled times upset citizens across the

country, yet the channel itself remains benignly unrepentant. On the very day of counting, a

programme was aired live from

Ahmedabad. And, in a city that

gave a thumping mandate to Mr. Modi, the organizers were unable to find even a

sprinkling of persons favourably inclined towards the BJP! Talk about fair play!

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12.0pt;color:black">As if this was not bad enough, some sections of the media have

taken to playing up minority fears, as though planned pogroms are in the

offing. I think it is time to bell

the cat about the so- called minority fears and to challenge outright the media

dishonesty in this regard. To

begin with, there is no truth in the insinuation that the minorities are in

danger in this country by virtue of being minorities.

yes"> This may be true in societies that practice monotheism (of

whatever persuasion), but it has never been true of Hindu society on account of

the enormous tolerance and innate decency of the sanatana dharma. So, we must

no longer tolerate such

canards about ourselves; nor should we permit people to disarm us with such

vicious falsehoods.

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12.0pt;color:black">The second issue we need to face is the sheer

aggressiveness of the minorities and their intolerance towards the native faith

and traditions of this country, as witnessed in their insistence on the right

to convert. Moreover, readers may

recall that Leftist historians have claimed for decades that medieval invaders

who razed Hindu temples did not do so because they were iconoclasts but because

they wanted the enormous wealth of the temples. This Leftist assertion was

falsified by the accounts of the invaders themselves, but citizens were not

allowed to utter such politically incorrect truths!

yes"> Yet today, given the fact that Hindu temples continue to be

soft targets of fundamentalists, we need to ask why this is so. The fig leaf of

an economic motive does

not exist; so another explanation will have to be found. I am waiting for our

secular apologists

to offer it.

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12.0pt;color:black">Some Muslim analysts have noted with dismay the sharp drop

in the number of tickets given by the Congress party to Muslim candidates.

Indeed, falling Muslim presence in

state assemblies and Parliament has been a matter of concern to Muslims for

some time now, but has been generally disregarded on account of the specious

claim for proportional representation.

My own suggestion is that the Muslim community can no longer avoid a

long overdue introspection about its future course in a modern, forward-

looking nation like India.

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12.0pt;color:black">Muslims believe that secular parties take Muslim vote en

bloc but do not transfer their own committed Hindu vote to Muslim candidates

(of whatever party) on account of a secret communal bias. This is not true. The

reality is that

Muslim candidates are unable to

appeal to other groups in society

because they do not have a

modernizing or non-communal agenda. For instance,

yes"> why should

Hindus vote for a candidate who

yes"> opposes the

Shah Bano judgment giving

alimony to an abandoned wife or

supports triple talaq and polygamy? Muslim intellectuals have

long lectured us about the nation’s composite culture - it is time let it take

root on their own home and hearth.

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