Honolulu Weekly's Anti-Hindu Piece

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NOTE:Please print my response. I know its lengthy yet

Arundati Roy's article needs to be challenged. As the

VP of the Vedic Friends Association

http://www.vedicfriends.org/affiliate_writers.htm

I frequently visit India and have a close working

relationship with the orgs and people that your paper

is slandering. I recently got back from a tour of

India and was previliged to see first hand the many

wonderful and positive things the RSS is doing for

India. If you need to call me to verify my credentials

please do...at 808 879 5781. I can give you solid

referances to confirm my knowledge in these issues.

Dear Editor,

As a longtime Hawaii Vedic/Hindu promoter, I was

shocked to read Arundati Roy's virulent anti-hindu

article. Your paper has always been very supportive of

multiculturism. Therefore I feel it is only just to

let your readers know some very valid information in

regards to the credibility of Arundati Roy. As a

wellknown Hindu-baiter she can not be trusted to

accurately report the facts. She has a vested interest

in supressing the Hindu renaisance. This renaisance

represents the first time in 500 years that an

indigenous culture has achieved political power on a

global scale. To put it into a local perspective,

imagine if the Hawaiian people were a majority and

actually managed to acheive political control of

Hawaii. That is what has happened in India. After 800

years of foreign rule, first by the(Muslims)

Persians,Arabs and Mongols, then by the British and

finally by the Westernized anti-hindu Indians like

Arundati Roy, the Hindus,85% of the population, have

finally achieved political power. Amazingly this was

done by the ballot and not the bullet.

 

Arundati Roy's ludicrous attempt to tie the RSS and

BJP to the current anti-Bush and anti-America mood is

illogical. The USA has been one of the biggest

obstacles towards India acheiving political power. At

this moment, America is building up Pakistan at the

expense of India's security.

Her statement about India's government selling off

India is innacurate. The fact is the RSS completely

disagrees with Privatization in most cases. The

current privitization issue is actually causing a

major rift amongst the Hindu leadership. Arun Shourie,

the goverment minister heading the privatization

effort, has fallen out of favor with the RSS because

of this very privatization drive A.Roy accuses the

Hindu leadership of.

Finally, do the Hindus have any legitamate grievances?

Lets see....the British based constitution gives

Muslims the right to live outside the civil code so a

Muslim male can marry upto 4 wives, divorce any of

them on a whim and pay alimony for only 3 months.

Hindus marry only one wife and can not divorce

whimsically.

Muslim and Christian schools and organizations do not

have to report any of their finances. The Government

of India funds all Muslim and Chrsitian schools while

Hindus must pay fees and go thru excessive red tape to

open schools. Hindu organizations and Temples must

explain every single cent they have. No Hindus receive

free pilgramage trips while the Government pays for

every Indian Muslim to visit Mecca. This is all done

in the name protecting minorities. All Muslim and

Christian religious centers are run independently

while all ancient Hindu temples are controlled by the

Indian Government. All donations recieved at these

Hindu temples are taken by the government and in many

cases used to fund non-Hindu interests.

When the BJP/RSS tried to create a uniform civil code

that treats all Indians equally, the USA threatened

India with sanctions for threatening the religious

rights of Muslims. To this day, the Indian government

has not been able to correct the injustice of the

current Indian constitution.

Below is some very relevant information we have to

share on Arundati Roy's lack of credibility on these

issues.Please click link below.

vediculture/message/4102