End Harvard Association of Hate Groups!

[Guest guest]

http://www.petitiononline.com/stopIER/petition.html

 

We the undersigned insist that Harvard University end its association with Aryan Supremacist / Creationist hate-mongering activities.

 

Professor Michael Witzel and his "scholars clique" in the Harvard Sanskrit and Indian Studies Department have exhibited a pattern of hateful, ignorant statements and abysmally low standards of scholarship. This is not the Harvard that alumni paid heavily in time and money to attend and build a reputation for excellence. Witzel’s activities have made Harvard the object of anger, disgust, contempt and ridicule of ordinary citizens.

 

Shockingly Low Standards?

 

Recently, Witzel and his "scholars clique" earned ridicule for Harvard by sending a shockingly incompetent letter [1] to the California State Board of Education. This letter represented the collective achievement of 50 self-described ‘Prominent Academics’. The sweeping hate stereotypes, ad hominem attacks, and general lack of facts in their letter make for depressing reading by any Harvard well-wisher. On questioning, several of the signatories confessed to not even having seen the proposed changes that they were bitterly opposing. Predictably, the California Board, after affording these losers undeserved courtesy based on Harvard’s name, rejected their position as unscholarly, insensitive, biased and devoid of facts - heaping ridicule on the Harvard brand. If this is the standard of tenured Professors, what does it imply for the worth of a Harvard education?

 

Hate Groups on Harvard Pay?

 

Michael Witzel signed his Harvard affiliation to the following sample quotes on the "Indo-Eurasian Research" (IER) Internet hate group that he runs. These show his bias against the Indian-American community, who should be Harvard’s primary customer base for Sanskrit and Indian history studies. We record our abhorrence of these actions which have shredded Harvard’s reputation as a civilized institution. We summarize from a recent article [2] that details the references:

• Witzel writes that 'Indian Civilization would be a good idea'

• Witzel writes that NRI (non-resident Indian) stands for Non-Returning Indians! A schoolyard bully’s taunt against immigrant children, but coming from a tenured Harvard Professor?

• Witzel claims that Indians in the USA do not invest in the higher education of their children (since they avoid the zoo that Witzel has made of his own department?)

• Witzel used the slur "HiNA" meaning in Sanskrit, inferior, lowly and defective, as an acronym for Hindus in North America. Does this juvenile propensity to invent racial slurs, much as it may impress his Prominent Academic IER cronies, define Harvard's intellectual class in 2005?

• Witzel declared Hindu-Americans to be "lost" or "abandoned", parroting anti-Semite slurs against Jewish people. Coincidence or symptom?

• Witzel’s fantasies are ominously reminiscent of WW2 German genocide. He says that 'Since they won't be returning to India, [Hindus immigrants to the USA] have begun building crematoria as well.'

• Witzel sneers at the Hindu belief in evolution, enshrined in the Ten Incarnations, which include the Varaha, the wild boar. He writes that second generation [Hindu] people just understand [Hinduism] as 'boaring rituals' (puja, etc.), temple visits and Indian (mythological) comic books ... "

 

We note that Indian-American parents must resort to comic books to teach their heritage to their children, precisely because of the sorry state of textbooks and academic curricula [3] Witzel as self-proclaimed “world expert” has failed to exert positive leadership in the field of his presumed scholarship.

• Witzel ridicules the most sacred of Hindu mantras: inexcusable for a schoolyard bully, not to mention a historian and professor. He writes:

”Many short mantras (the later biija mantras) like oM have humble origins the Veda.... used in the Veda to call your goat .. and your wife.” This was carried on for several posts of racist ‘banter’ on the IER forum with S. Farmer.

• Witzel demeans the daughters of Indian-American parents, who take the trouble to learn their heritage through traditional art forms. In the worst of racist slander, Witzel claims that Indian classical music and dance reflect low moral standards.

 

[Guest guest]

It is bought by Saudis now.

[Sephiroth]

Instead of telling how some white fool (who beliefs that some god had to come and commit suicide for them to be saved) potray Hindusm, Hindus, especially in India should be educated on how they are looked at by others first.

 

Send this message to every Indian inside and outside India and to every Hindu forum. Show Hindus how they are looked at and riddiculed and if they still insist of going to America (their self-proclaimed Promised Land), to hell with them. Such people are not needed in India.

 

I have seen many tamil movies from famous stars like Kamalhassan and Satyaraj (I understand Tamil a bit) where America is hailed to be a great, civilised nation and India as outdated, corrupted nation.

 

This is the most idiotic concept ever and this sort of foolish Indians (I'm speaking about those actors) should be educated first on history of America which consists of Americans (descendants from the forefathers who landed in New England) backstabbed Red Indians and how they stole their land.

[Guest guest]

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[Sephiroth]

Done ... I'm 1961 person to sign it.

[Guest guest]

I Think you've got it wrong on Kamalhaasan. Kamal himself said in his lastest movie Anbe Sivam that Indians should remain in India and help the nation instead of going aboard and picking up the bones laid on by the Americans.

[Sephiroth]

What does Kamal have to do with this topic?

 

As far as I consider, Kamal is an arrogant idiot (atheist). He made a lot of mistakes.

 

He was given Doctorate Awards - I do admit that but he allows that to go to his head. He become more arrogant and ignorant since then.

 

Many of his latest movies is DISGUSTING to watch. In movie, Viramandhi, the song scene is so disgusting, I become red as a tomato.

 

In Bombay Express, the movie supposed to be comical but I couldn't even laugh ONCE. The jokes are stupid and lame. My mother asked me to off the TV because she become sleepy and I almost doze of myself. Also too many scenes with semi-naked ladies.

 

I didn't understand what he was trying to say in Ah-Ram.

 

Sorry ... I don't give a damn what he says about going to America. All I know is that he is trying to Americanized India and that is just as stupid as people leaving India to live in India and still calling themselves Indians.