03-08-2006, 03:46 AM
Enjoy:
--- In IndianCivilization@yahoogroups.com, Sridhar Mohan
<sirsrimohan@...> wrote:
Here's a letter that was sent to SF Chronicle.
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Editor,
SFChronicle Editors would do well to check the internet site of the Indian magazine "OUTLOOK" to see the same article by Witzel and Thapar posted there (you are a secondary publisher, aren't you?) Enjoy the 30 pages of reader comments there - and let me know if you find one positive about Thapar or Witzel.
http://www.outlookindia.com/rantsmag.asp?f...e=witzel&sid=1#
Authors M. Witzel and R. Thapar win the chutzpah prize for March 2006 with their declaration that Thapar is "India's Most Famous Historian". Yes, like Saddam Hussen in Iraq's Most Famous General.Yes, they do have a "different agenda".
Let's see. For starters, Witzel is known to run an internet hate
group, lobby for Communists and far-right Conversionists (see
[Ref1], from a Harvard acaddemic discussion list), fake his own
Teaching Rating on Rate-A-Professor.com, and just plain tell lies
under the Harvard letterhead.
Next, it is a blatant conflict of interest for Harvard Corporation
Board Member Alan Bersin to abuse his position as California
Secretary of Education and pitchfork Harvard Professor Witzel as
an "Expert", over the heads of the duly-apppointed Content Review
Panel of the Dept. of Education, to grab for the lucrative textbook
market and set Witzel up as a "Consultant" [ Ref.8]. Bersin's
disastrous 7-year record of creating conflict [Ref9] as school
superintendent, matches Witzel's career specialty of abusive
behavior. Together they have managed to tear apart Indian-American
Hindu community - one of the most prosperous and law abiding
communities in California, at the cost of their kids' education.
Harvard's own magazine 'The Crimson' [Ref2] listed Witzel's dismal
record of repression and favoritism, resulting in his being fired
as Department Chair. An online petiton [Ref3] signed by over 3000+
Hindus (including over 150 academics with impeccable credentials)
has expressed community disgust and outrage against Witzel's racist
comments and anti-Hindu pogrom [Ref5].
More recently Prof Witzel bullied his way at the
ratemyprofessor.com website to remove the adverse comments by his
students (see the Harvard CRIMSON article for a realistic assessment
of Witzel's notoriously poor teaching) and successfully replaced
them with transparently bogus glowing comments. Witzel, the "world-
class linguist", bragged about these on his internet hate site as if
they were genuine, a day after 10 such comments mysteriously
appeared. [Ref7] In most universities, this would be grounds for
tenure revocation (moral turpitude).
Recently, he has been campaigning (and has succeeded on his IER) to
get abusive and demeaning pictures included in textbooks for 6th-
grade kids, in order to humiliate and degrade Hindu children. For
example, he has got his sidekick on the IER to post and propagate
videos of people cleaning latrines in India, as graphics to be
included under the "Hinduism" section!
This is the real story of the "different agenda". Someone needs to
expose them. Apparently not San Fransico Chronicle which not too
long ago published an article by Jon Carroll which stated that
Hindus use rape for punishing women and has yet to issue an official
word of apology (though Mr Carroll did in a private email notify
that he had got facts from his collegue Jehangir Poccha - a known
FOSA stooge, who admits that when he came to the Land of the Free,
he missed the understanding and religious tolerance that he enjoyed
as a Farsi in "Hindu-majority" India. Farsis came to Hindu India as
refugees from the Islamists in Persia, whom the same California
Texts describe as the gentle people who have never tried
to "convert" anyone by force. Poccha, like all the FOSA Comrades,
shows his gratitude by slandering Hindus at every opportunity.)
As boobs who are suckered into re-publishing recycled trash from
OUTLOOK, you deserve what you publish.
Thanks!
xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Reference (if you care):
[Ref1] http://lists.hcs.harvard.edu/pipermail/d...open/2006-
February/000269.html
[Ref2] http://www.thecrimson.com/article.aspx?ref=500579
[Ref3] http://www.petitiononline.com/stopIER/petition.html
[Ref4] http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Indo-
Eurasian_research/message/2300
[Ref5] http://www.india-forum.com/articles/55/1...professor-
launches-anti-Hindu-Crusade
[Ref6] http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Indo-
Eurasian_research/message/2973
[Ref7] http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Indo-
Eurasian_research/message/3037
[Ref8] http://www.india-forum.com/articles/93/1/C...n-Sense-should-
help-avoid-California-links-with-Ivy-League-Hate-groups
[Ref9] http://www.cta.org/News/2005/20050429_1.htm
--- In IndianCivilization@yahoogroups.com, Sridhar Mohan
<sirsrimohan@...> wrote:
Here's a letter that was sent to SF Chronicle.
----------------------------------------
Editor,
SFChronicle Editors would do well to check the internet site of the Indian magazine "OUTLOOK" to see the same article by Witzel and Thapar posted there (you are a secondary publisher, aren't you?) Enjoy the 30 pages of reader comments there - and let me know if you find one positive about Thapar or Witzel.
http://www.outlookindia.com/rantsmag.asp?f...e=witzel&sid=1#
Authors M. Witzel and R. Thapar win the chutzpah prize for March 2006 with their declaration that Thapar is "India's Most Famous Historian". Yes, like Saddam Hussen in Iraq's Most Famous General.Yes, they do have a "different agenda".
Let's see. For starters, Witzel is known to run an internet hate
group, lobby for Communists and far-right Conversionists (see
[Ref1], from a Harvard acaddemic discussion list), fake his own
Teaching Rating on Rate-A-Professor.com, and just plain tell lies
under the Harvard letterhead.
Next, it is a blatant conflict of interest for Harvard Corporation
Board Member Alan Bersin to abuse his position as California
Secretary of Education and pitchfork Harvard Professor Witzel as
an "Expert", over the heads of the duly-apppointed Content Review
Panel of the Dept. of Education, to grab for the lucrative textbook
market and set Witzel up as a "Consultant" [ Ref.8]. Bersin's
disastrous 7-year record of creating conflict [Ref9] as school
superintendent, matches Witzel's career specialty of abusive
behavior. Together they have managed to tear apart Indian-American
Hindu community - one of the most prosperous and law abiding
communities in California, at the cost of their kids' education.
Harvard's own magazine 'The Crimson' [Ref2] listed Witzel's dismal
record of repression and favoritism, resulting in his being fired
as Department Chair. An online petiton [Ref3] signed by over 3000+
Hindus (including over 150 academics with impeccable credentials)
has expressed community disgust and outrage against Witzel's racist
comments and anti-Hindu pogrom [Ref5].
More recently Prof Witzel bullied his way at the
ratemyprofessor.com website to remove the adverse comments by his
students (see the Harvard CRIMSON article for a realistic assessment
of Witzel's notoriously poor teaching) and successfully replaced
them with transparently bogus glowing comments. Witzel, the "world-
class linguist", bragged about these on his internet hate site as if
they were genuine, a day after 10 such comments mysteriously
appeared. [Ref7] In most universities, this would be grounds for
tenure revocation (moral turpitude).
Recently, he has been campaigning (and has succeeded on his IER) to
get abusive and demeaning pictures included in textbooks for 6th-
grade kids, in order to humiliate and degrade Hindu children. For
example, he has got his sidekick on the IER to post and propagate
videos of people cleaning latrines in India, as graphics to be
included under the "Hinduism" section!
This is the real story of the "different agenda". Someone needs to
expose them. Apparently not San Fransico Chronicle which not too
long ago published an article by Jon Carroll which stated that
Hindus use rape for punishing women and has yet to issue an official
word of apology (though Mr Carroll did in a private email notify
that he had got facts from his collegue Jehangir Poccha - a known
FOSA stooge, who admits that when he came to the Land of the Free,
he missed the understanding and religious tolerance that he enjoyed
as a Farsi in "Hindu-majority" India. Farsis came to Hindu India as
refugees from the Islamists in Persia, whom the same California
Texts describe as the gentle people who have never tried
to "convert" anyone by force. Poccha, like all the FOSA Comrades,
shows his gratitude by slandering Hindus at every opportunity.)
As boobs who are suckered into re-publishing recycled trash from
OUTLOOK, you deserve what you publish.
Thanks!
xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Reference (if you care):
[Ref1] http://lists.hcs.harvard.edu/pipermail/d...open/2006-
February/000269.html
[Ref2] http://www.thecrimson.com/article.aspx?ref=500579
[Ref3] http://www.petitiononline.com/stopIER/petition.html
[Ref4] http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Indo-
Eurasian_research/message/2300
[Ref5] http://www.india-forum.com/articles/55/1...professor-
launches-anti-Hindu-Crusade
[Ref6] http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Indo-
Eurasian_research/message/2973
[Ref7] http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Indo-
Eurasian_research/message/3037
[Ref8] http://www.india-forum.com/articles/93/1/C...n-Sense-should-
help-avoid-California-links-with-Ivy-League-Hate-groups
[Ref9] http://www.cta.org/News/2005/20050429_1.htm