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Hindu Human Rights - HareKrishna - 03-05-2009 <!--QuoteBegin-Husky+Feb 12 2009, 07:14 PM-->QUOTE(Husky @ Feb 12 2009, 07:14 PM)<!--QuoteEBegin--> s "they burned this poor indian immigrant who was sleeping on a park bench." Such public burnings of heathens and heretics is called an auto da fe in christianism, an "act of faith". Its what christomania does. The pope is glad that this revered catholic tradition has been successfully brought back into practise among his dutiful italian catholics. First the indulgences, now the auto da fes. Above links to: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7858012.stm <!--QuoteBegin--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin--><b>Italy torn by racial strains</b> Italy has been transformed in recent decades from a nation of emigrants to a target country for mass immigration. The change has brought severe political and social tensions. In the first of a series of pieces from Italy, Aidan Lewis looks at how the Roma (Gypsy) community has been caught up in an anti-immigrant backlash. <!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->Indian catholics in love with Santa Sonia ought to take note of the Embrace Of Love that catholicism will give them in their Catholic Homeland. [right][snapback]94515[/snapback][/right] <!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd--> I dont know about pope best friend(girl-friend),but italians are the ones that are terorised by subhuman hoards from the east,especialy romanians,romas-gipsy and albanians.This "people" whit medieval mentality never stop raping,stealing and killing italians .Killing that italian girl whit a umbrela,raping and killing that old women by Mailat and many similar actions ....and the italians are the ones acused as being fascist and nazi.There is nothing slake to loot and then dance on music whit moronic verses. Hindu Human Rights - Bodhi - 03-19-2009 <!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin--><b>No more safe at home, Pak Hindus flee to India</b> March 16, 2009 http://specials.rediff.com/news/2009/mar/1...ce-the-heat.htm In May 2008, Pakistan's tribal province of Orakzai was in the news. The majority Muslims did not allow the Hindus to cremate their dead at the place that had been the designated crematorium for over a century. The next month, the Pakistan government signed a peace treaty with the Taliban. It was among many other such treaties and not much was made of it, especially since the latter agreed that it would recognise the writ of the government. But in the next couple of months, the few Hindu families began facing the heat. "It was like the smoke before the fire. The Taliban's presence was not very evident in the following two months. But things were becoming obvious. A group of locals who supported the Taliban gave us the distinct feeling that we were not wanted there," says Jagdish Lal Sharma, who says he is a Pandit from the region. Though there were no direct threats, the Hindu families were never left in any doubt about their minority status. Sometimes it would be a warning not to stare at Muslim women for long, at other times, it would be the subtle coercion of the local administrators to sell their land when the situation was still normal. The families were weighing their options until October when they were asked to wear a red patch in their pagadis (turban). "We were told Hindus are not supposed to wish a Muslim even inadvertently and that is why, in order to make it obvious for a passing Muslim that we were Hindus, we ought to have some element of red in our headgear," Hardwari Lal, who is now in Amritsar with his family of 13, says. In Amrtisar, they found Surinder Kumar Billa, a local religious leader at the Durgaina temple in Amritsar, who has promised to help them get Indian citizenship. <!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd--> <!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin--><span style='color:red'>'Your temple is a threat to our religion'</span> March 16, 2009 Jagdish Lal Sharma fled with his wife and five kids: I am a Pandit and also did some hakeemi on the side with natural medicines. There was no problem in our village till very recently. I had a very small temple near my home. One day, some other villagers came and said the presence of your temple is a threat to our religion. It should not be there. I pleaded with them to spare the temple but had no other option but to take the idols inside the house. On October 2, we got a visa to India and I had a cousin in Amritsar. But the procedure is such that, I had to first go to Delhi -- where I knew no one -- and get my papers to come to Amritsar. You know very well how it is getting work done with the government. By the time I got the required papers to come to Amritsar, most of the money I had with me was spent. It is a good feeling having at last come to Amritsar. The Punjab region is more or less the same on both sides. But we do not know how long we are going to be here. That is one issue we are worried about. The other is what we are going to do about our children. They do not know Punjabi and hence cannot get admitted to a school here. We have to find a way. Our forefathers thought that staying back in Pakistan was a good idea. Now, we are thinking about our children and want them to grow up here in India. Image: Jagdish Lal Sharma with his family<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd--> <!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin--><span style='color:red'>'Our neighbours are behaving differently today'</span> March 16, 2009 Hardwari Lal, 13 family members: I had a general store in my village. I live in a region where the Hindus have slowly disappeared. By the time I left, there was only one other family (which has also moved to India.) I have four sisters. My main concern is to find a match for them. I want to marry them to Hindus. Apart from this, my main worry is the land I lost. My family owned a considerable amount of land worth several lakhs. As things started getting worse, there was a lot of pressure on me to sell the land to the locals. The government was helpless. The central authorities in Peshawar could not do anything to help me. It was the local authorities who called the shots. The local tehsildar (revenue officer) struck the deal like he was supporting me, but finalised it for 10 per cent of the original price. I had no other go but to concede. The local authorities are nothing but political agents for the radicals in these regions. They used to come knocking and say no photos, no pictures, no idols. We were forced to remove all the family photos and idols of gods though it was inside our house. That is when I realised how different these same people were earlier. Samay ka prabhaav padta hi hain? (Time takes its toll) It is not like the liberals have disappeared and radicals have moved in. It is the same neighbours who used to be pillars of strength in the past year who are behaving differently today. That is what pains me the most. The only Hindus who are better off are those in the Shia-dominated areas. There Shias protect the Hindus like their own against the Sunni fundamentalists. One thing I observed is that the Sikh people are somehow getting along. I admire them for that. Image: Hardwari Lal with his family<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd--> <!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin--><span style='color:red'>'I never got wind of what is coming'</span> March 16, 2009 Avtari Lal Sharma: I am also a medical practitioner. Unlike these people, I moved to Peshawar about two years ago. I never got wind of what is coming when I was there. These people (he is Hardwari Lal's cousin) then started telling me how the situation was getting worse in Orakzai. So, when they decided to leave the country, I also decided to go with them. I wondered whether I did the right thing then, but now I am convinced it was the right thing to do. As I sit here talking with you, I hear that they have reached Peshawar and signed a pact there too. Peshawar is about 250 km from Orakzai. Only now I realise... what is 250 km in these days and times. I am thankful I am here. There are still many people who are there and want to leave. Most of them do not have relatives in Delhi. They do not have the money to go to Delhi first and pay a lot to get a permit to visit Punjab, where most of their relatives are. The best thing the government can do to us is to give a Punjab visa so that we can directly come here. Another reason why most people hesitate is the money. They don't have much to start with, and then the Rs 10 they have becomes Rs 5 in India. So people really do not want to take the risk of losing everything. They are waiting to see if things will go back to normal. So, if India is really interested in the welfare of the Hindus, they should issue Punjab visas. That is the only way those who are not well off can escape to safety. Image: Avtari Lal Sharma with his family.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd--> <!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin--><span style='color:red'>'There has always been shadow of the Taliban'</span> March 16, 2009 Gulzari Lal Sharma: I had a small shop. Things began getting worse before our eyes. I got really scared when they began enforcing the pagadi rule. They asked us to have some sort of red patch in our headgear. I do not know what purpose it would have served. All our neighbours knew we were Hindus. And we hardly left the village. It was really scary. There has always been the shadow of the Taliban in the recent times in my place. In October it got really worse. The women in the family were harassed a lot. I had a little land and sold it for a decent price when I decided to leave the place. The one thing I considered was the future of my children and when I thought about it, it was clear to me that they can't grow up in that environment. As we left, we were really worried about reaching Peshawar. Not just because we were Hindus, but that stretch was generally such a dangerous one and totally in control of the militants, even normal Pakistanis were scared to take that road. We somehow made that distance of 250 km and reached Peshawar. From there we went to Lahore where we waited for our visas. The moment we got it, we left on the Samjhauta Express. Our permits are till 2010. Some have it till 2011. These things are all in the hands of local authorities. All I hope for now is that we are not harassed when the duration lapses. We are pleading the Indian government for a right to stay here and hope we get it. Image: Gulzari Lal Sharma with his family. http://specials.rediff.com/news/2009/mar/1...ce-the-heat.htm <!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd--> Hindu Human Rights - Husky - 03-20-2009 <b>^ More important and relevant</b> <!--QuoteBegin-HareKrishna+Mar 5 2009, 07:29 AM-->QUOTE(HareKrishna @ Mar 5 2009, 07:29 AM)<!--QuoteEBegin-->I dont know about pope best friend(girl-friend),but italians are the ones that are terorised by subhuman hoards from the east,especialy romanians,romas-gipsy and albanians.This "people" whit medieval mentality never stop raping,stealing and killing italians .Killing that italian girl whit a umbrela,raping and killing that old women by Mailat and many similar actions ....and the italians are the ones acused as being fascist and nazi.There is nothing slake to loot and then dance on music whit moronic verses. [right][snapback]95189[/snapback][/right]<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->Uh, I object to the offensive and false word 'subhuman'. It's one thing to call me something, it's another to accuse general humans of such things, yeah? Other people take it to heart. Also object to branding entire nationalities/ethnicities as having a medieval mentality. Now that that's out of the way: If Italy has problems, it should just send the immigrants back. Not PC perhaps, but the fact of the matter is, it is Italians' land. They have a right to end all immigration, and deport people who are misbehaving. For instance, Europe ought to deport foreign muslims (including Serbia, which out to deport the so-called 'Kosovars' back to Albania whence they had influxed earlier). There is always the potential for friction between ethnic groups, and this is particularly the case in Europe. And Europe has always had a tendency to jump from Ultra Right to Ultra Left to Ultra Right. They don't know how else to deal with 'other' people. Avoiding the creation of the problem will prevent Europe from going back to the persecutions, pogroms and fascism that inevitably result from its inability to handle it. Slapbang after the nazi fascist exclusivism, Europe opened the floodgates for immigration. This is not a natural mental evolution. It is the result of a guilt-trip that enforced an uneasy 'coexistence'; and resentment festers in Europe. And when Europe reaches boiling point, people die. In masses. The best way to overcome all this is for Europe to face the fact of its character, that it is NOT ready for other peoples, and then for every European country to draw its borders and stop sending people across the border or allowing people in. (But if Roma are christian/islamic, then sorry, Europe/west and Middle East have to keep them. Christoislamics are their problem, their people. Any Hindu/Dharmic Roma are welcome back to Bharatam.) <b>HOWEVER,</b> how does the behaviour of criminals with Roma/Romanian/Albanian/whatever ethnicity or nationality excuse Italians burning to death a Sikh man sleeping on a bench? (Or burning anyone for that matter.) This IS racism, because they are directing it at all people of foreign origin. It shows that they were never comfortable with immigration - that it was allowed unwillingly - and that at any point they could take it out on anybody and that all that was wanting for them to do so was an initiating reason. I don't expect people/countries to take in other people. But if they do so, they should live with the consequences of their decisions (try to improve the situation, make the most of it) OR reverse it in a non-violent, non-hateful manner. Hindu Human Rights - HareKrishna - 03-26-2009 <!--QuoteBegin-Husky+Mar 20 2009, 05:52 PM-->QUOTE(Husky @ Mar 20 2009, 05:52 PM)<!--QuoteEBegin--><b>^ More important and relevant</b> Uh, I object to the offensive and false word 'subhuman'. It's one thing to call me something, it's another to accuse general humans of such things, yeah? Other people take it to heart. Also object to branding entire nationalities/ethnicities as having a medieval mentality. Now that that's out of the wfor Europe to face the fact of its character, that it is NOT ready for other peoples, and then for every European country to draw its borders and stop sending people across the border or allowing people in. (But if Roma are christian/is I don't expect people/countries to take in other people. But if they do so, they should live with the consequences of their decisions (try to improve the situation, make the most of it) OR reverse it in a non-violent, non-hateful manner. [right][snapback]95656[/snapback][/right] <!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd--> First of all ,it cant be denied that some nations are more advance in spirituality or morality ,while others have a huge number of criminal elements.Statistical speaking anyway.Same, it cant be denied that majority of crimes are comited by imigrants. They cant send back people from other EU countries;they enter the club ,now they have to dance. They dont make the diference betwin honest and dishonest imigrants and maybe they dont want to,thinking that imigrants steal their jobs. Albanese are not guilty for being in Kosovo;they just converted to islam and in return(reward?) ,the turks colonise them in the serbian land. Many imigrants think of revenge against the colonial past.Like maghrebians in France.Maghrebians want to return the favor of being colonise,thinking that is their right to steal form french(beside spreading nazi-madrasas all around),just like the french do some decades ago in north-Africa. Europeans can understand only temperat people like themselfs(chinese for exemple),while tropical people are not accepted,africans and arabs are too agresive,indians are too weird. You should not subestimate the ignorance of the people.Most of italians are ignorant and uneducated and surely have a fuzzy-blured vision of the "Orient" inhabited by primitive black people and the poor sikh was the simbol ofthe "orient": -he have a turban probably-simbol of orient and a sure sign of a imigrant; -he sleep on a bench so it was a homeless criminal; -he was black ,wearing the satan black skin. About the ideea of roma-gipsy returning to India(south-east part of India acording to genetic studies).Very probably 90% of europeans will be glad to send the romas back to India.Some even propose to raise funds to buy a land-area there and send theme there.While romas are mostly christians,they are very oportunistic and im sure they will convert to hinduism if they think this will give them some advantages(financialy especialy). Hindu Human Rights - Husky - 04-12-2009 http://interfaithstrength.blogspot.com/200...ans-hindus.html Found via a comment at HK http://haindavakeralam.com/HKPage.aspx?PageID=8548&SKIN=M <!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->Saturday, April 04, 2009 <b>The Death Throes of Pakistan's Hindus</b> I just returned from a month in India during which time an incredible number of significant events were occurring. My primary mission in going was to document and raise awareness of the ethnic cleansing of Bangladeshi Hindus. I found plenty, including evidence of ongoing attacks on them both in Bangladesh and in West Bengal, India. The border between the two is so porous that terrorists and contraband move freely with and without the help of India's Border Security Force or West Bengal police. But I also witnessed the tragic beginning of the end for Pakistan's Hindus. Once one in five Pakistanis, they have been reduced to one percent of the population. But as the Taliban take over ever larger chunks of that country, that remnant of a people is streaming across the border into Indian Punjab. The stream became a torrent with the Taliban's seizure of the Swat Valley earlier this year. Hindu refugees report attacks and threats by the Taliban, as well as officials telling them to leave the country "or else." The February agreement between the Taliban and the Zardari government ceded the area to the former and allowed Sharia law to be imposed on Swat's 1.2 million inhabitants. President Obama has used this agreement as a model in his stated quest for "moderate Taliban." But not only does the agreement countersign ethnic cleansing, it also failed even before Obama's anticipated speech on US policy in the region. Just hours before the President spoke, one of the Taliban parties to the agreement, Tehrik e Taliban, abrogated it with a terror attack on a mosque in Pakistan's Northwest Frontier Province, and has engaged in other terrorist attacks subsequently. One Hindi language channel quoted a Taliban spokesman confirming that his group was pulling out of the agreement not to attack elsewhere in Pakistan because, he said, it would be contrary to Allah's wishes to limit Sharia to the Swat Valley. Yet, no major media in India, the US, or elsewhere made this connection. Even more shameful, no media or government has protested the ethnic cleansing of Pakistan's Hindus, who are being finished off by the Taliban. All governments involved in the region are just allowing it to happen,too. What kind of a world do we live in when India will not defend Hindus attacked for being Hindus; when the US ignores the atrocity; when not a single human rights group or the UN utters a word of protest? What is happening to Pakistan's Hindus is a crime, but a crime that is largely accomplished. There remain 13,000,000 Hindus in Bangladesh subject to the same attacks, the same racist laws, and the same intention to eradicate them. Worse, the battle is spilling across the open border into India, and it is changing the demographic balance in the region. It is also allowing terrorists into the country whose intention is to undermine the very nation of Hindustan. My mission is to prevent that, to prevent the murders and other atrocities, even if I am the only voice of protest to cry out about this crime against humanity. Labels: Bangladesh, Bangladeshi Hindus, Benkin, moderate Taliban, Pakistan, Pakistani Hindus, Swat Valley, Taliban posted by Dr. Richard Benkin at 7:15 AM<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd--> I think (hope) the above writer is Jewish, mainly because he thankfully doesn't mention christianism at all. <!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->About Me My Photo   Name: Dr. Richard Benkin   Location: Chicago, IL, United States Dr. Benkin freed Bangladeshi journalist, Salah Uddin Shoaib Choudhury, imprisoned and tortured after writing articles about the rise of Islamic radicals and urging relations with Israel. He later forced Bangladeshâs notorious RAB to release Choudhury unharmed. Since 2006, Benkin has been investigating and exposing the Red-Green alliance of Communists and Islamists, especially in South Asia, and speaking about its activities. He currently is helping Bangladeshi Hindu refugees in West Bengal and elsewhere secure basic rights and protections; and to prevent their genocide by Islamist radicals. He urges repeal of Bangladeshâs Vested Property Act that gives the government power to plunder religious minorities, especially Hindus, and distribute their lands to Muslim cronies. Dr. Benkin is fighting to make the world aware of this ethnic cleansing, ignored by international media and rights agencies; and he is helping to organize Indian Hindus in the United States and elsewhere to act to protect their co-religionists in South Asia and fight radical Islamist terror. Richard Benkin is a strong pro-Israel advocate who believes Jews and Hindus must unite to defeat radical Islam.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd--> Hindu Human Rights - Guest - 04-12-2009 HINDU VIGIL POLITICAL PRISONER SERVED BEEF AGAINST HIS RELIGIOUS BELIEF RECORDED INCIDENT Hindu Rights Action Force (HINDRAF) leader P. Uthayakumar (in the picture) has lodged a police report against Home Minister Syed Hamid Albar for ignoring Hindu sensitivities after allegedly being served beef at the Kamunting Detention Camp where he is being held. In the report made last Wednesday, he accused Syed Hamid of lying in saying that HINDRAF leaders, being Hindus, are not served dishes containing beef in deference to their religion. The minister had made the statement to rubbish previous claims by Uthayakumar that the camp authorities had insulted Hindus by allegedly serving dishes with beef. Uthayakumar alleged that, despite the minister's statement, he had found pieces of beef in the chicken sambal served for lunch on March 22. "I was served chicken sambal with rice. I (saw) what looked like beef pieces in the chicken sambal", he said in the report. "When I checked with detainees working in the kitchen, they confirmed that the beef sambal and chicken sambal were cooked in the same pot. (The chicken was) dished out and put on separate tray and served to me", he said in the report. He also claimed that the authorities have yet to serve him meals appropriate for a diabetic, despite knowing about his health condition. Uthayakumar said he will now eat only bread and will not touch any food cooked in the camp kitchen, in protest of the violation of my religious rights as a Hindu and of his constitutional rights. CASE ASSESSMENT Hindus constitute around 7.1% of population of Malaysia. As a minority group Hindus face different kinds of discriminations in the predominantly Muslim country. The government of Malaysia had been pursuing an unofficial policy of temple demolitions on one pretext or the other. The official reason given by the Malaysian government has been that the temples were built "illegally." However, several of the temples were centuries old and predated many mosques which do not receive the same treatment. On October 30, 2007 the 100- year-old Maha Mariamman Temple in Padang Jawa was demolished by Malaysian authorities. Following this Hindu organization under an umbrella coalition HINDRAF organized protests bringing the issue to the notice of the international community. The Malaysian government has since then resoted on persecution of Hindu leaders under the guise of various discriminatory laws. Shri Uthayakumar is one of five HINDRAF leaders who have been detained under the Internal Security Act since late December 2007. SOURCE OF INFORMATION http://national-express-malaysia.blogspot....th-his-chicken- sambal.html RECOMMENDED ACTIONS A. Write a letter to the Prime Minister of Malaysia bringing the issues to his notice and demanding immediate action: 1. Mohd. Najib Abdul Razak Prime Minister of Malaysia Prime Minister's Office, Main Block, Perdana Putra Building, Federal Government Administration Centre, 62502 Putrajaya, MALAYSIA 2. Call on Tel: 603-8888 8000 (Prime Minister Office) and register your protest/complaint politely and patiently. 3. Fax your protest/complaint on: 603-8888 3443 (Prime Minister Office) 4. Send email to PM Mohd. Najib Abdul Razak on: ppm@pmo.gov.my 5. Register your protest/complaint to PM Mohd. Najib Abdul Razak on the link given below: < http://www3.pmo.gov.my/emaklum/PMFeedback....v1?openform> Register yourself as per the guidelines and then send your protest/complaint. B. Write your complaint/protest to Human Rights Commission of Malaysia (SUHAKAM) on the following address: 1. SUHAKAM, Tingkat 29, Menara Tun Razak, Jalan Raja Laut, 50350 Kuala Lumpur 2. Call on: 603-2612 5600 3. Fax : 603-2612 5620 4. Email : humanrights@suhakam.org.my 5. Explore the website for further informations: < http://www.suhakam.org.my/> C. Send a copy of your letter to the UNHRC bringing raising the issue at international forum: Postal address: Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) Palais des Nations CH-1211 Geneva 10, Switzerland D. You may send register your protest at the following number: Telephone: +41 22 917 9000 Also E-mail your queries in this regards to: InfoDesk@ohchr.org SAMPLE LETTER (Please do NOT use the sample letter verbatim) The Right Honorable Prime Minister Razak, I have learnt from media reports that political activist Mr. P. Uthayakumar who is undergoing incarceration under the charges of "sedition" in your country has been served beef for his meals. You must be aware that Hindus revere the cow as mother, and a majority of them will not go near beef, let alone consume it. Hindus have held this belief since the time immemorial and is part and parcel of their faith, culture and civilization. Just as feeding pork to a Muslim against his will is violating his religious rights, which you must understand as a Muslim, force-feeding beef to a Hindu is equally reprehensible and condemnable. I request your honorable self to look into this matter immediately, and kindly pass an executive order to stop this pernicious practice. Kindly inform me as to what steps you have taken to ensure that the Hindu prisoners are not harassed and their religious rights violated. I can be reached via e-mail at _______________, and/or via phone at _________________ . Thanking you. Sincerely yours, __________________ Hindu Human Rights - Guest - 04-12-2009 <b>The death throes of minority Hindus</b> http://www.dailypioneer.com/168047/The-dea...ity-Hindus.html <b>Ethnic cleansing of Hindus in Pakistan and Bangladesh continues unabated, writes Richard L Benkin</b> I just returned from India after a month during which time an incredible number of significant events were occurring. My primary mission in going was to document and raise awareness of the ethnic cleansing of Bangladeshi Hindus. I found plenty, including evidence of ongoing attacks on them both in Bangladesh and in West Bengal, India. The border between the two is so porous that terrorists and contraband move freely with and without the help of India's Border Security Force or West Bengal Police. But I also witnessed the tragic beginning of the end for Pakistan's Hindus. Once one in five Pakistanis, they have been reduced to one per cent of the population. But as the Taliban take over ever larger chunks of that country, that remnant of a people is streaming across the border into Indian Punjab. The stream became a torrent with the Taliban's seizure of the Swat Valley earlier this year. Hindu refugees report attacks and threats by the Taliban, as well as officials telling them to leave the country "or else..." The February agreement between the Taliban and the Asif Ali Zardari Government in Pakistan ceded the area to the former and allowed Sharia'h law to be imposed on Swat's 1.2 million inhabitants. US President Barack Obama has used this agreement as a model in his stated quest for "moderate Taliban." But not only does the agreement countersign ethnic cleansing, it also failed even before Mr Obama's anticipated speech on US policy in the region. Just hours before the President spoke, one of the Taliban parties to the agreement, the Tehrik e Taliban, abrogated it with a terror attack on a mosque in Pakistan's North-West Frontier Province, and has engaged in other terrorist attacks subsequently. One Hindi news channel quoted a Taliban spokesman confirming that his group was pulling out of the agreement not to attack elsewhere in Pakistan because, he said, it would be contrary to Allah's wishes to limit Sharia'h to the Swat Valley. Yet, no major media in India, the US, or elsewhere made this connection. Even more shameful, no media or Government has protested the ethnic cleansing of Pakistan's Hindus, who are being finished off by the Taliban. All Governments involved in the region are just allowing it to happen, too. What kind of a world do we live in when India will not defend Hindus attacked for being Hindus; when the US ignores the atrocity; when not a single human rights group or the UN utters a word of protest? What is happening to Pakistan's Hindus is a crime, but a crime that is largely accomplished. There remain 13,000,000 Hindus in Bangladesh subject to the same attacks, the same racist laws, and the same intention to eradicate them. Worse, the battle is spilling across the open border into India, and it is changing the security arrangements between the two countries, the demographic balance, and continuing the ethnic cleansing there, too. It is also allowing terrorists into the country whose intention is to undermine the very nation of Hindustan. My mission is to prevent that, to prevent the murders and other atrocities, even if I am the only voice of protest to cry out about this crime against humanity. -- The writer is an American Jewish human rights activist. Hindu Human Rights - Husky - 04-28-2009 http://rajeev2004.blogspot.com/2009/04/act...e-attacked.html <!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->Sunday, April 26, 2009 <b>action requested: Hindu Temple Attacked in Rampurhat, West Bengal</b> apr 26th, 2009 ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Amit Singh <hindu.vigil@vhs-net.com> Date: Sat, Apr 25, 2009 at 1:52 PM Subject: [Hindu Vigil] Hindu Temple Attacked in Rampurhat, West Bengal To: You are requested to send e-mails / postal letters to protest the apathy of West Bengal government to the plight of <b>Hindus who were attacked, their women folk molested and a Hindu temple was attacked by a Muslim mob,</b> Rampurhat, West Bengal, India. All relevant documentation is included in the attached document. If you have any questions feel free to e-mail me at hindu.vigil@vhs-net.com or leave me a voice mail at 206-426-5363. Thank you. Sincerely yours, (Amit Singh) Hindu Vigil E-Mail: hindu.vigil@vhs-net.com Voice Mail: +1 206-426-5363 =============== attachment included as plain text =========== +--------------------------------------------------------+ The following is a text rendering of the pdf attachment. For better readability, kindly open up the attachment. +--------------------------------------------------------+                <b> HINDU VIGIL        Hindu Temple Attacked by Islamic Mob in Rampurhat</b>              West Bengal, India RECORDED INCIDENT On the evening of February 24, 2009, the day after the Hindu festival Shivaratri, there was a cultural program in the residential temple of Shyamal Das of Kamarpatti. At that time, 6-7 Muslim youths started sexually harassing young Hindu girls attending the function. The festival committee youths attempted to stop the harassment of the minor girls, and the Muslims left the location. In just 30 minutes, 40-50 Muslims from a nearby locality appeared on the scene. The festival organizers sensing an attack quickly locked the temple gates. The attackers broke all the Hindu murthis/icons outside and destroyed the Hindu worship altar. They could not break the icons in the sanctum sanctorum of the temple, due to the heavy doors. The victimized Hindu devotees became upset and started protesting. The Hindus from the neigboring areas rushed in to the spot.At that time, the police reached the location, and announced via loudspeaker that Section 144 of the Indian Penal Code had been enacted from that very moment. Ironically, The Hindus were roughened up and removed from the spot. The next day, the local Hindus took out a rally under the leadership of Subhashish Chowdhury, protesting that the local Congress party leader, syed Shiraz, aka Jimmi is facilitating the Islamist elements. ________________________________________________________________________ CASE ASSESSMENT Such incidents have been taking place in different parts of India particularly in the Muslim dominated areas. While incidents against minorities are mostly cooked up and disproportionately highlighted in the media, violence against Hindus goes unnoticed and unpunished. It is shocking to learn that law enforcing agencies avoid taking legal measures to curb such elements owing to the environment created by the votaries of vote bank politics. ________________________________________________________________________ SOURCE OF INFORMATION Posted by Hindu Samhati's International Communications Team Hindu Samhati Email Address: hindusamhati@gmail.com Website: www.hindusamhati.org , http://hindusamhati.blogspot.com ________________________________________________________________________ RECOMMENDED ACTIONS Write a letter to the highest authorities in central and state governments bringing the issues to their notice and demanding immediate action: 1. Smt. Pratibha Devisingh Patil President of India Rashtrapati Bhavan New Delhi, INDIA Email: presidentofindia@rb.nic.in 2. Dr. Manmohan Singh Prime Minister of India 24 Race Course New Delhi, INDIA Pull the URL: http://pmindia.nic.in/ Click on the "feedback" and then register your protest under "Grievance" section as per the given guidelines 3. Shri Gopalkrishna Gandhi Governor of West Bengal Raj Bhavan Kolkata 700 062 Phone: 033-2200 1641 Fax: 033 - 2200 2444 / 2200 1649 Email:governor-wb@nic.in 4. Shri Buddhadev Bhattacharya, Chief Minister, West Bengal Writers' Building Kokata, INDIA Email: cm@wb.gov.in Phone: (O) 22215555, 22145588 Fax: 22215480 5. National Human Rights Commission Faridkot House, Copernicus Marg New Delhi, INDIA PIN 110001 Tel.No. 23384012 Fax No. 23384863 E-Mail: covdnhrc@nic.in, ionhrc@nic.in 6. West Bengal Human Rights Commission, Bhabani Bhavan, Alipore, kolkata-27 Std: 033 fax: 24799633 Phone no. 24797727/1629 E-mail: wbhrc@cal3.vsnl.net.in Pull URL: http://wbhrc.nic.in/ and click on "complaint" and follow the guidelines 7. Send a copy of your letter to the UNHRC bringing raising the issue at international forum: Postal address: Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) Palais des Nations CH-1211 Geneva 10, Switzerland 8. You may send register your protest at the following number: Telephone: +41 22 917 9000 Also E-mail your queries in this regards to: InfoDesk@ohchr.org ________________________________________________________________________ SAMPLE LETTER (Please do NOT use the sample letter verbatim) Honourable ________________, It has come to my knowledge that on the evening of February 24th, the day after the Hindu festival Shivaratri, a cultural program in the residential temple of Shyamal Das of Kamarpatti was attacked by a Muslim mob. The attackers broke all the Hindu murthis/icons outside and destroyed the Hindu worship altar. The local administration has so far not acted appropriately in the matter and the culprits are not booked accordingly. I request you to kindly examine the matter by taking personal interest so that immediate action is taken in the matter. Kindly inform me of the actions taken in this regard and the step you propose to take so that such incidents are not repeated in future. I can be reached via e-mail at _______________and/or via phone at _____________. Thanking you. Sincerely yours, ________________________________________________________________________ Contact Information Amit Singh Hindu Vigil Email: hindu.vigil@vhs-net.com Voicemail: 1-206-426-5363 ________________________________________________________________________ APPENDIX I. ORIGINAL SOURCE (Sourced on 22nd April 2009) ________________________________________________________________________ Appendix II. Guidelines for Writing Protest Letters The following are guidelines for writing letters of protest. Please note that these should not be considered as requirements. This is meant as an instrument of learning and effective capability building. The Protest Letter Checklist ___ [REQUIRED] The protest letters should be either neatly hand-written or type-written or computer-printed (black and white), signed (in blue ink), and mailed via regular postal service. ___ [OPTIONAL] Send the text of the same letter in e-mail to the recipient ___ [OPTIONAL] Send a copy of the letter to the local media (via postal or e-mail) ___ [OPTIONAL] If you run a personal blog (e.g. on blogspot.com), post the letter there. ___ [OPTIONAL] If you have myspace.com / facebook.com / twitter.com / orkut.com profiles, post the letter there. ___ [RECORD-KEEPING] Send the text of your protest letter to Hindu Vigil (via e-mail): hindu.vigil@vhs-net.com { hindu DOT vigil AT vhs DASH net DOT com } ; your letters will be archived. Framework for Writing Protest Letters Do protest letters work? Yes they do. Governments, institutions and politicians pay careful attention to letters, because they are seen as markers of public opinion. Statisticians and pollsters quite often use a mathematical formula of 1 protestor to 10 letters of protest (can be substituted by phone calls) to 10,000 concerned citizens. Meaning 10 letters of protest can substitute for 1 protestor protesting (being physically present), representing at least 10,000 persons who feel strongly about the issue at hand. Thus, your single letter of protest is statistically representing at least 10,000 Hindus. Is writing a protest letter too trivial? No. It is not. Whether you are working on minimum wages or a multi-millionaire dollar businessperson, or an awfully busy doctor or a lawyer, or homemaker trying to manage a chaotic household -- it does not take that long to write a protest letter. Hindu Vigil staff has already done your homework for you. All you have to do is to spend 10 minutes and write this letter, and make yourself heard. Format and Style Letters of protest need not be long or compare with professional writers. They should be crisp and clean. They must be genuine and the message should come from the heart. Just be yourself and do your best. You need not be an expert. Just speak your mind as a citizen on clean paper in neat print. For your letter to make an impact, all you have to do is express your sincere concern about something that troubles your conscience -- and end the letter with a strong request for action. Tell the recipient of your letter you know that many of your friends and neighbors feel likewise. Be brief. Be clear. Be done. Write to a person Letters are more likely to be read and answered if they are addressed to a name rather than to the government in general. Get the spelling of the name and the address right. Use titles It shouldn't matter, but it does. Most people happen to be vain. Use the appropriate salutation. Present and former prime ministers are addressed as "The Right Honorable." Premiers and cabinet ministers are "Honorable." Heads of States, such as presidents, are "Your Excellency." Kings, Queens and other monarchs are "Your Majesty." Judges are "Your Honor." Be polite Always be respectful. Maintain the high moral ground. Be brief A short letter is far more effective than a long one. Limit your message to 2-3 paeagraphs, or one that fits about 3/4th of a normal page. Get to the point. Be personal Use personal examples that support your case. Make references to your background, interests, training or occupation. Cite facts Briefly give the background facts. Enclose relevant URLs off the Internet or send scanned newspaper clippings. Be specific about your concern. Mention victims of persecution or abuse by name if possible. Separate facts from opinion. Write neatly Handwritten letters do make a bigger impact. Printed letters are second best. Don't generalize, be specific Write about one message at a time. Spend some brief quality time thinking about just what the kernel of your message ought to be. Request action This is extremely important. Underline what you want the person, the government or the institution to do. Always, always get the recipient of your letter to do something. Ask them when you can expect a change. State clearly you intend to follow up. Close properly Close your letter with polite words. Thank the person for the things you know he or she will do right. Be sure to include your mailing address. Categories of Protest Letters There are two categories of letters that are of interest to HV. a. A letter to an oppressive or unsympathetic government A government may cloak itself in democratic terms and yet be viciously destructive to the interests of the citizens. A letter to an oppressive government or an abusive government official should make it clear that many people are clearly unhappy. b. A letter to an institution Human rights institutions are set up around the world. Some do their work better than others. Human rights organizations are specifically biased against Hindus and Hindu Dharma (due to historical factors, and going into those is out of the scope of this document). Former communists and socialists have reinvented themselves as champions of human rights during the post-Soviet phase, and these are least expected to give an ear to human rights violations against Hindus. For the purposes of Hindu Vigil you may accept this at face value. HR organisations are concerned about the image they present. Their funding depends on their image. If its officials are seen as rubber stamping nefarious forces within oppressive governments, they cannot be effective and serve the people properly. They know that. So do you. You should appeal to HR institutions or organization in the name of principles they profess to uphold. Some Final Considerations If you do not receive a reply within a reasonable time, send a polite query. Although state officials fail to acknowledge most of the appeals that are written to them, don't be discouraged. Repeated messages get noticed, processed and filed. Every letter, whether acknowledged or not, makes an impact. It tells the offenders that Hindus are watching their actions and recording them. When you do receive a reply, acknowledge it immediately as a matter of courtesy. ================================================================= Posted by nizhal yoddha at 4/26/2009 07:32:00 PM 1 comments <!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd--> Hindu Human Rights - HareKrishna - 05-01-2009 <!--QuoteBegin-Husky+Mar 20 2009, 05:52 PM-->QUOTE(Husky @ Mar 20 2009, 05:52 PM)<!--QuoteEBegin--><b>^ More important and relevant</b> The best way to overcome all this is for Europe to face the fact of its character, that it is NOT ready for other peoples, and then for every European country to draw its borders and stop sending people across the border or allowing people in. (But if Roma are christian/islamic, then sorry, Europe/west and Middle East have to keep them. Christoislamics are their problem, their people. Any Hindu/Dharmic Roma are welcome back to Bharatam.) <!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd--> this bothered me for a long time then how should I deal whit violent gipsy? i mean maybe you have an answer because their are froum your race. I try to find the cause of their violence, could be genetic inclination for violence(a angry gene) or the 500 years of slavery, or the fact that they are poor(they they remain poor unlike everybody else?), or because of their indian culture(indian culture predisposition to violence?), or because low IQ Seem that talking nicely and rationale,that making apeal to shame(gipsy will have a bad name),civilisation(lets go to school), nationalism or brotherhood doesnt work . How should i deal whit the situation and not being a racist in the same time? Hindu Human Rights - Husky - 05-21-2009 Romani, sorry I didn't see your post earlier. Will try to get to it some other time. From christian Malayalee paper: www.manoramaonline.com/cgi-bin/MMOnline.dll/portal/ep/ malayalamContentView.do?programId=1073753769&contentId=1079203652&tabId=11 <!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->Story Dated: Wednesday, May 20, 2009 18:31 hrs IST <b>UK Hindu vows to fight for open air cremation </b> New Delhi: Davinder Kumar Ghai, a devout British Hindu whose plea to be cremated in the open was turned down by Britain's high court, has vowed to continue his fight, saying the final rites of Hindus "must be done with dignity". The high court Friday ruled that open-air funeral pyres are illegal in Britain. "It looks like a conspiracy that the judgement is given when I am in India for medical treatment. But I will not give up. I will ensure that Hindus are given <b>a good death that is fundamental to their beliefs,"</b> Ghai, 70, told IANS in an interview. <b>"I don't want Hindus to be burnt in a crematorium at the Thames or at a football field. The final rites of Hindus must be done with dignity. They cannot be bundled in a box," said Ghai, who is also the founder of the Anglo-Asian Friendship Society (AAFS).</b> In his ruling, Justice Ross Cranston said The Cremation Act 1902 and its attendant regulations were clear in their effect: the burning of human remains, other than in a crematorium, is a criminal offence. However, Justice Cranston gave Ghai permission to appeal against the ruling. "I will take the case to the Court of Appeal and also to the European Court of Human Rights. This is a fight to the end," said Ghai, who heads back to Newcastle late Saturday after a month-long stay in India. <b>"I want my son to light my pyre in open air - my 16 samskaras (sacraments) to be fulfilled - this is my religious right," Ghai said. </b> According to Ghai, Britain's Hindu national umbrella organisations, collectively representing over 560,000 Hindus, were supporting his review. Ghai, who is the father of three children, had moved the high court to challenge a decision by Newcastle City Council in 2006 which said the traditional religious practice was impractical. "Natural cremations will save grieving families from the spiralling expense of gas cremations as funeral directors are pledging to provide natural cremation services for a maximum of 500 pounds," he said. "What happened when 200,000 cattle were burnt some years back because of the foot and mouth disease? Did that not cause pollution?" he asked. Ghai said that at least 200 green woodland burial sites now operate in Britain and approved natural cremation sites in rural pastures would offer privacy to mourning families. Ghai, who is also known as Babaji among his followers, said his body is weakened due to health problems like high blood pressure, asthma and diabetes, but his resolve is strong. "These are pertinent issues. For instance, on the weekend Hindus cannot cremate a dead body because Jews and Muslims are given those days for burial. <!--emo&:blink:--><img src='style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/blink.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='blink.gif' /><!--endemo--> They question why we didn't raise this when the regulations were imposed - the fact is we are peace-loving people, but our religious sentiments matter," he said.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd--> Hindu Human Rights - HareKrishna - 05-22-2009 <!--QuoteBegin-Husky+May 21 2009, 06:09 PM-->QUOTE(Husky @ May 21 2009, 06:09 PM)<!--QuoteEBegin-->Romani, sorry I didn't see your post earlier. Will try to get to it some other time. <!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd--> thanks; i wait your reply whit interest. Hindu Human Rights - Guest - 05-26-2009 <b>Helpless Hindus of Pakistan & Bangladesh </b> J.G. Arora jgarora@gmail.com Organiser May 31, 2009 <b>It is tragic that though Sanatan Dharma, commonly known as Hinduism, proclaims universal brotherhood and oneness of humanity, and addresses entire humanity as divine children (Shrunvantu vishve amrutsya putraha - Rig Veda: 10-13-1), most of the Hindus have either been killed or converted or driven out from Pakistan and Bangladesh which used to be Hindu lands. And those Hindus who are still left in Pakistan and Bangladesh are being treated with disdain and discrimination; and are being denied even the basic human rights. </b> <b>GENOCIDE AND PERSECUTION</b> Only a few centuries ago, Hindu religion and culture used to reverberate from Afghanistan to Indonesia. Indian sub-continent including the present day India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nepal, Afghanistan and even Zabol in Iran was Hindu land, and had no Muslim presence till Muhammad bin Qasimâs Arab army attacked Sindh in 711. After repeated invasions, Hindus lost the present day Afghanistan to Muslims in 987. And the areas now known as Pakistan and Bangladesh were lost to Muslims in 1947. Pakistan comprised of two segments: East Pakistan and West Pakistan. In 1971, East Pakistan became Bangladesh, a separate country. Both Pakistan and Bangladesh have been declared as Islamic republics. Hindus have always been threatened and discriminated against in Pakistan and Bangladesh on religious grounds. Though in 1947, Hindus accounted for 24 per cent of the present day Pakistanâs population, now number less than two per cent. Situation is equally grave in Bangladesh where Hindus numbered 31 per cent in 1947, but now number nine per cent. Most of the Hindus / Sikhs have either been driven out, or have been killed or forcibly converted in Pakistan and Bangladesh. However, in India, the present percentage of Muslim population is much higher than that in 1947. Pakistan and Bangladesh have never explained what they have done to their Hindu population. Hindus suffer constant threats to their lives, security and property in Pak-Bangla lands. Many Hindu temples have been desecrated and destroyed in Pakistan and Bangladesh. There are regular reports of illegal encroachments on Hindu temples and lands, looting of Hindu property, discrimination, persecution, molestation and abduction of Hindu girls both in Pakistan and Bangladesh. During 1970 and 1971, Hindus in East Pakistan (present Bangladesh) underwent massive massacres by the Pakistani army and its collaborators. Over two million Hindus are reported to have been killed in East Pakistan during 1970 and 1971 leading to Indo-Pak war in 1971. Besides, countless Hindu women were dishonoured and kidnapped during this period. As per Dr. Sabyasachi Ghosh-Dastidarâs book, EMPIREâS LAST CASUALTY: INDIAN SUBCONTINENTâS VANISHING HINDU AND OTHER MINORITIES, over three million Hindus have been killed in the process of Islamisation in the area now known as Bangladesh (formerly East Pakistan) since India was partitioned in 1947. This loss of three million lives remains suppressed from the world. Even now, Hindus are facing genocide, terror, persecution, dishonour and atrocities in Bangladesh every day. And there is selective killing of Hindu judges, professionals, teachers, lawyers and civil servants in Bangladesh to smash Hindu resistance. Human rights organisations like Amnesty International are silent spectators of this blatant ethnic cleansing of millions of Hindus. <b>FORCIBLE CONVERSIONS AND MARRIAGES </b> The alarming trend of Muslims kidnapping young Hindu girls and forcibly marrying them to Muslims is tormenting Hindus in Pakistan and Bangladesh. Though Pak-Bangla media may occasionally report such atrocities, main stream media in India observes scrupulous silence in this regard. To illustrate the dismal situation, just one such example is given here. It was reported in Pakistanâs premier English daily âThe Dawnâ dated November 3, 2005 that 19 Hindu girls mostly from Punjab Colony, Karachi were missing from their homes. Relatives of these girls believed that they had been kidnapped and were being forced to change their religion, the press release added. Columnist Irfan Husainâs write up entitled âConversion Lossesâ published in The Dawn dated December 3, 2005 relates the tragedy of Hindu parents in Karachi whose three young daughters Reena, Usha and Rima of marriageable age vanished in October, 2005. In a few days, the shocked parents received a courier package containing three identical affidavits from their daughters stating that they had converted to Islam and, therefore, could not live with their Hindu parents. And father of the girls just wailed, âWe just sit and stare at each other. For us, life is over.â And this hopeless situation can be the fate of any Hindu parent in Pakistan and Bangladesh. <b>KIDNAPPINGS AND KILLINGS </b> Even during the last few months, thousands of Hindus have been forced to flee Pakistan, and take shelter in India. Increasing incidents of kidnappings, robberies and forcible conversion have rattled Hindu community in Pakistan and Bangladesh. Those unable to pay the ransom are just killed. Hindu film maker Satish Anandâs kidnapping in Karachi and recent release after payment of a huge ransom is just one of such countless examples. In April, 2009 Sikhs in Karzai in Pakistan were targeted to pay fifty million rupees as Jazia, the tax levied on non-Muslims. As the victims could not pay the said Jazia, their houses were looted and destroyed. <b>DISCRIMINATION AND DISPOSSESSION </b> Discrimination against Hindus is a fact of life as also a fact of law in Pakistan and Bangladesh. As per Constitution of Pakistan, only a Muslim can be the President or Prime Minister of Pakistan. As per Bangladeshi Constitution too, only a Muslim can be the head of the state. The Vested Property Act was passed in 1965 as âEnemy Property Actâ in Pakistan. This law legitimized confiscation of Hindu property. After emergence of Bangladesh in 1971, this Act was renamed as the Vested Property Act in Bangladesh, and the state was made the owner of the Hindusâ property. This Act has legitimized the forfeiture of millions of acres of ancestral Hindu lands. And Hindu lands and properties are being taken over by the government (under the Vested Property Act) to be distributed among Muslims. <b>WAY OUT </b> In 1950, Prime Ministers of India and Pakistan signed an agreement called the Nehru Liaqat Pact under which both the governments undertook to protect life, liberty, religion and safety of minorities in each otherâs country. But government in India is doing nothing in the ongoing genocide and deprivation of Hindus in Pakistan and Bangladesh. It is the Indian governmentâs legal and moral duty to ensure that as per the Nehru-Liaqat Pact of 1950, and as per the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights, Pakistan and Bangladesh treat their minorities in a human manner. India must also ask Bangladesh to repeal the Vested Properties Act, and restore the lands and properties of Hindus to Hindus. The United Nations Commission on Human Rights must also be approached to redeem the situation. Denial of human rights to Hindus violates UN Universal Declaration of Human Rights, 1948. In Pakistan and Bangladesh, Hindus have only the right to suffer and right to silence. Shockingly, the tragedy of Hindus of Pakistan and Bangladesh remains untold by Indian main stream media. India's callous inaction regarding the pathetic plight of Pak-Bangla Hindus is disgusting. Killing of Hindus in Pakistan, in Bangladesh or even in India is not taken seriously by main stream media, by government or by various political parties or by human rights industry in India. Is it because for some sections in India, only the terrorists, anti-nationals and Pak-Bangla infiltrators are entitled to fundamental and human rights? <b>Will India ever act to save Hindus in Pakistan and Bangladesh? </b> Hindu Human Rights - G.Subramaniam - 05-26-2009 Hindu Anti-Hindu riots by buddhist monks in 1958 sri lanka this particular episode that took place during the 1958 attacks on Tamils.....they broke into a temple at Panadura, found a Brahmin priest sleeping, tied him to his cot, poured petrol over him and burnt him alive. Hindu Human Rights - Guest - 05-31-2009 xposting <!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->49 Million Hindus Forced to Leave Bangladesh since 1946 - new book by US Professor <b>Empire's Last Casualty: Indian Subcomtinent's Vanishing Hindu and Other Minorities</b> http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_leGDuVvav5E/SVrE...ualty+Cover.JPG Empire's Last Casualty: Indian Subcontinent's Vanishing Hindu and Other Minorities Empire's Last Casualty: Indian Subcontinent's Vanishing Hindu and Other Minorities (2008) is a study of effects of religious communalism on a pluralistic, tolerant, multi-religious society. It focuses on the loss of indigenous Hindu population from the land of their ancestors; and on changes brought about since a multi-religious progressive region of <b>Colonial British India was partitioned in 1947, and its effects on Hindu and non-Muslim (Buddhist and Christian) minorities, on pluralism and on indigenous cultures</b>. After Britain's Muslim-Hindu partition of Bengal Province east Bengal became Muslim-majority East Pakistan, a part of Islamic Republic of Pakistan, unleashing regular, merciless anti-Hindu pogroms by intolerant Islamists. West Bengal remained in India, with Muslim minority and ever-growing massive Bengali Hindu refugee who turned towards left extremism. Following a 1971 war of independence against West Pakistan, Bangladesh gained independence, creating the second largest Muslim-majority nation. <b>That war was concurrently anti-Hindu and anti-Bengali genocide by Islamic Republic's army and its Bengali and Urdu speaking Islamist allies</b>. <b>The book documents the decade-wise "missing" Hindus from Bangladesh Census: over 49 million; larger than 163 of 189 nations listed in World Bank's April 2003 World Development indicators database, and between 3.1 million (larger than 75 of 189 nations) and 1.4 million Hindus lost their lives through the process of Islamization</b>. Documenting three million-plus lost lives have been painful and difficult; especially when Hindus cremate their dead. <b>Additionally rivers of the world's largest delta washed away signs of mass murder leaving no clue.</b> All attempts have been made to justify the data presented in the book, hardly-known to the world and rarely discussed in Bengal itself. Dr. Sachi (Sabyasachi) Ghosh Dastidar is a Distinguished Service Professor of the State University of New York at Old Westbury. He has taught in the U.S., Kazakhstan and India. He has also worked in Florida, Tennessee and West Bengal. Dastidar was an elected Board Member of a New York City School district making him the first Bengali-American to hold a popularly elected position in the U.S. Sachi Dastidar has authored seven books, A Aamaar Desh, (1998), Regional Disparities and Regional Development Planning of West Bengal with Shefali S. Dastidar (1990), Central Asian Journal of Management, Economics and Social Research (2000) and Living Among the Believers (2006). He has written over 100 articles, short stories and travelogues. His awards include Senior Fulbright Award, Distinguished Service Professor of the State University of New York, and honors from New York City Comptroller, NYC Council Speaker, residents of Mahilara, Madaripur and Uzirpur, all of Bangladesh, Assam Buddhist Vihar, and from Kazakhstan Institute. He has traveled to over 63 countries in all seven continents including Antarctica. Publisher: Firma KLM Publishers, Kolkata (Calcutta), India Price: $ 29 <i>(Please call New Jersey at 609-448-7225 to procure a copy, or Muktadhara Booksellers of New York at 718-565-7258; or check Internet; or send a US$29 check to EmpiresLastCasualty to 80-56 251 Street, Queens, New York 11426 for only U.S. shipping.)</i> ISBN: 81-7102-151- 4 <!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd--> Hindu Human Rights - Husky - 05-31-2009 ^ http://rajeev2004.blogspot.com/2009/05/who...ussie-land.html <!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->Saturday, May 30, 2009 <b>who's killing indians in aussie-land?</b> may 30th, 2009 as ghostwriter commented, where is all the fuss in the ELM about indians being killed by aussie convicts, as compared to the mea-culpas and breast-beating they indulged in when one nasty communalist and criminal (but naturally) from australia named graham staines was killed in india? also, who is doing the killing? here are my suspects in no particular order: 1. lebanese or other arab mohammedans. these guys have been running rampant, and the white police are scared of them. these people may have been recruited by mohammedan fundamentalists, say including the ubiquitous ISI (and musharraf's dog buster) 2. whites leftists who are now ruling the roost. they tend to be china supporters (kevin rudd, the current pm, speaks chinese and has a chinese son-in-law -- see, conversion by injection is infectious too!). these jerks are telling india: sign the NPT, become slaves of the chinese. whose influence? chinese. 3. random racist criminals who see the indians as easy marks i am going to talk to a journalist friend in australia and see what he thinks. btw, this would be a good time to kick out all the australians from indian cricket. i understand the racists blighters are making millions off the indian public. what else can be done? 1. declare that all australian exports to india are now put on hold 2. declare that all australian nationals in india will be asked to report to the immigration authorities and put under protective custody for their own safety in case there is retaliation from indians 3. put a moratorium on all commercial discussions with australia until this issue can be sorted out. if india had any backbone (but no fear of that with puppets on a chain in charge), we could do these things, and the convicts would grovel. this is similar to the treatment mahathir mohammed gave the limeys when they said something he didn't like. they immediately groveled and crawled and kissed his ass. i bet the aussies would kiss indian ass too. what do we have to lose? nothing other than the stupid uranium which they are not selling us anyway. but the convicts cannot afford to lose one of their biggest markets -- they would be even more dependent on china. Posted by nizhal yoddha at 5/30/2009 07:44:00 AM 5 comments <!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd--> Plus in comments: <!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->Sujeev said...   So, the convicts (aussies), and/or the converts (islamists) are beating up on the cowards (Hindus), eh? :-) What else is new?   5/30/2009 7:52 AM Blogger trailblazer82 said...   On a side note, some of the students are going to Australia not for immigration & better prospects but for the prestige-factor of foreign degree. But with the coldwar over in 90s and along with it the need to protect Indians from capitalist brainwashing, why didn't India open the gates for foreign universities to setup institutes in India yet?   With the rogue Arjun Singh away from HRD, Kapil Sibal seems to be making right noises. Here he is saying he will push the bill to allow foreign univs to put up their branches in India into parliament.   http://business.rediff.com/report/2009/may...-be-revised.htm   On a side note, Amitabh Bachchan rightfully rejected Australian doctorate in protest.   http://news.rediff.com/report/2009/may/30/...est-attacks.htm   And here look at Shahrukh Khan accepting honour from racist Malaysian govt which had been extremely discriminatory towards Tamil Hindus.   http://www.hindu.com/2008/12/07/stories/2008120757850100.htm   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HINDRAF   Also look at Dilip Kumar turning down Shiv Sena's demand of returning Nishan-e-Pakistan as a protest against Pakistani aggression in Kargil.   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dilip_Kumar   5/30/2009 10:40 AM Blogger Shankar said...   <b>20 incidents of attacks on Indians in a month in Sydney</b> http://www.indianexpress.com/news/20-incid...n-Sydney/468521   ..most students are reluctant to lodge any complaint out of fear.   5/30/2009 12:57 PM Blogger trailblazer82 said...   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2CgAqZbmzk4   China Australia trade volume jumps 30% year to date   5/30/2009 1:48 PM Blogger exosing christianity's true agenda said...   Big B refuses award from australian university   http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/News/P...how/4597308.cms   At least someone has a backbone and some pride!   5/30/2009 3:00 PM <!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd--> Hindu Human Rights - Husky - 06-02-2009 1. Express buzz via a comment at http://rajeev2004.blogspot.com/2009/05/tho...and-forget.html <!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->"KUALA LUMPUR: A Sikh family is fighting for the right to cremate the body of a dead relative whom Islamic authorities say converted and should be buried according to Muslim tradition, a lawyer said Sunday. Such conflicts are on the rise in Malaysia, where 60 percent of the 28 million people are Muslim Malays. Christians, Buddhists, Hindus and other religious minorities say their rights are under threat."<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd--> 2. There are now more comments at http://rajeev2004.blogspot.com/2009/05/who...ussie-land.html Hindu Human Rights - Guest - 06-03-2009 <b>Seer hacked to death in Puri</b> Wed, Jun 3 05:00 AM A religious leader who participated actively in the protest against the killing of Laxmanananda Saraswati last year was chased and hacked to death by unidentified assailants in Puri on Tuesday. The police, however, ruled out any communal angle. "We suspect that he was killed over extortion money," said Puri Deputy Superintendent of Police Rajkishore Paikray. The police said Ramcharan Das, famous as Mauni Baba, was feeding fishes at a pond early in the morning when the assailants chased him with sharp weapons. Paikray said at least 10 injury marks were found on his body. The police said some local goons had been extorting money from the 60-year-old leader who used to live with his wife Pratima at his Gurukripa Ashram in Puri town. His wife told the police that the criminals had threatened him a few days ago with dire consequences if he did not pay up Rs 15,000. The police have detained one person, identified as Panchanan Sahoo, on suspicion. A popular figure in Puri, Das was an active member of the Matha Mahanta organisation of Orissa. <b>In the aftermath of Saraswati's killing last year, he took the lead in the protest against the VHP leader's murder.</b> Hindu Human Rights - Husky - 06-03-2009 ^ Previous post by K.Ram also very important ^ http://haindavakeralam.com/HKPage.aspx?PageID=8751&SKIN=W <!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin--><b>49 Million Hindus Forced to Leave Bangladesh since 1946 - Reveals book by US Professor</b> 02/06/2009 11:34:51 Empire's Last Casualty: Indian Subcontinent's Vanishing Hindu and Other Minorities (2008) is a study of effects of religious communalism on a pluralistic, tolerant, multi-religious society. It focuses on the loss of indigenous Hindu population from the land of their ancestors; and on changes brought about since a multi-religious progressive region of Colonial British India was partitioned in 1947, and its effects on Hindu and non-Muslim (Buddhist and Christian) minorities, on pluralism and on indigenous cultures. After Britain's Muslim-Hindu partition of Bengal Province east Bengal became Muslim-majority East Pakistan, a part of Islamic Republic of Pakistan, unleashing regular, merciless anti-Hindu pogroms by intolerant Islamists. West Bengal remained in India, with Muslim minority and ever-growing massive Bengali Hindu refugee who turned towards left extremism. Following a 1971 war of independence against West Pakistan, Bangladesh gained independence, creating the second largest Muslim-majority nation. That war was concurrently anti-Hindu and anti-Bengali genocide by Islamic Republic's army and its Bengali and Urdu speaking Islamist allies. The book documents the decade-wise "missing" Hindus from Bangladesh Census: over 49 million; larger than 163 of 189 nations listed in World Bank's April 2003 World Development indicators database, and between 3.1 million (larger than 75 of 189 nations) and 1.4 million Hindus lost their lives through the process of Islamization. Documenting three million-plus lost lives have been painful and difficult; especially when Hindus cremate their dead. Additionally rivers of the world's largest delta washed away signs of mass murder leaving no clue. All attempts have been made to justify the data presented in the book, hardly-known to the world and rarely discussed in Bengal itself. Dr. Sachi (Sabyasachi) Ghosh Dastidar is a Distinguished Service Professor of the State University of New York at Old Westbury. He has taught in the U.S., Kazakhstan and India. He has also worked in Florida, Tennessee and West Bengal. Dastidar was an elected Board Member of a New York City School district making him the first Bengali-American to hold a popularly elected position in the U.S. Sachi Dastidar has authored seven books, A Aamaar Desh, (1998), Regional Disparities and Regional Development Planning of West Bengal with Shefali S. Dastidar (1990), Central Asian Journal of Management, Economics and Social Research (2000) and Living Among the Believers (2006). He has written over 100 articles, short stories and travelogues. His awards include Senior Fulbright Award, Distinguished Service Professor of the State University of New York, and honors from New York City Comptroller, NYC Council Speaker, residents of Mahilara, Madaripur and Uzirpur, all of Bangladesh, Assam Buddhist Vihar, and from Kazakhstan Institute. He has traveled to over 63 countries in all seven continents including Antarctica. Publisher: Firma KLM Publishers, Kolkata (Calcutta), India, Price: $ 29 (Please call New Jersey at 609-448-7225 to procure a copy, or Muktadhara Booksellers of New York at 718-565-7258; or check Internet; or send a US$29 check to EmpiresLastCasualty to 80-56 251 Street, Queens, New York 11426 for only U.S. shipping.) ISBN: 81-7102-151- 4<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd--> Hindu Human Rights - Guest - 06-04-2009 <b>Pak militia imposes new jiziya on Hindus</b> June 4th, 2009 PTI Islamabad, June 3: Following in the footsteps of the Taliban, an outlawed militant group in Pakistanâs restive Khyber tribal region has imposed âjiziyaâ or religious tax on minorities living in the area, including Sikhs and Hindus. The Lashkar-e-Islam, which was banned by the federal government a year ago, has directed every non-Muslim from minority communities to pay Rs 1,000 a year as jiziya or leave the Khyber Agency. The warning was issued earlier this week, media reports said. Members of minority communities, including Sikhs, Hindus and Christians, have agreed to pay the religious tax. The decision to pay up was made at a meeting between Lashkar-e- Islam chief Mangal Bagh and a Sikh delegation on Tuesday. Mangal Bagh told the Sikhs that they would be fully protected from any threat if they paid the tax. A âjirgaâ or tribal council in Tirah valley, which was attended by elders of the minority communities, also decided to pay the tax. Meanwhile, Pakistani troops on Wednesday stormed into two more major towns in the restive Swat valley, but six weeks into the offensive top commanders warn that though big towns could be wrested from Taliban within days, it would take another two to three months to totally defeat them. Hindu Human Rights - Husky - 06-05-2009 timesofindia.indiatimes.com/India/Australia-website-calls-for-racial-war-triggers-tension/articleshow/4619152.cms <!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin--><b>Australia website calls for racial war, triggers tension</b> 5 Jun 2009, 0536 hrs IST, TIMES NEWS NETWORK & AGENCIES NEW DELHI: A post on an Australian website urging a âhate offensiveâ against Indians has sparked fears that racial tensions may escalate. The web comments by a Melbourne resident, Patrick Oâ Sullivan, have been termed as ââdisgustingââ by both Australians and members of the Indian community. In a post in November, OâSullivan posted a comment on a neo-Nazi forum which said he was sick of ââDirty F**king Indiansââ. ââThey infest the Melbourne area. I could write all day (about) how evil and putrid those scum are...one particularly infuriating thing about these curry ni**ers is their arrogance,ââ he said. ââI think this may seem (to have originated) from the apathy of Whites not putting them in their place.ââ He also urged others to participate in a ââsummer hate offensiveââ. In a post just before Christmas, he asked for people to call him if they wanted to participate. ââFor those of you in or nearby Melbourne, contact me. This summer a lot of Race Hate is occurring! RAHOWA!ââ RAHOWA is understood to stand for Racial Holy War. Senior police told an Australian website that they deplored the web comments but said they doubted they had caused a spate of assaults on Indian students, despite members of the forum pledging to join in the âoffensiveâ. Oâ Sullivan, who was jailed in 2002 for stabbing a man who accused him of not being a Nazi due to his Irish blood, told the website that the posts were not intended to incite violence and that he was now a peaceful man. He said his rallying call for a hate offensive was a peaceful way to recruit people into the Creativity Movement, whose website describes itself as a Progressive Pro-White Religion. Amit Menghani, president of the Federation of Indian Students in Australia, has said he thinks the comments encourage curry-bashing, the term curry-bashing used to describe the assaults on Indians. ââThis kind of provocation must stop,ââ Menghani said.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd--> |