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Gautam Sen's article is excellent.
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->pessimistic Gautam Sen<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->I'd have to call him a realist, sad to say... as his writing indicates how our position is bleak.
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->But it is the Christians, who are militarily pre-eminent at present and they have also cornered the current market in intellectual thought, ideas and moral purpose. <span style='color:blue'>They will duplicitously eulogise and lament the passing of the creative Hindus, having wreaked havoc on them in the first place themselves. To destroy and then ceremoniously shed tears as you do so dramatically signifies a civilisationâs complete political dominion. It is achieved by taking control of legitimate intellectual discourse, the associated custodianship of interpreting human experience and the transmission of ideas,<b> so that even the victims upon whom destruction is being inflicted lose their capacity to know their own fate.</b> White Christians have achieved this remarkably blessed status by truly making their own industries that fabricate human knowledge and the worldâs media that disseminates it.</span><!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->I could never have been able to phrase this idea that wordlessly haunted my mind for ... oh for a long time now. Thanks to Mr Sen for saying it and in such a comprehensible way.
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->The Mahatma has indeed reached out from his samadhi to ensure that an instinct of âcollective suicideâ, as he constantly enjoined, remains the default setting in the Hindu psyche. That the Mahatma is the guiding light of Hindus rather than a Shivaji, Vivekananda or Aurobindo is a final testament to their degradation and impending demise.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->Hear hear. Collective suicide is the self-hypnotised Hindu's slogan. Why follow Gandhi's worst suggestions?
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->This is why the insistence of various so-called Hindutva surrogates abroad on engaging in <b>interfaith dialogue is baffling in the extreme</b>. Of course the era of Bania primacy could provide a mundane explanation since Hindu activists of all stripes have succumbed to the values of low commerce. The lure of money seems to breed stupidity and instil self-righteous confidence; attributes instantly observable in the political activists concerned despite feigned phoney self-deprecation. <b>Since interfaith dialogue ought to imply mutual respect evangelical activity is in blatant and hypocritical contravention of its basic purport. Christians simultaneously engage in interfaith dialogue and evangelical activity to lull potential victims into a false sense of security and misguided notions of self-worth. Such a devious stratagem only highlights utter contempt and disrespect for Hindus with whom they engage in the charade of interfaith dialogue. Petting a goat before its slaughter is a well-known routine before the kill.</b><!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->This ought to be pasted and repasted all over the internet whereever Indians frequent.
Next time some cookie Hindu wants to join in some interfaith 'dialogue' - ask them to start the topic on "Thou shalt have no other Gods before me". Let's see how far Hindus get in trying to reach a 'compromise' with christoislamis on these views. Before long, the Hindus dialoguing will squirm. Because they'll realise that that biblical statement is intractable, absolute. But by far most Hindus don't know that yet. They don't even know to bring it up for discussion; even though (from the Natural Religionists' end) it ought to be the most fundamental point of talk when engaging christoislamism! (Although any attempts to engage christoislam would always be futile.) Obviously those Hindus deluded enough to think that interfaith dialogues would be producative, are unwilling or otherwise unable to set the agenda: just getting invited to "discuss" makes Hindus think they've scored and that somehow Hinduism will be accepted and be accorded a right to exist. Yeah right.
I don't see Hindus dialoguing with terrorists. Does it make sense to dialogue with terrorism - is there anything that can be gained from talking to people whose major tenet is to destroy all opposing ways of life? No? Then *why* would you negotiate with the most established - ~1700-year-old - terrorist tradition: christoislamism? <!--emo&:blink:--><img src='style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/blink.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='blink.gif' /><!--endemo-->
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->It was therefore unsurprising to learn that a British academic, involved with British intelligence, was able to place an Indian Leftist in a major university post in Delhi, so compelling is the value placed on white intercession. But to witness the Prime Minister of India standing next to him at an inauguration ceremony in Delhi recently was startling nevertheless.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->Just for my own information, who was this?
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->And it was a <b>British High Commissioner</b> who invented the figure of 2000 killed in post-Godhra Gujarat that has become the stick to beat Hindus with for all time to come. Avarice and racial hatred were always the dominant themes of the British interaction with India.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->Does anyone know this person's name? Elst mentioned the character as well.
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->Indiaâs allegedly Rightist journalists swear by inferred British values, which only ever apply to the white British of course. Indeed the most âcelebratedâ among them once notoriously dubbed Britainâs Queen Indiaâs monarch too!<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->Which looney thought the British queen is India's sovereign? Name and shame, please. I'll need their name to make them famous where I live.
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->The other wood Hindus cannot seem to fathom amid the trees is the diabolical role the British played in their history. After inflicting on them famines and mass death in the 1760s, resulting in seven million dead (quarter of Bengalâs population)<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->Next time, also include the huge famine in Tamil Nadu - which was also sent With Love from England. Although it is namelessly mentioned in passing in the following sentence. I suppose I can imagine that the list would become very long if all the christian famines in India thanks to the British were to be given:
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->During the interim colonial history <b>countless manmade famines</b> are recorded and the post-1857 holocaust of mass murder is only being uncovered now. This is the period in which the British went on exultant killing sprees to avenge the alleged rape of their women during the first war of Independence itself. Needless to say that there was <b>enthusiastic domestic British support for the mass murder</b>, with the writer Charles Dickens himself declaring his fervent approval.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->Christos of the blink-or-you'll-miss-it "British empire" already played at Manufacturing Consent back then itself. They did a great propaganda tour back in their homeland to drum up support for their ultra-vindictive retaliation on Indians who had dared to rise up against their tyranny.
Gautam Sen's article is excellent.
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->pessimistic Gautam Sen<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->I'd have to call him a realist, sad to say... as his writing indicates how our position is bleak.
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->But it is the Christians, who are militarily pre-eminent at present and they have also cornered the current market in intellectual thought, ideas and moral purpose. <span style='color:blue'>They will duplicitously eulogise and lament the passing of the creative Hindus, having wreaked havoc on them in the first place themselves. To destroy and then ceremoniously shed tears as you do so dramatically signifies a civilisationâs complete political dominion. It is achieved by taking control of legitimate intellectual discourse, the associated custodianship of interpreting human experience and the transmission of ideas,<b> so that even the victims upon whom destruction is being inflicted lose their capacity to know their own fate.</b> White Christians have achieved this remarkably blessed status by truly making their own industries that fabricate human knowledge and the worldâs media that disseminates it.</span><!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->I could never have been able to phrase this idea that wordlessly haunted my mind for ... oh for a long time now. Thanks to Mr Sen for saying it and in such a comprehensible way.
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->The Mahatma has indeed reached out from his samadhi to ensure that an instinct of âcollective suicideâ, as he constantly enjoined, remains the default setting in the Hindu psyche. That the Mahatma is the guiding light of Hindus rather than a Shivaji, Vivekananda or Aurobindo is a final testament to their degradation and impending demise.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->Hear hear. Collective suicide is the self-hypnotised Hindu's slogan. Why follow Gandhi's worst suggestions?
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->This is why the insistence of various so-called Hindutva surrogates abroad on engaging in <b>interfaith dialogue is baffling in the extreme</b>. Of course the era of Bania primacy could provide a mundane explanation since Hindu activists of all stripes have succumbed to the values of low commerce. The lure of money seems to breed stupidity and instil self-righteous confidence; attributes instantly observable in the political activists concerned despite feigned phoney self-deprecation. <b>Since interfaith dialogue ought to imply mutual respect evangelical activity is in blatant and hypocritical contravention of its basic purport. Christians simultaneously engage in interfaith dialogue and evangelical activity to lull potential victims into a false sense of security and misguided notions of self-worth. Such a devious stratagem only highlights utter contempt and disrespect for Hindus with whom they engage in the charade of interfaith dialogue. Petting a goat before its slaughter is a well-known routine before the kill.</b><!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->This ought to be pasted and repasted all over the internet whereever Indians frequent.
Next time some cookie Hindu wants to join in some interfaith 'dialogue' - ask them to start the topic on "Thou shalt have no other Gods before me". Let's see how far Hindus get in trying to reach a 'compromise' with christoislamis on these views. Before long, the Hindus dialoguing will squirm. Because they'll realise that that biblical statement is intractable, absolute. But by far most Hindus don't know that yet. They don't even know to bring it up for discussion; even though (from the Natural Religionists' end) it ought to be the most fundamental point of talk when engaging christoislamism! (Although any attempts to engage christoislam would always be futile.) Obviously those Hindus deluded enough to think that interfaith dialogues would be producative, are unwilling or otherwise unable to set the agenda: just getting invited to "discuss" makes Hindus think they've scored and that somehow Hinduism will be accepted and be accorded a right to exist. Yeah right.
I don't see Hindus dialoguing with terrorists. Does it make sense to dialogue with terrorism - is there anything that can be gained from talking to people whose major tenet is to destroy all opposing ways of life? No? Then *why* would you negotiate with the most established - ~1700-year-old - terrorist tradition: christoislamism? <!--emo&:blink:--><img src='style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/blink.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='blink.gif' /><!--endemo-->
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->It was therefore unsurprising to learn that a British academic, involved with British intelligence, was able to place an Indian Leftist in a major university post in Delhi, so compelling is the value placed on white intercession. But to witness the Prime Minister of India standing next to him at an inauguration ceremony in Delhi recently was startling nevertheless.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->Just for my own information, who was this?
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->And it was a <b>British High Commissioner</b> who invented the figure of 2000 killed in post-Godhra Gujarat that has become the stick to beat Hindus with for all time to come. Avarice and racial hatred were always the dominant themes of the British interaction with India.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->Does anyone know this person's name? Elst mentioned the character as well.
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->Indiaâs allegedly Rightist journalists swear by inferred British values, which only ever apply to the white British of course. Indeed the most âcelebratedâ among them once notoriously dubbed Britainâs Queen Indiaâs monarch too!<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->Which looney thought the British queen is India's sovereign? Name and shame, please. I'll need their name to make them famous where I live.
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->The other wood Hindus cannot seem to fathom amid the trees is the diabolical role the British played in their history. After inflicting on them famines and mass death in the 1760s, resulting in seven million dead (quarter of Bengalâs population)<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->Next time, also include the huge famine in Tamil Nadu - which was also sent With Love from England. Although it is namelessly mentioned in passing in the following sentence. I suppose I can imagine that the list would become very long if all the christian famines in India thanks to the British were to be given:
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->During the interim colonial history <b>countless manmade famines</b> are recorded and the post-1857 holocaust of mass murder is only being uncovered now. This is the period in which the British went on exultant killing sprees to avenge the alleged rape of their women during the first war of Independence itself. Needless to say that there was <b>enthusiastic domestic British support for the mass murder</b>, with the writer Charles Dickens himself declaring his fervent approval.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->Christos of the blink-or-you'll-miss-it "British empire" already played at Manufacturing Consent back then itself. They did a great propaganda tour back in their homeland to drum up support for their ultra-vindictive retaliation on Indians who had dared to rise up against their tyranny.