quote=ramana,May 21 2009, 04:10 AM
X-posting on BJP's dilemma from BRF by RajeshA
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<b>What is wrong with Hindu right?</b>
o violence against Christians and Muslims <b>(threat to minority rights and security)</b>
o unsophisticated ham-handed opposition to Conversions <b>(threat to right to practice and preach)</b>
o pushing issues of 'correcting history' by treading on other people's toes like the Ram Mandir issue <b>(aggressive revisionism)</b>
o claim of monopoly on nationalism based on conformant worldview <b>(exclusivism)</b>
o overemphasizing cultural issues, thereby increasing social tensions, and diverting attention from other vital national issues <b>(factor for instability)</b><!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
Ramana,
take a look at the following that you posted in the Advice to BJP thread. It shows how easily the colonized victim can be made to look as aggressor. this is the monotheist specialty. Egypt, Canaan (ie Semitics) are to be blamed in as much as they are Greek Ptolemaic and Seleucid entities. Just as AIT is revisionist history for India which projects the british colonial project back into earlier Indian history>> in the same way, Judaism is a revisionist history for Canaan and Egypt. So-called Paleosemitic is simply a back projection of a greek colonial sensibility onto the native history. Darius is made to pay obeisance to the Lord God of Daniel. the authors simply went back into history, chose a few prominent figures, and made a revisionist Monotheist timelime (thousand year civil war between a line a monotheist prophets and their erring polytheist cousins)
Interpretative history as opposed to king lists is the greek innovation. Add in a colonial setting and the output is monotheism.
This has nothing to do with desert heat, harems, tribal war, arab blood lust, semitic absolutism, cousin marriage, and other such ad hocs.
X-posting on BJP's dilemma from BRF by RajeshA
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->MODE ON: Playing the Devil's advocate, here!
<b>What is wrong with Hindu right?</b>
o violence against Christians and Muslims <b>(threat to minority rights and security)</b>
o unsophisticated ham-handed opposition to Conversions <b>(threat to right to practice and preach)</b>
o pushing issues of 'correcting history' by treading on other people's toes like the Ram Mandir issue <b>(aggressive revisionism)</b>
o claim of monopoly on nationalism based on conformant worldview <b>(exclusivism)</b>
o overemphasizing cultural issues, thereby increasing social tensions, and diverting attention from other vital national issues <b>(factor for instability)</b><!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
Ramana,
take a look at the following that you posted in the Advice to BJP thread. It shows how easily the colonized victim can be made to look as aggressor. this is the monotheist specialty. Egypt, Canaan (ie Semitics) are to be blamed in as much as they are Greek Ptolemaic and Seleucid entities. Just as AIT is revisionist history for India which projects the british colonial project back into earlier Indian history>> in the same way, Judaism is a revisionist history for Canaan and Egypt. So-called Paleosemitic is simply a back projection of a greek colonial sensibility onto the native history. Darius is made to pay obeisance to the Lord God of Daniel. the authors simply went back into history, chose a few prominent figures, and made a revisionist Monotheist timelime (thousand year civil war between a line a monotheist prophets and their erring polytheist cousins)
Interpretative history as opposed to king lists is the greek innovation. Add in a colonial setting and the output is monotheism.
This has nothing to do with desert heat, harems, tribal war, arab blood lust, semitic absolutism, cousin marriage, and other such ad hocs.