04-15-2005, 11:26 PM
CPI-M calls for mass breeding of muslims
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From: "Jyotishi" <jyotish2000@yahoo.com>
To: "Shakti List" <shakti-l@hinduworld.com>
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Subject: [shakti-l] Go forth and multiply: CPM
> +-----------------------------------------+
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> Go forth and multiply: CPM
>
> By Udayan Namboodiri, in Indraprasth
> The Pioneer
> Saturday, April 16, 2005
>
> God to Adam and Eve: Be fruitful and increase in
> number; fill the earth and subdue it (Genesis 1:27-31)
> -- A generation of achievement on the population
> control front by creating near-total national
> consensus in favour of the "small family-happy family"
> objective is set to be reversed by the CPI (M). Now,
> India's principal communist party has called for a
> complete rejection of the two-child norm. Why only 2
> children?
>
> At the just concluded 18th Party Congress, the CPI
> (M), in its "Resolution against growing violence and
> discrimination against women" has demanded "complete
> rejection of all coercive population control measures,
> two-child norm and invasive methods of contraception".
>
>
> Superficially viewed, this appears to be a late
> reaction to the Emergency era excesses carried out in
> the name of "family planning". But insiders point out
> that the CPI (M)'s frontal organisation, the All India
> Democratic Women's Association (AIDWA) had been
> engaging in anti-small family hype for quite some time
> now. The arrival of its former chief, Brinda Karat, in
> the party's highest decision-making body, the
> Politburo, has resulted in the rhetoric creeping into
> the format of the main party.
>
> The AIDWA believes that the two-child norm "targets
> women and marginalises poor, Dalit and tribal women"
> and claims that this view echoes in the Cairo
> Declaration of 1994. Now that the CPI (M) has adopted
> this slogan, the political motive at the core cannot
> be overlooked. In sum and substance, this is nothing
> but minority appeasement aimed at pandering to the
> voters in Muslim ghettos who are confused over how to
> reconcile the Shariat's diktat against contraception
> and the national objective to arrest runaway
> population growth.
>
> What is interesting is that at the present juncture,
> no political party has been heard of complaining about
> "coercive population control measures". No government
> in recent times can be remotely accused of imitating
> the Emergency model. Yet, the proportion of the
> majority community to the total population of India
> has decreased by 2.9 per cent in the last four
> decades. While the population share of all other
> communities has remained more or less constant, the
> Muslims are the only ones to report a growth. The
> publication of the findings of the 2001 Census has led
> to a debate on the causes for this. Experts of even
> the most moderate variety have admitted that when it
> comes to adopting medical termination of pregnancy,
> the Muslims are seen as more reluctant than other
> communities.
>
> The CPI (M), which nurtures the Muslim vote in West
> Bengal and is actively wooing the community in Kerala
> ahead of next year's Assembly elections, may have
> played a sublime trick on the nation by undermining
> its population policy. In the border districts of West
> Bengal - Uttar Dinajpur, Dakkhin Dinajpur, Malda and
> Murshidabad, the Muslim population has grown from
> 38.89 per cent in 1951 to 52.50 per cent in 2001. In
> the state as a whole, the Muslims today make up 25.20
> per cent as compared to 19.46 in 1951. Contrast this
> with the Hindu growth rate-just 14.18 per cent between
> 1991 and 2001 compared to 25.91 per cent for Muslims.
>
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>
>
> Jai Maharaj
> http://www.mantra.com/jyotish
> Om Shanti
>
>
>
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jyotishi" <jyotish2000@yahoo.com>
To: "Shakti List" <shakti-l@hinduworld.com>
Sent: Friday, April 15, 2005 4:10 PM
Subject: [shakti-l] Go forth and multiply: CPM
> +-----------------------------------------+
> | Shakti-L : News, Views, and Discussion |
> | {issues that affect Hindus Worldwide} |
> +-----------------------------------------+
> Go forth and multiply: CPM
>
> By Udayan Namboodiri, in Indraprasth
> The Pioneer
> Saturday, April 16, 2005
>
> God to Adam and Eve: Be fruitful and increase in
> number; fill the earth and subdue it (Genesis 1:27-31)
> -- A generation of achievement on the population
> control front by creating near-total national
> consensus in favour of the "small family-happy family"
> objective is set to be reversed by the CPI (M). Now,
> India's principal communist party has called for a
> complete rejection of the two-child norm. Why only 2
> children?
>
> At the just concluded 18th Party Congress, the CPI
> (M), in its "Resolution against growing violence and
> discrimination against women" has demanded "complete
> rejection of all coercive population control measures,
> two-child norm and invasive methods of contraception".
>
>
> Superficially viewed, this appears to be a late
> reaction to the Emergency era excesses carried out in
> the name of "family planning". But insiders point out
> that the CPI (M)'s frontal organisation, the All India
> Democratic Women's Association (AIDWA) had been
> engaging in anti-small family hype for quite some time
> now. The arrival of its former chief, Brinda Karat, in
> the party's highest decision-making body, the
> Politburo, has resulted in the rhetoric creeping into
> the format of the main party.
>
> The AIDWA believes that the two-child norm "targets
> women and marginalises poor, Dalit and tribal women"
> and claims that this view echoes in the Cairo
> Declaration of 1994. Now that the CPI (M) has adopted
> this slogan, the political motive at the core cannot
> be overlooked. In sum and substance, this is nothing
> but minority appeasement aimed at pandering to the
> voters in Muslim ghettos who are confused over how to
> reconcile the Shariat's diktat against contraception
> and the national objective to arrest runaway
> population growth.
>
> What is interesting is that at the present juncture,
> no political party has been heard of complaining about
> "coercive population control measures". No government
> in recent times can be remotely accused of imitating
> the Emergency model. Yet, the proportion of the
> majority community to the total population of India
> has decreased by 2.9 per cent in the last four
> decades. While the population share of all other
> communities has remained more or less constant, the
> Muslims are the only ones to report a growth. The
> publication of the findings of the 2001 Census has led
> to a debate on the causes for this. Experts of even
> the most moderate variety have admitted that when it
> comes to adopting medical termination of pregnancy,
> the Muslims are seen as more reluctant than other
> communities.
>
> The CPI (M), which nurtures the Muslim vote in West
> Bengal and is actively wooing the community in Kerala
> ahead of next year's Assembly elections, may have
> played a sublime trick on the nation by undermining
> its population policy. In the border districts of West
> Bengal - Uttar Dinajpur, Dakkhin Dinajpur, Malda and
> Murshidabad, the Muslim population has grown from
> 38.89 per cent in 1951 to 52.50 per cent in 2001. In
> the state as a whole, the Muslims today make up 25.20
> per cent as compared to 19.46 in 1951. Contrast this
> with the Hindu growth rate-just 14.18 per cent between
> 1991 and 2001 compared to 25.91 per cent for Muslims.
>
> http://dailypioneer.com/indexn12.asp?main_...t&counter_img=4
>
>
> Jai Maharaj
> http://www.mantra.com/jyotish
> Om Shanti
>
>
>