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Lucky escape for them. (Christianism intends to come for them later: when the majority heathenism of the land has been subdued. Then it will take christoislamism a very brief space of time indeed to crush the other remaining Indian religions in India.)
But I do agree: Sikhs, Jains and Buddhists are NOT Hindus. The feeling is mutual - no one wants to be forcibly clubbed with unrelated other religions. (Including a religion that may have started off in Hindu religion but drifted permanently away and changed its God to "Not any Hindu God". Not my problem.)
Hindus follow the religion of the subcontinent's ancient Gods, i.e. the Hindu Gods. Just like Daoists follow the religion of their region's ancient indigenous Gods. Like Shintos and Hellenes follow the religions of their Gods. (Etc.)
Quote:No plan to tag Jains, Sikhs as Hindus for nowSuch great mobility.
TNN, Feb 24, 2011, 01.12am IST
BANGALORE: Bowing to opposition from representatives of the Jains, Sikhs and Buddhists for giving them the Hindu tag and bringing their religious institutions under the muzrai department, the state government has decided to drop the proposal.
The decision was taken in the cabinet meeting on Tuesday, a week after the announcement was made. "Instead, the government will bring a new legislation benefiting their religious institutions," muzrai minister V S Acharya told TOI.
TOI in its edition dated February 17 had said the cabinet would approve the amendment to the Karnataka Hindu Religious Institutions and Charitable Endowments (Amendment) Act, 1997, to bring Jains, Sikhs and Buddhists under the term `Hindu' and have control on the religious institutions run by them. While giving the nod to this clause, the cabinet kept mutts out of the purview of public scrutiny.
[color="#0000FF"]The religious minorities associations have welcomed the government's move of keeping them out of government's purview. Harminder Singh, general secretary of Sri Guru Singh Sabha, a Sikh religious organization, thanked the government and said the gurdwaras come under the Sikh Gurdwara Act, 1925 and the Delhi Sikh Gurdwara Act, 1971. "Hence the Sikh gurdwaras can not be clubbed under the KHRICE Act, 1997 and Sikhs cannot be clubbed as Hindus," he said.
Milind Dharmasen, national president of All India Buddhist Youth Organization, and S Jithendra Kumar, president of Karnataka Jain Association, also welcomed the government's move.[/color]
Lucky escape for them. (Christianism intends to come for them later: when the majority heathenism of the land has been subdued. Then it will take christoislamism a very brief space of time indeed to crush the other remaining Indian religions in India.)
But I do agree: Sikhs, Jains and Buddhists are NOT Hindus. The feeling is mutual - no one wants to be forcibly clubbed with unrelated other religions. (Including a religion that may have started off in Hindu religion but drifted permanently away and changed its God to "Not any Hindu God". Not my problem.)
Hindus follow the religion of the subcontinent's ancient Gods, i.e. the Hindu Gods. Just like Daoists follow the religion of their region's ancient indigenous Gods. Like Shintos and Hellenes follow the religions of their Gods. (Etc.)