Hey, it was just a thought. My ancestors were Arabs from, my family records tell me, a place called Petra, now in Jordan. They married Hindu women.
Who's Cristao? Relative of yours? I think you are being needlessly rude to ole Xac inferring that my observation is so stupid even Xac would sit up and take notice. The only mentor I had was a brilliant homosexual at The Statesman way back in the 70's when you must have just started slinging mud at the agricultural department. At 50 I am too old to have a mentor but I know and respect Flaviano Dias (I thought he was from Cuncolim not Velim) who is a journalist. I respect him for singlehandedly reinstating my colleague Abhay Thapa when he was made a scapegoat by the newspaper organisation which was threatened by the Congress government of the time. FN talks of Parrikar manipulating the press. Both Rane and Luizinho nearly closed down Gomantak Times when both were chief ministers. By the way I'm no agnostic, just your humdrum run o' the mill atheist. The agnostic sits on the fence. The atheist has already let go of all that baggage. Come on Miguel, lighten up. I didn't stop your column in WEEKENDER; the editor of Gomantak Times did. Bevinda Collaco ----- Original Message ----- From: "Miguel Braganza" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, March 31, 2005 9:37 AM Subject: [Goanet]RE: Were most Goan Catholics earlier Hindus or Muslims? > ----- Original Message ----- > > On Sat, 19 Mar 2005 karla wrote : > > Bevinda Collaco [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > My theory: it looks like we all have Hindu blood at least in our maternal > bloodlines. Invaders have always been male. So if there was any intermingling > or marrying it would be male Muslim invaders with Hindu women, and male > Portuguese invaders with Hindu women, or Muslim women who must have had female > Hindu ancestors. > > Bevinda Collaco > > RESPONSE: > Are hinduism,christianity and islam races or religions? > > Are the male children of muslims and jews born normal or pre-circumcised at > source like TDS? > > Were hindus converts from some other religion or tribal worship? When did > hinduism evolve? Who is most hindu of them all: araswats,Chitpavan Brahmins, > Konkanasht Brahmins, Lingayats, Gowdas, Veershaivas, Vaishnavas, Bhandari, > Scheduled astes, Bhats, Bunts, Re-converts? Are Ram worshippers more hind > than the Ravanna worshippers? Are the decendents of the andavas more hindu > than those of the Kauravas? Are the Va-naras hindu or just Rambhakts? > > Were Europeans Hindus who converted to Christianity? Were Aryans born Hindu? > Were Nazis hindu ? Were dravidians orn hindu? > > I do not know what percentage of Hindu blood Bevinda has. . > > This type of logic would even make Ole Xac sit up and look at it again. > > Would Bevinda be kind enough to let me know what happened to Cassius Clay's > blood when he became Mohammad Ali? > Or to Samrat Ashoka's blood when he became a Buddhist? Or to her blood when > she was baptised and, later, became an agnostic like her friend and mentor > the Velim chardo catholic turned agnostic? Do agnostics have a caste or do > they automaticlly become brahmins like the atheists ? > > If I have ever read truly bue bull.....it is thanks to Bevinda Collaco. > Cristao Braganza Cunha, are you listening ?? > > Viva Goa. > Miguel > >
