EXCERPT: Hindutva, or "Hinduness" is a nationalist ideology that asserts history, science, politics, economics and other subjects should be viewed from a Hindu perspective. Hindutva proponents say Islam and Christianity have divided India and caused its decline from its glorious past. With India facing Islamic separatists in Kashmir and aggressive proselytizing by evangelical Christians, the RSS believes their sovereignty and identity are under a renewed threat and Hindus should turn secular India into a Hindu state.
http://www.stopfundinghate.org/resources/news/041604SFChronicle.htm EXCERPT: HINDUTVA VIOLENCE IN INDIA I am the first enemy of the Muslims…Killing Muslims was necessary. All Muslims had to be taught a lesson…If the Muslims do not learn, it will be very harmful for them. Harish Bhatt, Gujarat state vice president, Vishwa Hindu Parishad, describing the killing of 2,000 Indians, almost all Muslims, in Gujarat during 2002. Virtually every judicial commission of inquiry officially appointed to investigate communal riots since Independence and Partition has indicted organizations affiliated with or allied to the RSS/VHP/BD/BJP combine, including the Maharashtra-based Shiv Sena, for their role in violent crimes against India's minorities. Concerned Citizens Tribunal on the Gujarat 2002 massacres, led by former chief justice of India, V. R. Krishna Iyer. http://www.awaazsaw.org/ibf/section1.htm#s1.2 Click on to the URL below.. http://www.milligazette.com/dailyupdate/2007/200703061_gujarat_riots_truth_pogrom_anti_muslim.htm EXCERPT: India: Five years after 2002 Gujarat pogrom While the victims languish, the perpetrators go unpunished Despite the passage of more than five years since the February-March 2002 anti-Muslim pogrom in the Indian state of Gujarat, not a single one of the principal perpetrators of this horrific crime has been punished. Meanwhile, tens of thousands of Muslims who were driven from their towns and villages by roving bands of Hindu supremacist thugs still languish in relief camps without electricity or running water. EXCERPT: Just a few months before, a hate campaign by Hindu Fundamentalists led to riots that caused the murder of a Catholic, Father Arul Das, and a Muslim shop-keeper, Sheikh Rahman, in the State of Orissa. Similar deaths and mob destruction of churches and mosques are, unfortunately, not uncommon in India. Even Mother Teresa of Calcutta has become a controversial figure in this environment. Fundamentalist Hindu leaders associated with the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and the Reshtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), a Hindu paramilitary organization, have attacked Christians they believe are thwarting their aims. In February 1995, for example, Sister Rani Maria was stabbed more than 40 times in broad daylight and her body was mutilated by the BJP because she had helped Indians who disagreed with the Party. The previous year, three priests were savagely murdered and their church bombed in the South Chotanagpur Region. One priest was strangled and another disappeared around the same time. Early in 1995 five Franciscan nuns died near the border between Delhi and Ghaziabad. http://www.catholicherald.com/royal/royal13.htm Furthermore if anyone on this forum wants to know the mindset of the RSS please check the archives on 'why Christians are persecuted' - the assumption being, that, they asked for it. -- DEV BOREM KORUM. Gabe Menezes. London, England
