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Gadgil wrote
The problem is precisely that there is a pattern, not only in Goa, but
elsewhere as well. Whenever Muslims try to build a mosque or madrasa,
they are greeted with suspicion and hostility, and attempts are made to
block them. There are invariably 'objections' raised by various people.
Even a legitimate demand for a kabrastan in Goa has yielded nothing.
Response
This is your own hypothetical beliefs. As long is it is on legitimate
grounds and do not perturb public harmony anybody is free to build a
structure for ones religious practice. As far as madrassas are concerned
though it is Muslim community prerogative to decide what type of education
their children will receive I still opine this archaic system of religious
education does not benefit their offsprings to survive in todays real life
unless they obtain civil education only one which will give them economic
benefits and prosperity.
These institutions have a track record where divine commandments are
preached effecting and controlling young minds. They teach gospel of hate
and subject their students to cold brainwash to hate their innocent fellow
human beings who happen to be of other faiths and excite them to wage wars
of jehad.
Gadgil Wrote
Here you have once again come out with the hoary equation 'Madrasa =
<Jehadis = ISI = terror'. It is this kind of thinking that causes the
<problem. There is no evidence for any of this. Which are these
"madrassas funded by Jehadis and ISI" which are coming up in Goa? Be
specific, a general statement like this is meaningless; without any
evidence, it is just malicious rumour-mongering, and part of an attempt
to deny basic rights to Muslims by creating a fear psychosis.
Response
This type of verbosity and rhetoric just keep confined to yourself. I tried
to address and bring out this fact out into daylight and explain and express
in an open and obvious language.
Goan Muslims are very secular in nature and are living peacefully with
Hindus and Catholics for generations.
It is your type of people who are creating apprehensive phobia by
instigating your perverted notions in their minds.
Open up your mind and keep updated what is happening in other parts of
India. I did not say there are such madrassas existing in Goa. Fortunately
the fundamentalist organizations like SIMI has not succeeded in making
inroads in Goa yet.
Gadgil Wrote
This is the stale and discredited 'psuedo-secularism' mantra chanted by
the RSS and L.K. Advani. Standing up for minority rights is
'psuedo-secularism' according to such people.
India is an overwhelmingly Hindu-majority country, and the religious
rights of Hindus are rarely threatened. But the religious minorities
face such problems on a regular basis, and secular persons naturally
stand up for their rights. If that makes them 'psuedo-secular' in your
view, it is your perspective that is at fault.
It is in this assymetrical and unjust situation, where minority rights
are trampled upon and justice denied, that secularists stand up for the
rights of minorities.
Response
I am not a member of RSS-BJP-Shiv Sena, neither I subscribe to their
ideologies. But you seems to be a stupe and pompous ass on the payroll of
Leftist. Karl Marx is dead in Russia and Eastern Europe but is being kept
alive in India by a motley group of disgruntled communists.
I need not give you a lesson on our history in regards to whose religious
rights were threatened.
The Mughals, British and Portuguese invaders have destroyed our Hindu
civilizations for centuries by killing millions of Hindus and Sikhs . They
have annihilated our temples and other exemplars of faith. All these rulers
have done a real professional job of cultural genocide and eradication.
Gadgil wrote
Your statement is again reflective of the attempts of the Sangh Parivar
to build up a monolithic Hindu identity, and get people to think as
'Hindus', 'Christians', 'Muslims' etc. rather than as 'Indians'. This is
what they want, because with Hindus in an overwhelming majority, if
people start thinking in such a way (and if people start identifying the
Sangh Parivar as the representative of Hindus, which it is far from
being), they have created their 'political constituency'.
Your statements here indicate exactly who it is that is thinking in
terms of vote-bank politics. Projecting your own prejudices and biases
onto others cannot hide this reality.
Response
Here you are showing your true colors of being a Congress candidate who is
holding aloft the banner of pseudo secularism to capture minorities vote
bank. Pseudo secularism and minority fundamentalism are the two sides of
same coin minted by the Congress party.
Gadgil wrote
Tsk, tsk, the 'majority subjugated'? What kind of nonsense is this? Are
you seriously saying that Hindus are 'subjugated' in India?
Response
For the last fifteen years, Hindus and Sikhs in Jammu and Kashmir are being
butchered and killed by Islamic jehadis both foreign and Indian. The ethnic
cleansing of Hindus and Sikhs in Kashmir is almost accomplished. This
Separatism movement is openly justified. No secular politician visited J&K,
no agitated marches of MPs to the President, no dharnas before Parliament,
no condemnation of the State of Jammu & Kashmir government of complicity, or
accusation of the J&K Police of communal bias or dereliction of duty. Not
even pictures of slain Hindus and Sikhs and their burnt out hearts. The
killing of Hindus and Sikhs is never described as a carnage of Muslim
communalists. On the contrary, Islamic terrorism is sought to be projected
as a movement for self-determination and death of terrorists is championed
as violation of human rights. That section of Hindus and Sikhs are refugees
in their own land is a non issue and of course cannot be a secular issue.
Gadgil wrote
I once heard a Sri Lankan friend describe the Sinhala nationalists in
Sri Lanka as 'a majority that has been trained to think like a
minority'. They imagine threats to themselves at every turn. This is the
kind of mentality that the Sangh Parivar is trying to sow in the minds
of Hindus in India, and if they succeed, the harvest will be bitter --
look at what's going on in Sri Lanka. Resentment over decades of denial
of their rights built up among the Tamils, and since the 1980s the
country has been in the throes of a civil war.
Response
You are barking at the wrong tree. The lecture of secularism fit best and
belong elsewhere..
The condition in Goa is totally different compared to other states of India.
Majority of population in Goa are Hindus and Hinduism is secular and
tolerant to begin with. You can not make Hinduism more secular with your ill
conceived, irrational and redundant pseudo secularist ideologies that you
are trying to elucidate.
Regards
Vinay Natekar
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