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Convenor of Goa Bachao Abhiyan (GBA) Dr Oscar Rebello has been nominated for CNN-IBN's Indian of the Year Award 2007 in public service category Vote for him at: http://www.cnnibnindianoftheyear.com/publicservice_voting_new.php --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Dear Sachin Phadte, Please print out what Gilbert wrote and read it at leisure. Had you read it CORRECTLY the first time, you would not have written your last paragraph. Inquisition was about CHRISTIANS, Roman Catholics to be specific. Period. Forced conversions, if any, during the same period are NOT a part of the Inquisition. It takes time to understand, and differentiate between the two. Portuguese Colonial apparatus aka Government of Goa and the the Catholic church in Goa were not one and the same thing, although I dare say there was some degree of overlap then .... as there is now. We need to make that distinction. The Archdiocese of Goa is still a force to reckon with. Politicians who ignore ... or, worse, provoke ... it do so at their own peril. I can quote you half a dozen contemporary examples that Manohar Parrikar would like to forget and Adv. Uday Bhembre would like to remember, including the infamous VCD, the ling at Paco Patriarchal which exploded in the face of the BJP as well as the successfull KPA, GBA and SVM movements ..... and the OPINION POLL that we remember today. They are not alone ;-) . If not for the Opinion Poll, the perpetual colonial mining CONCESSIONS would have become EPHEMERAL Indian mining LEASES ...and you know who are Goa's top mine owners, don't you? Poor Dr. Jack Sequeira was but a forerunner of Matanhy Saldanha ... a fall guy ... who succeeded because the church backed him to the hilt. Matanhy did not have such a privilege ... or success .... due to his pro-BJP and anti-Dr.Willy stance. Note how Adv. Uday Bhembre defends the proposed Salgaocar SEZ in Soccorro in the GT interview ... about Opinion Poll .... today. Did the senior Salgaocar not finance the young Uday and others during the Opinion Poll rallies in 1966-67? At least ex-MLA of Vasco, Mr. Joshi, and ex-MLA of St. Andre Teotonio Pereira, remembered this funding at the installation of Dr. Jack Sequeira's statue at Dona Paula circle on 10 April 2007. The Catholics have always been the fall guys, the bhatkars ... with all property usurped by the so-called mundkars and mukadams, who make them "feel good" by calling them bhatkar! Difficult to digest, but truth just the same. Mog asundi. Miguel Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2008 14:42:23 +0530 From: Sachin Phadte <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [Goanet] Details of the Goa Inquisition / Hindutva cyber crimes? I am in full agreement with what Gilbert Lawrence has written. What is needed is that the historical facts be stated properly. While the intent of the Inquisition was to esnure that those converted to Christianity do not lapse back to their earlier traditions, the Inquisition was also used to force conversions. When there is no denial of these facts, using Inquisition to stir up communal hatred does not become possible. Sachin Phadte ______________________________ -- -.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-. Miguel Braganza, S1 Gracinda Apts, Rajvaddo, Mhapsa 403507 Goa Ph 9822982676 [EMAIL PROTECTED] -.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.