Tell the truth, I don't know anything about them; it just happened that over past year (residing in Goa) I was getting stuff from CSF that I did not appreciate at all. Now I'm moved back to Canada, but still keep tuned in to the GoaNet posts. I feel that CSF is 'Xian Fundamentalism'---just as bad, or perhaps even worse (for us) than any other kind!
On Sat, Apr 28, 2012 at 2:07 PM, Marshall Mendonza <[email protected]>wrote: > Dan Driscoll: > > Thank you, Mr. Santosh, for this; it confirms what I had surmised over past > year or so, from reading those interminable CSF rants, some of them > appearing unsolicited, sent directly to my in-box. > > Response: > Dear Dan > I found your confirming Santosh's comparison of the CSF with the HJS quite > interesting. I am appending herebelow some extracts of newspaper articles > and reports on the HJS.Perhaps you have more information about the > allegedly violent activities of the CSF, which I am unaware of, that makes > you agree with Santosh. I would be obliged to you if you could direct me > to articles/ newspaper reports about such allegedly violent activities > of the CSF. I too receive the newsletter and I am concerned that if the CSF > is engaged in similar activities to that of the HJS as described in the > articles / newsreports below, I would like to unsubscribe and distance > myself from it. > Excerpts: > > THE CHIEF Minister, Digamber Kamat, and the Leader of the Opposition, > Manohar Parrikar, not to mention the IGP Kishen Kumar should be more > concerned over the terrorist activities of the Sanatan Sanstha and the > Hindu Janajagruti Samiti than chasing imaginary naxalites. the police in > Maharashtra have indicted five activists of the Sanatan Sanstha and the > Hindu Janajagruti Samiti for allegedly setting off explosives ostensibly to > protest against the distortion of history in the film Jodhaa Akbar and the > staging of a Marathi play, Amhi Pachpute in a Thane theatre because they > considered it offensive to Hindu sentiments. > > The Maharashtra police investigating the explosions, ridiculed as damn > squibs by Shiv Sena supremo Bal Thackarey, have established that the ‘Hindu > Bomb’ was assembled in one of the rooms in the Sanatan Sanstha’s ashram in > Panvel. The Indian Express, in a report published on Monday, June 23, 2008, > has sounded an alarm over the mobilization of hard-line Hindu outfits, > notably the Sanatan Sanstha (initially known as Sanatan Bhartiya > Saunskrutik Sanstha), the Hindu Janajagruti Samiti and the newly launched > organisation called ‘Dharmashakti Sena’ whose inaugural rally in April > showed young men dressed in military uniform. > > (Protecting Hinduism - Sanatan Style by Pradnya Gaonkar: Goan Observer 28th > June, 2008) > > the HJS and Sanatan Sanstha, which works under its banner, had been > chargesheeted for their role in the Thane theatre blasts of June 2008. The > theatre was targeted as it was screening the period film Jodhaa Akbar, > which shows Emperor Akbar marrying a Hindu girl, which many right wing > organisations had protested against. It was also the organisation that was > later chargesheeted for its role in the 2009 Madgaon blast in Goa. > Modi is seen inviting and thanking the same organisation, which the then > Maharashtra ATS chief Hemant Karkare had urged the home department to ban. > It has also been confirmed that Karkare had sent a proposal in August 2008 > to ban the HJS and Sanatan Sanstha just months before he was killed in the > 26/11 Mumbai terror attacks, as reported earlier by TEHELKA. > > > http://www.indiandefence.com/forums/social-political-issues/4500-modi-let-outfit-chargesheeted-terror-attacks-hold-meeting-his-constituency.html > > The Maharashtra police has recommended that the state government ban > right-wing groups including Sanatan Sanstha and Abhinav Bharat. The names > of both the groups came up during the investigations of the Goa and the > Malegaon blast cases. > > > http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2011-09-08/india/30130015_1_sanatan-sanstha-abhinav-bharat-blast-case > > MARGAO: Six members of the Sanatan Sanstha, two of them now dead, are among > the 11 persons accused by the National Investigation Agency (NIA), > which is probing the the October 16, 2009 Margao bomb blast and planting of > explosives at Sancoale, of conspiring to wage war against India by > committing a terrorist act. NIA on Monday filed a 30-page > common chargesheet with 4,000 pages of supporting documents in the two > incidents at the court of principal session judge U V Bakre constituted as > special court. > > > http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/keyword/sanatan-sanstha/recent/3 > > > NAVI MUMBAI: Right-wing Hindu outfit Sanatan Sanstha has reacted to state's > decision to ban it. Abhay Vartak, Sanstha's chief spokesperson, said the > government has made baseless allegations about the organization's "terror > links'', and added that they will legally fight any such ban. > > > http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2011-03-12/mumbai/28683538_1_sanatan-sanstha-abhay-vartak-ban > > Regards, > > Marshall >
