--- On Wed, 6/25/08, Joe MS wrote:
> Dear vishwanath
> as you know kerala was burning last week. If things go like
> this the very existence of rationalists (ho!unfashionable
> postivist eurocentric sinners we are)likeus is at risk.All
> the casetist communal forces of kerala, ranging from
> catholic fundamentalists, muslim fundamentalists, to
> savarna hindu maniacs wereon the streets setting fire
> toevery thing. Theywant to change a text bookof school whch
> praises secularism and freedom of religion. In that text
> book a chapter says that a person of mixed religious
> parentage even has the freedom to study without filling the
> caste or religious column in application form and live. (our
> family and many family like ours are classical examples of
> this rationalist life ,the fredom for which is guaranteed by
> the constitution). The religious fundamnetalists who are
> backed by Congress party is whipping up communalpassion
> against this as infiringemnet of the rightof religion and
> impostion of atheism. Their aim is to lambast the left
> front government government of kerala whose commitment to
> secularism itself is dubious. The left front is even mired
> in many corruption controverises(Nandigram?). But they are
> forced to defend the ideology of secularims unlike their
> usuual policy of communal appeasemnt this time . But the
> forces of sectariansim energised by the opposition congress
> party ,to gain political mileage out of this ,is very
> dangerous. It may evenprove to be physiclly threatening for
> progressive mixed caste marriages like ours. All postmodern
> maniacs who cry haorse for the rights only of religious
> people shoul come and see the arroganceof kerla feudal
> christian aristocracy and other religions. When secular
> space is getting closed like this (I am serous) our
> existence is atstake .We may really be troubled for the
> ‘crime’ of breaking endogamy. Our baby whom we want to
> bring up only as a humanbeing, without religious
> parochialism, will be the but of their ire.Kerla christian
> patiriarchal religion, which had amassed political, social
> and academic power with its brutal votebank may win. Their
> is no space for the real minorities of the world, ie, for
> the atheists like us. I think they won’t allow our kids
> to get eduacation for not having religion/castes. Our sin
> is only the fact that unlike the fashionable antimodrnists
> we took the risk of taking on orthodoxy insteadof nursing
> identity politics. but we get vilfied by these academic
> terrorists for getting trapped in enlightenment when
> biologically our life itself may be at stake. with regards
> joe
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