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Is Deepak Chopra Suffering from Stockholm Syndrome or Dhimmitude, or Both
December 3, 2008
While speaking on ‘Larry King Live’ show on CNN, on November 26th on the subject of Islamic terror in Mumbai, Dr. Deepak Chopra, the famous author and philosopher, mischievously and deliberately tried to equate the Islamic terrorism in India with Hindu fundamentalism. He may not have realized that in doing so, he has grievously hurt the sentiments of one billion peace-loving and law-abiding Hindus all over the world.
In the interview, Dr. Chopra further blamed USA government for its attitude towards Islam and, in effect, advised the millions of viewers that they should appease the Moslem world. He even warned that “if we do not… we’re going to have a problem on our hands.” (http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/asiapcf/11/26/king.chopra.mumbai/index.html)
The tone and tenor of Deepak Chopra’s response, no doubt, is reflective of his inner state of mind. Dr. Chopra is suffering from the Stockholm Syndrome––or worse, the Dhimmitude––or even both. Stockholm Syndrome is a psychological condition seen in an abducted hostage, in which case the hostage shows signs of loyalty to the abductor. The term Dhimmi is applied to the non- Moslem population that stays subjugated, becomes apologist for Islam, fears and defers to it and seeks Islamic favor.
I am not certain whether Dr. Deepak Chopra is a victim of the vicious propaganda blitz unleashed against Hindus by the perverted Communist cardholders in India and USA, who are entrenched in media. I am also not sure whether he himself is confused, or he is deliberately and mischievously confounding the gullible American citizens.
Dr. Chopra is a well-known author and philosopher. From his responses to Larry King in the above interview, one can easily figure out that Deepak Chopra’s knowledge about Islam is based merely on hearsay. It would have been much better had he confined his responses to his pet subject – the philosophy.
By dabbling in the topics such as jihad, terrorism, radical Islam that seem to be beyond his comprehension, Dr. Chopra has made himself a laughing stock in the eyes of those who are fully familiar with the Islamic psyche and the counter-terrorism. Hence, Dr. Chopra should be treated with the scorn and contempt he deserves for acting as an advocate and apologist for the radical Islam.
In the interview, through the words like ‘Hindu fundamentalism,’ Dr. Chopra has even tried to tarnish the image of peace-loving Hindu people who have suffered unprecedented brutalities, unbearable carnage, and horrendous savagery at the hands of Moslems in the last 1400 years.
For the information of Dr. Chopra, Moslems have already taken away a one-third of India through the partitioning in 1947 between secular India and Islamic Pakistan. As a consequence, more than 10 million Hindus and Sikhs were thrown out of their sacred ancestral land, leaving most of their possessions behind. Again in 1971, another 10 million Hindus were forcibly driven out of what became Bangladesh, or were converted to Islam.
Most recently, in 1989-1990, over 400,000 Hindus and Sikhs were pushed out of their homes and hearths in the northern State of Kashmir; these were the original inhabitants of this beautiful land variously described as the heaven-on-earth. More than 10,000 Indian army soldiers have been killed by Jihadists, while they valiantly defended their country and its people. Thousands more have been bombed and killed in the Islamic terrorist hits on the large Indian cities like Mumbai, Delhi, Ahmedabad, Jaipur, Varanasi, Hyderabad, etc.
It is not only unbecoming but also degrading on the part of Dr. Chopra to reprimand Hindus in spite of the results of the study concluded by the investigative team headed by Justice D.S. Tewatia, former Chief Justice of the Kolkata High Court, that Godhra train carnage in which a mob of 2000 strong Moslems roasted alive 57 innocent Hindu men, women and children on February 27, 2001, at Godhra Station in Gujarat, India was “an act of terrorism”. It would have been appropriate had Dr. Chopra refrained from hurling innuendo and invectives on mild Hindus.
That the intellectual like Dr. Chopra has the audacity to advise non-Koranic people (Hindus, Christians, Jewish, Buddhists, Sikhs and Jains) to appease Moslems is a sad commentary on his understanding of the Islamic psyche.
Dr. Chopra should understand that what happened in Mumbai on November 26th (2008) and in New York on 9/11 is the continuation of same Jihad that Prophet Mohammed began in the Battle of Badr in the 7th Century Arabia. This Jihad, essentially, is a doctrine of permanent warfare. Under it, the religion enjoins on all Moslems to be ruthless… to all non-Moslems… for the cause of Allah. The true aim of Islam, thus, is the political domination of the entire world.
Many Moslems may be gleefully enjoying the incomprehension of the infidel population and their baffled leaders (like Deepak Chopra) who come up with meaningless and phony theories about Islam to satisfy their own ego and try to maintain their leadership/ scholarship in the marketplace.
Let him listen to Mr. Anwar Shaikh, a Moslem scholar from Pakistan settled in UK, who honestly stated that Islam is not a faith but a political national movement launched by Prophet Mohammed to establish the Arab cultural imperialism over non-Arab people of the world.
Under the circumstances, it is important that the well-meaning and high-profile people like Deepak Chopra come out courageously and organize a unified voice of the people that decries political correctness and proclaims: ‘Enough is enough.’ Persons of his stature and fame should demand of the Governments to protect the ordinary citizens rather than finding fault with the victims themselves.
Narain Kataria
President
Monday, November 23, 2009
Deceptive, Deliberate and Disingeneous Denial of “Hindu Holocaust” by Marxist Vijay Prashad
Deceptive, Deliberate and Disingeneous Denial of “Hindu Holocaust” by Marxist Vijay Prashad –
My Rebuttal to News India-Times
Narain Kataria
Prof. Vijay Prashad’s article in last week’s News India-Times that Islam in India did not spread at the point of sword, is based on the false assumptions and is devoid of factual data. His thesis seems to be largely motivated by his malicious attempt to obscure and falsify the Indian history. Prof. Prashad’s outrageous assertion not only misleads the Indian public opinion, it actually insults the country’s nine hundred fifty million majority Hindus who have been at the receiving end for so long. To say the least, Prof. Prashad’s premise is completely preposterous nonsense.
People with Hindu-sounding names like Prof. Prashad who masquerade in our community as intellectuals are actually diehard Marxists who suffer from the deep inferiority complex. They subconsciously hate themselves and their fellowmen and are ashamed of their glorious Hindu ancestry. After the comrades were universally discredited and the worldwide Communist movement collapsed, the Indian Communists have now established a sinister nexus with the Jehadi Islamists in subverting Indian polity.
India’s History is testimony to the fact that the Islamic period in our nation’s life was a dark and dismal period so far as the Hindus are concerned. For them, the Muslim rule brought untold sufferings and deadly suffocation, and invited fierce resistance from Hindus. Vandalism and senseless destruction by Muslims of the Hindu property and religious places was so vast in magnitude, so stark in its evil and so vulgar in its nature that it demands an eternal condemnation. The painful saga of the trauma and torture suffered by millions of our forefathers must be told and passed on to our children and to the rest of the world. They must be told the truth and nothing else but the whole truth.
Hence, there is a great need for building the Hindu Holocaust Museum. And, valiant Francois Gautier, the noted journalist from France has provided a lead in this direction and taken up the project of erecting one in Pune, India.
So bloody was the Muslim rule in the country that a noted Islamic historian Abbas Khan Sherwani has proudly recorded about one incident in his chronicle Tarikh-i-Farishtah: "The Hindoos were pursued and slain by (Muslim) allies with such success, that the river was dyed red with their blood. Over one hundred thousand (100,000) infidels were slain during the action and in pursuit.”
As apart of this chain of cruelty and terror, the Mogul king Jahangir forced the fifth Sikh Guru Arjun Dev to sit on a burning hot plate. While this inhuman act was in progress, the hot sand was simultaneously poured over his body. This beastly behavior was justified by the Muslim clergy because the sacred Guru tried to protect the hapless Hindu public from the senseless Muslim tyranny.
Indian history’s Muslim period was full of such terrible Islamic acts: The tenth Guru Gobind Singh`s two sons were bricked alive, brave Bhai Mati Das was sawed alive when he refused to convert to Islam, Guru Teg Bahadur Sahib was viciously tortured and finally beheaded by the Islamists.
Even in our own living memory in 1947, the Muslims forced upon us the partition of our Motherland. Muslims everywhere gleefully boasted and warned Hindus: “Hans ke Liya Hai Pakistan, Ladke Lenge Hindustan.” (We took Pakistan with ease; now we’ll take India by force.) To support that assertion, a reign of loot, kidnappings, murder, rape and terror has been unleashed against the Hindus and Sikhs and Buddhists. Through the conversions and killings, the Hindu population in Pakistan has been reduced from 23% in 1947 to 1% in 2009. In Bangladesh, the same is reduced from the formidable 35% in 1947 to a mere 8% in 2009.
In Kashmir, more than 400,000 tortured and terrorized Hindu families had to leave their ancestral homes and hearths to take refuge in India. Over 3 million people were killed in Bangladesh in 1971 during the military action by Pakistani army; 90% of them were Hindus.
Muslims are tirelessly working – openly and brazenly – to convert the rest of India into "Dar-ul-Islam," the nation of Islam. The mega-size daring attacks in Mumbai, bomb blasts in Coimbatore, Godhra train massacres, the terrorist attack on National Parliament in New Delhi, attacks on the historic Amarnath Temple and on Akshardham temple in Gujarat all point clearly to that grand Islamic design of establishing Nizam-e-Mustafa, or the rule of Allah in the Hindu land.
In the face of such voluminous and irrefutable evidence all around about the Islamic brutalities and barbarities against the hapless Hindus, Comrade Vijay Prashad is vainly trying to whitewash the wanton cruelty and rapacity of Islamic rulers in India. He is shamelessly acting as a stooge and apologist on behalf of the Islamists. Comrade Vijay Prashad has stooped so low that he has actually made himself the laughing stock in eyes of all those who know India’s true history!
At this moment, there are one billion Hindus all over the world. They are smart, intelligent and rich and understand what is good for them. It is time for this one-sixth of the humanity to stand up in solidarity and gratitude with Mr. Francois Gautier. Six million Jews were killed by Nazi Germany and there are now hundreds of Jewish Holocaust Museums all over the world. Whereas, more than 40 million Hindus have been slaughtered in course of the last 1400 years and not a single memorial in their memory? What a disgrace!
At this time we Hindus must come out in droves and congratulate Francois Gautier who has displayed a rare foresight and vision to build a Hindu Holocaust Museum in India in memory of these 40 million Hindus who had to fall victims to the historic brutality of unimaginable proportions.
The courageous Mr. Gautier deserves all out gratitude and generous help from the general Hindu public…while the selfish and the lowly individuals like Comrade Vijay Prashad must be heaped the universal condemnation for their anti-Hindu phobia.
My Rebuttal to News India-Times
Narain Kataria
Prof. Vijay Prashad’s article in last week’s News India-Times that Islam in India did not spread at the point of sword, is based on the false assumptions and is devoid of factual data. His thesis seems to be largely motivated by his malicious attempt to obscure and falsify the Indian history. Prof. Prashad’s outrageous assertion not only misleads the Indian public opinion, it actually insults the country’s nine hundred fifty million majority Hindus who have been at the receiving end for so long. To say the least, Prof. Prashad’s premise is completely preposterous nonsense.
People with Hindu-sounding names like Prof. Prashad who masquerade in our community as intellectuals are actually diehard Marxists who suffer from the deep inferiority complex. They subconsciously hate themselves and their fellowmen and are ashamed of their glorious Hindu ancestry. After the comrades were universally discredited and the worldwide Communist movement collapsed, the Indian Communists have now established a sinister nexus with the Jehadi Islamists in subverting Indian polity.
India’s History is testimony to the fact that the Islamic period in our nation’s life was a dark and dismal period so far as the Hindus are concerned. For them, the Muslim rule brought untold sufferings and deadly suffocation, and invited fierce resistance from Hindus. Vandalism and senseless destruction by Muslims of the Hindu property and religious places was so vast in magnitude, so stark in its evil and so vulgar in its nature that it demands an eternal condemnation. The painful saga of the trauma and torture suffered by millions of our forefathers must be told and passed on to our children and to the rest of the world. They must be told the truth and nothing else but the whole truth.
Hence, there is a great need for building the Hindu Holocaust Museum. And, valiant Francois Gautier, the noted journalist from France has provided a lead in this direction and taken up the project of erecting one in Pune, India.
So bloody was the Muslim rule in the country that a noted Islamic historian Abbas Khan Sherwani has proudly recorded about one incident in his chronicle Tarikh-i-Farishtah: "The Hindoos were pursued and slain by (Muslim) allies with such success, that the river was dyed red with their blood. Over one hundred thousand (100,000) infidels were slain during the action and in pursuit.”
As apart of this chain of cruelty and terror, the Mogul king Jahangir forced the fifth Sikh Guru Arjun Dev to sit on a burning hot plate. While this inhuman act was in progress, the hot sand was simultaneously poured over his body. This beastly behavior was justified by the Muslim clergy because the sacred Guru tried to protect the hapless Hindu public from the senseless Muslim tyranny.
Indian history’s Muslim period was full of such terrible Islamic acts: The tenth Guru Gobind Singh`s two sons were bricked alive, brave Bhai Mati Das was sawed alive when he refused to convert to Islam, Guru Teg Bahadur Sahib was viciously tortured and finally beheaded by the Islamists.
Even in our own living memory in 1947, the Muslims forced upon us the partition of our Motherland. Muslims everywhere gleefully boasted and warned Hindus: “Hans ke Liya Hai Pakistan, Ladke Lenge Hindustan.” (We took Pakistan with ease; now we’ll take India by force.) To support that assertion, a reign of loot, kidnappings, murder, rape and terror has been unleashed against the Hindus and Sikhs and Buddhists. Through the conversions and killings, the Hindu population in Pakistan has been reduced from 23% in 1947 to 1% in 2009. In Bangladesh, the same is reduced from the formidable 35% in 1947 to a mere 8% in 2009.
In Kashmir, more than 400,000 tortured and terrorized Hindu families had to leave their ancestral homes and hearths to take refuge in India. Over 3 million people were killed in Bangladesh in 1971 during the military action by Pakistani army; 90% of them were Hindus.
Muslims are tirelessly working – openly and brazenly – to convert the rest of India into "Dar-ul-Islam," the nation of Islam. The mega-size daring attacks in Mumbai, bomb blasts in Coimbatore, Godhra train massacres, the terrorist attack on National Parliament in New Delhi, attacks on the historic Amarnath Temple and on Akshardham temple in Gujarat all point clearly to that grand Islamic design of establishing Nizam-e-Mustafa, or the rule of Allah in the Hindu land.
In the face of such voluminous and irrefutable evidence all around about the Islamic brutalities and barbarities against the hapless Hindus, Comrade Vijay Prashad is vainly trying to whitewash the wanton cruelty and rapacity of Islamic rulers in India. He is shamelessly acting as a stooge and apologist on behalf of the Islamists. Comrade Vijay Prashad has stooped so low that he has actually made himself the laughing stock in eyes of all those who know India’s true history!
At this moment, there are one billion Hindus all over the world. They are smart, intelligent and rich and understand what is good for them. It is time for this one-sixth of the humanity to stand up in solidarity and gratitude with Mr. Francois Gautier. Six million Jews were killed by Nazi Germany and there are now hundreds of Jewish Holocaust Museums all over the world. Whereas, more than 40 million Hindus have been slaughtered in course of the last 1400 years and not a single memorial in their memory? What a disgrace!
At this time we Hindus must come out in droves and congratulate Francois Gautier who has displayed a rare foresight and vision to build a Hindu Holocaust Museum in India in memory of these 40 million Hindus who had to fall victims to the historic brutality of unimaginable proportions.
The courageous Mr. Gautier deserves all out gratitude and generous help from the general Hindu public…while the selfish and the lowly individuals like Comrade Vijay Prashad must be heaped the universal condemnation for their anti-Hindu phobia.
DIWALI MESSAGE FROM NARAIN KATARIA
WISHING YOU HAPPY, HEALTHY
AND PROSPEROUS DIWALI!
On this auspicious occasion of Diwali, I just want to remind my Hindu/Sikh/Buddh and Jain brothers and sisters about the following pledge which one thousand strong Hindus/Sikhs/Buddhists/Jains had undertaken on the 15th Annual Hindu Unity Day in New York on August 2nd in the presence of Dr. Subramanian Swamy, former Cabinet Minister, Francois Gautier, a prominent French journalist, Veer Raas Kavi Gajendra Solanki, Dr. Uma Mysorekar and other community leaders:
· I shall try my level best to restore dignity to Hinduism, and work for the unification and consolidation of Hindu Nation.
· I will volunteer, support and work for any organization/association/temple that promotes Hindu cause.
· I will devote my time, energy, intellectual capability and financial resources in the service of Brihad Virat Hindutva.
· I will try to learn Sanskrit and encourage my children and grand children to do the same
· I will campaign against the dowry system, untouchability and seek to eradicate them from Hindu society.
· I will stand up and be counted if any injustice and humiliation is heaped on Hindus.
· I will try to learn about the real History of India.
· I will support our Hindu temples run by our community.
· I will support and back leaders who pledge to be supportive of these Hindu interests. Hence, I will support with Tan (body) Man (mind) and Dhan (wealth) anyone promoting Hindu causes.
It is time to renew the pledge.
Very truly yours,
Narain Kataria
AND PROSPEROUS DIWALI!
On this auspicious occasion of Diwali, I just want to remind my Hindu/Sikh/Buddh and Jain brothers and sisters about the following pledge which one thousand strong Hindus/Sikhs/Buddhists/Jains had undertaken on the 15th Annual Hindu Unity Day in New York on August 2nd in the presence of Dr. Subramanian Swamy, former Cabinet Minister, Francois Gautier, a prominent French journalist, Veer Raas Kavi Gajendra Solanki, Dr. Uma Mysorekar and other community leaders:
· I shall try my level best to restore dignity to Hinduism, and work for the unification and consolidation of Hindu Nation.
· I will volunteer, support and work for any organization/association/temple that promotes Hindu cause.
· I will devote my time, energy, intellectual capability and financial resources in the service of Brihad Virat Hindutva.
· I will try to learn Sanskrit and encourage my children and grand children to do the same
· I will campaign against the dowry system, untouchability and seek to eradicate them from Hindu society.
· I will stand up and be counted if any injustice and humiliation is heaped on Hindus.
· I will try to learn about the real History of India.
· I will support our Hindu temples run by our community.
· I will support and back leaders who pledge to be supportive of these Hindu interests. Hence, I will support with Tan (body) Man (mind) and Dhan (wealth) anyone promoting Hindu causes.
It is time to renew the pledge.
Very truly yours,
Narain Kataria
REQUEST TO GOVERNOR ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER OF CALIFORNIA TO REVERT HIS DECISION OVER CARRYING OF KIRPAN BY SIKHS
INDIAN AMERICAN INTELLECTUALS FORUM
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Katarian@aol.com
October 15, 2009
Hon. Arnold Schwarzenegger
Office of the Governor
State Capital Building
Sacramento, California 95814
Sub: Request to Revert Your Decision over Carrying of Kirpan by Sikhs
Hon. Governor Schwarzenegger:
We are highly perturbed and deeply disturbed to know that Your Honor has vetoed a unanimously passed bill (AB-504) over carrying of kirpan by Sikhs in California, stating that it was “unnecessary”.
Your decision has offended not only millions of Sikhs all over the world but also hurt the sensibilities of one billion Hindus who consider Sikhs as their elder brothers and fully appreciate and understand the significance of carrying a kirpan by Sikhs.
In this connection, we would like to inform you that kirpan had been made a part of Sikh Dharma (Religion) by our Gurus to enable Sikhs to protect themselves against the savagery and brutalities by Islamic radical brutes from Afghanistan who had unleashed the reign of loot, murder, rape and terror in the Indian state of Punjab for more than 1000 years and killed thousands of innocent Sikhs and Hindus.
For your information, we would also like to add here that Sikhs are known to be very brave, loyal, peaceful people, and are an asset to America. In India, Sikhs are held in high esteem by most of the Indians because they are religiously trained to protect honor of women and self-respect of the weak and the poor. The main motivation behind transforming Hindus into Sikhs was to defend the pride and dignity of Indian nation. During British rule in India, Sikhs were the mainstay of British Imperial Army and have won many laurels for their chivalry.
We believe that your decision is not based on wise counsel and has not taken historical factors into account.
The relationship between Hindus and Sikhs is akin to skin and nails. Hindus in India and all over the world consider Sikhs as their blood brothers. Hence, we request you to kindly reconsider your decision and permit our Sikh brothers to carry kirpan in your state - California. By doing so, you could win accolades from both; one billion Hindus and 25 Million Sikhs.
Very truly yours,
Narain Kataria
Prsident
Sent by regular mail and
[Fax no. 916-558-3160]
Dhimmi Sree Sreenivasan Working Against Indian Interest
Letter to the Editor:
Dhimmi Sree Sreenivasan Working Against Indian Interest
Narain Kataria
According to The Times of India dated October 7, 2009 (http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/Go-to-jail-or-join-jihad-against-India-ISI-tells-surrendered-Taliban/articleshow/5095277.cms), ISI of Pakistan has given an option to the surrendered Taliban either to go to jail or join Jihad against India. This is a very dangerous and frightening news.
On the one hand, Pakistan is deadly determined to destabilize and balkanize India with the help of sleeper cells in India and Taliban in Pakistan, and on the other hand, this far left Marxist academician from Columbia University, New York, Sree Sreenivasan of South Asian Journalists Association, has sent an email to SAJA list on October 4, 2009 encouraging Indian journalists to write stories for the promotion of American Pakistan Foundation. This activity smacks of dhimmitude and could conveniently be summed up as “anti-Indian”.
Please note that there are two types of dhimmies: (i) kafirs who become apologists for Islam, fear and defer to it and seek Islamic favor; and (ii) the subjugated dhimmies who suffer insult, humiliation, torture and brutalities under political Islam.
It is also a matter of great disgust that Sree Sreenivasan is misusing the resources of Indian journalists to promote Pakistan in this country and indirectly Jihad in India. He has to be stopped in his diabolical designs to harm India.
Thousands of Jai Chands and Man Singhs with Hindu-sounding names are masquerading as sheep in our society to hide their true identity, befool us, mislead us. weaken us and finally destroy us from within.
They strut around as our leaders but surreptitiously hobnob and collude with our enemies to create doubt and inferiority complex in our society.
Hindus should put a system in place to investigate the background of such persons, keep a watch on their anti-Indian activities, expose them, discredit them and boycott them socially.
By the way, Sree Sreenivasan is the son of a former Ambassador of India to USA, Mr. T.P. Sreenivasan
Dhimmi Sree Sreenivasan Working Against Indian Interest
Narain Kataria
According to The Times of India dated October 7, 2009 (http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/Go-to-jail-or-join-jihad-against-India-ISI-tells-surrendered-Taliban/articleshow/5095277.cms), ISI of Pakistan has given an option to the surrendered Taliban either to go to jail or join Jihad against India. This is a very dangerous and frightening news.
On the one hand, Pakistan is deadly determined to destabilize and balkanize India with the help of sleeper cells in India and Taliban in Pakistan, and on the other hand, this far left Marxist academician from Columbia University, New York, Sree Sreenivasan of South Asian Journalists Association, has sent an email to SAJA list on October 4, 2009 encouraging Indian journalists to write stories for the promotion of American Pakistan Foundation. This activity smacks of dhimmitude and could conveniently be summed up as “anti-Indian”.
Please note that there are two types of dhimmies: (i) kafirs who become apologists for Islam, fear and defer to it and seek Islamic favor; and (ii) the subjugated dhimmies who suffer insult, humiliation, torture and brutalities under political Islam.
It is also a matter of great disgust that Sree Sreenivasan is misusing the resources of Indian journalists to promote Pakistan in this country and indirectly Jihad in India. He has to be stopped in his diabolical designs to harm India.
Thousands of Jai Chands and Man Singhs with Hindu-sounding names are masquerading as sheep in our society to hide their true identity, befool us, mislead us. weaken us and finally destroy us from within.
They strut around as our leaders but surreptitiously hobnob and collude with our enemies to create doubt and inferiority complex in our society.
Hindus should put a system in place to investigate the background of such persons, keep a watch on their anti-Indian activities, expose them, discredit them and boycott them socially.
By the way, Sree Sreenivasan is the son of a former Ambassador of India to USA, Mr. T.P. Sreenivasan
Wednesday, September 16, 2009
Peaceful Vigil in front of Ground Zero in New York on 9/11
Peaceful Vigil in front of Ground Zero in New York on 9/11 -
Report from Narain Kataria
Facing gusty winds and heavy rains members of Human Rights Coalition Against Radical Islam (HRCARI), an apex body of 35 organizations listed below, staged a peaceful vigil in front of Ground Zero in New York on 9/11/2009.
HRCARI members – Christians, Jews, Moslems, Hindus, Sikhs and secular leaders gathered there to mourn the loss of all victims of Radical Islam – from the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, from Mumbai to Madrid, Lockerbie to London, Bali to Beslan, Bangladesh and Pakistan, from Somalia to Sudan, from Iraq to Israel, from the sailors on the USS Code to the Coptic Christians in Egypt, and from Kenya to Kashmir.
This multi-ethnic, diverse, rainbow coalition for human rights demanded American government officials, President Barak Obama and the mainstream media to connect the dots and report the truth about Radical Islam’s worldwide assault on human rights ( including mass murders and suicide bombings, hanging of gays, stoning women, honor killings, suppression of free speech, etc.) .
HRCARI also demanded the governments to take appropriate action to protect the civilized world and to slow, if not stop, the spread of Islamic Supremacism; this oppressive, bigoted, homophobic, misogynist, racist and violent doctrine which has spawned so much death and destruction.
The volunteers carried various posters saying “Since 9/11 Radical Islam has committed 11,961 attacks and killed 75,038 and injured 115,255 people”, “Stop billions of Saudi oil money funding worldwide to Radical Islam”, etc.
“The root cause of the murder and mayhem in Middle East, Israel, Lebanon, Palestine, Kashmir, Madrid, Mumbai, Beslan, Bali, Manila, USA, UK and other parts of the world is Radical Islam. Radical Islam is the greatest threat to human civilization. We should recognize the gravity of this threat”, warned Dr. Marvin Belsky of HRCARI.
Andrew Upton from the Human Rights Coalition Against Radical Islam spoke of the difficulty in challenging an intolerant, bigoted , hate-filled and violent political doctrine when it hides behind the veil of religion; especially in America where tolerance of religious beliefs is so important to so many of us. Yet he emphasized the importance of unveiling the terrible truth about this doctrine as he recalled standing and watching in horror from just one block away as the second plane struck the World Trade Center on 9/11/01.
Narrating the tragic story of the death and destruction wrought by Radical Islam, Rajinder Singh Khalsa, President, Sikh Recognition Trust said: “Our Ninth Guru Shri Teg Bahadur Singh ji was killed by Radical Islam and our Tenth Guru’s two sons also were bricked alive in the walls by Radical Islamists.
One of the organizer of the Vigil, Narain Kataria said: “Radical Islamic preaches an ideology that is intolerant, exclusive, oppressive, totalitarian, violates human rights of others, and is incompatible with American Constitution. Radical Islam has unleashed a war on humanity. For the survival and protection of humanity as a whole, it is absolutely essential for the civilized governments and the United Nations to nip in bud this totalitarian ideology masquerading as a religion.
Bhupinder Singh Bhurji, Chairman of Namdhari Sikh Foundation, USA said: “What happened on 9/11 in New York has been happening for the hundreds of years in our country of origin - India. A couple of months ago thousands of our Hindu and Sikh brothers were asked to pay special tax (jazia) by Talibans in Pakistan. When they refused to pay the Dhimmi tax, their houses were ransacked, burnt and their businesses destroyed. According to a report in yesterday’s Times of India, as a result of torture and brutalization by Talibans, more than 5000 Hindus and Sikhs have fled Pakistan.
What America is doing now in Afghanistan, we Sikhs had done it 200 years ago and taught a befitting lesson to terrorists from Afghanistan. We Sikhs organized our army under Maharaja Ranjit Singh, the Lion of Punjab, and pushed all the Islamic invaders back to Afghanistan. Under our Commander Hari Singh Nalva we attacked Afghanistan and defeated them and broke their backbone. We built a very powerful human wall on the western front of India and insulated India from foreign attacks for ever.
Arish Sahani, one another member of HRCARI informed the audience that during the last 8 years, more than 13,000 terrorist attacks have taken place all over the world in which thousands of innocent men, women and children have been murdered. Referring to ethnic cleansing of Hindus, Sikhs, Buddhists and Christians from Islamic nations, Mr. Sahani said that during the last 60 years, Hindu population in Pakistan has been reduced from 23 to 1%, and it has been brought down from 30% to 7-8% in Bangladesh.
Dr. Vasudev Murthy, Mohinder Singh Gulati, a businessman, Kamal Pandey, Sher Bahadur Singh of Nepalese Foundation, , Bidyut Sarkar of International Foundation of Bangladeshi Hindus, Satya Dosapati, Pabitra Choudhury and other activists also expressed their outrage and disgust against Radical Islam.
The Human Rights Coalition Against Radical Islam includes:
9/11 Families for a Secure America, ACT for America, Long Island & Manhattan, AISH Center, Alliance of Interfaith Resistance, AMCHA,American Coptic Union, American Center for Democracy, Americans for Peace & Tolerance, Arabs for Israel, Artists4Israel, Center for Security Policy, Chinese Community Relations Council(CCRC), Clarion Fund, Damanga( Darfur Muslims), David Project, Forcefield, Foundation of Nepalese, Global Movement Against Radical Islam, Hasbara Fellowships, Hindu Human Rights Watch, Indian-American Intellectuals Forum, Institute for Religion & Democracy, International Foundation of Bangladeshi Hindus, Jewish Action Alliance, Mothers Against Terrorism, Muslims Against Sharia, Namdhari Sikh Foundation, R.E.A.L Courage, Security & Law Society, Fordham University School of Law, Sikh Recognition Trust, Stand With Us, Sudan Freedom Walk, The Intelligence Summit, The United Nationalist Nepalese (UNN), Women United: Code Red, Zionist Organization of America
Report from Narain Kataria
Facing gusty winds and heavy rains members of Human Rights Coalition Against Radical Islam (HRCARI), an apex body of 35 organizations listed below, staged a peaceful vigil in front of Ground Zero in New York on 9/11/2009.
HRCARI members – Christians, Jews, Moslems, Hindus, Sikhs and secular leaders gathered there to mourn the loss of all victims of Radical Islam – from the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, from Mumbai to Madrid, Lockerbie to London, Bali to Beslan, Bangladesh and Pakistan, from Somalia to Sudan, from Iraq to Israel, from the sailors on the USS Code to the Coptic Christians in Egypt, and from Kenya to Kashmir.
This multi-ethnic, diverse, rainbow coalition for human rights demanded American government officials, President Barak Obama and the mainstream media to connect the dots and report the truth about Radical Islam’s worldwide assault on human rights ( including mass murders and suicide bombings, hanging of gays, stoning women, honor killings, suppression of free speech, etc.) .
HRCARI also demanded the governments to take appropriate action to protect the civilized world and to slow, if not stop, the spread of Islamic Supremacism; this oppressive, bigoted, homophobic, misogynist, racist and violent doctrine which has spawned so much death and destruction.
The volunteers carried various posters saying “Since 9/11 Radical Islam has committed 11,961 attacks and killed 75,038 and injured 115,255 people”, “Stop billions of Saudi oil money funding worldwide to Radical Islam”, etc.
“The root cause of the murder and mayhem in Middle East, Israel, Lebanon, Palestine, Kashmir, Madrid, Mumbai, Beslan, Bali, Manila, USA, UK and other parts of the world is Radical Islam. Radical Islam is the greatest threat to human civilization. We should recognize the gravity of this threat”, warned Dr. Marvin Belsky of HRCARI.
Andrew Upton from the Human Rights Coalition Against Radical Islam spoke of the difficulty in challenging an intolerant, bigoted , hate-filled and violent political doctrine when it hides behind the veil of religion; especially in America where tolerance of religious beliefs is so important to so many of us. Yet he emphasized the importance of unveiling the terrible truth about this doctrine as he recalled standing and watching in horror from just one block away as the second plane struck the World Trade Center on 9/11/01.
Narrating the tragic story of the death and destruction wrought by Radical Islam, Rajinder Singh Khalsa, President, Sikh Recognition Trust said: “Our Ninth Guru Shri Teg Bahadur Singh ji was killed by Radical Islam and our Tenth Guru’s two sons also were bricked alive in the walls by Radical Islamists.
One of the organizer of the Vigil, Narain Kataria said: “Radical Islamic preaches an ideology that is intolerant, exclusive, oppressive, totalitarian, violates human rights of others, and is incompatible with American Constitution. Radical Islam has unleashed a war on humanity. For the survival and protection of humanity as a whole, it is absolutely essential for the civilized governments and the United Nations to nip in bud this totalitarian ideology masquerading as a religion.
Bhupinder Singh Bhurji, Chairman of Namdhari Sikh Foundation, USA said: “What happened on 9/11 in New York has been happening for the hundreds of years in our country of origin - India. A couple of months ago thousands of our Hindu and Sikh brothers were asked to pay special tax (jazia) by Talibans in Pakistan. When they refused to pay the Dhimmi tax, their houses were ransacked, burnt and their businesses destroyed. According to a report in yesterday’s Times of India, as a result of torture and brutalization by Talibans, more than 5000 Hindus and Sikhs have fled Pakistan.
What America is doing now in Afghanistan, we Sikhs had done it 200 years ago and taught a befitting lesson to terrorists from Afghanistan. We Sikhs organized our army under Maharaja Ranjit Singh, the Lion of Punjab, and pushed all the Islamic invaders back to Afghanistan. Under our Commander Hari Singh Nalva we attacked Afghanistan and defeated them and broke their backbone. We built a very powerful human wall on the western front of India and insulated India from foreign attacks for ever.
Arish Sahani, one another member of HRCARI informed the audience that during the last 8 years, more than 13,000 terrorist attacks have taken place all over the world in which thousands of innocent men, women and children have been murdered. Referring to ethnic cleansing of Hindus, Sikhs, Buddhists and Christians from Islamic nations, Mr. Sahani said that during the last 60 years, Hindu population in Pakistan has been reduced from 23 to 1%, and it has been brought down from 30% to 7-8% in Bangladesh.
Dr. Vasudev Murthy, Mohinder Singh Gulati, a businessman, Kamal Pandey, Sher Bahadur Singh of Nepalese Foundation, , Bidyut Sarkar of International Foundation of Bangladeshi Hindus, Satya Dosapati, Pabitra Choudhury and other activists also expressed their outrage and disgust against Radical Islam.
The Human Rights Coalition Against Radical Islam includes:
9/11 Families for a Secure America, ACT for America, Long Island & Manhattan, AISH Center, Alliance of Interfaith Resistance, AMCHA,American Coptic Union, American Center for Democracy, Americans for Peace & Tolerance, Arabs for Israel, Artists4Israel, Center for Security Policy, Chinese Community Relations Council(CCRC), Clarion Fund, Damanga( Darfur Muslims), David Project, Forcefield, Foundation of Nepalese, Global Movement Against Radical Islam, Hasbara Fellowships, Hindu Human Rights Watch, Indian-American Intellectuals Forum, Institute for Religion & Democracy, International Foundation of Bangladeshi Hindus, Jewish Action Alliance, Mothers Against Terrorism, Muslims Against Sharia, Namdhari Sikh Foundation, R.E.A.L Courage, Security & Law Society, Fordham University School of Law, Sikh Recognition Trust, Stand With Us, Sudan Freedom Walk, The Intelligence Summit, The United Nationalist Nepalese (UNN), Women United: Code Red, Zionist Organization of America
Friday, May 22, 2009
Protest Against Atrocities on Sikhs in Pakistan
MEMORANDUM TO MR. MOHSIN RAZI May 6, 2009
CONSUL GENERAL OF PAKISTAN
Mr. Mohsin Razi
Consul General of Pakistan
12 East 65th Street
New York, NY 10065
Sub: Protest Against Atrocities on Sikhs in Pakistan
Hon. Mohsin Razi:
We, the undersigned, living in New York are highly perturbed and deeply disturbed at the atrocities perpetrated on our Sikh brothers in Pakistan.
It is a matter of great regret and shame that our Sikh brothers in Pakistan were targeted by Taliban to pay $50 million as religious tax (Jazia). When they refused to pay the Jazia, their houses were ransacked, looted and blown to bits. They were terrorized and warned that they would be killed if they did not pay the tax.
We consider this as an egregious violation of human rights. Because of threat to their lives, 150 Sikh families have moved from Buner, Swat and Aurakzai Agency to Rawalpindi, Lahore and other parts of the country.
State Department spokesman Robert Wood has described Taliban as “ruthless killers”. We are very anguished to note that Government of Pakistan has so far taken no action to bring the culprits to the book. We condemn Pakistan government’s deliberate connivance at criminal activities by Taliban towards our Sikh brothers.
We would also bring to your attention that last month a group of 35 Hindu people crossed over to India and sought Government of India’s permission to stay in India because they could not take the harassment and barbarities of Taliban.
Sikhs have been living in Pakistan under subhuman conditions. In 2007, Jihad Watch had reported that an 18th Century Sikh Gurudwara in Lahore was taken over by a Muslim group and converted into a mosque.
Hence, we urge you to kindly bring to the attention of Government of Pakistan our distress and apprehension, and ensure safety and security of our Sikh brothers in Pakistan.
Very truly yours,
Sd/-
Narain Kataria
President
Indian American Intellectuals Forum, New York
(718) 478-5735
Sd/-
Bhupinder Singh Bhurji
Chairman and CEO
Namdhari Sikh Foundation, New York
(917) 370-2500
CONSUL GENERAL OF PAKISTAN
Mr. Mohsin Razi
Consul General of Pakistan
12 East 65th Street
New York, NY 10065
Sub: Protest Against Atrocities on Sikhs in Pakistan
Hon. Mohsin Razi:
We, the undersigned, living in New York are highly perturbed and deeply disturbed at the atrocities perpetrated on our Sikh brothers in Pakistan.
It is a matter of great regret and shame that our Sikh brothers in Pakistan were targeted by Taliban to pay $50 million as religious tax (Jazia). When they refused to pay the Jazia, their houses were ransacked, looted and blown to bits. They were terrorized and warned that they would be killed if they did not pay the tax.
We consider this as an egregious violation of human rights. Because of threat to their lives, 150 Sikh families have moved from Buner, Swat and Aurakzai Agency to Rawalpindi, Lahore and other parts of the country.
State Department spokesman Robert Wood has described Taliban as “ruthless killers”. We are very anguished to note that Government of Pakistan has so far taken no action to bring the culprits to the book. We condemn Pakistan government’s deliberate connivance at criminal activities by Taliban towards our Sikh brothers.
We would also bring to your attention that last month a group of 35 Hindu people crossed over to India and sought Government of India’s permission to stay in India because they could not take the harassment and barbarities of Taliban.
Sikhs have been living in Pakistan under subhuman conditions. In 2007, Jihad Watch had reported that an 18th Century Sikh Gurudwara in Lahore was taken over by a Muslim group and converted into a mosque.
Hence, we urge you to kindly bring to the attention of Government of Pakistan our distress and apprehension, and ensure safety and security of our Sikh brothers in Pakistan.
Very truly yours,
Sd/-
Narain Kataria
President
Indian American Intellectuals Forum, New York
(718) 478-5735
Sd/-
Bhupinder Singh Bhurji
Chairman and CEO
Namdhari Sikh Foundation, New York
(917) 370-2500
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