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'HINDU FUNDAMENTALISM' DOES NOT EXIST |
HINDU FUNDAMENTALISM: DOES IT REALLY EXIST?
By Dr. David Frawley
Fundamentalism is an easily discernible phenomenon in
belief-oriented religions like Christianity and Islam
which have a simple and exclusive pattern to their faith.
They generally insist that there is only One God, who has
only one Son or final Prophet, and only one true
scripture. They hold that belief in this One God and his
chief representative brings salvation in an eternal
heaven, and disbelief causes condemnation to an eternal
hell. Muslims daily chant "there is no God but Allah and
Mohammed is his prophet. " Most Christians recognize
belief in Christ as one's personal savior as the only
true way to salvation.
Fundamentalists are literalists in these traditions who
hold rigidly to their beliefs and insist that since their
religion alone is true that other religions should not be
tolerated, particularly in the lands where members of
their religion are in a majority. Fundamentalists also
generally hold to their religion's older social customs,
and refuse to integrate into the broader stream of modern
society which recognizes the freedom of belief.
Fundamentalism can usually be discriminated from
orthodoxy. Orthodox Muslims and Christians generally
tolerate those of other religious beliefs, though they
may not agree with them. The orthodox are usually not
involved in the militancy and social backwardness of
fundamentalist groups. They usually have no trouble
functioning in modern society. However the orthodox may
keep to themselves in matters of religion and may still
regard that their's is the only true religion.While the
news media of the Western World, and even of India,
speaks of Hindu fundamentalism, no one appears to have
really defined what it is. Is there a Hindu
fundamentalism comparable to Islamic and Christian
fundamentalism? Using such a term merely assumes that
there is, but what is the evidence for it? Are there
Hindu beliefs of the same order as the absolute beliefs
of fundamentalist Christianity and Islam? It is
questionable whether fundamentalism, as it is usually
defined relative to Christianity and Islam, can exist at
all in the more open and diverse religious tradition of
Hinduism which has many names and forms for God, many
great teachers and incarnations, many sacred books, and a
pursuit of Self-realization which does not recognize the
existence of any eternal heaven or hell. There is no
monolithic faith called Hinduism with a set system of
beliefs which all Hindus must follow that can be turned
into fundamentalism.
Fundamentalist groups insist that their's is the only
true God and that all other Gods or names of God are
wrong. Islamic fundamentalists insist that the only God
is Allah, and will not accept Hindu names for God like
Brahman or Ishvara, even though these mean pretty much
the same thing. Christian fundamentalists will not accept
Allah or Brahman as names for God as they conceive Him to
be. Hindus with their many names and forms for God don't
mind accepting the Christian name God or even Islamic
Allah as referring to the same reality. A belief in God
is not even necessary to be a Hindu, as such non-theistic
Hindu systems as Sankhya reveal. For those who are
speaking of Hindu fundamentalism, we must ask the
question: What One God do Hindu fundamentalist groups
insist upon is the only true God and which Gods are they
claiming are false except for Him?
Islamic fundamentalists consider that Islam is the only
true religion, that no true new faith can be established
after Islam and that with the advent of Islam all
previous faiths became outdated. Christian
fundamentalists hold that Christianity alone is true, and
that Islam and Hinduism are religions of the devil. Even
orthodox people in these traditions may hold these views
to some degree.
Hindus are not of one faith only. They are divided up
into Shaivites, Vaishnavas, Shaktas, Smartas and a number
of other groups which are constantly being revised
relative to modern gurus. Those called Hindu
fundamentalists are also divided up into these different
sects. What common belief can be found in these Hindu
groups which can be called Hindu fundamentalism? What
common Hindu fundamentalist platform do the different
sects of Hinduism share? Is it a Shaivite or Vaishnava
fundamentalism, and how do such groups maintain their
harmony and identity under the Hindu fundamentalist
banner? While one can make a code of belief for Christian
or Islamic fundamentalism, what code of belief applies to
Hindu fundamentalism of all different sects?
No Hindus - including so-called Hindu fundamentalists -
insist that there is only one true faith called Hinduism
and that all other faiths are false. Hinduism contains
too much plurality to allow for that. Its tendency is to
not to coalesce into a fanatic unity like the
fundamentalists of other religions, but to disperse into
its various diverse components and fail to arrive at any
common action, historically even one of self-defense
against foreign invaders.
Fundamentalist groups insist upon belief in the literal
truth of one book as the Word of God, which they base
their behavior on. Muslim fundamentalists insist that the
Koran is the Word of God and that all necessary knowledge
is contained in it. Christian fundamentalists say the
same thing of the Bible. Again even orthodox or ordinary
Muslims and Christians, not only fundamentalists, may
believe this to some degree. Hindus have many holy books
like the Vedas, Agamas, Gita, Ramayana and so on, which
contain a great variety of teachings and many different
points of view and no one of these books is required
reading for all Hindus. Hindus generally respect the holy
books of other religions as well. What single holy book
do Hindu fundamentalists hold literally to be the word of
God, which they base their behavior upon? Christian and
Islamic fundamentalists flout their holy book and are
ever quoting from it to justify their actions and their
beliefs. What Hindu Bible are the Hindu fundamentalists
all carrying, quoting and preaching from and find
justification in?
Fundamentalist groups are often involved in conversion
activity wherein they are seeking to get other people to
adopt their beliefs. They frequently promote missionary
efforts throughout the world to bring the entire world to
their views. This again is true of many ordinary or
orthodox Muslims and Christians. Fundamentalists are
merely more vehement in their practices. What missionary
activities are Hindu fundamentalists promoting throughout
the world? What missions in other countries have Hindu
fundamentalists set up to convert Christians, Muslims or
those of other beliefs to the only true religion called
Hinduism? What Hindus are motivated by a missionary
spirit to discredit people of other religious beliefs in
order to convert and save them?
http://www.angelfire.com/ca/Hinduism/frawley.html
TRIBUTES TO HINDUISM
1. Mahatma Gandhi:
"Hinduism has made marvelous discoveries in things of
religion, of the spirit, of the soul. We have no eye for
these great and fine discoveries. We are dazzled by the
material progress that western science has made. Ancient
India has survived because Hinduism was not developed
along material but spiritual lines.
"India is to me the dearest country in the world, because
I have discovered goodness in it. It has been subject to
foreign rule, it is true. But the status of a slave is
preferable to that of a slave holder."
2. Henry David Thoreau:
"In the morning I bathe my intellect in the stupendous
and cosmogonal philosophy of the Bhagavad Gita in
comparison with which our modern world and its literature
seems puny.
"What extracts from the Vedas I have read fall on me like
the light of a higher and purer luminary, which describes
a loftier course through purer stratum. It rises on me
like the full moon after the stars have come out, wading
through some far stratum in the sky."
3. Arthur Schopenhauer:
"In the whole world there is no study so beneficial and
so elevating as that of the Upanishads. It has been the
solace of my life -- it will be the solace of my death."
4. Ralph Waldo Emerson said this about the Gita:
"I owed a magnificent day to the Bhagavad Gita. It was as
if an empire spoke to us, nothing small or unworthy, but
large, serene, consistent, the voice of an old
intelligence which in another age and climate had
pondered and thus disposed of the same questions which
exercise us."
The famous poem "Brahm" is an example of his Vedanta
ecstasy.
5. Wilhelm von Humboldt pronounced the Gita as:
"The most beautiful, perhaps the only true philosophical
song existing in any known tongue ... perhaps the deepest
and loftiest thing the world has to show."
6. Lord Warren Hastings, the Governor General, was very
much impressed with Hindu philosophy:
"The writers of the Indian philosophies will survive,
when the British dominion in India shall long have ceased
to exist, and when the sources which it yielded of wealth
and power are lost to remembrances."
7. Mark Twain:
"So far as I am able to judge, nothing has been left
undone, either by man or nature, to make India the most
extraordinary country that the sun visits on his rounds.
Nothing seems to have been forgotten, nothing overlooked.
"Land of religions, cradle of human race, birthplace of
human speech, grandmother of legend, great grandmother of
tradition. The land that all men desire to see and having
seen once even by a glimpse, would not give that glimpse
for the shows of the rest of the globe combined."
8. Rudyard Kipling to Fundamental Christian Missionaries:
"Now it is not good for the Christian's health to hustle
the Hindu brown for the Christian riles and the Hindu
smiles and weareth the Christian down; and the end of the
fight is a tombstone while with the name of the late
deceased and the epitaph drear, "A fool lies here who
tried to hustle the east".
9. Jules Michelet, a French historian, said:
"At its starting point in India, the birthplace of races
and religions, the womb of the world." This is what he
said of the Raamyana in 1864: "Whoever has done or willed
too much let him drink from this deep cup a long draught
of life and youth .. . Everything is narrow in the West -
- Greece is small and I stifle; Judea is dry and I pant.
Let me look toward lofty Asia, and the profound East for
a little while. There lies my great poem, as vast as the
Indian ocean, blessed, gilded with the sun, the book of
divine harmony wherein is no dissonance. A serene peace
reigns there, and in the midst of conflict an infinite
sweetness, a boundless fraternity, which spreads over all
living things, an ocean (without bottom or bound) of
love, of pity, of clemency."
10. Shri Aurobindo:
"Hinduism.....gave itself no name, because it set itself
no sectarian limits; it claimed no universal adhesion,
asserted no sole infallible dogma, set up no single
narrow path or gate of salvation; it was less a creed or
cult than a continuously enlarging tradition of the
Godward endeavor of the human spirit. An immense many-
sided and many staged provision for a spiritual self-
building and self-finding, it had some right to speak of
itself by the only name it knew, the eternal religion,
sanaatan dharm...."
11. Will Durant would like the West to learn from India,
tolerance and gentleness and love for all living things:
"Perhaps in return for conquest, arrogance and
spoliation, India will teach us the tolerance and
gentleness of the mature mind, the quiet content of the
unacquisitive soul, the calm of the understanding spirit,
and a unifying, a pacifying love for all living things."
12. Joseph Campbell:
"It is ironic that our great western civilization, which
has opened to the minds of all mankind the infinite
wonders of a universe of untold billions of galaxies
should be saddled with the tightest little cosmological
image known to mankind? The Hindus with their grandiose
Kalpas and their ideas of the divine power which is
beyond all human category (male or female). Not so alien
to the imagery of modern science that it could not have
been put to acceptable use.
"There is an important difference between the Hindu and
the Western ideas. In the Biblical tradition, God creates
man, but man cannot say that he is divine in the same
sense that the Creator is, where as in Hinduism, all
things are incarnations of that power. We are the sparks
from a single fire. And we are all fire. Hinduism
believes in the omnipresence of the Supreme God in every
individual. There is no 'fall'. Man is not cut off from
the divine. He requires only to bring the spontaneous
activity of his mind stuff to a state of stillness and he
will experience that divine principle with him."
13. Sir Monier-Williams:
The Hindus, according to him, were Spinozists more than
2,000 years before the advent of Spinoza, and Darwinians
many centuries before Darwin and Evolutionists many
centuries before the doctrine of Evolution was accepted
by scientists of the present age.
14. Carl Sagan, (the late scientist), asserts that the
dance of Nataraj signifies the cycle of evolution and
destruction of the cosmic universe (Big Bang Theory). "It
is the clearest image of the activity of God which any
art or religion can boast of."
15. Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan, a professor of Eastern
Religions at Oxford and later President of India:
"Hinduism is not just a faith. It is the union of reason
and intuition that cannot be defined but is only to be
experienced. Evil and error are not ultimate. There is no
Hell, for that means there is a place where God is not,
and there are sins which exceed his love."
Jai Maharaj
http://www.mantra.com/jai
Om Shanti
Hindu Holocaust Museum
http://www.mantra.com/holocaust
Hindu life, principles, spirituality and philosophy
http://www.hindu.org
http://www.hindunet.org
The truth about Islam and Muslims
http://www.flex.com/~jai/satyamevajayate
The terrorist mission of Jesus stated in the Christian bible:
"Think not that I am come to send peace on earth: I came not so send
peace, but a sword.
"For I am come to set a man at variance against his father, and the
daughter against her mother, and the daughter in law against her mother in
law.
"And a man's foes shall be they of his own household.
- Matthew 10:34-36.
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17 Mar 2005 02:31:34 AM |
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Dear Dr. Jai Maharaj
The greatest wisdom is not what we give of ourselves, but what comes
from God through His Holy Spirit. For our neighbours this is sweetest
scent for the nose, music for the ears, honey for their tongues and
salvation for their heart, mind and soul.
What terrible sins of ourselves can veil the pathway to God, that we
can put ourselves before the love of all our neighbours, that qualifies
us to judge them in sin, but not as our equals?
Judas took money for his death to Christ; but there are many sins of
ourselves that we hold against our neighbours.
A man who shows he has learned and much yet to learn before others is
humbled by the power of God's Word. He can change the pathway to
himself to that of Christ's. His followers learn that his new path is
founded in sincere truth; that he has found a pathway to a great and
Holy Spirit and their salvation. Jesus has already died for this
purpose, that we don't need to drown in the weight of sinfulness.
"And take the helmet of salvation and the sword of the Spirit, which is
the word of God:" - Ephesians 6:17
In Christ's love
Carol T
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16 Mar 2005 08:04:20 PM |
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Dr. Jai Maharaj wrote:
HINDU FUNDAMENTALISM: DOES IT REALLY EXIST?
By Dr. David Frawley
Fundamentalism is an easily discernible phenomenon in
belief-oriented religions like Christianity and Islam
which have a simple and exclusive pattern to their faith.
georgann (forgiven since 33 AD) wrote:
georgann (forgiven since 33 AD) wrote:
Well duh!
The only thing fundamental about Hinduism or any of the "isms" is that they
have absolutely no simplicity. Its anything goes.
But don't feel left out, Christianity is apparently broad enough in its
supposed "exclusivity" for some to think they have spawned New Age
Christianity (an oxymoron if there ever was one).
--
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«´¨`·.¸¸ ¸¸.·´¨ `»
"As Benjamin Franklin left the State House in Philadelphia
on the closing day of the Constitutional Convention, a woman
asked him what kind of government the statesmen had given America.
Franklin replied: 'A republic, Madame, if you can keep it.'
http://www.boingboing.net/images/Purple-USA.jpg
http://www.princeton.edu/~rvdb/JAVA/election2004/
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17 Mar 2005 03:03:24 AM |
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Dear Georgann,
There is no oxymoron. Christian's are followers of Christ's ways
because they have received His salvation and The Holy Spirit. We are
not 'told' how to behave, but strengthened in God's Holy Spirit we
endeavour to follow Christ. This is in the full knowledge that we are
all forgiven sinners and fall far short of His greater glory. So we are
not clones of each other and Christianity allows us to express our
individuality and diversity. All refer to authorised versions of The
Bible for study and all with study together if it is our inclination.
Jesus never tells us to put aside the great and holy wisdom we already
posses. It's the hypocritical use and abuse of holy wisdom and
knowledge He spoke out against. Learned people can and do use Holy
texts and write apparent holy texts with soul the purpose of covering
their own sins before God. Sometimes people receive great spiritual
knowledge too, and because of their own sin have not realised where it
has come from. The realisation that it is from God means putting aside
the things of men and standing before Him, no idols, no veil, no
temple, no evil, no others...just you and God.
Jesus went to the cross to show you these things and much more.
_All_ Christians are born again to be who they will be. This is the
purpose of Christ's salvation, that we are born into a new life with
The Holy Spirit. Jesus tells us not to be surprised that we must be
"born again". There's little point in anyone becoming a Christian if
people still want to continue to live a sinful life. They might as well
go to church several times a day and cower to God if they are not going
to strive to improve
their lives and strive to live in Christ's light. The changes have to
come through being in good conscience toward Christ out of love for Him
and His salvation.
"Now you can have sincere love for each other as brothers and sisters
because you were cleansed from your sins when you accepted the truth of
the Good News. So see to it that you really do love each other
intensely with all your hearts. For you have been born again. Your new
life did not come from your earthly parents because the life they gave
you will end in death. But this new life will last forever because it
comes from the eternal, living word of God. As the prophet says,
"People are like grass that dies away; their beauty fades as quickly as
the beauty of wildflowers. The grass withers, and the flowers fall
away. But the word of the Lord will last forever." And that word is the
Good News that was preached to you. "
NTL 1Pe 1:22-25
In Christ's love
Carol T
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17 Mar 2005 06:41:07 AM |
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wrote:
Dear Georgann,
There is no oxymoron. Christian's are followers of Christ's ways
because they have received His salvation and The Holy Spirit. We are
not 'told' how to behave, but strengthened in God's Holy Spirit we
endeavour to follow Christ. This is in the full knowledge that we are
all forgiven sinners and fall far short of His greater glory.
Bollocks.
--
Jez
'Realism is seductive because once you have accepted the reasonable
notion that you should base your actions on reality, you are too often
led to accept, without much questioning, someone else's version of what
that reality is. It is a crucial act of independent thinking to be
skeptical of someone else's description of reality.'-
Howard Zinn
NFS Underground2, Americas Army And MOH-PA
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17 Mar 2005 06:14:49 AM |
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Dear Georgann,
There is no oxymoron. Christian's are followers of Christ's ways
because they have received His salvation and The Holy Spirit.
georgann (forgiven since 33 AD) wrote:
Please go back and read my post. The oxymoron lies in the term "New Age"
when applied to Christianity.
New Age Christianity is to pure and essential Christian beliefs what ketchup
is to prime rib.
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«´¨`·.¸¸ ¸¸.·´¨ `»
"As Benjamin Franklin left the State House in Philadelphia
on the closing day of the Constitutional Convention, a woman
asked him what kind of government the statesmen had given America.
Franklin replied: 'A republic, Madame, if you can keep it.'
http://www.boingboing.net/images/Purple-USA.jpg
http://www.princeton.edu/~rvdb/JAVA/election2004/
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17 Mar 2005 08:48:16 AM |
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Dear Georgann
I suppose every age thinks they have discovered something new and
startling when they find Christ, but yes I can see what you mean now
:o)
In Christ's love
Carol T
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| User: "georgann" |
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17 Mar 2005 06:37:24 PM |
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wrote:
I suppose every age thinks they have discovered something new and startling
when they find Christ, but yes I can see what you mean now :o)
georgann (forgiven since 33 AD) wrote:
Carol, I'm glad we're on the same page now. I personally think that
"rewritten" Christianity (such as New Age) is more offensive and more unholy
than blatant paganism. And I might add to that, prophecy to the future is
like prophesying into utter darkness. All of the light of the world is in
the direction of the Cross of Christ. Nothing anyone can do or say can
change this one eternal truth.
--
(`'·.¸(`'·.¸(`'·.¸ ¸.·'´)¸.·'´)¸.·'´)
«´¨`·.¸¸ ¸¸.·´¨ `»
"As Benjamin Franklin left the State House in Philadelphia
on the closing day of the Constitutional Convention, a woman
asked him what kind of government the statesmen had given America.
Franklin replied: 'A republic, Madame, if you can keep it.'
http://www.boingboing.net/images/Purple-USA.jpg
http://www.princeton.edu/~rvdb/JAVA/election2004/
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18 Mar 2005 08:50:45 AM |
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"georgann" <chenault@mindspring.com> wrote in message
news:BE5F8CF3.54B93%chenault@mindspring.com...
cteasd5941@gmail.com wrote:
I suppose every age thinks they have discovered something new and
startling
when they find Christ, but yes I can see what you mean now :o)
georgann (forgiven since 33 AD) wrote:
Carol, I'm glad we're on the same page now. I personally think that
"rewritten" Christianity (such as New Age) is more offensive and more
unholy
than blatant paganism. And I might add to that, prophecy to the future is
like prophesying into utter darkness. All of the light of the world is in
the direction of the Cross of Christ. Nothing anyone can do or say can
change this one eternal truth.
Except that it's not an "eternal truth".
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Robyn
Resident Witchypoo
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17 Mar 2005 06:53:34 PM |
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georgann wrote:
cteasd5941@gmail.com wrote:
I suppose every age thinks they have discovered something new and
startling when they find Christ, but yes I can see what you mean
now :o)
georgann (forgiven since 33 AD) wrote:
Carol, I'm glad we're on the same page now. I personally think that
"rewritten" Christianity (such as New Age) is more offensive and more
unholy
than blatant paganism.
Since you quote the New Testament, you ARE following "rewritten"
Christianity.
And I might add to that, prophecy to the future is
like prophesying into utter darkness. All of the light of the world
is in
the direction of the Cross of Christ. Nothing anyone can do or say
can
change this one eternal truth.
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18 Mar 2005 08:51:12 AM |
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<ranjit_mathews@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:1111107214.522660.54480@o13g2000cwo.googlegroups.com...
georgann wrote:
cteasd5941@gmail.com wrote:
I suppose every age thinks they have discovered something new and
startling when they find Christ, but yes I can see what you mean
now :o)
georgann (forgiven since 33 AD) wrote:
Carol, I'm glad we're on the same page now. I personally think that
"rewritten" Christianity (such as New Age) is more offensive and more
unholy
than blatant paganism.
Since you quote the New Testament, you ARE following "rewritten"
Christianity.
You should see her diagram. It's a hoot!
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Robyn
Resident Witchypoo
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| User: "Marcus Aurelius" |
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17 Mar 2005 12:11:25 AM |
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Georgann's signature quote: "As Benjamin Franklin left the State House
in Philadelphia
on the closing day of the Constitutional Convention, a woman
asked him what kind of government the statesmen had given America.
Franklin replied: 'A republic, Madame, if you can keep it.'
But a republic USA is not. The leader is elected by the electoral
college and not the people directly. And why would a woman worry about
the kind of govt. when voting was denied to the women. So how could she
help 'keep' it?
Adi Anant
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17 Mar 2005 02:14:49 AM |
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georgann <chenault@mindspring.com> wrote in news:BE5E4FD3.546DD%
chenault@mindspring.com:
Dr. Jai Maharaj wrote:
The Dr. is not.
Jai is not.
Majaraj certainly not.
Jay Steven he is however and a sick puppy is he.
rj
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| User: "maff" |
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| Title: Shashi Tharoor |
17 Mar 2005 09:24:16 AM |
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Dr. Jai Maharaj wrote:
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India's Past Becomes a Weapon
http://www.shashitharoor.com/a=ADrticles/nyt/indiaspast.html
By SHASHI THAROOR
I'll tell you what your problem is in India," the American businessman
said. "You have too much history. Far more than you can use peacefully.
So you end up wielding history like a battleaxe, against each other."
Shashi Tharoor
http://news.google.com/news?num=3D100&hl=3Den&lr=3D&ie=3DUTF-8&oe=3DUTF-8&q=
=3D+%22Shashi+Tharoor%22&sa=3DN&tab=3Dgn
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22Shashi+Tharoor%22&sa=3DN&tab=3Dnw
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q=3D+%22Shashi+Tharoor%22&sa=3DN&tab=3Dwd&cat=3Dgwd%2FTop
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| User: "maff" |
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| Title: Shashi Tharoor |
17 Mar 2005 11:20:06 AM |
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Dr. Jai Maharaj wrote:
[...]
India's Past Becomes a Weapon
http://www.shashitharoor.com/articles/nyt/indiaspast.html
By SHASHI THAROOR
I'll tell you what your problem is in India," the American businessman
said. "You have too much history. Far more than you can use peacefully.
So you end up wielding history like a battleaxe, against each other."
Shashi Tharoor
http://news.google.com/news?num=100&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=+%22Shashi+Tharoor%22&sa=N&tab=gn
http://www.google.com/search?num=100&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=+%22Shashi+Tharoor%22&sa=N&tab=nw
http://www.google.com/search?num=100&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=+%22Shashi+Tharoor%22&sa=N&tab=wd&cat=gwd%2FTop
http://groups-beta.google.com/groups?as_epq=Shashi%20Tharoor&safe=images&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&as_scoring=d&lr=&num=100&hl=en
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| User: "Mark K. Bilbo" |
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| Title: Re: 'HINDU FUNDAMENTALISM' DOES NOT EXIST |
16 Mar 2005 06:42:46 PM |
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In our last episode <pUeja2612OfRYU@GvuOr>, Dr. Jai Maharaj pirouetted
gracefully and with great fanfare proclaimed:
HINDU OFF TOPIC SPAM: IT REALLY DOES EXIST!
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Mark K. Bilbo - a.a. #1423
EAC Department of Linguistic Subversion
Group website at: http://www.alt-atheism.org
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"Religion is regarded by the common people as true,
by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful."
-- Seneca the Younger
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