Mumbai – It is one thing to form a Hindu Organisation and quite another to speak of forming a Hindu state, which is not in keeping with the Constitution, a special court under the MCOCA noted on 4th March 2009.

“Forming an Organisation is fine, but wanting to create a Hindu ‘rajya’ [state] is against the Constitution. We are working under the Constitution”, Judge Y.D. Shinde said during a hearing in the Malegaon blast case. The Judge’s remark came when Counsel Shrikant Shivade, arguing the case of bail for an accused, Lt. Col. Prasad Shrikant Purohit, said there was nothing wrong with his vision of a Hindu ‘Rashtra’(Nation). “If I say, ‘remove the word secular and insert the word Hindu’, there is nothing wrong in that”, the Counsel said. The charge sheet reveals that the blast accused were led by the ideology of forming a Hindu ‘Rashtra’. (Ref: thehindu.com)

What will Politicians do for Votes – Invent ‘Hindu Terrorism’!

So says David Frawley, a.k.a Vamdev Shastri in an article titled ‘Hindu Terrorism or Terrorism Against Hindus?’ We present excerpts here.
Hindus are the most tolerant and accepting of all religious groups and the most concerned with spiritual practices, rather than converting others or conquering the world.

Terrorism is a big problem in India as it is in Pakistan and in the rest of the world. The main religious group to which the great majority of terrorists belong is obviously not the Hindus. While the media in India likes to blame Hindus for terrorism in the country, even if Hindus are the victims. Yet the media of India seems to think that Hindu terrorism is more dangerous or at least a better story, while the greater number of Indians who have died from terrorism caused by non-Hindu groups don’t seem to be worthy of consideration.

Note that the Indian media will not use the term terrorism for any religious group other than the Hindus. Terrorism perpetrated in the name of Islam will be called ‘Jihadi terrorism’ or simply ‘terrorism’. Alleged terrorism in the name of anyone, even a nun, who might be a Hindu, even if it is not proved, will be called ‘Hindu terrorism’. I suspect I may be called a Hindu terrorist for writing this article.

The reason for this fixation on Hindu terrorism is clear. India has suffered from many recent terrorist attacks and there has been little headway in bringing any of the terrorists to justice. Elections are coming up and those who are afraid of losing seats for their failure to deal with real terrorism, which is generally directed against Hindus, feel that raising the bogey of Hindu terrorism will improve their chances at the polls.

Their war on terror is largely a war against Hindus to promote anti-Hindu voting sentiments.

Indians will themselves terrorise Hindus for votes!
Jihadis won’t need to terrorise Hindus anymore because Indians themselves will do it to get elected; calling Hindus terrorists while they take away their human rights and let the real terrorists go free.

Deaths of Hindus do not count for the Government!
Recently more than eight Hindu students have been murdered in the United States. Is the Government of India making a protest against anti-Hindu terrorism in the US? Certainly the American Government would make a protest if American students were being murdered in India, particularly if they were Christians or Christian workers. But deaths of Hindus don’t count it seems.

Challenge the Media and Political groups that target Hindus!
Hinduism is the religion that most commonly teaches us to respect all religions and honor a diversity of Paths to the Divine and yet we find Hinduism remains the most denigrated of all the world’s major religions.

It is time for Hindus to stand up against the distortions of Hinduism that abound in the world today, which means challenging the media and political groups that target and malign Hindus and Hinduism for their advantage. This anti-Hindu media actually seems worse in India than in the West. Sadly, many of these anti-Hindu sentiments come from Hindus in India who see certain other Hindu groups as their enemies. They will sell out their own religion and vilify it with the name of terrorism, if it brings them money, fame or another few years of political power regardless of its ramifications for the future of their country or their religion.

So let us address the real problem of terrorism and not target Hinduism. If the main thing we can boast for in dealing with terrorism is capturing Hindu nuns, our campaign against terror is certainly lacking. (Ref: ‘Dainik Sanatan Prabhat’)