Combat Secularism - Dr. Th Chowdary

including Arise Arjuna. Awaken
Bharata, Hinduism. The Eternal
Tradition and many more. He lives
in Santa Fe in the United States
where he is the Director of the
American Institute of Vedic
Studies.✰
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‘SECULAR’ TOWARDS
MUSLIMS AND
CHRISTIANS BUT
INTERFERING WITH
HINDUS
The ‘secular’ government of the
Samajwadi Mulayam Singh in Uttar
Pradesh is planning to enact a law
which would enable it to monitor
the activities of temples, mutts
and religious trusts, and also have
a big say in their management .
The ‘secular’ Minister, Ashok
Bajpai of the UP government wants
to ensure a fool-proof arrangement
for keeping a close watch on the
management of the religious places
as not only were the sewadars
and workers exploited by the
mahants and pujaris, dispute over
property owned by the mutts and
temples has often led to the
murder of priests.”
He says that temple towns are
tourist center Varanai, Ayodhya and
Chitrakoot. He asserted that proper
management of temples would
promote tourism in the state. And
that the income from the temples,
mutts and religious trusts will be
ploughed back for the welfare of their
workers. For the purpose of the
legislation, temples and mutts have
been divided into 3 grades: temples
of international and national fame;
temples of State fame; regional and
local level temples, mutts and
religious trusts.
[Readers may note that these
UP Samajwadi ‘secular’
government dare not any legislation
in regard to the proper
management of churches or
mosques but it would want to
manage the Hindus’ temples only.
In the south where there are
already laws about Hindu temples,
the concerned department are being
infiltrated by crypto Christians that
is Harijans who have converted to
Christianity but do not disclose
the facts to enjoy Reservations.
These crypto Christian infiltrators
are conspiring to and conniving at
the alleviation of temples property
in favour of the ‘poor’,
overwhelmingly crypto Christians.
Varanasi Prayaga, Mathura
Ayodhya are mere tourist cities for
the ‘secularists’, but they are
sacred places for Hindus. The
‘secular’ government wants to
exploit the fame of these holy
towns for making money through
tourists. This is a despicable
intention. Will anybody agree that
Mecca and Madina should be
developed as tourists spots
attracting the Americans and
Japanese and others? The ‘secular’
government’s move once again
exposes the inactivity and
helplessness and defeatism of
Hindus.] ✰
Source: The Hindu
PROMOTING URDU
A Laxmi
One Sudhip Bandopadhyay,
formerly a Trinamul Congressmen
now a Sonia Congress MLA from
the Bow Bazar constituency of
Kolkatta proposed in the West
Bengal Legislative Assembly that
Urdu must also be made the
medium of instruction in all state
schools. Of course, they will then
make a law that the private schools
must fall in line in this regard. He
says that the Muslim population
in Bengal is 25%; but he did not
say that the Hindu population of
Bangladesh had come down from
30% in 1947 to less than 10% by
now. He ignores the fact that less
than 10% of West Bengal’s
Muslims declared Urdu as their
mother tongue.
One of reasons why the then
East Pakistan (now Bangladesh)
broke away from Pakistan and
became Bangladesh, is the foisting
of Urdu on Bengali speaking east
Pakistan’s Muslims. one of the
reasons for east Bengal‘s Muslims’
struggle for freedom was the
demand for primacy of Bengali
language. Nazrul Islam was a
great Muslim poet in Bengali. He
wrote not in Urdu but always only
in Bengali. Not withstanding that
Urdu is not the beloved tongue of
Bengal’s Muslims, ‘secular’
Congressmen are demanding that
Urdu should be promoted among
the Bengali-speaking Muslims in
India. Can there be a more
appeasing and ignoble conduct.
Among any Indian, especially
those who give their religion as
Hinduism? The fact is that
everybody angling for Muslims’
votes, every ‘secularist’ tries to
please and appease Muslims even
in regard to issues that Muslims
themselves are not interested.
The Trinamul Congress got 17%
of the Muslim votes; the Congress
got 10% and the CPM got 73%.
The former two parties are engaged
in competition to please Muslims
to wean them away from the
CPM. This is ‘secularism’!✰
10 “Secularism” Combat, July 2006