[Reader-list] the likes of Kafeel, Sabeel and Haneef...

[Pawan Durani]

Dear Fatima ,

I may have missd out , but can you kindly update us if HSC has ever been
invovled in terrorist activities , arson or kidnapping ?

If it has been , they should be condemned ......if not you are comparing
apple with oranges.

Pawan


On 1/22/08, S.Fatima <sadiafwahidi at yahoo.co.in> wrote:
>
> Dear Radhika Rajen
> You just mentioned about "the likes of Kafeel, Sabeel
> and Haneef"... What do you have to say say about the
> following report:
>
> New Report Points To Growing Sangh Student Network in
> the US
>
> New Delhi, Thursday, Jan 17, 2008 : The Campaign to
> Stop Funding Hate (CSFH) will release its latest
> report "UNMISTAKABLY SANGH: THE NATIONAL HSC AND ITS
> HINDUTVA AGENDA" on the growth of the Sangh Parivar's
> student wing in the USA - the Hindu Students Council
> (HSC). The press conference and report release are
> scheduled at the Press Club, Raisina Road, at 3 PM
> today. The report documents a long and dense trail of
> connections between the HSC and the Sangh from 1990 to
> the present. Ironically, the HSC exists on US American
> university campuses because of the liberal policy of
> multiculturalism that allows for diversity of cultures
> and tolerance. Yet HSC has promoted divisive and
> sectarian speakers such as Ashok Singhal and Sadhvi
> Rithambara. Indian American youth many times join the
> HSC without an awareness of the "invisible"
> connections between HSC and the Sangh.
>
> The HSC was founded in 1990 as a project of the VHP of
> America. In 1993, Ashok Singhal, the then General
> Secretary of the VHP declared, "Now, the first project
> we have in mind is strengthening the Hindu Student
> Council".1 The report Unmistakably Sangh, provides the
> first comprehensive documentation of the origins,
> methods and practices of the HSC and directly counters
> the claims of the HSC that it "has been independently
> run since 1993".2 The report uses documents from Sangh
> sources - VHPA tax returns, filings with US Patents
> Office, Internet domain registry information, archives
> of the HSC, and publications of the Sangh Parivar in
> North America and elsewhere, to establish that the HSC
>
> was and remains an arm of the global Sangh Parivar.
>
> Between 2002 and 2004, two reports, "The Foreign
> Exchange of Hate", and "In Bad faith" exposed the
> siphoning of funds by the Sangh in the US and UK
> respectively. This new report establishes that the
> Sangh's interests and activities in the US go far
> beyond funding, and that the HSC represents a grooming
> space for young Sangh leadership and the entry of the
> Sangh ideology into second generation Indian American
> spaces. "The Hindu Students Council claims to be
> an independent organization with no links to any
> Hindutva organization or movement. This is patently
> unfair because most of those who join HSC do not know
> of the strong ties between HSC and the Sangh," says
> Ashwini Rao, a campaign coordinator for CSFH. Several
> of the HSC's early recruits on American campuses are
> leaders in the Global Sangh operations today. "How
> important the HSC is to the Sangh can be seen from the
> fact that the HSC built and operated a significant
> part of the Sangh's electronic infrastructure out
> of a server cluster in California" Raja Swamy, another
> CSFH coordinator pointed out. This runs counter to the
> policy of multiculturalism that allows organizations
> such as HSC on American campuses.
>
> The latest report is part of CSFH's Truth Out on HSCs3
> Campaign aimed at educating Indian-Americans on the
> Sangh Parivar and its operations in the US. For more
> information on the press conference write to:
> hsctruthout@ gmail.com or call +91-9848470907.
> Summary and full versions of the report will be
> available at the press conference and online at
> www.stopfundinghate .org after 3:00 PM IST on
> January 17.
>
> -end-
>
> [The complete report 'Uncovering the Global Sangh' is
> available at:
>
> http://stopfundingh ate.org/Unmistak ably_Sangh. pdf
>
> For Info: Bala Murli N. or Biju Mathew-9848470907
> hsctruthout@ stopfundinghate. org
>
> ---------------------------------------------------
>
> Date: Mon, 21 Jan 2008 14:48:16 +0500
> From: radhikarajen at vsnl.net  Add Mobile Alert
> Subject: Re: [Reader-list] are these nationalists
>
> Hi,
>   every human for better opportunities do migrate for
> greener pastures
> and for better life, but none other than the islamic
> followers prove
> to be more fanatic to faith , that is why you will
> find the names of
> the likes Kafeel, Sabeel and Haneef and now latest is
> two more in spain
> detained for being subversive with terror acts. !
>     You will find a patel or a singh or a south
> indian any where in
> palnet earth, jokes are about a keralite who sells
> chai in moon, but none
> have taken their faith to public domain, but practise
> it for their
> well being, not foisting the faith on the society
> they have adopted to
> live in. ?
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Shivam Vij शिवà¤(R)ॠ विजà¥
> <mail at shivamvij.com>
> Date: Monday, January 21, 2008 1:47 pm
> Subject: Re: [Reader-list] are these nationalists
> To: chanchal malviya <chanchal_malviya at yahoo.com>
> Cc: sarai <reader-list at sarai.net>
>
> > So chanchal, nobody ever migrated for better job
> opprtunities?
>
>
>
>
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