[Reader-list] secularly secular

[Venugopalan K M]

Dear Rajen,
I wish I could overcome the 'prejudices' you mentiomned.
 I would be the happiest person , if I could .
Our wishes apart, I would rather welcome your position that neither me
nor you have the authority of sitting in judgement and further that we
should all be prepared to accept a concept such as the Rule of Law.
Your views on terrorism though accepatable otherwise, I can't agree to
your implicit suggestion  that those serve terrorism are easily
identifiable with any particular style of definition of national
interest. For example, no doubt you are the one to condemn the recent
unlawful activities of Sri Ram Sene. At the same time, you seem to
subscribe to a view of love very similar to that of these Senes. It is
utterly absurd to state that love is one thing in India and another in
Pakistan and yet another in the West. According to your view, love
mainly defined by  carnality (West) is inferior  and that defined by
divinity (Indian) is superior. If I am an atheist, and hence, if I
don't want to associate my feelings of love with divinity, you can
instantly dubb me as an anti-national. That case, I deserve either
reform or punishment ! One of the RSS functionaries in Dakshina
Karnataka district  has  reportedly gone on  record that women and
girls should be cured of their tendency to imitate Western values and
hence to become  'immoral', by publicly humiliating them with beating!
Going by several newspaper reports, Hindu girls (students) talking
with and befriending boys especially of Muslim and Christian
communities is much likely to invite such instant punishments by the
moral brigade
 ( goons) watching  and their cultural patrons!
What is terrorism and what is patriotism, after all?
As the former is not just bombblasts and shhot outs perpetrated by
unidentified criminals , the latter is also not just rhetoric and
jingoism either.
Regards,
Venu.


On Tue, Apr 7, 2009 at 3:03 PM, Rajen Uppinangadi
<rajen882uppinangadi at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
>  Venu,
>
>  are you  not being the prosecutor and judge while talking about the post
> and me.? Rule of the laws prevail, neither me nor you are the judges in this
> matter to decide the acts which are of  national betrayal, and acts are seen
> by society day in and out, stricter compliance is what is needed.And if you
> are swayed by what some men and women in media with partisan intellect
> propagate, that does not stand scrutiny of laws.
>
>  As to your identification of any organisation as anti-national, it holds no
> water as rule of laws are paramount,  not your perceptions. Ofcourse you
> have every right to express your opinions however lopsided they may be and
> that is freedom of expression, and healthy debate gets you counter views for
> the perceptions with other perceptions.
>
>  As to sheltoring, helping the terror, it is very clear for anyone that
> outsider can not have much action unless logistical support is extended to
> such elements in the nation, be it for consideration of money or faith or
> both.
>
> If your perception is that RSS is not compliant to constitution of the
> nation you have recourse to rule of laws and judiciary. But instead you
> resort to propagate what your perceptions are without substantial evidence
> to support is bias at its best.It is expected of you and many such as RSS is
> serving the society unlike the missions of many other faiths, it has been
> trying its efforts to unite all in society and remove the hate politics of
> caste, and most worried are psuedo seculars who have been harvesing votes
> with commune vote banks of faith and caste.And as a nation we have a long
> way to go, and these psuedo secularists have one agenda of hate that RSS and
> BJP is against other faiths, as otherwise their game fails.?
>
> Regards.
>



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