[Reader-list] To Taha Mehmood

[Pawan Durani]

Dear Rakesh ,

Talking of Lashkar , I believe your thoughts are not well spread. You call
Lashkar by any name , whether it is Markaz , SIMI , Taliban , Jammaat
...they all belong to one thought of Islamisation of the world.Non existence
of non-believers etc.

Let us not blame BJP and RSS etc for spread of this evil. There are no BJP
-RSS organisations in Pakistan , Afghanistan , Thailand , Indoenasia
,Philippines , etc where this ideology of Islamic spread through terror is
being spread and is being accepted .

Those clubbing Lashkar & RSS have either no knowledge or are buying oranges
grown in Kashmir and apples in Nagpur.

Regards

Pawan Durani

On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 8:17 PM, Rakesh Iyer <rakesh.rnbdj at gmail.com> wrote:

> Dear all
>
> It is utterly ridiculous to believe that RSS and Lashkar are not same.
> Infact, they feed on each other.
>
> I refer here to an interview which was published in the Hindustan times,
> during the campaigning for Lok Sabha elections in 1998, when the Lashkar
> commander had said that his organization hoped that BJP would win power,
> because it would mean that it would be easier for them to get more recruits
> for their 'jehad'.
>
> The entire connotations and meanings or interpretations of the word 'jehad'
> or 'jihad', have been turned into a farce with just one meaning currently in
> popular use around the world. Many Islamic scholars have pointed out that
> 'jihad' is a war waged with oneself, against 'evils in oneself'. But it
> seems the Lashkar wants to turn it into a 'war against others'. For after
> all, it's very easy to attack someone else for a problem of yours for which
> the actual reason is you; the more difficult part is to reform oneself. And
> yes, with the great America-Pakistan army-ISI-corrupt & morally bankrupt
> politicians across India, we can definitely see them easily spreading
> through.
>
> As far as RSS is concerned, it is doubly vicious. Lashkar has not gained
> majority support even among Indian Muslims in Kashmir, forget other states.
> But RSS has been desperately trying to spread its' ideology ala the way Mao
> did in China during 1930's and 40's, although by different means and in
> somewhat different circumstances. Golwalkar, one of the RSS chiefs had
> himself contended, that Muslims and Christians belong to different nations,
> and are just foreigners. They have to live in India a life worse than
> second-class citizens(the name was given to Muslims in Gujarat after they
> were targetted in post-Godhra genocide/riots/pogrom/whatever you wish to
> call it).
>
> And Savarkar, an ideological figure for the Sangh parivar, also mentioned
> that for Hindus, India is their 'pitrubhoomi' and 'punyabhoomi'. What's
> more, when Gandhi himself once went to a Sangh office (he did ironically,
> just before indpendence, in 1946 if I am not wrong) he did not see a
> portrait of Ram in their office. It was strange that for an organization
> representing 'Hindus' even then, a Ram-bhakt called Gandhi couldn't find the
> photo of one of the major icons of Hinduism, as the RSS refer to him now.
>
> Of course, for political purposes, even a mandir for Ram can fetch votes,
> at the expense of dead bodies, so there is no problem to use him then.
> Although what they know about Ram and believe about him, seems to be
> completely immaterial.
>
> So how can the two be different, is anybody's guess. Both are distorting
> history and religious texts for their own purposes, which are divisive and
> disastrous.
>
> Regards
>
> Rakesh
>
> PS: Ironically, for a party-organization structure, which believes in
> Hinduism, BJP-RSS has also forgotten the other major and more popular icon
> of Hinduism, Krishna. The reasons are not too tough to find. For one,
> Krishna 'loved' Radha. All of us know what that means. And now, they have
> the tenacity to ask us not to celebrate Valentine's day, when all what
> happens is boys giving roses to girls, proposing to them, and holding their
> hands and partying. And it's certainly better than our tradition in Holi
> (according to BJP, our 'dharma' festival), where boys, in the name of
> applying colour to women and girls, can even take their hands upto breasts
> of women. And even an abuse of women for this, will be construed as
> 'meetha'. Remember Mahendra Kapoor saying 'aaj meethi lagi hai teri gaari
> re'.
>
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