[Reader-list] To Taha Mehmood

[Pawan Durani]

Rakesh ,

Thank you for your arguments.

I love your arguments and I wonder why you have kept the Vatican Church &
Pope away from the club.

Apples don't grow in nagpur neither does orange grow in Kashmir. !

Pawan

On Sat, Jan 31, 2009 at 11:45 AM, Rakesh Iyer <rakesh.rnbdj at gmail.com>wrote:

> Dear Pawan (and all)
>
> Interesting indeed that BJP and Lashkar can't be clubbed together, inspite
> of the fact that they belong to the same line of thought, of course, with
> respect to different religions.
>
> For the BJP and their parivar, it's the militant portrayal of Sri Rama,
> which is important in their project of 'Hindutva'. For the Lashkar and their
> like, it's the militant portrayal of the Prophet and his followers which is
> important in their project of 'jihad'; or should I say, global jihad.
>
> Both want to restrict the rights of women. The RSS believes that women
> should not drink. Even the Lashkar believes in the same. But it would be
> interesting to note that the Aryans, from whom come most of the North
> Indians today, actually used to drink in ancient India, if you go by
> history. And of course, for those who think this is a figment of imagination
> created as history by Leftists, better go and research on tribals of India.
> Many tribal communities in India had their women drinking, on public
> occasions, and then used to dance. And most of the village communities
> coming in contact with them also did the same.
>
> The Lashkar would better know that even today's Punjabis are ancestrally
> believed to be Aryans (on either side of border), and while I can't
> specifically say that about the Pathans in Pakistan, the very idea that a
> woman can't drink, while men can drink as they please, is utterly
> ridiculous.
>
> Next similarity. Both BJP and Lashkar believe that women can't have
> premarital sex. But yes, of course, men can have it. So, it's not wrong for
> men in India to watch shows of devadasis, and even it's a conspiracy against
> Hindus, if the Kanchi Shankaracharya is arrested on a molestation case (as
> if our Sadhus are all pure; the Kanchi one is not an original
> Shankaracharya). And on the other hand, we have the Talibanised section of
> society in Pakistan, who think that widowed women should be turned into
> prostitutes, for the benefits of the men.
>
> It's a taboo according to both of them, to talk about or even read about
> sex in public. Indeed. Khajuraho has statues showing erotic portrayals of
> men and women. But of course, it would be better for the BJP if our men
> learn about sex, through watching porn films illegally before 18, through
> having unprotected sex due to peer pressure, and of course through pelvic
> thrusts and Mallika Sherawats, with no parents to look at children because
> both parents are working.
>
> The Taliban is even better. If you ask for a women's right, you are
> beheaded. At least your family is spared. The BJP doesn't do that, it not
> only cuts you, but your family is attacked as well, as Gujarat and 1992-93
> riots prove. Not to forget, the administrative failure in preventing Godhra,
> for it was their govt in the centre and the state which failed to prevent
> it, a miserable thing indeed.
>
> The only difference is in their spread. The Lashkar is spread across many
> nations, in terms of their ideology and organization. The BJP-RSS is spread
> only in India as of now, but is slowly taking Indians living in US and UK
> under its fold.
>
> So what should we do? Wait for BJP-RSS to take more countries under their
> fold? And destroy Hinduism?
>
> Or denounce them and stop this, forever.
>
> Hinduism and Islam are no monoliths in India. There are diversities in
> both, and I am proud of my nation having been one of the epicentres (if not
> the only epicentre) of this diversity in both religions. Nobody, the Lashkar
> or the BJP-RSS or anyone else has any right to destroy this diversity.
>
> As for Pawan jee, there is a saying in Sanskrit, mentioned in Mahabharata:
> ' vinash kale vipreet buddhi'. When the time of disaster for oneself comes,
> the mind runs in the opposite direction of where it should go. And we are
> seeing that with the rise of BJP-RSS and Lashkar. If not stopped, the entire
> world will have to pay the price of ignoring the rise of the two, not just
> India and Pakistan or just South-East Asia.
>
> So, it makes more sense to buy apples in Nagpur and oranges in Kashmir,
> rather than saying that both are not same.
>
> Regards
>
> Rakesh
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