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On Mon, May 4, 2015 at 5:09 PM, Mohamed Jaffer <mjkassam@gmail.com> wrote:
> SHARING
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>
> Here is another article from the pen of Francois Gautier , which many of
> India's self - styled intellectuals and " Secularists " may sniff at . But,
> that sniffing may be because what is told here is the unpalatable truth !.
> As a French Journalist who has made India home for many decades now on the
> lines of Mark Tully of BBC ( I think that many Indians with their built-in
> slavishness believed MT implicitly may be more for being a Britisher
> rather than the correctness of his reporting, though the quality too was
> there ) , Gautier knows India better than many Indians . Because many of us
> are so busy earning our daily bread , that we don't have either the time
> or the inclination to reflect on the world around us . Read the entire
> article, reflect on it and then see your own truths.
>
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>
> The article by FG makes interesting logic! Particularly the ending;" Muslim
> soldiers fighting against Pakistan in Kargil, have shown the way".
>
> *Sub:* ARE HINDUS COWARDS?
>
> Francois Gautier
>
> Face Book deleted my article "Are Hindus Cowards"; because of 'inappropriate
> content'! Do you think that is fair? the ISIS and Al Qaeda use freely
> Internet, Twitter and FB for their murderous purposes, but when you dare say
> that there is a problem with Islam, as I have personally witnessed a
> journalist, in Kashmir, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Bangladesh, you are censored.
> I am reposting the article below. You judge. FG
>
> ARE HINDUS COWARDS?
> "A dark fear is growing in our minds that we Hindus cannot rule. The art of
> ruling requires special upbringing, grooming and attitude besides guts and
> courage.
> And this raises the question: are Hindus good people, but nevertheless
> cowards?
>
> "Muslims are bullies and Hindus cowards", the Mahatma Gandhi once said. He
> was right - at least about Hindus: there has been in the past 1400 years,
> since the first invasions started, very few Shivaji Maharaj's and Rana
> Pratap's to fight the bloody rule of the Moghuls, or hardly any Rani of
> Jhansi's to stand against the humiliating colonial yoke of the British.
>
> If a nation's soul is measured by the courage of its children, then India
> is definitely doomed: without the Sikhs, whose bravery is unparalleled in
> the more recent history of India, Hindus would have even lost additional
> land to the Muslim invaders and there would have been infinitely more
> massacres of Hindus by Muslims during the first weeks of Partition. Are
> Hindus more courageous since they have an independent nation (thanks - not
> to the non-violence of Gandhi - but to the true nationalists, such as Sri
> Aurobindo and Tilak, who prepared the ground for the Mahatma at the
> beginning of the century)? Not at all!
>
> Because of Nehru's absurd and naïve "hindi-chini-bhai-bhai" policy, the
> Indian army was shamefully routed in 1962 by the Chinese, a humiliation
> which rankles even today. Beijing is still able to hoodwink Indian
> politicians, by pretending it has good intentions, through the interviews
> the Chinese leaders very generously give to the Hindu newspaper (which
> should rightly be called the "anti-Hindu") and Frontline ("the mouthpiece in
> India for the Chinese communist party"), while quietly keeping on giving
> nuclear know-how to Pakistan, as well as the missiles to carry their atomic
> warheads to Indian cities, arm separatists groups in the north-east and
> continuing to claim Arunachal Pradesh or Sikkim.
>
> Everywhere in the world, Hindus are hounded, humiliated, routed, be it in
> Fiji where, an elected democratic government was deposed in an armed coup,
> or in Pakistan and Bangladesh, where Muslims indulge in pogroms against
> Hindus every time they want to vent their hunger against India (read Taslima
> Nasreen's book "Lalja"). In Kashmir, the land of yogis, where Hindu sadhus
> and sages have meditated for 5000 years, Hindus have been chased out of
> their ancestral home by death, terror and intimidation: there were 25% of
> Hindus at the beginning of the century in the Kashmir valley... and hardly a
> handful today.
>
> And this is exactly what happened in Bombay, after the Ayodya mosque was
> brought down by Hindu militants : Muslims, angry of the "terrible" affront
> done to Islam, started pelting the police with stones and burning shops; but
> unfortunately for the Muslims, who have made of riots an art (please read
> the passages of the Koran which deal with riots as part of jihad), they
> found that for once, the Hindus under the leadership of the Shiv Sena,
> retaliated blow for blow - an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth - as the
> Israelis, who have been so long at the receiving end of Muslim bullying, say
> so well.
>
> It is not for us to condone violence: but how long can the Hindus be the
> butt of killings and persecution, be sacrificial lambs that meekly go to
> slaughter ? For in a way, Gandhi was right: Muslims are bullies, they have
> bullied India and they continue to bully Hindu India, as Pakistan
> demonstrates time and again by shelling in Kashmir, which make the US apply
> time and again pressure on India to 'negotiate' with Pakistan. Remember how
> Musharraf deceived New Delhi by receiving a well-meaning, but naïve Vajpayee
> at Lahore, while its soldiers were quietly invading the heights above
> Kargil.
>
> The truth is that there are two standards in India: one for the Hindus; and
> one for the Muslims. Did the "fanatic" Hindus who brought down Ayodhya (and
> brought shame onto secular India, according to the Indian media) kill or
> even injure anyone in the process? No.
>
> But Muslims do not have such qualms. When Gandhi said they were bullies, he
> was being very nice or very polite. For forget about the millions of Hindus
> killed during the ten centuries of Muslim invasions, probably the worst
> Holocaust in world history; forget about the hundreds of thousands of Hindu
> temples razed to the ground, whose destruction - whatever our "secular"
> Hindus of today say - was carefully recorded by the Muslims themselves,
> because they were proud of it (see Aurangzeb's own chronicles); forget about
> the millions of Hindus forcibly converted to Islam, and who sadly are now
> rallying under a banner, a language, a scripture which have nothing to do
> with their own ethos and culture.
>
> Yesterday and also today, when the Muslim world feels it has been slighted,
> in even a small measure by Hindus, these Infidels, who submitted meekly to
> Muslim rule for ten centuries, it retaliates a hundred fold - this is the
> only way one intimidates cowards. After Ayodhya, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia (at
> least in a passive way by giving shelter for a while to Tiger Memon) with
> the help of Indian Muslims, planted bombs in the heart of Bombay and killed
> a thousand innocent human beings, most of them, once more, Hindus.
>
> Tomorrow, Pakistan might wage, with the blessing of the Muslim word, the
> ultimate jihad against India, which if necessary, will utilise the ultimate
> weapon, nuclear bombs. For has not the Koran said "'Choose not thy friends
> among the Infidels till they forsake their homes and the way of idolatry. If
> they return to paganism then take them whenever you find them and kill them"
> (Koran 98:51-9:5-4:89) ?
>
> Unfortunately for India, the British, when they were here, had created an
> intellectual elite, to act as a go-between themselves and the "natives",
> which today, thanks to the Nehruvian culture of successive Congress
> governments, looks at its own country, not by means of its own Indian eyes,
> but through a western prism, as fashioned by the white colonizers and the
> missionaries. These << Brown Shahibs >>, these true children of Macaulay, the
> << secular >> politicians, the journalists, the top bureaucrats, in fact the
> whole westernised cream of India are very critical of anything Hindu. And
> what is even more paradoxical, is that 98% of them are Hindus ! It is they,
> who upon getting independence, have denied India its true identity and
> borrowed blindly from the British education system, without trying to adapt
> it to the unique Indian mentality and psychology; and it is they who are
> refusing to accept a change of India's education system, which is totally
> western-oriented and is churning out machines, learning by heart boring
> statistics which are of little usefulness in life.
>
> And what India is getting from this education is a youth which apes the West
> : they go to Mac Donald's, thrive on MTV culture, wear the latest Klein
> jeans and Lacoste T Shirts, and in general are useless, rich parasites, in a
> country which has so many talented youngsters who live in poverty. They will
> grow-up like millions of other western clones in the developing world, who
> wear a tie, read the New York Times and swear by liberalism and secularism
> to save their countries from doom. In time, they will reach elevated
> positions and write books and articles which make fun of their own country,
> ridicule the Narendra Modi's of India and preside human-right committees, be
> "secular" high bureaucrats who take the wrong decisions and generally do
> tremendous harm to India, because it has been programmed in their genes to
> always run down their own country. It is said that a nation has to be proud
> of itself to move forward - and unless there is a big change in this
> intellectual elite, unless it is more conscious of its heritage and of
> India's greatness, which has begun to happen in a small way, it is going to
> be very difficult for India to emerge as a real 21st century superpower.
>
> One would be tempted to say in conclusion : "Arise ô Hindus, stop being
> cowards, remember that a nation requires Kshatriyas, warriors, to defend
> Knowledge, to protect one's women and children, to guard one's borders from
> the Enemy"....
>
> And do Indians need a Narendra Modi to remind them of that simple truth ?
> FRANCOIS GAUTIER (*)
>
> This is no to say that all Muslims are fanatics; on the contrary, many of
> India's Muslims are extremely gentle and their sense of hospitality
> unsurpassed. The same thing can be said about Pakistan: Pakistani
> politicians, for instance, are much more accessible than in India and
> Pakistan has its own identity, which cannot be wished away.
>
> No, the problem is not with Muslims, whether they are
> Indians or Pakistanis, the problem is with Islam, which teaches Indian
> Muslims from an early age, to look beyond their national identity to a
> country - the Mecca, in Saudi Arabia - which is not their country, to read a
> Scripture which is not written in their own language, to espouse a way of
> thinking, which is inimical to their own roots and indigenous culture.
> Indian Muslims, have to think of themselves first as
> Indians and secondly only as Muslims. Muslim soldiers fighting against
> Pakistan in Kargil, have shown the way.
>
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