Subject: [world-vedic] In response to Honolulu Media Date: Tue, 20 Aug 2002 02:08:35 -0000 From: Vrin Parker Reply-To: vediculture@yahoogroups.com To: vediculture@yahoogroups.com IN RESPONSE TO ANOTHER JUVENILE ANTI-INDIA ARTICLE. COME ON PEOPLE LETS FIGURE OUT A PROACTIVE WAY OF DEALING WITH THIS CONSTANT LUNACY. LETS DEFANG THEIR STRATEGY BORROWED FROM ADOLF HITLER....REPEAT A LIE OFTEN ENOUGH, PEOPLE WILL ACCEPT IT AS FACT. ITS UP TO US. VRIN Dear Editor, Yr article presented an extremely skewed version of India's political landscape. The racist and inhumane attitude is clear. The injustice and inhumanity becomes obvious when the Islamic extremism that has killed over 70,000 Indian people is considered less dangerous to India than a brand of Hinduism that's responsible for breaking down an unused mosque. Though, India has been a nuclear power since 1974, the Western and Islamic media continues to play up the Hindu nuclear militant angle. India has an ongoing nuclear program, begun under Indira Gandhi, an avowed secularist, and maintained under the leadership of a Muslim scientist, India's current President. It has everything to do with the strategic necessities of a nation under constant military assault, and nothing to do with the personal religion of its citizens. Hinduism is the world's most ancient, largest and ongoing cultural phenomenon. Clearly Western civilization's global domination is feeling threatened by the sudden rise of this indigenous global power. The 200 year old American civilization is in a state of chaos and crisis. Yet after 5000 years, Hindu India is still thriving. A majority of Hindus realize the mistake of ignoring Krishna's words that caste/varna is decided by qualification and character and not by birth. That is the true system and thus once again millions of Dalits, labeled untouchables by the British, are enjoying the full dynamism of their native traditional Hindu culture.