Subject: [world-vedic] My Complete Response to NY Times Anti-Hindu Article Date: Mon, 29 Jul 2002 01:28:53 -0000 From: Vrin Parker Reply-To: vediculture@yahoogroups.com To: vediculture@yahoogroups.com NYTime's ludicrous 150 word limit will not allow this letter to be printed, so please email it to as many people as possible. I sent them a short letter that they better print or I will spend the next month challenging their right to not publish my response. I sent this to them anyway. Vrin Dear Editor, Interesting to note the double standard applied when comparing your story on NYPD's 9/11 response with the story on India's response to its crisis. In the NYPD story not one individual or agency is singled out, what to speak of being labeled as participants in the tragedy. Yet when it comes to India, you directly single out the authorities as accomplices to murder. Compared to NYC, Gujarat State is much larger has millions of more people, an archaic infrastructure and is basically an agrarian society. While presenting India's overwhelmed police as baby-killers you ignore facts such as the police's inability to arrest Muslims as well as Hindus. Applying this same logic, Pataki, Giuliani, should be charged with complicity in terrorism. However incompetence doesn't translate into terrorism in America therefore incompetence can not translate into genocide in India. I was shocked to read 4 month old Saudi/Pakistani propaganda versions of the Gujarat violence in America's leading newspaper. Obviously with such sources you would miss facts such as Pakistan's well documented ISI campaign against India and its Hindu activists in particular. This also explains the ambivalence your article displays when it comes to names. If revealed, such names would automatically prove the sources to be unreliable entities with a vested interest in demonizing Hinduism. For years a united front of Islamists, Marxists, Christians and Indian secularists have waged a ruthless war against Hindu activism. The Gandhi-killer jacket forced on Hindu activists has been rejected repeatedly by the Supreme Court. Thus the absurdity of demonizing a group without a record became obvious. Now suddenly, the enemies of Hinduism have united, as if on cue, and have now added genocide to their arsenal of defamation and slander. If you had, just once, mentioned the fact that the Taliban founders, Pakistan's ISI agents, have been repeatedly intercepted in Gujarat, your article may have carried more weight. This very omission tells the intelligent reader volumes and weakens your attempt to demonize Hindus. Your most glaring omission is in reference to the lack of remorse shown by Hindus. India's constitution claims to be secular yet it forces Hindu taxpayers to fund anti-Hindu madrasses, born-again Christian schools and free trips to Mecca. It enforces special operational fees on private Hindu schools and yet fully funds all Muslim/Christian schools. It allows Muslim men up to 4 wives, divorce at whim, only 3 month's alimony and the right to kill on just a suspicion of infidelity. It demands complete financial secrecy for Muslim/Christian organizations but complete financial transparency for Hindu groups. It allows private control of all Mosques but enforces government control over most Hindu Temples and frequently posts non-Hindus in control of temple finances. This supposed secularist constitution of India gives legal protection to Muslims and Christians in regards to slander and defamation yet legally protects any and all such anti-Hindu activities as free speech. India's constitution is the institutionalized oppression of its Hindu majority and a promotion of archaic and inhumane Islamic law. By supporting financial secrecy for Islamic fundamentalists, India is perhaps one of the greatest safe houses for millions of Islamic Terrorist dollars. Therefore India's secularists are directly responsible for the slaughter of thousands upon thousands of people. The fact is the Hindus are the greatest victims in this tragedy. Expecting remorse from the victim is perverse and it would be proper for your paper to issue an apology for either being ignorant of the facts or for being the lackeys of foreign intelligence agencies. Finally, it is important to put into context who the VHP (Hindu World Council) and the RSS (National Volunteer's Association) are. They are the Sitting Bulls, Tecumsehs, Geronimos and Tupacs of the modern era. Like those great heroes of America's indigenous struggle, they will not replace their own ancient civilization with an obviously flawed western civilization. As your paper previously demonized the American Indians to justify slaughtering and subjugating them, you are continuing this ignoble tradition in your treatment of India's indigenous Hindus. Such journalism is another form of genocide and rather than helping tell the story of the weak, you are guaranteeing more misery, war and violence.