SABHA - 4M Report Arvind Kumar, 19 Jun, 2005

Your regular dose of pseudosecularism

  1. Christians use advanced methods in medical science to cure illness

    A Romanian nun has died after being bound to a cross, gagged and left alone for three days in a cold room in a convent, Romanian police have said.

    Members of the convent in north-west Romania claim Maricica Irina Cornici was possessed and that the crucifixion had been part of an exorcism ritual.

    Was she cured of her ailment? You bet!
    "God has performed a miracle for her, finally Irina is delivered from evil," AFP quoted the priest as saying.


  2. Gunga Din: Beloved invader, please invade us!

    In a piece praising Macaulay, Jaithirth Rao says,
    I, for one, am grateful to Macaulay. Without his gift to us, so many of us would be lesser individuals, not just different individuals.
    Not surprising, as there have always been two Indias - one containing self-confident people who have achieved a lot, and the other consisting of inferiority-ridden people who are incapable of taking care of themselves and need masters to take care of them. We knew which category the author belonged to, when he called himself "Jerry" Rao. Here is another quote from the article where the author says that Macaulay was not a racist, all he did was to think of Indians as primitive.
    He was not a racist in the modern sense. He thought of Indians as primitive, childish people.
    The author might also stop using vaccinations as they originated in India, and instead try the Christian method of healing ailments (see the previous item).
    He dismissed our traditional schools of medicine as nothing but quackery. While there may have been some justification...


  3. The world began in 4004 B.C.E.

    Creation "science" finally arrives in India. Expectedly, the pseudosecularists are silent about it. The aim of Creation Science Association of India is to "proclaim the truth." Not surprisingly, this group is based in Calcutta and the person who is listed as the owner of the website has a Communist last name (Chakravartty).

  4. Carrying petrol bombs is normal

    According to the committee appointed by the government, there was no conspiracy to burn the train carrying Hindus. So we learn that it is normal for Muslims to carry petrol bombs and Molotov cocktails.
    According to the report,
    It notes that had there been any prior conspiracy, the coach would have been surrounded by the conspirators from all sides but the prosecution version shows otherwise. "The offside of the coach was left open and the passengers alighted from that side."
    Piecing it all together, we learn that there was no planning and people carrying cans of petrol is normal, and that the Muslims who threw stones on the passengers who were dying in the fire (it was either accidental or mysterious) were not guilty because they did not throw stones from both sides of the train on the dying passengers.

  5. CPI(M) General Secretary meets terrorist

    Prakash Karat, the General Secretary of Communist Party of India (Marxist), met the Maoist terrorist, Babburam Bhattarai, and then tried to deny the report on a minor point about who arranged the meeting.
    The report that I have met a Maoist leader from Nepal in a meeting arranged by the Indian security agencies is untrue. No such meeting was held.
    Within a few days after this meeting, Maoists in Nepal bombed a bus killing 38 people and seriously injuring 71 others. The days following the meeting also saw over 1000 schoolchildren being abducted by the Maoists in Nepal.

  6. Jizya to be used to fund mosques

    Javed Akhtar, husband of Rajya Sabha MP Shabana Azmi, called for using the money of non-Muslims to support the Jama Masjid. How do they plan to raise the money? Apparently, by imposing the Jizya. A report in the Indian Express indicates that Hindus who undertake the pilgrimage to Amarnath have to pay a penalty to the government.
    He said that imposition of yatra tax under the garb of registration fee is in total contrast to the facilities and finanicial assistance granted to the Muslims for Haj pilgrimage.
    Meanwhile, Shabana Azmi supported the move to reserve seats for Muslim students in Aligarh Muslim University.

  7. Advani's comments to please his 'friends of the week'

    In response to L.K.Advani's comment claiming that Jinnah, the father of the world's first state formed on the basis of religion, was actually secular, a question came up as to why Advani had to flee Sindh with his family at the time of partition of India.

    Going by the admission of his own party members, Advani does not have permanent enemies or permanent friends, only permanent self-interests. That week in 1947, when his family moved to India, the Pakistanis were his enemies. The week he visited Pakistan and made the infamous comment on Jinnah, they were his friends. Pakistanis believe that suicide attacks against Indians are justified.

    They said that in those countries where Jehad is being waged the suicide attacks are justified...


  8. Communists launch signature campaign to declare Stalinist economies the freest!

    Agitated Communists launched a signature campaign to protest the results of a study by economists hired by the Sonia Gandhi controlled Rajiv Gandhi Foundation (RGF). The study ranked Gujarat as the top state in terms of 'economic freedom index.'
    The protest note says the foundation study is all praise for Gujarat as it grades the state government on its political decision making, the extent to which justice is served, levels of corruption and the extent of regulation in the labour market. The Indian index consists of 25 components spread in three broad areas: size of government, security of property rights and regulation of credit and business. The note takes exception to the comment that "In Gujarat, Chhattisgarh, Rajasthan and Madhya Pradesh (all BJP-ruled states) a large share of the cases that are taken up by the police are ensured complete investigation, unlike in West Bengal, Punjab, Bihar, Jharkhand and Assam." Corruption is also seen to be relatively low in Modi's Gujarat.
    Coming up next: A signature campaign by Communists to declare that Stalinist Russia never had labor camps!

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