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Re: Book to be pulped. Free speech curbed??
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So if do not stick to the standard line, if you voice unconventional opinions on religious topics, you can get into trouble. A small, vocal minority who are opposed to your religious view-point is enough to get you into trouble. Last edited by sanjayt; February 15th, 2014 at 10:23 PM. |
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BTW just so to be sure.. "Atta boy sanjay" means I was patting your back.. remind me later I will rep you.
You are right about the liabilitty there.
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Some people have remembered The Satanic Verses now.
The same publisher, Penguin, had published The Satanic Verses. When Khomeini issued that fatwa, Penguin stood its ground. But now, even before the trial court had delivered a verdict, they capitulated. |
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I think Penguin pulped the book because of the incorrect facts inside the book. Just because a Hindu group pointed out the errors doesn't mean that group is a fascist one. A book might be anti Hindu, but it doesn't have the right to pass on incorrect information and defend itself as sacrosanct at the same time.
What robs a Hindu of his right to point out incorrect information in a book about Hinduism? Should Hindus depend only upon 'secularists' for such a deed? I seen this attitude everywhere. This is a very bigoted view by itself aka if a Hindu tries to defend his religion, he is a communal. If a Muslim or Christian tries to defend their own religion, it is their secular right. Frankly we are not falling for it anymore, no matter how the media tries to pervert the issue at hand. We know how credible the marxists and seculars are in our great land.
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BTW hinduism did not exist until most recent times.. it was something else.. I know it but to these historians.. it was NEVER called hinduism.
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Preach it to Wendy. She certainly knew Hinduism and the the name 'Hindu' to put it on the name in her book title.
Whatever the name, there is a continued set of traditions and beliefs that were continued through India's history. We also know it is only Hinduism when it comes to denigrating it, it is something else altogether when the good aspects of it get stolen to appropriate as a new 'secular' doctrine (eg. yoga). We know it is a ploy to deny Hindus or Hinduism (or whatever all the seculars/marxists call it, we don't care) any credit in the positive sense whatsoever. ![]() Therefore the love for Gandhi, using his name, the usual suspects get to rebrand everything good from Hinduism into their own warped sense of history. Now comes the denial of the name, before it came the distortion of history. We know these tricks very well. ![]()
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And since when did Arundhati Roy care about the Indian constitution or India at all?
Didn't she encourage Kashmiris to secede from India calling us 'Bhukke Naange Hindustan?" Is there no limit to hypocrisy amongst these wolves?
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You got to use some name, some label as a convenient reference. People do understand that Hinduism encompasses multiple traditions.
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it had a name bur that was not HINDUISM which the turks and mongols used as a mispronounced term for 'sindhu culture' re: sindhu river banks..
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Okies. But are you saying that we should use a different name now?
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No since everyone knows and had taken the census of mohanjodaro and harappa.. they did not know hinduism did not exist in the days those faulty data is being quoted.
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Hmm. So what's a usable date for the beginning of Hinduism?
When I did a quick search, what I got was that the Indus Valley Civilization (Mohenjedaro/Harappa) predated the composition of the Rig Veda. Mohenjedaro and Harappa seem to have vanished somehow? The composition of the Rig Veda was dated around 1500 BC. The composition of the Yajur Veda, Sama Veda and Atharva Veda came a few hundred years after the composition of the Rig Veda. So do we use 1500 BC as the start date for Hinduism? |
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Well no.. it was much much much later.. Hinduism as a term to refer to people living in the banks of the river "sindu" started from the time invaders (the various khans a. la. chengis khaan, mohd. Gazni et al.) tried to take over/loot the riches of the indus valley civilization.. infact the term Indus also comes from the river "sindu".. so historically speaking may be 13th century or so?.. The civilization existed as far back as 3500 BC.. but the "TERM" emerged much much later to differentiate them much later.. Even during the invation of alexander the term Hindus was not used.. it was Arya Dharma and India/Bharat was known as Aryavarta.. but the "general" term was different.. and let us see how many know that term.
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It is normally called 'Sanatan Dharma'. If i go by ACK, founder of RSS Hegdewar was againt using the term 'Hindu'
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