Kashmir University witnesses Disobedience and Anti Nationalism: Pro separatist students deny to sing Vande Mataram

 

Srinagar, May 18: In an shocking incident, Indian nationalism witnessed a severe blow by the separatist mentality in Kashmir valley. In a function in the Kashmir University some of the pro separatist Muslim students and University officials insulted the national song Vande Mataram by refusing to sing.

In an international conference organized on 12^th May in which Jammu and Kashmir Governor N. N. Vora was a chief guest, some Muslim students and apparently a section of officials remained seated while Vande Mataram was sung at the opening of ceremony.

Governor N. N. Vora took serious note of irresponsible behavior of fraction of students and officials. He conveyed his concern to Kashmir University authorities over a section of the audience not rising to its feet when the national song was played.

He has taken up the matter with the vice-chancellor, Prof Talat Ahmad, and other university authorities and directed them to ensure that everyone there shows respect to the national anthem and national song as this wasn’t the first time students had shown disrespect to the anthem.

“Governor sahib asked the vice-chancellor to take measures to ensure that such incidents don’t recur,” a university source said.

However, despite taking appropriate steps to stop anti national behavior on part of a fraction of students who are haunted by separatist mentality, the vice-chancellor has shown his incapabilities to restrain students from insulting national song. He said he could not use force to discipline students.

“I can only counsel the students to show respect for the anthem which I am doing. Such things have been happening here for the last 20 years,” he said.

“But obviously, such incidents send a wrong signal across the country”, he said.

This is not the first time when students showed their dis obidiency towards national song or national anthem.

The sources said most of the students did not stand up when the anthem was sung during the opening session of a three-day international seminar on “Impact of Peace, Conflict and Disturbances on Economic Development Processes”.

In October last year, students had hooted while the anthem was being played at the university during a seminar. Vohra was present then, too.

Ahmad has blamed school system in Jammu and Kashmir for student’s disrespect towards India as schools are not teaching them ‘how to respect the nation.’

Ahmad said, “Students were “not taught” such things in school”. “I am approaching the schools in the Valley to inculcate these things,” he added.

The professor, however, claimed that only some pockets (pro separatist) of students did not stand up and denied that officials had remained seated. The sources, however, said most of the students and some officials did not stand up.

Rozanama Rashtriya Sahara (Urdu daily ) reports in its edition of May 15,  2012, the chief Proctor of the University  Md Afjal Zargar responded to  Governor stating that  honouring of  national song was  a ‘personal  matter’ and they could not order students to honour it. Nor could they ask them to stand while Vande Mataram was sung.

The Kashmir University was in the past a hub of pro-separatist activism, prompting authorities to ban student bodies in 1990, though many of them remained active for years. The university has not had a students' union ever since the curb on the activities of the Kashmir University Students' Union (KUSU) after the outbreak of insurgency in the Valley in the early 1990s.

However, Kashmir University floated a students’ body Kashmir University Students Union in 2008 without the requisite permission from university authorities, and was forced to fold up soon after. Authorities have strictly banned the campus politics including holding of any political seminars and symposiums within the University.

In 2007, the university lifted the ban only to impose it again some time later when student bodies openly supported the separatist cause.

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Atrocities on Hindus in Pakistan: Pak Hindu refugees demand permanent citizenship of India

 

Indore, May 16: Fearing continuous persecution in their own land, numbers of Sindhis (Hindus from Sindh province) who fled from Pakistan and settled in various parts of India have now demanded permanent Indian citizenship following atrocities on minorities in Pakistan.

Madhya Pradesh’s Sindhi community has come forward for these Pakistan refugees and demanded Centre’s immediate attention.

Shankar Lalwani, senior leader of the Sindhi community on Tuesday urged the Centre to take immediate steps to grant citizenship to Hindus who had arrived from Pakistan on religious visas and did not want to return.

"There are nearly 3,000 refugees belonging to Sindhi community who have arrived in India on religious visa following harassment in Pakistan on religious grounds and now don't want to return," senior Sindhi community leader, Shankar Lalwani said.

"They also include people belonging to Sikh community," he claimed.

The Centre had recently advised the states and the Union Territories that after following due procedures they can consider granting Long Term Visa (LTV) to such people. But Lalwani said such visas were not a permanent solution.

Before that central government ordered these Sindhis to leave India. Hindu Mahasabha submitted a petition in court on behalf of around 156 Pakistani Hindu’s seeking their permanat citizenship.

While hearing Home Ministry presented affidavit in which they said that those Paksitani Hindus’s who want to live in India may get Citizenship after that court said that there is no meaning of petition after this affidavit.

After the orders a group of representative of Sindhi community led by Shankar Lalwani and Deepchand Chawla met to SSP A. Sai Manohar. SSP assured Pak Hindu refugees from Sindh provice to put camps on all the police station of city. In this camps police will collect the information about those Sindhi’s who came to India on religious visa and their visas are about to expire.

According to Lalwani Pak refugees will get permanent citizenship of India by proper process. 

Meanwhile, BJP has said that it would soon approach the National Human Rights Commission seeking constitutional protection for Hindu refugees from erstwhile East Pakistan and Bangladesh.

"Denial of citizenship to Hindu refugees is a violation of human rights. We'll file a petition with the National Human Rights Commission so that such victims of persecution who have fled to India can secure their rights as per rules of the Constitution", Party President Nitin Gadkari assured.

BJP also accused the Centre of being a mute spectator to persecution of Hindus in Pakistan, saying that women were being abducted and raped to force religious conversion even as the foreign ministry dismissed it as the "theocratic" state's internal issue.

Hindus, being minority in Pakistan suffers from communal violence of Muslim extremists groups. They are denied basic human rights. Muslim extremists groups often abduct Hindu girls, forcefully convert them to Islam, threaten Hindu businessmen, loot their shops. Local police administration has also turned Nelson’s eyes towards Hindus.

Kishandas (60), who arrived in India recently on a religious visa for 35 days, but stayed here, revealed, "The condition of religious minorities in Pakistan is very bad as nobody listens to our grievances.”

"With great difficulty I managed to come to India on a religious visa after my grocery shop was looted by two persons in Jacobabad area. When I protested they shot at me but somehow I survived and came to India", he said.   

It should be noted that News Bharati has constantly raised the issue of Pakistani Hindu. Earlier News Bharati highlighted shocking incidents of abduction and forceful conversion of Hindu girls in Pakistan. News Bharati exposed how Hindu girl Rinkle Kumari was forcefully converted to Islam and named Faryal Shah.

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Vedic Wisdom behind eating with your hands

 

Eating food with the hands in today’s Western society can sometimes be perceived as being unhygienic, bad mannered and primitive. However within Indian culture there is an old saying that,
 

” eating food with your hands feeds not only the body but also the mind and the spirit”.

In the Big Brother series some years back, an English participant complained about a indian participants use of her hands during food preparations and her eating habits, “They eat with their hands in India, don’t they? Or is that China? You don’t know where those hands have been.”  Within many Indian households nowadays, the practice of eating food with the hands has been replaced with the use of cutlery.

Have you ever thought of why previous generations in India ate with the hands? There is a reason for their this.  The practice of eating with the hands originated within Ayurvedic teachings. The Vedic people knew the power held in the hand.

The ancient native tradition of eating food with the hands is derived from the mudra practice, which is prevalent in many aspects within Hinduism. Mudras are used during mediation and are very prominent within the many classical forms of dance, such as Bharatnatyam.

The hands are considered the most precious organ of action. This is linked to the Vedic prayer of

“Karagre vasate Laksmih karamule Sarasvati Karamadhye tu Govindah prabhate karadarsanam”

(On the tip of your fingers is Goddess Lakshmi, on the base of your fingers is Goddess Saraswati; in the middle of your fingers is Lord Govinda), which we recite whilst looking at our palms. Thus, this shloka suggests that all the divinity lies in human effort.

Our hands and feet are said to be the conduits of the five elements. The Ayurvedic texts teach that each finger is an extension of one of the five elements. Through the thumb comes space; through the forefinger, air; through the mid-finger, fire; through the ring finger, water and through the little finger it is earth.

Each finger aids in the transformation of food, before it passes on to internal digestion. Gathering the fingertips as they touch the food stimulates the five elements and invites Agni to bring forth the digestive juices. As well as improving digestion the person becomes more conscious of the tastes, textures and smells of the foods they are eating, which all adds to the pleasure of eating.

You may have noticed that elders in the family hardly ever use utensils to measure all the different type of masala, and would instead prefer to use their hands to measure the quantity instead. As each handful is tailored to provide a suitable amount for the own body. Overall there are 6 main documented forms that the hands take when obtaining a measurement a certain type of food ranging from solid food to seeds, and flour.

This is a prime example of how many things within Hindu culture may seem weird and unusual at first glance, but once a closer look is taken it is surprising, but a vast amount of knowledge is revealed.

 

 http://www.hinduhumanrights.info/vedic-wisdom-behind-eating-with-your-hands/

Gujarat : even BBC falls prey to pseudosecular campaign

Author: Rajesh Prabhu-Salgaonkar

A faction in Indian media, pseudo-secular pseudo-intellectual pseudo-journalism is trying to create hatred against Narendra Modi on all fronts. International media houses are falling prey to the sinister design.

Mumbai, May 3 : An Indian media faction – the pseudo-secularist one – is still finding it difficult to acknowledge the good work done by Gujarat CM Narendra Modi, his achievements & his administration. Where there is no doubt about the growth & development achieved by Narendra Modi’s Govt. in Gujarat, the faction of media, particularly the leftist & so called Secularist group, has started trying to create confusion in public mind by questioning every proven achievement of the Gujarat Govt under Modi. The section of media doesn’t highlight achievements of Gujarat even on science & technology front. Having failed to grill Modi on the issue of 2002 the post-Godhra situation in the state, the frustrated lot of pseudo-secular media persons in the country are clearly & visibly un-easy while dealing with Gujarat issues.

 

However the general public, empowered by the social media tools, is taking such types of pseudo-intellectual & ill-motivated journalism to task. In what can be termed as acute embarrassment to major media houses, a ‘Modification’ of articles that were published, based on GDP of Gujarat state was done hurriedly. Today Business Standard, one of India’s leading news-paper, carried an article by AK Bhattacharya, with a set of figures that depict growth in Gujarat, trying to drive home a point that ‘growth of Gujarat is a myth’. Soon, other media houses like Rediff, and surprisingly the BBC (British Broadcasting Corporation) joined the bandwagon. this resulted in print media splashing articles quoting the figures quoted by Business Standard. BBC even went to the extent of nailing Gujarat with a story titled “Is Gujarat’s Red Hot Economy a Myth?” But…

But soon followed the counter figures, with accurate proofs, that exposed the ‘MYTH’ of the very same media houses. The article published by Business Standard quotes the GDP of Gujarat as 6.3%, where as the actual figures stood at a towering 10.08%.

The credit of exposing the leading media houses and their credibility goes to one Vijay(@centerofright) who exposed the mammoth difference between the real figures and what was contorted and published. With the real facts presented before them, Business Standard was forced to edit their original article and issue a clarification that read thus: This column has been modified to incorporate corrected data. (Read the article here).

The step taken by Business Standard of publishing the original article without conforming to real data and their subsequent correction led to an outright flurry over Twitter, the micro-blogging site. There were rampant discussions that questioned the credibility of the concerned media houses and the news they present to the common man. Even the reliability and integrity of the reknown broadcasters like BBC stands questioned. An irritated BBC had to change the title of their article to ‘Gujarat IS a Red Hot Economy’.

“It is silly that reputed media houses made mistake in a topic like GDP of Gujarat when Growth of Gujarat is a heavily debated issue.” Many tweeple raised their concern.

The modified article of BBC can be read here: “Gujarat IS a red hot economy.”

Beliefs of Islam and Christianity

  
All religions are by no means the same. Religions differ in many ways- ways of worship, beliefs, attitudes towards non-followers of their religion, belief in God, atheism, agnosticism, rituals, etc etc. Hindus believe that they can offer their prayers to God in any form they  like. They look upon God with form or without form; He is infinite, omnipresent, omnipotent and omniscient. They believe that if they like, they can worship Him in the form of Mother Earth, Water, Air, Fire, Sun, Moon, Stars, Oceans, Rivers, Mountains, Intelligence, Memory, Learning, Valour,  in fact, anything that inspires them to make their life noble, sweet and sublime.  Hindus define this to be the substance of ”religion”. Anything contrary to this is not religion at all. Hindus believe that every other religion also should be teaching the same thing. They believe that all religions teaches good, noble and helpful conduct towards all irrespective of caste, creed or colour. That all religions teach respect of others’ ways of worship and prayers. But some religions do not have these beliefs.

                  Both Islam and Christianity have the following Common Beliefs:

 i)   God is jealous. Worship of God in the form of an Idol or any other Symbol like Sun, Moon, Stars, Earth, Ocean, Rivers, etc. is equivalent to worshiping somebody other than the One God. This arouses jealousy of the One God who inflicts severe punishment for this type of worship. Hindus who worship God in many forms including Nature, are the worst offenders according to Christianity and Mohammedanism. Hindus are called Heathens, Pagans, Condemned ones, infidels, idolaters, Kafirs, etc., deserving severe punishment, torture and extermination wherever possible.

ii)  Christians and Muslims have both entered into Covenants with God, by which each religious community has received an Exclusive, Irrevocable Power of Attorney from God that its way of worship alone is right, that after death they alone will go to Heaven, others will go to Hell. Of course, the way of worship by Christians is different from that of Muslims. However, both communities claim Exclusive Rights. Believers of Islam become Non-Believers for Christianity and vice-versa.

iii)   This Heaven for Believers is eternal, and the Hell for Non-Believers is also eternal. Once in Heaven, their enjoyments are eternal; once in Hell, others’ sufferings are also eternal.

iv)   There will come a Day of Judgement when all the dead ones will rise and stand before God to get the verdict of either Eternal Heaven or Eternal Hell.

In addition to their Common Beliefs, the Christians and Muslims have also their own special Beliefs. Some of those are outlined below:

Special Beliefs of Christianity

i)       Birth by routine sex relationship between husband and wife is a sin. As such, we common people are all sinners. Jesus Christ was born to Virgin Mary, without routine sexual relationship; hence his birth is free from sin.

ii)     Jesus Christ is SON of God. Jesus is the Only Son of God; God has no other Son, nor shall he have any other son or daughter. Hence, Christ is the only way of communication with God.

iii)   Jesus rose to life a few days after his Death on the Cross. This Resurrection is a proof of His Divinity.

iv)   Through crucification, Jesus has paid for the redemption of all sins of all his followers (Christians), at all places, for all time to come. Hence, Jesus is the right and sure way for human salvation.

v)     Jesus has given all Authority to the Church. What Church commands is the LAW for the human race, both on Earth and in Heaven; no one should question it. Any deviation from the command of the Church is violation of God’s Law and hence punishable, as per by God’s Decree. Church is the only authority in respect of Spiritual and Secular matters of human beings. All other Rules of conduct are the violation of Divine God’s Command.

vi)   Jesus is the Way, the only Way, to reach God.

vii) Those who Believe in Jesus as the only Way are assured of eternal paradise of pleasure after death; others are condemned persons on this Earth, who will go to eternal hell of fire after death. As such, the human race has been divided into two classes of “Holy Believers” and “Unholy Others”; Holy Christians, Unholy Non-Christians.

viii) It is the spiritual, religious duty of the Christian Church and of every individual Christian to convert others to Christianity. Through this conversion, they are doing good to every non-Christian in as much as they are taking him out of false religion and false ways of worship to the only true religion (Christianity); they are saving the condemned unholy person and bringing him into the holy group of Christians, under the protection of the Shepherd Christ and his Authorized Agency (Christian Church).

ix)   Idol-worship or Symbol-worship including worship of Sun, Moon, Stars, etc. particularly of Non-Christian idols/Symbols, is un-acceptable to Jealous God; Such worship annoys Jealous God and he sends his severe punishment for such worship.

x)     The Holy Bible is the Word of God, to be obeyed by all, without question.

Special Beliefs of Islam

  

i) There is no Power other than Allah. Prophet Mohammed is His Representative/Messenger on the Earth.

ii)    Allah gave this Earth to Prophet Mohammed; the latter gave this Earth to Mohammedans. As such, the whole Earth legitimately belongs to Mohammedans. If others are to live on this Earth, they have to live as Mohammedans or as willing sub-ordinates (Dhimmis) to Mohammedans, paying Jizya Tax till they get converted to Mohammedanism.

iii) Allah revealed all His Laws of correct conduct through Prophet Mohammed; his is the correct conduct in all respects-sitting, standing, eating, drinking, dressing, sexing, fighting, taking, giving, etc. He has been the ideal representative of Allah, the best and last of Allah’s Prophets; there can be no Allah’s Prophet after him; anyone claiming to be a Prophet after Mohammed is a hoax; followers of such a hoax prophet deserve extreme punishment and even extermination from this Earth.

iv)   The Laws of correct conduct spoken and practised by Prophet Mohammed form the Laws of SHARIAT. This Shariat is the Divine Law of life on this Earth. All other laws of conduct enunciated by any other person or group of persons on this Earth are invalid unless they are perfectly inline with Shariat. Any civil, moral, criminal or economic law, not in line with Shariat, is an unjust, immoral and tyrannical law which has to be removed from the surface of the Earth; to remove this type of injustice and tyranny from this Earth is the bounden religious duty of every Mohammedan. As such, no government other than Mohammedan government, functioning strictly under Shariat Law, is a legitimate government; other governments have to be abolished; there is no other option for a Mohammedan; he cannot live under the rule of any other law, wherever he may be living on this Earth.

v)     To establish Mohammedanism and Shariat Law in every part of this Earth, Mohammedans have to follow, individually and collectively, the following three stages of struggle (Jihad):

a)     Persuasion and quiet pressurization.

b)    TERRORISM: This should create a sort of TERROR in the minds of non-Mohammedans, that sooner or later, they have got to become Mohammedans; the sooner they adopt this as their own religion, the better it is for them; otherwise, nothing is safe for them -their limbs, their life, wife, family, friends, property, land, etc. When such TERROR is created and established in the minds of non-Mohammedans, the latter shall have no psychological will to fight a pitched battle or military war against Mohammedans. Even if a pitched battle or military war is organised by non-Mohammedans, their defeat is assured because they have been terrorised to lose self-confidence; within their minds they feel frightening diffidence, to fight.

c)     Pitched Battle/Military War: The psychologically weakened, emaciated and demoralized military force of non-Mohammedans cannot face the Mohammedan force which believes that it is fighting for the cause of Allah, for establishing His religion and His Law of Shariat on this Earth; Allah is Great (Allah-O-Akbar).

vi)   This three-stage struggle (Jihad) to establish Mohammedan religion and Law of Shariat on this Earth is a religious obligation for every Mohammedan; to relax on this front is tantamount to dis-obedience of the Command of Allah; the obedient ones will have all the fruits of Jihad: global empire, wealth, and access to all enjoyments. Should a Mohammedan die in this God’s war against non-Mohammedans, he will be greeted by beautiful Hoories at the gates of Heaven; even beautiful handsome boys will be available to the Mohammedan for his enjoyment in the gardens of Heaven; he can sit there reclining against soft cushions, the Hoories will come to him with glasses of wine which does not create intoxication; the Hoories chasten chanting glances at the reclining Mohammedan and he enjoys infinite happiness in the company of handsome Hoories and beautiful boys; the Mohammedan does not grow weak or old at all in that Heaven; eternal enjoyment in that company is the fruit he has legitimately earned through living and dying in the cause of Allah, the cause of His religion of Mohammedanism on the Earth.

vii) On this Earth, Mohammedans form community and community laws of their own, as per the Law of Shariat; all other laws are unjust and tyrannical and hence invalid for them; they have the divine right to disobey all such laws. For them, political boundaries have no meaning; those boundaries are made by man, not by Allah. The all-powerful Allah has validated only one community – the Mohammedan community; one country-the Earth; one loyalty -loyalty to the Holy Prophet Mohammed; one valid Law-the Law of Shariat. A Mohammedan belongs to only one nationality-Mohammed’s nationality; his allegiance is to only one land-the Holy Mecca. Every piece of land under Mohammedan rule and under the Law of Shariat is a land of justice and peace for him; every other piece of land is a land of tyranny for him where he has to wage a war of Jihad and Sabotage for establishing Mohammedanism. If a Mohammedan is taking his food and hears a call from Mohammedans outside in a street-quarrel, he has to leave his food and rush outside to join his Mohammedan brothers.

viii)   When all other rules and rulers are removed from the surface of the Earth and replaced by the Mohammedan ruler under the Law of Shariat, then there will be total peace and justice on this Earth. As such, the Mohammedans are working only for Peace; Mohammedanism is “Peace and Justice”. It is for this that they are fighting; the second name for Mohammedanism is PEACE. Mohammedans want to establish this PEACE on this earth. They cannot rest until this type of PEACE is established.

ix)   About one hundred years back, in most literature and in spoken language, the religion propagated by Holy Prophet Mohammed was called Mohammedanism and his followers were called Mohammedans; the words Islam and Muslims were not common. To give greater legitimacy and acceptability to this system, the words “Islam” and” Muslims” were made to become more common in usage; it is not a religion given by Prophet Mohammed; this religion already existed with Allah and it prevailed in Allah’s Heaven; Prophet Mohammed only brought it down from Heaven to this Earth. Religion prevailing in the Heaven of Allah was and is ISLAM and its followers are MUSLIMS.

   The weakness of these Christian and Mohammedan Beliefs is very obvious, but who is to question? These Beliefs, without openness to reasoning, have led to cruelty and wars. Hindus also mistreated lower castes for a few centuries in India, again due to lack of free thinking. But Hindus have accepted the flaws of their behavior and followed modern civil laws, given reservation to those who belong to castes which were mistreated. In the last two centuries, with the advancement of free thinking in Europe and USA, the illogical doctrine of the Church has also lost its appeal and a lot of the orthodoxy has gone down. Hindus and Christians have both reformed to a large extent. Of course, there are still hundreds of misguided Missionaries in India and in other countries in the world who try very hard to convert others to ‘the only true path of Christianity’. But Islam has totally refused to accept any reforms and as in the words of the writer who wrote this book (who is anonymous, whose name is not known to anyone), “Islam of today resembles the Christianity of the Middle Ages”.

    The minute analysis of these beliefs of Islam and Christianity is 100 % true. Most faithful believers will still believe honestly that unbelievers will go to Hell. In college when this writer talked to a Christian girl (who was a Catholic) she candidly spoke out all these beliefs and condemned this writer openly for being an atheist and felt that I deserved eternal punishment in Hell for not believing in God. It is not just one Christian girl. Most of the followers genuinely believe most of these myths. But most Muslims believe, genuinely though erroneously, that Islam is a religion of peace and Muhammad was the BEST AND PERFECT MAN, on earth.

    Christianity is a living example of a case where an innocent symbol was destroyed by a bad theology. But it does not mean there are no believing Christians now or in the past who did not overcome the faults of their theology. Many have loved their fellow believers without learning to hate their pagan neighbours. All this shows that man is greater than his creeds and ideologies and that humanity could survive its hate-ideologies. It has been able till now. But will it in future, especially when Muslims believe that this life is just a ‘test’ and the real life is afterlife? Many are quite willing to die (and destroy the earth) in the hope of Jannat (Paradise) which is actually a MIRAGE.

 http://www.islaminindia.org/15-beliefs-of-islam-and-christianity/beliefs-of-islam-and-christianity-536

Dalits turned to Christianity demand Vatican to Pay for Collective Sin on promoting casteism

Source: News Bharati           New Delhi, April 7: So called Dalit community, which turned to Christianity for 'dignity' is now feeling that it has been betrayed by the Vatican and Church authorities in India.  The Poor Christian Liberation Movement (PCLM) has blamed Church Authorities of conspiring to include them in the Scheduled Caste list, which it said is not acceptable to Dalit Christians. In an open letter to His Holiness Pope Benedict XVI’s and Church authorities, the PCLM President R L Francis said Dalits converted to Christianity to preserve their dignity, there by losing out on reservation benefits available to them under the Constitution. Demanding compensation for the 20 million Dalits who have turned to Christianity, Francis said Dalits have suffered heavy economic losses by foregoing reservation and converting to Christianity to get respect and dignity in the Christian society. “The US Church authorities and Vatican has paid millions of dollars in compensation for sexual perversion of few of its priests,” he said, asking why Indian church authorities could not pay for a more serious ‘collective sin’ (Astha Ka Balatkar) factor. In a press release, Francis said the efforts of the Indian church authorities to put dalits turned into Christianity yet again in the scheduled Caste list would promote casteism in Christianity. He has also commented that, “It’s a mockery of Jesus Christ’ sacrifice on the Cross.” In this Good Friday message to all Poor Christian Liberation Movement (PCLM) state level office bearers and cadre, Francis urged them to prepare and preserve documents of various socio-economic losses and damages caused to the millions of Dalit Christians because of the absolute neglect, lethargy and gross carelessness of the Church authorities.  http://en.newsbharati.com//Encyc/2012/4/7/Dalits-turned-to-Christianity-demand-Vatican-to-Pay-for-Collective-Sin-on-promoting-casteism.aspx?NB=&lang=1&m1=&m2=&p1=&p2=&p3=&p4=&NewsMode=int

Hindu Temple Desecrated Curfew in Bhagyanagar

Source: News Bharati

Bhagyanagar, April 8: An indefinite curfew was today imposed in the sensitive Madannapet and Saidabad areas of the walled city. A Hanuman temple at Kurmaguda, (in Saidabad) was found desecrated on the Sunday morning which was followed by incidents of stabbing and heavy stone-pelting, hence curfew has been imposed, police said.

A day after the Hanuman Jayanti, in the early hours of Sunday, 8th April 2012, the devotees of the Hanuman temple at Kurmaguda, in Saidabad, were in for a shock to find green colour had been splashed on the walls of the temple and pieces of cow meat were thrown inside the temple from the grills.

The naturally agitated Hindu youth protested against this sacrilegious act. The Muslims who are a majority in that area launched an offensive on the Hindus and both sides engaged in a duel of stone fight. Sensing trouble, the police indulged in lathi charge and also fired tear gas hurting many of the protesters. At the same time, the Muslims grouped themselves into a larger group and more or less occupied the main road of Saidabad armed with stones and swords, eye witnesses told NewsBharati.

The incidents were reported from the Madannapet and Saidabad areas of the Old City here. Additional forces have been deployed there, a senior police official told.

Curfew has been clamped till further orders in the areas under Madannapet and Saidabad police station limits, Hyderabad Police Commissioner A K Khan said, adding police have picked up two persons for questioning.

"Miscreants pelted stones at buses and set at least two vehicles on fire. Two incidents of stabbing have also been reported," the police official said.

"The situation is now under control. We have posted pickets and preventive measures are in place," Hyderabad Police Commissioner A K Khan added.

"We are keeping strict watch in the sensitive areas," Khan told reporters, appealing to people to cooperate with police and not beMeanwhile, Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N Kiran Kumar Reddy directed Director General of Police, Dinesh Reddy, and other senior officials to take stringent action against the miscreants responsible for Madannapet incidents.

Hindu groups are demanding security of the community and punishment to wrong doers. Chief Minister Kiran Kumar Reddy reviewed the situation by talking to the top officials, official sources said.

(with additional inputs from PTI)

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