1. How Our Eyes Lie to Us

Cognitive Psychologists in the past two decades have been experimenting on narrative fallacy. They say that our minds create stories or narratives which do not portray reality as it is, but as our minds perceive them.

1. Understanding the Muslim Mind

Hindu View of Christianity and Islam – Part 3

It is necessary to understand the Muslim psyche in order to understand the problems of co-existence that all non-Muslim societies encounter with them. The Quran and the Hadith are the sources.

2. Shri Ram Swarup did a deep study for years on these sources and came out with a book called ‘Understanding Islam through Hadis’. Islam is basically a system of law, overarching law which covers all aspects of life. To understand Muslim psyche these laws have to be studied.

3. “Islam is not merely a theology, or a statement about Allah and his relationship with His creatures. Besides containing doctrinal and creedal material, it deals with social, penal, commercial, ritualistic, and ceremonial matters.” It leaves nothing to individual discretion.

4. “It enters into everything, even into such private areas as one’s dress, marrying, and mating. In the language of the Muslim theologians, Islam is a complete and completed religion.” Every human action is pre-decided by Islam. Nothing is left to imagination.

5. “It is equally political and military. It has much to do with statecraft, and it has a very specific view of the world peopled by infidels. Since most of the world is still infidel, it is very important for those who are not Muslims to understand Islam.”

1. Is Śiva really Bholenātha?

A commong sight during Sāvana ke Somvāra in north India is Hindu women offering Bilva Patra to Śiva liṇga at the nearby temple, offering jala & other offerings directly to Śiva liṇga by touching it directly or a long time.

2. There is scarcely any rule to this offering of pūjā. Women in sārī, suit and even western clothes offer everything they have brought with them directly to Śiva: milk, water, kumkum, haldī, bilva patra, sweets, fruits and much more with priest just managing the proceedings.

3. There is often a queue-less, order-less jumble of acts, sights and sounds in which women of all ages jostle with men and boys of all ages to reach the ‘pinḍī’, the Śiva liṇga and offer the pūjā.

4. Most people from the south, following tradition, where āgamas are still a working reality, at least in temples, and where many people follow caryā are offended, and not without reason.

Śiva also have rules of worship and approach, as other deities.

5. Śiva temple, like others requires certain rituals and customs which are inviolable. Śiva, like other deities, requires certain caryā from his devotees and thus cannot be just taken any way the devotees want. It is true that there is a way to approach him like any other deity.

1. 'Hindu' is a word which is often objected to: both by the left-liberals and even by many Hindu nationalists. The disbelief in the word arises from the same historical truth: that the word 'Hindu' is not indigenous and it was a name given to us by the others, by the outsiders.

2. Whether it was a corruption of the word 'Sindhu' by the Iranians who couldn't pronounced 's' as 'h' is now a matter of great debate, but everyone agrees that the word itself is foreign in origin.

3. Anti-Hindus claim that since the word itself is foreign in origin there is no such thing as the Hindu society & Hinduism, & India is a British creation! They mistake the word for the civilization, and proving former’s foreign origin, reject the very existence of the latter.

4. The Hindu Nationalists believe that since the name is foreign in origin, so we should completely reject it and use the name 'Bharat' for our country and 'Sanatana Dharma' and 'Sanatani' for referring to our Dharma and our people.

I disagree.

5. I have no problem with the phrase Sanatana Dharma and I use it quite often. But the word 'Hindu', and the phrase 'Hindu Dharma' are quite useful, easy and we have been using them for the past few centuries very very well to identify ourselves.

1. When Rohingyas Mass Murdered Hindus

Yes you heard it right. They are not the most persecuted minority of the world. They are capable of fighting guerilla wars against military states like Myanmar.

And they brutally eliminate non-Muslim minorities wherever they come to rule.

2. Their brutality was displayed in 2017 when they mass massacred around 100 Hindu women and children mainly. Their hapless victims were Bengali Hindus who found themselves at the mercy of this ‘persecuted minority’ of Myanmar.

3. This massacred of Hindus by Rohingyas is known as Kha Maung Seik massacre. It was carried on by the terrorist arm of Rohingyas called ARSA or Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army. Yes, Rohingyas even have their terrorist wing.

Still think they are victims?

Pic: ARSA Leader Ata

4. Hindus are just around 1% in this district of Maungdaw where they were massacred. Even 1% Hindus could not be tolerated by the Rohingyas of the district as Rohingya Muslims are the overwhelming majority of this district – 91%.

5. This is the only Muslim majority district of the Rakhine state and the Rohingyas are so brutal that they could pull off a mass massacred of the Hindu minority of their own district in the only place where they are majority.

Think about what they will do in Delhi.

1. Do Islamists prize Muslim lives?

Hindu Society Under Siege – 2

Do ‘Muslim Lives Matter’ in greater scheme of Islam? Sita Ram Goel had an answer. In a country like India: ‘Islamism has evolved a strategy in which the Muslims of India are envisaged as a base and an arsenal’.

2. Individual Muslim lives are seen by their ideologues and leaders as cannon fodder for the conquest of India. Some salient features of this strategy can be outlined as follows: (all quotes are from Sita Ram Goel’s book ‘Hindu Society Under Siege’)

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3. “(a) The Muslims of India should be sealed off from every shade of rationalism, universalism, humanism and liberalism, and an army of mullahs and maulvis trained in the tenets of Islam should be let loose to brainwash and keep them along the right (Islamic) track;”

4. “(b) Every Muslim who doesn’t accept Islamism or dares criticize it or stands for the mainstream of Indian nationalism, away from & above religious differences, should be denounced as a renegade and a legitimate victim for murderous Muslim mobs” (remember the Maharashtra boy?)

5. “(c) The Muslims should be encouraged to air as many grievances as can be invented, and try to pass off as a down-trodden minority, oppressed, exploited and treated as second class citizens by the brute Hindu majority;”
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