BJP Muslim leaders disallowed in the mosque!

April 27, 2006 By 1 Comment

The BJP and its sister parties just seem to have lost the plot big time!! They need to take a re-look at where they are headed in life.. because this is NOT the way forwrad in any scenario! They arent coherent on any policy and go around putting their own office members to peril or plain embarrassing them!!

“The Muslim community is angered by the way some district BJP leaders used filthy language against Muslims in roadside public meetings to celebrate Hanuman Jayanti prior to April 14. They had threatened riots, re-enact of 1987 masjid attack and throwing of shoes on Pir Baba,” most of the office bearers of District BJP Minority Cell said.

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Filed Under: India, Politics, Religion, Worship

Hindu Temple in Minnesota Vandalized

April 9, 2006 By Leave a Comment

Is US going in the right direction? With so many religious overtones to every aspect of life and governance – we see that people are becoming less tolerant of others. It may be possible that the vandals thought this temple was probably related to the Muslims – which would be indeed sad! Or the vandals were just jealous that a minority community could spend $9 million in that city JUST on a temple! Whatever the reason.. this is something that needs to be addressed here on a long term basis!!

A multi-million dollar temple under construction in mid-west Minnesota was vandalised on April 5 damaging large number of Hindu deities, which were specially imported from India.

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Filed Under: Minorities, Politics, Religion, US, Worship

Allah and Krishna

March 23, 2006 By Leave a Comment

He says my Krishna is an idol;
and I say his Allah has no form.
Pray tell me who is the True one?
She smiled and said
“His mind feels Allah through his thoughts,
Your mind feels Krishna through your hands.
Allah touched is Krishna!”

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Filed Under: Desh Poems, Religion, Worship

FAITH AND SPIRITUALITY

March 17, 2006 By Leave a Comment

Deepak Chopra in one his recent blogs says “Faith will no longer be seen as an irrational departure from reason and science.”

My take is that FAITH IS the biggest problem!! There is a very thin line between faith and orthodoxy! Every mind that has faith, is closed to reason, and all those minds that are closed to reason cannot be open to the Universal!

How can one “experience” the INFINITE by limiting oneself by faith and closing the mind for the “outside”!

Moreover, replacing one “Faith” with another “Faith” does not create a better scenario!! All the Prophets, Saints, Sons of Gods, or Gurus thought that THATS what they were doing – but you know what – ALL were Supreme failures in “introducing” a “better faith”, because for EACH Guru/Saint/Prophet/Son of God – we have MILLIONS of murderers who kill in their name! It is not a quirk of fate, but rather a CONSISTENT FAILURE of the “best minds” in the “Faith Business” to get to terms with a SIMPLE fact – that FAITH KILLS!!

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Filed Under: Religion, Spirituality, Worship

Hanuman Chalisa: an audio

March 2, 2006 By Leave a Comment

This is a very interesting audio from Sri Neem Karoli Baba’s Ashram in New Mexico of Hanuman Chalisa. This Hanuman Chalisa is sung by Geoffrey Gordon and Diana Rogers and chorus.

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Balance of Views, Expression and Violence

February 7, 2006 By Leave a Comment

The current controversy on the Prophet cartoons ceases to stop. And as it grows on around the world – more property and lives are lost. The debate on the range and intensity of response takes on a life of its own in all fora. I have been to at least two group blogs desicritics and Intentblog. There are several types of commentators on this issue:

1. Folks who consider any attempt to hurt wrong

2. Non-muslims who are “liberal” and the way to show their “solidarity” to the Muslims is self-deprecation and ridicule of the other non-muslims. Of course, their “hearts” do beat for “freedom of speech”

3. Muslims who are aghast at the cartoons but just cannot like the west.

4. Muslims who feel bad at the cartoons but feel the reaction is unjustified.

5. Non-muslims who stand up for Freedom of Speech and say reaction is completely unjustified.

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Filed Under: Asia, Europe, History, India, Terrorism, Worship

Muslims should also condemn religious targetting within Islamic World

February 6, 2006 By Leave a Comment

SInce I am on this topic, here is what the US is urging the Muslims – which I totally agree with!! Something that the quote in my last post also conveyed but in an Indian context.

“We would also urge people who are criticizing these cartoons to speak out forcefully against all forms of hate speech, including cartoons and articles throughout parts of the Arab world, which frequently espouse anti-Semitic and anti-Christian views,” McClellan told reporters.

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Filed Under: History, India, Politics, US, Worship

Iconoclastic Hypocrisy

February 6, 2006 By 1 Comment

Got this from this comments from Divya at Intentblog.. was so apt that I had to post it:

“The monotheist reaches the limit of the ludicrous when he struts around as an iconoclast or a butshikan, saying that the false Gods of the infidels could not save themselves from his sword and fire.

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Danish Cartoons Protests on Indian Streets!??

February 6, 2006 By 1 Comment

This is what Yahoo reported on the violence on the cartoons. Now, I just dont get this – what the HECK has India and Indians to do with the cartoons?? So why should an ordinary Delhi-ite or Kashmiri be subjected to mindless trouble??!

The main city in Indian-controlled Kashmir came to a standstill as shops, businesses and schools shut down for a day to protest the caricatures. Dozens of Muslim protesters torched Danish flags, burned tires, shouted slogans and hurled rocks at passing cars in several parts of Srinagar.

In the Indian capital of New Delhi, riot police fired tear gas and water cannons to disperse hundreds of students from Jamia University, who chanted slogans and burned a Danish flag.

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Filed Under: Europe, India, Politics, South Asia, Worship

You are marked.. as they burn!

February 5, 2006 By 6 Comments

This is mindless!! The violence over mere imagination of a cartoonist goes on and on and on!!

Thousands of Muslims rampaged Sunday in Beirut, setting fire to the Danish Embassy, burning Danish flags and lobbing stones at a Maronite Catholic church as violent protests over caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad spread from neighboring Syria. Troops fired bullets into the air and used tear gas and water cannons to push the crowds back after a small group of Islamic extremists tried to break through the security barrier outside the embassy. Flames and smoke billowed from the building. Security officials said at least 30 people were injured.

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Filed Under: Europe, Politics, Worship
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