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The Rise Of The Hindu Right

Upcoming elections in India could help usher an even more nationalist BJP back into power.

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  • Posted By: Johann Dusseldorf @ 03/08/2009 11:26:58 AM

    No election can bring Hindu power. Only a coup d'etat will. After that copy some European tactis.

    Reconquista, expulsion , Courts of Inquisition, (possible a reign of Terror), A Hindu emperor who every citizen is to follow in religion.

    If all of this does not wortk: Endloesung.

  • Posted By: naveenkvm @ 01/02/2009 4:44:10 PM

    The Congress party workers killed thousands of innocent sikhs and raped many women in 1984 under the leadeship of Rajiv Gandhi. Many congress leaders who were involved in this mass murder festival were given party tickets to contest parliament and provincial assembly elections on behalf of congress party. They were not punished till now because the Congress party always protected them. This is the plight of indians under the rule of Congress party.

    The prime minister Manmohan Singh openly said that "Muslims should have primary right on the resources of INDIA".
    Should hindus shut up after listening these kind of holy words from PRIME MINISTER? Will whites remain silent if American govt says blacks should have primary right on all resources of USA? What will they do?

    Congress party PM Nehru gave away Tibet to China in 1962 without caring about the plight of innocent tibetans who were raped and cruelly murdered by chinese army till date. Nehru gave aksai chin ti China and lot of Kashmir land to Pakistan. Is this supposed to be an act of a PRIME MINISTER who should protect the integrity of country instead of shamelessly surrendering to other countries? Should we elect such kind of leaders so that foreign powers can rule india for some more centuaries depriving us of our security and rights?

    Will ITALIANS ACCEPT AN INDIAN AS THEIR PRIME MINISTER OR PRESIDENT? Will they? But Congress party is imposing an imported european with a tag of GANDHI as our leader? Should we choose that foreign leader or should we choose a leader like AB Vajpayee or LK Advani who dedicated their life fighting for security and prosperity of native indians for the past 60 years?

    If you still want to know more info, go to india and know yourself and then publish an article.

    Thanks for your valuable time reading my response :)

    LOVE U :)

  • Posted By: naveenkvm @ 01/02/2009 4:12:55 PM

    your article clearly indicates your baptist evangelist mentality. BJP came to power not because of communal riots. The Congress party and Nehru's family robbed india horribly for 50 years and made us slaves for their family rule. Congress always encouraged radical islamic groups and tolerated all terror attacks on hindus in Godhra in 2002(58 hindu preists were burnt alive by violent muslims mobs after which hindus retaliated. Muslims started this problem). Babri Mosque was built by muslim invaders by destroying sacred Hindu Temple. It's our place. How can we afford to built mosque on the birth place of our god? Israel also had same problem. Muslims demolished Jews sacred temple and built mosque. Is it a peaceful act by muslims? In the indian state of Orissa, radical christian organizations insulted hinduism by carrying naked pictures of hindu gods and chanting insulting vocabulary of hindu gods. Will christians tolerate if hindus carry naked pictures of Jesus and shout anti-Jesus slogans? RSS is not a terrorist organization. It's CPM (who openly supported china being indian citizens during 1962 war), Congress (who never took any action on islamic terrorists who killed thousands of hindus in kashmir). Before publishing any article, please analyse the truth. You are simply portraying hindus as communal people. What about your british killing millions of red indians in USA and indigenous australian indians? Please post articles about those atrocties also so that everybody will be aware of how peaceful christian missionaries are. Jesus gave message of peace but it was distorted by his followers for their political benefits.

    Do you know how many millions of hindus were killed by muslim fundamentalists in Bangladesh and Pakistan? Did you ever spent time on knowing about those atrocties and millions of bangladeshi hindus and kashmiri pundits living in refugee camps in india?

    You can write any article. No problem. But please know the truth before writing any article instead of blindly listening to the Italian National Congress Party and Chinese Communist Party in india. Go to common indians and then listen their problems. Then you will understand how hindus got betrayed by their own leaders in the name of pseudo secualrism.


    BJP is INDIAN NATIONALIST party which advocates for security of native indians from external terrorist forces. By your logic, i can brand conservatives in UK and republicans in USA as terrorists. Will you agree?

  • Posted By: Sherna @ 12/04/2008 3:19:07 AM

    The article has summed up the situation very well. After the Muslims, the Hindutva brigade has gone after the Christians, most particularly in the state of Orissa, killing and burning - probably with impunity since no one has ever been convicted for atrocities committed by this grouping. It is astonishing how little danger the Indian public scents from this quarter. But, then, we didn't see the danger from, possibly, home-grown
    Islamic terrorism either, until it was too late.

  • Posted By: AS Chakra @ 11/30/2008 3:08:08 PM

    I think Mr Overdorf is not qualified to report on India. He seems to be unaware that Abhinav Bharat is accused of plotting to liquidate top RSS leaders for their outreach efforts to Indian Muslims. He is probably unaware that the BJP has a Muslim vice president and was instrumental in making Abdul Kalam, a Muslim, India's president. The BJP may have hotheads but both Advani and Vajpayee are staunch secularists. ;pipp

  • Posted By: rksharma @ 11/28/2008 8:13:28 PM

    This is as openly biased an article as one can find. I ask Newsweek to take such one-sided articles that clearly espouse support for one party and denigerate another to be taken off the press. The BJP like many other political parties has many hues and shades of people, policies and politics. To simply say "its a backward step" to elect BJP is stating one's personal biases, wishes or opinions and is not worthy of a journalistic article.

    RKS

  • Posted By: Shiv @ 11/28/2008 10:40:05 AM

    In respone to Harmony. you are brainwashed and the BJP is exactly what an adverse PC India needs at the moment. Now in regards to this article, as a british-indian, I see these articles almost all the time, from writers know know nothing of India's history or it's problems, biased towards Islamist facists. all attacks by 'Hindu extremists' have been in response to disgusting terror attacks from muslim groups targetting innocents. What Modi said is correct.. and it is also relevant here, in britain. one question.. all muslims are not terrorists BUT why are all terrorists muslim. It is time we stopped being polticaly correct as Indians and spoke of truth and reality.

  • Posted By: a_kumar @ 11/27/2008 3:51:28 PM

    If at all, that latest popularity of BJP will be the "effect" in cause-effect relationship. In te past couple of years, there were tens of bomb blasts all over the country and Govt kept on protecting the criminals for votes while others go around insulting the native religions on the name of "My god is better than yours". That is the "cause" and Govt has well mismananged this mess.

    The innocent minorities are being put in crosshairs due to this Govt. policy of "All if fair in votebank".

  • Posted By: highlander7 @ 11/24/2008 8:53:23 AM

    after working many years in India in the oil field, I love the country and love the people, the only thing that really disgusts me is the sheer waste of money by ONGC drilling wells that they know are dry, but will not accept the fact. Millions of dollars of tax payers moeny just thrown away, also the bribes is there anyone in INdia in authority that does take a bribe , even the oil company bosses want there Ttea money from the drilling contractor , when will the goverment become real politicians instead of money grabbing thiefs, if you get caught you just buy your way out and are back in politics in no time at all.
    Its the poor peiple I feel so so sorry for as all theis watsed and stolen money could go a long way to educate these people.
    Thanks God all the Gods for the likes of Tatta & Releiance for all the charitable work they do.
    Even the indian crew who worked on our drill rig , lost some of there wages to the comapny who employed them and when they complain the standard answer was there are 300 people outside this office want your job so just accept or be unemployed.
    Please India you are a great country and one day will be one of the top world leaders, so lets sort out your act , get rid of the corrupt politiacians police customs officers, company owners, property owners and be a country that you can be proud off.

    • Posted By: pravin.pai @ 11/27/2008 6:43:31 AM

      Please do not call Reliance a charitable organization. Mukesh Ambani is building the costliest residential building for himself and has gifted an aircraft jet as a birthday gift to his wife, but is not among the top twenty Income Tax payers of this country. Infact Reliance is the major source of corruption in this country.

  • Posted By: Harmony.India @ 11/24/2008 10:45:39 AM

    BJP is definitely not a secular party. It is the only party in India that
    1) Advocates eliminating minorities through state sponsored terrorism,
    2) Has Removed eminent historians from posts and rewrites the history,
    3) Subscribes to the view that if a Hindu throws a Bomb it is Nationalism, but if a Muslim or others throw a bomb it is terrorism
    4) Has a large cadre of Civil and some Military officers who have their allegiance to its ideology and not to the country India.

  • Posted By: sdjog @ 11/23/2008 11:30:03 PM

    As amit.j rightly points out the BJP is genuinely secular (& can only be pseudo Hindu). There is nothing nationalist about a party that subscribes to modernization (i.e. Westernization). Parties come to power or are
    rejected on a negative vote. The Congress faces one now.
    Sharadchandra D Jog Mumbai

  • Posted By: ramkumarvijayan @ 11/23/2008 3:32:28 PM

    This is a very patronising article and very badly researched. Anyways, you have the right to say what you think. The Indian voters have proved time and time again that they vote for basic governance issues. So as always, the elections and the people of India can decide and not some newsweek author on who will govern India..period,

  • Posted By: 77.amit.j@gmail.com @ 11/23/2008 1:13:10 PM

    Also to set the record straight, the BJP favors a more secular approach to Indian civic life compared to the Congress. The BJP favors -

    1. Implementation of a Uniform Civil Code such that all Indian citizens are equal before the law, which means that no religion can use their own personal law.

    2. No policies that treat religions differently such as affirmative action based on religious affiliation.

    Both of these are similar to the compromise on religious freedom made in the USA and France.

    You can read more about the issues the BJP supports here: www.lkadvani.in/eng

  • Posted By: 77.amit.j@gmail.com @ 11/23/2008 12:25:49 PM

    This article is factually incorrect. In recent memory, the Congress became the first mainstream Indian party firmly associated with terrorism when a Congress minister was convicted by the courts in the bombings of two places in Surat in 1993. Further, at least one Congress prime minister has justified the use of genocide as state policy [Rajiv Gandhi and the Sikh killings].

    Given this, the BJP is seen as a credible alternative to the Congress by many voters.

  • Posted By: theindiancrusader @ 11/23/2008 4:14:22 AM

    India will progress under the leadership of the nationalists. So what if they are Hindus? We are a goddamn HIndu country. The pseudo secularist commie swine called the UPA can go back to Italy and serve mother Mary (or is it Maino?) for all we care. India was, is and will be a Hindu country despite the machinations of the evil West to stunt our progress. Why doesn't Jason Overdorf write about the Lashkar e Taiba and the militant missionary zealots who serve the Godless Maoists? When Hindus get slaughtered by the hundreds everyday by roadside bombs nobody cares, but kill a few of the Islamo-Judaic faithful the whole frigging world suddenly is all up India's behind. Go get a life Overdork!

  • Posted By: theindiancrusader @ 11/23/2008 4:14:03 AM

    India will progress under the leadership of the nationalists. So what if they are Hindus? We are a goddamn HIndu country. The pseudo secularist commie swine called the UPA can go back to Italy and serve mother Mary (or is it Maino?) for all we care. India was, is and will be a Hindu country despite the machinations of the evil West to stunt our progress. Why doesn't Jason Overdorf write about the Lashkar e Taiba and the militant missionary zealots who serve the Godless Maoists? When Hindus get slaughtered by the hundreds everyday by roadside bombs nobody cares, but kill a few of the Islamo-Judaic faithful the whole frigging world suddenly is all up India's behind. Go get a life Overdork!

  • Posted By: fluffy II @ 11/22/2008 8:09:33 PM

    The world community needs to brand Hindu Fundamentalism as potential terrorism just as Fundamentalism of all other religions is designated as potential terrorism.

    The anti-Muslim pograms in India in 1992 and 2002 are outcomes of hateful Hindu Fundamentalism.

    World community-beware!

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