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Roger Bannister [OP]

2003-05-15 00:58 | User Profile

Interesting article on white supremacism, Zionism, and worst of all as the author puts it, the Caste System and the arrogant Hindus behind it. Also interesting are the revelations regarding the glorious Hindu past, which apparently is as mythical as the lies Mexicans tell about Aztlan.

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India’s Hindu caste oppression = racism

The caste system is perhaps the most elaborate expression of institutionalized oppression ever built by human beings.  Caste oppression is so similar to racial oppression that the Dalits, the people once referred to as “untouchables,” by the supremacist arrogance of Brahmins (the priestly caste), are demanding that the UN Conference against Racism also include a discussion of Hindu racism.  This of course draws outraged responses from the arrogant upper caste leadership of the neo-Brahminial Hindutva movement.  This movement is striking terror on India’s Muslims, and Christians and is not interested in any form of democratic society, but on that is built on Hindu supremacist ideas.

... More than 300 million (yes 300 million!) human beings in India live lives as bonded laborers. This is modern day slavery... **to be Hindu means to belong to a caste, and not as it is in most religions, to merely subscribe to a set body of beliefs.  Hinduism has no universal religious requirements; therefore it is sufficiently open to interpretation along lines that are outrageously oppressive. 

To mask these realities they engage in flights of fancy with the full help of western myth makers by extolling the alleged ‘greatness’ of ‘Hindu civilization,’ a historical myth making project lock stock and barrel tied to imperialism and the subjugation of the subcontinent’s masses.

The modern day Hindu fascists are the arrogant upper caste elites who subscribe to a mythical narrative of a “great Hindu past,” something not substantiated by history.  In fact, there is more than ample evidence of a great Buddhist, Jain and Muslim past in Indian history, and the empires of Vaishnava or Shaiva (two major sects in the Brahminical religion) kings throughout Indian history are not comparable in terms of duration and continuity as are the Buddhist and Muslim periods.  The period of Indian history that can be easily classified as the classical period is overwhelmingly Buddhist: from about the 6th century BCE to about the 10th century CE.  The majority of the adherents of Buddhism and Jainism were from the oppressed castes, and these two movements particularly Buddhism was a major force in checking the power of Brahminism throughout India.

... To the Turkish and Afghan rulers (of India), the religious systems of the indigenous people baffled them and they often resorted to religious persecution and massacres.  However the history of the Turkish sultanate is not merely one of an oppressive “foreign” rule; the establishment of a stable state brought much needed stability to northern India after the tumult of the last two centuries.  Many people from central Asia came to India and became Indianized in their ways, while many indigenous people adopted Islam and the ways of the Turks and Afghans.  To millions of Indians Islam provided an egalitarian alternative to the terrible oppression of Hinduism.  There was a creative synthesis that developed what we know today as the mix of Indian culture; for instance the languages Hindi and Urdu are living evidence to the intermixing of indigenous and foreign cultures.  In short there is little historical grounds for any notion of a unified historical “Hindu” past, as India’s ancient history is a complex that has a greater Buddhist basis than modern Brahmanical Hinduism acknowledges. **

Faust

2003-05-16 14:47 | User Profile

Roger Bannister,

Yes that is an interesting article.