Joe Shearer
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Hi Joe.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.th...dest-indian-tradition/article9800756.ece/amp/
Plus the above commenter was quoting someone who was justifying rape of Muslim women as a weapon of war. The guy is a Hindu Saint with big following.
Dear Sir, that was a bad point to pick on. He was quoting a creep called Savarkar, who was one of the advocates of the Two Nation Theory. Many Pakistanis don't know that there was a segment of Hindus who enthusiastically advocated this theory, in flat opposition to Gandhi and the Congress, and their model, that might whimsically be called the One Nation Theory. Savarkar is noted for two things besides his support for the Two Nation Theory: his cringing petitions to the British for merciful treatment when jailed in the Andamans (the cringing included holding strictly neutral, even inclined towards the jailors' point of view when a prison mutiny occurred, on the excellent grounds that taking a stand in favour of the inmates might lose him the favour of the British - that will show you the inner man), and the second being his zealous publicity campaign, in anonymity, about that heroic freedom fighter, 'Veer' Savarkar. He even ghost-wrote his own adulatory biography, giving examples of his courage and bravery in opposing the British; in real life, he was a meek little church-mouse, and the British found nothing in his low profile to offend them or to cause his pardon to be rescinded.
He belonged to the Hindu Mahasabha, that still exists today, but that was a parallel organisation to the RSS, and shared membership. While matters are not perfectly clear on this point. Gandhi's assassin was actually a Hindu Mahasabha member at the time of his crime, and the RSS got an unwilling pass on that account. However, again, in reality, there were ready exchanges of members; Dr. Shyama Prasad Mukherjee, a darling of the Sangh Parivar, was actually head of the Hindu Mahasabha.
It really pains to have the entire Hindu community tarred and feathered on account of this creature and his writings; it does not matter that in this particular case, he was making the usual war-like noises and saying that the Hindus should have retaliated in kind, and not stayed close to their dharma. This was a case of an armchair pilot fighting (and winning) famous victories in his own mind, and in no way reflected his real-life behaviour. It is another thing that the lumpenproletariat - the Communist term for the kind of human being that this cult attracted - were led to consider this kind of combat against unarmed women and children that Savarkar's writings inspired.
Once again, I sincerely request you - and others - not to conclude that all Hindus belonged to this thinking. They did not, they do not, they will not. There is a criminal fringe, and their crimes are indiscriminate with regard to religion. The five who were executed for that rarest of rare crimes that moves our Supreme Court to award the death sentence had raped a Hindu woman; most cases that you find out about were committed against Hindu women. The number of Muslim women attacked was historically low, except during riots; the Gujarat riots under Modi's benign aloofness was one such period of darkness when the brunt of the attack was borne by women.
There is no way to bend your minds in any direction, it is only with a request to examine the evidence and sift it to come to the right conclusions that I let this matter rest with you and other decent people considering the matter.