Tuesday, April 28, 2015

Islamists aren't the only 'fundamentalists' to worry about . . .

Sadhvi Deva Thakur

. . . for there are ladies like this Hindu politician:
Sadhvi Deva Thakur is a leader of All India Hindu Mahasabha, a leading Hindu organization in India. On April 11, 2015, she demanded that Muslims and Christians in India be forcibly sterilized, as they were during Emergency Rule in 1975, when such forced sterilizations were carried out. The following are excerpts from a media report: A leader of Hindu Mahasabha on Saturday [April 11, 2015] stoked a controversy saying Muslims and Christians must undergo sterilization to restrict their growing population which was posing a threat to Hindus . . . . [Specifically, she said,] "The population of Muslims and Christians is growing day by day. To rein in this, [the] Center [the federal Indian government] will have to impose emergency [rule], and Muslims and Christians will have to be forced to undergo sterilization so that they can't increase their numbers," vice president of All India Hindu Mahasabha, Sadhvi Deva Thakur told reporters . . . . [and] also exhorted Hindus to have more children and increase their population so as to have an effect on the world. In another controversial remark, she said that idols of Hindu gods and goddesses should be placed in mosques and churches. Thakur also came out strongly in support of installing a statue of 'patriot' Nathuram Godse [the assassin of Mahatma Gandhi] in Haryana [state near Delhi ruled by the pro-Hindu Bharatiya Janata Party of Prime Minister Narendra Modi].
You can read even worse things by other radical Hindu nationalists in the same Memri Report (Special Dispatch No. 6033, April 26, 2015), e.g., "Today there is a need to dig up the [bodies of the Muslims' deceased] mothers, sisters and daughters from graves, and to rape them . . ."

What a horrifying thing to say! What's the world coming to?

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2 Comments:

At 9:33 PM, Blogger मुक्ता असनीकर (Mukta Asnikar) said...

Hello,
I am born a Hindu, now areligious and a citizen of India. This is not new. There have been fundamentalist freedom fighters (British colonial period), organization builders and specially this glut of self-proclaimed spiritual leaders. These days they dare to say such things in public and in parliament since the newly elected party is a hindu-fundamentalist party. They are ruling this country.

Want to read more of their balderdash? - -

http://www.ndtv.com/india-news/marriage-sacred-in-india-so-marital-rape-does-not-apply-government-759219

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/Sex-education-in-schools-should-be-banned-Union-health-minister-Harsh-Vardhan-says/articleshow/37274947.cms

http://www.hindustantimes.com/election-beat/bjp-leader-says-those-against-modi-will-have-place-only-in-pakistan-poll-rhetoric-heats-up/article1-1210038.aspx

 
At 4:22 AM, Blogger Horace Jeffery Hodges said...

Thanks, Egghead!

Jeffery Hodges

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