tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6138082354348831474.post8209764293269534411..comments2024-03-21T00:42:18.535-07:00Comments on Koenraad Elst: Ideas and "Angst"Koenraad Elsthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02503713923882807510noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6138082354348831474.post-48364430607687442642023-04-08T01:23:58.420-07:002023-04-08T01:23:58.420-07:00Truth hurts. But it heals in long term. Thank you ...Truth hurts. But it heals in long term. Thank you Doctor KE!! shravanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08930198170268997729noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6138082354348831474.post-70397563531126240122015-01-20T08:23:40.485-08:002015-01-20T08:23:40.485-08:00Dear Swamin Elst,
I would like to express my hear...Dear Swamin Elst,<br /><br />I would like to express my heartfelt gratitude for standing up to your convictions and ideals in the midst of all the hypocrisy and the abhorrent "idea of india" where alternative ideas are met with censorship instead of a debate. I am sure it is unnecessary to say this but I implore you to continue fighting for our cause. Apart from a few on social media there are very few intellectual stalwarts like yourself on our side. These cowards and hypocrites do not deserve to share a stage with one like yourself but such is the cruel ways of the world. As selfish as this request may sound, please continue to contribute to the intellectual foundation on which we will build upon.VirtualPresencehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09967915194673585350noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6138082354348831474.post-77845542712051009452015-01-16T12:26:32.622-08:002015-01-16T12:26:32.622-08:00dr.KE
i hav sent a mail to koenraadelst@hotmail.co...dr.KE<br />i hav sent a mail to koenraadelst@hotmail.com.if you got this please sent a mail to my mail.if your id dont work kindly give another.<br />jay1993bharatrestoration@gmail.comJShttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10529524119951365793noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6138082354348831474.post-6972734402027678092015-01-14T06:26:37.099-08:002015-01-14T06:26:37.099-08:00totally foolish of Swapan Dasgupta to apologize fo...totally foolish of Swapan Dasgupta to apologize for anything. You spoke the truth but Swapan apologized?. Speaking truth deserves an apology? what have things come to?.<br /><br />Similar kind of thing can be seen in the west these days. Muslim terrorists killed cartoonists because the cartoonists had in their own words'insulted' their prophet but there are some in the west who say "no no they murdered the cartoonists because of western nation's foreign policy!" <br /><br />total nonsense.Shravan Tanjorehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17298451633247843496noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6138082354348831474.post-42564616830238230212015-01-13T10:14:39.993-08:002015-01-13T10:14:39.993-08:00Problem with these people is that they do not know...Problem with these people is that they do not know real Islam or Christianity. Nobody is for truth. Everybody is for his or her own personal agenda. Sometimes I loose faith in Hindus to defend Sanatan Dharam but then I gather hope in people like you Sir to help Hindus to defend Sanatan Dharam and expose the real face of Islam and Christianity.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13766496677455789127noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6138082354348831474.post-25068131690978405232015-01-12T22:01:33.763-08:002015-01-12T22:01:33.763-08:00As for the rest of the critique by Mr. Shenkar, it...As for the rest of the critique by Mr. Shenkar, it was alright, but as much as he claimed that your views of the "right wing" being in reality "centrist" showed more about your own views - the same could be same of him. It is of course well accepted that the concept of centrist has shifted towards the right since the 1980s, that what was once considered rightist is now considered centrist. I think this is because people often don't understand what the concept of right wing necessarily means, often taking it to mean to the right of whatever is the current middle position, rather than an actual stable ideology.<br /><br />Also, his claim that government and politics should have no role in specifically Hindu concerns - well they already are involved. From the beginning of the nation there has been social engineering based upon religion. That is a matter of fact and an ongoing truth of law, governance, and politics, e.g. "Muslim personal law;" Hindu temples controlled by government; etc. <br /><br />What is needed is acknowledgment of a double standard, where Hindus are expected to take the lower position as the default because they have been deemed anti-progressive. Yet who is more anti-progressive? The BJP or Islam? Yet we don't see the same people who tag Hindus with the perjorative "nationalist" or "supremacist" denigrate Muslim or Christians in the same way. <br /><br />The reason is simple to understand. That is because the Muslim, Christians, and anti-Hindu secularists are all in the minority, and they know it. But, they have been in power ever since the nation came into being. Knowing they were the minority, they built in safeguards to their dominance - through government regulations; government mandated social engineering; cronyism in education; and at all levels of power. <br /><br />Their attitude of denigrating Hinduism and Hindus as a pernicious danger to progressive and modern values, of equating Hindu values with western concepts of medieval modalities, is mostly due to ignorance of just what Hinduism is really all about (not a monolith of caste and repression). Amusingly many of the elites of the vaunted western utopia have during much of the last 50 years developed an avid interest in all things Hindu!<br /><br />Sometimes you just have to laugh at the craziness of how Hinduism is portrayed in the elite sections of India versus how it is in the elite sections of the modern world. It seems completely backwards. But it makes sense because those outside India haven't been brainwashed against Hinduism - therefore while so many of them reject Christianity, Judaism, and Islam as too outdated, illogical, intolerant and repressive, yet they joyously embrace Hinduism as the panacea for everything! Hinduism is widely seen in the elites of the west as the vanguard of the New Age enlightened man!Vrajahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06535159097241083544noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6138082354348831474.post-34993467136915793042015-01-12T22:01:07.963-08:002015-01-12T22:01:07.963-08:00You can show off the hypocrisy of people being off...You can show off the hypocrisy of people being offended by Hindus doing or speaking the same types of things other religionists regularly speak about Hindus, i.e. condemn other religions and their prophets, as Muslims and Christians regularly do to Hindus with no outrage, usually taken as a matter of course, as perfectly normal - but if a Hindu does that to Islam or Christianity, then all hell breaks loose? Why is that? <br /><br />I think it is something like racism, it's religious bigotry towards Hinduism which is not only tolerated as normal, but actively promoted as good for everyone in order to free the "oppressed." <br /><br />But of course what is good for the goose is not good for the gander because of cultural and religious bigotry. Sharia law may oppress women and minorities and basically everyone with a secular or independent spirit, but you cannot contest the inherent vice of Islam (sharia and the spirit of oppression) without being called out as a bigot, or an intolerant promoter of hate. <br /><br />In other words caste discrimination is coming from those who see and speak of Hindus as inherently faulty, inherently wrongheaded, inherently beneath the civilized followers of "monotheism" and the "great religions of the west," but become outraged when what they dish out to Hindus is dished back to them.<br /><br />The response of Hindus to such bigotry as "the norm" is invariably due to power and prestige. The Muslim dignitaries at the conference were offended, just as Hindus are offended when Muslims or Christians belittle their religion and traditions, and because of the potential for political fall-out for various Hindus, of course it was obvious what would be the result of your words Koenraad.Vrajahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06535159097241083544noreply@blogger.com