"Sachin Phadte" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >I apologise to Santosh if I gave impression that I have called his statement >nonsense. >All that I said was that if examples are given we can deal with them. >
Sachin, No need to apologize. I got exactly what you were trying to say. That is why I provided a couple of specific examples in a follow-up post. If you missed that post, here are those examples, along with four additional ones. 1. Passing of a law to ban cow slaughter. 2. Forcing universities to teach Vedic astrology. 3. Deleting important historical facts from NCERT high school textbooks because they are hurtful to Hindu pride. 4. Inserting Hindu mythological events as historical facts in these textbooks. 5. Inserting fabricated religious nonsense into these textbooks, such as Homer cribbed from Ramayana to write his Iliad. 6. Forcing the Archeological Survey of India to authenticate that the Babri Masjid was a Ram Mandir. Here are links to two scholarly articles on how pervasive and blatant this religious manipulation of public policy, education and academic research has become, in our homeland today: http://www.safarmer.com/frontline/Har2.pdf http://www.ercwilcom.net/indowindow/sad/article.php?child=29&article=27 I doubt there is anybody on Goanet who would want to defend such practices - even among the religious types, although I realize that the latter may be simply because this manipulation is not Biblical in nature. People tend to be very hypocritical in such matters, especially the fundamentalists. They only speak of secularism when somebody else is trying to impose their religious ideas on them, not when they are trying to do the same on others. Cheers, Santosh ########################################################################## # Send submissions for Goanet to [EMAIL PROTECTED] # # PLEASE remember to stay on-topic (related to Goa), and avoid top-posts # # More details on Goanet at http://joingoanet.shorturl.com/ # # Please keep your discussion/tone polite, to reflect respect to others # ##########################################################################
