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X-post from Sanskrit nukkad: Big day. Today was the first telecast of the expanded weekly half-hour Sanskrit News magazine on Doordarshan - Vartavali. As Prasar Bharati Chairman Surya Prakash ji says at the beginning - "People talk only of linguistic diversity, and Sanskrit helps to bring unity...

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Tracking shifts in the leadership of anti-Jew ghazihood among the Islamic Master Races: "One of Hamas's most dangerous operatives seems to have found a comfortable new home in Turkey (after things turned sour with Iran due to the Syria imbroglio)." http://foreignpolicy.com/2014/12/08/hamas...

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Condolences. I recall fondly how Bidwai was in the vanguard of the anti-India lobby in the US, which, at least until recently, was far more active, influential and high profile than any pro-India lobby here. He departs leaving behind skid marks in the commode of atrocity literature, poverty p0rn and...

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Dalit Brothers (Navodaya Vidyalay products) Who Cracked IIT Face Stone-Pelting Back In Their Village

http://m.huffpost.com/in/entry/7633834? ... mg00000001

One was also beaten for correcting his Sanskrit teacher once in school.

Kudos to Smriti Irani for her role.

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Second case brought to light in a BJP ruled state in recent times -

Madhya Pradesh: Dalit girl beaten up as her shadow falls on high caste

http://www.dnaindia.com/india/report-ma ... te-2096044

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Iranian lobby in the US has worked with Obama on the nuclear talks. It is also interesting to watch the next steps in terms of persuading Saudi to cede control to Iranian proxies in the remaking of the Middle East.

Ending the Iranian-Saudi Cold War

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So now you think I said the Sassanis were 'turks'? I give up. I confess I have never seen someone tie things up in knots as oddly as you, dear peter ji. :mrgreen: To sum my points up - 1. It is absurd to suggest that the existence of laws of "social hygiene" precludes the assimilation of o...

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I said pre-Islam. You seem to be very confused reading posts, or this is nothing more than trolling. You are highly contradictory as is clear from your earlier messages. ... Question that you keep contradicting yourself on is whether any Islamic population adopted the fire worshippers religion and ...

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X-post from Kurdistan thread: Thanks to Islamic extremism, Iraqi Kurds revive ancient Kurdish Zoroastrianism religion On local social media there has been much discussion on this subject. One of the most prevalent questions is this: Will the Kurdish abandon Islam altogether in favour of other belief...

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More on the above: Thanks to Islamic extremism, Iraqi Kurds revive ancient Kurdish Zoroastrianism religion On local social media there has been much discussion on this subject. One of the most prevalent questions is this: Will the Kurdish abandon Islam altogether in favour of other beliefs? “We don’...

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X-post from Islamism & Islamophobia thread: From Turkey, where the wave of Islamism succeeded in overwhelming the secularists, and then promptly split into two factions vying for totalalitarian power to create a "perfect" state - Turkish religious thinker ponders future of Islam In an ...

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From Turkey, where the wave of Islamism succeeded in overwhelming the secularists, and then promptly split into two factions vying for totalalitarian power to create a "perfect" state - Turkish religious thinker ponders future of Islam In an article on Dec. 28, Gultekin went beyond the Erd...

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panduranghari ji, thanks for the book recommendation.

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98 Hindu refugees evacuated from Bengali Muslim camp Myanmar government authority in Sittwe evacuated ninety eight Hindu refugees from Bengali Muslim dominated refugee camps to downtown Sittwe on Wednesday. 98 people from 18 Hindu families were moved from their current shelter of Thae Chaung and Th...

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bandon ko ginaa karte hain, tolaa nahin karte Doesn't this literally mean "individuals are counted, but their weight is not taken into account" If my interpretation is right, the meaning is not simply that the man did not want one man one vote. He wanted Muslims to be counted as a greater...

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Tweeted: https://twitter.com/Parikramah/status/6 ... 9813211136

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India speeds up visa for Iqbal’s grandson - Dawn جمہوريت اک طرز حکومت ہے کہ جس ميں بندوں کو گنا کرتے ہيں ، تولا نہيں کرتے jamhooriyat ik tarz e hukoomat hai ki jis mein bandon ko ginaa karte hain, tolaa nahin karte - Iqbal's reason for rejecting united India in which 'one man one vote' would prevai...

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peter ji, my last post on the subject: I have no problem in conceding a factually correct point. Turks issue is no go. Please see the earlier post. ..."Zoroastrianism was destroyed very quickly. So the claim by Agnimitra that Turks became followers of Zoraster many hundred years after the initi...

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Can you please stop parading your ignorance? TURKS DID NOT CONQUER PERSIA! And here is a link with dates and place and actors involved. All Arabs no turks: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muslim_conquest_of_Persia peter ji, is it so difficult for you to concede a point? Even assuming we all adopt your...

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Shahnamah ends at the mohammedan conquest of Persia. So it does not support your argument. I see you have trouble following simple posts. Let me summarize for you - 1. Post-Islamic Turks conquering Muslim Persians and adopting Persianized Islam is well known. 2. I added that this happened during pr...

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Since you have also not presented which Turks became Fire Worshippers and in what time frame and by whom I presume you in the same boat? Sigh. Several Tartars, for example. I suggest you also check out the genealogies of Parsis. Also read the Shahnameh. It even has recommendations for intermarriage...

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Dalit woman stripped, beaten in UP village:
http://t.co/68SPn0zry2

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peter ji, What exactly are you arguing about? Your questions are high school level history. I'm sure you can look them up. What I'm trying to understand is what your point is. Are you arguing that no "outsider" could ever "convert" to "Hinduism", or be Sanskritized, as...

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To pick on one example of yours: Persia was overrun by Arabs. And the Arabs converted the Fire Worshippers to their Mohamadden creed. Turks did not become fire worshippers as you seem to be alluding. I was alluding to Turks who became Islamized via the Persians, whom they conquered. But FYI, Turani...

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Why homeless Britons are turning to the Sikh community for food:
http://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-magazine-monitor-31557192

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Not sure which thread this should go into... your theory of 'Triangulating Hindutva: The Fundamentalist, Reformist & Traditionalist' is very thought-provoking. I think Fundamentalism would be a person who 'insists that we go back to fundamentals of a creed'. Generally, in most other creeds, fund...

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As an open-source faith, it is hence also, by default, a foe of proprietary architectures in the religion business. Excellent analogy ! The Indian version of secularism needs to incorporate an explicit stance - in favor of open source religions and against proprietary architectures. +1 Doing this m...

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Shashi Tharoor had written:
How Modi Government Is Undermining Indian Education

A response by Shilpi Tiwari:
10 Reasons Why Shashi Tharoor Is Completely Wrong About Smriti Irani

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In any case the victorious invaders would stamp their own beliefs rather than be stamped by the beliefs of the conquered. This is silly. World history is full of less civilized tribes overtaking decadent centers of civilization, only to adopt its culture and become its torchbearers. E.g., the tribe...

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Since RSS and VHP have said they are making the fight against untouchability and caste-fascism a priority -

Dalit groom in MP attacked for riding a horse on his wedding day

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Chinese school of thought different from Legalism (Realist) OR Idealism (Confucian) :

http://nationalinterest.org/feature/chi ... ught-12823

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X-post from Iranic identity faultlines thread:

Tajikistan Muslim Name Ban: Parliament Considers Forbidding Arabic-Sounding Names Amid Crackdown On Islam

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Tajikistan Muslim Name Ban: Parliament Considers Forbidding Arabic-Sounding Names Amid Crackdown On Islam

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X-post from Kurdistan thread Muslim Kurds abandon their religion to Zoroastrianism to escape "extremism" Shafaq News / The Ministry of Endowment and Religious Affairs in Kurdistan region said on Sunday that it has received a request from followers of Zoroastrianism to allow them to practic...

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Muslim Kurds abandon their religion to Zoroastrianism to escape "extremism" Shafaq News / The Ministry of Endowment and Religious Affairs in Kurdistan region said on Sunday that it has received a request from followers of Zoroastrianism to allow them to practice their religious rituals an...

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X-post from Kurdistan thread: White House opposes key bill recognizing Iraqi Kurdish, Sunni forces as 'country' WASHINGTON DC – The Obama administration is opposing a US defense bill that authorizes “direct military assistance” for Kurdish forces and Sunni tribal forces and recognizes them as “count...

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White House opposes key bill recognizing Iraqi Kurdish, Sunni forces as 'country' WASHINGTON DC – The Obama administration is opposing a US defense bill that authorizes “direct military assistance” for Kurdish forces and Sunni tribal forces and recognizes them as “country,” the State Department sai...

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Dear Chinese lurkers, Islamic (and especially Pakistani) narratives of their end-times prophecies predict that the eastern army of Islamic Caliphate will, in a single war, conquer and subjugate, both, India and China. Lakhs of faithfools in the Subcontinent have been indoctrinated with this story, b...

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The biggest plan by China is to bring Pakistan completely under its control through the CPEC. In a word it is colonization, China style. And it will work, the momins of Pakistan military will go along with the program. Asif Jahi Hyderabad can be a model for understanding Pakistan: it had its own mi...

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Jhujar wrote:
Falijee wrote:Is Pakistan pivoting away from Saudi Arabia? By Bruce ReidelBut, Saudis have nobody else to turn to either.
They do , Both Saudi and Gulf can be good Munna of India .

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