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Aditya V garu,

Don't know about others but your heading raised my BP by 100 points. Imagine if one of us, yindoo-pundamentalists, get a mild heart-attack due to that; causing immense damage to Indian Interests :P

Admins - Kindly ignore my 'report', now that the original post is edited.
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Ok sorry Just tried DDM type Psy-ops, now on will include original Headline and my view below. But the point here it is so easy to create a negative view on someone, and these people who make falsehoods on TV think they are doing somthing great. I really dont know what to say in our Media, show them the sun rising in the east they will argue that is the West.
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Harbans:

Anyone who thinks that psecs, liberals or whomever are wajib-ul-qatl is just as out of line as the Islamist. That Norwegian divided up his society into traitors and the rest and arrogated himself the right to kill some of the "traitors". This is a descent into the very mess that Pakistan has gotten itself into, where the pure think they have the right to kill the impure. Anyone who thinks they can build an India that wipes out its "enemies" in the same way, is just as dangerous to India as the Islamist. The dilemma we face is how to build and maintain a pluralistic, inclusive society, in the face of certain elements of intolerance. Some people think there is some essence of the Indic civilization that is separable from its pluralism, and that in self-defence we can keep the essence and discard the pluralism. Or that we can go on a few extended temporary rampages that eliminate the threat and then revert to pluralism as though nothing had happened. I think that is a deep delusion. I read only a few of the discussion threads on BRF. I trust the moderators that such delusions are not fostered on any part of BRF.
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devesh wrote:Harbans,

what exactly is your point??? just make it. don't beat around the bush. all these examples of this and that person making some comment is just distraction. what exactly are you trying to say? that Hindus should shut up b/c otherwise it might foster a guy like Breivik?
please don't get your dhoti in a twist sir!

what harbans wrote is perfectly right. let me try to explain.

What Breivik did was deplorable, inhuman etc. etc. What's common with him from our POV (count yourself out if you wish) is the fact that "we" have begun to realize (rather belatedly) the resistance against Jihadi Islam should begun with a movement against the p-secs, p-liberals etc.

I would go even further, had there been a credible and effective right wing movement in Norway then this tragedy would not have happened.

Another take away if you like...our right wing / RSS et al need to get their acts right. They need to channelize the rising anger through constitutional means. If they abdicate the space (they are as we speak) then it will be taken up by the lunatic fringes. Nature abhors vaccum (of course you know that).
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Praveen Swami
http://www.thehindu.com/opinion/lead/article2290619.ece
Anders Breivik & Europe's blind right eye
In 2008, Hindutva leader B.L. Sharma ‘Prem' held a secret meeting with key members of a terrorist group responsible for a nationwide bombing campaign targeting Muslims. “It has been a year since I sent some three lakh letters, distributed 20,000 maps of Akhand Bharat but these Brahmins and Banias have not done anything and neither will they [do anything],” he is recorded to have said in documents obtained by prosecutors. “It is not that physical power is the only way to make a difference,” he concluded, “but to awaken people mentally, I believe that you have to set fire to society.”

Last week, Anders Behring Breivik, armed with assault weapons and an improvised explosive device fabricated from the chemicals he used to fertilize the farm that had made him a millionaire in his mid-20s, set out to put Norway on fire.

Even though a spatial universe separated the blonde, blue-eyed Mr. Breivik from the saffron-clad neo-Sikh Mr. Sharma, their ideas rested on much the same intellectual firmament.

In much media reportage, Mr. Breivik has been characterised as a deranged loner: a Muslim-hating Christian fanatic whose ideas and actions placed him outside of society. Nothing could be further from the truth. Mr. Breivik's mode of praxis was, in fact, entirely consistent with the periodic acts of mass violence European fascists have carried out since World War II. More important, Mr. Breivik's ideas, like those of Mr. Sharma, were firmly rooted in mainstream right-wing discourse.
The above is not blaming the Norway massacre on the RSS. It is saying that without an unequivocal rejection and condemnation of violence as a solution to the problems correctly (or incorrectly) identified by the RSS, etc., India is going to face huge problems.
For India, there are several important lessons. Like's Europe's mainstream right-wing parties, the BJP has condemned the terrorism of the right — but not the thought system which drives it. Its refusal to engage in serious introspection, or even to unequivocally condemn Hindutva violence, has been nothing short of disgraceful. Liberal parties, including the Congress, have been equally evasive in their critique of both Hindutva and Islamist terrorism.

Besieged as India is by multiple fundamentalisms, in the throes of a social crisis that runs far deeper than in Europe, with institutions far weaker, it must reflect carefully on Mr. Brevik's story — or run real risks to its survival.
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^ There also lies the main fault of current [sic] secularism and liberalism. Unless it takes the problem of religious fundamentalism of any faith/ideology (including liberalism itself :P ), without exceptions and without apologies, it is bound to fail.

How can liberalism be strong and coercive? Isn't it oxymoron?
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brihaspati wrote:
So it is the height of delusion to try and separate "politics" from "religion". The so-called "secularism" of the Western European trend is actually based on a reconstruction of an imagined "golden" period in the "classical pre-Christian" and "early Christianity" Europe. In fact a lot of it found justification, strength and logic from an imagined "reformist", "rebellious", social-uprising-inducing supposed revolutionary aspect of Christianity as mediated by the classical Roman and Greek republicanism....

The modern Leftist-West-European-Protestant-mix value based evaluatory criteria that passes for "secularism" is directly traceable to the early modern reinvention of a revolutionary modern version of Christianity. Look at the value systems, the "republicanism" of the Roman roots, the imagined peculiar elite-egalitarianism, the jealous formation and guarding of closed ideological peer groups - which maintain their paradigms, and ultimately through it all the timeless search for a monopoly over power.
Bji, not able to understand the following:
i. 'revolutionary aspect through Roman & Greek republicanism'
ii. 'elite-egalitarianism'
iii. 'closed ideological peer groups'

Can you please explain?
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http://www.csmonitor.com/World/Asia-Pac ... tionalists

I would think Hindus should be on the side of those 'detestable' left liberal pinkos. There is potential for a disaster here. Do note that a number of those killed were not white Europeans. Even if they had been all white Norwegians, Hindus should disassociate from any demagoguery or violence and make clear their disgust with this fundamentalist's massacre.

I am awaiting the Islamic reaction, which should be most interesting.
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If one goes to the tail end of that document he wrote, one can clearly see the Christian origins of his lunacy.

He threw the words Hindu, Buddhists as they suffered much at the hands of fanatic Islam. What he misses to mention is the pain and suffering caused by his own creed, EJism.

Only politically motivated link this nonsense with Hindu-right.

Added: This is a crusade between Christianity and Islam. This incident is a Christian purge of its Marxist liberals. Hindustan has no game in this nonsense.
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RamaY wrote:This incident is a Christian purge of its Marxist liberals. Hindustan has no game in this nonsense.
Eggjaktlee!
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RamaY wrote:If one goes to the tail end of that document he wrote, one can clearly see the Christian origins of his lunacy.

He threw the words Hindu, Buddhists as they suffered much at the hands of fanatic Islam. What he misses to mention is the pain and suffering caused by his own creed, EJism.

Only politically motivated link this nonsense with Hindu-right.

Added: This is a crusade between Christianity and Islam. This incident is a Christian purge of its Marxist liberals. Hindustan has no game in this nonsense.
But the CSM extensively quotes Praveen Swami. He must be having a ball at the references to him, and will further associate, howeverr speciously, "Hindu right" into this mess and continue to get notoriety in the west. I won't be surpirsed of P'Misra & A'Roy push this line as well in some western publications. Lost in all this will be real issue, the terorrism India has suffered and continues to suffer inflicted by Islamists whose nerve center is in TSP.
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I think that whatever you advocate, as long as you take into consideration how it will affect people such as this, you will make the right decision:

http://www.parrikar.com/blog/2011/07/21 ... imat-khan/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chhote_Rahimat_Khan
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Well the taboo has been broken. The relative peace and civility in post war europe wrought by liberals as a reaction to the horrors of the Germans lie shattered. The calculated massacre of liberal values children is the most monstrous crime I can think of.

So now the reaction against those values will be reinforced by fear of such incidents that is the Christian far right will be co opted into the power structures much as in America. Coupled with the greying of Europe and the shift of economic focus to Asia, Europe is headed for ignominy.
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Lubos Motl, a physicist from the Czech Republic
http://motls.blogspot.com/2011/07/breiv ... nions.html
It's a popular attitude to view this guy as nothing else as a lonely nutcase. But be real. My estimate of the number of people in the world below 35 years of age who could write a similarly extensive (1500 pages), relatively coherent, and formally nearly flawless (compare it with your generic crackpot) book about politics is less than 0.1%. This guy is clearly no random chap who only differs by psychological instabilities or problems from others. He's more intelligent than a vast majority of humans. In this sense, much like his strongly held right-wing and nationalist opinions, intelligence itself is partly a culprit in this mass murder - which is perhaps another inconvenient truth for many intelligent people on all sides of the political and apolitical spectrum.
Obviously, I don't share his opinions about lots of things. I am simply not scared by Islam in "any concentration", as you may find obvious given the large number of people from all conceivable ethnic groups that I've had friendly relations with in my life. If there's a worry, it's a worry that Islam may overtake Europe and become the official, majority-sponsored regime. But if you could guarantee that this won't happen, I just see nothing wrong about a few Muslims anywhere in Europe. Efforts to introduce any purity - ethnic or cultural - just look like ordinary fascism to me and I've been always strongly opposed to it.
Your 1500-page manifesto may surely find lots of readers who know where you're coming from - but how it's linked to the killing of 76 particular young people on a summer camp will inevitably remain a mystery for your foes as well as your allies. Others won't understand what was so wrong with those young people. Others will realize that these young people have never hurt us - not even made us upset - in any way whatsoever. No one really knows them. They've been innocent and they don't even seem to be important culprits in whatever undesirable trends that may be taking place in contemporary Europe and the world.
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This killer is probably smarter than most people. Why did such a person have to kill so many innocent to be heard?
So sad on so many different planes.
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Bharath.Subramanyam wrote:
brihaspati wrote:
So it is the height of delusion to try and separate "politics" from "religion". The so-called "secularism" of the Western European trend is actually based on a reconstruction of an imagined "golden" period in the "classical pre-Christian" and "early Christianity" Europe. In fact a lot of it found justification, strength and logic from an imagined "reformist", "rebellious", social-uprising-inducing supposed revolutionary aspect of Christianity as mediated by the classical Roman and Greek republicanism....

The modern Leftist-West-European-Protestant-mix value based evaluatory criteria that passes for "secularism" is directly traceable to the early modern reinvention of a revolutionary modern version of Christianity. Look at the value systems, the "republicanism" of the Roman roots, the imagined peculiar elite-egalitarianism, the jealous formation and guarding of closed ideological peer groups - which maintain their paradigms, and ultimately through it all the timeless search for a monopoly over power.
Bji, not able to understand the following:
i. 'revolutionary aspect through Roman & Greek republicanism'
ii. 'elite-egalitarianism'
iii. 'closed ideological peer groups'

Can you please explain?
There is a lot of mist and dust that has accumulated about early Christianity. I am trying my best to point out the problems with the representations that have been handed down to us. But this goes too deep into the history and more importantly the "historiography" of Christianity. Will go far OT, so will try to keep it within ambit.

"revolutionary aspect" : the question is actually related to many underlying assumptions in many of the posts here, but people are not applying the same logical lens as are applied to other faiths/ideologies and historical claims.

How do we know about the "millions and millions" of Christians being persecuted? Apart from the lurid tales that developed much much later in records, what is the contemporary record of trauma from the victims side? The question is really important, because the logic used to deny that there were any atrocities on the Jews by Romans, or of other "rebellious" communities within the empire - or any atrocities by invading and neo-convert Muslims on Hindus and Buddhists during the advent of Islam on the subcontinent - is the lack of "contemporary", "authentic" and "independently verifiable" records from the victim side. Roman "description" of persecution of Christians - in the absence of such confirmation from victim side - is trashable - no?

There are parallel studies which find the early Christian movement to be a political one, which either started off as a revolutionary movement or was taken up as such a revolutionary movement by disgruntled sections of the Roman society. Why it deos happen so will take up a lot of space - but should not be unfamiliar to Indians who are aware of how Marxian thought gained dominance in India or attracted both elite and non-elite of a certain almost clearly identifiable origin/background.

The problem is that most people are not aware of the historical nitty-gritty of the transitional Roman Republic of the 1st century. Here sections of Roman elite - were fighting for power over and above the collective elite control of the senate and they sometimes found the Plebeian assembly useful. The first important figure to do this in the 1st cenury BCE was Marius - [Julius Caesar's mothers-sisters-hubbie]. Julius learnt the technique from him and by taking lessons from his early spat with the ex-assiatant and then foe of Marius - the dictator Sulla. Julius was actually the epitome of using the non-elite, the Plebs, for passing laws and attaining personal power. He grew up in the "subura" with his dominant mom [and mostly absent father ] who even being a lady still ran a rental property biz in the "toughest" gangland. Julius therefore had his networks early on with the so-called sanitary effluents of ancient Roman city life, and found the Pleb assembly useful.

Please to follow up on Julius' selection/election in a religious role, and his political career of rabble rousing.

The fact is that elite had been using the Roman mob for their own political games for a long long time. So Chrisrianity would have flourished in between the factional space available there in the 1st century.

the Roman republicanism took up from where the Athenian league had left it lurching after getting thrashed up by Spartans and the Spatans being thrashed up by their enslaved Helots - and finally mashed up by the Macedonians. In the process I guess cynicism was the only short term way out, and the hunger for "something" different - a desire to dissolve in unquestioing "tide of faithful love" and a "loving God" would be spiritual balm. Logical, analytical philosophies would be falsely seen in the context of civilizational defeat and rejected. This Greek undercurrent strongly influenced the semi-barbarian Roman colony [barbarian from many aspect s of their collective life - like collecting wives say from rape and abduction] who adopted most of the Greek remnants of philosophies.

Out of this monumental confusion and delusion that mixed up Greek civilizational retreat and defeat, logical and spiritual not-necessarily theocratic philosophies, rise and fall of Greek experiment with democracy and republicanism, the exceptional individual as iconic symbol of civilization [Alexander/emperor/Christos-king] - the one God, one individual next to God onlee or indistinguishable from God, the one "overwhelming idea" that holds the world together - came Christianity.

We have many references to early Christians being "troublesome", and not that many contemporary records of trauma - of the quality that a Thaparite should accept if it was offered in support of Hindu or Buddhist "trauma" [But of course being Thaparites - logic depends on context - same logic does not apply even in community-delinked logical framework itself to all communities and faiths].

"elite egalitarianism" : they claim "egalitarianism" but in practice it alsways reduces to a certain "special" group of sublime brains who must be given rather absolute power of deciding what and how egalitarianism should be defined as. This has its roots in the Greek elite losing power, the Roman elite using the mob - but once power is obtained - use that to create a special "imperial" class, use organized and militant early Christians to become bishops - and once becoming that create a special theocratic class that lords it over others. Continue down the memory lanes to Luther and his early dabbling with "demos" - finding support in and encouraging the peasant uprisings of plains Germany, an dthen when sufficeint militant force together withe elite military strength obtained - denounce the "mob" and abandon them, all the way through Anglo-Saxon expansion in the new world or the French revolution and Napoleon, or even the Marxian elite grumpiness that still ultimately postulated a special "vanguard" of the proletariat - the vague and undefined modern mob - abstractly defined accordingt to the needs of the dictator and the party.

This particular brand forms closed ideological peer groups - who simply devote their life and energies and perfidy towards maintaining the overwhelming dominanc of their shared ideology. P-secs in India should be a good example, and pseudo-Marxians of Europe for example - some of whom felt it so important to whitewash and deny the role of slave-trade in Brit [and connected west European financial networks] prosperity, or the modern class of dhimmis in both the west as well as India - who leave no stones unturned to whitewash the role and danger from Islamism.
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harbans wrote:I am only pointing to a clear danger, that hatred against the Psec and liberal is peaking slowly. It's visible across wide sections in the media through posts in TOI, Rediff and elsewhere in US and EU. Do you see what many are clearly seeing, a few targetted assassinations against known psecs and libs and you have created the quadri effect like in Pakistan, or Islam has created against people who draw cartoons and criticize the prophet. This incident is not a Timothy Veigh or Unabomber type of thing.
Indian political spectrum on the left has evolved enough that suiciding or "heart attack" is the preferred means of silencing opponents. So there might be a rash of suicides, but no assasinations, for the same reasons that you mention i.e. nobody needs martyrs. For that matter the right wing has also tasted success by tackling MF Hussain via legal means.
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It is a dangerous fallacy to make the result the cause : it is not pluralism that results in "Hinduism", but "Hinduism" that appears to give rise to "pluralism". The process by which this is done is not always so transparent and hecne the confusion. "Hindus" appeared to model others by their own understanding - and hence categorized alien thoughts into one of their slots.

But models are after all true only to the creator, and who is being modeled could have very different interpretations about himself from the model ascribed to him. The basic drive to categorize and define and abstraction that developed in the logical "Hindu" mind - could have given rise to the fallacies inherent in modeling real life phenomena - not observing all aspects, and simplifying according to convenience or preferences.

Pluraility was a consequence of a certain incomplete understanding of the nature of consciousness, and perhaps a formal insistence on modeling. Whatever be it, the consequence cannot be held as the cause or a core of the method that is "Hinduism" - it is not a religion in the western sense/nor a belief system - but a method of query and search. OT.

Just mentioned that models have their dangers - of incomplete understanding.
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Occasional excerpts from Breivik's manifesto:
page 48/1518
Christianity has for centuries waged a lively polemic against Islam.
Recently, this criticism has subsided. Worse, polemical works by clerics have been
withdrawn or kept unpublished (such as, early this century, Father Henri Lammens'
paper arguing that Mohammed's revelations were a psychopathological
phenomenon). One reason is that the Church is aware of the similarity between Jesus'
and Mohammed's missions, so that a criticism of the foundations of Islam may
backfire on Christianity. The second reason is the fear that Christians in the Muslim
world would have to pay for even ideological attack on Islam (that is why Church
polemists save their sharpest words for harmless religions like Hinduism).
This fear
also motivates other Church policies, such as the non-recognition of the state of
Israel.
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B 45/1518
An oft-invoked counterweight for the charge-sheet against Islam, is the fanaticism record of Christianity. It is indeed well-known that Christianity has been guilty of
numerous temple destructions and persecutions. But the reason for this fanaticism is
found in the common theological foundation of both religions: exclusivist prophetic
monotheism. The case against Christianity is at once a case against Islam.
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Page 49/1518
Many people brought up as Christians, or as nominal Hindus, never outgrow their pubescent revolt against their parents' religion, and therefore automatically sympathise with every rival or opponent of the religion they have come to despise. Because Islam poses the most formidable threat, they like it a lot.
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The Indian historian, Mohammed Habib, is mentioned a couple of times:

page 46/1518
Negationists sometimes accept the facts, but disclaim their
hero's responsibility for them. Thus, Mohammed Habib tried to exonerate Islam by
ascribing to the Islamic invaders alternative motives: Turkish barbarity, greed, the
need to put down conspiracies brewing in temples. In reality, those rulers who had
secular reasons to avoid an all-out confrontation with the unbelievers were often
reprimanded by their clerical courtiers for neglecting their Islamic duty.
page 49/1518
In this century, Islam has come to be advertised as a naturally leftist "religion of equality". This line has been developed by Muslim apologists such as
Mohammed Habib, and they have even taken it as a rationalisation of the irrational
claim that Mohammed was the "last Prophet": after all, as the "prophet of equality",
he had brought the ultimate message upon which no improvement is possible.
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page 50/1518
Among Muslim spokesmen, is certainly not the fundamentalists who are the most
active proponents of negationism. It is liberals like Asghar Ali Engineer who deny
that Islam ordains war on the infidels. It is those who are acclaimed by Europeans
as being good "secular" Muslims.
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page 50/1518
We should not make the Islamic mistake of judging people simply by their belonging or not belonging to the Muslim community, rather than by their human qualities. But the fact remains that the presence of a doctrine of intolerance as the official and identity-defining ideology of a community, exerts a constant pressure tending
towards separatism and confrontation. The alleviating presence of the humanist
factor even within the Muslim community should not be used to deny the ominous
presence of Islamic factors.
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Page 63/1518 - a very strong claim
In Islam, there is no "natural" sense of morality or justice that transcends the specific examples and injunctions outlined in the Quran and the Sunnah. Because Muhammad is considered Allah's final prophet and the Quran the eternal, unalterable words of Allah himself, there is also no evolving morality that permits the modification or integration of Islamic morality with that from other sources. The entire Islamic moral universe devolves solely from the life and teachings of Muhammad.
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Just a nitpick - the claim of "egalitarianism" is a propaganda :
(1) Muhammad himself claimed extra share of any loot as his share as "leader" [Khams] - for example "Safieyh" was renamed so after her capture and possession by Muhammad from the "root" Safi - indicating that she was a "special share" of the leader of the looting party.
(2) Division of properties - certain properties possessed after chasing out and expelling/killing Jews from their orchards around Yathrib, were divided up specially - with extra special shares taken by Muhammad, and special shares to maintain his extended harem, which had grown to 5 or 7 by this time.
(3) More than 4 wives were specially sanctioned for Muhammad [7 or 9 according to differences in sources] and only for him, it was ordained that no one could marry his widows - a protection rule not there for other men.
(4) There are occasions when Muhammad does something and declares that it is not Sunna which means only he can do it, and others should not copy it.
(5) There are formal injunctions to discriminate between human groups in general - people of the book and pagans for example.

Because some of these special rights were claimed in the early Hadiths as rights of a "leader" of Muslims/Imam - it has sometimes been claimed by others who thought of themselves as "leaders" of Muslims.

Egalitarianism was not the core idea of Islam. It was used as evident in some suras and hadiths to mobilize militant men, but the fundamental "elite" formation and creation process is still apparent even in the foundational texts.
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Al Qaeda's Christian mirror

http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Global_Eco ... 6Dj04.html

The overlapping strands of al-Qaeda ideology can be examined in detail in volumes such as Al-Qaeda in Its Own Words, edited by Gilles Kepel and Jean-Pierre Milelli, and published in English by Harvard University Press. Lone Breivik also concocted his own hefty, 1,500-page hate manifesto [1], titled 2083: A European Declaration of Independence, where he equally thrashes liberalism, multiculturalism and "cultural Marxism", which are allegedly destroying European Christian civilization.

As much as al-Qaeda - under the ideological guidance of now leader Dr Ayman al-Zawahiri - embarked on defensive (and occasionally offensive) jihad against Christians and Jews, Breivik calls for no less than a Christian jihad to defend Europe from yet another Muslim invasion.
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brihaspati wrote: There are parallel studies which find the early Christian movement to be a political one, which either started off as a revolutionary movement or was taken up as such a revolutionary movement by disgruntled sections of the Roman society.
Brihaspatiji, this is precisely the problem. Conflict was always there in the heathen society, there is nothing significant in this by itself. Factions will always form and there will be supporters in each faction, and there will be some voicing a grievance. The rebellion of grievance is in no way transformed into a “revolutionary movement” in heathen society. In fact, the “revolutionary movement” only manifests at the level of conceptualization in socio-political theory. This happened for the first time in Monotheism. For example, we know that (Titus of) Josephus is a mirror image of the (Jesus of) NT and that the NT is a parody of Josephus and not the other way around (but with tell-tale reverse situations occurring in isolation). If Josephus is so perfectly crafted, then what of its “neutral observations” regarding the natives refusing to “bow before the emperor/idol’’ in ‘theological principle’ rather than just rebellion? When Shivaji rebelled against the Emperor, did he do so because he was opposed to idol/emperor worship? Of course not (although the converted omniscients will have an extremely hard time visualizing such). The “observations” regarding "refusal to emperor/idol worship" in Josephus are simply the ground against which the anti-semitic (meaning anti-ME) invective of the NT can manifest. Josephus is the "social observation" and is posited as the 'normality'. And by framing the case of the native rebellion as a case of theological disagreement, an intermediary (of theological principle) can be posited as the “fulcrum” of the conflict, which allows for further ambiguation (eg, the rebels had founded a world theory of anti-slavery, freedom, liberty, etc). At the level of Josephus, this ambiguation is "social theory"; at the level of NT, it is religious invective. Such ambiguation is present in the texts themselves and works as long as the social theory (Josephus) part remains isolated from the religion (NT) which commands action. When a relationship between the two becomes obvious, the macaulayite nature of the “revolutionary movement” also is seen.
The need to normatize against a standard may itself prevent the "revolution" from taking off on its own, ie both the elites and the followers cannot conceptualize beyond the macaulayite lifestyle. In fact, the ambiguation which is "useful to the elites” and the "delight of the rabble-rouser" needs a sustained academia/seminary for maintenance. When discrepancies are encountered eg the discovery of heathen native america or heathen india, the discourse automatically shifts to incorporate those at the level of discourse itself (Enlightenment with its binary of sterilized social science and orientalist romanticism). The elites are quite secondary here.
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sanjeevpunj wrote: In the Gita,Lord Krishna clearly says "Abandon all forms of religion and surrender unto Me".There is an authentic voice behind this statement,a personality, not any impersonal concept of an imaginary god. Krishna says it with complete clarity, and it is proving to be true today.
The personal expands into the impersonal at a certain stage.
sanjeevpunj wrote: each individual has a point of view, and it is equally valid.Simultaneous multiple assertions of the same truth in different ways, enhances the experience of it.
No, no that is certainly not the case. You cannot equate a Mao with a Ramakrishna.
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Lalmohan wrote:the xtian right wing in europe is not centred in britian, but british nazis have joined it eagerly - and english is ofcourse the lingua franca. this movement is far more dangerous than the street thugs with flags, these are the psychos who blow up railway stations like bologna and do these shooting sprees, etc. every european nation has members, but its more of a north euro thing
The Protestant Churches have essentially been Masonic institutions right from their inception in the 16th century. The Catholic Church has been taken over post the "Vatican II" reforms in the 1960's. Communism is also a similar animal. Different dupes have different tastes and thus need different pretexts.
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Breivik, seems to be a person with good knowledge and intelligence.
Reason:
The person is really worried about the spread of Islamic ideals (as he himself stated) above the liberal values preached in his country. The freedom that they enjoyed. He must have feared, the restrictions the subversion of the countries laws to accommodate certain fundamentalist views over the liberal culture. Europe trying to accommodate, Islamic views like Sharia etc that are so brutal against human beings especially in their treatment of women. Barbaric ideas like stoning to death of infidels etc are another area of concern not only to a person like him, but to all the people in this world who think in progressive ways.
Target:
The target choose was to avenge the Pesudo secular views of that party. From certain news reports, it was shown that the youth wing was conducting an anti-Israel campaign at that site, with support to Islamic ideas. This is another area of concern to him. The people who call themselves liberals supporting Islamic views seems to have caused a lot of trouble to this guy. He saw and experienced how countries like England accommodated Islam with open arms and later came to experience the bitterness of Islamic terror. He saw how Islam came peacefully with the support of the Pesudo secularists and later changed colours to being more assertive. Now seeing the same Islam that is not only causing terror in England but also demanding Sharia laws and separate nation for Muslims in England. How barbaric rules are being enforced subverting the rules of the land. He not only saw and realized the effects of Islam but also understood the ideology behind it. He understood that Islam will not change, as much as anyone try to change it. The religions will remain fundamentalist without any kind of change to it, even if it's for hundred years or thousand years. Muslims may live without believing in Islam or being a believer. Islamists/staunch beliver and non beliver Muslims cannot be differentiated by Whisky drinking or bearded, Jeans wearing, dancing etc. It did not make sense. Whiskey drinking Muslim may be a staunch supporter of Islam. Since Islam cannot improve on core ideologies that are fundamentalist and anti-liberal/Anti-secular/Anti-freedom he choose to fight the ideology and the ideologies that support it (pesudo-secularists). So instead of going and shooting at some mosque or Muslims (must have created uproar in the media in support of Islam where headlines claiming Fundamentalist targeted peaceful Muslims etc must have appeared with no victory in ideological battle), he choose the ones who claim to be secular/liberals but are staunch islamists in their support of the fundamentalist ways preached and spread by Islam. He choose the ones who defend Islamic ways and claim it to be secular whereas the real secularists, the real liberals are suppressed and oppressed or even eliminated for speaking against fundamentalism and Islam. He sends out a message making people to think about his action. Why he did it? What he's saying is correct or not? Whether supporting Islam is in good interest or not? And almost all of them condemning the act will come to the conclusion that Yes indeed what he said about the threats are very much there. They will also come to the conclusion that opposing Islamic ideas are as much important as opposing far right ideas. They will not only come to the conclusion but also will see people speaking against all kind of fundamentalist ideas. Islam, Pesudo-secularism and far right.

Added later: Now in this case, if the term secular to be replaced by Christianity, that's if the person if fighting for Christian views (as he claims) then it's dangerous as Islam itself. It's more a religious struggle. It's more like crusade kind of stuff. Will this stop or will continue? It all depends on how politics plays out in Europe. If the Pseudo secularists can change over to real secularists/real liberals and ensure that rule of the land is applied without any subversion (like arresting and punishing those who try to enforce Sharia, death penalty for those killing women, harsh punishment for speaking in support of Sharia, arresting those who support fundamentalist views, punishing the ones who enforce dress code or declare anything in that way or enforcement of islamic views and seeking separation in the name of religion, strict enforcement of laws in Muslim neighborhood with proper police patrolling. No more restrictions on law and law enforcement from acting against Islamic ideas), then this movement will die out. Else it will keep flourishing.
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The European Military Order and Criminal Tribunal (the PCCTS - Knights Templar) was created by and for the free indigenous peoples of Europe. One of the primary purposes of the tribunal and order is to attempt/contribute to seize political and military control of Western European multiculturalist regimes and to try, judge and punish Western European cultural Marxist/multiculturalist
perpetrators (category A, B and C traitors) for crimes committed against the indigenous peoples of Europe from 1955 until this day.
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PCCTS, Knights Templar message to all minority groups and mixed individuals Know that we, the PCCTS, Knights Templar, are not a racist organisation. Individuals of all races, providing that they are Christian, can join and fight for the Knights Templar as Justiciar Knights. Your contribution for the conservative cause will guarantee you and the loyal members of your family permanent residency in Europe. You will be embraced as a fellow citizen if you shed blood with us, have no doubt about that. The future of all minorities in Europe will depend on where their loyalty is and will NOT be based on their skin color or ethnic origin. Needless to say; individuals that have proven to be disloyal (by directly or indirectly supporting cultural Marxism/multiculturalism) will have no future in Europe and will be deported. So called neutrality until the day of the takeover/coup d’état will not be an option if you want a future in Europe. You must be able to prove your loyalty by establishing a verifiable track record (support or membership to a conservative non-violent or revolutionary organisation) in order to prove your loyalty. Conversion to Christianity, changing of name (where applicable) or change of customs at an early stage will also support your candidature for permanent residency. It is only a slight possibility that it will be the Knights Templar that will be the dominating conservative force in your country when this may apply. Obviously, the rules and requirements for permanent residency will be set by the new regime and not by us. As such, consider these guidelines as an expected equivalent to what you can expect.


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The European Resistance Movement/Indigenous Rights Movement – PCCTS, Knights Templar offer a full pardon to the Western European multiculturalist regimes, the MA 100 alliance (political parties) and all category A and B individual traitors if they capitulate to our military forces by January 1st, 2020
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The Order and Tribunal has concluded that any and all Europeans
have not just a right, but a duty to resist through political and military means; cultural Marxist/multiculturalist atrocities and crimes committed against the indigenous peoples of Europe. As such, any European Christian conservative can act as a Justiciar Knight. This
includes Christian agnostics and Christian atheists. Although the PCCTS, Knights Templar is a pan-European indigenous rights movement we give all Europeans, regardless of skin colour, the opportunity to become a Justiciar Knight as long as the individual is either a Christian, Christian agnostic or a Christian atheist.
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All Justiciar Knights must ask themselves; should I manufacture explosives or just stick to fire arms? This decision really boils down to what you expect to accomplish. A well planned assault with an assault rifle may kill 30 category B traitors, while an unsuccessful explosive manufacturing process might result in 1 dead Justiciar Knight and thus 0 traitor executions.
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The Chernobyl disaster broke the back of the Soviet Union. A new Chernobyl disaster in the heart of Western Europe will break the back of the EUSSR, have no doubt. Causing a new Chernobyl disaster on a multiculturalist regime would completely cripple them and might eventually lead to the collapse of the EU altogether or any targeted individual regime. However, it would potentially cause massive civilian suffering and/or hundreds of thousands or even millions of internally displaced individuals (refugees). A new Chernobyl disaster in the heart of the EU will not be as devastating (civilian suffering) as that in Ukraine/Belarus. Western European regimes will not wait a week before informing and evacuating the public so the number of individuals affected will be significantly less (estimated to less than 10 000-50 000).

It may be required to make such sacrifices in order to end this experimental multiculturalist nightmare and genocide. Sometimes, the situation requires us to be cruel
and kill a limited number of civilians (indirect casualties in shock/sabotage attacks) in
order to prevent much more severe long term atrocities against our peoples. In fact,
from a pragmatical viewpoint, it would be inhuman not to act in a cruel manner when the
alternative is much worse. Just focus on targets that can be morally justified and accept
casualty numbers that are far from exceeding the alternative future atrocities.
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If we successfully manage to seize political and military control of at least one Western
European country in phase 1 (as a result of a regime collapse caused by the nuclear
power plant attack) we may actually manage to deport all Muslims before they become a
majority, and by doing so we potentially save millions of European lives from the war that
most certainly awaits us when the Muslims in any given country become the dominating
force and grow overconfident. Inflicting cruel cancer deaths on 1000 - 10 000 Europeans
(in P1) might actually be the most humane thing we do, if their sacrifice contributes to
prevent a bloody Christian-Muslims civil war (in P3) resulting in millions of deaths. And
what if we lose the Christian-Muslims civil war in P3? A worst case scenario will be a
repetition of the Hindu Kush genocides (80 million massacred Hindus, 100 million
enslaved) resulting in the massacre and enslavement of an equivalent amount of
Europeans should the Muslims dominate us one day.
The PCCTS, Knights Templar will allow all Western European regimes to capitulate to our
demands and we are hereby giving them a deadline which is January 1st, 2020. We will
not initiate any nuclear power plant attacks until the deadline has passed (we will instead
focus on non-nuclear attacks until then). However, if the Western European
multiculturalist regimes do not fully implement our demands - stop the European
genocide, deport all Muslims from Europe and ban multiculturalism as an anti-European
hate ideology - by this date, we are committed to effectuate ALL necessary measures in
order to stop them from annihilating everything European (see complete overview of
demands in another chapter). This decision is not mine to make but must be decided by
future Justiciar Knight Commanders based on several factors
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Manny wrote:Al Qaeda's Christian mirror

http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Global_Eco ... 6Dj04.html

The overlapping strands of al-Qaeda ideology can be examined in detail in volumes such as Al-Qaeda in Its Own Words, edited by Gilles Kepel and Jean-Pierre Milelli, and published in English by Harvard University Press. Lone Breivik also concocted his own hefty, 1,500-page hate manifesto [1], titled 2083: A European Declaration of Independence, where he equally thrashes liberalism, multiculturalism and "cultural Marxism", which are allegedly destroying European Christian civilization.

As much as al-Qaeda - under the ideological guidance of now leader Dr Ayman al-Zawahiri - embarked on defensive (and occasionally offensive) jihad against Christians and Jews, Breivik calls for no less than a Christian jihad to defend Europe from yet another Muslim invasion.
Two questions : Will the Old Testament, the Quran, and Lenin's "State and Revolution" also qualify as hate manifestos? All of them reco repression and coercion on those outside the "group" - just for not belonging to the "group".

Second you think AQ was on a "defensive jihad" most of the time - onlee "occasionally" embarking of "offensive jihad"? Can you please state the differences [as you think they are - and whether these are your characterizations or based on claims from somewhere else] and how they manifested in AQ actual actions?

By the way - Norway's initial Christianization was an interesting struggle. It was not easy, involving sibling rivalry [as in Indonesian advent of Islam] and destruction of sacred pagan groves. In fact the whole of Norde carried on a long and harsh resistance against the Christianizing attempts of the Frankish converts under Charles the hammer and Charles the "great". The whole Viking raids have been connected by at least one school of historians to retaliation to the Christian "missionary" depredations on the Norde-land. The Vikings specially targeted the Christian theologians and the church establishments.

The Norde had at least their Saxon resistance to Christianity, literally decapitated in a deceptive massacre by Charles. Christianity spread there primarily as "imperial" deception from southern kingdoms and regimes [Romans/Franks] and even this spread took the deliberately factionally confrontational route - choosing a different version of Christianity in contrast to the Roman.

Interestingly - the "northern" Christians might have good historical reasons to suspect the role of established-Church-political-regime nexus as an opportunist protector/facilitator of Islamism. Some historians think that the Goth Christians of then Spain were harassed by the Byzantien navy, in coordination with Arab/Moor invasion from North Africa - simply because the Goths differed in their "Christianity" from the Byzantine version. In fact a key step that facilitated the crossing of the Moorish invaders across the Pillar of Hercules was the sudden switchiver of the local Byzantine governor to the Moors. In the ensuing battle the Franks lost, and the freshly widowed Frankish queen was "Kalemaized" on the "battlefield" and "married" immediately by the winning commander.

The Jews of the Med were often tempted on false promises /or perhaps blackmailed by the regional regimes. One such group allegedly acted out on behalf of the Byzantines against the Goths and which happened to coincide with the initial failed attempts by the Moors. This led to the infamous massacre of the "Jews" by the "Christian Goths". Similar use and betrayal happened on Jews on the eastern front too.
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Among the crimes the class A and B traitors are accused of (a huge list) are two:
Kashmir conflict – biased coverage (anti-Hindu, pro-Muslim)
India in general – biased coverage (anti-Hindu, pro-Muslim)
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From my random sampling of US media, from so called "liberal" NPR to extremist Fox news, I was struck that nobody associated Christainity to this maniac. They referred to him as a "far right extremist", and this in the same news reports wehere they threw around the phrase "Isalmic extremists" to describe Muslim terrorists.
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see 'the Hindu' for another propaganda article.
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^^
Norwegian mass killer's manifesto hails Hindutva
Goals of Indian Hindu nationalists were identical to Justiciar Knights, Anders Breivik claimed

Norwegian mass killer Anders Behring Breivik hailed India's Hindu nationalist movement as a key ally in a global struggle to bring down democratic regimes across the world.

‘2080: A European declaration of independence' lays out a road map for a future organisation, the Justiciar Knights, to wage a campaign that will graduate from acts of terrorism to a global war involving weapons of mass destruction — aimed at bringing down what Breivik calls the “cultural Marxist” order.

India figures in a remarkable 102 pages of the sprawling 1,518-page manifesto. Breivik's manifesto says his Justiciar Knights “support the Sanatana Dharma movements and Indian nationalists in general.” In section 3.158 of the manifesto, he explains that Hindu nationalists “are suffering from the same persecution by the Indian cultural Marxists as their European cousins.”
“Appeasing Muslims”

The United Progressive Alliance government, he goes on, “relies on appeasing Muslims and, very sadly, proselytising Christian missionaries who illegally convert low caste Hindus with lies and fear, alongside Communists who want total destruction of the Hindu faith and culture.”

Even though Hindus who are living abroad “get an eagle's view of what's happening in India, Indian Hindu residents don't see it being in the scene.”


Breivik's manifesto applauds Hindu groups who “do not tolerate the current injustice and often riot and attack Muslims when things get out of control,” but says, “this behaviour is nonetheless counterproductive.”

“Instead of attacking the Muslims, they should target the category A and B traitors in India and consolidate military cells and actively seek the overthrow of the cultural Marxist government.”

“It is essential that the European and Indian resistance movements learn from each other and cooperate as much as possible,” he concludes. “Our goals are more or less identical.”
Breivik lists the websites of the Bharatiya Janata Party, the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh, the National Volunteers' Organisation, the Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad and the Vishwa Hindu Parishad as resources for further information.

The manifesto pledges military support “to the nationalists in the Indian civil war and in the deportation of all Muslims from India.” This is part of a larger campaign to “overthrow of all western European multiculturalist governments” and evict “U.S. military personnel on European soil.”

India is one of several countries — including Russia, the Philippines, China and Thailand — where Breivik hopes his successors will fight.

He uses the work of historians K.S. Lal and Shrinandan Vyas to point to the threat posed by Islam to Europe, saying their work has established that millions of Hindus were killed in a genocide during 1000-1525 AD. N.S. Rajaram, another historian, is quoted as saying India's “political class have been so debilitating that they continue to live in a state of constant fear.”
Now, expect BJP to be pillored by "secular DDM" because a Norwegian loony visited their website!
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