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Sunday, January 11, 2015

The War On Hindus - Part 3 #MultiprongedAttack



(This is a MaxiPost)

There are many ways a country can be invaded. An “invasion” is commonly associated with a Military invasion. There are other ways too – Politically, Commercially, Culturally, and Populationally. 

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The first time the Americans encountered Islamic terrorism was way back around 1784. The Arabs (the Ottoman states of Tripoli, Tunis, Algiers and also Morocco) had a practice of demanding a “tribute” (call it Jaziya or Hafta) for safe passage of ships through the Mediterranean sea around them. Refusal to pay resulted in capture and enslavement of the ship crews by Islamic pirates followed by demands for ransom (Somali pirates are only the modern version).

In March 1785, Thomas Jefferson and John Adams went to London to negotiate with Tripoli's envoy, Ambassador Sidi Haji Abdrahaman. When they enquired "concerning the ground of the pretensions to make war upon nations who had done them no injury", the ambassador replied:

It was written in their Koran, that all nations which had not acknowledged the Prophet were sinners, whom it was the right and duty of the faithful to plunder and enslave; and that every mussulman who was slain in this warfare was sure to go to paradise. He said, also, that the man who was the first to board a vessel had one slave over and above his share, and that when they sprang to the deck of an enemy's ship, every sailor held a dagger in each hand and a third in his mouth; which usually struck such terror into the foe that they cried out for quarter at once

Maybe Ambassador Abdrahaman was explaining the “root cause” that terror-apologists at NDTV, HeadlinesToday, TOI and G-37 specialists like Kiran Bedi are looking for. Later in 1801, then as President, Thomas Jefferson, refused to pay the Hafta and thus the first ever war by the US Navy was prosecuted against Islamic terrorism. It was also the first time US Navy came into international combat. It came to be known as the Barbary wars. The pirate states were defeated. Remember, Israel did not exist then. Oil wasn’t discovered in the Middle East till early 20th century, around 1908.

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During the 1960s and till the mid-70s most of the romantic films and songs of Bollywood were usually made in Kashmir. There’s a movie from 1962 called “Hum Dono” which features the song “Allah tero naam, Ishwar tero naam” although I’m not sure the Muslims will agree with that. They believe Allah is only one and there is no other God or name for him. There are movies with no Muslim characters in it but would suddenly have a Qawali out of the blue. Mind you, Qawalis are very entertaining and enjoyable. There were many Muslims in Bollywood who had screen names, like Dilip Kumar and Johny Walker. We discovered they were Muslims only much later. But nothing wrong in screen names.

Then in the 70s and 80s guys like the late Feroze Khan, an average actor who became a better director, who would often play characters with names like Rajesh, Ramesh or Shankar (Check out his character’s names in most of his movies). But sometimes his movies would suddenly spring an Islamic song out of the blue. “Qurbani” directed by him suddenly springs up the song “Allah ko pyaari hai qurbani” in a very contrived context. So too “Jaanbaaz”, with the song “Allah ho Akbar”. These “Allah” songs are often inserted in movies as stand-alone numbers with no relevance to the story or context. That trend continues till today. But the different turn is that there are songs that demean Hindu icons as Sushma Swaraj once pointed and Gaurav Sawant reminds us:

Over the years Bollywood has consistently ridiculed and abused Hindu icons. Alright, if you want to make satires or ridicule icons you are welcome to it. But what is obvious is that the very same people refuse to expose the hilarious nonsense in other religions. It has almost become mandatory to have some item number or movies which portray Hindu icons in a vulgar fashion while the slightest negative portrayal of a Christian or Muslim icon invites extreme anger and violent reactions. The cowards at the Censor Board not only cave into such reactions but also pre-empt directors from ridiculing religions other than Hinduism. One such anti-Hindu Sicko is the current Chairperson of the CBFC, Leela Samson, a Jewish-Christian:

That thing about “… Malamaal” isn’t a stray case either. Jokes about Johny Lever’s name Abdullah made the Censor Board force the film-makers to change his name in the movie to Habibullah. They can’t even stand jokes about a name but they’re okay with ridiculing Shiva or Radha. I need not remind anyone about the violent agitations over “Vishwaroopam” by Kamal Haasan. And another movie that ridicules Christian priests has been blocked by the same Censor Board for over two years:

Wow! It’s been held back because it might hurt the Christian community. This might hurt Muslims that might hurt Christians but no problems with anything that offends Hindu sentiments. It is this hypocrisy that Hindus are now revolting against. Our media pimps like Barka, Sagarika, Rajdeep and Co. stand by these hypocritical morons of CBFC and claim they are all for freedom of expression. These pimps and the morons in various State and Central govts cannot tolerate any play or book about Nathuram Godse. Sure he killed Gandhi and he did so knowingly and willingly. He’s a murderer but what is so tolerant about all these morons that they cannot stand a play about him? And that is their idea of free speech? Sick slaves of Sickularism! So how does Bollywood abuse Hindus and Hinduism so daringly and get away with it? What’s their incentive?

The other phenomenon that can’t be missed – Since the late 1980s and early 90s there has been a great influx of Muslim actors in Bollywood and TV. There are Khans from Bollywood families and from outside too. If there’s a shortage, the producers import Muslims from Pakistan (like Nargis Fakri or Veena Malik). In principle, there is absolutely nothing wrong if a good number of talented Muslims get into movies and TV. But is that the only thing? Mahesh Bhatt converted to Muslim to marry a second woman and is now a prime-promoter of Islamic culture in Bollywood and a ubiquitous spokie for them. Is all this mere coincidence or incentivised? The cultural turn in Bollywood to abusing or ridiculing Hinduism alone (PK is only one of many such incidents) is an “invasion” that  shouldn’t go unnoticed. Many Muslim actors from here and there are included in a movie out of financing or coercion by the mafia; like that Monica of Abu Salem.

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Many years after oil was discovered in the Middle East, OPEC was formed in 1960 with their HQ in Vienna, Austria. This is a Trade-Bloc or like a Cartel of oil-producing and exporting countries. From being barren desert regions, many ME countries suddenly grew wealthier and economically more influential. This time they had Israel as common enemy. So during the 1973 Egypt-Israel war the OPEC choked oil supplies to US and other countries and the prices dramatically soared due to the “rationing”. This embargo lasted a year resulting in inflation, recession and unemployment in many parts of the world. The Islamists realised their power and muscle. This was eventually combatted by alternate energy, other production sources and by 1980 the OPEC was in to an oil glut in the market. Prices dropped dramatically as they pumped out more oil than ever before. There was a deep impact on India too.

From the mid-70s onward lakhs of Indian labour migrated to ME to find jobs and earned better money than they did at home. They were exploited, their passports were seized, they could not follow their own religion, they could not strike. In short, they were turned into bonded slaves. Sheiks from the ME came to Hyderabad and Mumbai to shop for young girls to take back as slaves for their harems. The stories are too many and you can look them up. People sent home a lot of money, labourers returned home with two-in-ones in their hands and large bags of goodies. Parts of Kerala, like Cochin, had turned almost Dubai-like with Islamic influence. They went as labour but came back as Islamists. The Saudi Wahabis and others in the ME started investing in “Islamism” in India and her neighbours. Even countries like Sudan funded a rash of Madrassas – to amounts like 3000 crores. There are many towns in India which were completely Islamised with funds from ME. Bollywood too was no exception.

Since the mid-70s Petro-dollars have been funding Bollywood and simultaneously a new underworld, supported by certain politicians and ME funding, blossomed not only to control Bollywood but Mumbai itself. And it then extended to terrorism, cultural codes like Muslims who earlier wore dresses like anyone else adopted more Pathani dresses, skull caps and burqas. There was phenomenal growth of Mosques and Madrassas. If all that was only for educational upliftment of Muslims that would be one thing but it became an “assertive” Islamic culture which resulted in more and more demands and our Central and State govts fuelled this culture with more appeasements. Kashmir Pandits were thrown out of Kashmir. Kerala saw a dramatic Islamisation of the State. Bengal and Telangana are following the same routes. UP and Bihar became terror-hubs.

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From the late 1970s and 80s onward the Islamic and Muslim influence in Bollywood and other forms of arts started seeping in. Prominent among the conflict with Hindus was the nude paintings of Hindu Gods and Goddesses by MF Hussain and artists at Commie hotbeds like JNU.

Those who are offering a veiled defence for the #CharlieHebdo (CH) killings by Muslim terrorists cannot stop defending the perverted portrayals of Hindu Goddesses by MFH. Goddess Saraswati is considered the icon of knowledge by Hindus. Vijaya Dashmi is celebrated by Hindus with a “Puja” of their weapons, implements, tools and books – whichever is the work-pursuit of the person. Why would a moron want to paint her nude? And those who find CH’s cartoons offensive continue to defend MFH’s nude paintings of Hindu Goddesses. The C5M even asks why a nude Saraswati can’t be done when Indian laws specifically prohibit such a religious offence. Our laws prohibit any form of nudity and obscenity for commercial purposes. Hindus treat Goddesses as mother. Let me be extremely harsh and blunt – Only the most perverted pimps like Sagarika, Barkha, Rajdeep and their Commie filth encourage such hypocritical nonsense. I believe the MFH defenders are either perverts who have seen or want to see their mothers having sex or bisexuals or lesbians who are aroused by such paintings. And these are the very scumbags who will scream about women being used as commodity and sex objects.

Their hypocrisy has no limits when it comes to offending Muslim sentiments. That’s Islamic money and fear talking and not a sense of fairness. Let’s see some more perverts and their cowardly hypocrisy:

It’s a common refrain. The movie PK which ridicules and abuses Lord Shiva in an attempt to portray fraudulent godmen is fine with them but CH cartoons are not. There are fraudulent godmen, fraudulent and violence-encouraging Mullahs and pedophile Christian priests but the only ones consistently being targeted by Bollywood and media are the Hindu ones. And that is what is arming the Islamic violence further. The fear of Muslims agitating and/or killing the “offenders” makes our Bollywood and media pimps wet their pants and skirts. In contrast, the worst perverts in the media, like street-thug Rajdeep, equate the protests against MFH to the CH killings. Another bimbo called Rana Ayyub of the dead Tehelka equates even protests against Praveen Swami to the killings of CH artists. And the best part is, both Rajdeep and Sagarika, India’s most moronic media-couple behave like they are the real victims of the CH killings.

What is the message these cowards are sending? That unless Hindus too arm themselves and kill those who offend their religious sentiments it is okay to offend Hinduism, Hindu Gods and Goddesses and Hindus in general? MFH wasn’t killed. The cowardly Hindu-abuser ran from the Courts of India to a desert and died there. Maybe it’s nature’s retribution that he didn’t deserve to die in the holy soil of India which many ordinary people are blessed with the fortune to.

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If all that wasn’t enough, here’s the High-Pimptress of Hypocrisy and cheerleader of Pakistan and the anti-Hindu brigade in media:

As Rana Ayyub points out? I can’t help rolling over in laughter. This is Salma quoting Sabrina to somehow slam France in a twisted defence of the CH killings. The bimbo further goes on to slam France for practicing dual-standards of free speech. I wonder if she ever looks in her bathroom mirror at the face of hypocrisy and dual standards. First, France wasn’t the first country to ban protests. In fact France was one of the earliest victims of Palestinian terrorism (remember the AirFrance plane hijacked to Entebbe in 1976?).  France was the first country to impose an arms embargo on Israel after the 1967 war with Egypt to appease Muslims and Palestinians. Secondly, France is the country that housed the known fundamentalist Ayatollah Khomeini for ages before he returned to Iran and pronounced a death-fatwa on Barkha’s permanent darling Salman Rushdie. For both these Moronginis, Barkha and bimbo Ayyub, someone has specially written an article on how Muslim appeasement is making France pay a price. May be they should read and educate themselves because India has been paying this price for over 60 years and the cost of appeasement will only go higher.

After the CH killings there were Sickos on NDTV like Kiran Bedi and their anchors and some on Headlines Today who were still discussing the “root cause” nonsense. Street-thug Rajdeep called Taslima Nasreen for a discussion on CH killings. She slammed Islamic terrorists and she slammed cowardly hypocrites so much that he suddenly cut off the show to move to a breaking-news that wasn’t really urgent. I think I have fairly explained the “root cause” of Islamic violence, earlier in this post, which caused the Barbary wars.

The Chrislamist invasion and attack on Hindus follows multiple paths – Weaponry (through terrorism), Culturally, Politically and Commercially. Who’s the target? Hindus! Anything I left out? Oh yes, Populationally! We will deal with that in the concluding part of this series.


Tuesday, November 20, 2012

HT Summit: How To Sell Leadership & Make Money



One of the most enduring legacies of George W Bush is the number of words he invented and the number of amusing statements he made. Try these: “Nu-cu-lar” instead of nuclear or “misunderestimate” instead of underestimate. In an interview he once said “I make decisions… I am the decider” in defence of Don Rumsfeld. In his final months of presidency, at the end of a climate meet in Japan in July 2008, he told the G-8 summit members: “Goodbye from the world’s biggest polluter”. Those were silly ones. But GWB, a good friend of India, did leave the stunning and ever-lasting phrase for the world: “Axis of Evil”. Bush was strongly influenced by his Faith and even believed his foreign policy was influenced by God. So it’s a bit of a surprise that he didn’t use the term “Unholy Trinity” instead. But we do have an Unholy Trinity in our media and it’s often hard to tell where one begins and where the other ends; Hindustan Times–NDTV–CNN-IBN. This threesome is easily the most potent propaganda machine. Add to this their little ones like Mint, NDTV Profit, CNBCTV18 and their siblings. The TV18 group does have an online site, Firstpost, through which it tries to balance the propaganda work of its TV channels. But that’s not the point.

In an article titled “The new Ram and Ravan” in Firstpost, Anant Rangaswami explains how HT buried the allegations against Robert Vadra in the inner pages to fool the public. Well, that story still remains buried. Now even the National Herald scam of Congress and Young Indian of the Gandhis remains buried in the media. But this isn’t about any of these. Then there is this extreme obsession of this Unholy Trinity with a guy called Pervez Musharraf. The number of times Barkha Dutt has rushed to interview him is not possible to count. The number of times the media hosts him in their conclaves and summits is not possible to count. I don’t have to run a history of Musharraf which is already known. But that is not the point.

If leadership is what India has to learn from an army guy then there any number of honourable generals in this country to learn from. A recent retired General is quite anti-govt so not acceptable. But hey, someone who is predominantly anti-India is the one to lecture on leadership. While individual interviews are fine, where in the world would you find such disgusting media pampering of someone to whom India is a sworn enemy? Imagine the Washington Post or New York Times hosting seminars on leadership and inviting Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to lecture Americans on it. I guess these summits don’t pay unless there is some controversy, some glamour and some comics. Seriously, you need to learn leadership from Katrina Kaif? I guess you’d need to if you want to be in the glamour business or sell mango juice. But that is not the point.

So what exactly is the point? It’s about this Unholy media Trinity that seems to protect and serve the govt and the Congress at all points of time. Focus on tiny issues of other political parties and cover up major issues that concern the govt or the Congress. Who pays for HT’s ego trip with such frivolous summits? YOU DO! How? Let’s do some math. There were 34 speakers invited for HT Summit 2012, most of them from foreign countries. Most of them charge speaking fees and all their travel expenses are paid by the host. So depending on the pecking order you can make your own calculations of how much it would cost to invite 34 speakers, put them up in swank hotels, pay for their travel, pay for all the meals during the 2-day summit. Do you feel lucky? Okay! Now, it is normal for corporate bodies to pay and sponsor such events, get a little media mileage over competitors and maybe even some good display. They could even bargain for precious favourable columns and air time to be used in the future. You know, all those luxury cars, SUVs, high value real estate, consumer goods; any kind of competitive business. Right? Take a look:


Well, what do you see? I admit I was wrong; there’s no car company or real estate company or consumer goods company. Except for a couple there aren’t even regular major advertisers. Instead, we see a host of govt companies. Most of them are oil and power companies! Some of these companies are more or less in some kind of monopoly. The Associate partners are ONGC and LIC, both huge govt companies. Interesting, eh? Now let’s do a count of Summit partners too.

Of the 14 companies listed as HT’s Summit partners you have: 1) ONGC 2) NTPC 3) LIC 4) Petronet LNG 5) Power Grid Corporation of India 6) Oil India Ltd 7) Power Finance Corporation 8) ESIC 9) SAIL 10) BHEL. Simply stunning! Of the 14 companies who are Summit partners, 8 are PSUs/Govt companies or companies in which our govt has a sizeable stake, in addition to ONGC and LIC as Associate partners. Mostly, your money! Does that tell a story? I guess it does and a big one too. So companies that are largely funded by the public or survive on public money are sponsors of a major event of HT Summit, an ego trip for the private media outlet. That’s the first lesson in leadership to learn: How to use your smooth connections with a political party to have govt companies shell out money for your luxury trip. If you were in place of HT would you care to return the favour? And if you were HT and part of the Unholy Trinity, would you care to ensure this nice party stays in power?

I know what you’re thinking. That this maybe a one-off year. Well, can’t tell because I haven’t been able to go into the 10-year record of HT’s Summit sponsors since they aren’t currently available. That might require an RTI inquiry with the govt, DAVP or with these govt companies. But what I can tell you is that this is no isolated case. Back in August 2011 the CAG was reporting certain wrong-doings in the contracts awarded to many parties. By Darth Vader, you will find the Unholy Trinity in there too. Remember how Times Now and the whole TOI group went after the CWG scam and Suresh Kalmadi? Well it was suggested by many that the main motivation for TOI going hammer and tongs at CWG and Kalmadi was not getting certain media contracts from the CWG organising committee. That was estimated at some 12 crores. Not really a big amount considering the size of the event and the size of scams we are used to. But who got the contracts? You get no prizes for guessing – the same Unholy Trinity of HT-NDTV-CNN-IBN.

Most of us are aware of “paid news”. Most of us are also aware of the huge spend on various dynasty ads of the govt. What we may be missing out is on the other leakages that aren’t quite evident to us routinely. I’m no RTI specialist or activist but I’m sure if an RTI is filed with the DAVP and govt companies it could well reveal the amount of ad spend on certain dedicated media outlets. Well, I suppose we shouldn’t complain. After all, Leadership isn’t free to learn! Especially, if it earns a tidy sum for some.