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Sita Ram Goel
Sita Ram Goel , writer and publisher, influential in late twentieth century. He had
Marxist leanings during the 1940s, but later became an outspoken anti-communist. In
his later career he emerged as a well known commentator on Christianity, Islam more..
Sita Ram Goel:I am placing this book before our people, as I
did so many others, simply because I want to be true to my
own impulse for action in terms of my own lights. Rest is in the
hands of Him who sends Saviours as well as Scourges
according to His own inscrutable Law. #Literary Criticism
Sita Ram Goel:In the case of Islam, our effort aims at raising the dialogue from
the street level to the level of scholarly platforms. For a long time, Hindus have
been flattering Muslims by seeing nothing wrong in the doctrine of Islam. For a
long time, Muslims have been taking to the streets and shedding blood whenever
and wherever Hindus object to their behaviour pattern. Muslims have never been
asked by Hindus to reflect on the dogmas of Islam, and revise them wherever
they go against peaceful coexistence. We are appealing to Hindus to start asking
some questions about Islam so that Muslims are made to rethink. If asking
questions with a view to holding a dialogue is provoking violence, we plead guilty
again. Hindus had a long tradition of asking questions even about their own
cherished doctrines. I wonder if you are well-acquainted with our acharyas Brahmanic, Buddhist and the rest. It was only with the advent of Islam and, later
on, Christianity that Hindus were terrorised into the habit of remaining silent
when faced with wild claims and not asking any questions. We are trying to revive
the ancient Hindu tradition. #Politicians and Politics
Sita Ram Goel:Meanwhile, please pardon us for saying that we
have found no music in the language of your letter, no rhyme in
your reasoning, no value in your judgments, and no art or
education in your performance as a whole. #Music
Sita Ram Goel:No newspaper or periodical worth its name in
India will publish what I write in the lines that follow. #Writers
and Writing
Sita Ram Goel:For Leftists in general have always opposed
Theocracy in Muslim and Christian countries. It is only in India
that they have become its unrivalled champions. #Experience
Sita Ram Goel:As one reads the scriptures of Christianity and
Islam with a morally alert mind, one starts getting sick of the
very sound of word ‘god’ which word is littered all over this
literature like dead leaves in autumn. The deeds which are
ascribed to or approved of by this God are quite often so cruel
and obnoxious as to leave one wondering that if these are the
doings of the Divine, what else is there which is left for the
Devil to do. #Mothers
Sita Ram Goel:Thus Hindu society not only presents itself as a
prey to these exclusive, intolerant and imperialist ideologies
but also acts as a buffer between them. India is secular
because India is Hindu. It can be added as a corollary that India
is a democracy also because India is Hindu. If Hindu society
permits this free for all any further, the days of Secularism and
Democracy in this country are numbered. Let the Hindus unite
and save themselves, their democratic polity, their secular
state, and their Sanatana Dharma for a new cycle of civilization,
not only for themselves but also the world. #Violence
Sita Ram Goel:To me, Dharma had always been a matter of
moral norms, external rules and regulations, do's and don'ts,
enforced on life by an act of will. Now I was made to see
Dharma as a multi dimensional movement of man's inner law of
being, his psychic evolution, his spiritual growth, and his
spontaneous building of an outer life for himself and the
community in which lie lived. #Violence
Sita Ram Goel:Fundamentalism is as foreign to Hinduism as
honesty is to Christian missions. #Christians and Christianity
Sita Ram Goel:It never occurred to these knaves and fools that
the Christian missionary whom they were aping and helping
was viewed in the modern West as a maniac whom it was
better to dump abroad with a bag of money. #Christians and
Christianity
Sita Ram Goel:Ascribing human brotherhood, social justice,
world peace, self-sacrifice and compassion to Christianity and
Islam is tantamount to proclaiming that the wolf is a votary of
vegetarianism. #Mothers
Sita Ram Goel:But what has happened is that the Indian State actively
patronizes the exercise aimed at making all religions mean the same
things, and persecutes those who defy the exercise. A whole army of
'secularist' scribes in the media and the academia has been employed
and paid handsomely for whitewashing Islam and Christianity so that
whatever is bigoted in the scriptures and blood-soaked histories of
these creeds, is carefully exorcised. On the other hand, whatever is
liberal and large-hearted, humane and civilized in the pluralistic
spirituality of India is remorseless pruned to the prescribed and proper
size. In the process, Christianity has been made to mean only the
Sermon on the Mount, and Islam equated with two Quranic sentences
torn out of context - "Unto you your religion, and unto me my religion"
and "There is no compulsion in religion." #Writers and Writing
Sita Ram Goel:The only substantial contribution was made by
an RSS lawyer hailing from Anantnag in Kashmir. “I have
studied Islam in depth,” he said, “and found it to be a great
religion. I cannot understand anyone placing Islam in the
dock.” Ironically enough this defender of Islam was literally the
first to be shot dead when the ethnic cleansing started in the
Valley in the winter of 1989. #Mothers
Sita Ram Goel:All religions were equal. But Islam was more
equal. #Mothers
Sita Ram Goel:The word secular is defined in the dictionaries
as "the belief that the state, morals, education, etc. should be
independent of religion." But in India it means only one thing -eschewing everything Hindu and espousing everything Islamic.
#Mothers
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