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Some days ago our Dear Fatemolla Bhai wrote a nice mind shaking essay in NFB - "MY RELIGION". After reading, We wept, we cried, we shivered to know the condition of two little innocent girl of Oikhola village. What a tragedy of Islam -the dead hand of real Islam ! What a cruel and satanic cult ! Now we are pretty sure - We have to demolish that demon ! We have started to believe ("Why bad belief don't die?") - "My enmity is with Islam because Islam is the only religion that preaches hate and is endangering the peace of the world." Sounds funny ? For me too ! Why ? I am among those minority inhabitant of other "peaceful" religion (which off course do not spread hate and lies!) in the world. Dear readers, do you want to see what is inside my peaceful "Hindu" religion ? You will get astonished, if you face  the real truth. Come, come  with me, I want to show you something ....

My religion "Hinduism" is the only and only religion in this world which has a documented concept of  "Occhut" (Untouchables). It is the only religion in this world which spread racism directly (by its scripture,  which obviously to be considered as a revelation of god).  The Dalits (Untouchables) are no doubt are the most pitiable victims of the obnoxious and pernicious caste system of my peaceful religion. Remember our "Adi manob" Manu ? Manu has little to say about them. He affirms that the members of three castes, the Brahman, the Kshatriya, and the Vashya, are twice-born; the fourth, the Sudra, once-born; there is no fifth.' All others are outcastes. The common name Dasyas (slaves) is applied to them all. [1]

In my peaceful Hindu religion - the treatment accorded to the Dalit is simply inhuman. According to Manu Smriti, 'Outcasted persons have no share in inheritance.' [2] The orthodox Brahmans still believe, if  they are touched by a Dalit (even the shadow of  a Dalit falls on them), they are polluted and will have to purify them by sprinkling over themse1ves water from the holy river, the Ganges [3]. What an honor those "occhuts" get from my peaceful religion ! 'You may breed cows and dogs in your house,' wrote Mr. M.C. Raja. 'You may drink the urine of cows and swallow cow dung to expiate your sins, but you shall not approach an Adi Dravida [4]. The lower caste ("Ki uchu jaat tumi rey baba!!") people are still denied the use of public wells and tanks and at the same time stigmatized as unclean. They are driven away forcefully from schools and colleges maintained by public funds and at the same time despised as ignorant and illiterate. They are still Shut out from temples, and yet branded as ungodly and unfit to associate with. For access to public roads and even for spaces to bury the dead, they have to depend much on the capricious benevolence of their caste-Hindu neighbors.[5]

Untouchability in Practice : Some Real life examples:

Untouchability has been banned in the constitution of India (but what about Bangladesh?), which was drafted by a committee headed by Dr. B. R. Ambedkar (A great apostate of Hinduism) , himself an untouchable. It was his great ingenuity that he could tactfully make such a provision in the constitution of a country dominated by the Brahmans. However, there are plenty of evidences that the constitutional provision is honored more by violation than by observance by millions of so-called high caste Hindus ("Tomay nomoskaar kori baapdhon !!"). Here are some cruel (read "misti-modhur") examples:

• From The Economist, June 8th 1991: An attempt by a group of Harijans (untouchables) to enter an historic Hindu temple at the holy town of Nathdwara in Rajasthan state failed on Monday evening when high caste priests and others beat them back with sticks, injuring at least six. The attempt was organized by social reformers to coincide with the 120th anniversary of the birth of Mahatma Gandhi (I salute you Mahattma - kintu tomaar Horijonra "occhut" i roye gelo), the spiritual founder of independent India, who named the Untouchables (Dalits) 'Harijans.' Reports from Nathdwara say, a large contingent of police, deployed by the state government to maintain peace, took no action to prevent the attack despite the high court ruling. 
  
• From Financial Times, 6 October 1988: In a village 100 miles from Delhi, villagers hanged and then threw on to a fire a girl and two boys; the boys had first been tortured, while their fathers made to watch, and one of them and the girl had still been alive when put in fire. They had managed to crawl out, but were thrown back. The girl, from the powerful Jat caste, had tried to elope with one of the boys, assisted by his friend; both were untouchables, a group so low they are not even on the bottom rung of the caste ladder. Not long before, in three villages in the state of Bihar, the huts of 400-odd families of untouchables were burnt down by gangs working for the local landowning caste, because they were demanding the legal minimum wage, 16 rupees (78 cents) a day. 

• From The Economist June 8th 1991: At school Harijans are often made to sit on the floor; in some villages they have to take off their shoes while walking past upper-caste houses, and are usually banned from drawing water from the village well for fear they will pollute it. A Brahmin on a packed bus cannot hop off and bathe six times each time he fears the shadow of an untouchable has fallen on him ("Allay bachayisey - Brahmmon hoiya jonmaai naai!"). 

• Arab News, August l0, 1991: Twenty Harijans (untouchables) have been hacked to death in a village in southern India by high caste Hindus and their bodies thrown into a nearby canal, news papers reports said. The Statesman said the incident occurred on Tuesday at Tsundur village near Guntur town in Andhra Pradesh state. Other reports said a group of Harijans were attacked by deadly weapons while trying to flee across marshes. A police picked in the village remained passive to the gruesome murders, The Hindu newspaper said. The incident had its origins in an incident that occurred about a month back in a local cinema hall. A Harijan boy watching a movie stretched himself and his leg accidentally touched a high-caste boy sitting in the next seat. Soon there was an altercation between them. The Hindus took this as an affront on their authority. They summoned the teacher-father of the Harijan boy and held him hostage until they caught hold of the boy and beat him. After this, other minor incidents between the two groups snowballed and finally led to arson and mayhem. The southern Indian incident comes three weeks after two lower caste youths and a 15-year old upper caste girl were publicly hanged by their own fathers goaded by a vigilante mob in a north Indian village. They were punished for defying the Hindu social code barring inter-caste marriage.

• Arab News, March 31 1991: In 1989, the national government (of India) recorded 14,269 cases of atrocities committed against outcastes, including 479 murders and 759 rapes.

• Dalit Voice : Jagjivan Ram (former Union Minister of India) with all power and wealth at his command was made to know that his social status was not even equal to the poorest and uneducated Brahmin of India. When he visited Varanasi on invitation and garlanded the statue of Sampurnanand (a Kayasth), the statue was washed with Gangajal (sacred water of the Ganges) and mantras were recited to make it 'pure' as the touch of a SC (untouchable) had desecrated the stone Statue (Ha hahahaa ...Ministers also cannot escape from the living (not dead) hand of  Shonaton dhormo !) [6]..

• Dalits and Hinduism: In Kerala, Namboodiri Brahmins till very recently were compelling 'low caste' women not to wear blouses lest they should appear as high caste. The result was that these women had to go bare-breasted which was condemned by all civilized nations. [7]

• Some  recent examples of caste-based atrocities was published by the Indian Express (June 24, 1995). A Scheduled Tribe woman, Prakash Kaur, was most painfully murdered in a village in Maharashtra province in May, 1995. Brutes from the Aryan Hindus (l) dragged her to the village temple; (2) shaved her head; (3) beat her with sticks, (4) inserted a stick into her private parts; (5) blackened her face; (6) put her on a donkey and paraded her in the market; and (7) continued to beat her till she died. When the dying woman asked for water, the killers poured hot water and kerosene in her mouth. Her only offence (?) was that her 12-year old son had entered the local Hindu temple. (See, what a "peaceful" religion I have !) The place where the incident took place is very close to the local police station. The more painful aspect of the incident is that when the Home Minister of the state was contacted by the All India Democratic Women's Association, he refused to take any action in the matter saying that it was not a murder but a "reflection of mob anger" [8].

• Another recent example of caste-based atrocities was published by the Times of India in its issue of 18 January 1997. A 41-year old low-caste women was stripped and paraded naked through a village near Muradabad town (U.P.). Her only offence (?) was that her son had, allegedly, made a silly comment on  a girl who was a High caste Hindu.(Bhaloi dehaila baap - dos korlo pola - may hoilo giya oporadhi!)  The woman cried for help but none dared to come to her aid (e r bichitro ki !).

• The racial atrocities meted out by the arrogant caste or Aryan Hindus to the underprivileged people  have no parallel in modern world. The above instances are only few of such incidents presented to indicate how peaceful Hindu religion is in general.

Now from my little personal experience- When I decided to marry a girl who does not fall  in my own cast... I saw some real faces, Real faces of true "Brhmmanism" in my life. "Tahader mathay jeno akaash bhangiya porilo" (It seemed, "Sky has already fallen upon their head") Inter-cast marriage (let alone inter religion) -- How ridiculous ! What a nonsense I spoke ! "Shomaaj boley ekta kotha asey na" [What is this shomaaj (society) by the by] ? Even till today some of them haven't accepted my marriage. Religion, why don't you die, baap (eto maanush morey...)?

In this article I have not mentioned a single word about how a Hindu woman is honored by our great shonaton dhormo. Why ? It will become another Bishad-shindhu (English of "Mohakabbyo" is most probably "epic" ) . Even thousand pages will not be enough to reveal how they were tortured from time to tome by the racist Hindu Unity !!!  Dear Readers, have patience. In my next article I will show you some glimpses of "real genocide" of Hindu women -you will ponder - Fatemolla bhai's "Silent Genocide" is just a "Baalu-kona matro" (tiny sand particle) compared to it !

 

References

[1] Wilkins: Modern Hinduism, London: 1975, p. 263.

[2] John C. Oman, The Brahmans, Theists, and Muslims of India, Delhi, 1973, p. 47.

[3] F.M. Sandeela, Islam, Christianity and Hinduism, Delhi, 1990, pp. 69-70.

[4] Original Indians: Dalits, Sudras, tribal people.

[5] Swami Dharma Theertha, History of Hindu Imperialism, (Madras: 1992), pp. 184-85, quoted from P. Chidambaram Pillai's Right of Temple Entry, p. 150.

[6] Dalit Voice, Vol. 12, No. 21, p.17

[7] Dalit Voice, Vol. 12, No. 21, p. 17

[8]  Indian Express, June 24, 1995.

[9] Times of India, 18 January 1997

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