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Did Modi give Hindus closure? A PIL against the Places of Worship Act will decide the answer. The SC has asked the Modi govt to submit its response to a PIL challenging the Places of Worship Act. That answer can change the landscape of India. D.K. SINGH .
With this decision, will the word “religion” and “Places of Worship” vanish from the Constitution? Will it affect only one religion or will other religions be covered?
To me, religion exists only within the four corners of my house. One I step out of my house and I believe in the Indian Constitution, religion does not exist for me. All are equal for me.
The term ‘Hindu Victimhood’ jars. It is as if Hindus are at fault for desecration of these two places. That is the mindset of those schooled in Macaulayian education system and no use trying to change them. The closure of this painful chapter of our history can be brought about in two steps. Gyanvyapi Mosque in Varanasi and the Idgah in Mathura should be undone because they are too close to the heart of a Hindu and both were built over earlier temples by Aurangzeb to hurt Hindus. Next step is that Muslims should apologise for all the horrors heaped on the Hindus during Islamic rule in India. The Germans and the Pope have done it for the injustice to the Jews. Thereafter no other temple to Mosque to Temple issue should be raised. Once this happens, it would signal an end to historical enmity between Islam and all Indic faiths. India will then truly come into her own on the world stage. Till then we will continue this internecine fight, where Muslims will continue being the bigger losers. It s not going to be easy, but is there any other way out?
Be very very careful, you extremist Hindus are playing with a deadly fire, Muslim patience will come to an abrupt halt soon. We have many reasons to destroy hindu terrorism against Kashmiris, for E Pak, for Gujarat, for Ayodhya etc…. I keep warning you people.
See situation in Syria Afghan, middle East, you Muslins kill yourself for anything and everything and your threatening looks absurd and bleak. Look outfit Oakland it’s situation
Hindus have suffered for far too long don’t threaten us. Why there is not a single temple built by destroying a mosque or church in india
There are, during partition many mosques were converted to Temples.
Saving temples from Islamic History. But, considering that thousands of temples have been confiscated, pillaged and ruined by the Government all over India, particularly in Naiker’s Draavidanaadu, who will defend temples from the British made Secular Indian Rapeublic?
Although, I do not expect anything else from you, but do some research and tell Mr Gupta a single case wherein a culture has forgotten the wrong committed on them based on Laws. Classic is your choice of words “Hindu victimhood” . you are the product of Inferior mentality propagated by west..
Modi will never give closure. This is what brought him electoral success in 2002. He is not worried about legacy, he only wants to continue to enjoy power as long as he can. That will come to an end one day, the next person will be even more maniacal and see to erase him, like Modi erased Advani.
The perceived victimhood is a state of mind as it is an alibi for the present economic mess, which the BJP has no ideas of how to solve. Hence, they will continue with self pity and historical revanchism, as a permanent feature. We could not come up because others prevented us. China does not have this handicap. They are not working to restore the Ming dynasty.
Agree strongly, this perceived Muslim wrongs against Hindus is historically inaccurate, Muslim invaders settled in India for over a thousand years and became part of the land, there was peace and mutual prosperity, there are no known records of any atrocities against Hindus, any wrong would be even handed against hindu or Muslim rulers vying for power, it was never religious, this lie has been given life by recent dishonest scholars wanting strife and mischief by spreading falsehoods.
The words ” historical wrong” are loaded.These themselves carry the genie of communalism and mean different things to different people& sections . Babari has done enough harm. Why did the SC admit the PIL?
High time government gives away the power to control all the temples to the devotees not to the government officers or corrupted ministers. Why when masjids and churches are under the respective religious bodies why only Hindu temples are under the corrupted officials and ministers. They must be freed from the clutches of these vultures.
“by endorsing the Places of Worship Act, 1991. “The law is…a legislative instrument designed to protect the secular features of the Indian polity, which is one of the basic features of the Constitution…is a legislative intervention which preserves non-retrogression as an essential feature of our secular values,”
Secular feature of Indian polity was illegally introduced by Indira Gandhi in 1975. this act stems from this illegal tempering of constitution. So by definition it is illegal. It was upheld by court mainly due to influence of a single judge named Sawant, originally from Mumbai high court.
this is India, not ancient Israel. In ancient Israel judge appointed by god and behaved as if people have nothing to say and threatening scourge of god. So let us scrap this law and let Sawant & his SECULAR GOD bring their wrath on India.
Imagine if the largest minority community were to offer the mosques for archeological testing to ensure that the tenets of Islam in which you can’t build a mosque on another site of worship are followed.
If there is evidence of a temple below the Gyanvapi and Mathura, then muslims would themselves say ‘That is no place for a mosque. After all, we can pray on the streets and block traffic. Why do we need a mosque anyways? Please take over the mosques and build your temples’.
[I have now been rudely woken up and realised the above was a dream!]
DK Singh and Print true to their visceral hatred of Hindus slying use the term “victimhood” for the holocaust suffered by Hindus at the hands of the Islamist invaders — the terrible price Hindus had to pay for stopping Islam in its tracks.
Why Hindus keep funding these gutter level, self-loathing imbeciles like DK and SG is a psychological mystery.
I would assume since nobody lived a 1000 years the 40000 is an alleged number, and the wrongs of the past are just allegations since nobody has witnessed them, that said Modi BJP will continue to let this perceived wound to fester far into the future, spreading hate a d fear to distracted from their incompetence in governance.
It is under to the Hindu people what is in their best interest, Hindu Muslim politics or good and stable governance.
A temple, mosque or church is just a pile of stones,
The real place of worship in that space between people that make us reach out a hand to each other with respect and acceptance.
It seems like the writer is a man with corrupted mind in the name of secularism, well this is nothing new from writers in “The Print” completely biased.
Supreme Court should not adventure by changing the nature of this law as it would affect millions of Hindus as well as Muslims. It seems that the case was filed with some ulterior motives.
Moreover it seems that this is nothing but diversionary tactics of RSS.
Modi government has miserably failed in most of the economic fronts. Instead of focussing on development BJP people is unnecessarily wanted to create communal riots among the society.
It is a rolling domino game. Once the Ram temple was okayed, the Mathura and Kashi spectres have arisen. Fanatic Hindus say that it does not mean all 40000 destroyed temples are a target, but who can guarantee the behaviour of a predator once it has tasted blood ?
PERCEIVED VICTIMHOOD !!! Iguess when you read history written by the likes Rome leela Thapar and Irfan Habib you tend to write rubbish like this.
Doesn’t it bother you that those 40000 temples were destroyed? Does one need to be a fanatic to be pained by that?
Sudarshan Nityananda: What’s ganatic about reclaining your places of worship & civilzation??
Indian gave away land to Muslims for Pakistand!! Those who still stayed back are Hindus & shouldn’t have any problem!!
If a BJP member has brought about the suit, it’s obvious what the government’s response will be.
Modi-Shah have run out of distractions to ensure people forget about their misgovernance as well as their turning a blind eye to the people’s problems.
The government’s and judiciary’s response is a foregone conclusion really!!
Extremely derogatory words used by DK Singh clearly showing his bias since he has never used “victimhood” or “perceived victimhood” for Muslims ever before even though they use it the most in every situation. Another Hindu-Hater at the Print.
#Jash Parekh: Absolutely correct!! These Islamo-leftist fascists never raise a voice against the wrongs done to Hindus including genocide of millions & destruction of their temples!!
Victim hood is of-course the sole proprietorship of Muslims who helped by evil congress commies voted & created Islamic terrorist-an!! Most of those traitors even stayed in India to drink gaumutra & continue with their abuse of poor Hindus!!
Generally DK Singh’s analyses are good. But, Why does he use the phrase “Hindu victimhood”? Hindus are no longer victims in their only home land. They are assertive. Hindus just want at least some major historical wrongs to be set right. None is looking for restoration to Hindus of 40,000 temples destroyed between 1200 AD to 1947.
I would rather that the Government takes steps to repeal laws which give control over Hindu temples. This is both central and State matter. I hope that in near future, the Government will repeal the obnoxious Hindu Religious and Charitable Endowments Act in the center and in all the States. Restore Hindu temples to Hindus.
Did Modi give Hindus closure? A PIL against the Places of Worship Act will decide the answer. The SC has asked the Modi govt to submit its response to a PIL challenging the Places of Worship Act. That answer can change the landscape of India. D.K. SINGH .
With this decision, will the word “religion” and “Places of Worship” vanish from the Constitution? Will it affect only one religion or will other religions be covered?
To me, religion exists only within the four corners of my house. One I step out of my house and I believe in the Indian Constitution, religion does not exist for me. All are equal for me.
The term ‘Hindu Victimhood’ jars. It is as if Hindus are at fault for desecration of these two places. That is the mindset of those schooled in Macaulayian education system and no use trying to change them. The closure of this painful chapter of our history can be brought about in two steps. Gyanvyapi Mosque in Varanasi and the Idgah in Mathura should be undone because they are too close to the heart of a Hindu and both were built over earlier temples by Aurangzeb to hurt Hindus. Next step is that Muslims should apologise for all the horrors heaped on the Hindus during Islamic rule in India. The Germans and the Pope have done it for the injustice to the Jews. Thereafter no other temple to Mosque to Temple issue should be raised. Once this happens, it would signal an end to historical enmity between Islam and all Indic faiths. India will then truly come into her own on the world stage. Till then we will continue this internecine fight, where Muslims will continue being the bigger losers. It s not going to be easy, but is there any other way out?
Be very very careful, you extremist Hindus are playing with a deadly fire, Muslim patience will come to an abrupt halt soon. We have many reasons to destroy hindu terrorism against Kashmiris, for E Pak, for Gujarat, for Ayodhya etc…. I keep warning you people.
See situation in Syria Afghan, middle East, you Muslins kill yourself for anything and everything and your threatening looks absurd and bleak. Look outfit Oakland it’s situation
Hindus have suffered for far too long don’t threaten us. Why there is not a single temple built by destroying a mosque or church in india
There are, during partition many mosques were converted to Temples.
Saving temples from Islamic History. But, considering that thousands of temples have been confiscated, pillaged and ruined by the Government all over India, particularly in Naiker’s Draavidanaadu, who will defend temples from the British made Secular Indian Rapeublic?
Gandi sarkar-BJP
Although, I do not expect anything else from you, but do some research and tell Mr Gupta a single case wherein a culture has forgotten the wrong committed on them based on Laws. Classic is your choice of words “Hindu victimhood” . you are the product of Inferior mentality propagated by west..
Modi will never give closure. This is what brought him electoral success in 2002. He is not worried about legacy, he only wants to continue to enjoy power as long as he can. That will come to an end one day, the next person will be even more maniacal and see to erase him, like Modi erased Advani.
The perceived victimhood is a state of mind as it is an alibi for the present economic mess, which the BJP has no ideas of how to solve. Hence, they will continue with self pity and historical revanchism, as a permanent feature. We could not come up because others prevented us. China does not have this handicap. They are not working to restore the Ming dynasty.
Agree strongly, this perceived Muslim wrongs against Hindus is historically inaccurate, Muslim invaders settled in India for over a thousand years and became part of the land, there was peace and mutual prosperity, there are no known records of any atrocities against Hindus, any wrong would be even handed against hindu or Muslim rulers vying for power, it was never religious, this lie has been given life by recent dishonest scholars wanting strife and mischief by spreading falsehoods.
The words ” historical wrong” are loaded.These themselves carry the genie of communalism and mean different things to different people& sections . Babari has done enough harm. Why did the SC admit the PIL?
High time government gives away the power to control all the temples to the devotees not to the government officers or corrupted ministers. Why when masjids and churches are under the respective religious bodies why only Hindu temples are under the corrupted officials and ministers. They must be freed from the clutches of these vultures.
India is only country where Hinduism emerged.
It has given to the world highest standards of wisdom.
Deterioration of Hinduism (Vedas, Puranas, culture, Sanskrit language etc shall bring doom to the world.
Being the only country where Hinduism is professed by majority.
It’s everybody’s responsibility to propagate Hinduism and make it a state religion.
Can the nation afford to go through another long drawn out battle? Wastage of judiciary time, national resources, alienation of people ……… for what?
“by endorsing the Places of Worship Act, 1991. “The law is…a legislative instrument designed to protect the secular features of the Indian polity, which is one of the basic features of the Constitution…is a legislative intervention which preserves non-retrogression as an essential feature of our secular values,”
Secular feature of Indian polity was illegally introduced by Indira Gandhi in 1975. this act stems from this illegal tempering of constitution. So by definition it is illegal. It was upheld by court mainly due to influence of a single judge named Sawant, originally from Mumbai high court.
this is India, not ancient Israel. In ancient Israel judge appointed by god and behaved as if people have nothing to say and threatening scourge of god. So let us scrap this law and let Sawant & his SECULAR GOD bring their wrath on India.
Imagine if the largest minority community were to offer the mosques for archeological testing to ensure that the tenets of Islam in which you can’t build a mosque on another site of worship are followed.
If there is evidence of a temple below the Gyanvapi and Mathura, then muslims would themselves say ‘That is no place for a mosque. After all, we can pray on the streets and block traffic. Why do we need a mosque anyways? Please take over the mosques and build your temples’.
[I have now been rudely woken up and realised the above was a dream!]
i hope govt. does not want to repoen the other temple cases. it will defintely create new wounds. let bygones be bygones.
DK Singh and Print true to their visceral hatred of Hindus slying use the term “victimhood” for the holocaust suffered by Hindus at the hands of the Islamist invaders — the terrible price Hindus had to pay for stopping Islam in its tracks.
Why Hindus keep funding these gutter level, self-loathing imbeciles like DK and SG is a psychological mystery.
I would assume since nobody lived a 1000 years the 40000 is an alleged number, and the wrongs of the past are just allegations since nobody has witnessed them, that said Modi BJP will continue to let this perceived wound to fester far into the future, spreading hate a d fear to distracted from their incompetence in governance.
It is under to the Hindu people what is in their best interest, Hindu Muslim politics or good and stable governance.
A temple, mosque or church is just a pile of stones,
The real place of worship in that space between people that make us reach out a hand to each other with respect and acceptance.
It seems like the writer is a man with corrupted mind in the name of secularism, well this is nothing new from writers in “The Print” completely biased.
Supreme Court should not adventure by changing the nature of this law as it would affect millions of Hindus as well as Muslims. It seems that the case was filed with some ulterior motives.
Moreover it seems that this is nothing but diversionary tactics of RSS.
Modi government has miserably failed in most of the economic fronts. Instead of focussing on development BJP people is unnecessarily wanted to create communal riots among the society.
It is a rolling domino game. Once the Ram temple was okayed, the Mathura and Kashi spectres have arisen. Fanatic Hindus say that it does not mean all 40000 destroyed temples are a target, but who can guarantee the behaviour of a predator once it has tasted blood ?
PERCEIVED VICTIMHOOD !!! Iguess when you read history written by the likes Rome leela Thapar and Irfan Habib you tend to write rubbish like this.
Doesn’t it bother you that those 40000 temples were destroyed? Does one need to be a fanatic to be pained by that?
Sudarshan Nityananda: What’s ganatic about reclaining your places of worship & civilzation??
Indian gave away land to Muslims for Pakistand!! Those who still stayed back are Hindus & shouldn’t have any problem!!
If a BJP member has brought about the suit, it’s obvious what the government’s response will be.
Modi-Shah have run out of distractions to ensure people forget about their misgovernance as well as their turning a blind eye to the people’s problems.
The government’s and judiciary’s response is a foregone conclusion really!!
Extremely derogatory words used by DK Singh clearly showing his bias since he has never used “victimhood” or “perceived victimhood” for Muslims ever before even though they use it the most in every situation. Another Hindu-Hater at the Print.
#Jash Parekh: Absolutely correct!! These Islamo-leftist fascists never raise a voice against the wrongs done to Hindus including genocide of millions & destruction of their temples!!
Victim hood is of-course the sole proprietorship of Muslims who helped by evil congress commies voted & created Islamic terrorist-an!! Most of those traitors even stayed in India to drink gaumutra & continue with their abuse of poor Hindus!!
Generally DK Singh’s analyses are good. But, Why does he use the phrase “Hindu victimhood”? Hindus are no longer victims in their only home land. They are assertive. Hindus just want at least some major historical wrongs to be set right. None is looking for restoration to Hindus of 40,000 temples destroyed between 1200 AD to 1947.
I would rather that the Government takes steps to repeal laws which give control over Hindu temples. This is both central and State matter. I hope that in near future, the Government will repeal the obnoxious Hindu Religious and Charitable Endowments Act in the center and in all the States. Restore Hindu temples to Hindus.
There never was 40,000 temples to be destroyed!
But there are much more than 40,000 mosques to be ‘reclaimed’. 🙂