From: mghayalo@uceng.UC.EDU (Manoj Ghayalod)
Subject: Re: Moslem Intolerance must be dealt with now.
Organization: College of Engineering, University of Cincinnati
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Date: Sun, 16 Aug 1992 21:10:53 GMT

In article <1992Aug16.215058.30541@ccad.uiowa.edu> bhat@ccad.uiowa.edu (Dinkar N. Bhat) writes:
>In article <92226.103805DXA4@psuvm.psu.edu> <DXA4@psuvm.psu.edu> writes:
>>Such incidents by individual-Muslims to issue contemptuous remarks about Hindu
>>gods and beliefs are nothing in comparison of what goes on in some of the
>>Islamic Republics, and nothing can be done about it because this is the law of
>>the land of that particular Islamic Republic and any protest against such laws
>>is considered interference with internal matters of the country. I would like
>>to substantiate this fact by the following three examples all occurred in Soudi
>>Arabia - a paragon leader of Umma (Islamic nation). These incidents originally
>>were reported in Times of India, Indian Express, India To-day in the last 4-6
>>years, the last incident is the latest (June 1990), I do not remember the exact
>>dates of other two. Please note that these are just the reported incidents
>>which manage to make the newspapers, there may be numerous other incidents in
>>these and other Islamic republics which never come out of the countries due to
>>press restrictions etc.
>>
>>1. One Aryasamaji Indian was in Riyad for a visit and staying in a Hotel. In
>>the morning as his normal practice after taking his bath he was reading 'Satya-
>>rth Prakash'. Somehow, the hotel management found it out when the attendent
>>informed them. This poor man was arrested for possessing a religious book not
>>belonging to Islam, and was sentenced for six months in prison. Since according
>>to the local law it is a crime in Soudi Arabia for possessing any non-Islamic
>>books or practice any non-Islamic religion even in your privacy.
>>
>>  The Arya Pritinidhi Sabha of Delhi met Rajiv Gandhi, PM at that time to inter
>>vene in the matter and get this man out of the Saudi Arab's prison. He forward-
>>ed the matter to the foreign ministry, who after making enquiry expressed their
>>helplessness in the whole affair since it was the internal matter of a country.
>>
>>2. About four years ago one Indian diplomat was on an official visit to Saudi
>>Arabia, he went with his wife. At the airport, while the custom officer check-
>>ing the baggage and its contents, he spotted in the lady's bag a pocket size
>>version of Gita and a small idol (saligram), and asked her what they were? And
>>after realizing what they were, this custom officer tore the Gita, threw it in
>>the waste basket and crushed the idol into piece under his foot. The poor south
>>Indian lady, a deeply religious and simple woman, could not believe her eyes
>>that there would be a human being in the world so insensitive to others' religi
>>ous beliefs and symbols. The whole traumatic experience left this woman a
>>psychological wreck for several months.
>>
>>3. The latest case is one of Mr. Sunil Vadehra, a Hindu mechanic who died of an
>>accident in Saudi Arabia. His father went to the court for compensation. A
>>Greek national was found guilty of negligence which resulted in Mr. Vadehra's
>>death, and was asked to deposit 300,000 Riyals with the Saudi Officer concerned
>>to pay to Mr. Vadehra's father. Six years later however, on June 2, 1990, the
>>court ruled that since the deceased was a Hindu, a non-muslim, and hence his
>>life is worth only 1/10th of that of a Muslim, so only 30,000 Riyals be paid to
>>his father. Mr. Vadehra's father approached Indian officials in Delhi but as
>>usual nothing could be done.
>>
>>Dinesh Agrawal....
>
>
>Reading these incidents make my blood boil. Actually I am begining to
>like the VHP and the BJP. How can the state impose such restrictions
>on religious practices? Ridiculous! I really wonder how the f*** these
>guys ask for rights in our country. I am becoming a Hindu fundamentalist
>now.

If some thing wrong happens outside your home(eg you get mugged on the
street), is it logical for you to take out your anger in your home. 
If Saudi is such a stupid country why don't we break up all diplomatic
relations with it (we can't because of oil). By being influenced by
external issues our country in this state. When Hindu Muslim riots were
going on India why did not the goverenment punish the responsible ones
(yes even by hanging), after independence? 
The goverenment did not do so because the same thing was
happening on the other side of the border. Now this has become a common
practise in India (Marahati brahamins were killed, because of Mahatma Gandhi
and Sikhs were killed because of Indra Gandhi). It is time we should not be
influenced by outside events to mistreat any section in India. That does not
mean we should not respond to any threat to India, we have done the right
thing successfully in the past when our integrity as a nation was threatened.

Manoj
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