Thread by @Hiranyareta

I can't believe Ram Swarup wrote the following in the lates 80s. He could see the real face of Congress+ which became visible to us only after Sonia took the charge.
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" Struggle for Cultural Freedom"

The long period under the two Imperialisms, Islamic and Christian, has ended, but they have left a powerful legacy behind. India became politically free in 1947, but it is ruled by anti-Hindus.
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The old mental slavery continues and it has yet to win its cultural and intellectual independence.
India is entering into the second phase of its freedom struggle: the struggle for regaining its Hindu identity. The new Struggle is as difficult as the old one.
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Hindus are disorganized, self-alienated, morally and ideologically disarmed. They lack leadership; the Hindu elites have become illiterate about their spiritual heritage and history and indifferent and even hostile
towards their religion.
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In fact, they love every religion except their own.

Great poverty has overtaken Hindu religious institutions. Hindu temples are poor and in great neglect. The functionaries connected with these institutions live in abject poverty and they are the poorest section in India.
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The education of Hindus is not in their own hands; in fact, the teaching of Hinduism ‘has been neglected for centuries and Hindu children grow in complete ignorance of their religion. Hinduism is becoming a non-practising and non-practiced religion.
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India’s higher education, its academia and media are in the hands of a Hindu-hating elite. India’s history is written by people under the influence of old Imperial schools. They tell you how Muslims and Christians came as liberators from the shackles of Hinduism.
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Hindu society is badly divided. Once when Hinduism was Strong, castes represented a natural and healthy diversity, but now in its present state of weakness, these are used for its dismemberment.
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Old vested interests joined by new ones have come together to make use of the caste factor in a big way in order to keep Hindus down.
Hindus have been kept down too long . Everyone including the victims think that it is the natural order of things.
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Therefore now when the Hindu society is showing some signs of a stir, there is great consternation. Already a cry has gone out of Hindu fundamentalism, we must
expect more of it in the future.
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These are great odds but let us not dwell on them inordinately. Let us accept them in the spirit that God has sent them and their purpose must be good. Difficulties come in order to help.
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India has been asleep for long, and it needed all these knocks and probably it would get more.
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But let us hope that the difficulties would be overcome and Hinduism will come into its own and recover its self-nature and regain its natural pride so that it can make its contribution.
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In the abv mentioned book Ramswarup mentions this incident.

"Hindus are good at this game of self-deception. For example, one bright Hindu in a letter to The
Times of India (June 20, 1992) wrote:
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“It is wrong to say that the meaning of the Quranic verse where the word ‘kill’ is used, means to kill in reality. It means killing the habit of non-believing (in God).”
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A Hindu esoterist and synthesizer is quite capable of saying that the massacre of the Jews at Medina at the behest of the Prophet was an allegory and that what the Prophet meant was to “kill the Jew in the heart, that is one’s own greed.”
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