Several of the Abrahamic religions I am aware of prescribe starkly unequal of treatment of believers&disbelievers, both in this world and after death. So, God will punish u if u don’t believe in him. Philosophical question-How exactly is this equality of man in the eyes of God?
This is perhaps an early documentation of viewpoint discrimination,specifically viewpoint of believing in 1 particular concept of God. In contrast, Indic religions espouse the concept of Karma, deeds.Their belief-Karma applies regardless of which God u believe in.This is equality
It is historically documented how over time repeatedly heretics have been persecuted by practitioners of Abrahamic religions just for being heretics, that is, on account of divergence of their belief from what the texts espoused. Is this practiced equality ?
There are even words to describe the heretics, that is those who do not believe in the statements espoused by certain texts, words that have been used in highly pejorative manner. How is this equality ?
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Never ever speak to any media without maintaining your records. A thread on my experience with media. My first interaction with media. In 2013, a filmmaker contacted me to get my comments on a movie she was making on Modi & Hindus. I was interviewed on video+
Subsequently, the filmmaker sent me documents that I should sign so that she can use the video interview any manner she wants to. I demanded that I have the right to see how she uses my statements, that is after she uses it. She refused and I did not sign.
Second, Newslaundry contacted me 4 my comments on a hit piece they would write against me.I interacted only on email and insisted that they reproduce my statements in full.They agreed and complied grudgingly. In the piece,they mention grudgingly that she asked 2 be reproduced...
Some facts on Sheikh Mujibur Rehman post 1971. Ramana Kalibari used to be a five century old temple in Dhaka.During 1971 Pakistani army committed mass atrocities in the temple, which included destruction of the temple, burning to death 50 cows in its cowshed, forcible conversion+
+ abduction of women & murder of men who took shelter in the temple + m. After Mujibur Rehman got power courtesy Indian army, he returned the land of the temple not to the original owners but to Bangladesh public works which removed the last vestiges of the temple from the land+
Hindus have now been granted permission to build the temple, not at the original site, but some distance away. Accounts here
I normally do not dignify abusive handles with engagement. This is 1 such as evidenced thru his multiple abuses directed against me for challenging his concoction. Such abuses disqualify any one from civil engagement. But will make one exception, just 1 to counter. Thread:
Notice what I asked - evidence of usage in common parlance of a term he pedaled. This is best shown through literature, newspaper reports. Thus far he has shown none. But, of course, he has showered vile abuses at me for asking him to show.
What has he shown instead - a collection of papers written in the last ten years that mentions this term, and an English book written in 1943. The first paper in this collection cites this term from an English book on castes written in 1981. So, a secondary reference.
Open Letter to Rutgers University Administrators. Not sure what the principal critique here is, is it the said Professor is mocking BJP-RSS, or mocking Hindus? The first aspect seems to dominate the piece. Nothing wrong with Profs using SM 4 their politics indiafacts.org.in/commentary/ope…
Completely confused by comments on how many Indians and of which religion support Biden vis a vis Trump. Both were Presidential candidates only a few months ago. Indian Americans can support whoever they wish, what’s the morality factor associated with their choices?
If the author wishes to argue that the Professor in question is biased against Hindus, he needs to stick just to that point. Bringing in BJP-RSS, Modi, Biden, Trump are pure distractions, and even harmful. This is conflating BJP—RSS & Modi with Hinduism which is plain wrong.
As a point of principle, I oppose mass petitions of students demanding punishment for a Professor for her views. This is a recipe for mob justice and contrary to conducive environment for academic research. Views have to be countered through documentations & scholarly arguments.
The issue becomes more complicated when however the Professor in qsn have cautioned students of specific groups to be “safe” only because a speaker was giving a speech in her University campus, rather than educating them 2 debate him.This is a tacit call to cancel that speaker.
Those who have perpetrated the cancel culture themselves should be ready to be canceled themselves. One can’t encourage cancelation of speakers in her own campus and simultaneously claim academic freedom when a different mob campaigns to cancel her. Playing field has to be level
I had once fostered a dog from a shelter. The shelter sent him to a foster home, mine, because he was showing shelter-stress. The dog grew very attached to me in a day or even instantaneously. But he didn’t get along with my own dog and would start fights with him.
The foster dog was of a smaller size than my dog, but was more resourceful. So in the fights my dog would win hands down. I was thinking of adopting the foster dog for good, but another family really wanted him.Given the chemistry between the 2 dogs,I decided to let them have him