Friday, December 18, 2009

Two years after India's anti-Christian riots, many obstacles remain

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    • Things have calmed, but believers still face challenges. That's proving true for Worldwide Christian Schools.  Scott Vanderkooy explains what's happening with their partner, New Life School and Orphanage. "The school currently operates in a rented space owned by a Hindu family, and the lease has just been shortened. The school has less than five months to complete their new school building." 
    • Vanderkooy points out that while the April 2010 eviction isn't legal, there's not much they can do. It's not likely they'll find a new place to rent. But, it's not ALL bad news. He says, "There is a new school that has been started, but $87,000 are needed yet to finish it on time."

      The school building has been under construction for three years. They have been using a rented building to hold classes.

      WWCS donors funded the first floor, but a second story and a roof are still needed in order to serve the 175 students who come from all over to attend this unique, Christ-centered school in the center of strong Hindu and Muslim influence.

    • Vanderkooy says the school's response will speak volumes about the Gospel. Many children who attend the school do not come from Christian families, giving the staff of New Life School an opportunity to share Christ's love and principles with the children. In this case, he says, "It's how Christians handle problems like this. Do we handle these problems as the world handles them? Or do we have a different method? I think this school, in particular, is a great example of Christ's love."
    • Click here if you want to help finish the new building. Another way to help is to sponsor a student. Through this  program, funds will help address the true cost of education for these students, at approximately $175 per student.
    • Worldwide Christian Schools

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Muslim leaders exhort youth to join civil services - The Times of India

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    • Muslim community leaders are trying to inspire the youth to aim for the civil services. Three days after the Haj Committee of India launched its coaching centre for civil services exams at Haj House near CST, another initiative kicked off on Wednesday. The community leaders presented some IPS officers as role models.
    • Organised by NGO Milli Council, in association with the vocational and career guidance cell of the Central Mumbai-based Maharashtra College
    • M A Khalid, general secretary of Milli Council, exhorted Muslim youth to give up their negative attitude and appear in the civil services exams in large numbers.

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'Baby-faced' Mumbai gunman retracts confession in latest twist to terror trial - Times Online

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    Mohammed Ajmal Kasab in custody
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    • Rhys Blakely in Mumbai

    • The strange court case of the man alleged to be the sole Mumbai terrorist to be caught alive during last year’s attacks on the city took yet another bizarre turn today when he retracted his confession and claimed to be a wannabe film star.
    • Mohammed Ajmal Kasab, 21, is alleged to be the sole Mumbai terrorist to be caught alive during last year's attacks
    • Even before the court proceedings began, the process was blighted by controversy when lawyers chosen to defend Mr Kasab were hounded by Hindu extremists and threatened with violence.
    • Everything from Mr Kasab’s demands for meat biryani (the food in his prison is entirely vegetarian) to his literary habits (he was said to be reading Gandhi’s autobiography) have been picked apart with forensic scrutiny.
    • In recent months he has complained of being ill. At one stage he produced a white powder from a screw of paper and presented it to the judge, saying that it was poison that his prison guards had tried to add to his food.

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पाकिस्तान के साथ गुरुद्वारा भूमि स्थानांतरण का मामला उठाएगा भारत : कृष्णा - Oneindia Hindi

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    • राज्यसभा में शून्यकाल के दौरान भारतीय जनता पार्टी (भाजपा) के सदस्य एस.एस. आहलूवालिया ने यह मुद्दा उठाया। इसके बाद कृष्णा ने कहा, "हम पाकिस्तान के साथ इस मसले को उठाएंगे।"
    • इस मामले को उठाते हुए आहलूवालिया ने कहा, "आगे ऐसा होगा कि वे लोग पंजा साहिब (पाकिस्तान में स्थित गुरुद्वारों में से एक) को भी बेच देंगे जहां गुरु नानक के हाथ का निशान अंकित है।"

      उन्होंने कहा, "सरकार को पाकिस्तानी उच्चायुक्त को तलब कर इस बात का वचन लेना चाहिए कि पाकिस्तान में अल्पसंख्यकों मसलन सिख, हिंदू और सिंधी समुदाय के लोगों की संपत्तियों की सुरक्षा की जाएगी।"

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भारत विरोधी जमीन तो नहीं तैयार कर रहे हैं माओवादी?

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    • सोनौली
    • भारत-नेपाल सीमा पर इन दिनों बड़े पैमाने पर खाद्य पदार्थो की तस्करी की ज रही है । खुफिया एजेंसियों की रिपोर्ट के बाद चौकन्नी हुई सशस्त्र सीमा सुरक्षा बल (एसएसबी) ने तीन दिन पूर्व तस्करों के विरूद्ध कार्यवाही शुरू किया तो माओवादी समर्थित तस्करों ने स्थानीय नागरिकों को भड़का दिया ।
    • नेपाली नागरिकों ने सोमवार और मंगलवार को दो दिनों तक सीमा पर एकजुट होकर लाल ङांण्डा लहराया और भारत एवं एस.एस.बी.के खिलाफ जमकर नारेबाजी की जिससे सीमा पर काफी देर तक अव्यवस्था रही । सीमा पर आवागमन जरी है पर वहां तनाव का माहौल अभी बरकरार है। दोनों देशों के बीच हालात सामान्य बनाने के लिए एसएसबी और नेपाली पुलिस के अधिकारी लगातार एक-दूसरे के संपर्क में हैं ।
    • खबर है भारत से नेपाल ले जया जने वाला खाद्य पदार्थ दोगुने से भी अधिक दामों पर बेंचा जता है । पहले सीमा पर कंप्यूटर ,चाइनीज मोबाइलऔर इलेक्ट्रानिक सामानों की ही तस्करी होती थी पर अब खाद्य पदार्थो की बड़े पैमाने पर तस्करी हो रही है । तस्करी के इस काम में तमाम नेपाली और भारतीय पुलिस के लोग परोक्ष-अपरोक्ष रूप से शामिल होने बताये ज रहे हैं ।
    • बताया ज रहा है दोनों देशों की सीमा के आस-पास बेरोजगारों की बड़ी फौज है जो केवल तस्करी में ही लगी रहती है । सीमा पर तस्कर पर्यटकों की भीड़ का इंतजर करते हैं जसे ही एस.एस.बी के जवान उनकी जंच पड़ताल में लगते है कैरियर का काम करने वाले युवा तेजी से दौड़कर सामान लेकर नेपाली सीमा में घुस जते है । नेपाली पुलिस के जवान उन तस्करों से मिले होते हैं और वे उन्हे काफी हद तक इस काम में सपोर्ट करते हैं।

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आस्था पर आघात आखिर कब तक बर्दास्त करेंगे हम

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    • अमेरिका के फॉक्स न्यूज चैनल के एक ओपिनियन शो ‘द वन थिंग’ में प्रस्तुतकर्ता ग्लेन बैक ने कहा कि भारत की पवित्र नदी मानी जाने वाली गंगा का नाम ही भद्दा है। यह नाम किसी नदी का नहीं, बल्कि बीमारी का लगता है। उनकी इस टिप्पणी से संसार भर के आस्थावान भारतीयों में रोष व्याप्त हो गया है। यह कोई पहला मामला नहीं है जब भारतीयों की धार्मिक भावनाओं पर प्रहार किया गया है इससे पहले भी आस्था पर विभिन्न प्रकार के हमलें हुए है पेश है एक नजर :

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बेलागंज में 25 वर्ष पुराना भूमि विवाद सुलझा

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    • गया हि
    • गया हिन्दू-मुस्लिम के संबंधो को मजबूत करने के लिए गुरूवार को बेलागंज के सिमदानी में एक नया इतिहास लिखा गया है। दोनों समुदाय के बीच कब्रिस्तान के घेराबंदी को लेकर गत 25 वर्षो से विवाद चला आ रहा था। सदर एसडीओ विजय कुमार एवं डीएसपी राजवंश सिंह के सहित दोनों के समुदाय के लोगों के पहल पर उक्त विवाद को सुलझाया गया।
    • सुलह नामा पर दोनों समुदाय के लोगों ने सहमति पर जतायी है। सहमति के बाद रामनवमी एवं मुहर्रम का जुलूस के लिए एक निश्चित रास्ता तय किया गया है।

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काकोरी के नायकों ने किया था प्राणों का बलिदान :: सहारा समय

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    • 19 दिसंबर को शहादत दिवस पर विशेष:
    • काकोरी घटना को अंजाम देने वाले सभी क्रांतिकारी काफी पढ़े लिखे थे । बिस्मिल के पास तो गजब का भाषा ज्ञान था। वह अंग्रेजी हिन्दुस्तानी बंगाली और उर्दू भाषा में दक्ष थे । बिस्मिल महान देशभक्त होने के साथ ही एक महान कवि भी थे। उनका अमर तराना ‘सरफरोशी की तमन्ना अब हमारे दिल में है, आजादी के हर लड़ाके की जुबान पर होता था । ये पंक्तियां आज भी देशवासियों को देश पर मर मिटने की प्रेरणा देती है। इतिहासवेत्ता मालती मलिक के अनुसार फांसी की पूर्व संध्या पर जब बिस्मिल के माता पिता उनसे मिलने जेल गए तो बिस्मिल की आंखों से आंसू छलक पड़े। जब उनकी मां ने कहा कि आजादी के दीवाने रोया नहीं करते तो बिस्मिल ने जवाब दिया कि मां ये देश पर कुर्बान होने की खुशी के आंसू हैं न कि फांसी के डर से निकलने वाले आंसू ।

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steps to second partition: himachal district records printed in Lahore press


    • चंबा :
    • प्रदेश के कई जिलों का गजट पाकिस्तान में तैयार हो रहा है। यह सिलसिला ज्यादा पुराना नहीं बल्कि गजट के कई जिलों का एडिशन 2007 में सामने आया है, जिसे लाहौर में तैयार किया गया। गजट में तमाम पुराने रहस्य, जगहों व उन ऐतिहासिक चीजों की जानकारी है जिसकी जरूरत पूरे राज्य को है। लेकिन इसके पड़ोसी देश और वो भी पाकिस्तान में तैयार होने से सुरक्षा तंत्र पर खतरा बढ़ गया है।

      यह खुलासा हिंदू जागरण मंच के अध्यक्ष स्वामी भुवनेश्वर ने किया है।
    • गजट में राज्य की सीमाओं, आबादी, पुराने मंदिर व ऐतिहासिक महलों का जिक्र भी हुआ है। इन तमाम गजटों को संग-ए-मील पब्लिकेशन लाहौर ने प्रकाशित किया है। जबकि गजट पर प्रस्तुतकर्ता का नाम नियाज अहमद प्रकाशित है। यह गजट बेवजह नहीं बल्कि पूरे अधिकारों के साथ लाहौर में प्रकाशित हुए हैं।

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|| Satyameva Jayate || » How did Islam come to Kashmir?

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    How did Islam come to Kashmir?
    • “It came through the peaceful missionary preaching of the Sufis,” comes the answer.

    • Amir Sayyid Muhammad, another great Sufi saint, came to Kashmir during the reign of the famous idol-breaker, Sultan Sikander. Sikander was not such a barbarian until the arrival of holy Sufi saint Sayyid Muhammad, who prodded the Sultan into enforcing the Islamic code in his domain. Unlike Sultan Qutbud-Din, Sikander agreed to the Sufi saint’s instruction. Sikander and Sayyid Muhammad, thus, formed an alliance to wipe out all signs of idolatry and its professors from Kashmir.
    • Find it out from the proud author of Baharistan-i-Shahi, who writes: “…the credit of wiping out the vestiges of infidelity and heresy from the mirror of the conscience of the dwellers of these lands,” goes to Sufi saint Sayyid Muhammad [p. 37].

      Succeeding the Iconoclast, his son Ameer Khan (aka Ally Shah) continued the butchery of the remaining Hindus of Kashmir, as adds Farishtah, he “persecuted the few Brahmins who still remained firm in their religion; and by putting all to death, who refused to embrace Mahomedism. He drove those who still lingered in Kashmeer entirely out of that kingdom” [ibid, p. 269].

    • Amir Shamsud-Din Muhammad undertook wholesale destruction of all those idol-houses as well as total ruination of the very foundation of infidelity and disbelief. On the site of every idol-house he destroyed, he ordered the construction of a mosque for offering prayers after the Islamic manner.
    • Thereupon, “the entire community of infidels and polytheists in Kashmir was coerced into conversion to Islam at the point of the sword. This is one of the major achievements of Malik Kaji Chak,” adds the proud author of Baharistan-i-Shahi [p. 117].

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EVMs should provide receipt: Swamy « Janamejayan’s Weblog

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    • The electronic voting machine (EVM) should be redesigned to produce a receipt, as in an automated teller machine, after a vote was cast, said the president of Janata Party, Subramanian Swamy, on Thursday.

      Addressing a news conference here, Dr. Swamy claimed that the EVM, like any electronic machine, was bound by the Information Technology Act and it was mandatory to provide a receipt after every use. This receipt of confirmation could be dropped by voters in a nearby box, which could be verified in case of dispute. This would serve as a safeguard against misuse of EVMs in favour of a particular candidate. Dr. Swamy clarified that he was not against the use of EVMs in elections but against their misuse.

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Maintain communal harmony: sacrifice Hindus « Hindu focus

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    • If you mention Love Jihad or write about Honor killing, it will hurt Muslim feelings.
      If you say Islamic terror or mention Muslim terrorist, it will make the Muslims angry.
      For Islam is peaceful.
       
      If a Muslim is asked questions, it is racial profiling.
      If a Muslim dies form any cause, cry Muslim victimhood.
      If they protest and kill others it is their religious rights.
      If Muslims damage property or burn buses, they are unidentified mob.
      If Muslims kill to enforce their religion, they are misguided youths.
      For Islam does not preach violence.
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      Kerala HC freezes probe in Love Jihad case

      VR Jayaraj | Kochi

         

      Within ten days of the Kerala High Court’s observations that a campus-based Islamist campaign called Love Jihad or Romeo Jihad for converting non-Muslim girls into Islam through love did exist in Kerala, another judge of the same court put forward a different argument and imposed a freeze on investigations into two such cases.  


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IntelliBriefs: UIDAI to start issuing identification numbers in Feb '11


    • We would start issuing the unique identification numbers (UIN) in February 2011. These numbers would be allotted on the basis of 11 biometrics including 10 fingerprints and iris, UIDAI Chairman Nandan Nilekani said here after a meeting with Haryana Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda.
    • The UIDAI would not allot any card, but 16-digit numbers, said Nilekani, who is on a visit to the state to discuss the UIN issue.
    • The Unique Identity Authority (UIA) will not plug the chronically leaky delivery of public services, which means, it may not improve the targeting of these services. To that extent, it may not turn out to be the tool for poverty alleviation that some expect it to be.

      Its high-profile Chairman Nandan Nilekani says fixing bad governance isn't exactly what he signed up for.

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Hinduism Today Magazine » Is Yoga Hindu?


    • At the Parliament of the World’s Religions’s Hindu Convocation, the host of the forthcoming International Yoga Festival, Swami Chidanand Saraswati, urged the taking up of yoga. For the good of our health, Swami Saraswati said. He wasn’t the only one advocating the merits of yoga at the Parliament: so were yoga practitioners who described themselves as ’spiritual’ rather than Hindu. All of which gives rise to some interesting questions: what is the fate of a practice when it is detached from its source tradition?
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    • His Holiness Satguru Bodhinatha Veylanswami (publisher of Hinduism Today) remarked that if you have the root of Hinduism, then the stem is Hinduism, and the flower is Hinduism.

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Shadow Warrior: Mary and Joseph in bed poster sparks row


    • a blonde mary wearing a head-scarf! in bed! :-)

      what, christists can't take their icons being depicted in sexual situations?quick, let us tell john dayal, and maybe we can send old goat m f husain to new zealand, he'll show them how to paint detailed sexual stuff about the virgin {sic] mary.
    Virgin Mary and Joseph in bed

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