These extracts from government-sponsored textbooks illustrate the deep-seated ideological and religious intolerance which is taught to Pakistani children at a young age and which continues throughout their primary education. From Outlook India:
“Before the Arab conquest people were fed up with the teachings of Buddhists & Hindus.” “Before Islam people lived in untold misery.”
When I discuss Brahman, I primarily am discussing Brahman in the Advaita Vedanta tradition. In this tradition, Brahman is not comparable to the Christian God, as people often mistake. In the Advaita Vedanta tradition, Brahman is reality, is one, is bliss, and is structureless and propertyless. There are no distinctions in reality.
In the Western tradition, physics and philosophy has been developed by many, such as Plato, Aristotle, Descartes, Bacon, Newton, and Einstein, just to name very few. What is the foundation of these theories? And what is common to these theories? There may be several answers to these questions, but I have focused on one:
These theories ultimately describe things (ordinary material objects, basic building blocks, locations in space, etc.) as being in various relationships to one another.
LONDON: Thirty-five years after a fateful clandestine meeting in Moscow between ISKCON founder Swami Prabhupada and a young white Russian who was to receive the dangerously secret gift of a banned Bhagvad Gita, take the name Ananda Shanti Das, and build from scratch a 100,000-strong community of native Krishna bhakts, the Slavonic Hindu may be emerging as the 21st century’s most potent symbol of too-successfully spreading the word beyond Indian shores.
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13:50 2005-11-06
A Hindu mob attacked a Muslim village in northern India, torching homes and killing three people, after hearing rumors that cows, considered holy by Hindus, were slaughtered for the Islamic Eid-al-Fitr celebrations, police said Sunday.
Hindus from neighboring areas attacked Mehndipur village in the northern Uttar Pradesh state on Saturday night and set fire to dozens of houses after being told villagers had killed the cows for a feast to mark the end of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan on Friday, said S. B. Shirodkar, a local police chief.
Afghan”isthan” was once center of Vedic Culture. The Indo Aryans definitely lived in that region before migrating further either upwards or downwards. For the Aryans Afghanistan was the land of the Gandharvas or the celestial beings. The Gandharvas were depicted in the Vedic scriptures as celestial beings, skillful in music, with magical powers, and beautiful forms. In status they were not equal to the devas, but regarded as higher beings with divine powers, mischievous at times, but mostly friendly and reliable.
In the last few centuries BC, India emerged from a dark age that had endured since the fall of the Indus valley civilization fifteen hundred years earlier. It was at this time that the written word started to reappear, especially in the form of edicts and inscriptions left by Ashok , the great emperor of the Mauryan Empire . These words were written in a script known as Brahmi and in amongst its letters we find symbols to express numeric quantities which look like this:
All is fair. So believes an Indian cosmetics company that has launched a new skin-lightening cream exclusively for men in an attempt to target the growing number of metrosexual males.
Called Fair and Handsome, the advertisement for the product gives the message: be fair or remain in dark oblivion.
Until now, skin-lightening creams have been aimed almost exclusively at women. This is the first launched nationally for men.
Surveys carried out by cosmetics companies suggest growing numbers of Indian men are using the creams.
Our initial worry was men would be shy and not buy it. But these fears have proven unfounded
Emami director Mohen Goenka
Emami Industries, which launched Fair and Handsome, said its research showed that figure was 29%, which some might find unlikely.
By Doron Kescher July 6, 2003
After Israeli bulldozers destroyed the foundations for a proposed mosque on a Christian holy site in Nazareth, (Muslim) Deputy Mayor Salman Abu Ahmad and local head of the Islamic Movement said, “I haven’t heard of any synagogues being destroyed, but they destroyed a mosque.”
The arrogance, insensitivity and stupidity of this statement is breath-taking.
Would the deputy mayor like to know why no one is demolishing synagogues (except the Arabs, who demolished 19 on the day they sacked the Jewish Quarter of Jerusalem in 1948), churches or Hindu temples?
Here’s a hint: which of the following religions has a penchant for destroying other people’s religious shrines and building their own on the ruins?
a. Judaism
b. Christianity
c. Hinduism
d. Islam
To
The Editor,
Sunday Times of India,
Mumbai, India.
E-mail: toieditorial@timesgroup.com
Dear Sir,
We would like to draw your attention to certain erroneous information that has been carried in The Sunday Times of India, Mumbai dated 10th January, 1999, about our Zarathushtri religion, under the title: “A tribe, a faith and an festering controversy”.
The information your paper has carried is grossly erroneous, presents the one-sided liberal and irreligious point of view, and is against the religious beliefs of the majority of the Parsi and Irani population in both India and Pakistan.
In the article, one Dr. Irani, a visiting “US-based scholar of philosophy” says “Zoroastrian texts contain specific injunctions that emphasise that it is a universal religion, open to anyone willing to receive instruction.”
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Tehran, 28 September 2005 (CHN) — Archaeological excavations in Gohar Tepe, in Mazandaran province in Iran, led to the discovery of the remains of the statues of some cows which were most probably used in religious ceremonies.
The discovery of these sculptures indicates that the people of the region worshiped cows 3000 years ago.