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RSS ‘re-converts’ 200 Agra Muslims, says more in line

A Times of India news published today.

AGRA: Members of at least 57 Muslim families were converted to Hinduism at a ceremony called ‘Purkhon ki ghar vapsi’, a mass conversion jointly organized by Dharma Jagran Samanvay Vibhag, an offshoot of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), and Bajrang Dal in Agra on Monday.

RSS regional head Rajeshwar Singh said more than 200 Muslims were “brought back to Hinduism” in the mass event held in Madhunagar area of the city.

According to organizers, the converts will soon be given new names.

Talking to TOI, Singh claimed that around 5,000 more Muslims and Christians will be “brought back into Hindu fold” in Aligarh on this Christmas. “The grand event will be held at Maheshwari College in Aligarh,” he said, daring anyone to stop it.

With saffron flags hoisted on rooftops of makeshift houses in this slum cluster, and matras being recited by priests, members of as many as 57 Muslim families washed feet of Hindu idols to mark their return to the religion. Long vermillion marks were put on their foreheads and they were given Prasad to eat.

Later, RSS and Bajrang Dal activists gave them a ‘mantra’ to chant the whole day and prepared a list of all the ‘converts’, to get their voter IDs and Aadhaar cards made, with their new names.

Sharifa, 40, was seen debating the right way of performing an aarti with her daughter-in-law, Afsha, in a small temple that has been erected by RSS men in the slum in Madhunagar. An idol of goddess Kali has also been placed in the temple, as majority of people living in the area hail from West Bengal.

Sufia Begum,76, who is the oldest woman among the converts, told TOI: “I read Quran and offered namaz five times a day. Now at this age, I will read Ganesh aarti. I don’t find any major difference in the teachings of the two religions.”

“The RSS people assured us that they will provide us better place to live, better food and schooling for my grandsons. I don’t mind change of religion, as religion doesn’t give us food to eat.”

Rajeshwar Singh told TOI that RSS spends Rs 50 lakh every month on conversion of an average 1,000 families. “It spends Rs 8-10 lakh per month on fuel costs alone in west UP,” he added.

“We have re-converted 2.73 lakh Muslims and Christians in Braj region that includes Agra, Fatehpur Sikri, Mathura, Firozabad, Etah, Meerut, Mainpuri and Uttarakhand since 2003. The upcoming mass re-conversion event in which some 5,000 Muslims and Christians will be brought back into Hindu fold will be headed by Yogi Adityanath on December 25 in Aligarh,” Singh said.

Singh also claimed that RSS has taken possession of as many as 60 churches across the state, where no Christians worship now, “as they have all been re-converted to Hinduism”.

“Ek din in girijagharo ki deewarein bhi gir jayengi aur hamara desh sirf hinduon ka hoga (one day these churches will crumble and our country will belong to the Hindus alone),” he added.

Ajju Chauhan, the Bajrang Dal leader who zeroed in on the slum in Madhunagar and organized the mass re-conversion event, was overwhelmed after the puja. More than three dozen RSS and Bajrang Dal members were guarding the pandal to avoid any untoward incident.

Talking to TOI, Aslam Qureishi, prominent Sunni leader of the city, said, “This is just a tactic of the RSS to misguide Muslims.”

As reported by the ARY News, a FIR has been registered on the killing of PTI worker in Faisalabad, which besides other persons, has the name of Mr. Abid Sher Ali Minister of State, as a nominated person.

Keeping in view that Rana Sanaullah, as minister from the Punjab cabinet, resigned after he was accused in the FIR regarding Model Town killings; Mr. Abid Sher Ali should also resign from the federal cabinet, till such time his name is cleared in subsequent investigations.

“Adults are always asking children what they want to be when they grow up because they’re looking for ideas.”

— Paula Poundstone

“Even after all this time the sun never says to the earth, ‘You owe me.’ Look what happens with a love like that. It lights the whole sky.”

—Hāfiz (1320-1388)
Persian Poet

Imran Khan, this is your moment of the lifetime, you must seize this opportunity with both hands.

After the plan of the PMLN to counter the country wide protest of the PTI back fired, it seems that party of the government is now finally over and now PMLN has fallen back totally on defensive and PTI has gone on full ascendency.

Make Everyone on Your Team Feel Included

Feeling left out or ignored at work can have tremendously negative effects on workers’ well-being. If you want to create a more inclusive environment for your team, set an example. Inclusive attitudes start at the top. Examine your own biases and behaviors. Helping people feel that they belong doesn’t mean downplaying their differences. Make sure you recognize each team member’s uniqueness by acknowledging the distinct talents and perspectives he or she brings to the table. Supporting your employees’ development will also help foster a sense of inclusion. For a more introverted worker, assign some management responsibilities to help him build his leadership skills. And seek input: a simple way to make employees feel included is to ask for their opinions in front of others.

Adapted from “Who’s Being Left Out on Your Team?” by Carolyn O’Hara.

The nation salutes the lion hearted local PTI female leader/tigress Ms Lubna for showing extra ordinary courage by standing all alone in front of a huge and extremely rowdy PMLN crowd at the Chowk GHANTA GHAR Faisalabad, where a hoodlum charged on her from backside and tried to snatch the stick from her hand but failed in his nefarious attempt.

This is the result of the training imparted by the KAPTAN to his followers to shun fear from their minds and break the idol of fear (KHOUF KA BOT).

Now all PTI Tigers and Tigresses are such a fearless followers of the party that no opponent will dare face them..!

My letter titled “EU’s Irrational Plea” published today by the daily “Pakistan Observer”

Link:- http://pakobserver.net/detailnews.asp?id=257946

“Dear whoever is reading this, you’re beautiful and someone out there is crazy about you. So smile. Life is too short to be unhappy.”

— Author Unknown

The world is surprised why the Indian Army commander missed to state that Pakistan’s flag and Pakistan’s national anthem CD (wrapped in a Pakistani newspaper may be “Pakistan Times”), was also found from the Kashmiri freedom fighters who attacked India’s occupied military forces installations in Kashmir.

Come on India your commanders even don’t have a sense of mocking a proper “False Flag” against Pakistan.

If this is the mental level of senior Indian Army commanders, then really pity on you..!

Last but not the least, for the consumption of the Indian occupation forces in Kashmir and the Indian government leadership, as well; the right to resist the occupation forces is the legal and moral right of the Kashmiri people as enshrined in the UN charter and explained below:

The Palestinian’s (read Kashmiris) legal right to resist occupation—to fight for their ability to promote, sustain, and nurture human life, to fight for their right to grow, to flourish—comes from two documents: the 1960 Declaration on the Granting of Independence to Colonial Countries and Peoples and the Fourth Geneva Convention and its subsequent protocols.

Taken together, people (read Kashmiris) have the right to “fight against colonial domination and alien occupation in the exercise of their right to self-determination,” Israeli human rights lawyer Lynda Brayer explained.

Writing in CounterPunch this spring in the wake of Goldstone’s backpedaling, Brayer went into detail:

Above and beyond the basic right of all human beings to resist their being killed and harmed, and a society to take armed actions to protect itself, this document legitimizes also national liberation struggles, including, at this time in history, most particularly, the Palestinian (read Kashmiris) people’s struggle for its own freedom. It is this right which legitimizes all Palestinian (read Kashmiris) attempts to lift the yoke of Israeli (read Indian) oppression from Palestine (read Kashmir) including all the actions taken by the Palestinians during Operation Cast Lead.And is not the right to resist oppression universal? Does this right not justify the American Revolution and then the French Revolution and the wars of liberation in the 1950′s and 1960′s. Nelson Mandela is a hero because of his resistance to, not because of his subservience to apartheid repression. And the Warsaw Ghetto uprising by the Jewish population against the Nazi repression is a beacon of pride in modern Jewish history. it is also a fact that Jews who joined the resistance, say in Poland or other places under Nazi occupation, are heroes for the Jewish people. I would contend that one cannot deny that right of resistance to Palestinians which the Jews appropriated to themselves, and which is the right of all peoples living under military occupation and/or colonialist regimes.

Richard Falk, the UN Special Rapporteur on Palestinian human rights, a professor of international law at Princeton University, the author of dozens of books, writes in “International Law and the Al-Aqsa Intifada”:

Though the Israeli government and the US media persist in describing the second Palestinian intifada as a security crisis or a disruption to the ‘peace process,’ in international law, Palestinian (read Kashmiris) resistance to occupation is a legally protected right…Israel’s (read India’s) failures to abide by international law, as a belligerent occupant, amounted to a fundamental denial of the right of self-determination, and more generally of respect for the framework of belligerent occupation — giving rise to a Palestinian (read Kashmiri) right of resistance.

It boils down to this: every time the Israeli (read Indian) military arrests a Palestinian (read Kashmiri) for “stone throwing” or “incitement” or any other bogus, trumped-up charges—and every time Israel (read India) holds a protest organizer or a Popular (read Hurriyat) Committee leader prisoner—it is, perversely, detaining Palestinians (read Kashmiris) for exercising their inalienable moral and legal rights to resist an illegal and violent military occupation.

Terror Attacks “Made in Pakistan”: How Should India Respond?

Tonight on The Buck Stops Here:’Unambiguous Pakistan Hand In Attacks’: Kashmir Corps Commander to NDTVThe multiple terror attacks in the Kashmir valley were made in Pakistan, that is the direct and st…

http://www.ndtv.com/video/player/the-buck-stops-here/terror-attacks-made-in-pakistan-how-should-india-respond/347596