Dear brothers and sisters,

Our country has been cheated of its deserved greatness in history. We have a rich civilizational glory dating back centuries. A civilization famed for the gallant kings, fearless people, deep rooted religious rituals and customs.

Hindu way of life teaches us to respect other religions and their gods. ‘Basudhaib Kutumbakam’ is the lofty principle we subscribe to and believe in. So, we don’t feel the need to convert people of other religions. We are happy to co-exist side by side with them.

But we haven’t got the same respect as we give to others. Our belief system is being treated with disdain. They are mocking and attacking the very religion that has warmly welcomed the predatory and proselytising religions to live peacefully with it.

Peaceful coexistence has never been their motive. They are deeply into a grand design of aggressive proselytisation. Native souls are up for harvesting in a big way. Poors are brainwashed into converting to their religions by cheap conversion tricks or by the lure of money.

Foreign funds are flooding our country ostensibly for use in conversion activities. NGOs, churches and Madrasas are flush with slush funds. They attack our customs, our beliefs and our Gods and Goddesses. Being the pacifist we are, we just shrug it off and go about our daily lives. We don’t react, we don’t retaliate and we don’t take the matter with as much seriousness as we should.

This pacifism emboldens them. They carry out their nefarious deeds with much more ferocity. They erase the past history of invasion by Islamic barbarians, of torture, forced conversions, mass rapes and genocide carried out by them. They glorify violent past of barbaric invaders and hide the violent orgy of destruction of temples, one-sided imposition of taxes on Hindus, plunder of our wealth, arson and killing.

One glaring example of what all they might have done to our history is right there in front of us. They are all praise for Taliban takeover of Afganistan. That they still do find reasons and words to give a gloss to dark-age practices of barbarians, should be enough to wake up all of us.

They are still not content having perpetrated the perfidy on us. They go out painting a bad image of Hindu religion in international publications and in widely publicized anti-hindu conferences. Recently we saw one by the name Dismantling global Hindutva. A group of virulently anti-hindu bigots got together to plan conspiracies against Hindu religion and to carry out non-stop vilification campaign against it.

The date they chose to launch a hateful campaign against us is not lost on anybody. 9/11, the date that is firmly embedded in recorded history of mankind as the day of deadliest terrorist attack anywhere in the world. The choice of the date exposes the mindset of people. They want to normalise the curse of Islamic terrorism. They want to paint a good picture of Talibans and of their fans in India.

How do they do it? Bring in Hindus, the most tolerant people on the earth, and smear them in black paint. Hindus resisting appeasement politics and selective application of laws based on Sharia practices are branded Hindu Talibans.

We must weed out all practices of appeasement of minorities. It’s doing nothing to stop them from identifying with global Ummah. Development of our nation is taking a back seat due to them. Parties have found an easy way of whipping up religious passion of minorities to come to power.

All right-thinking Indians must work towards wiping out this practice. It’s only then that we can dedicate ourselves fully to the mission of developing our country to a real world power.

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