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Indian court drops charges against Hindu politician

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Accused of inciting violence Tension eases in Bombay Security tight

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BOMBAY, India -- Shortly after politician Bal Thackeray was arrested Tuesday and taken to court, charges were dropped against the influential Hindu politician because they exceeded the statute of limitations.

The court said Tuesday that too much time had passed between the seven-year-old alleged offenses -- he was accused of inciting violence -- and Thackeray's appearance to answer the charges.

Thackeray said that he went to court willingly.

"This drama has to end somewhere. The people cannot be so tense endlessly," he said.

The charge Thackeray faced -- promoting enmity between groups on grounds of religion, race or place of birth -- carried a maximum penalty of three years in prison.

Here is what we from the Hindutva team have to add on this. We unconditionally condemn promotion of enmity between groups on grounds of religion, race or place of birth. This attitude has been existing in many corners of the globe. The Shiv Sena leader, Bal Thackeray was reacting to the actions of Muslims in Mumbai when he made those remarks.

But ironically, it is the Muslims who are at the forefront of committing this lapse of promoting enmity between groups on grounds of religion. Let us look at what the Quran, the holy book of the Muslims, says on this:

The Quran legitimizes booty and loot secured from non-Muslims during a religious war - Jehad:

"Eat of what you have taken as booty, such is lawful and good. " (The Spoils, VIII: 70)

To make his followers into merciless religious fanatics, the Prophet Muhammed, thoroughly drilled them in hatred of non-Muslims, the potential victims:

1. "Surely the worst of beasts in God's sight are the unbelievers." (The Spoils: VIII: 55)

2. " Certainly, God is an enemy to the unbelievers . " (The Cow: II: 90)

3. "Oh ye who believe! fight those of the unbelievers and let them find in you harshness." (Repentance: IX: 123)

4. "Humiliate the non-Muslims to such an extent that they surrender and pay tribute." ( Repentance IX: 29 )

Since it was plunder that paved the way to spread Islam, even those things that the Prophet Muhammed himself had declared sacred, lost their sanctity when they proved inconvenient. For example, the Koran says:

"Then, when the sacred months are drawn away, slay the idolaters (The non-Muslims) wherever you find them, and take them, and confine them, and lie in wait for them at every place of ambush" (Repentance, IX: 5)

One must also note that, as fame of the Prophet's arms rang throughout Arabia, the Arab pagan tribes turned to him in hordes. All this happened to secure protection against any surprise Islamic raid, which had become the destiny of the infidels for not accepting Islam. An element of surprise, marvel and curiosity also formed a part of this submission. Arabia had not seen a man of Muhammad's stature before.

However, this all took place during the last few years of the Prophet's life. Thus, the new converts had no experiential loyalty for the new religion. Possibly, the greater factor of their disappointment was the fact that the chances of further booty were practically nil because almost entire Arabia had come under the grip of Islam. What proved even more devastating was the fact that now the Muslims had to pay religious taxes such as Zukaat (the tithe). Thus, it is not surprising that, at the death of the Prophet, there was a terrible explosion against Islam, which curbed human freedom through restraints of faith and rituals. Most tribes of the Arabian desert rebelled against Islam to display their apostasy .

Abu Bakr, The First Caliph of Islam, following example of the Prophet, made plunder the pillar of his foreign policy and unleashed the Arabian booty-hunters on Egypt and Iran. This is how the Arab Empire was founded, leading to the spread of Islam.

Hampi the capital of Vijaynagar the last Hindu kingdom of the South was ruthlessly pillaged for six months and was nearly reduced to rubble in the year 1565, when the allied Muslim Bahamani armies overran Vijaynagar after the battle of Talikota.

During the 20th century, Islam has lost its luster as the projected ambassador of peace, compassion and humanity in the face of the rising tide of human rights and the instinctive demand of justice for all. It has caused a lot of embarrassment to the Muslim propagandists. Therefore, to pull wool over the eyes of the non-Muslims, some Muslim scholars say that the Islamic Jihad is a defensive war against the aggressors.

The Prophet has said:

"Acting as Allah's soldier for one night in a battlefield is superior to saying prayers at home for 1000 years." (Ibne Majah, vol. 2, P 166)

Now, one can see for one's self the violent nature of Islam, its purpose and the methods of securing it.

For more on this refer to Islamic Jehad by Anwar Shaikh.

Islamic Way of Life V/s. a Civilized Way of Life

This intolerant aspect of Islam imposed the outlook of desert tribal nomads (the Bedouin Arabs) on all those who were converted to Islam. The victorious Muslims converted people in the lands they overran at the point of the sword. "Accept Islam or die", this was the general attitude of the truculent Muslim armies the world over. Such intolerance of everything non-Islamic has been typecast with Islam till today.

Hence in many non-Muslim eyes Islam came to represent intolerance, persecution and all that goes against a decent and civilized outlook. And Muslims generally came to be looked upon as those misguided humans whose outlook was limited to a lower level of human consciousness. The track record of slash-smash-burn-destroy-slaughter of the victorious Islamists represented a choice for all non-Islamic peoples between being civilized or being Islamic. A choice to be made in favour of Islam on the pain of death. Hence, in the eyes of many citizens of the world for the past 14 centuries, the phrase "Islamic Civilization" is a contradiction in terms. You can either be Islamic or be civilized.

Whatever Islamic principles in the Koran may say about co-existence of Islam with Non-Islamic people, at the practical level, past history of the 14 centuries of Islam bears evidence to the fact that Muslims have never reconciled to having non-Islamic people anywhere in the globe. The aim is still to convert all people all over the globe to Islam at the pain of death.

This attitude is typified today in the proclamation made by Osama Bin Laden, the best known face of international Islamic terrorism of Jehad; "Alarzu Lillah, Walhukmu Lillah." (The Earth belongs to Allah and thus only Allah's rule should prevail all over the earth.)

Thus as Islam does not accept co-existence of non-Islamic people anywhere on the globe, it is logical to foresee either a victory of the non-Islamic forces over Islam or vice versa. A victory over Islam would have to be such that it would once and for all put an end to the threat of an Islamic victory the world over. The second logical scenario is to foresee a victory for the Islamic Jehad over all non-Islamic people across the globe. In this scenario, the ultimate saviour of humanity would have to come forth from within Islam itself. A saviour who would repudiate Islam and re-establish a civilized way of life.

Needless to add here that although Islam is the most bloodthirsty and cruel face of sectarianism, all religions have had their role in dividing humanity. And in the final analysis all of them would have to become extinct so that Humankind can march towards a World State where there would be complete freedom for every citizen of the world to choose how to co-relate with what is beyond human knowledge. Freedom to consider that what is beyond human knowledge as a supernatural power which has to be won over by praying before it; OR to treat the unknown as a frontier of human knowledge and to push this frontier so as to bring an increasing part of phenomenon that makes up the universe within the bounds of human knowledge.

For more info refer to: Religious Fanaticism

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