Andhra politics

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Truth about Godhra

When the Hindus got burnt in Godhra, there were many theories about what

‘provoked’ the Muslim anger. They were as follows:

1. The kar sevak were on the business to reconstruct the mandir at the

Ram Janmabhoomi.

2. A kar sevak picked a quarrel with a tea vendor at the Godhra station.

3. Some kar sevaks kidnapped a Muslim girl at the Godhra station, and

raped her.

These are the ones that I remember. The point is that these theories

were put forward within days of the murder of the Hindus. So, if the

fire was accidental, what happens to all these theories?

Namaste.

Ashok Chowgule

Maharastra

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Angry Hindu” Yes! Why Not?

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Angry Hindu

This was written by a Hindu in France, and is making the email round. There is no alternative for Hindus but the lesson of the Mahabharata. The Pandavas regained their kingdom only because they finally understood and practised the rule of reciprocity. Where the exclusivisms are concerned, the historical evidence is that the only language they understand is their own. I challenge anyone to give a single example of the survival in any significant sense of a pre-existing worldview where the exclusivisms have conquered. And they’ve already conquered most of the world. The indic worldview is the only survivor - so far.

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Angry Hindu” Yes! Why Not?

“ANGRY HINDU” blared out a weekly edited by a noted “secularist” “Yes! Certainly I am angry. I have every

reason to be angry. And it is also right for me to be so; otherwise I would be no man.”

“Yes! For too long I have suffered the affronts in silence. For ever so long I have been at receiving

end. My people have been kidnapped by the hostiles. My numbers have dwindled. As a result, my adored

motherland has been torn asunder. I have been deprived of my age-old rights over my own hearts and homes.

N.W.F.P, Sindh, Baluchistan, more than half of the Punjab, half of Bengal and a third of Kashmir, all

these have been usurped from me. And I have been subjected to untold atrocities, dishonor and

massacres. I was thrown out from what was once part of India. And yet you tell me that I should not get

angry. I should not stand up and say, “Enough is enough.”

My temples have been desecrated and destroyed. The sacred deities in them have been trampled under the

aggressors’ feet. My gods are crying. They demand for reinstatement to their original glory. When I speak

out my agony, you of the secular tribe condemn me as a threat to our “secular peace”. You add insult to my

injury. You rub salt into my wounded heart and yet expect me to keep my mouth shut. This you call

justice!

And the thing that infuriates me most is the betrayal and the hypocrisy of your tribe. You get my votes but

pamper those who attack me. Whenever I defend myself against them you denounce me as a communal. And when

they raise an alarm, however false, you uphold it as their “minority right”. When some ruffians attack me and the police you go and make deals with attackers and carry them out with an iron hand. Every anti-Hindu agency in the world raises an accusing finger against me just because I raise my voice against cruelty and injustice. But when scores my temples are raised to ground in Kashmir and my brothers and sisters are squeezed out from there, my dear Sirs! Did any one of you ever utter a single word against this? And yet you accuse me of being angry.

When a Muslim or a Christian Head of State visits my country, you make the necessary arrangements for him

or her to go and pray as well as address his followers in a Masjid or a church as the case may be. You even

flash this with great fanfare in the press. There is even silent admiration for his devotion and act. But

when our president or Prime Minister worships in a temple, you raise an alarm. You see in it even danger

to our “secular’ tradition. Why so? You cannot even tolerate the Ramayana on the TV. You see in it the

rise of “Hindu Fundamentalism”.

And your arguments afford one more sample for your double standards. Since some religious communities as

compared to that of mine are small in number, you have chosen to call them minorities and have thus given

them what you call “minority rights”. But in Kashmir and several N.E. States, Hindus are in a minority. And

from these states the Hindu minority is either hounded out or treated as a second class citizen with no

minority rights. No body has ever heard you raising any alarm that minorities are in danger of extinction

in the said States.

Again, when the Muslim League and the Kerala Christian Congress merrily ruled Kerala in proxy either through

Congress or the Communist Party, you never noted the ugly face of communalism. But when a small murmur of

protest was raised you suddenly saw the fair face of Kerala haunted by the specter of communalism. Anything

practiced by the Hindu minority becomes a great cause of intense concern for you. Even the breaking of a

coconut or lighting of a lamp is taboo to you. For you, our national life minus every bit of Hinduism

from it constitutes what you call secularism. In fact you want me to cease to be myself. I should not even

claim myself as a Hindu in my own country.

This cannot be tolerated. In my heart throb the words of Aurobindo, “Bharat will rise with Sanatana Dharma.”

And of Gandhi, “I would not like to live in an India which has ceased to be Hindu.” And of Annie Besant,

“If Hinduism perishes; India will no more remain India.” And of Swami Vivekananda that “Hindu is India

and India is Hindu.”

The simple and glaring fact is that I form 85% of the total population of India. And that I have shed my

blood and sweat in freeing this country. And yet you expect me to continue to be deprived of rights which,

those who sided with foreigners and helped to vivisect my motherland enjoy with impunity. That I should not

be permitted to teach my children love for my culture and spiritual heritage; that I should stop speaking of

my ancestral heroes while at the same time elements inimical to all that I hold sacred have a field day I

their schools.

Do you not see the shocking discrimination in all this? Enormous amounts of my hard earned money poured

out at the feet of my gods are squandered by those whom I have elected to rule the country. Where as the

same rulers not only do not touch a single cent of so called minorities but also finance them at my cost.

Even the Hajj Pilgrims are subsidized from my money. Should I, tell me frankly continue to sit silently in

the face of such indignities, injustices and exploitations. And do you dare tell me that I have no

right to be angry? Even a worm turns, they say. Do you think that I am worse than a worm?

For too long, I was lost in a deep coma. I saw nothing. I did nothing. My country was divided. But

incessant blows have at least awakened me. I have now begun to see. I now understand and I have begun to

feel and I shall speak out now. I shall now face the challenges.

Yours calling me as “Angry Hindu” has, in fact, made me happy. So far I was an angry landlord or an angry

kisan, an angry employer or an angry worker or an angry Maratha, an angry Bengali, an angry Brahmin, or

an angry Rajput, an angry Arya Samaji or an angry Jain and so on. But now you address me as an “angry Hindu”

that encompasses all of the above. It signifies that now, after all these centuries, I have come to think

and feel and act as one whole —- as HINDU. Even you will concede that it is not a small gain.

The one reason for my downfall all these centuries has been — I was a house divided against itself; because

of the oblivion of my true and innate Hindu identity. And now even you, though unconsciously, have

complimented me that I have realized my blunder and decided to mend the matters. And remember! On your

admission, my anger is not of a small group here and there - each canceling out the other. Now my anger is

that of more than 650 million people - remember this and take heed! I believed that others would respect my

gods and temples as I respected others’. I believed that since I did not aggress upon other lands, others

too would not trample upon mine. I believed that generosity begets generosity. I believed that my moral

standards in warfare would be reciprocated by the enemies. I believed in the sanctity of womanhood even

among the enemies. I expected the same from others. I believed in equal rights for all - irrespective of

one’s faith, and I believed that the same attitude is shares by others as well.

But, Alas! Again and again I was deceived I was betrayed. I was stabbed in the back. In return for my

welcome and help o others to build their places of worship, they started desecrating and destroying those

of mine. In return for my allowing them to practice their faiths, they began subverting my faith. While I

stuck to moral standards, they hit me below the belt. While I treated all alike - they treated me as worse

than an animal. My goodness itself has been turned on me. I know now a bit of the ways of the world. And I

have decided to speak to others in the language they understand. Of course, I am quite well aware that my

moral and spiritual standards have been the high watermark of my cultural glory. Of course, I shall not

forsake them. No, never! If I forsake them, I will no more remain a true Hindu - a child of our great seers and

servants. But at the same time I shall take care that my virtues are not misinterpreted and exploited by others.

I will not allow them to become a vice - by practicing them out of place.

Speaking really I am more angry about myself than about others. Angry, because how long and in how many

manners have I allowed myself to b fooled by others in the past and now by the new post-independence tribe of

“secularists”. Yes! I have learnt a lesson or two. The first lesson is to listen to the wise sayings and

warnings of our great saviors. Adi Shankracharya has commanded that generosity is good and great only when

it is showered on the worthy and not otherwise. Sri Ramakrishana has told the story of a cobra which,

having become totally docile o the advice of a sadhu was stoned almost to death by the passerby. The sadhu

corrected it saying, “I had only asked to stop biting but who asked you to stop hissing also?” And soon

enough the passersby heard its hissing sound and the serpent became safe.

Swami Vivekanand’s sharp remark to his disciple Sinha was likewise: “just as you would feel when some one

insults your mother, so should your blood boil with righteous indignation when Christian missionaries

abuse Hinduism or convert a brother o yours.” And the Swami himself had held by the neck two Christians

missionaries on board a ship for maligning Hinduism and threatened to throw them overboard if they uttered

a word more against our Dharma.

The two preachers, shivering in their shoes, apologized, and begged for mercy and thinly they were

let off. That is the way Shri Krishna and Chhatrapati Shivaji conducted themselves. Even while practicing

the highest of virtues, they did not allow their power of discrimination to be clouded. And it is because of

such saviors, I now realize that we continue to live as Hindus.

And, finally, I have come to know the value of my anger itself. It has already put some holy fear in the

hearts of some of my congenital baiters. Some of them even have started deserting the “secular camp”. They

have begun to have a realistic appreciation o my anger. And even respect it. You had also imagined that

you held the monopoly of intellectualism. But now, some of the topmost among the judges, historians,

writers, professors and professionals have taken up cudgels on my behalf. And so the ivory tower of

“intellectualism’ from which you were raining your missiles on me all these years, is totally and

irrevocably smashed. Display of your intellectual arrogance hereafter will only boomerang upon yourself.

Before I close, I urge you to heed the subtle warning given by a top journalist “Hindus are very slow to

act, but when they do rise even the Himalayas must start trembling. And Himalayas are the home of the

angriest Hindu of them all - Lord Shiva.

Governing people in Bharat, naxals and the file

It looks like anyone can govern Bharat and talk of corporate

governance, with words like ethics thrown in as an inexpensive

corporate option. The state satrapi-s in areas such as dravidanadu (a

pseudonym for Tamilnadu), count only when lined with traces of

cyanide. (There is a cop who is called Cyanide P., in all admiration,

in the vernacular press).

The term corporate governance leads one to speculate on governing

people in a nation. It is scary when Gautam Sen talks about the file

and the nuclear attack response in 10 minutes flat.

There is no chance in hell that a decision will be taken in 10 minutes

flat in Bharat. Waking up 10 Janpath is not the issue here. Nor, even

destabilising Goa government with christist resignations. Nor, even

the naxals in cahoots with the criminal polity.

Who is governing Bharat? The chief designates are:

Vides’i Rani the chief, assisted by the muslim quartet ? — Ahmed

Patel, Salman Khurshid, Ghulam Nabi Azad, E. Ahamed of Dubai

connections?

Vides’i Rani the chief, assisted by Oscar Fernandes?

Vides’i Rani the chief, assisted by Jean Dreze Belgian turned Indian in 2002?

No one is even talking about the substitute PM, a khalsa panthi called

Manmohan or even the planner, another khalsa panthi called Ahluwalia.

Why go through the charade of elections and all the helicopter

photo-ops when elections are won by Pappu Yadav’s hands down?

Surely, it is a waste of time talking about tyaaga and all that stuff.

Who is the mystery lady, Grace Brenta (sounds Italian) who was

honoured by Suzanne Hinn in Bangalore on the last day of the Rs. 40

crore extravaganza?

In a criminalised polity governing the state, who cares about NSA or

the file, Gautam? The bush-shirt bureaucracy and the politicians have

withdrawn from the naxal problem said a two-day seminar in Chennai on

Jan. 28-29 in Hotel GRT Grand, leaving the ill-equipped police to

govern the regions called Telengana or Jharkhand or even Nepal. I

understand that the naxals talk about jal, jangal and jameen.

(Sashidhar Reddy, MLA freom AP, convenor of Task Force on Naxalite

Violence set up by Congress Party — aha, at the national level — was

seen sometimes taking notes, after presenting his paper.)

Acharya sabha? What acharya sabha?

Dhanyavaadah.

Kalyanaraman

Evangelist plays hardball to move spirits worldwide

K.A. Paul isn’t well-known here, but his mission has global reach

Christian evangelist K.A. Paul has moved a ruthless dictator to his knees.

He couldn’t get Mattress Mack to budge.

“I didn’t like his bull’s rush approach,” said Jim “Mattress Mack” McIngvale, Gallery Furniture owner and local philanthropist. “Everything has to happen in the next 24 hours and you have to come up with the money.”

Paul wanted McIngvale to help finance the liftoff of a 747 full of medical supplies and professionals to help survivors of the tsunami in southeast Asia. McIngvale said he was put off by Paul’s aggressive sales pitch.

In the end, McIngvale wouldn’t donate to Paul’s Global Peace Initiative, though he is spearheading other efforts to help tsunami-destroyed regions.

Paul’s trip to the tsunami region was delayed for more than a week by funding woes and then a fuel system problem on Global Peace Initiative’s 747. The jumbo jet, loaded with medicine and other relief supplies, finally took off from Ellington Field shortly after 8 p.m. Friday.

For many Houstonians, the hardball fund raising served as an introduction to Paul and his approach to Christian evangelism and humanitarian relief that has made him well-known worldwide.

“You know the old saying about the prophet without honor in his own hometown?” said Nelson Bunker Hunt, the Dallas businessman who has served on the board of Global Peace Initiative and Paul’s Gospel to the Unreached Millions. “Frankly, until you attend one of his overseas missions, you can’t conceive of what it is like. The average person in Houston wouldn’t believe it.”

It stretches the imagination as Paul, 41, relates tales of ministry and meetings with some of the monsters of recent world history.

Told in a one-story office decorated with a sprinkling of fake flowers and florescent light, Paul’s stories are set in Hyderabad, India; Monrovia, Liberia; and Port-au-Prince, Haiti — cities far away from the northeast Harris County town of Huffman, the “Home of the Fighting Falcons.”

‘A hyper-type person’

Wielding his cell phone, Paul speaks with frenetic urgency. He measures crowds in the hundreds of thousands, counts money in millions and drops names such as oil heir Hunt and the late Mother Teresa.

His supporters say his approach to personal relationships is fueled by energy and a sense of mission. It is an approach, they say, that cuts through bureaucracy and efficiently gets help to people in troubled countries.

But it can rub people the wrong way. Supporter Evander Holyfield was put off — at first.

Paul first came to Holyfield days before the former heavyweight champion was scheduled to fight Mike Tyson in 1997.

“I didn’t know of him and he is a hyper-type person and I was concentrating on what I wanted to do — fight — and he was concerned about his ministry,” Holyfield said.

“It was kind of aggravating.”

Three years later, Paul again contacted Holyfield. This time the boxer had time to travel to the orphanage that Paul’s organization runs near Hyderabad.

“I went to India and got an opportunity to see that he was healing people and his heart was right for people,” said Holyfield, who donates his time to Paul’s causes.

McIngvale said he did not question that Paul’s heart was in the right place, but wondered about security and whether the relief mission was well-planned.

Accountability questions

The Evangelical Council for Financial Accountability, an accreditation agency for Christian nonprofits, revoked the group’s membership earlier this month, said council president Paul Nelson.

The council was concerned that Gospel to the Unreached Millions did not have a functioning board of directors, that it did not have proper financial controls in place, and that it had not responded to the council’s demand last fall for documentation. The organization had been a member of the council since July 1998, Nelson said.

“We are not representing that (money) was going someplace bad,” Nelson said. “We were not comfortable with the environment.”

Global Peace Initiative never registered with the council, which has a voluntary membership of about 1,150 evangelical Christian groups that comply with its standards, Nelson said.

Paul said Gospel to the Unreached Millions’ dismissal from the council occurred while he and the other full-time staff member, Tim Murray, were busy with humanitarian work and not able to file the paperwork on time. But Murray, the chief financial officer, said he was working to register the group with the local Better Business Bureau.

Carl Lindner III, co-CEO and co-president of American Financial Group in Cincinnati, is one of Paul’s supporters.

They met at a 1997 Promise Keeper’s event where Paul spoke. Lindner donated about $250,000 for a mission trip to Sri Lanka after the tsunami and is also contributing to the current trip.

Lindner also has donated to Charity City, the orphanage near Hyderabad, which now serves more than 1,000 children and can accommodate an additional 2,000.

“Whatever (Paul) has promised me over the years, he has come through 100 percent and a lot of times 120 percent,” Lindner said.

Known as ’spiritual healer’

Born Sept. 25, 1963, in Andhra Pradesh in southeast India, Paul considers himself a “Hindu-born follower of Jesus.”

His parents were Christian converts, Paul said. Though a believer from a young age, Paul’s commitment to Jesus was inspired by a vision of hell when he was 19. Complete with anguished, tortured souls crying for help, the vision served as his call to become an evangelist, Paul said.

“Hell became real to me,” he said. “Jesus became real to me.”

Paul does not have any formal theology training and said he was given an honorary doctorate by a college in Canada.

“The reason I’m known as Dr. Paul is that in these Third World countries I’m known as a spiritual healer,” Paul said.

In 1993, Paul formed the evangelical U.S. organization, Gospel to the Unreached Millions, which organizes rallies, primarily in India and Africa.

In 1999, he added the humanitarian relief arm, Global Peace Initiative.

The main physical presence of his work in the United States is the sparse Huffman office staffed by Paul and Murray and three recently hired contract workers. The organizations also rent offices in Baltimore and Harrisburg, Pa., and own the donated 747.

Paul, his wife, Mary, and three children — Grace, Peace and John Paul — live near his Huffman office.

Last year, Global Peace Initiative received about $2 million in cash donations and $14 million in supplies such as medicines, Murray said. Gospel to the Unreached Millions received more than $5 million, he said.

Overseas powerhouse

In the United States, Paul has no congregation, holds no religious services and hosts no television show.

Yet overseas, he has maneuvered onto the edges of decades of world history, claiming that he has met with the likes of Slobodan Milosevic, Saddam Hussein and Haitian rebel leader Guy Philippe.

In 2003, Paul placed himself in the middle of escalating civil conflict and the negotiations to rid Liberia of its president, Charles Taylor.

At the time, Taylor told the New York Times that Paul was his “religious leader,” and later gave Paul credit for persuading him to leave Liberia in August 2003.

California entertainment executive David McQuade accompanied Paul on one of his trips to Monrovia that summer. While there, he attended a gathering in a stadium with Taylor and Paul.

“I saw him transform this president, this rather maniacal guy, have him on his knees,” said McQuade, who now serves as interim executive director of Global Peace Initiative.

“I’ve seen him do things that you just don’t do,” he added. “Normal people don’t do things and bring peace to a situation.”

Saving the soulless

Paul said he considers saving the souls of people that some consider soulless as a calling from God.

“God called us to be peacemakers,” Paul said. “Blessed are the peacemakers, not peace-wanters, not peace-lovers.”

Paul also has used these situations to nose into the news, hiring a New York City public relations company in 2003 to promote his work. Though he no longer pays for the company’s help, a former employee of the company, Juda Engelmayer, donates his time to help Paul get his message heard.

“He is just doing what he thinks he has to — yelling and screaming his message,” Engelmayer said. “I’ve been training him, telling him how to scale back.”

As an evangelist, Paul has traveled throughout Asia and Africa, preaching to hundreds of thousands at peace rallies.

“It is essentially people as far as you can see,” McQuade said of the rallies he has witnessed, starting with one in Paul’s home state, Andhra Pradesh, in 2002.

“He is a bit of a rock star when you fly into these situations,” he said.

At the rallies, Paul lines up government officials on the platform and “rails against the caste system in India,” McQuade said. He also covers the Christian standards: truth, sin and forgiveness.

“He preaches the straight Christian Gospel and he gets tremendous response,” Hunt said.

Chronicle reporter Anne Marie Kilday contributed to this report.

http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/page1/3014249

Comments on sulekha.com

Dr.Paul also has the dubious distinction of being probably one of the first Indian Christians who claimed asylum in USA because “Hindus of India torture Christians”. And that has opened floodgate and some recent statistics show many Indian christians are succesfully claiming political asylum in USA - just like Khalistanis did for many years till US govt pulled the plug.

It is a different matter that these guys scared of India visit India every year for vacation!

All for the greencard..

Does being the loudest mean the best? Then a donkey braying is more spiritually advanced than a silent human being.

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GPI and Dr. KA Paul Are Best Poised in South Asia to Help The Victims of the Earthquake and Tsunami Disaster

GPI has a vast network of support agencies throughout South Asia, with over 50,000 staff and volunteers and owns and operates its own 747sp airplane capable of hauling 76,000 lb of cargo. It has millions of pounds worth of supplies, food and medicine. It is seeking help raising jet fuel for 20 fully loaded flights to the disaster areas.

New York, NY (PRWEB) December 30, 2004 — Dr. K.A. Paul and the Global Peace Initiative are poised to handle any and all logistics and care on the ground in South Asia due to its large operation with over 50,000 staff and volunteers already in place in India, Nepal and the nearby region. GPI has one of the largest network of Charity Cities and social service organizations, some doing business as Gospel to the unreached Millions and the coordinators have already been handing out rations, food, water and offering shelter to victims of the Tsunami and Earthquake.

In the United States, GPI’s own 747sp airplane is being loaded with 76,000 lbs of food and medical supplies, and will be leaving to Chennai, Sri Lanka, and Indonesia,. Working together with Feed the Children, World Vision and some other help organizations, GPI has amassed millions of pounds of food and supplies. Additionally, Doctors Without Borders is hoping to send professionals on GPI’s plane to offers medical assistance.

For more information on the relief efforts, to help with aid or supplies, or to talk with Dr. Paul, please contact Juda Engelmayer, 917-733-3561, Doug Dodson at 619-819-6345 or Dave McQuade at 949-632-5800.

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RIGHT-HAND MAN DEPT.

THE PERSUADER

Issue of 2003-09-01

Posted 2003-08-25

http://newyorker.com/talk/content/?030901ta_talk_finnegan

Charles Taylor, having laid waste to Liberia, has been trying to set the record straight about who persuaded him to surrender his Presidency and go into exile in Nigeria. “I will say that 99% of [the credit] goes to Dr. K. A. Paul alone,” he wrote on August 16th, in a letter to the Times. Since Taylor was on the verge of losing a civil war, and three African heads of state went to Liberia to usher him out of the country—and since President Bush made his exit a precondition of American peacekeeping help—this is no small nod to Dr. K. A. Paul.

But the Times has declined to publish Taylor’s letter. (Taylor fled Liberia on August 11th, declaring, before he boarded the plane, “I want to be the sacrificial lamb” and “I may have stepped on a few toes, but I don’t care” and, finally, “Dr. Paul, I’m out of here.”)

Who is Dr. K. A. Paul, and what can he do about this erasure of his place in history? He is a hyperactive Christian evangelist from southern India, now living in Houston, and he can (indeed, he did) hire Rubenstein Associates, the publicity firm, to get out the word about his good works and, while they’re at it, circulate Taylor’s letter.

And so Dr. Paul was in town the other day, installed in a midtown conference room, under rows of framed magazine covers featuring other Rubenstein clients: Rupert Murdoch, David Letterman, Fergie. He is a small, dark, bright-eyed fellow, thirty-nine, with thinning hair and a thick but neatly trimmed mustache. He wore an immaculate cream-colored Nehru suit, brocaded at the collar, and, though he smiled a great deal, he seemed pretty furious with the Times. He told Juda Engelmayer, his handler at Rubenstein, that he had left a message for a Times reporter whom he had previously helped get an interview with Taylor, saying, “I will never do interview with New York Times again as long as I live!”

“Oh, don’t say that,” Mr. Engelmayer murmured.

“The man is risking his very life,” Dr. Paul cried. He meant that Taylor’s letter could perturb his host, Nigeria’s President, Olusegun Obasanjo, who believes that he deserves much of the credit for getting Taylor out of Liberia, and who is under some international pressure to hand Taylor over to Sierra Leone, where he has been indicted for war crimes. What’s more, President Obasanjo apparently dislikes Dr. Paul because, according to Dr. Paul, he is jealous of the great crowds and the great press that Dr. Paul gets in Nigeria for his evangelical crusades.

O.K. How did Dr. Paul gain such influence over Taylor? They only met, after all, in mid-July. “Oh, he watched me on some television program,” Dr. Paul said. “The leadership in Africa, it’s hard not to hear about me. We are in forty or fifty countries.” By “we” he meant Gospel to the Unreached Millions, a missionary organization that he founded. Or perhaps Global Peace Initiative, a more recent effort. Or both. “We have huge rallies. We had seven million people in Lagos, Nigeria, in November, 2001.”

Seven million people?

“Three million in one night,” Dr. Paul confirmed.

This July, again in Nigeria, he was approached by ten Liberian bishops, who asked him to intervene in their nation’s crisis. He went to Monrovia and met with Taylor in a chapel attached to the President’s house. The two men ended up spending eighteen hours together, “one on one,” over the next couple of days. “At first, he was arrogant—a lot of strong leadership qualities,” Dr. Paul recalled. “But when it comes to prayer and spirituality he’s very humble. He kneels, he cries. Before God, before me. So I have seen two personalities. Sometimes I grabbed him by the head, with both hands, shaking him up—‘Tell me the truth!’ I asked him questions nobody has ever asked. I confronted him about his three wives. How could he call himself a Christian? I asked him, Do you follow Jesus? He brought in one of his Muslim wives.” In the end, Taylor started calling Dr. Paul “my religious leader.” He even confessed to his crimes, in a general sort of way. And he left Liberia.

But this feat did not actually rank, in Dr. Paul’s own estimation, as his greatest peacemaking achievement. That came last year, when Dr. Paul organized a vast peace rally in India—“two million people”—which he believes averted a major war between India and Pakistan. Indian politicians, he says, have learned the hard way to respect him. “When the local officials don’t show up at my rallies, I ask, ‘Where’s the mayor? Where’s the governor?’ And if he’s not there I say, ‘You need a new mayor.’ And boom—he’s gone in the next election.” Dr. Paul grinned, and he grew more animated as he described the obeisances of various Asian and African leaders.

He has called himself “the Billy Graham of India,” and he certainly has a nose for the spotlight. He threw himself into the middle of the Elián González affair (testifying before the Senate Judiciary Committee) and the Florida recount (testifying to Fox News). He has developed a special line in endangered dictators. He met, he says, with Slobodan Milosevic during the war in Kosovo. Dr. Paul even claims that he arranged, late last year, for Saddam Hussein and his two sons to leave Iraq. But the Bush White House blew it. “I called Karl Rove and left a message. I waited two weeks, but I heard nothing.”

To increase his clout in Washington, Dr. Paul recently hired a dozen defeated American political candidates, including four former congressmen, as lobbyists and consultants. They should be helpful, he has said, with fund-raising—and so, presumably, should Nelson Bunker Hunt (of what Dr. Paul calls “the Hunt brothers silver deal”), who is on the board of directors of Global Peace Initiative. Dr. Paul also recently acquired a refurbished 747 jetliner, which he christened Global Peace One. Dr. Paul giggles when he mentions the plane. This, it should be remembered, is someone who was born and raised in rural India and spent, by his own testimony, much of his early adulthood homeless, too poor to rent even a cowshed. (He emigrated to the United States in 1993.) You’d giggle, too.

Liberia has a large Christian population—indeed, the country’s devastation has inspired a new wave of born-again evangelism, even among some of its most notorious warlords. Still, its recent deliverance into a fragile ceasefire had, according to Dr. Paul, an important geo-religious dimension: he was told by the ten Liberian bishops that the rebel group which was threatening to overrun the country had a secret plan to convert Liberia into a Muslim fundamentalist state. And so Dr. Paul was fighting for the faith, as well as for peace, in Liberia.

Juda Engelmayer, game publicist, tried to suggest just how down-and-dirty a fight it was. At the very end, he said, when Taylor was finally boarding the plane to leave, Dr. Paul was physically prevented from accompanying him, apparently on the orders of the jealous Nigerian President. “They kept showing it on CNN,” Engelmayer said. “Taylor getting on the plane and then this burly guy shoving Dr. Paul, who was not identified, out of the plane and down the stairs. Dr. Paul just wanted to go to Nigeria with Taylor to insure his safety.” Engelmayer shrugged. “But he seems to be O.K. where he is.”

— William Finnegan

If the Hersh and Indian reports are accurate, the Bush Administration has struck a deal with one of the world’s leading nuclear weapons black-marketeers, and with the very Taliban regime in Afghanistan which the United States ousted from power as the opening shot in the GWOT.

The involvement of Pakistan’s Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) in the United States’ anti-Iran covert effort, according to Hersh, comes at a very high price. The Bush Administration has reportedly agreed to drop any efforts to shut down the nuclear material black-market operations of Pakistani scientist A.Q. Khan, in return for Dr. Khan’s providing information on Iran’s alleged illicit nuclear weapons program. As Hersh wrote, “It’s the neo-conservatives’ version of short-term gain at long-term cost. They want to prove that Bush is the anti-terrorism guy who can handle Iran and the nuclear threat, against the long-term goal of eliminating the black market for nuclear proliferation.”

EIR’s (http://www.larouchepub.com/other/2005/3204hersh_cheney.html) own sources in the intelligence community in India, who usually have a precise reading on the situation in Afghanistan, confirmed the essentials of Hersh’s account of the U.S. deal with Pakistan, but added some further disturbing details. They charge that the Bush Administration used proof that officials of Pakistan’s ISI had advance knowledge about the kidnapping and murder of American journalist Daniel Pearl, and wanted to extract Pakistani help in infiltrating Iran, through the Balochistan region of Afghanistan. In return for silence on the ISI links to Pearl’s murderers, Pakistan agreed to provide assistance in the infiltration of Iran.

The recent ouster of Ismael Khan, Governor of Afghanistan’s Herat Province, bordering Iran, was intended, the Indian intelligence sources say, to clear the way for American covert operations teams to infiltrate eastern Iran from bases in Afghanistan, including a clandestine air base just a few miles from the Iranian border. Another price that the United States has been willing to pay for the Afghan secret basing: Washington has given Pakistan the green light to reintegrate the Taliban into the Afghan government. According to Indian sources, 81 Taliban prisoners have been released in recent weeks, and 400 more are soon to be freed. All of the Talibani held in the U.S. facility at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, are also reportedly being released because they “failed to provide any useful intelligence” on al-Qaeda’s operations.

Descetion of Hersh article

http://www.larouchepub.com/other/2005/3204hersh_cheney.html

Source : SAAG Forum

Statement is issued by PSMI , Patriotic Sons of Mother India , cautioning impending attacks inside india , particularly outside Kashmir .

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Reports are coming from close circles in pakistans millitary establishment that ISI is activating it’s sleeper cells inside india to launch attacks . One can expect more bombings and sabotages , in this regard we have to caution our government to take necessary measures to thwart . If terrorists are sucessfull in their mission , we have to put pressure on government to launch all out millitary offence on pakistan , Indian lives are not cheap , out politicians have to understand this and send a message to pakistan appropriately .

WE INDIANS

1. Have to watch how MEDIA report

2. Start campaign and put pressure on government to prepare counter offensive on pakistan

3. Activate all our PR machinery , ISI has already prepared it’s peole inside Indian media to underplay events . THIS WE HAVE TO TAKE SERIOUSLY

4. Pseudo Secular Leaders should be hounded out on this issue

The Pakistani correspondent of Asia Times Online, Syed Saleem Shahzad, who is well informed on military matters, reported that at a meeting of the corps commanders held last month under the chairmanship of Musharraf, a decision was made to re-escalate Pakistan’s proxy war in Indian territory. The Asia Times Online correspondent connected this reported decision with Pakistani disappointment over what it perceives as the lack of progress in the bilateral dialogue process (see Musharraf ups the ante on Kashmir, January 8).

He did not connect it to the Balochistan situation, which had not assumed such alarming proportions at the time of last month’s corps commanders’ conference as it has now. The pressures now faced by Musharraf in Balochistan have become an additional factor, in the eyes of the Pakistani military leadership, for re-escalating jihadi terrorism against India.

If Musharraf decides to launch an offensive operation to crush the Baloch freedom-fighters, he would be tempted to combine it with a re-escalation of jihadi terrorism against India in the calculation that he would thereby prevent India from taking advantage of the resulting situation.

There is a need for heightened alert by the Indian security forces and counter-terrorism agencies. The recent violations of the more than a year-long ceasefire along the LoC by the Pakistani army and its allegations of violations by the Indian security forces appear for now as isolated incidents, but to treat them totally as without much significance would be unwise. They could be the indicators of a Pakistani rethinking and forerunners of a re-escalation of terrorism.

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General on Iran’s ‘Nuclear Capabilities,’ Possibility of ‘Asymmetrical’ War With

US

Tehran Aftab-e Yazd (Internet Version-WWW) in Persian 29 Dec 04

[Unattributed news report, entitled: Iran ranks third in the region in producing

ballistic missiles]

[Text] The dean of the Police Academy has said that Iran ranks third in the

region in producing ballistic missiles after China and Russia.

According to a report by Mehr News Agency, speaking at the eighth ceremony

commemorating the martyrs of Qom University [on Tuesday 28 December], General

[Qasem] Shabani said: In the event of war against America, we must resort to

asymmetrical battles.

He added: At present we have manufactured some weapons and acquired nuclear

capabilities. [”Ma, dar hal-e hazer, salah ha’i sakhte’im va be tavanmandi ha-ye

hasteh’i dast yafte’im.”] And America is angry because young Iranians have

acquired this technology through their own endeavor.

Noting that the Iranian armed forces should always remain vigilant about the

activities of the enemies, General Shabani added: Through a series of programs,

America intends to alter the behavior of the authorities in the Islamic Republic

of Iran, because it knows that military attack will not be successful.

He further added: If the enemies try to threaten our country’s security, we

shall deprive them of every security.

Below is a letter to Mr.Kofi Annan by Mr.Abdul Hamid of Balawaristsn National Front

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Save the Minors From Pakistani Torture Cells of Balawaristan

Date: 29th Jan 2005

His Excellency

Mr. Kofi Annan

Secretary General

United Nations Organization

New York

Sub: Save the Minors from Pakistani Torture Cells in Balawaristan

I have the honor to write your honor and world community and Human

Rights Organization about the Pakistani forces attrocities against the

indigenous people of Skardu, Balawaristan (Pakistan Occupied Gilgit

Baltistan). This Pakistani action was taken place against the indigenous

people, aftermath when the local Shia leader Agha Zia-Ud-Din, local

employee Dr. Sher Wali (Muslim Sooni sect) and local employee DFO Taighon Nabi

(Muslim Ismaili sect)beside 2 dozen others were killed by Pakistani

terrorists in Gilgit, the Pakistani occupied part of disputed Jammu &

Kashmir on 8th Jan 2005. Pakistani occupied regime arretests local

indigenous people by charging them terrorist acts, when they protest against

the Pakistani and it’s ISI sponsored terrorisim in this part of the

world.

In the last months of 2004 more than 80 people were arrested from

Gilgit, when they protested against the Pakistani discriminatry Islamic book

against Shia Muslims, tortured them and sent them in High School No 2

Jitiyal Gilgit by declaring Schol as Jail. After that more than 2 dozen

people from Yasen were sent to this so-called School Jail when they

protested against the Pakistani and it’s ISI sponsored terrisists who

kidnapped 2 minor students from Gilgit, one was killed another escapped

from the clutches of terrorists, After 8th Jan the mass killing of al 3

sects persnonalities and other persons by ISI agents in Gilgit, local

people of Gilgit and Skardu protested. Pakistani occupioed regime

arrested, tottured the protesters and chrged them in terrorists acts bu no

action was teken against the ISI and it’s agents.

Is this the CIVILIZED NATIONS WAR AGAINST TERRORISM, where those are

termed as terrorists who protest against terrorists?

The world community and the so-called Human Rights chanpions of the

world should open their eyes and read the following story of a Pakistani

daily the “Daily Dawn”.

Daily Dawn

SKARDU: 54 arrested in Skardu over Jan 13 violence By Our Correspondent

SKARDU, Jan 26 2005:

Fifty-four people have been arrested for allegedly damaging public

property and setting on fire some shops and hotels during the Jan 13

violence.

Senior Superintendent of Police Hajat Mir told newsmen here on

Wednesday that cases had been registered under Terrorism Act against 16 unknown

people and investigation was in final stage.

Three different investigation teams have been formed. The SSP said 54

people were under police custody and investigations were under way

against them under the Terrorist Act, section 7, and PPC sections 164, 147,

148, 149 and 436.

Cases had also been registered against several arrested persons under

section 295 for raising slogans and they would be sent to jail after

judicial remand, he added.

Several persons, who were under police custody, had been hospitalized

due to severe physical and mental torture by the police during

investigation, sources said. The accused had been arrested by the police on

suspicion of being involved in setting ablaze some private properties.

The source said besides 54 people booked so far, more arrests were

being made. Nine accused, including young boys, were shifted to the DHQ

hospital the other day because of severe police torture.

Earlier, five people had also reportedly been shifted to the hospital

in the same case and were sent back to the police station after their

condition improved.

The accused said they were innocent and not involved in any incident.

The police were unfair with them, they complained. Visitors have been

barred from meeting the accused in the Police Lines and the police

stations.

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Distributed By

Abdul Hamid Khan

Chairman

Balawaristan National Front (BNF)

Head Off:

Majini Mahla, Gilgit, Balawaristan

(Pakistan occupied Gilgit Baltistan)

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Mogambo a Sangh Swayamsevak?

Title: An actor who was happy in being of Sangh

Author: Ramesh Mehta

Publication: ‘Vivek’ Marathi Weekly

Date: January 23, 05

I still remember that day when I met Amarish Puri. Very few people know

that when Amarish Puri was in Simla, he was a Sangh Swayamsevak and he

was taking training in Officer’s Training Camp (OTC). The time was when

Balarao Deoras (Third Sarsanghchalak) was camping in my house for a few

days. Amrish Puri was striving to get stabilized in the movie industry.

He expressed his desire to meet Deoras to our friend Dr Ramesh

Gandotra.

Dr gave him my telephone number. After two days, my phone rang,

“Namaste, mai Amrish Puri am speaking”. Same resonant and weighty

voice.

The meeting was fixed at our residence and he came to our house even

though he had a hectic shooting schedule.

A robust, strapping personality with superb height, calm but resolute

face. He joined his hand in Namaskar to Balasaheb Deoras and sat on

ground only. Deoras and we all requested him to sit on the Sofa, but he

quickly said, “Nahi, Nahi, mai yahaan Charano me hi theek hoon!” (No,

no, I am all right here at the feet only.)” With this single sentence,

the humility of this great artist was easily apparent. We had a long

discussion on various matters.

Saying “I am proud that when I was in Simla, I had taken the training

in

the OTC,’ he was lost in the old memory lane. “I will never forget the

principles and teachings of Sangh”, he said and he chatted on many

subjects like politics, social matters, art, cinema, music to heart’s

content. While talking about Sangh, Param Poojya Guruji’s mention was

inevitable. While talking about Guruji, his respect for him poured

through his tone. He kept on talking on many things about him. His

memories of traveling with him, his teachings etc

While talking, he paused and looked at Deoras and said, “Guruji’s

teachings were spiritual while yours are practical. Your personality

is

different from him and believe me, at this time, Sangh requires only

such skilful leadership.”

His thoughts and his information about Sangh surprised me to no little

extent. During discussions, my young small daughter came there. He took

her in his arms and was playing with her with joy. In a light vein I

said to him, “Remembering your villainous appearance on the screen, she

will get afraid”. Looking at me mischievously, he said, “This is an

effort to wipe out that image.” .

Meeting was over. But as if after a concert, the music and tunes should

be lingering in the mind, his humble talk, the sanskaars showing

through

it and the greatness of his mind remained echoing in my heart.

Many years passed. Much water had flown under the bridge. Now Amrish

Puri had become a great star. I came to know that his shooting was

going

on nearby. Casually I went to meet him. After telling my name, I gave

the reference of the meeting with Balarao Deoras. Immediately his face

brightened. The full reel of his meeting with Deoras must have passed

before mind. He took my hand with love and again talked a lot with me.

Again all that earnest love surfaced with force. “Yes, there is regret

for not being able to keep in touch with Sangh, but the happiness of

being connected with Sangh will last me the whole of my life,” saying

this, he kept his hand on shoulder an said, “Ramesh ji Yoon he dosti

banaye rakhana”, (Ramesh ji, continue this friendship please).

Today, my Dost has left me, for ever. My deep homage to this true

artist

who although working in movie line yet maintained his separate

individuality and always kept his flame of love for Sangh aglow in his

heart.”

Calcutta

28 Jan 2005,

Source :Voice of America

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