{"id":56035,"date":"2016-06-27T22:59:46","date_gmt":"2016-06-28T04:59:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=56035"},"modified":"2016-06-27T00:04:01","modified_gmt":"2016-06-27T07:04:01","slug":"list-of-50-people-who-have-affected-hinduism-in-a-negative-manner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2016\/06\/27\/list-of-50-people-who-have-affected-hinduism-in-a-negative-manner\/","title":{"rendered":"List of 50 People who have affected Hinduism in a Negative Manner"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>By <a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.newsgram.com\/author\/newsdesk2\/\">NewsGram NewsDesk2<\/a><\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>In a recently posted article on the official blog of <strong>Fran\u00e7ois Gautier<\/strong>, he mentions the names of 50 people who according to him can be explained as enemies of Hindus or in some way have hurt the religious sentiments of Hindus. He compiled this lists by considering the points one needs to brood over. Gautier says that he created this list without any hatred or malice and the list is yet to complete.<\/p>\n<p>Here is the list of 50 Biggest Enemies of Hindus\u201d according to Gautier and the points which he has made to justify his argument:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Thomas Babington, 1st Baron Macaulay<\/strong> \u2013 He played a significant role in introducing English and western concepts to education in India. This was worthy as no one can deny that English gives India an edge in dealing with other countries to penetrate into the era of globalization. Yet, Macaulay had very little regard for Hindu culture and education including all the books written in Sanskrit which actually contains all the historical information. Rather, the worthless abridgement used at preparatory schools in England is considered more valuable than books written in Sanskrit language. Today, much of India\u2019s intellectuals and Media stand as a proof of the success of Macaulay as they look down on their own culture and analyse India through the western prism.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Indian National Congress<\/strong> \u2013 Only a few people know that the Indian National Congress was founded on 28 December 1885 by a Britisher, A.O.Hume. Its objectives were to allow all those who work for the national (read British) good to meet each other personally, to discuss and decide of the political operations to start during the year\u201d. And certainly, till the end of the 19th century, the Congress, who regarded British rule in India as a divine dispensation\u201d, was pleased with criticising moderately the Government, while endorsing its loyalty to the Crown and its faith in liberalism\u201d and the British innate sense of justice\u201d!!! The real nationalist leaders like Sri Aurobindo and Tilak, were put aside by the \u2018Moderate Congress\u2019.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Jawaharlal Nehru<\/strong> \u2013 A French historian Alain Danielou writes, Nehru was the perfect replica of a certain type of Englishman.\u201d Several times he used the expression \u2018continental people\u2019, with an amused and sarcastic manner, to designate French or Italians. He reviled non-anglicised Indians and had a very shallow and partial knowledge of India. His ideal, the romantic socialism of 19th century Britain, was totally unfit to India, as the conditions of India were totally different from 19th century Europe. Nehru has been promoted by Congress as an icon, which nobody has yet dared to touch, but as History will show more and more, Nehru had done tremendous harm to India by initiating movements and patterns, which not only did vast damage in their times, but continue to survive and weigh down the Indian nation, long after their uselessness has been realized.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Babur<\/strong> \u2013 Jawaharlal Nehru wrote about Babur mentioning him as the destroyer of the Ram mosque in Ayodhya. The truth is that Babur indulged in unnecessary massacres and demolished thousands of temples showcasing himself as a ferocious Mughal emperor. His ultimate goal was probably the destruction and the enslaving of the Hindus. It is sad to see that Indian History books have no comments on such incidents.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Sonia Gandhi<\/strong> \u2013 It is true that Sonia brought discipline, order and consistency into the Congress party. But the amount of unrestrained power, that she, a non-Indian, a simple elected MP, like hundreds of others, possessed when the Congress was in power for ten years, should frighten us: a word, indeed a glance of her was sufficient to trigger action by her entourage, using any means \u2013 bearing in mind the case of P. Chidambaram when he would have allowed Narendra Modi to be killed by a Israt Jahan, a known terrorist. Thus, the instruments of power had never been so perverted in India. The CBI allegedly suppressed all orders against Quattrochi and even allowed him to get away with billions of rupees which he had stolen from India. Yet, without blinking an eyelid, and with the Indian Media turning a blind eye, it went ruthlessly after Narendra Modi, the then Chief Minister of the most efficiently run state, the most corruption free.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>The Pope<\/strong> \u2013 Christianity, unfortunately, is still clinging in the belief of a single true God, Jesus Christ, in spite of the feeble attempts at Ecumenism\u201d of the Church. It would be all right if the Church was playing by the rules of the free market, where there is a certain amount of fairness -you see what advantages my religion is bringing you, compare it with your own and then feel free to choose\u201d. But, sadly, the missionaries are using indirect and persuasive means to convert the poorest of the poor Hindus in India \u2013 offering free medical treatment, free schooling, interest-free loans, even going as far as organizing fake miracles\u201d prayer meetings, as it is regularly done by American Preacher Benny Hinn. This is practiced in India, but they dare not do it in China, where freedom of religion is curtailed and any missionary caught persuading is kicked out. Would Hindus dare convert Christians in France, for instance? The confounding fact is that there is not a single Hindu temple in France, as their construction has not been allowed and there is even a minister in charge of hunting down sects\u201d (meaning what is not Christian-oriented).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Rahul Gandhi<\/strong> \u2013 No doubt Rahul Gandhi is a decent, well-meaning man, though totally ignorant of India\u2019s culture and spirituality. But his ignorance becomes problematic as times. Bearing in mind the case of Wikileaks cables, where Rahul Gandhi tells the American ambassador that Hindu terrorism was more dangerous than Islamic terrorism- The bigger threat may be the growth of radicalized Hindu groups, which create religious tensions and political confrontations with the Muslim community\u201d. It looks like Rahul and his mother were trying to make an example of Colonel Purohit &amp; Sadhvi Pragya to gratify their Muslim electorate by issuing direct orders to get a confession out of him and Sadhvi Pragya at any cost, even torture.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>The Communist Party of India-<\/strong> Very few people know that the communists refused to collaborate against the Nazis during the 2d World War, because Russia was then allied with Germany. Their attitude during the war with China in 1962 was also very uncertain. Most Marxists in India are anti-Hindu as a principle (Marx was against religion) and their intellectuals are expert at criticising Hindus. At a time when Marxism is deceased all over the world, including in Cuba and China, India is the last haven of communism. Though communists have certain sincerity (they generally are not corrupt and live a simple life, contrary to many Indian politicians) but they contribute very little to India\u2019s growth, with their constant strikes and demands. Naxalism which is a great threat to this country is also a sprout of communism.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Priyanka Gandhi-<\/strong> We all can assume that in case Sonia Gandhi leaves India or something happens to her, Priyanka \u2013 and not Rahul \u2013 will be the natural choice of the Congress to take up the wheels. Would Priyanka bring a change in Congress? Unlikely. She will think like a Christian and a westerner, not like an Indian and adopt Nehru\u2019s misplaced socialist and popular idea\u2019s, which have landed India in corruption and red tape. Also, her husband Robert Vadra, a man who multiplied his wealth by 600 in five years, is an albatross around her neck.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Barkha Dutt<\/strong> \u2013 Married twice to a Kashmiri Muslim, from a young journalist, Barkha turned into a Hindu basher \u2013 you just have to listen to the Radia tapes to understand that. The power that came with NDTV, as it grew into the most sophisticated TV news channel, and her proximity to the Congress party, also influenced her mind. There are also accusations of corruption against her and her boss Prannoy Roy.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Kancha Ilaiah<\/strong>\u2013 His Hatred for Hindus can be seen in his immensely controversial book, `Why I am not a Hindu\u2019, Kancha Ilaiah, is a converted Christian, who hates Hindus, particularly Brahmins, whom he accuses of all the possible evils. He recently gave a statement on vegetarianism calling it as anti-nationalism, For me, my nation starts with eating beef. Unfortunately, we gave up eating beef and our brains are not growing now. There is no enough protein,\u201d Probably he doesn\u2019t know that many westerners are now switching to vegetarianism.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Aamir Khan<\/strong> \u2013 Aamir Khan\u2019s TV program on social issues, Satyamev Jayate, even raised his status to an activist for human rights. His comment on \u2018Intolerance\u2019 that his (Hindu) wife wanted to leave India, alienated him from many of his supporters. His anti-Hindu gurus film, like PK, also created a lot of hostility.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Shah Rukh Khan<\/strong> \u2013 As Aamir Khan, Shah Rukh is also married to a Hindu, but raises his kids as Muslims, and whenever it suits him, plays the minority card (Pakistan invited him many times to settle there). In fact, playing a little anti-Hindu card pleases their Muslim fans and does no harm to their image, as Hindus anyway never retaliate.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Amartya Sen<\/strong> \u2013 He got the Nobel Prize, teaches in Oxford and is highly respected in the West but only few know that Amartya Sen rode his fame on the back of his false theories about poverty in India and in the West. Despite of that the Congress Government gave him the Nalanda University project for which he did nothing.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Rajdeep Sardesai<\/strong> \u2013 Rajdeep is not an honest journalist \u2013 witness the incident when he sat on a sting interview that showed the Congress paying bribes to BJP MLA\u2019s to defect. He was also seen in his true light in New York, where he portrayed himself as a victim of a hard-line Hindu, whereas the video replays showed that in fact he was the aggressor. No doubt, Rajdeep is a personal enemy of Narendra Modi and has never veiled his dislike for the BJP.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Angana Chatterjee<\/strong> -Angana Chatterjee is a Hindu herself and started in an association named after India\u2019s avatar, a great defender of Hindus, Sri Aurobindo. You need to know that she is married to Richard Shapiro who is Director and Associate Professor of the Grad. Anthropology Program at CIIS, also a very anti-Hindu body. In fact, Shapiro was barred from entering India in 2010. Angana and Richard are great defenders of the Kashmiri Muslims and attend every International Kashmir Freedom Conference (IKFC), which only gives the Muslim point of view and ignores the 450,000 Kashmiri Hindus who have become refugees in their own country.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Teesta Setalvad<\/strong> -Teesta is a Hindu herself, who like Barkha Dutt, is married to a Muslim, Javed Anand. Javed Anand is General Secretary of Muslims for Secular Democracy, a virulent anti-Hindu organization. Using her organization Teesta Setalvad\u2019s name has come to symbolize everything that is wrong with NGO activism in India. She has used any means to go after Hindus, particularly their leaders and specially Mr Narenda Modi. Unfortunately, Teesta has been repeatedly exposed for having indulged in unethical acts and has cases pending against her in courts for perjury. She has taken the courts for a ride with her perjury and her acts of influencing witnesses. She has misused the lack of education and poverty of victims to file false affidavits to further her own agenda.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Aurangzeb<\/strong> \u2013 Aurangzeb harmed not only Hindus, but also to his own family: he beheaded his brother Dara Shikoh, who was the rightful heir to the throne, poisoned his own father, and imprisoned his son. Aurangzeb (1658-1707) did not just build an isolated mosque on a destroyed temple, he ordered all the temples to be destroyed, among them the Kashi Vishvanath, Krishna\u2019s birth temple in Mathura, the rebuilt Somnath temple on the coast of Gujurat, the Vishnu temple replaced with the Alamgir mosque now overlooking Benares and the Treta-ka-Thakur temple in Ayodhya. \u2026 His evil reign might\u00a0end only after Shivaji Maharaj, a true Hindu hero brought him to his knees. Yet Shivaji is treated as a nobody in Indian History books and Aurangzeb like a harsh but just emperor.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>John Dayal \u2013<\/strong> The most virulent and articulate Christian anti-Hindu, John and many other Indian Christian leaders and bishops, is not only practicing a Christianity which had its place 50 years ago in Europe (but is no more today, as Western Christianity is evolving), but are also re-embracing the old colonial missionary concept that Christ is the only \u2018true\u2019 God and that all \u2018heathens\u2019 Hindus have to be converted.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Irfan Habib<\/strong> \u2013 Irfan Habib has been side-lined by the Modi Government. He and Romila Thapar ruled supreme for nearly 40 years in devising Indian school curriculum. Together they have falsified Indian History with total impunity and went after the Hindus full steam. Irfan Habib continued the legacy of his father, Mohamed Habiib, to rewrite the Chapter of Muslim invasions in India. Habib father and son\u2019s books are based on four theories: 1) that the records (written by the Muslims themselves) of slaughters of Hindus, the enslaving of their women and children and razing of temples were mere exaggerations by court poets and zealous chroniclers to please their rulers\u201d. 2) That they were indeed atrocities, but mainly committed by Turks, the savage riders from the Steppe. 3) That the destruction of the temples took place because Hindus stored their gold and jewels inside them and therefore Muslim armies plundered these. 4) That the conversion of millions of Hindus to Islam was not forced, but what happened was there was a shift of opinion in the population, who on its own free will chose the Shariat against the Hindu law (Smriti), as they were all oppressed by the bad Brahmins\u201d\u2026!!!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Ramachandra Guha<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 Outlook magazine\u2019s favourite columnist, who likes Rahul Gandhi, recently said that Hindu fundamentalism is more threatening than Islamic terrorism\u201d. Guha has written a number of books targeting Hindus and their spiritual leaders. Unfortunately, as many of these leftist intellectuals, he is fairly popular in the West and often quoted by western correspondents based in India.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Romila Thapar<\/strong> \u2013 The most well-known Indian historian, who has links with all Indologists in the world, universities &amp; India centers, is a Hindu. As Rajiv Malhotra writes: Hindu spiritual experiences are devalued by Romila Thapar, as pathological. She resorts to a quasi-scholarly speculation of racial hatred as existing in entire Indian traditions, demonizing the \u2018other\u2019, a technique to justify holding such people in contempt and even attacking them\u2019.\u00a0 This is exactly the same thesis that is being spread today by Maoist insurgents working among remote tribes in central India, namely, that demons mentioned in Hinduism are actually references to tribal people. Today even, most of the intellectuals, journalists and many of India\u2019s elite have been influenced by that school of thinking and regularly ape its theories.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>N Ram &amp; the Hindu newspaper<\/strong> \u2013 Long time editor of the newspaper the Hindu, who should be renamed the Anti-Hindu\u201d. The magazine of the Hindu, Frontline, although well written, as the Hindu, perpetuates a dead ideology. Unfortunately the Hindu is still read by many in India, including westerners in the South of India.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Sagarika Ghose &amp; CNN IBN<\/strong> -Rajdeep Sardesai\u2019s wife shares her beliefs and hatred for the Hindus. It\u2019s a tragedy that CNN IBN is sympathetic to anybody who is anti-Hindu. CNN, a renowned western television, choose to partner someone who is against the majority community of their country.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Mamata Banerjee<\/strong> \u2013 It is said that Mamata Banerjee is a Kali worshipper and does regular pujas when she is alone in her house. But the thrust of getting votes can transform anyone. She thus panders to Muslim community, turning a blind eye to the atrocities committed on the Hindus by the Bangladeshis refugees, who are given ration cards so that they can vote for Mamata. Also, she chose to say \u2018Allah O Akbar\u2019 when she just got re-elected despite of knowing the fact that Hindus are becoming minorities in certain districts of WB, Assam or UP. That is a tragedy and something should be done.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Akbaruddin Owaisi<\/strong>\u2013 Proof that India is a democracy lies in the fact that people like Owaisi and his brother can not only rant against the Hindus and preach near secession, but also get elected. There has to be some limits to preaching hatred and separatism.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Geelani &amp; other Kashmiri separatists<\/strong> \u2013 It is confounding to see that the Indian Government allow these separatists to openly visit the Pakistani embassy in Delhi or travel to Pakistan. No country tolerates that kind of open separatism, be it France with Corsica, or even England with the faraway Falkland Islands, which geographically belong to Argentina. Also, one cannot forget that the Muslims rushed out of the Valley of Kashmir 500.000 Hindus who had lived there for generations.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Zakir Naik<\/strong> \u2013 Zakir Naik tried to hurt religious sentiments of Hindus by denigrating Shri Ganesh; that too, during the Ganesh Festival. He gave Hindus a challenge, through the medium of \u2018Facebook\u2019 and \u2018You-tube\u2019, to prove that Shri Ganapati is a Deity. He also made an anti-Hindu statement that \u2018If your God is unable to recognise his own son, how will he know that I am in danger\u2019. By making such comments Naik has hurt religious sentiments of billions of Hindus. It has also created rage among members of Shiv Sena, BJP and various pro-Hindu organisations, Ganeshotsava Mandals and devout Hindus. Naik also went after Sri Sri Ravi Shankar in the famous debate.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Christophe Jaffrelot<\/strong> \u2013 This most famous French Indologist, paid by the French Government, is most responsible for the bad image of the BJP in France. He wrote many offensive books on \u2018Hindu fundamentalism\u2019. He is feted by the Press corps and gets all kind of laudatory reviews when he comes to Indian to release the English translations of his books. So much for secularism in India_ Jaffrelot, Sanjay Subramanyam (who teaches in the prestigious College de France), and others in France \u2013 keep harping on India\u2019s problems \u2013 castes, poverty, so called-Hindu fundamentalism, etc. I know for a fact that in France, it has an influence on the top bureaucrats and the politicians, as every time something important happens in India \u2013 elections, catastrophes, riots, etc, their slanted opinions are hunted by newspapers radios and televisions.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>NGO\u2019s<\/strong> \u2013 NGO\u2019s in India are most of the time anti-Hindus. 70% of them work on woman empowerment\u201d, or uplifting\u201d the villagers in tribal areas, which is good, but should be done in a neutral manner with friendliness to the Indian Government. It is nowadays fashionable in India to always highlight the downtrodden condition of Indian women and their underprivileged place in Indian society. But no country in the world has granted such an important place to women in its spirituality and social ethos. And even today, behind all appearances \u2013 arranged marriages, submission to men, preference of male children in some rural areas (but girls are loved in India like nowhere in the world) \u2013 it can be safely said that very often, from the poorest to the richest classes, women control \u2013even if behind the scenes \u2013 a lot of the family affairs: the education of their children (men in India are often mama\u2019s boys\u201d), monetary concerns, and husbands often refer to them for important decisions. Countries such as France or the United States, who are often preaching India on women\u2019s rights\u201d never had a woman as their top leader, whereas India had Indira Gandhi ruling with an iron hand for nearly twenty years; and proportionately they have less MP\u2019s than India, which is considering earmarking 33% of seats in Parliament for women, a revolution in human history! But this obsession of NGO\u2019s with women and village empowerment (usually they take one village and make it like a showcase, for the benefit of visiting donors from abroad) has completely eclipsed the burning issue that would require NGO\u2019s attention with the tremendous amount of funds they attract from abroad: afforestation, as there are hardly any forest worth the name left today in India.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Karunanidhi<\/strong> \u2013 Karunanidhi and before him his mentor, Anna, exploited to the hilt he Dravidian theory. According to this theory, which was actually devised in the 18th and 19th century by British linguists and archaeologists, who had a vested interest to prove the supremacy of their culture over the one of the subcontinent, the first inhabitants of India were good-natured, peaceful, dark-skinned shepherds, called the Dravidians. Then, around 1500 B.C., India is said to have been invaded by tribes called the Aryans : white-skinned, nomadic people, who originated somewhere in Ural, or the Caucasus. To the Aryans, are attributed Sanskrit, the Vedic \u2013 or Hindu religion, India\u2019s greatest spiritual texts, the Vedas, as well as a host of subsequent writings, the Upanishads, the Mahabharata, the Ramanaya, etc\u2026 And thus English missionaries and later, American preachers, were able to convert tribes and low caste Hindus by telling them : \u201d you, the aborigines, the tribals, the Harijans, were there in India before the Aryans; you are the original inhabitants of India, and you should discard Hinduism, the religion of these arrogant Aryans and embrace, Christianity, the true religion\u201d. Karunanidhi also exploits this theory and he and Anna have made life for Tamil Brahmins so miserable that many left Tamil Nadu for Delhi or even the US.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Wendy Doniger<\/strong> \u2013 This American Hindu hater, supposedly, a historian, says that Rama thinks that sex is putting him in political danger (keeping his allegedly unchaste wife will make the people revolt), but in fact he has it backward: Politics is driving Rama to make a sexual and religious mistake; public concerns make him banish the wife he loves. Rama banishes Sita as Dasharatha has banished Rama. Significantly, the moment when Rama kicks Sita out for the second time comes directly after a long passage in which Rama makes love to Sita passionately, drinking wine with her, for many days on end; the banishment comes as a direct reaction against the sensual indulgence. Her latest book, \u2018\u2019The Hindus: An Alternative History\u2019 was written with an intent to mock Hinduism.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Akbar<\/strong> \u2013 Akbar is one of the goody-goodies in Indian History books, like Ashoka because he was a Buddhist, that Marxist historians like to glorify. No doubt, Akbar was one of the better Mughal emperors, but few people know that when he captured Chittor on February 25, 1568, he ordered that the thirty thousand civil population be butchered, including women and children who has taken shelter in the fort. Destruction of temples also took place on mass scale in Akbar\u2019s reign and it is even said that he ordered that a mountain be made of the tufts of the Brahmins\u2019 hairs.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Michael Witzel<\/strong> \u2013 He is a Professor of Sanskrit at Harvard, who recently when he tried to prevent the removal of references to India, Hinduism in the curriculum followed by schools in California which parents of Indian origin found to be inadequate, inaccurate or just outright insensitive. Known for aggressively pushing theories forged by Left historians of the Romila Thapar genre that have been long discredited through scientific means, including DNA studies, this \u2018linguist\u2019 is known for promoting himself as a \u2018historian\u2019 in academic circles. His proximity to Left historians in India is no secret. On one occasion, he even said, Hindus in the US are lost or abandoned people.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Amnesty International<\/strong> \u2013 Amnesty International, which has a large number of Pakistanis in its staff, has always been hostile to Hindus. I remember showing an exhibition on Kashmir in London at the prestigious Commonwealth Club. The south Asia Amnesty in charge, refused to come and see it \u2013 although the Club was just a stone throw away from Amnesty\u2019s London office. What did the Kashmiri Hindus do that Amnesty considers them untouchable? And how come that the Muslims of the Valley who chased them by terror and made them flee their ancestral lands and homes are not condemned by Amnesty? It triggers a lot of questions about Amnesty\u2019s impartiality.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Prannoy Roy (CEO of NDTV<\/strong>) \u2013 No doubt, Prannoy Roy created one of the best TV channels in India, in term of content and professional quality, but from the beginning, NDTV\u2019s slant was anti-Hindu. Why? Did you know that Prannoy is married to Radhika Roy, who is the sister of Brinda Karat, one of the leading lights of the communist party of India (CPI(M))? The sad thing is that many BJP leaders always run to NDTV, to be crucified by Barkha Dutt, Pranno\u2019s second in command today.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Chidambaram<\/strong> \u2013 There are many questions asked today about the role of P Chidambaram when he was in power during the ten years of the Congress. As Finance Minister, he went after Hindus by clamping down on Hindu institutions that had the 100% yoga tax rebate; as Home minister, his role is even more dubious: he had cleared an affidavit in 2009 which described college student Ishrat Jahan as a Lashkar-e-Taiba terrorist involved in a plot to assassinate then Gujarat chief minister Narendra Modi. About a month later, a second affidavit was filed in court in which all references to Ishrat\u2019s alleged terror links were missing.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Sitaram Yechury<\/strong>\u2013 Yechury is an intelligent man and a brilliant speaker but he went full steam against Mr Modi\u2019s declaration of June 21 as International Yoga, which was supported by the UN General Assembly and which should not cause any problem, as yoga is a universal technique that is practiced all over the world, by millions of Christians. Oh, but the hitch is that Yoga is a Hindu invention \u2013 hence Mr Yechury\u2019s hostility, who famously said: under this BJP government\u2019s aggressive global campaigns, India appears to be seeking a global positioning not on the basis of its internal strength, economic or otherwise, but on the basis of such \u2018accomplishments\u2019 as having the UN General Assembly declare International Yoga Day on June 21\u201d.The fact that a senior communist leader in India fails to see the potential to leverage the acceptance and spread of Yoga across the world as a means to further India\u2019s global influence and power is a testament to the monumental intellectual bankruptcy inflicting the communists in India.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Mother Teresa<\/strong> \u2013 Mother Teresa is still the fallacy for India. No doubt, she did saintly work. But was caring for the dying and orphaned children her only goal? The truth is that she stood for the most orthodox Christian conservatism. There is no doubt that Mother Teresa also had a goal to convert Hindus to Christianity, the only true religion in her eyes.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Karan Thapar<\/strong>\u2013 Karan Thapar, who owns ITV, which unfortunately produces shows for BBC, is one of the most famous faces of journalism in India. Karan Thapar\u2019s father was General Pran Nath Thapar COAS during 1962 war, and his aunt is Romila Thapar. Does that explain why Karan, though a decent man, is known for his anti-Hindu bias? Once he invited me on a program about the painter M.F. Husain, who as you know has depicted Hindus\u2019 most revered Gods fornicating or even sodomizing each other. I had brought on the show photocopies of these paintings, a solid evidence of Husain\u2019s hatred of Hinduism, but Karan refused that I showed them on camera. So much for ITV\u2019s journalistic impartiality.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Javed Akhtar-<\/strong> Though Javed Akhtar came out recently against those who opposed saying \u2018Bharat Mata Ki jai\u2019, he is also known as a Hindu baiter. I remember him going full steam against Sri Sri Ravi Shankar and Hindu gurus in an Indian Today symposium a few years ago. Akhtar also repeatedly equated the Gujarat 2002 anti-Muslim riots to the Jewish holocaust. As one of his detractors said: it is impossible to believe that Akhtar isn\u2019t aware of the horrors at Auschwitz or Sobibor to compare them with rioting in Gujarat.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Shabana Azmi<\/strong> \u2013 Akhtar\u2019s second wife, Shabana Azmi is a fine actress. Nevertheless she is also a Hindu baiter. When she was invited to the international film festival of Deauville in France, I read the numerous interviews where she kept harping about Hindu fundamentalists\u201d, and repeatedly lambasted the Right Wing\u201d BJP Government and accused them of turning a blind eye\u201d to the attacks towards India\u2019s minorities, while portraying herself as a courageous social activist fighting for freedom of expression. She also only spoke en passant\u201d about Muslim fundamentalism. Again the old trick to either equate Muslim and Hindu fundamentalism, or even in the case of Azmi, Rahul Gandhi and others, to say that Hindu fundamentalism is more dangerous than the Islamic one.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Aakar Patel<\/strong> \u2013 Aakar Patel, a subtle but redoubtable Hindu hater, is sadly the head of Amnesty International India (one can see there the perversion of Amnesty, to name a Muslim as its head in a country inhabited by 80% Hindus). Akar indeed always rants against Narendra Modi and the Hindu majority, saying: one must be neutral.\u201d But we dissent against our own country, because dissent is patriotic\u201d. However he adds: Anyone opposing us (Amnesty International?, is morally deficient and a repugnant human being\u201d. Aakar Patel\u2019s hatred for the majority community is not veiled. He wrote, Most extremists in India are not Muslims, they are Hindu Maoists\u201d.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Arundhati Roy<\/strong> \u2013 Cousin of Prannoy Roy, she was married to Gerard Da Cunha first and then to filmmaker Pradip Krishen. Apart from her first book the \u2018God of Small things\u2019, Arundhati never wrote again anything of value. She is most happy in the company of maoists, naxalites Tamil Elam and Kashmiri separatists. Roy famously said, Kashmir has never been an integral part of India and the Indian Government is at war with Maoists to aid the MNCs\u201d. She also says that Modi is promoting Brahmanism. After the intolerance\u201d debate, she returned her National award for screenplay.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Father Cedric Prakash \u2013<\/strong>This Indian Christian priest has been most active in betraying his own country in the US, amongst Congress parliamentary committees. In June 2002, he testified before the US Commission for International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) in Washington, so about the lack of religious freedom in India. His is a clear case of an Indian citizen asking an alien nation intervene in India\u2019s domestic affairs. Fr. Prakash has been a vocal critic of Narendra Modi, often in collaboration with John Dayal and Teesta Setalvad.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Martha Nussbaum<\/strong>\u2013 Her pronouncement: perpetrators of violence are not Muslims but Hindus\u201d, is proof enough of Nussbaum\u2019s hatred. Her interest in India started while working for Amartya Sen, with whom she shared an intimate relationship, a fact she herself bragged about. Before the 2014 Parliament elections, Amartya Sen had said that he wouldn\u2019t like Modi to be the PM of India. Martha does not have any qualification or training in archaeology, Sanskrit, geology,or metallurgy, yet writes with authority about the dating of the Vedas.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Hillary Clinton<\/strong> -Hillary Clinton has no great love for India and often leans towards Pakistan (her vice chairman of the 2016 election campaign is Huma Mahmood Abedin, of Pakistani origin). Maybe the numerous infidelities of her husband Bill, made her into a hard and cynical woman, but if she becomes President of the US, she will be no friend of India and Hindus. Her attitude towards Islam and Muslim fundamentalism is also ambiguous and she is probably closer to Obama\u2019s views, than any other presidential candidate. You can expect continuing support, financial and in armaments to Pakistan if she is elected.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Medha Patkar<\/strong>\u2013 another NGO, who very selectively targets only Hindus. Her Narmada dam agitation had one target only \u2013 Narendra Modi. Yet the dam has proved to be the biggest factor to Gujarat\u2019s prosperity, bringing electricity, water, prosperity to all, Hindus as well as Muslims. Medha was also involved in many movements that blocked Mr Modi\u2019s visas in the UK and the US and that tried to stop him from becoming Prime Minister.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>The Mahatma Gandhi ?<\/strong> I put it with a question mark, as I consider him as a great soul indeed. But there are many who point out that he never seemed to have realised the great danger that Nazism represented for humanity. Calling Hitler my beloved brother\u201d, a man who murdered 6 million Jews in cold-blood just to prove the purity of his own race, is more than just innocence, it borders on criminal credulity. And did not Gandhi also advise the Jews to let themselves be butchered?\u2026His not condemning Muslims during the Khilafat movement when thousands of Hindus were butchered by Indian Muslims, or his indulgence of Jinnah, going as far as proposing to make him the Prime Minister of India, have not always earned him Hindu goodwill.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Gandhi\u2019s love of the Harijans, as he called them, was certainly very touching and sprang from the highest motivations, but once more Gandhi took the European element in the decrying of the caste system, sowing the seeds of future disorders and of a caste war in India, of which we see the effects only today.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Hindus Themselves<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 Hindus, it must be said, are their own biggest enemies. They must be some of the most selfish and individualistic people in the world: rich Hindus never help their poorer brothers and sisters \u2013 that\u2019s\u2019 why the Mother Teresa\u2019s and Sonia Gandhis are able to flourish in India. A Hindu abroad never acknowledges another Hindu, but pretends he or she does not exist. You can insult Hindus and their Gods and Goddesses as much as you want and nothing will happen to you. A billion Hindus have not raised a finger about the 450.000 Kashmiri Pandits who became refugees in their own country after they were chased out by terror from the Valley of Kashmir in the 90\u2019s. Hindus today don\u2019t give a damn whether their children know about the Ramayana, the Mahabharata or the Bhagavad Gita, where every truth that needs to be known about life, after life, karma, dharma and soul is taught. Modern Hindu children do not go to temples, pray or know what a puja is. Hindus do not care to have colleges where Hindu values are imparted, like the Muslims have (Aligarh university for instance) The only one ever, the Benares Hindu University, should not be called \u2018Hindu\u2019, as nothing Hindu is taught there anymore.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj, who along with a few hundred men, stood his ground against the most powerful emperor of his times, has practically no place in Indian History books and is often described as a petty chieftain or even a plunderer. So is Maharana Pratap, the ONLY Rajput who fought against the Mughals and actually defeated Akbar in Haldighati.<\/p>\n<p>Hindus who tend to merge and melt wherever they live \u2013 and in the process, lose some their identities and togetherness. And finally the most deadly and vicious intellectuals that we have reviewed above, are Hindus most of them. They are the ones that should be targeted, in a non-violent but firm manner.<\/p>\n<p><em>-Compiled by a staff-writer at the Newsgram. The article was\u00a0originally published on the official blog of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/francoisgautier.me\/2016\/06\/13\/a-list-of-the-50-biggest-enemies-of-hindus-dead-or-alive\/\" target=\"_blank\">Francois Gautier<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By NewsGram NewsDesk2 In a recently posted article on the official blog of Fran\u00e7ois Gautier, he mentions the names of 50 people who according to him can be explained as enemies of Hindus or in some way have hurt the religious sentiments of Hindus. 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