Tuesday, March 09, 2004

T&T: Hinduism the solution for Iraq

Delivering a special lecture on India's image in the West" at the Avinashilingam University, Dr Elst said, "In future, we are going to have one universal civilisation in which the most valuable elements of every culture will have a place. Most of these will be traceable to India." Given this divergence of views on Hindu it is interesting to note the views of a Hindu leader on the crisis in Iraq. About the American attack on Iraq, the RSS Sarsanghchalak, Shri K S Sudarshan said America is caught in a web in Iraq and it wants to drag India also into it (Organiser 23/2/04). He appreciated the Government of India's stand on the issue by not getting involved in it. India has rightly told America that it would start any reconstruction work in Iraq only under the supervision of UNO and not under the American supervision, he said.

"At the time of growing conflict among civilisations especially between Islam and Christianity world over, only the Hindu way of life, which ensures peace and brotherhood through its centuries-old concept of unity in diversity, can restore peace," he added. There are strong possibilities of using sophisticated weapons of mass destruction in the conflict as has been witnessed in Iraq and Afghanistan recently. If it happens the whole world will be destroyed within a matter of seconds. Need of the hour is to bring forth the Hindu concept of unity in diversity before the world to save it from destruction.
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The Sarsanghchalak urged the leaders of Islam and Christianity not to insist on their so-called "religious exclusiveness" and accept the Hindu Indian view of unity in diversity. He pointed out that the process of thinking in this regard has already begun in some of the Islamic and Christian countries. They have now started realising that both the religions need to be moderate and reforms oriented.
I wonder what he had to say about this, and this? This is delusional thinking at its best.

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