THROW COMMUNAL BJP OUT.
When I say “throw COMMUNAL BJP out” I don’t mean that other parties are any better. We are in India as Indians. We must support genuine Indians. BJP by declaring its affiliation towards pro-Hindu leanings is proving itself how anti-India this party is. The very foundation of India is SECULARISM and India is founded on the principle of SECULARISM. Those who do not subscribe to this principle are enemies of India, they are anti-Indians. India does not belong to Hindus only and all Hindus do not subscribe to this view otherwise due to their strong majority in India they would have converted India into a Theocratic State like Pakistan. But it is not so. Those who claim that India belongs to any one particular religion are anti-Indians and as such candidates of such parties do not deserve any vote. Goan voters on 2nd June election must take note of this and should bury the party that proclaims India belongs to Hindus only. India is not the “Bapaicho Fath” of BJP only. Christians, Muslims and intelligent secular Hindus must oppose BJP even if any of its candidates is good because ultimately he will lean towards his party BJP only because party affiliations are more powerful and more demanding. In party supported election individual’s decisions are not counted.
BJP candidates will during the electioneering give lot of assurances but do not believe them. BJP men no doubt are not as corrupt and as looters as “chor” Congressmen are but surely they are communal and because of their being fanatic communal they will make the living of non-Hindus miserable in Goa the way in some places in Pakistan Muslim fanatics are doing for Christians. Electing BJP to power absolutely or partially, directly or indirectly is a danger to Christians and Muslims in Goa. That they are so fanatically communal was proved by their anti-Christian hatred under Parrikar Ministry. Do not allow Parrikar to become another Modi of Gujrat. Let Parrikar and his party apologise for the sins they have committed against minority community in Goa when they were ruling Goa with the backing of Rostad Christian MLA’s. Oh Christian voters! Do not forgive Parrikar and BJP for what they have done for non-Hindus and Christians.
I am not a communal but I am only alerting of the danger of communal BJP. I am not a communal but I am only advising the minority communities in Goa not to support communal BJP because BJP in Goa under Parrikar is all out to eliminate Christians and Muslims. We as Christians we want to live in Goa peacefully without any harm for us for being Christians. Will BJP give security for us? I STRONGLY SAY NO. OTHERWISE, LET PARRIKAR OPENLY DECLARE HIS REAL INTENTIONS. Even on the job front, BJP preferred its own persons and supporters. The formation of BJP Government or any BJP led Government under Parrikar means: HATRED FOR CHRISTIANS AND MUSLIMS, NO GOVERNMENT JOBS FOR CHRISTIANS AND MUSLIMS, HARASSMENT FOR CHRSITIANS AND MUSLIMS, SECOND AND THIRD CLASS TREATMENT FOR CHRISTIANS AND MUSLIMS. We as Christians we want to live in Goa as full fledged citizens on equal footing with any citizen of Goa. And we Christians are genuine Goans and not the ones migrated to Goa from Ghanttar many years back and settled down in Parra and elsewhere and Goanised as artificial Goans.
People from Mapusa constituency must think very hard before voting for BJP candidate Francis D’Souza. He should not only be rejected by the Christian voters but he should be even excommunicated for supporting anti-Christian BJP. Mapxenkar Christians must take note of this. Normally Mapxenkar are considered to be secular and intelligent and this time they should vote only for the secular candidates. The Mapusa Church and priests must also start educating the Christians from the Church premises the danger lying for their security if Francis D’Souza is elected. I have no trust in Francis D’Souza’s integrity that he will support us as Christians because in the past he already proved how weak and selfish he was when the matter of opposing Parrikar came when Parrikar introduced anti-Christian VCD. I feel ashamed that he graduated from the same College as I a little earlier than him. Incidentally some of the worst politicians of Goa were the students of St. Xaviers College, Mapusa. It is time now not only for Mapusa Church but also the entire Goan Church to oppose BJP openly because by opposing BJP we will oppose the enemies of Christians and Christianity. Because of our being Christians we will have to suffer if BJP comes to power. By opposing communal BJP we will be doing justice for our Indiannesss. Our true Indian origin will lie only on our being secular and not communal like BJP. Hence, we must in the coming election defeat D’Souza from Mapusa constituency and also we must refuse our votes to every BJP candidate and also those backed by BJP.
Meantime, our campaign in Kuwait is going extremely well of advising our families, relatives, dependents and friends in Goa not to vote for BJP.
A. Veronica Fernandes,
Kuwait.
May 20, 2007
POWER OF SPORTS & SPORTSPERSONS
Power of Sports & Sportspersons.
Well done Australia for calling off its forthcoming ODI cricket series in Zimbabwe against the high handedness and dictatorial regime of Robert Mugabe who was even accused of human rights abuses which are more intolerable. Sports are one of the major weapons that can be used to expose and to punish the misdeeds of any leader and country for acting arrogant against his people or neighbours. The apartheid regime of South Africa would still be surviving if it was not for the stringent sporting weapons applied against the white regime of South Africa. To raise his objection against the arrogant Brasilian regime, the 1982 World Cup skipper of Brazilian national team Dr. Socrates wore a head-band declaring his slogan for democracy which brought the attention of billions of people around the globe on what was happening in Brazil that time. Socrates was the great admirer and follower of the teachings of the great French democratic writer Voltaire.
The great world heavy weight boxing genius Cassius Clay turned Mohammed Ali by defying to fight for the US in Vietnam war not only opposed American involvement in Vietnam but thru his defiance and opposition even to the extent of forfeiting his World heavyweight Boxing title, he exposed the folly of US involvement in Vietnam. It is he as a sportsman more than anyone else who exposed US blunders in Vietnam war. When great nations, great leaders and even great human celebrities and personalities like the great Philosopher cum Mathematician Bertrand Russell failed to expose misdeeds of US in Vietnam and stop its involvement there, finally it was left to sportsman and boxer Mohd. Ali to expose US and make this issue more laud. Prof. B. Russell along with peers like him even conducted a Nuremburg type of trial of American involvement in Vietnam and they came to the conclusion that this war was the most horrible in the history of humanity where US was using and testing weapons of most inhuman in nature and hence it has to be stopped. But who listened to these great scientists and intellectuals?
However, when Mohd. Ali made a noise, the world listened to him more clearly and hence the phone call to Mohd. Ali from the other side of the continent by B. Russell which reads as detailed by Mohd. Ali in his masterpiece “The Greatest” as: “I picked up the Telephone Receiver and said hello. Immediately a totally different voice appeared on the phone saying I am Bertrand Russell speaking from the other side of the continent. When I heard this name, I jumped into joy because I know the magnitude of this man. Then I said, yes Professor, what can I do? Then Professor replied – I support your campaign against US and its involvement in Vietnam. In the history of humanity there was not a single war which was more barbaric than this Vietnam War. Please carry on with your fight. I support you”. When Mohd. Ali raised his voice against this war the whole world came to know the mischief US was doing in Vietnam and then the public opinion raised not only in US but also all around the world against American involvement in Vietna and then the history.
When Russia entered Afghanistan, it was again sportsman Mohd Ali who campaigned hard against Russia to force them to withdraw from Afghanistan. Jimmy Carter as president was ruling US at that time. Mohd. Ali was in Bombay attending a reception at Braboune Stadium where he was doing live exhibition of his punches in front of hundreds of attendees. Suddenly his aid comes and informs him that a call is come from US president to solicit your help. Jimmy Carter wants you to return back immediately and go on tour to all the Islamic countries on behalf of US Government to explain the folly of Soviet Russia in entering Afghanistan. Why Jimmy Carter utilised the services of a sportsman Mohd. Ali? It was because his celebrity status can attract better attention than that of any political or Foreign Service figure. Besides, to reprimand further to force Soviets to withdraw from Afghanistan, US led Olympic boycott was conducted against Olympic Games organized in Moscow that year and made mockery of this Olympic Games. Because of these factors the image of Soviet Russia was totally got tarnished and world has isolated Soviet Russia from the comity of civilized nations. This is the power of Sports and sportspersons which is unique in nature.
The next Olympic Games are going to be held in China at Beijing. Because of its crude human rights abuses the world is making a big noise but Chinese dictators are giving a deaf hearing to the world claims. China has committed yet another big blunder by stripping Dalai Lama and his people of the privilege of their homeland. To deny one of the right to have his own homeland is denying one of his birth rights. Dalai Lama is a great spiritual and political figure and also a Nobel Prize winner for Peace. He deserves all the privileges and facilities along with his peaceful people to have his homeland which China denied by using its brute might and political clout in the comity of nations.
How about boycotting Beijing Olympics against Chinese autocratic rule and human rights abuses? Can US lead a movement the way it did against Soviet Russia? Or can Kuwait come forward or least intellectual Kuwaitis can raise their voices in unified tone because they know better the misery of having no homeland because they themselves were subjected to the stripping them of their homeland when Saddam Hussein invaded Kuwait?
Veronica Fernandes,
Kuwait.
N.B. The above article of mine appeared in yesterday's Arab Times, Kuwait.
For the benefit of kranti readers, I am reproducing it here. AVF.
Well done Australia for calling off its forthcoming ODI cricket series in Zimbabwe against the high handedness and dictatorial regime of Robert Mugabe who was even accused of human rights abuses which are more intolerable. Sports are one of the major weapons that can be used to expose and to punish the misdeeds of any leader and country for acting arrogant against his people or neighbours. The apartheid regime of South Africa would still be surviving if it was not for the stringent sporting weapons applied against the white regime of South Africa. To raise his objection against the arrogant Brasilian regime, the 1982 World Cup skipper of Brazilian national team Dr. Socrates wore a head-band declaring his slogan for democracy which brought the attention of billions of people around the globe on what was happening in Brazil that time. Socrates was the great admirer and follower of the teachings of the great French democratic writer Voltaire.
The great world heavy weight boxing genius Cassius Clay turned Mohammed Ali by defying to fight for the US in Vietnam war not only opposed American involvement in Vietnam but thru his defiance and opposition even to the extent of forfeiting his World heavyweight Boxing title, he exposed the folly of US involvement in Vietnam. It is he as a sportsman more than anyone else who exposed US blunders in Vietnam war. When great nations, great leaders and even great human celebrities and personalities like the great Philosopher cum Mathematician Bertrand Russell failed to expose misdeeds of US in Vietnam and stop its involvement there, finally it was left to sportsman and boxer Mohd. Ali to expose US and make this issue more laud. Prof. B. Russell along with peers like him even conducted a Nuremburg type of trial of American involvement in Vietnam and they came to the conclusion that this war was the most horrible in the history of humanity where US was using and testing weapons of most inhuman in nature and hence it has to be stopped. But who listened to these great scientists and intellectuals?
However, when Mohd. Ali made a noise, the world listened to him more clearly and hence the phone call to Mohd. Ali from the other side of the continent by B. Russell which reads as detailed by Mohd. Ali in his masterpiece “The Greatest” as: “I picked up the Telephone Receiver and said hello. Immediately a totally different voice appeared on the phone saying I am Bertrand Russell speaking from the other side of the continent. When I heard this name, I jumped into joy because I know the magnitude of this man. Then I said, yes Professor, what can I do? Then Professor replied – I support your campaign against US and its involvement in Vietnam. In the history of humanity there was not a single war which was more barbaric than this Vietnam War. Please carry on with your fight. I support you”. When Mohd. Ali raised his voice against this war the whole world came to know the mischief US was doing in Vietnam and then the public opinion raised not only in US but also all around the world against American involvement in Vietna and then the history.
When Russia entered Afghanistan, it was again sportsman Mohd Ali who campaigned hard against Russia to force them to withdraw from Afghanistan. Jimmy Carter as president was ruling US at that time. Mohd. Ali was in Bombay attending a reception at Braboune Stadium where he was doing live exhibition of his punches in front of hundreds of attendees. Suddenly his aid comes and informs him that a call is come from US president to solicit your help. Jimmy Carter wants you to return back immediately and go on tour to all the Islamic countries on behalf of US Government to explain the folly of Soviet Russia in entering Afghanistan. Why Jimmy Carter utilised the services of a sportsman Mohd. Ali? It was because his celebrity status can attract better attention than that of any political or Foreign Service figure. Besides, to reprimand further to force Soviets to withdraw from Afghanistan, US led Olympic boycott was conducted against Olympic Games organized in Moscow that year and made mockery of this Olympic Games. Because of these factors the image of Soviet Russia was totally got tarnished and world has isolated Soviet Russia from the comity of civilized nations. This is the power of Sports and sportspersons which is unique in nature.
The next Olympic Games are going to be held in China at Beijing. Because of its crude human rights abuses the world is making a big noise but Chinese dictators are giving a deaf hearing to the world claims. China has committed yet another big blunder by stripping Dalai Lama and his people of the privilege of their homeland. To deny one of the right to have his own homeland is denying one of his birth rights. Dalai Lama is a great spiritual and political figure and also a Nobel Prize winner for Peace. He deserves all the privileges and facilities along with his peaceful people to have his homeland which China denied by using its brute might and political clout in the comity of nations.
How about boycotting Beijing Olympics against Chinese autocratic rule and human rights abuses? Can US lead a movement the way it did against Soviet Russia? Or can Kuwait come forward or least intellectual Kuwaitis can raise their voices in unified tone because they know better the misery of having no homeland because they themselves were subjected to the stripping them of their homeland when Saddam Hussein invaded Kuwait?
Veronica Fernandes,
Kuwait.
N.B. The above article of mine appeared in yesterday's Arab Times, Kuwait.
For the benefit of kranti readers, I am reproducing it here. AVF.
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