Topic started by Siby Koodalloor (@ 203.199.79.50) on Mon Dec 18 01:56:15 .
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VHP chief discovers the origin of caste system in India.
Following is a paragraph from a news report in The Hindu:
Mr. Singhal said untouchability came into practice with the Mughals entering the country. The people who constituted the SCs and STs belonged to warrior clans who were defeated by the Mughals. When these warriors refused to be converted to Islam they were expelled from the villages, banished from the country, prevented even from drawing water from the village wells and tanks and finally made into `untouchables'. Mr Singhal said despite the persecution these warrior clans did not give up `Hindu Dharma'. Today these were the sections which were being converted in a big way.

This must be the result of a rigorous and in-depth research he may have done on the caste in India! Is their any university to confer a D-Lit. for his research and findings?

For details: http://www.the-hindu.com/stories/0418201c.htm

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• From: Urme (@ cpe006097497eb9-cm000f9f4fdc50.cpe.net.cable.rogers.com) on: Sun May 9 20:06:40 EDT 2004
  
  From: Star (@ dial0-064.dialin.uic.edu) on: Wed Apr 28 00:48:04 EDT 2004
  
  
  >>God may be the starting point, but a guru is the next necessary starting point.<<
  
  Star, you have some great insights indeed. God intended well, but it is from humans where all the confusion starts eg. leaders misusing and miscalculating caste.
  
  
• From: Urme (@ cpe006097497eb9-cm000f9f4fdc50.cpe.net.cable.rogers.com) on: Sun May 9 20:08:10 EDT 2004
  
  PS. My hope for the future is that the Hindu religion will be corrected and hence, perfected.
  
  
• From: Rohit (@ cache1-nott.server.ntli.net) on: Fri May 21 10:11:14 EDT 2004
  
  Evils of Hinduism, people ned imperfecting the following:
  
  1. Misconception of human intelligence or mental ability
  2. Religious rivalry leading to blind accommodation and countless inventions of gods and goddesses.
  3. Wide spread blind beliefs in god(s), fate, births, rebirths, soul liberation, reincarnations etc.
  4. Unquestionable devotion and duty towards phony “Sadhus” and “Sants”
  5. Wide spread Superstitions
  6. Gender discriminations.
  7. Caste system, resulting from the concept of division of duty.
  8. Ignorance
  9. Illiteracy
  10. Over population
  11. Conventional thinking
  12. Language problems
  13. Moral corruption
  14. Political corruption
  15. Regional conflicts
  16. Social and political chaos
  17. Social discord
  18. Disunity
  19. Tribes
  20. Skills and productivity are treated as alien concepts
  
  
• From: Rohit (@ cache1-nott.server.ntli.net) on: Fri May 21 10:12:12 EDT 2004
  
  Evils of Hinduism:
  
  People urgently need imperfecting the following:
  
  1. Misconception of human intelligence or mental ability
  2. Religious rivalry leading to blind accommodation and countless inventions of gods and goddesses.
  3. Wide spread blind beliefs in god(s), fate, births, rebirths, soul liberation, reincarnations etc.
  4. Unquestionable devotion and duty towards phony “Sadhus” and “Sants”
  5. Wide spread Superstitions
  6. Gender discriminations.
  7. Caste system, resulting from the concept of division of duty.
  8. Ignorance
  9. Illiteracy
  10. Over population
  11. Conventional thinking
  12. Language problems
  13. Moral corruption
  14. Political corruption
  15. Regional conflicts
  16. Social and political chaos
  17. Social discord
  18. Disunity
  19. Tribes
  20. Skills and productivity are treated as alien concepts
  
  

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