In a superb article, Jakod De Roover rips apart the European Parliament’s presumptuous self-righteousness, which has compelled them to “come out with a policy statement” on how caste still rules India.
Recently, the European Parliament hosted a meeting on “caste discrimination in South Asiaâ€. At the meeting, participants stated that “India is being ruled by castes not by laws†and that they demanded justice, because there “is one incredible India and one untouchable India.†The EU was urged to come out with a policy statement on the subject. One MEP, referring to the caste system, said that “this barbarism has to end.†This is not the first time. However, before the EU decides to publish policy statements on caste discrimination in India, we would do well to reflect on some simple facts.
First, the dominant conception of the caste system has emerged from the accounts by Christian missionaries, travelers and colonial administrators. Rather than being neutral, these accounts were shaped by a Christian framework.
Given historical evidence, we can reasonably interpret this “call” as another of the countless calls to “civilize” India. In harsher terms, this is a call to harvest the heathens. I am interested to know the names of some of the participants who called upon the European Parliament to end the “barbarity.”
It’s easy to miss the fundamental point that the European Parliament has no business to pontificate over matters related to Indian society. Why don’t we see similar meetings that elaborate on Minority Rights in Saudi Arabia? How would the EU treat the idea of an Indian Parliamentary meeting to discuss the UK’s total cluelessness in dealing with the Islamic threat?
A reason that explains the European Parliament’s effrontery is their continuing delusion of being colonial masters. The other side of the reason lies in our own backyard. A strong majority of the power-holders in India are proud inheritors of Nehru’s shameless legacy, which involves taking our problems to the biggest bullies in the international arena, instead of solving it ourselves. Add to this the delicious spice of homegrown representatives of the Vatican who have mastered the art of milking the worldwide Church apparatus by painting gory pictures of rampant caste atrocities in India. And there you have, India’s image as a self-respecting nation kicked around at will in the European Parliament.
Jakob Roover needs to be commended for his political incorrectness. An academician at the Ghent University, the combined might of Christian bigots will attempt to give his career a tough time.
Sandeep,
How about posting on the “Heathen in his Blindness” yahoogroup? Check out constantinessword.com about the book and the documentary on the acts of intolerance in the name of religion.
I wrote this comment on the New Europe website.
Typical of literate-idiots, morons who display their illiterate ignorance and hypocrisy. Christianity has more blood on its hands than the so-called pagan nations.
Christian nations colonised, created famines for the colonised, looted the colonies of wealth to sustain its vampire aristocracy and parasitic populace, bombasts “superiority” due to the inner core of their own inferiority and bankruptcy in moral. These so-called “christian” nations that broke ALL the 10 commandments, who allow their churches to rot, whose citizenry indulges in a revelry of sodomy, homosexuality, adultery, who sleeps with the enemy for deals (money, glorious wealth) and then to assuage their redemptionless guilt, turn on the East. Move over cement heads. The East will rule you. Your time is over. You are nothing but decript, dying slowly, old Europe. The East is young, full of energy and pace. All the source of wisdom you improved on, the source came from the east. If you are ignorant of that, it shows what literate-fools you lot are.
The Vatican’s hand! And India has the misfortune of having its agent, the Opus Dei Sonia Gandhi. Mark my words. Europe needs fighting men in the coming war against muslims and islam. Where else to get cannon fodder on suicide missions than India?
Didn’t the late pope john paul demonstrate arrogance and superiority when on his visit he insulted the host country India “to harvest the fishes…?” The current pope is Chief of the Inquisition.
Ring a bell?
The EU is nothing more than the vatican’s lapdog – nameless, shameless, greedy men and women of the lowest of the low caught a couple of days ago pilfering daily allowance for sitting on their arse. Caught on candid camera.
India’s future lies with its people. Civil war if needs be. But get rid of that Italian whore and bury the Congress Party for good. Better still incinerate it. 60 years is already too long for traitors whose only interest is to bloat their bank accounts, overseas, please!
Storm the bastille, as it were.
zena
For your esteemed readers, link to Daniel Pipes ‘ The Enemy has a name’.http://www.danielpipes.org/article.php/5629
a must read.
PI
San, absolutely right you are in finding the ‘root cause’ of most – if not all – problems in ‘nehru’ and his (?) wisdom.
As for,How would the EU treat the idea of an Indian Parliamentary meeting to discuss the UK’s total cluelessness in dealing with the Islamic threat?”.
Now, both you and me are not so ‘politically innocent’ to expect any Indian Govt. ( not even an Advani one -as and when they come to power) to name any threat as Islamic, leave alone identifying and treating it! So you asking – though purely hypothetically – EU how would they ‘feel’… is hight of ‘optimism’.
Will ever a day come, when Indians come together and first name this ‘Disease’ and take steps to cure it?
San will you and me live that long to see the day?
Regards,
Prudent Indian.
I read a nice piece by the same person in Outlook
http://outlookindia.com/full.asp?fodname=20080620&fname=jakob&sid=1