Nation & Nationality First

This was sent as an Email by me to all my friends when the then Australian PM John Howard said the following sometime back.... Thought it would be apt sharing it with you all... Subject: India needs a leader like this. Indeed this is the need and call of the hour!!! India Needs A Leader Like This!!
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The views of Patriotic Australian Prime Minister John Howard... 

Prime Minister John Howard, Australia: Muslims who want to live under Islamic Sharia law were told recently to get out of Australia , as the government targeted radicals in a bid to head off potential terror attacks. This was said by the then Prime Minister Mr.John Howard. Separately, the former Prime Minister Mr.Howard angered some Australian Muslims by saying he supported spy agencies monitoring the nation's mosques. 'IMMIGRANTS, NOT AUSTRALIANS, MUST ADAPT'. Take It Or Leave It. I am tired of this nation worrying about whether we are offending some individual or their culture. Since the terrorist attacks on Bali , we have experienced a surge in patriotism by the majority of Australians.' 'This culture has been developed over two centuries of struggles, trials and victories by millions of men and women who have sought freedom' 'We speak mainly ENGLISH, not Spanish, Lebanese, Arabic, Chinese, Japanese, Russian, or any other language. Therefore, if you wish to become part of our society, learn the language!' 'Most Australians believe in God. This is not some Christian, right wing, political push, but a fact, because Christian men and women, on Christian principles, founded this nation, and this is clearly documented. It is certainly appropriate to display it on the walls of our schools. If God offends you, then I suggest you consider another part of the world as your new home, because God is part of our culture.' 'We will accept your beliefs, and will not question why. All we ask is that you accept ours, and live in harmony and peaceful enjoyment with us.' 'This is OUR COUNTRY, OUR LAND, and OUR LIFESTYLE, and we will allow you every opportunity to enjoy all this.. But once you are done complaining, whining, and griping about Our Flag, Our Pledge, Our Christian beliefs, or Our Way of Life, I highly encourage you take advantage of one other great Australian freedom, 'THE RIGHT TO LEAVE'.' 'If you aren't happy here then LEAVE. We didn't force you to come here. You asked to be here. So accept the country YOU accepted.'
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Imagine when a nation like Australia claiming to have been found 200 years back with Christian Men and Women and with Christian principles, a Great nation like India with a history beyond human knowledge and documented history of atleast 5000 years should emphasize on protecting the original culture and values and not get into minority appeasement. None of us want to bully the minorities, at the same time, we just don't want anybody to play the minority appeasement card and fool the whole Billion-plus population. Let there be UNIFORM CIVIL CODE as demanded by a person as highly held in the hearts of our people as our Former President Mr.A.P.J.Abdul Kalam. Let there be no Quota system within the Nation based on either religion, caste, language, color or any other distinguishing factor. May all of us wake up to the fact that once you step out of India, you will be only known as Indian and not Muslim, Christian, Hindu etc. No Muslim will get citizenship in Arab countries just because he or she is a muslim and no Christian will get citizenship of America or Australia (founded with Christian as claimed by its Prime Minister) just because he is a Christian. Every one of us will remain INDIAN whatever the status enjoyed by us or wherever we live on Earth irrespective of the Religion followed by us. After all, every one of us, Indians, were one large family as the Puranas like Ramayana and Mahabharatha tell us. Islam and Christisnity came with the invaders at various time points spread over the last few centuries. Islam came with invasions at different points of time at different parts of our Motherland between Eight and Five centuries back. Christianity came with European invaders Five-Six centuries back. None of this belong to our land or people. Every Indian, irrespective of whether he/she is a Hindu, Muslim or Christian was a Hindu few centuries/generations back and thereby has Hindu ancestry. Religious Conversions happened due to circumstances under external pressure among a peace loving community that never showed agression towards an alien land be it neighbours or far away places. Therefore, every Indian is a Hindu by blood. If somebody denies that and claims he/she was born for an Arab father and/or mother, then he or she should pack and leave this land to where they belong to. We don't have any problem with friends of different religions with whom we have grown up from childhood. That's their belief and we need not criticize that in anyways as long as they practice their faith within their limits and do not try to score upmanship against another community. Blind and radical faith is what that creates trouble and initiates a chain reaction leading to communal frictions. An example of such offensive attitude towards other beliefs is a comment by a Muslim friend, a close friend who also happens to be a Central Government officer, criticized the ritual of tying up the banana trees in front of a house or wedding halls as a tradition in Hindu culture as a "waste" and he cited the culture. I asked him about the Millions of animals they slaughter for Bakr-Eid and he was speechless. That is the problem. If you stay put with your beliefs and don't try to enforce your blind faith on others, you are safe and every other co-inhabitant of this holy land is also safe. A lot of my Muslim friends in the Gulf agree that though they share the same religion as an Arab, they are looked down only as Indians first and the basis of their religion next by the locals. This should help understand reality for the religious fanatics among our fellow citizens based on their religion. For example, a big problem with Islamic belief, as per my understanding, is that Religion gets priority over Nationality which is utter nonsense. I am sure all of us realise that none of these terrorist attacks in the name of the ill-conceived concept of 'Jihad' can take place if every Muslim in India swears to be a law-abiding citizen and a true Nationalist. There are families falling prey to such evil designs of the few. Many such families are not just driven by fanatic principles, more often they are only driven by the lure of money. May GOD bless this Great Nation of Hindustan. May all of us rise to the occasion, realize reality and say JAI HIND in absolute unity and ONE tone.

Jai Hind!!

Srilanka - Letter to NSA

10.August.2008 

Shri.M.K.Narayanan

The National Security Advisor

Government of India. New Delhi.

Dear Sir,

My humble salutations to you and the honourable office held by you.

I have been an avid follower of the national Security at different levels through constantly updating myself with support of Media reports, writings of responsible and well informed people and intellects of the various establishments of the Union of India and through relevant overseas contacts in countries of strategic importance. I am happy to see the sincere effort put in by people like you and others with great national patiortism.

Of late, I have been keenly following the developments in SriLanka, where I had spent quite some time in running a business at the turn of the century. The considerable time I spent in there has given me enormous knowledge of the people, their culture, their psyche, their attitude towards us Indians etc. I have some of my best friends in life from the Sinhalese community. I had great personal friends in some former cabinet Ministers, bureaucrats and politicians from different political parties in SriLanka. It's never difficult to fall in love with those people.

My understanding after the invaluable interactions with people in SriLanka at various levels over the years is that they are generally sane and innocent people only worried about 'today' and never think about 'tomorrow' or the  'day after'. They also lack a vision and gravely miss the ability to administer themselves effectively in a manner so as to be called a "State". They are more like the people of Nepal, to my knowledge. The Nepalis can only manage a task assigned to them, a simple example being asking them to guard a campus. Though this might be a too simple example it best describes their ability. You design a task and they can follow to implement it, but never ever can plan to execute on their own. Similarly, the Sri Lankans fall way too short in ability to manage their Domestic and National affairs effectively. All this is not news to you as our establishments are much more capable of managing any given situation.

What prompted me to write to you was the news of you, as a National Security Advisor of the Union of India, being treated with so much carelessness and inefficent handling of your security during your visit to the SAARC Summit earlier this month. I learnt that you were left stranded without a vehicle or security and you had to take a taxi from the Conference venue Bandaranaike Hall (BMICH) and had to walk for a certain distance to reach your hotel Taj Samudra having been stopped by local police preventing your taxi from proceeding further, being unable to identify you.

I am surprised the vigour with which you, as National Security Advisor (NSA), have been ferociously supporting the Military action of the Govt of Sri Lanka (GoSL) against the LTTE. Though I am not in favour of the armed LTTE, I firmly believe that without an organization as strong as the LTTE as the sole representative of Tamils of North & East Srilanka, Srilanka would not be a safe place for Indian interests. I am sure we all remember the games that the Late Srilankan President J.R.Jayawardene had played during the times of our Late Prime Minister Mrs.Indira Gandhi. Sri Lankans, being as naive as the above given example of Nepal, are just incapable of safeguarding themselves as effectively as they should. 

I wish better senses prevail in our establishment and a solution to the Srilankan problem is found without compromising the powers of the Tamil people and without any compromise on the necessity that there remains a true and strong representative of Tamil people in Srilanka within a UNITED SriLanka.

Jai Hind!