The Government of India has cleared the Emergency Ordinance clearing the decks for the holding of the Jallikkattu, Bull Fighting Sports of the Tamils , under immense pressure from the public, especially from the youth .
The unique fetaure of this mass movement is that it was spontaneous, no political parties were allowed nor any potential publicity seekers like the Cine People and the movement was absolutely peaceful with no untoward incidents despite people camping out in the open even during the night and this vigil included women and children.
The issue went out of control because of a case filed way back in 2009 and the courts were moved and as a clincher came the Supreme Court’s Order banning the Jallikkattu.
The Court earlier provided for Jallikkattu under strict supervision.
The ordinances issued by the State Government were cvchallenges in the court and hence the Ban.
The blame is to lie on the political parties which pussyfooted. trying to score points over each other, the DMK and the AIADMK.
The Bull used in Jallikkattu was included under Animal Welfare’s classification of animals to be protected.
This was done by Sri. Jayram Ramesh of Congress at the centre.
What is curious is that only the Bull is singled out among the Bovine, not Cows!
The Animal Rights Activists’s refrain or shouting is that the Bulls are being tortured and hence to be protected.
And that they would raise their voice against cruelty to animals in any form is their Mission statement.
But why is that they have not raised their voice against Cow Slaughter?
Why not against the killing of Goats during Bakrid?
Is beating one with self with chains during Muharram is not cruelty?
If you extend their Logic,they should have moved the court to ban non vegetarian food on the ground of cruelty to the animals killed.
They have not done that.
Instead PETAfound an opportunity in oranising a business for themselves by promoting Vagan Diet!
And if one were to look at the caes and issues against PETA raised its so called Voice, NOTone of them had any custom or religious link any where in the world!
Their shouting matches have been against mostly against scientific experiments involving animals.
But the beauty is that they, PETA have killed more than 35,000 Animals!
‘Its president and co-founder Ingrid Newkirk has called pet ownership an “abysmal situation” and said, “Even if animal research resulted in a cure for AIDS, we’d be against it.” PETA also has killed 35,000 animals at its headquarters since 1998, according to animal custody records it files with the state of Virginia.’
https://www.humanewatch.org/?s=Petahttps://www.humanewatch.org/?s=Peta
For more on PETAs Terrorists link, strong arm tactics read my earlier post .
PETA ensured the FBI was closed by getting theInvesigating Officer being shunted out in the Terror Link Case!
Check out the Book
Review of The FBIs Investigations of Certain Domestic Advocay Groups.
It can be seen that some foreign based NGOs have been on the job of destabilising India by creating communal tension and inciting regional emotions.
Not a single case against groups of Religious or Cultural nature has been raised by these people in other parts of the world.
But under the guise of animal welfare or some other issue, destabilisation takes palce.
PETA belongs to this category of NGOs.
Some engage in proslytization while PETA has taken the route of attacking the cultural values of a group.
Now read a description of how the Jallikkattu pettion and other Hindu harming cases moved in the courts.
I have no comments on this as facts speak for themselves.
Project Thessalonica.
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What is Project Thessalonica?
“Project Thessalonica aims to stop or limit Hindu activity by converting people, who form the pillars of Hindu culture, festivals, traditions and activity…They are making environmental groups raise the voice so that Ganesh processions, Kumbh Melas and Jagannath Rath Yatras are limited…”[1]
Native festivals are part of a social ecosystem that binds people to native traditions. This is one reason native festivals have always been attacked as part of establishing Christian dominance. Let us look briefly at the timeline for the Jallikattu ban.
In 2006, a judge in the Madras High Court suo moto banned Jallikattu, even though she was hearing an entirely different case and no one had petitioned against the ban.
As, The Hindu reported, based on the lawyer Shaji Chellan’s interview [2]:
“Pointing out that he had actually filed a writ petition seeking permission for rekla (bullock cart) race at Thaniankootam in Ramanathapuram district, the lawyer claims that Justice R. Banumathi (now a Supreme Court judge) expanded the scope of the case on her own and banned rekla race, oxen race and jallikattu.
‘…High Court had already allowed similar writ petitions and granted permission for rekla race in other districts. To my rude shock, Ms. Justice Banumathi took a differing view and questioned how could such races be conducted against the provisions of Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Act,’ he recalls.”
Not only did the Judge on her own add Jallikattu to the case, she also overturned the precedence of earlier judgments to ban multiple festivals in one go. The judgment itself was passed, without any notice, and without allowing anyone in favor of Jallikattu to plead.
Mr. Chellan says the judgment was passed immediately after lunch break on the day of admission itself without notice being issued to any party.
Who was this judge, and how did she manufacture a judgment out of thin air? The Judge is Justice R Bhanumati, and according to an article in VigilOnline, she is a Christian.[3] However, that does not automatically imply any kind of bias, unless such bias is evident in her work. Apart from unilaterally banning Jallikattu, without any petition to do so, Justice Bhanumati appears to have passed harsh judgements on other Hindu matters as well.
Justice Bhanumati ruled against the right of Podhu Dikshidhars, traditional Hindu priests at the fifth-century Natarajar Temple at Chidambaram to manage their own affairs.
“In February 2010, she justified the government takeover of the administration of the famous fifth-century Natarajar temple in Chidambaram saying, ‘Administration of temple is purely secular and the state can intervene and regulate the administration if the secular activities of the institution are mismanaged.’ The judgment, however, was overturned by the Supreme Court earlier this year.”[4]
The Supreme Court found reason to overturn her judgment in the Natrajar temple case. Another exceedingly harsh judgment was passed by Justice Bhanumati against a Hindu Sadhu,
“Making it clear that he would not be eligible for any remission or early release, she said in the judgment that he would serve his second life term after completion of the first life sentence. The order was meant to keep the godman in jail forever. He died in jail in February 2011.”
In yet another case, Justice Bhanumati ruled against grandparents, who sought custody of a child, who was allegedly being converted into Christianity by the other grandparents, when her Hindu parents died.[5]
Without trying to impugn on the motives and judgment of Justice Bhanumati, there is at least prime facie evidence that her extraordinary intervention to ban Jallikattu, without any petition, may be part of an intolerance towards Hindu festivals and institutions, reflected in Project Thessalonica.
While a regulation was passed by the TN government to circumvent the Madras High Court ban in 2009, the Congress Party’s role in this has been equally dubious. In 2011, Congress’ Environment Minister, Jairam Ramesh, banned the use of bulls in sports, with an eye to ban Jallikattu.
“Chairperson, Humane Society International, Nandita Krishna said that by its historic verdict, the Supreme Court has vindicated Ramesh’s position and upheld the ban. ‘I must particularly mention and thank Ramesh who, as Minister for Environment and Forests, banned the use of bulls as performing animals in 2011’.[6]”
While the UPA government was still in power, the Supreme Court, in its subsequent order in 2014 banned Jallikattu altogether[7].
Waking up late, it was not until January 2016 that the BJP government was able to pass a notification reversing the earlier one from 2011, promulgated by Jairam Ramesh of the Congress, and allowing Jallikattu to take place. However the Supreme Court, despite a heavy case backlog of nearly 50,000 pending cases, over a thousand of which are pending for over 10 years[8], decided that it must urgently protect bulls from their owners and stayed the regulation.
In May 2016, the Congress Party, in its manifesto in Tamil Nadu, perhaps with an eye on evangelical support, specifically included upholding the ban on Jallikattu.[9]
The Congress which is criticising the Narendra Modi Government for the ban on Jallikattu, had in its manifesto for the Tamil Nadu Assembly Election in May 2016 had declared that it would ban the Jallikattu. “The party supports the ban on Jallikattu,” said the Congress manifesto.
“Tamil Nadu Assembly elections 2016: Congress releases manifesto, promises ban on Jallikattu”, the dailies had carried banner headlined reports the day after the manifesto was released by Mukul Wasnik, AICC general secretary.
Former PM Manmohan Singh, in a letter to NG Jayasimha, managing director, Humane Society International, a NGO based in Secunderabad had said that he was for banning the bull fight. “The Humane Society Internationale India has a worthy objective and certainly we have to work to discourage bullfights which provide a cruel form of entertainment. I wish you all success in achieving your objective,” said Manmohan Singh in his letter dated December 15, 2015.
Note that Human Society International is another foreign-funded NGO, just at PETA, both of which were major advocates for the ban.
The case against Jallikattu was pleaded by Congress leader Abhishek Singhvi, who called the sport “wanton torture[10]” leading the Supreme Court reinstated the ban in July 2016.
Other questions that arise
Apart from the role of the Congress Party, the part played by the Courts and the nexus between the Courts and foreign-funded NGOs also comes under scrutiny. The Supreme Court judge, KS Radhakarishnan received the PETA man of the year award for his 2014 judgment banning Jallikattu.
The language used in the judgment is also instructive[11]: “international community should hang their head in shame, for not recognizing their rights all these ages, a species which served the humanity from the time of Adam and Eve.”
First, we should be clear that the Supreme Court is a colonial institution. While English Common Law is based on centuries of English traditions, the Indian Constitution and Laws have little or no relation with Indian traditions. Indeed they are antithetical to these. The Supreme Court operates only in English, a grave injustice in a land where less than 10% people know English with any degree of proficiency. It also looks upon the Indian tradition with colonized eyes. As such it is easy prey for the “rights” discourse pushed by foreign-funded NGOs.
Second, it is important to understand why attacking Hindu festivals and traditions is important to the Conversion War. Unlike Book religions, which coalesce around Church or Mosque, driven by monotheistic zeal of insider and outsider, native traditions have no such glue. The glue that there is, is present in festival and ritual, and the same festival will have diverse expressions throughout India. Where it is Pongal in one, it is Lodhi in another and Makar Sankranti in a third area. Attacking these festivals is an attempt to cut these bonds; a rootless people are a much easier target for the conversion war.
Third, Jallikattu is not just a sport, it is an ecosystem that sustain indigenous bovine breeds and values male calves that may otherwise be slaughtered. The fight against Jallikattu has a veneer of animal rights, but the reality is the ban will create slaughter and extinction. This is a result of the lopsided ideological “rights” discourse that the West generates, quite different from the natural harmonious native balance that it seeks to destroy. There is a good thread on this here.
As far as PETA goes, its endorsement of the veal-eating Pope Francis as “Man of the Year” should be enough.’
Morer on this.
‘Alex Pomero
in a Croatian Newspaper
Project Thessalonica is a sub-project of Joshua Project II. Joshua Project II set the scope and strategy for converting the “heathen” of the world in 10-40 window (regions that lie between the latitudes of 10 and 40 degrees north) whereas project Thessalonica (called PT) prioritizes the tasks to be taken. Joshua Project II strategized the methodology called ‘Adopt-a-peoples’ wherein every mission agency or church adopted a ‘people group’. Tribals were the first and easy missionary targets. Unfortunately the missionary activity didn’t weaken Hinduism as the church strategists had anticipated – many of the converts still celebrated and attended Hindu festivals and continued to follow Hindu traditions. As a counter measure Project Thessalonica was started in 2004. Before getting into the details of Project Thessalonica it will be useful to look at the origins of the name of the project.
Thessalonica was a major port city strategically located at the junction of the main land route from Italy to the east and the main route from the Danube down to the Aegean Sea. It was the capital of the Roman province of Macedonia, a free city ruled by a popular assembly and magistrates. The people of this city were rich, technologically advanced and culturally distinct. Paul and Silas, during the Apostle’s second missionary journey, visited Thessalonica to preach the Gospel and propagate Christianity. However, Paul’s teachings received a lukewarm response from the people. Some locals irritated by Paul’s teachings got a hold of Jason and his brothers, who were hosting Paul, and took them to city officials. They were charged with harboring traitors, but faced no physical harm. They were eventually made to post a bond and set free. In 390 AD, the Christian ruler Theodosius the Great, punished a revolt by the inhabitants of the city by massacring more than 7000 people. Much of the city was eventually converted to Christianity.
Hindus in India today are in the same situation as the people of Thessalonica found themselves in at the time of Paul. They are prosperous economically and culturally and extremely tolerant of other people and faiths. The government is completely indifferent to the activities of the missionaries in India, in spite of the tremendous damage that missionary activity has wrought on the local population all over India. Seen in this context, the choice of “Thessalonica” as a name for a project focused on converting Hindus of India to Christianity seems particularly apt.
Project Thessalonica aims to stop or limit Hindu activity by converting people who form the pillars of Hindu culture, festivals, traditions and activity. Traditionally missionaries hate any public expression or display of heathen religions in the form of festivals and temples. Missions want to ensure that no new temple construction activity starts. With this objective they are converting masons, craftsmen and others involved in temple construction activity. The First Baptist Church of Nashville, Tennessee adopted towns where the annual Kumbh Mela takes place and has been actively converting the locals so that visitors face extreme hardship during their next visit trying to find services and supplies. Another mission group is adopting boatmen of Kashi where Hindus drop rice balls in river Ganges as an offering to their forefathers. The boatsmen are being trained in other fields so that they abandon this profession. They are making environmental groups raise the voice so that Ganesh processions, Kumbh Melas and Jagannath Rath Yatras are limited. One big worry seems to the extremely popular Hindu television programs. Christian agencies have decided on buying these prime slots at a premium and are actively working with programming sources. Over the past 20 years, missionaries also appear to have invested a lot in handling the political leadership, so much so that their activities appear to be almost immune to the ruling political party. It seems that a good section of media is also on their side to such an extent that any group opposing their activity finds itself identified as a militant or extremist group in the news media.
Full story (http://www.christianaggression.org/item_display.php?id=1130133787&type=articles)’
( http://www.echarcha.com/forum/archive/index.php/t-38104.html
Acknowledgments. Thanks to @a_r_j_u_n and @vivekbabaji for links on Twitter and an unattributed picture with a timeline sketch.
References-
- http://heritagefoundation.org.in/Download/articles/can_hindusim_project_thessalonica.pdf
- http://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/Madurai/Lawyer-reminisces- the-day-
jallikattu-was- banned-first/article17039812.ece - http://www.vigilonline.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=1069:hc-endorses-govt-control-over-temple&catid=86:judiciary-watch
- http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/Justice-Banumathi-becomes-1st-woman-SC-judge-from-TN/articleshow/40221484.cms
- https://indiankanoon.org/doc/1949713/
- http://www.ndtv.com/south/jairam-ramesh-welcomes-ban-on-use-of-bulls-for-jallikattu-event-560633
- https://awbi.org/awbi-pdf/sc_judgement_jallikattu_7-5-14.pdf
- http://pib.nic.in/newsite/PrintRelease.aspx?relid=137291
- http://www.dailypioneer.com/nation/we-support-ban-on-jallikattu-cong-2016-may-manifesto.html
- http://www.timesnow.tv/india/video/jallikattu-not-a-sport-it-is-brutal-wanton-torture-says-abhishek-manusinghvi/54391
- http://www.livelaw.in/former-sc-judge-k-s-radhakrishnan-awarded-peta-man-year-award/
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