Skip to main content

Posts

Showing posts with the label Europe

Assault on Hinduism reaches the European Parliament

In the classic children’s story Goldilocks went into someone else’s house to eat and sleep uninvited. To her horror she was confronted by the owners, which happened to be three bears. Discovered she fled.  At no point were negotiations on the agenda. It was after all pretty indefensible. This is a bit like the manner in which self-appointed Dalit groups with their unreconstructed Marxist and increasingly irrelevant church backers blame Hinduism for issues of caste discrimination and indeed poverty in India.   The Father, Son and Holy Ghost of Dalit Liberation There is a three-stage strategy  at work in relation to raising the issue of caste discrimination presently at work: incorporate anti-caste legislation in Equality laws in Britain; get these accepted at the level of the European Union; finally get the United Nations to condemn India as an apartheid state and condemn Hinduism. On Thursday  18 October 2013, the European Parliament, which consists of e...

Stockholm is burning : Why the Swedish riots bode ill for Europe

By Harold Maass Rampaging immigrant youths have upended the country's reputation as a prosperous refuge Stockholm is burning. Yes, Stockholm, the Swedish capital, is in flames, after hundreds of immigrant youths rampaged through the streets for four straight nights, torching cars and buildings, hurling rocks through windows, and attacking police. The chaotic scenes are at odds with Sweden's reputation as a liberal model of prosperity, social security, and openness. The riots reportedly started in reaction to Swedish police killing a 69-year-old machete-wielding man earlier this month. But the ferocity and duration of the violence has shocked locals, who say they're at a loss to explain it. "It's difficult to say why they're doing this," Selcuk Cekenhe, who works at a youth center in one of the affected suburbs, tells NBC News. "Maybe it's anger at the law and order forces, maybe it's anger at their own perso...