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Islam Has Been Militant From The Beginning PDF Print E-mail
Interviews - Koenraad Elst
Written by Sundeep Dougal - Outlook   
Tuesday, 20 May 2008 14:03

'Islam Has Been Militant From The Beginning'

Joining the debate, against the dogma of religion, irrational beliefs, obscurantist laws and violent fanaticism.

Interview by SUNDEEP DOUGAL

[First appeared in the online version of The Outlook on 13 October 2001 at the URL
http://www.outlookindia.com/full.asp?fodname=20011013&fname=elst&sid=1&pn=2 ]

 

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Hindutva is Elst-where PDF Print E-mail
Interviews - Koenraad Elst
Written by Ramesh Rao - The Pioneer   
Tuesday, 20 May 2008 13:51
According to a body of opinion, the handling of the KN Govindacharya affair by the RSS last week was symptomatic of a malaise that afflicts the Sangh parivar. True, a cadre-based political formulation demands that an individual be subservient to the organisation, but when this "cardinal principle" becomes overbearing to the extent that any voice of dissent is treated as rebellion, it must give rise to the larger questions: For instance, is there something fundamentally wrong with the ideology which claims to be the "inheritor" of this 5000-year-old civilisational ethos? Is "accountability" a non-issue for the political party which discovers its ideological moorings only on the eve of an election?
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We Should Help the Muslims in Freeing Themselves from Islam PDF Print E-mail
Interviews - Koenraad Elst
Written by Ramesh Rao - Sulekha   
Sunday, 18 August 2002 18:00
I have reviewed one of Koenraad Elst's books for Sulekha, and Koenraad has been mentioned in passing by many people in response to what I have written. The 43 year-old Belgian author of more than 15 books on Indian nationalism, history, politics, religious conflict and such controversial topics spoke to me of his recent visit to the United States where he presented a paper at the WAVES 2002 conference, and about a wide range of issues including the Gujarat riots, the Aryan Invasion Theory, and the divide between "mainstream" scholars and "marginalized" scholars like himself.
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