Speaker:
Koenraad Elst
Topic:
Dhimmitude among Hindus- Loss, History, Causation & Remedy
Date/Venue: June 9th, 2019 @ Gayatri Chetna Center,
2446
W Orange Ave, Anaheim, CA 92804
Time: 130 PM - 3 PM
Please note change in venue.
The term "Dhimmitude" was coined by Egyptian-born British
writer Bat Ye'or for Jews and Christians ("people of the book"), who
are allowed to live as second-class citizens ("Dhimmis") in an Islamic
state. Dhimmitude is a psychological condition where
the slave subjects, viz. Dhimmis, develop a liking for their own
tormentors, viz. their masters. Not only they defend the atrocities of
their masters, but go to great lengths in finding faults with themselves
to rationalize their behavior. Hindus, though technically
being Kafirs, i.e. not Dhimmis, have developed and internalized the
same attitudes as Jews and Christians vis-a-vis Islam, in the long
period of their experience with Islam. The earliest known acts of
Dhimmitude were exemplified by Rajputs who fought for Mughals
and built up the Mughal Empire. The the medieval period Persian
language, dress and mores were internalized and glorified by Hindus. In
modern period, the same Dhimmitude has been exhibited by Indian
Independence leaders by supporting the Khilafat movement,
accepting the partition of Mother India. In Indian politics, Dhimmitude
is exhibited by the politics of appeasement. Dhimmitude is reflected in
the Indian Constitution by its Articles 29 and 30. Dr. Koenraad Elst,
the author of "Negationism in India: Concealing
The Record of Islam" - one of the rare thinker-writers who exposed
Dhimmitude among Indian intelligentsia - will expound on the history of
Dhimmitude among Hindus, the losses incurred by it, the causative
factors thereof, and possible ways to get out of this
predicament.
About the Speaker:
Koenraad Elst (°Leuven 1959) distinguished himself early on as eager to
learn and to dissent. After a few hippie years he studied at the KU
Leuven, obtaining MA degrees in Sinology, Indology and Philosophy. After
a research stay at Benares Hindu University
he did original fieldwork for a doctorate on Hindu nationalism, which
he obtained magna cum laude in 1998. As an independent researcher he
earned laurels and ostracism with his findings on hot items like Islam,
multiculturalism and the secular state, the roots
of Indo-European, the Ayodhya temple/mosque dispute and Mahatma
Gandhi's legacy. He also published on the interface of religion and
politics, correlative cosmologies, the dark side of Buddhism, the
reinvention of Hinduism, technical points of Indian and Chinese
philosophies, various language policy issues, Maoism, the renewed
relevance of Confucius in conservatism, the increasing Asian stamp on
integrating world civilization, direct democracy, the defence of
threatened freedoms, and the Belgian question. Regarding
religion, he combines human sympathy with substantive skepticism.
Books Written by the speaker:
1. Hindu Dharma and the Culture Wars
2. The argumentative Hindu : essays by a non-affiliated orientalist
3. Ayodhya : the case against the temple
4. Communal violence and propaganda
5. The demographic siege
6. Negationism in India : concealin the record of Islam
7. The problem with secularism
8. The Saffron swastika : the notion of `Hindu fascism', 2 Vols.
9. Still no trace of an Aryan Invasion : a collection on Indo-European origins
10. Who is a Hindu? : Hindu revivalist views of Animism, Buddhism, …
11. Mahatma Gandhi and His Assassin
12. Decolonising the Hindu mind
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