Mahatma Gandhi statue in Leicester soon
March 28th, 2008 - 7:48 pm ICT by admin -
London, March 28 (IANS) The residents of Leicester - home to the largest ethnic Indian population in Britain - are set to receive a statue of Mahatma Gandhi after footballer Gary Lineker gave his support in writing to a local MP. Keith Vaz, MP for Leicester East and the man who has led the campaign for the installation of a Gandhi statue, said the statue was all set to be sculpted as soon as the city council gave its planning permission.
The idea to install a Gandhi statue ran into trouble last month after a group of locals put up an online petition saying a local star, such as former England skipper Gary Lineker, should be honoured with a statue, rather than the Indian independence hero.
“I wrote to Gary, asking him to clarify his position, and he has now written back saying he very much supports the idea of a Gandhi statue for reasons of diversity in Leicester,” Vaz told IANS.
The idea already has the backing of Lord Richard Attenborough, who made an Oscar-winning film on Gandhi.
“Lineker said in his letter, ‘in case my ears are too big and the cost of the statue may have been too much’,” Vaz added.
The MP said plans to sculpt the statue and install it in October - to coincide with Gandhi’s birth anniversary - are in place and that he was now waiting for the outcome of a planning permission application pending with Leicester City Council.
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April 16th, 2008 at 2:01 am
Gandhi’s Legacy: Statuism!
Politicising Religion: Sucking-up to Mohammedans & ‘Ahimsa’
After Muhammad, Gandhi has done the most damage to Hinndusthan [& Hinduism ]
The most significant blow on the Indian thinking was Gandhi’s redefining of ‘Ahimsa’ (non-violence) as ‘non-retaliation to insult or violent assault’; when in reality Ahimsa meant ‘no provocation’, or ‘NO FIRST-STRIKE’. Vedic civilisation did not go conquering like Alexander and Romans, but their scriptures are full of wars-in-defence and defeating invader-enemies that attacked them, followed by ‘celebrations and feasts of sacrificing male-buffalos before fire-god Agni’.
Hindus grew by the wilful assimilation of the defeated invaders who found it beneficial to merge with the dominant xenophilic and secular Hindu Host culture to share in its creative prosperity based on a benevolent civic principle of truth and the reassuring safety of ‘ahimsa’ (= no first-strike) –exactly opposite of what Muhammad preached to legitimise surprise attacks on unsuspecting non-believers to literally ‘enrich’ his band of robbers.
“Satyagraha” might have meant non-violent civil disobedience by “non-retaliation to assault & insult”, but not “Ahimsa” of the vedic Indus Civilisation!
And Gandhi supported the Khialfat* movement of this Mohammedanism in 1920s, (which had no support of Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, or King Abd-Al-Aziz-ibn-Sa’ud of Sa’udi Arabia and even the Indian nationalist* Mohd. Ali Jinnah!). In fact, the Ottoman-heir or ‘could-be-Khalifa’ Kemal Ataturk sacked ‘Khilafat’ and Turks buried the Mohammedan dream in 1923!
‘Khilafat’ means theocracy “Khalifa-dom”. It is the ultimate aim of Mohammedans –by Quranic order of ‘jihad’– to establish Islam [=submission, not peace!] and Shariat law all over the Earth, ruled by a Muslim tyrant ‘Kahalifa’ as the Regent of Allah! Same difference like the ‘Pope’ of Catholics!
N.B. The first 4 ‘Khalifa’s who succeeded Pro Muhammad (PBUH) were his friends/relatives and all were murdered by the successive one. A classic fued-of-bandits
If you haven’t yet realised, the same is the aim of Al Qa’eda:
—-and Gandhi supported that!!
‘Turning the other cheek’!
–and the arsehole to…, the belly to a stabbing knife and ultimately your neck to the sword!
• India Today is prospering not because of Gandhi, but despite the sapping by Gandhi-Nehru-Dynastic ideals, in a failed experiment of “English corruption exported in the name of parlia-mental ‘de-mock-racey’”– in a Partitioned-Indian-Socialist-pseudo-secular-State (PISS) with a horribly corrupted name ‘India’, — another English corruption of ‘H’Inndy’.
Read Patrick French’s “Liberty or Death” 1997.
[Pretty objective historical analysis --bar an odd ignorant remark about Chhatrapaty Shiwaji]
In all the tragic mess of Partition-47, there were no winners, all losers, looking at Pakistan-Bangladesh of today!
Hindustan has borne most of the brunt of Gandhi’s legacy compounding the pernicious effect of Islam on civilised world.
It is very transparent historical fact that the forceful entry of Mohammedans to Hindustaan eclipsed India’s glory by the tragic 1000-year Mohammedan onslaught: 757-1757 AD.
HISTORY DOESN’T FORGIVE THOSE WHO FORGET ITS LESSONS!