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  • Vedic Roots Of Arabia Arabic Proof 1850 BC!

    I have written articles on the Vedic roots of Saudi Arabia, Shiva Linga in Mecca, 786 is flipped OM of Hinduism, Prophet Mohammed’s Uncle’s Poem, Siva Stuthi.

    Hindu Symbols, Saraswati, Rishi in Arabia.jpg Hindu Symbols, Saraswati, Rishi in Arabia.

    I had also written on the presence of Sapthapathi, Sarasvati , Navagrahas in Arabia , pre dating Muhammad .

    For the last post, I received comment in Facebook asking me not to be foolish about Islam and went on to trace the geneology of Arabia(!?) from the Koran!

    I did not seem it fit to reply to the comment.

    This comment made me research further about the Vedic roots of Arabia.

    Arabia is from the Sanskrit word Asva, Arava meaning Horse and Sthan, Place.

    Arabia is thus the place of Horses.

    Ancient Tamil Literature abounds in reference to Arabia as the land of Horses and all the Ancient Tamil Kings, Chera, Chola and Pandyas imported Horses from Arabia.

     

    The major land route  to Arabia was from the North West of India and the Arabic people drew spiritual inspiration from India.

    ‘The Uttarapath (Northern Highway) was the international highway to the North of India. It was via Uttarapath that Arabia and other Middle Eastern countries drew their spiritual, educational and material sustenance from India.

    Besides, this Sea-links were formed with India at least 800 years before the advent of Islam.

    Basra was the ancient gateway to India because it was at this port that the Arab lands received Indian goods and visitors.

    At that time the spoken language was Sanskrit, which later dwindled into the local variation that we now call Arabic.

    Thousands of words that were derived from Sanskrit still survive in Arabic today.

     

    Sanskrit Arabic English
    Sagwan Saj Teakwood
    Vish Besh Poison
    Anusari Ansari Follower
    Shishya Sheikh Disciple
    Mrityu Mout Death
    Pra-Ga-ambar Paigambar One from heaven
    Maleen Malaun Dirty or soiled
    Aapati Aafat Misfortune
    Karpas Kaifas Cotton
    Karpur Kafur Camphor
    Pramukh Barmak Chief

     

    Even various kinds of swords were referred to as Handuwani, Hindi, Saif-Ul-Hind, Muhannid and Hinduani. The Sanskrit Astronomical treatise Brahma-Sphuta-Siddhanta in Arabic translation is known as Sind-Hind, while another treatise Khanda-Khadyaka was called Arkand. Mathematics itself was calledHindisa .

    The Arabs derived technical guidance in every branch of study such as astronomy, mathematics and physics from India. A noted scholar of history, W.H. Siddiqui notes:

    “The Arab civilization grew up intensively
    as well as extensively on the riches of
    Indian trade and commerce. Nomadic Arab
    tribes became partially settled communities
    and some of them lived within walled towns practised agriculture and commerce, wroteon wood and stone, feared the gods and honored the kings.”

    Some people wrongly believe that Arabs used the word Hindu as a term of contemptuous abuse. Nothing could be further from the truth. The people of pre-Islamic Arabia held Hinduism in great esteem as evidenced from the fact that they would endearingly call their most attractive and favourite daughters as Hinda and Saifi Hindi. The fact that Arabs regarded India as their spiritual and cultural motherland long before the damaging influence of Islam is corroborated by the following poem which mentions each one of the four Vedas by name: (The English translation is in black)

    “Aya muwarekal araj yushaiya noha
    minar HIND-e
    Wa aradakallaha
    manyonaifail jikaratun”
    “Oh the divine land of HIND (India)
    (how) very blessed art thou!
    Because thou art the chosen
    of God blessed with knowledge”
    “Wahalatijali Yatun ainana sahabi
    akha-atun jikra Wahajayhi yonajjalur
    -rasu minal HINDATUN ”
    “That celestial knowledge which like
    four lighthouses shone in such
    brilliance – through the (utterances of)
    Indian sages in fourfold abundance.”
    “Yakuloonallaha ya ahal araf alameen
    kullahum
    Fattabe-u jikaratul VEDA bukkun
    malam yonajjaylatun”
    “God enjoins on all humans,
    follow with hands down
    The path the Vedas with his divine
    precept lay down.”
    “Wahowa alamus SAMA wal YAJUR
    minallahay Tanajeelan
    Fa-e-noma ya akhigo mutiabay-an
    Yobassheriyona jatun”
    “Bursting with (Divine) knowledge
    are SAM &YAJUR bestowed on creation,
    Hence brothers respect and
    follow the Vedas, guides to salvation”
    “Wa-isa nain huma RIG ATHAR nasayhin
    Ka-a-Khuwatun
    Wa asant Ala-udan wabowa masha -e-ratun”
    “Two others, the Rig and Athar teach us
    fraternity, Sheltering under their
    lustre dispels darkness till eternity”

    This poem was written by Labi-Bin-E- Akhtab-Bin-E-Turfa who lived in Arabia around 1850 B.C.

    That was 2300 years before Mohammed!!!

    This verse can be found in Sair- Ul-Okul which is an anthology of ancient Arabic poetry.

    It was compiled in 1742 AD under order of the Turkish Sultan Salim.

    That the Vedas were the religious scriptures to which the Arabs owed allegiance as early as 1800 B.C. proves not only the antiquity of the Vedas but also the existence of Indian rule over the entire region from the Indus to the Mediterranean, because it is a fact of history that the religion of the ruler is practised by his subjects.

    Vedic culture was very much alive just before the birth of Muhammad.

    Again let’s refer to the Sair-Ul-Okul. The following poem was written by JirrhamBintoi who lived 165 years before the prophet Muhammed. It is in praise of India’s great King Vikramaditya who had lived 500 years before Bintoi. (The English translation is in red).

    “Itrasshaphai Santul
    Bikramatul phehalameen Karimun
    Bihillahaya Samiminela
    Motakabbenaran Bihillaha
    Yubee qaid min howa
    Yaphakharu phajgal asari
    nahans Osirim Bayjayholeen
    Yaha sabdunya Kanateph natephi
    bijihalin Atadari Bilala masaurateen
    phakef Tasabahu. Kaunni eja majakaralhada
    walhada Achimiman, burukan, Kad, Toluho
    watastaru Bihillaha yakajibainana
    baleykulle amarena
    Phaheya jaunabil amaray Bikramatoon”

    – (Sair-ul-Okul, Page 315)
    “Fortunate are those who were born
    during King Vikram’s reign, he was
    a noble generous, dutiful ruler devoted
    to the welfare of his subjects. But at
    that time, We Arabs oblivious of divinity
    were lost in sensual pleasures. Plotting
    & torture were rampant. The darkness of
    ignorance had enveloped our country.
    Like the lamb struggling for its life
    in the cruel jaws of a wolf, we Arabs
    were gripped by ignorance. The whole
    country was enveloped in a darkness as
    intense as on a New moon night. But the
    present dawn & pleasant sunshine of
    education is the result of the favor of
    that noble king Vikram whose benevolence
    did not lose sight of us foreigners as we
    were. He spread his sacred culture amongst
    us and sent scholars from his own land
    whose brilliance shone like that of the sun
    in our country. These scholars & preceptors
    through whose benevolence we were once again
    made aware of the presence of god, introduced
    to his secret knowledge & put on the road to
    truth, had come to our country to initiate us
    in that culture & impart education.”

    Vedic religion and culture were present in Pre-Islamic Arabia as early as 1850 B.C., and definitely present at the time of Mohammed’s birth.

    Vishnu’s Footprints in Mecca and more to follow.

    Citation.

    https://www.aho.hk/swordoftruth/vpopia1.html

     

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  • Syria -Why and What Next?

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    Repression breeds contempt and it leads to people’s  anger , which spills into streets.

    The so-called Democracies which seem to pontificate on Freedom have been supporting the tin pot dictators till the other day.

    People do not know whom to turn to.

    If you really are for Democracy, you have to refrain from supporting dictators and support only Free Society at all times.

    Other wise,  revolutions and counter revolutions shall become a vicious cycle.

    We seem to have done away with Gaddafi,more or less.

    But what next?

    The present rulers are at a loss as to what to do next.

    Had we taken refrained from supporting dictators or at least refrained from extending aid to the dictator and help build a democratic opposition, things would not have come to such a pass.

    Hamza Ali al-Khateeb, a round-faced 13-year-old boy, was arrested at a protest in Jiza, a southern Syrian village near Dara’a, on April 29. Nothing was known of him for a month before his mutilated corpse was returned to his family on the condition, according to activists, that they never speak of his brutal end….

    Circulating in various versions, the video has injected new life into a six-week uprising against President Bashar al-Assad that has appeared to settle into a bloody stalemate of protests and violent government responses. In the days since news of the death spread, more than 58,000 people have visited and expressed support for a Facebook pagememorializing the boy, Hamza Ali al-Khateeb, as a “child martyr.”

    Demonstrators in several Syrian cities protested the boy’s death last weekend, weaving chants and banners dedicated to him into the mix of antigovernment slogans that have become staples of the uprisings shaking the Arab world.

    In a revolutionary season that has seen countless “Fridays of Rage” in half a dozen countries, Syrian activists marched on a day that some dubbed “the Saturday of Hamza.”

    “People are very upset about the death of the young boy Hamza,” said one man active in protests in Homs, who asked not to be named for fear of the security forces. “He was just a child. It is a crime, a serious crime.”

    http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/31/world/middleeast/31syria.html?_r=2&ref=world&utm_source=Trig

  • Al-Jazeera Directed to Manipulate News?

    To be Honest all media projects are political;depends on one’s view.
    That apart .the inter-cine feud between the sects of Islam is well known.
    They normally fight it out.
    Saudi is sending its troops to Bahrain;what will it do for its internal uprising?
    Call in US?
    London, The Truth (Special): Detection of a British journalist in the Department of editing news channel “Al Jazeera English” that the Board of Directors of Al-Jazeera network had received instructions from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs is to “distinguish between the Gulf and other Arab countries, while coverage of the Arab uprisings.” The journalist said in the e-mail contact with the “truth” that the Directive includes the stations of Arab and international (English). According to the same source, directing foreign country asked, “Al Jazeera” to deal with any uprisings or popular movements in any of the Gulf States “from the political differences between the Gulf States and Iran, and on the background,” and “shed light on the nature of the Shiite and content sectarian This movements. ” The journalist said that the consideration to a channel “Al Jazeera” as “the maker of revolutions” in the Arab world, “it turns out, at least for me, that lie and myth have crept into the public opinion after the success of the station in the coverage of the revolutions of Tunisia and Egypt, has helped her chance on that,” pointing out that the station, “landed a knockout and bared its mask from the first moment of the explosion of the situation in Bahrain last month, missed the event completely covered, although dozens of the protestors were falling dead by the police in Bahrain, and when she returned recently, however it, it looked as if they were transmitted from inside the studios, TV the Bahraini government. “
    The source revealed that the Ministry of Foreign Affairs requested the “network” to host the largest possible number of media, analysts and public figures Gulf espousing the views of the anti-Iran “as in the case of an event Gulf, and away you may as possible from hosting the symbols and figures of the opposition in these countries, in particular Bahrain, which today form the focus of the event in the Gulf region. ” The source said that “Al Jazeera” has become a copy of the channel “Arab” in all matters relating to affairs of the Gulf, and this confirms once again that it is “primarily a political project, not a media project.”
    29:49:05 / 2011-03-15
    Directives of Foreign Affairs of Qatar’s “Al-Jazeera network,” the distinction between coverage of the uprisings in the Arab world and their counterparts in the Gulf
    Requests guidance from the “network” of dealing with uprisings and social movements in the Gulf countries on the basis of an extension of the Sunni-Shiite sectarian polarization and political Iranian Gulf!?

     

  • US more worried abot Independence than Dictatorships.

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    • Objectives of US are
    • Oil
    • Market access
    • Christianity
    • Checkmating China
    • Defending US from Terrorist attacks in US.

    Any process that furthers these objectives, including support of tin pot dictators,invading countries will do fine.

    Horror to US is the thought of countries becoming independent in its objectives like France or China.

    These countries are the two that chart their own course.

    Whether we agree with China or not, it is really the one  independent of US in the world.

    ‘The Arab world is on fire,” al-Jazeera reported last week, while throughout the region, western allies “are quickly losing their influence”. The shock wave was set in motion by the dramatic uprising in Tunisia that drove out a western-backed dictator, with reverberations especially in Egypt, where demonstrators overwhelmed a dictator’s brutal police.

    Observers compared it to the toppling of Russian domains in 1989, but there are important differences. Crucially, no Mikhail Gorbachev exists among the great powers that support the Arab dictators. Rather, Washington and its allies keep to the well-established principle that democracy is acceptable only insofar as it conforms to strategic and economic objectives: fine in enemy territory (up to a point), but not in our backyard, please, unless properly tamed.

    One 1989 comparison has some validity: Romania, where Washington maintained its support for Nicolae Ceausescu, the most vicious of the east European dictators, until the allegiance became untenable. Then Washington hailed his overthrow while the past was erased. That is a standard pattern: Ferdinand Marcos, Jean-Claude Duvalier, Chun Doo-hwan, Suharto and many other useful gangsters. It may be under way in the case of Hosni Mubarak, along with routine efforts to try to ensure a successor regime will not veer far from the approved path. The current hope appears to be Mubarak loyalist General Omar Suleiman, just named Egypt’s vice-president. Suleiman, the longtime head of the intelligence services, is despised by the rebelling public almost as much as the dictator himself.

    A common refrain among pundits is that fear of radical Islam requires (reluctant) opposition to democracy on pragmatic grounds. While not without some merit, the formulation is misleading. The general threat has always been independence. The US and its allies have regularly supported radical Islamists, sometimes to prevent the threat of secular nationalism.

    A familiar example is Saudi Arabia, the ideological centre of radical Islam (and of Islamic terror). Another in a long list is Zia ul-Haq, the most brutal of Pakistan’s dictators and President Reagan‘s favorite, who carried out a programme of radical Islamisation (with Saudi funding).

    “The traditional argument put forward in and out of the Arab world is that there is nothing wrong, everything is under control,” says Marwan Muasher, a former Jordanian official and now director of Middle East research for the Carnegie Endowment. “With this line of thinking, entrenched forces argue that opponents and outsiders calling for reform are exaggerating the conditions on the ground.”

    Therefore the public can be dismissed. The doctrine traces far back and generalises worldwide, to US home territory as well. In the event of unrest, tactical shifts may be necessary, but always with an eye to reasserting control.

    The vibrant democracy movement in Tunisia was directed against “a police state, with little freedom of expression or association, and serious human rights problems”, ruled by a dictator whose family was hated for their venality. So said US ambassador Robert Godec in a July 2009 cable released by WikiLeaks.

    Therefore to some observers the WikiLeaks “documents should create a comforting feeling among the American public that officials aren’t asleep at the switch” – indeed, that the cables are so supportive of US policies that it is almost as if Obama is leaking them himself (or so Jacob Heilbrunn writes in The National Interest.)

    “America should give Assange a medal,” says a headline in the Financial Times, where Gideon Rachman writes: “America’s foreign policy comes across as principled, intelligent and pragmatic … the public position taken by the US on any given issue is usually the private position as well.”

    In this view, WikiLeaks undermines “conspiracy theorists” who question the noble motives Washington proclaims.

    Godec’s cable supports these judgments – at least if we look no further. If we do,, as foreign policy analyst Stephen Zunes reports in Foreign Policy in Focus, we find that, with Godec’s information in hand, Washington provided $12m in military aid to Tunisia. As it happens, Tunisia was one of only five foreign beneficiaries: Israel (routinely); the two Middle East dictatorships Egypt and Jordan; and Colombia, which has long had the worst human-rights record and the most US military aid in the hemisphere.

    Heilbrunn’s exhibit A is Arab support for US policies targeting Iran, revealed by leaked cables. Rachman too seizes on this example, as did the media generally, hailing these encouraging revelations. The reactions illustrate how profound is the contempt for democracy in the educated culture.

    Unmentioned is what the population thinks – easily discovered.According to polls released by the Brookings Institution in August, some Arabs agree with Washington and western commentators that Iran is a threat: 10%. In contrast, they regard the US and Israel as the major threats (77%; 88%).

    http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/cifamerica/2011/feb/04/radical-islam-united-states-independence