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Swami Aseemanand exposes Hindu terrorism

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The Teachers Association of Jamia Millia, a leading Muslim University in the Indian capital, whose students were targeted in anti-terrorist operations, urged the Home Ministry to release a White Paper on the total number of those arrested and in jail currently for the blasts now in every single the blasts named by Swami Aseemanand as the handiwork of his organization and associates. "Those still languishing in prisons must be released without any further delay. Those whose lives have been destroyed, those psychologically scarred and socially stigmatized by these false charges and imprisonment deserve surely a public apology, from the state governments as well as the Home Ministry," said the Association with the acronym of Jamia Teachers' Solidarity Association.

RSS Terrorism

It may be pointed out that the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sang (RSS) is an extremist organization that had been banned by the Indian government several times. In February 1948 the RSS was banned and many of its prominent leaders were arrested after the assassination of Mahatma Gandhi by a RSS member, Nathuran Godse.

The RSS has been censured for its involvement in communal riots in at least six reports by judges who presided over commissions of inquiry: Ahmedabad riots 1969, Bhiwandi riots in 1970, Tellicherry riots in 1971, Jamshedpur riots in 1979, Kanyakumari riots of 1982 and Bhagalpur riots in 1989. (Wikipedia)

A Google search about the RSS found its many extremist activities against Christians also:

- On 13 February 2005, six Christian missionaries belonging to Gospel for Asia Biblical Seminary were injured in the attack by the activists belonging to Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), in KeralaÂ

- On May 12, 2005,a group of extremists of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) attacked and beat eight students from Beersheba Bible College, a school affiliated with the Indian Pentecostal Church of God at Maraman, Kerala.

- On January 12, 2006, a mob of about 100 students belonging to the All India Students Council (ABVP) and the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), the parent organization of the BJP, attacked a group of Christians as they distributed pamphlets near a bus stand in Andhra Pradesh.

- On January 13, 2006, 10 RSS workers stormed the house of Srinivas Balraju, a Christian who was celebrating his daughter's birthday with his other Christian friends in an Andhra Pradesh village. The pastor was dragged from the party and kicked unconscious.

- RSS along with its offshoot organizations Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP), Bajrang Dal (BD) and Hindu Jagaran Sammukhya (HJS) stand accused of orchestrating the August 2008 anti-Christian riots in Orissa.

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