RSS on US terror list

[Tom Yossarian Joad]

RSS on US terror list

By Mukundan C. Menon

The Terrorism Research Center (TRC) of United States named RSS as a terrorist organisation. RSS figures in the TRC list of 38 known and unknown terrorist groups operating in India. Majority in the list are Islamic groups, including the Jamaat-I-Islami.

“After 9/11 the Sangh Parivar found global respectability as an "anti-terrorist" association. In return for India’s strong support of the Afghan War, and its reticence concerning Iraq, the Bush administration looked the other way as up to 300,000 anti-Muslim and anti-Christian shakhas were established under RSS auspices to "educate" the public in the virtues of Hindutva. These training camps mirror the militant function of Islamic madrassas in Pakistan, Afghanistan, and increasingly in Bangladesh, with the two movements fueling each other’s xenophobic violence. Ironically, Hindutva spells the death of Hinduism’s core principles of tolerance and nonviolence, as personified in Gandhi.”

William H. Thornton
“An Alternative India- Neo-Gandhian Resistance To Hindutva, Jihad, and the Politics of Indo-Globalization”
dissidentvoice.org/Dec2004/Thornton1211.htm

Interestingly, the list also includes Rajneesh, or Osho cult, as a terrorist body. Founded in 1996, the TRC Inc. claims to be an "independent institute dedicated to the research of terrorism, information warfare and security, critical infrastructure protection and other issues of low-intensity political violence and gray-area phenomena".

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http://www.milligazette.com/Archives/2005/01-15Jan05-Print-Edition/011501200508.htm

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