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Feb 7, 2012 · Following their division of Ireland between Catholic and Protestant, the British hastily mandated separate states for Hindu and Muslim as a means of covering their retreat.
Dec 19, 2011 · As is well-known, Hitchens indiscriminately criticizes Christianity, Islam, Buddhism, Confucianism, Judaism and Hinduism. In the face of objections that atheist regimes like those of Stalin and Kim Jong-Il can be extraordinarily violent, Hitchens simply includes them under the rubric of religion too.
Dec 19, 2020 · The new atheist remarks that Hinduism as a religion has specific social and cultural practices that go against the value of modern values of gender equality and human rights (Hitchens 2007). Notably, Hitchens claims that Hinduism as a religion has practices like Suttee (Sati).
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Jun 14, 2011 · The standard view of Gandhi is that he cut his ethical teeth by opposing racial discrimination in South Africa, failed to dent the intransigent system there but had greater success with...
Hitchens dismisses the idea of seeking enlightenment through nirvana as a conceit that asks adherents to "put their reason to sleep, and to discard their minds along with their sandals" in chapter fourteen, which focuses on maladaptive and immiserating Hindu and Buddhist feudalism and violence in Tibet and Sri Lanka.
Mar 19, 2020 · Three Hindu monastics visiting Harvard Divinity School this year spoke on March 11, 2020, on the great tradition of the Upanisads and Vedanta, and why this wisdom is relevant in today’s global society.
Dec 1, 2008 · When Salman Rushdie wrote, in The Moor’s Last Sigh in 1995, that “those who hated India, those who sought to ruin it, would need to ruin Bombay,” he was alluding to the Hindu chauvinists who ...
Jun 7, 2011 · The Real Mahatma Gandhi. Questioning the moral heroism of India’s most revered figure. By Christopher Hitchens. Gluekit. July/August 2011 Issue. Joseph Lelyveld subtly tips his hand in his...
Oct 8, 2006 · Until not long ago, Christopher Hitchens, the British-born journalist, was a valued asset of the American left: an intellectual willing to show his teeth in the cause of righteousness.
