Re: [IAC#RG] [media_monitor5] Re: The inside job

Q: What makes a person a non-Hindu ?
A: Any of the following

a) That neither of his parents are Hindu

b) That his father is a non-Hindu and mother is Hindu and the person renounces / does not follow Hinduism on achieving adulthood.

c) That his father is a Hindu (mother can be anything) and there is a positive conversion out of Hinduism to another religion as evidenced by acceptance by members of the religion he converts to alongwith demonstrated actions to show he actually converted from his free will

d) NB: conversion is different from "follower".

The landmark case on this is the one I referred to previously :-  Rani Bhagwan Koer & Ors. versus Acharya J.C. Bose and Ors.

A Hindu on following Islam does not cease to be a Hindu. A Hindu converting to Islam (not colourably like Dharmendra to get married twice) becomes a non-Hindu after some point of time.

The missing case to be still answered is father (non-Hindu) and mother (Hindu) and child is brought up as and follows Hinduism on adulthood. (The Rajiv Gandhi case). The child (now adult) is definitely Hindu but does not have any caste because caste comes through the father. Which is probably why Rajiv Gandhi publicly declared that he was a Parsi (which does not make him a Parsi either since his mother was not-Parsi).. And which is also why Dr. Subramaniam Swamy intellectual gadfly extraordinaire is dreaming up his own version of what is Hinduism/Hindutva because of his own family situation.

Rahul Gandhi's Hinduism will have to be evaluated based on his behaiour and statutory declarations of his mother. Prima facie it seems that with both his parents being non-Hindu he is not a Hindu.

Sarbajit

On Fri, Apr 5, 2013 at 5:55 PM, Vidyut Kale <wide.aware@gmail.com> wrote:

What makes a person a non-Hindu? What is the disqualifier, and are there any other examples other than the Gandhi obsession where someone claims to be Hindu but is not? Or is this a Gandhi special invention?

What gives anyone the right to determine the religion of any person except themselves?

What is the difference between someone declaring X people are not Hindu and Islamists declaring Ahmedis are not Muslims?

Most importantly, how does it matter what anyone's religion is?

Serious questions.

I am NOT a Congress supporter, but I find such propaganda against National and religious interest. The attempt of a few to control membership of a large identity they do not legitimately represent. That too, by inventing rules at will.

Vidyut

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