{"id":4447,"date":"2007-07-23T19:08:49","date_gmt":"2007-07-23T19:08:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/drishtikone\/2007\/07\/osama-and-gandhi-nobody-knew\/"},"modified":"2007-07-23T19:08:49","modified_gmt":"2007-07-23T19:08:49","slug":"osama-and-gandhi-nobody-knew","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/drishtikone\/2007\/07\/osama-and-gandhi-nobody-knew\/","title":{"rendered":"Osama and the Gandhi-that-nobody-knew!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

Gandhi\u2019s grandson, Rajmohan Gandhi, says that Gandhi<\/a> would have resisted Osama. <\/p>\n

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Rajmohan Gandhi said that his grandfather would also have tried to organise \"something dramatic\", perhaps a mass fast, to show how unhappy most Muslims were that their religion was being linked to terrorism. <\/p>\n

Asked what he would have made of Al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden and the Islamist Taliban militia in Afghanistan, Rajmohan said: \"He would have stood up to them.\" <\/p>\n

\"The Muslim and non-Muslim issue was a very important issue in his life in India, and he was killed because many Hindus thought he was friendlier to the Muslims than was necessary,\" the former Indian parliamentarian said. <\/p>\n

\"So today, he would never agree with the idea that there\u2019s something connected between Islam and violence or Islam and terrorism. He would totally oppose that idea.\" <\/p>\n

Rajmohan added that his grandfather \"might have recommended to the Muslims of the world who were unhappy being hijacked by the terrorists to say how about demonstrating your dissociation with violence through a fast if need be\"<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

This is utter nonsense!!<\/p>\n

Gandhi, in a similar situation where Hitler \u2013 another terrorist was trying to kill Jews offered this as an advise to the Brits<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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\"Let them take possession of your beautiful island with your many beautiful buildings. You will give all these, but neither your souls, nor your minds.\"<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

After the holocaust, he remarked to his biographer that: that the Jews died anyway, didn\u2019t they? They might as well have died significantly.<\/em><\/p>\n

So, in my view, his way would have been \u2013 to advise the Hindus, the Shias, and others \u2013 to just get killed with a smile on their face and let them take whatever Nukes they could find and use them to kill more people\u2026 \"since Hindus and other non-believers died anyways.. They might as well have died significantly!\"<\/p>\n\n

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Gandhi’s grandson, Rajmohan Gandhi, says that Gandhi<\/a> would have resisted Osama. <\/p>\n

\n

Rajmohan Gandhi said that his grandfather would also have tried to organise "something dramatic", perhaps a mass fast, to show how unhappy most Muslims were that their religion was being linked to terrorism. <\/p>\n

Asked what he would have made of Al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden and the Islamist Taliban militia in Afghanistan, Rajmohan said: "He would have stood up to them." <\/p>\n

"The Muslim and non-Muslim issue was a very important issue in his life in India, and he was killed because many Hindus thought he was friendlier to the Muslims than was necessary," the former Indian parliamentarian said. <\/p>\n

"So today, he would never agree with the idea that there’s something connected between Islam and violence or Islam and terrorism. He would totally oppose that idea." <\/p>\n

Rajmohan added that his grandfather "might have recommended to the Muslims of the world who were unhappy being hijacked by the terrorists to say how about demonstrating your dissociation with violence through a fast if need be"<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1517,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4447","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"\nOsama and the Gandhi-that-nobody-knew!<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Gandhi's grandson, Rajmohan Gandhi, says that Gandhi would have resisted Osama. Rajmohan Gandhi said that his grandfather would also have tried to organise "something dramatic", perhaps a mass fast, to show how unhappy most Muslims were that their religion was being linked to terrorism. 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