Los Angeles Times: An extremist Hindu leader rises in India, along with hopes for a controversial temple
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Los Angeles Times: An extremist Hindu leader rises in India, along with hopes for a controversial temple
At an open-air workshop in this northern Indian town, craftsmen have painstakingly chiseled columns and beams out of giant slabs of stone, engraved each with a number and stacked them three stories high.
The stones are meant to form a temple to the Hindu god Ram at his mythological birthplace in Ayodhya — a site where extremists tore down a mosque in 1992, sparking riots between Hindus and Muslims that left more than 2,000 people dead.
The work is purely speculative, as ownership of the three-acre site picked for the temple has been the subject of a legal battle for decades. But there have been few more vocal champions of the controversial project than the Hindu monk Yogi Adityanath, a firebrand in saffron robes, who told a crowd last year: “When nobody could stop us from demolishing [the mosque], who can stop us from building a temple?”
The provocative words by the boyish-faced, buzz-cut wearing Adityanath will be tested now that he has been appointed to lead the state of Uttar Pradesh, which includes Ayodhya. The surprise move by Prime Minister Narendra Modi came after his party’s sweeping victory in assembly elections this month...
Since taking office, Adityanath has not spoken publicly about the temple, focusing instead on closing unlicensed slaughterhouses and deploying “anti-Romeo squads” to curb sexual harassment. He is an unlikely law-and-order man, having once spent 15 days in jail for inciting riots.
http://www.latimes.com/world/la-fg-india-hindu-temple-2017-story.html
The stones are meant to form a temple to the Hindu god Ram at his mythological birthplace in Ayodhya — a site where extremists tore down a mosque in 1992, sparking riots between Hindus and Muslims that left more than 2,000 people dead.
The work is purely speculative, as ownership of the three-acre site picked for the temple has been the subject of a legal battle for decades. But there have been few more vocal champions of the controversial project than the Hindu monk Yogi Adityanath, a firebrand in saffron robes, who told a crowd last year: “When nobody could stop us from demolishing [the mosque], who can stop us from building a temple?”
The provocative words by the boyish-faced, buzz-cut wearing Adityanath will be tested now that he has been appointed to lead the state of Uttar Pradesh, which includes Ayodhya. The surprise move by Prime Minister Narendra Modi came after his party’s sweeping victory in assembly elections this month...
Since taking office, Adityanath has not spoken publicly about the temple, focusing instead on closing unlicensed slaughterhouses and deploying “anti-Romeo squads” to curb sexual harassment. He is an unlikely law-and-order man, having once spent 15 days in jail for inciting riots.
http://www.latimes.com/world/la-fg-india-hindu-temple-2017-story.html
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Re: Los Angeles Times: An extremist Hindu leader rises in India, along with hopes for a controversial temple
Idiot,
Funny that LA tabloid says blah! blah! blah!!!
While INDIAN VOTERS in INDIA ELECT a party with 325 out of 403 seats.
LOSER!!!
Funny that LA tabloid says blah! blah! blah!!!
While INDIAN VOTERS in INDIA ELECT a party with 325 out of 403 seats.
LOSER!!!
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Re: Los Angeles Times: An extremist Hindu leader rises in India, along with hopes for a controversial temple
southindian wrote:Idiot,
Funny that LA tabloid says blah! blah! blah!!!
While INDIAN VOTERS in INDIA ELECT a party with 325 out of 403 seats.
LOSER!!!
That was the day UPwalas made Rashmunni wear a chaddi topi!
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