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out Subramanian Swamy Submitted by admin4 on 29 July 2011 - 4:18pm Indian Muslim By TCN News, New Delhi: Shocked and outraged at the venomous, offensive and inflammatory arti cle of writer-politician-economist Subramanian Swamy, the students and faculties of Harvard University have called on the varsity to sever its ties with Swamy w ho teaches economics at Harvard Summer School. They have started an online petition after Swamys op-ed titled How to wipe out Isl amic terror that was published on July 16 in Daily News and Analysis (DNA), a Mum bai-based daily newspaper.

Subramanian Swamy In his venomous piece, Swamy recommended demolishing the 300 mosques that Hindu fanatics claim, disenfranchising non-Hindus who do not acknowledge their alleged Hindu ancestry and banning conversion from Hinduism but no bar on reconversion to Hinduism. He also advocated to declare India a Hindu Rashtra with no non-Hind u as elected representative. Swamys article was published three days after the Mumbai serial bombings of July 13. The students of Harvard have reacted sharply terming him as religious extremist an d demanded Harvard to end its association with him. They have started an online petition and so far 280 people including students, faculties, other staff member s and others have signed it. We the undersigned members of the Harvard community are outraged to learn that Su bramanian Swamy, an Indian politician whose recent editorial shows him to be a b igoted promoter of communalism in India, also teaches economics at Harvard Unive rsity Summer School. We demand that the Harvard administration repudiate Swamy s remarks and terminate his association with the University, reads the beginning p aragraph of the petition. Writing in the wake of the July 13, 2011, bombings in Mumbai, Swamy has exploited this event not only to promote a vision of Indian society based on Hindu suprem acy, but to disparage and cast suspicion on the entire Muslim community in India . "Muslims of India," he states, "are being programmed by a slow reactive proces s to become radical and thus slide into suicide against Hindus." While free expression and the vigorous contest of ideas are essential in any acad emic community, so, too, are respect and tolerance for human difference. By advo cating measures that would grossly violate freedom of religion and the unqualifi ed right to vote for different religious groups, and by aggressively vilifying a n entire religious community, Swamy breaches the most basic standards of respect and tolerance. The petition further says: Swamy s views are deeply offensive; they are also dang erous. The measures he proposes--far out of step with the everyday secularism an d tolerance embodied by most Indians--would threaten to tear apart the basic fab ric of India s pluralist democracy. And, as Indians know too well, the brand of

rhetoric that he employs has fueled violence against religious minorities in the past. In short, we the undersigned condemn Subramanian Swamy and the views that he has expressed in the strongest terms. Someone who voices such ideas while continuing to teach at Harvard seriously compromises the University s integrity, undermini ng its commitment to diversity and tolerance. Subramanian Swamy can have no plac e in the Harvard community. Among the 280 signatories so far, there are 54 Harvard undergraduates, 61 Gradua te students and 43 alumni and 107 ohters. Link: http://www.hcs.harvard.edu/~slam/petitions/swamy.php Share Comment viewing options Select your preferred way to display the comments and click "Save settings" to a ctivate your changes. Freedom of Speech Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on 29 July 2011 - 7:53pm. Harvard cannot ban someone from expressing his views. America is a democracy and freedom of speech is respected right, and Swami has a right to his speech. You cannot censor someone just because you do not agree with him. reply Share what is the percentage to the total Submitted by satwa gunam (not verified) on 29 July 2011 - 6:01pm. Author could have given the total number and the number of person who has repres ented for swamy removal. reply Share How about giving Shiv Sena type honour Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on 29 July 2011 - 5:29pm. People like him deserve Shiv Sena style welcome. reply Share July 2011 - 4:18pm Indian Muslim By TCN News, New Delhi: Shocked and outraged at the venomous, offensive and inflammatory arti cle of writer-politician-economist Subramanian Swamy, the students and faculties of Harvard University have called on the varsity to sever its ties with Swamy w ho teaches economics at Harvard Summer School. They have started an online petition after Swamys op-ed titled How to wipe out Isl

amic terror that was published on July 16 in Daily News and Analysis (DNA), a Mum bai-based daily newspaper.

Subramanian Swamy In his venomous piece, Swamy recommended demolishing the 300 mosques that Hindu fanatics claim, disenfranchising non-Hindus who do not acknowledge their alleged Hindu ancestry and banning conversion from Hinduism but no bar on reconversion to Hinduism. He also advocated to declare India a Hindu Rashtra with no non-Hind u as elected representative. Swamys article was published three days after the Mumbai serial bombings of July 13. The students of Harvard have reacted sharply terming him as religious extremist an d demanded Harvard to end its association with him. They have started an online petition and so far 280 people including students, faculties, other staff member s and others have signed it. We the undersigned members of the Harvard community are outraged to learn that Su bramanian Swamy, an Indian politician whose recent editorial shows him to be a b igoted promoter of communalism in India, also teaches economics at Harvard Unive rsity Summer School. We demand that the Harvard administration repudiate Swamy s remarks and terminate his association with the University, reads the beginning p aragraph of the petition. Writing in the wake of the July 13, 2011, bombings in Mumbai, Swamy has exploited this event not only to promote a vision of Indian society based on Hindu suprem acy, but to disparage and cast suspicion on the entire Muslim community in India . "Muslims of India," he states, "are being programmed by a slow reactive proces s to become radical and thus slide into suicide against Hindus." While free expression and the vigorous contest of ideas are essential in any acad emic community, so, too, are respect and tolerance for human difference. By advo cating measures that would grossly violate freedom of religion and the unqualifi ed right to vote for different religious groups, and by aggressively vilifying a n entire religious community, Swamy breaches the most basic standards of respect and tolerance. The petition further says: Swamy s views are deeply offensive; they are also dang erous. The measures he proposes--far out of step with the everyday secularism an d tolerance embodied by most Indians--would threaten to tear apart the basic fab ric of India s pluralist democracy. And, as Indians know too well, the brand of rhetoric that he employs has fueled violence against religious minorities in the past. In short, we the undersigned condemn Subramanian Swamy and the views that he has expressed in the strongest terms. Someone who voices such ideas while continuing to teach at Harvard seriously compromises the University s integrity, undermini ng its commitment to diversity and tolerance. Subramanian Swamy can have no plac e in the Harvard community. Among the 280 signatories so far, there are 54 Harvard undergraduates, 61 Gradua te students and 43 alumni and 107 ohters. Link: http://www.hcs.harvard.edu/~slam/petitions/swamy.php

Share Comment viewing options Select your preferred way to display the comments and click "Save settings" to a ctivate your changes. Freedom of Speech Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on 29 July 2011 - 7:53pm. Harvard cannot ban someone from expressing his views. America is a democracy and freedom of speech is respected right, and Swami has a right to his speech. You cannot censor someone just because you do not agree with him. reply Share what is the percentage to the total Submitted by satwa gunam (not verified) on 29 July 2011 - 6:01pm. Author could have given the total number and the number of person who has repres ented for swamy removal. reply Share How about giving Shiv Sena type honour Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on 29 July 2011 - 5:29pm. People like him deserve Shiv Sena style welcome. reply Share