Saturday, January 26, 2008

Bigot Arun Gandhi

UPDATE, January 27, 2008--

From the Tehran Times:

Gandhi grandson falls victim to Zionist lobby

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ROCHESTER, N.Y. (AP) -- Arun Gandhi said he learned at his grandfather's feet that the world's major conflicts can only be tackled by first solving the little problems.

"It's the little problems that accumulate and become big problems," the fifth grandson of revered pacifist Mahatma Gandhi said when he moved his M.K. Gandhi Institute for Nonviolence to the University of Rochester last June.

Now, intemperate remarks about Israel and Jews being "the biggest players" in a global culture of violence have gotten Gandhi removed as president of the peace center he launched in 1991.

"My intention was to generate a healthy discussion on the proliferation of violence," Gandhi said Friday, a day after the institute's board accepted his resignation. "Instead, unintentionally, my words have resulted in pain, anger, confusion and embarrassment. I deeply regret these consequences."

The institute offers courses, workshops and seminars on nonviolence and will "continue its mission" at the University of Rochester, which provides office space and staff support, said the school's president, Joel Seligman.

...Gandhi's resignation "was appropriate" because his remarks "did not reflect the core values" of either the university or the institute, Seligman said in a statement.

...Gandhi was on a panel of scholars, writers and clergy who discuss a new topic weekly on the Washington Post's "On Faith" page and his comments, posted Jan. 7, drew a torrent of criticism, much of it unfavorable.

Gandhi wrote that Jewish identity "has been locked into the holocaust experience—a German burden that the Jews have not been able to shed. It is a very good example of (how) a community can overplay a historic experience to the point that it begins to repulse friends.

"The holocaust was the result of the warped mind of an individual who was able to influence his followers into doing something dreadful. ... The world did feel sorry for the episode but when an individual or a nation refuses to forgive and move on, the regret turns into anger."

Describing Israel as "a nation that believes its survival can only be ensured by weapons and bombs," Gandhi asked whether it would "not be better to befriend those who hate you?"

"Apparently, in the modern world so determined to live by the bomb, this is an alien concept," he wrote. "You don't befriend anyone, you dominate them. We have created a culture of violence (Israel and the Jews are the biggest players) and that Culture of Violence is eventually going to destroy humanity."

It sounds like Gandhi has a lot in common with Jimmy Carter and Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.

I see a Nobel Peace Prize nomination in Gandhi's future.

6 comments:

Anonymous said...

Why have comments at all?

Anonymous said...

People are sick of hearing Holocaust,
it happened god knows 200 years ago, Why cant you just move on to solve bigger problems in Africa, Get over it.

Anonymous said...

arun gandhi is not a bigot.he is a decent man.he likes to be decent to all including
arabs and israelis. unfortunatley israelis think not,when they think think onesided.with mother-in-law elizabeth and george bush or other power brokers, who have put up their own obscenity called the united nations,its human rights dating 1948 but letting it to be retroactively abrogated by the islamists of wahabi hues and retroactive back moving auschwitz bomber bush arun will not be nominated,and i am sure he will not accept the tarnished nobel peace prize.=taravadu taranga trust for media monitoring=kulamarva balakrishna 27-1-2008

Mary said...

Anonymous 10:29 AM, January 26, 2008--

So you can leave a comment.

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Anonymous 12:31 PM, January 26, 2008--

You need to educate yourself on the Holocaust.

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Anonymous 3:45 AM, January 27, 2008--

Is that you, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad?

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bal,

Gandhi has been removed as president of the peace center. He deeply regrets his remarks. He understands that what he said was inappropriate.

Your remarks about George Bush and the United Nations are wrong on so many fronts I don't know where to begin.

Suffice it to say, you don't know what you're talking about. You have your facts screwed up.

Mary said...

FACT: The Jews of Israel have NOT "outdone" Hitler's Germany.

Making that claim requires the denial of reality.

Anonymous said...

The problem is that the truth hurts. No one in their right mind would be insensitive to the cruelties endured by the Jewish people during the holocaust. It is in my opinion, the world's greatest tragedy. However, if one does not forgive, then something else takes the place of that forgiveness...it is dark and it consumes...anyone who has watched a Hollywood blockbuster understands this, although most allow it into their own unsuspecting minds and hearts and wonder how they came to grow bitter over the years. If forgiveness is not attained, a greater atrocity will take its place, and just like anything elase that is destructive in life, this cycle will continue until someone comes along and does the right thing.