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1 Page 1 of 9 An Open Letter to Hindus Worldwide The Islamic conquest of India is probably the bloodiest story in history. It is a discouraging tale, for its evident moral is that civilization is a precious good, whose delicate complex of order and freedom, culture and peace, can at any moment be overthrown by barbarians invading from without or multiplying within. Will Durant Allah is our objective. The Prophet is our leader. The Quran is our law. Jihād is our way. Dying in the way of Allah is our highest hope. The Muslim Brotherhood Islam wishes to destroy all states and governments anywhere on the face of the earth which are opposed to the ideology and programme of Islam regardless of the country or the Nation which rules it. The purpose of Islam is to set up a state on the basis of its own ideology and programme, regardless of which nation assumes the role of the standard-bearer of Islam or the rule of which nation is undermined in the process of the establishment of an ideological Islamic State. Islam requires the earth not just a portion, but the whole planet. Abul A'la Maududi If the American people do not awake to the nature and seriousness of this threat, if we do not take swift and effective action to protect our republic from it, if we do not openly and candidly name the enemies of freedom and human liberty in short, if Islam is allowed to realize its goals then one day there will be no 5th District of Tennessee, nor will there be any Tennessee, nor will there be a United States of America, and the Quran will be the only constitution ruling this land that we cherish. Vijay Kumar Dear Hindu Friends, When it comes to addressing the Islamic question, we Hindus have miserably failed. After one thousand years of coexistence, in 1947 Muslims of India got their own country Pakistan (East and West). In 1971, Hindu India liberated East Pakistan from the genocide of the West Pakistani Muslim soldiers. Then in gratitude, the newly formed Bangladesh turned against the Infidel Indians. Now, Islam is creating trouble in Indian Punjab, Indian Kashmir, Assam, Tripura, West Bengal, and Kerala through both terrorism and demographic conquest. Where is an end to this demographic conquest? Who is going to address it? Indian political parties all of them have miserably failed to confront the Islamic question. Unless there are some radical changes worldwide, there will not be a Hindu civilization an India within fifty years. Europe is already eroding, and America is targeted next.

2 Page 2 of 9 It is not logical to blame Hindu Leaders, past or present. They are the product of Hindu civilization which esteems ahimsa as the highest of virtues. From Mahatma Gandhi to the current leadership, Hindu leaders have been unable to counter the intolerance and violence of the powerful imperialist ideology called Islam because Islam has the most potent weapon faith. Islam s self-interest is its faith. Faith, in the Islamic sense, defies reason. Faith uses reason to serve its interests, so long as reason is useful. Once reason is inconsistent with faith, faith discards reason. The definition of faith amounts to Heads I win and Tails you lose. That s it. How should Hindus fight back? A major part of the problem is communication. To Hindus, religion means meditation, celibacy, and contemplation. For Muslims, religion means the unquestioning supremacy of a dogmatic faith, submission, absence of critical thought, imperialism, conquest, rape, and genocide. Therefore, to win this civilizational war, we must first change how we use words. We must change the semantics of our political vocabulary to reflect an attitude of rigorous and uncompromising reasoning in the scientific and not religious sense. First and foremost, we must acknowledge a certain fundamental premise: there really is no such thing as religious conflict. Wars are only for material benefits wealth, land, slaves, sex. Theology is merely an excuse, a veneer, a cover-up. Theological conquests are for material benefits to exterminate the other side in order to take their goods, their lands, and their women to use as slaves. That s it. That s all there is to so-called religious conflict. Islam does not hide its intentions. We Hindus have refused to understand Islam s message. Islam wants universal conquest. It wants the entire world to submit to Arab supremacy. Theology, violence, and demographic conquest are three tools Islam uses. The reasons for the failure of Hindu resistance First, I use the words Hindu and Indian interchangeably. The phrase Indian Muslim is a contradiction in terms. A Muslim cannot be an Indian because the Quran, which is also the Constitution of Saudi Arabia, is, to him, the most holy thing in the world. If there is a conflict between the Saudi Arabian Constitution (the Quran) and the Indian Constitution, surely an Indian Muslim chooses the former. The goal of the Muslim leaders in India is very simple. They want to annihilate the entire Hindu civilization. If they cannot accomplish it today, they will accomplish it a hundred years from now. Demographic conquest is the most permanent form of conquest. We have lost fifty percent of the land already, and we are going to lose the rest.

3 Page 3 of 9 Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Bangladesh were once parts of India. Where are they now? Today Kashmir, Tripura, Assam, West Bengal, and Kerala are facing the same fate. You well know this history. The only difference between pre-1947 days and today is that before 1947 Hindus and Muslims killed each other with knives and guns, while now we re ready to destroy each other with fighter jets and chemical or nuclear weapons. Meanwhile, the Muslims are winning on all fronts demographics, propaganda, cunning, intimidation everything. Second, we must realize that Islam is the other to all non-islamic political ideologies and views. In India, we non-muslim Indians can peacefully coexist regardless of political affiliation. Today s Naxalite is tomorrow s capitalist. However, Islam never changes. A Muslim is a Muslim is a Muslim always. Muslim politics consistently opposes all else. Third, we have never had an organization that is solely focused to address the issue of Islam. There are certain groups (I need not mention their names) that constantly complain about the dangers of Islam, but they have not accomplished much during the last hundred years. They could not stop the partition. We desperately need a central coordination council, an intellectual nerve center totally dedicated to face Islamic imperialism as a political ideology. Despite the setbacks, I am very optimistic. I think we can win this civilizational war provided we change our political philosophy and our world outlook. Problems of existence are problems of philosophy. We must have the correct philosophical view to approach the problem. We must use logic, reason, empiricism, and secular humanism to criticize Islam. Theological arguments ( my religion is better than yours arguments) won t work because Islam is not a religion, and conflict with Islam is not a theological one; it is an existential conflict. Central Points 1. All religious world-views, no matter which religion they represent, are provincial, not universal. There are no theological solutions to the suffering of humanity. 2. Most vicious conflicts that exist today among nations, or have always existed, are civilizational conflicts involving religion. The worldwide ideological conflict between the Soviet Union and the West is long over, and nearly all territorial disputes such as between Russia and Japan have subsided. However, conflicts involving the Islamic religion (Israeli-Palestinian, India-Pakistan) persist. Out of 22 conflicts in the world today, 20 involve Muslims. 3. However, the Indo-Pakistani conflict, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, the Russia-Chechen conflict, and all other conflicts involving Muslims around the world are not unrelated events. They are all manifestations of universal jihad. It is Islam against humanity.

4 Page 4 of 9 4. Pakistan is not a problem just for India or Hindus. Pakistan is a problem for humanity. The September 11, 2001, terrorist acts were orchestrated in Pakistan. The chief architects of September 11 (Khalid Mohammed Sheikh and Osama Bin Laden) were caught in Pakistan. Pakistan is an existential threat to the West because it tries to export its surplus population to the entire Western world. Once the Pakistani immigrants are in, they become a State-within-a-State wherever they are. 5. Only non-religious Secularism, reason, empiricism, and pluralism can save the world. Secular national governance should be worldwide no exceptions. Secularism is the antithesis of Islam. 6. Only demilitarization, secularization, and democratization of the Axis of Jihad Iran, Pakistan, Syria, and Saudi Arabia is acceptable. Without that there is no future for humanity. 7. The Pakistani army should be turned into a police force. Pakistan has internal threats, not external threats. 8. Not only India and Hindus are concerned about Islam. Animists, Buddhists, Christians, Jews, and Sikhs are concerned too. Chinese, Filipinos, Japanese, and Koreans are also alarmed, as are Americans, Australians, Brits, Canadians, French, Germans, Greeks, Italians, and Russians. Islam is increasingly recognized as a worldwide danger. 9. The only hope for the world is an international United Resistors of Jihad. Gentile and Jew, Catholic and Protestant, Saxon and Slav, Hindu and Buddhist, Nigerian and Norwegian all have a common cause in defeating Jihad and Islamic expansionism. 10. Religions divide human beings. They do not bring human beings together. A secular and naturalistic outlook of the world is more reasonable. 11. Technology actually unites the world. It is technologies like cell phones, the Internet, search engines, blogs, YouTube, and social networking sites that bring people together. Societies can be changed through proper use of these technologies. 12. If reason survives, dharma survives, and Islam withers away. Islam is anti-reason called faith. 13. Secular humanism, empiricism, and scientific method are the most powerful weapons against Islam. Islam has no weapons against empiricist methodologies. 14. The logic of My religion is better than your religion does not suffice, because Islam is an Arab Supremacist ideology that does not accord any validity to competing faiths % of the Muslim masses could be on the side of free Infidels because Islam has had nothing to offer them except oppression for 1,400 years and just used them as thugs to rob from Infidel lands. The Muslim masses actually were the first victims of Islam, since failure to obey Muhammad s orders or any attempt to escape was and still is punishable by death.

5 Page 5 of Already, Indonesian Muslims are increasingly turning against Saudi Arabia because of the atrocious treatment of Indonesian immigrant workers there and in other Gulf Cooperation Council States. (Please see for details and current news about such events.) 17. Many conservatives in the U.S. and Europe understand the worldwide threat of Islam. However, the liberal Left has been too mired in cultural relativism and political correctness to realize that Muslims take advantage of Western tolerance to advance their own adamantly intolerant cause. 18. Meanwhile, Muslims who immigrated to America to escape the oppression of Sharia law and forced illiteracy of women do not want such 7th century notions to enslave them again. Also, most American Muslims were appalled and deeply embarrassed by the carnage of September 11, So these people are our natural allies as well. 19. Since having a materialistic epistemology is at variance with Islamic ideology, in the 1950s thousands of Leftists were the first to die as Islamic fundamentalism swept over Indonesia and Iran. But Leftists today have forgotten that slaughter. By reminding them of this consequence of foolish tolerance of a relentless and deadly enemy, we Infidels worldwide ought to be able to convince the Left to join in the fight against militant Islam. 20. Correspondingly, we must convince the Right to work with the Left in cooperative effort to defeat Islamic totalitarianism for the sake of survival of both. For example, many former Liberals are now fighting Islam. (David Horowitz, the late Oriana Fallacci, Vijay Kumar, and others.) 21. Islam is more dangerous than Communism and Nazism combined because those ideologies make no claim of a transcendental metaphysics as Islam does. Nazis were in power for under 12 years, while Communism in Russia and the Warsaw Pact nations was in power for 70 years. By contrast, Islamic imperialism has been in power for fourteen centuries. Global Islamic Jihad has gone on for 1,400 years against everyone they consider to be Infidels. 22. We must recognize that there is no such thing as an India-specific solution to Islamic hegemony. Islamic imperialism is the antithesis of the brotherhood of mankind. Islam must be reformed, just as every other religion already has been. 23. Our goal is to emancipate not only the Hindus, Buddhists, and other Infidels all over the world, but also 90% of the Muslim masses worldwide who have been victims of the Arab imperialism called Islam for 14 centuries. 24. The argument that there are 1.5 billion Muslims in the world is deceptive. It is a mistake to count non-arabs as true Muslims. Because they do not read or speak Arabic, non-arabs do not understand what is in the Quran. (Indeed, neither do Arab women who were kept from learning to read.) If the majority of Muslims do not know what they believe, why do they believe at all? Since the penalty for questioning doctrine or admitting to believing anything else is death, they keep silent for now.

6 Page 6 of Consider what would happen if you were to translate a Harry Potter novel into Arabic, put a Quran-like green-cover binding on it, and give it to some non-arab Muslims. Not knowing any better, they would start worshipping it. And if you were to burn that Arabic Harry Potter novel, they would kill you. If the Muslim masses actually understood what is written in the Quran, they would revolt against Saudi Arabia and the Islamic leaders in their communities. They would not fight the United States, Britain, Germany, France, or India. They would fight Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, and Iran the Axis of Jihad. 26. We Hindus should forego our own regional, linguistic, and caste prejudices. Hindu and Buddhist civilizations and their values once were revered from India to Indonesia, from parts of Russia to Thailand, Burma, Vietnam, Tibet, Mongolia, China, and Japan. Today, there is even a European Buddhist Country Kalmykia. But remember this: Hindu holy-men may offer you spiritual salvation, but they cannot save you from the wrath of Islam. If you want to defeat Islam, you must think differently. 27. Hindus are not alone in this global conflict with Islam. Lebanon was a Christian nation until the 1960s. Now there are hardly any Christians left there, in Egypt (Copts), or even in the land where Jesus was born. Nigeria, the most populous country in Africa, is becoming an Islamic State through both demographics and persistent violence. Western Europe is swarming with Muslim immigrants more to bring Islam and Sharia law there than to escape from it. In some French cities, there are now Islamic neighborhoods where even the police will not go. Meanwhile, Americans watch all these events with rising tension. 28. Just imagine what would happen if Japan were converted to Islam. Today, Japan has one of the most honest societies left in the world. If they all converted to Islam, instead of exporting Toyotas and other high-technology products, they would export terrorists. The honor, grace, and patriotism of Japan would wither away and its people would all become slaves to the Arab imperialism called Islam. They would become another Pakistan. Remember, Pakistanis are former Hindus and Buddhists. 29. There is a single, specific cause of the destruction of the classic civilizations of Turkey (Hellenic), North Africa (Christian), Iran (Zoroastrian), Egypt (Copt), Afghanistan (Buddhist), Pakistan (Hindu), and Malaysia and Indonesia (Hindu and Buddhist). It is Islamic onslaught. If we do not stop Islamic imperialism, the whole world will turn into Afghanistan and Pakistan. Moderate Muslim nations are so because of their pre- Islamic heritage Turkey (Hellenic) and Indonesia (Hindu and Buddhist). 30. Whether you are an atheist (not a Hindu), or a Christian, or a Buddhist, or a Jew, or a gay, or Chinese, or Japanese, or an African animist, or a woman, you have a problem with Islam. It is not about religion. It is about Freedom of Mind. Once you surrender to Islam, which is Arab Supremacist ideology, you become a Zombie. Islam means submission and surrender. There is no critical thought in Islam. And without critical thought there is no human progress. Therefore, women everywhere, all non-arabic Muslims, and all Infidels have a common cause to defeat Islam.

7 Page 7 of 9 A comprehensive solution to the Islamic threat 1. We need an intellectual headquarters that will be the international nerve center to lobby both the U.S. Congress and European parliaments, as well as support globally all revolutionary movements against Islam, everywhere morally and intellectually, but not financially. 2. The intellectual headquarters will be something similar to the corporate headquarters of Microsoft, Google, and Apple, or Aetna, Cigna, and Travelers a bunch of whitecollar people working on computers. Nothing else. Think how much influence these technology companies and insurance companies have in the world. Recall what Facebook and Twitter did in the Arab Spring revolutions, particularly in Egypt. 3. We need to acknowledge, respect, recognize, and work with other groups that have been victims of Islamic imperialism. We can work with Buddhists, Christians, Jews, Serbs, Copts, Chinese (there are Chinese victims of Islam in Indonesia and Malaysia), Filipinos, Nigerians, and Sudanese animists. Also, with Europeans, and Americans, and Russians. This is NOT a pipe-dream. In all these countries, among all these ethnic groups, there are people who are actively resisting Islamic Imperialism. 4. We can create a lobby group that lobbies in every state in the United States. Since only local people can effectively influence their representatives, this effort should be a grass roots endeavor. 5. There are millions of retired people in America. We can recruit them as volunteers to educate congressmen and senators. We can saturate the Congress with the truth about the threat we face. 6. In the U.S., at first we must focus on the small conservative ( red ) states because there the people have more leverage with their politicians. 7. Also, small states have equal power with big states. By the Great Compromise, there are two senators for each state, regardless of population or land area. 8. Tennessee would be the best location for the proposed corporate headquarters of the United Resistors of Jihad (URoJ). Why Tennessee? a. Tennessee is the Silicon Valley of the anti-islamic movement worldwide. (Texas is ideal for oil, the real Silicon Valley in California is good for computers, New York is the world s financial hub, Connecticut is the U.S. insurance center, and Massachusetts is best at effective public education). b. What can be accomplished from Tennessee against Islamic imperialism cannot be done from anywhere else, such as Europe or India (already too overrun by Islam) or any of the big U.S. cities (too politically correct).

8 Page 8 of 9 c. The First and Second Amendments are cherished in Tennessee. That is why the anti-jihad billboards for Vijay Kumar for Congress were allowed here even though they would not have been accepted elsewhere. (Just imagine the chaos that would have erupted, had even one such sign been put up in India.) d. Politicians in Tennessee are accessible. e. The population of Tennessee is mostly conservative and sympathetic to our cause. When my articles are published by local news media, they are very favorably received and attract dozens of comments. The supporters outweigh the detractors by at least ten to one. f. We have very strong anti-sharia groups here. I can work to coordinate them as allies in our efforts. g. I can build an international lobbying group based in Tennessee. By doing that, I believe we could easily have access to at least 60 senators and a hundred congressmen, as well as local officials within the state. Objectives 1. Citizenship for all immigrants who work in Gulf Cooperation Council countries. (Please see for more details.) 2. Demilitarization, secularization, and democratization of the Axis of Jihad Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, and Iran. 3. Advocate for fundamental reforms in Islam. 4. Stop immigration to western countries from the Islamic world except for individuals genuinely seeking asylum from Islamic oppression. (Islam wants to demographically conquer India, Europe, and the United States. Remember that Demographic Conquest is the most permanent form of conquest.) Funding and Operation of the Organization Clearly, such an ambitious undertaking cannot proceed without funding. Although there are individuals both capable and potentially interested in donating to this cause, they are not likely to do so unless and until they believe it to be a solid enterprise that will last long enough to succeed in at least some of its goals. Accordingly, they would be justified in expecting to see that there is a real office staffed by regular workers, at least some of whom are paid. And they will want the assurance that the organization is duly registered with the state and any other relevant authorities, maintains proper financial records, has its own bank account and phone number, etc. To those ends, both accounting and legal services must be employed.

9 Page 9 of 9 I am willing and fully expect to work full time on this project, as follows: Lobbying the U.S. Congress; Educating the media and the public regarding Islam s plans for demographic conquest in India, Europe, and in North America; Creating volunteer organizations around the U.S.; Building alliances with anti-islamic organizations worldwide; Explaining to the Left why they cannot afford to let their political correctness blind them to the dangers of Islam, and to both the Left and the Right why they need to face the common Islamic threat in a united front; Educating the Muslim masses worldwide about the dangers of Islamic theocracy. Setting up and running a corporate headquarters for the United Resistors of Jihad would not be a trivial endeavor. However, everyone and everything needed to do so is either readily available here in Tennessee or accessible to me elsewhere in the U.S. The goal is to create an intellectual capital and resource center for all those groups and individuals that are resisting Islamic imperialism worldwide. Every human being on Earth has a stake in the formation and success of this project. Yet most of those who most need the relief it can bring them have no means to help. Others who may be able to help later cannot do so until they learn the organization exists and has sufficient influence to accomplish its goals. Seed money required for startup costs plus the first two years of operating expenses for a project of this magnitude is estimated at one million dollars USD. For further information, please send your inquiry to reasoninrevolt@aol.com Meanwhile, for the sake of the world your children and grandchildren will live in, please contribute as much as you can now to this vital cause. You may donate safely via the PayPal button at (no PayPal account needed). Thank you. Respectfully, Vijay Kumar Infidels of the World, Unite! P.S. As you likely know, when people look back over their lives, what they regret most is not the things they did that somehow went wrong, but the things they did not do that they could have done the opportunities lost that could have made a positive difference either to them or to someone they cared about. If you have the means to help here, please don t put yourself in the position of one day regretting not having done so. Thank you again.

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