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Apr 09, 2017 Letters

Dear Editor,
It is literal ignorance for someone to claim that because a person is an ordained religious human whether Swami, Archbishop etc, he/she is not capable of vicious and deeply troubling actions. You have a virtual ocean of examples the past two thousand years of such people. For anyone to brush aside these examples, they are just downright ignorant in the morbid sense of the word. Some examples should suffice. The Boston Globe exposed a pedophiliac ring in the Catholic Church. The story was made in an Oscar-awarded film, “SPOTLIGHT.”
The Archbishop of Rwanda was charged for genocide. He lured fleeing Tutsis into his church then called in the murderous band that chopped them to death. During the anti-Muslin riots in Gujarat, Hindu priests urged their followers to kill Muslims and that is what they did. The Chief Minister of the state at the time is the current Prime Minister of India who because of that semi-genocide incident was denied an American visa. There are Evangelical priests in the US that are the worst advocates of racist domination. In Guyana, during a speech to his congregation, Hindu priest, Reepu Daman Persaud advocated a third term for President Bharrat Jagdeo, the most depraved head of a Caribbean country in the history of the West Indies.
We come now to Hindu priest, Aksharananda. There are Africans and East Indians in this country that prefer to see their particular ethnic community in charge of Guyana. Tom Dalgetty once wrote that Walter Rodney should never have attempted to remove a Blackman (Burnham) from power. Ravi Dev is Guyana’s most devout preacher of ethnic hegemony. But Aksharananda is far more dangerous than any of them. Here is why.
Dalgetty is seldom heard or seen. Ravi Dev is a stuck record that has become a jaded and faded mandarin. Ryhaan Shah is a tenth rate writer of fiction that has no intellectual prowess. These people cannot influence young minds. But Aksharanda can. He owns a school where the students numbering in the hundreds are all East Indians. Can one imagine what he hints at those students? Aksharananda has a Hindu church where he preaches. Can one imagine what he sermonizes his devotees with?
I did a column whereby I pointed out to readers that Aksharananda got a taste of his own medicine when he revolted against a Christian preacher who was allowed in a public school to lecture children in a hate filled speech. I did not, could not and will never accept what that Christian preacher spoke. He should not have been given such a permit. The point of the column was to prove to Aksharanada how it feels when the shoe is on the other foot.
Aksharananda had three supporters who rallied to his defence in letters to this newspaper. All in rather unthinking manner were quite pleased to let me know that they are devout Hindus so they are defending a Hindu. Not one of them wrote as a person who believes in a philosophical way of looking at things. They said they were Hindus defending Aksharananda. I guess it would be good for the credibility of Aksharananda to get non-Hindus to defend him. Not one of them even dwelled for a moment on all the evidence I provided of Aksharananda openly engaging in race domination, support for the PPP and condemnation of PNC leaders during the 2015 election campaign.
In that column, I omitted an egregious published letter of Aksharananda in which he condemned Moses Nagamootoo and Nigel Hughes for incitement of African youths to beat Indian people during a violent protest at Agricola in October 2012. Nothing of the sort happened. We would have had it on the historical record if Nagamootoo and Hughes had replied so in any debate on the credibility of Aksharananda it could have been cited. If the debate continues, I would reproduce this consistent advocacy. Finally, I don’t care a damn who wears rubber slippers and live modestly. I am concerned about what it inside their minds. It is laughable to judge a person by the type of clothes they wear.
Frederick Kissoon

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