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India-Pakistan
Hindus Win Dispute in Babri Masjid Case in Historic Verdict.
2019-11-09
Supreme Court Gives Ayodhya Land to Hindus in Historic Verdict.
This is a big deal. It is a blow to the islamists and leftist diversity lovers within India. It is the equivalent of the Temple Mount to the hindus, and a muslim bugbear since the 90s.
The Ayodhya Dispute.

In '92 the hindu right-wingers attacked and partly destroyed a masjid built by the mughals over an ancient temple to lord Ram, the primary hindu deity. Ayodhya, said to be the birth place of Ram since then became a place of considerably militant religious fervor. A large muslim community lived around the Babri Masjid and had to scatter in the riots that followed. The event began the decade long litigation which embarrassingly dragged the purview of modern day jurists into questions of myth, historicity and even the tracing of lineages of deities and their progeny. We are immensely glad that one - the muslims are further dis-empowered and two - the SC can go back to doing actual work that affects actual living people. Not that this verdict wasn't a piece of work, but the credit for this only goes to PM Modi and his merry band, for consolidating an iron hold on every source and conduit of power from the legislatures to mainstream media. The basically right-wing govt has built an atmosphere of secular strictures and non-tolerance of islamist thuggery. Which is a good thing, if you ask the right people.
Ayodhya Verdict Live Updates: Bringing down curtains on the Ram Janmabhoomi-Babri Masjid issue, one of the longest running title disputes in India, the Supreme Court has given the entire disputed 2.77-acre land to the Hindu parties with a trust to be formed by the Centre within three months to monitor the construction of a Ram Temple. The Sunni Waqf Board will be given 5 acres of alternate land, a five-judge bench of the Supreme Court ruled in the unanimous verdict. The Nirmohi Akhara also suffered some setback with the court. The CJI Ranjan Gogoi-led bench of Justices SA Bobde, DY Chandrachud, Ashok Bhushan and S Abdul Nazeer, said the Akhara's suit was barred by limitation.

The Ayodhya title suit verdict comes nine years after the 2:1 judgment of the Allahabad High Court that ordered a three-way division of the disputed 2.77 acres of land between the three parties - Ram Lalla, Sunni Waqf Board and the Nirmohi Akhara. The Lucknow Bench of the High Court, on September 30, 2010, held that Hindus and Muslims as joint title holders of the disputed land.

Crux of the Ayodhya Verdict

The disputed land in Ayodhya goes to the Hindus in its entirety for the construction of Ram Mandir. The Sunni Waqf Board will get five acres of alternate land, which will be accorded either by the state or the Centre.

Centre will hand over the disputed site to the Board of trustees and a suitable alternative plot of land measuring five acres at Ayodhya will be given to Sunni Waqf Board.

Posted by:Dron66046

#6  And you're right that it's not gone down the drain yet. There's actual bible believing folks in all of America, white and colored and asian etc, who are propping up the standard. They may not have grand spires or kiss the Pope's pinkie every year but Gawd listens to them.
Posted by: Dron66046   2019-11-09 14:51  

#5  Thank you, Matt.

I can't speak for the US as a whole

And I thank God for that, Matt. Not heathens no, but I know there is an endemic fascination for atheism and the idolatry of charismatics and celebrities throughout the US. Coupled with increasing liberals' demand to do away with icons and articles of the christian faith from American life altogether if possible. Indeed it's everywhere, not just the US. But I have faith that God's not done with America, which is why the Trump is here.
Posted by: Dron66046   2019-11-09 14:34  

#4  Dron, my ignorance of India is so profound that I'm not sure even you can make a dent in it, but your posts are consistently interesting and offer a perspective we haven't had here before.

I can't speak for the US as a whole, but within two miles of my house there are two Catholic churches, a Greek Orthodox Cathedral, a Korean Presbyterian Church, a Coptic Orthodox Church, a Baptist Church, and an Episcopal Church. So we ain't exactly heathen.
Posted by: Matt   2019-11-09 13:33  

#3  I hope these things, colored as they are by local inanities, are also educational in a sense. I hope people can look past the silly and understand the practical value of an indigenous, militantly religious corps. A strong, rustic religious element - even if they're unwashed masses of ideologues. As long as they're non-muslim. This is what every country needs to keep those islamic hordes in check.

America did not stay rooted in the bible. They laughed at the 'holy rollers' and the inarticulate non-elites who chose to stay rooted in their faith. And aggressively opinionated 'scientists' and academics replaced the Man in the Sky. This is why there are Obamas, Omars and Rashidas practically ruling in the US.

Of course, rustic hindus are really only slightly better than muslims, and they don't have a real Man in the Sky. America had so much more, like Israel. Which is why I believe, if American families and individuals begin approaching God to save their country and return to the Truth, America can have a new lease of life. And islamists will flee from you.
Posted by: Dron66046   2019-11-09 13:21  

#2  You had me at "bad for Muslims."
Posted by: Matt   2019-11-09 10:20  

#1  [qz.com] Ayodhya dispute has cast a shadow on the future of these Indian mosques
Posted by: Injun Gruque7462   2019-11-09 05:00  

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