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This article was written as a response to the many reports of an obvious bias exercised by various "secular" agencies against Hindus, the recent instance being the half-hearted response of the Amnesty International when many Hindus were murdered in cold blood in Kashmir. As an Indian and an old student of religions, it has become very disturbing for me ever since I moved to Germany in 1997, to see or hear of injustice being done to my majority compatriots whose religion I have begun to look upon not only as my very own, but as the heritage of whole humanity. It is most disturbing because the conflict arises not only because of utter ignorance of Hinduism, but also due to stubborn reluctance on the part of the perpetrators to recognise, or to know, what real religion is. It is my contention that the western collective psyche is incapable of achieving objectivity, or true secularism, due to the fundamental flaw in their religious foundation.

The bias of western agencies against Hindus is also shared by the western mainstream media as well as the Muslim media who act in a similar way as the Amnesty International. The obvious reason is that religion plays a big role in the western psyche, despite its professed secular ideology, as much as it does in the Muslim psyche which at least have no false pretensions. The roots of modern western culture are still embedded in Christianity, whereas its secular ideals of human rights and democracy form the superficial skin that have been shaped by the French Revolution and Napoleonic reforms. The problem for the so-called "secular" western psyche is that it has not been able to replace its fundamental belief (which is Christian belief) with anything else. And Christianity as a religion is fundamentally flawed for the reason that it is not based on experience and knowledge. Therefore when it comes to making an instinctual judgement, the western psyche cannot escape its prejudicial response, like the Amnesty, like many other agencies. For a small example, just take note of the terminology of the band of invaders at work in Iraq. They are bending over backwards "to win over the hearts and minds of the Iraqi people" by "food and water". Isn't that what the Christian missionaries are doing on every part of the earth where non-Christian people are in dire need of food and water? Isn't that how the Christian church made their empire in Europe and Latin America, and now on the making in Africa? The terminology of the invading forces is classic Christian terminology scaling oxymoronic heights, though the war is not conducted by the Christian church. "Liberators" shot down by "friendly fire", "Mercy Corps" at the border with "humanitarian aid". Not only poor Iraqis, but Hindus in general cannot fully fathom the apparent contradictions in the violent bombing and the following welfare. Remember the picture of Ignatius Loyola, the founder of the Jesuits, with a sword in one hand and a flower in the other!

My point is - western agencies and institutions (I'm not talking of individuals) can never be unbiased or true to their ideals when Hindus are involved, because of this vital flaw in their collective psyche. Now one might ask me, why should a Christian be biased against a Hindu? The answer is - a true Christian is someone who believes in Jesus Christ as the "only way". To believe in Jesus Christ one has to baptise, which means you also believe in "original sin". This ideology is the foundation of the western collective unconscious. Religion as we all know is a powerful force. Dr. S. Radhakrishnan calls it the deepest part of our being. A western commoner professing secular ideals and no longer a church-going Christian, but bereft of a deeper basis to support his new-found attitudes, would respond from his deeper "baptised" self when making an instinctual judgement. For a Christian, a non-baptised human being is less than a baptised one. A circumcised human being (Jew or a Muslim) though lesser than a baptised one, is more than a non-circumcised one because of their father Abraham's covenant with Jesus Christ's father god. That is the basis of the western bias against anything Hindu, or for that matter any pre-judaic religion. The pope while apologising to the Jews, refused to do that to the Hindus. This Abrahamic affinity is reciprocal if there is no material or egoistical stake in it. The pope visited a mosque in Syria recently. Mohammed Khatami in an effort to win western support, recently proclaimed the unity with the west in the belief in one single god. An issue of the Time magazine last year had the Abrahamic ancestry as its cover story, suggesting that the common roots of the Jews, Christians and Muslims in Abraham could heal the wounds in Palestine.

When push comes to shove, Hindus are alone on this planet, save the remnants of few helpless, old, land-based and nature-based religions. Any support may come only from the Jews who have a high regard for Hindus. The survival of Hindus or Hinduism is not in doubt, for it is the only religion that has stood the test of time in every sense and has survived the relentless siege by both Islam and Christianity. The reason for their survival is simple indeed - it is a knowledge-based religion and not faith-based, and natural for the "being who thinks" ("man" from "manu", the one who thinks). For this reason alone, it is the duty of Hindus to educate the rest of the world and make them worthy of the human heritage of "thinking". The seeming naiveness of the Hindus, to consider peoples of all faiths as the same, comes from their deepest part of their being, which their ancestors addressed as "Sanatana Dharma", and which they rightly believe is the substratum of all nature. Nothing can resist the force of knowledge, not even superstition. "Correct" knowledge should be directed against "incorrect" knowledge. This polarity can be observed in real terms in the old dictum printed on the Indian rupee in sharp contrast to the one on the US dollar - 'Satyameva Jayathe' against 'In God we trust'. Which god? What trust? Why should the God ban "knowledge" in the first chapter of the bible? Hindus should turn to Krishna, the Kaliyuga-guru, who has told them that offence is the best defense when upholding Sanatana Dharma. A wise and aggressive campaign to promote "right knowledge" conducted worldwide can educate the world slowly, but surely and win back for humankind Sanatana Dharma, the gene of eternal justice.

Also Read response article by Rebecca Kurian, Bangalore India