Koenraad Elst Quotes

The bygone identification of a race with a language is hailed again, though now defined by genotype. Invasionist polemicists argue in all seriousness about the evidential value of the “Aryan gene”, R1a1. Genes, like skulls, do not speak: while a human migration may be proven by a sufficient number of such findings, we still would not know what happened to their language.

In its early years, at the dawn of the Ṛg-Veda, the fledgling Vedic tradition was limited to king Bharata's Paurava tribe (descendents of Purū, himself a scion of the Lunar Dynasty) in northern Haryana, between the Sarasvatī and Dṛṣadvatī rivers. It is at his Court that priest Bharadvāja composed the first Vedic hymns. The Pauravas called the region "Ilā's footstep" (after the Lunar dynasty's foremother Ilā, daughter of patriarch Manu Vaivasvata), "the navel of the world", and "the best place on earth", true to people's universal attachment to their motherland. But compared to present-day India, it was an insignificant statelet. In its smallness it was perhaps best comparable to my own country, Belgium. But that was only the beginning. Some of Bharata's successor-kings, like Divodāsa and Sudās, conquered territory around this core area and ultimately made the Bhārata (i.e. belonging to king Bharata) territory as large as Northwestern India: from western Uttar Pradesh to the Afghan border. Sometimes even beyond, so as to include the Afghan region of Kambuja (the region from where the Vedic people imported their horses), though its population was mostly Iranian.

Indeed, the Bābrī Masjid case will be remembered for its frequent use of doctored or forged documents by the anti-temple side, or the false and ultimately pin-pricked allegations of forged archaeological finds and inscriptions by the pro-temple side.

Having researched several more books on this topic and the disinformation techniques determining the reporting about India’s political relations, we are now convinced that the last few decades’ main corpus of research literature on this topic will become a laughing-stock once the power equation that fosters such disinformation has lapsed.
No one can be forced to do the honourable thing. As free speech absolutists we also don’t believe in punishing people for failing to do the honourable thing. Honour has no use; you just have it, or you don’t.

The Kerala Files also highlights the babe-in-the-wood nature of Hindu girls, as contrasted w/ Xian girls, who count as a harder nut to crack. Like Muslims, & unlike Hs, Xians are indoctrinated at school & at home. But it turns out that rohypnol is a good jihadi nutcracker.

First-time arrival at the Babasaheb Ambedkar Airport in Nagpur. A local RSS worker is taking me to the RSS headquarters. According to Wikipedia, they have been my employers for years. If so, I can now collect millions in arrears; if not, it's Wiki that owes them to me.

Nor are you the first Sikh to be sanatanized. Guru Nanak was a Sanatani Hindu. All the Gurus were. Tegh Bahadur & Govind Singh explicitly invoked Hindu Dharma. But then McAuliffe & other Brits came to bribe you & turn you against Sanatana Dharma. So you profitably became McSikhs.

Approaching the Court for banning Q verses can serve to highlight their hateful character (seemingly the only way to do so when no prominent does) & the double standards next to other hate speech. OK as a taunt to H-bashers, but please don't take this censorship call seriously.

Time to apply for a teaching post at Rutgers. Unlike most Western universities where Iz!@m is concerned, it offers "academic freedom"!

I scrupulously distinguish between "Hindu" & "Hindutva", as do Shashi Tharoor etc., correctly if the history of these terms is any guide. Wikipedia ignores my many explicitations on this (first in BJP vs. Hindu Resurgence, 1997) when it mendaciously associates me w Hindutva.

I never use the word nationalism, certainly not as a model for Hindus to adopt. Nationalism is a misstatement of Hindu concerns. It leads to misconceptions.

https://twitter.com/Koenraad_Elst/status/1224184598805938181 The scholarly truth (now vindicated) on Ayodhya was always decried as merely a "Hindutva claim". With permission: here you have similarly interiorized the description of the upholders of objectivity & encyclopedia standards as a mere party to a quarrel, viz. "Elst's supporters".

https://twitter.com/Koenraad_Elst/status/1218415843123572736 Celebrate good times, come on! Let's celebrate! On 19 January, it is the anniversary of chasing all the Hindus out of Kashmir. Then as now, the slogan was "Azadi Hinduon se!" So, the Urdu crowd at Shaheen Bagh protesting asylum for refugees from Islamic persecution, celebrates. 2020

https://twitter.com/Koenraad_Elst/status/1220326841866522626 Sorry to note that one of my readers is still so ignorant that he can be swayed by genetic data, which are just not the point. 100 years ago, an "Aryan" was a tall whitish long-skull, & I thought we had left that race/language identification behind. Yet now he is a R1a1-carrier. 2020

So they shifted to the thesis of a subtle infiltration under the archaeological radar, yet revolutionary in its impact: unlike the Scythians, Greeks, Huns or Kushanas, these intruders succeeded in not just conserving their language and religion, but imposing both on the far more numerous natives.... Most of India was not a colony yet, and the heyday of racial thought contaminating “Aryan” studies had yet to arrive... Thus, in the Rg-Vedic description of the Battle of the Ten Kings, it was commonly pretended that the enemies were “black aboriginals”. In reality, the names of the kings and of their tribes (most notably Dâsa, Dasyu) are recognizably Iranian, and their characterization as “the black tribe” is a mistranslation. The word Asiknī does not refer to a skin colour, but to the area they come from, the basin of “the Black River”, the Vedic name of the Chenab... Today, the AIT camp is a happy valley protected from the rising waters of counter-evidence by a protective dam. But the waters keep rising, and the time can't be far off when the waters will overcome the dam and drastically impact the cosy life in the valley.