{"id":1051,"date":"2019-04-09T10:04:52","date_gmt":"2019-04-09T04:34:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/discoverursupersoul.com\/?p=1051"},"modified":"2019-04-09T10:04:52","modified_gmt":"2019-04-09T04:34:52","slug":"after-saying-hinduism-has-become-most-violent-urmila-matondkar-says-hinduism-is-an-epitome-of-peace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/minivetsystem.com\/iskcon\/after-saying-hinduism-has-become-most-violent-urmila-matondkar-says-hinduism-is-an-epitome-of-peace\/","title":{"rendered":"After saying Hinduism has become &#8220;most violent&#8221; Urmila Matondkar says \u201cHinduism is an epitome of peace\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A BJP worker,\nSuresh Nakhua, filed a complaint against Bollywood actress, Urmila Matondkar, who\nis a Congress\u2019s Lok Sabha candidate from Mumbai North Constituency, for her\nremarks against Hinduism in an interview to Rajdeep Sardesai of India Today. &nbsp;Congress President Rahul Gandhi and journalist Rajdeep Sardesai has also been named in\nthe complaint. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the interview she can be heard as saying that the \u201cReligion [Hinduism] known for its tolerance has turned out to be most violent.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-twitter wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"525\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Exclusive?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Exclusive<\/a> <br>.<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/OfficialUrmila?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@OfficialUrmila<\/a> on why she joined Congress just a month before elections. <br> Watch <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Countdown?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Countdown<\/a> with <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/sardesairajdeep?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@sardesairajdeep<\/a><br>Live: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/4fqxBVUizL\">https:\/\/t.co\/4fqxBVUizL<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/5BofffXGWX\">pic.twitter.com\/5BofffXGWX<\/a><\/p>&mdash; IndiaToday (@IndiaToday) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/IndiaToday\/status\/1113824296516771841?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 4, 2019<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>It appears Rajdeep\nSardesai allowed her to make the statement and get away with it. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He did not\nask the counter question as why she is maligning the entire Hindu community. Imagine\nif anyone would have said something similar about any other religion then today\nthe print and the electronic media would have pounced upon the person and the\nparty. Editorials would have been written and the secular journalists along\nwith their secular friends would have spent hours discussing how India has now\nbecome intolerant. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>However Urmila Matondkar has clarified that she has been grossly misquoted and she has not said anything which will hurt the sentiments of the Hindus. In a statement <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ndtv.com\/india-news\/urmila-matondkar-calls-bjp-worker-suresh-nakhuas-police-complaint-against-her-on-hinduism-bogus-base-2019469\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"she said (opens in a new tab)\">she said<\/a>, &#8220;Hinduism is an epitome of peace, inclusiveness and non violence. I believe in Hinduism which embraces benevolent concepts of &#8216;<em>Vasudhaiv Kutumbakam<\/em>&#8216; (The whole world is a family) and&nbsp;<em>&#8216;Ahimsa Paramodharma&#8217;<\/em>&nbsp;(non violence). This is the Hinduism promoted by our&nbsp;great forefathers&nbsp;and Lokmanya Tilak, Gandhiji, Vivekanand and Sardar Patel&#8230;I believe in love, and respect Hinduism in this sense and not in what BJP wants to promote.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If she has\nsuch respect for Hinduism then what was the compulsion for her to initially say\nsomething which painted Hindus as violent people. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It could be\npossible that she wanted to please the powerful people of the secular eco\nsystem so she said \u201cHinduism has turned out to be the most violent religion.\u201d Because\nin India to be secular it is extremely important that you do or say something\nwhich hurts the sentiments of the Hindus. Remember how alleged congress workers\nin Kerala brutally killed a calf publicly, chopped its body into pieces, cooked\nit and ate it in full public view just because for Hindus cows are sacred. &nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Meanwhile Urmila\u2019s twitter account is now filled with pictures where she could be seen visiting and seeking blessings of the Lord in a temple dressed in a sari and with a big bindi.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-twitter wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"525\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Visited Bhatladevi Mandir in Dahisar. What a blissful experience. \ud83d\ude07<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/AapliMumbaichiMulagi?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#AapliMumbaichiMulagi<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/vYhl9IVMfU\">pic.twitter.com\/vYhl9IVMfU<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Urmila Matondkar (@UrmilaMatondkar) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/UrmilaMatondkar\/status\/1115295137222078464?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 8, 2019<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A BJP worker, Suresh Nakhua, filed a complaint against Bollywood actress, Urmila Matondkar, who is a Congress\u2019s Lok Sabha candidate from Mumbai North Constituency, for her remarks against Hinduism in an interview to Rajdeep Sardesai of India Today. &nbsp;Congress President Rahul Gandhi and journalist Rajdeep Sardesai has also been named in the complaint. In the&#8230; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more11\"><a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/minivetsystem.com\/iskcon\/after-saying-hinduism-has-become-most-violent-urmila-matondkar-says-hinduism-is-an-epitome-of-peace\/\">Read More<i class=\"fa fa-long-arrow-right\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/i><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1055,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[309,310,311,312,313],"class_list":["post-1051","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-reports","tag-hindusim","tag-rahul-gandhi","tag-rajdeep-sardesai","tag-suresh-nakhua","tag-urmila-matondkar"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/minivetsystem.com\/iskcon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1051","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/minivetsystem.com\/iskcon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/minivetsystem.com\/iskcon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/minivetsystem.com\/iskcon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/minivetsystem.com\/iskcon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1051"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/minivetsystem.com\/iskcon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1051\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/minivetsystem.com\/iskcon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1055"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/minivetsystem.com\/iskcon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1051"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/minivetsystem.com\/iskcon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1051"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/minivetsystem.com\/iskcon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1051"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}