BAN FUNDAMENTALIST COMMUNAL ELEMENTS by Praxy Fernandes, Sanquelim

Hats off to Floriano Lobo, Goa Su-Raj Party (Talking to the HJS, Herald dt 30th June) and Damodar Mauzo, Majorda (Why not close Khajuraho? Herald dt 31st June) for taking up the cudgels on behalf of the renowned Sanskrit scholar, Dr Jose Pereira and asking HJS/Sanathan to desist from violence and threats. I have always said and I maintain what Mr Floriana has rightly pointed out that these unruly self-styled keepers of morals and so-called religious watchdogs are all non-Goan ghantis staying in housing board colonies built by the selfish rogue Goan politicians by developing plots and flats on lands of our poor farmers. Even in my religion we have groups who do not believe in Our Lady and who are driving wedges within us. Such fundamentalist and communal elements should be driven away and banned from Goa as they are nothing but a bunch of non-Goan people with criminal intent fermenting trouble here in Goa. If they really having morality then they should demonstrate their might in their own states as there are similar carvings on caves at Hampi and other places in Karnataka & Maharashtra. These non-Goan self-styled preachers don’t know our Goan culture nor do they respect our communal harmony and on the contrary they are trying hard to drive a wedge between Goan Christians and Hindus and our age old traditions. None of my Goenkar hindu brethren has taken offense to such paintings by Dr Jose or Dr Subodh as they don’t have negative mindset.