Dear shahnawaz kukkikatte, dubai/udupi, I know what is islam. I know what is Jizya tax. And I quote your words “One cant use jehad to kill innocent souls. Our prophet when he went on jehad, he ordered that no innocent souls to be troubled, no trees cut, no animal to be burdened, no women,chilren and old to be touched, not to harm those who dont oppose you in the battle” unquote. How could one can presume exactly a child or an adult.

How can any person kill those who oppose them? Does a man have the right to kill anybody? You have quoted about crusade is similar to Jihad whereas crusade is no more now which has died down long back. But the jihad is still on. If I provide the truth which will cause more arguments and we cannot finish off. I do not want to go beyond this better you refrain from this matter.

Mr Gonsalves, Do you know what exactly is Jiziya in Islam which Aurangazeb introduced in India. Its a form of tax levied on non muslims on Islamic countries. Non muslims in Islamic countris can use all the infrastructure and practice their religion freely and openly, need not participate in the jehad, but it should pay tax.

In return the state guarantees peace and security and safety of non muslims and their places of worships. But in todays context this is invalid like crusade and no islamic country is implmenting it. Only fanatics like Afganistan and Pakistan may implement it.

I am in UAE and I have never heard that UAE goverment is charging jiziya to non muslims. All what you said is correct but nowhere in practice in modern times.

Mr Joseph Gonsalves. I appreciate your comments and agree with you. Its hardline stance of fundamentalist bringing dent to the religion. Moderate stance is acceptable. Taliban is no doubt a fundamental company. They are quoting the word jehad from Quran to implecate young minds and misuse it for personal gains. For your information if at all jehad is to be declared, it cant be ordered by the mulla or mufti, it should be ordered by the head of the state. For eg it at all Afganistan intend to declare jehad against Russia as occupying force, then it is not bin laden but it the president of Afganistan has to order jehad.

One cant use jehad to kill innocent souls. Our prophet when he went on jehad, he ordered that no innocent souls to be troubled, no trees cut, no animal to be burdened, no women,chilren and old to be touched, not to harm those who dont oppose you in the battle. What you see today is jehad of convenience and from the perspective of Osama and Taliban. Thats most unfortunate.

Its Congress which is spreading hatred. They do not want development, infrastructure, good roads & jobs for people. All they want is tarnish BJP's image and then wooing minority communities for the votes. Perhaps they have forgotten there are millions poor people from across the communities.

We want a party which does not divide the communities just for vote bank and beat the drum of secularism. By doing this congress has sowed the seeds of hatred among communities. We certainly do not want a party which is playing a game with the sentiments of people. My vote goes against congress.

Dear Mr. shahnawaz kukkikatte, dubai/udupi I quote your words “Jihad is no way difference than your crusade” unquote. It is true that Christians had waged crusade long back and that the crusade has made nothing but bloodshed and Christians have realized that it was a mistake and the crusade had died down long back. Later crusade has nothing to do with Christianity even crusade is not a word in the Holy Bible.

Whereas Jihad is a word in the Holy Quran and the fundamental Muslims are pursuing Jihad. What Osama Bin Laden does is the same and he is quoting exact verses from the Quran and the Muslims outwardly disowning him. There are scores of hardliners aiding and supporting Osama. Secondly, Babur was from Samarkand, present Uzbekistan. He came to India after besieging Kabul, Afghanistan. Many of these rulers have introduced jizaya tax which did not carried long due to resistance or due to failure in the tax system.

Mr Kiran/Manipal, Fr. Frank is leader of christian community. A community which believes in peace and forgivenss, which believes in community service. He knows and has the right as a leader of his community to advice his followers what is best for him.

Where were you when a dozens of churches were vandalised, idols broken, and silent protestors-women and aged were ruthlessly lathicharged? Where were you when Pejawar Seer endorsed hindu votes to BJP in the hindu samajatosava? Why are you in double standards. Your law of abstinance in equal measures applies to the religious leaders of all communities? Am I rite? Why alone Pastor Frank, my friend?????

In reference to Pastor E. W. Frank - I think religion should stay out of politics and politics out of religion. I wish you would talk about Congress as your personal preference instead of what appears like Christian voting bank endorsing Congress.

It is a very dangerous trend dividing the society further on the basis of religion, and will be more pronounced if Hindu religious leaders also start endorsing political parties. Don't religions require people to love one another, love your neighbor, love your enemy, etc. It is best if religions remain apolitical.

Mr Kumar/Dubai and Mr Kiran/Manipal, we were living in jungles and there was nothing and all of a suddden in less than one year we have seen all these developments, before BJP rule in Karnataka we were using bullocks and donkeys for transportation, jungles and paddy fields to answer nature's call, using candles and diyas to light our houses. All of a sudden Yeddi came as Alladin with his lamp and done the miracles!!!! What a hypocrisy!!! We certainly dont need any development and prosperity if we dont have peace and secuirty.

If our women folk are not safe, whats use of prosperity my friend. If some one takes away our liberty and freedom, would you call it as development?? You have given a list of positive achievement. Please high light the negative achievements also. Be just to GOd and be just to your neighbours and fellow human beings.

Give your next door neighbour what is due to him. Your neighbour does not ask for money or food from you. He prefers to starve, But what he expect from you is respect, dignity, love, care and security.

Dr Kiran Acharya, I think you are medical doctor by profession. Was it taught to you that muslim /christian blood and anotomy is different from those of hindus? Is it taught to you that minorities life and soul are less important and no value? You are a disgrace to your profession.

Like Dr VS Acharya, please give up your profession and take politics for your earning. Stop this hate game. Your mentor organisations are spreading unfounded lies against minorities. Your party's agenda is full of venom and hate. Enough is enough. What do you say about Prajna Singh Thakur.

Killer is a killer, be it a hindu/muslim or christian. I cant justify an act of terror by a muslim just because he is a muslim. Pls call spade a spade.

Mr Satish, historically there were mistaken done by foreign invaders who came to India at your predecessors invitation and they didnt come on their own. But we are now living in plural Independant India and if at all if you want to rectify any mistakes, we must do it post Independance happenings. You cant hold present muslims responsible for what Babur or Bahamanis did. If you see, then all the brahmins, including Dr Kiran Acharya must be treated as invaders and foreigners. These are the Aryans who invaded India from Central Asia and orignal Indians are Dravidians who were pushed towards south of India.

Babur came from Afganistan and for your information we should start building India rather than disintegrating it. A child shall not be punished for his fathers mistakes. How come you hold present day muslims and chiristians responsible for the invasion of India by mughals and british. My friends, you people are day dreaming of correcting the history. Why Tamil Nadu governemnt is giving all losgistic support to Tamil rebels of Sri Lanka, because they are from the same ethnic lines. If you dont stop this non sense, I am sure history shall repeat on its own and again India shall be ruled by foreigners and we all shall become slaves in our own country.

Secondly for Kiran and Satish, I dont have to answer them as I dont see the need. The voters of Udupi shall answer and if they find truth in their comments, they shall vote for DVS and if not then they shall vote to JPH.

The people of Udupi are really sick of voting for Congress for so many years and even though the candidate from our constituency Mr. Oscar Fernandes became a Union Minister, all Congress MPs did absolutely nothing for our development. Our roads have been bad for years, no bus-stands, water problems, poor condition of National and State Highways, ports, poor condition of our railway station, transport, rural roads and connectivity, sea erosion, etc - problems galore.

Manipal seems to have developed on its own. Whether it is BJP or Congress widening the roads (including Udupi-Manipal Road, Kinnimulky-Diana circle, etc) and building better bus-stands (city, service and govt), the point is that it is happening only after 60 years of independence. There are also other new developments during this period like the new CMC (City Municipal Council)complex in Manipal, Vented dams at Marne and Kemthur villages, Solid Waste Management Plant at Alevoor, BusVoice system, Storm drains in the city, etc Yet we are only talking of whether we should vote for a Poojary, Bunt, Gowda and stuff like that. Congress is busy spreading fear about Hindus to grab on to power.

Are these not hypocrisy of BJP? 1.Why did not BJP/NDA Govt at center did not support speedy construction of Mangalore –Hassan broad gauge railway line during the tenure of Mr. Krishna led Congress govt? This railway line project was sanctioned by Narasimha Rao led Congress govt. 2.If BJP was for development of coastal districts of Karnataka, why NDA Govt did not sanction Talapady – Kundapur NH17 four lane project during its tenure? 3.Now BJP Govt in the State buying power from all available sources at high cost and also providing police protection of speedy completion of 1015MW Udupi Power Project.

If they realized its need now why then their party opposed it for almost four years? What a double standard? Where was the vision of visionaries then? 4.Nuclear deal opposed by BJP. Why it is now not raised as a poll issue? 5.Darmaraj Sigh Govt brought IT park -SEZ at Mudipu near Mangalore and sanctioned water supply from Netravati river and four lane roads from Mangalore to this place. 6.During the last three budgets what was BJP govts support for this project? Or to develop any other road projects in our twin districts. 7.Why BJP is MUM about black money within the country? Only one wonderful development work I could see from BJP is four lane project between Ambagilu to Kadiyali. With the dedication of good souls our twin districts are today highly literate in the State and have good sanitation system compared to other parts of the state.

Other excellent quality of BJP leaders is extra ordinary oratory skills to prove white as black and black as white. People in these districts living with harmony for centuries? Especially Hindus and Christians were living as brothers and sisters with mutual respect to each other setting an example to other parts of the country. Were our people not cultured, civilized before (90’s ) when some religious extremists borrowed and started forcing culture of other parts on us? What we really need in our twin districts is 1.Peaceful co-existence for our future prosperous life and 2.Creation of Jobs for the younger generation 3.Ensuring availability of electricity and water supply and 4.Good roads Now BJP is claiming development. Were we nomads before 2 years? Dear countrymen “Dikawat se Math Jao”

Mr Richard Alvares/Mizoram, my brother, May God bless you and guide you. Jerusalem is as sacred to muslims as it is sacred to jews and christians. Its known in arabic as Yesholam means Gods place. It is in Bethlehem and has the church of nativity where Jesus is born. Bethlem is a translated from the arabic word Bait Al Leham which means house of meat as this village was known and full of shepherds. Jesus too was a shepherd.

Secondly you talked about jehad, hate and terrorism. Jehad is no way difference than your crusade. In India in the name of Hindutva, the BJP ruled states have unleashed terrorism on minorities in the name of religion. In Gujarat, state sponsored terrorism massacared muslims and burnt them alive. In Orissa, state sponsored terrorism killed christians, burnt Staines alive, burnt churches, raped nuns, convents were ransacked, priests were killed only in the name of religion and state protected the perpertors. Now they are trying their strategy in Karnataka which is ruled by BJP. Why these injustice is happening in BJP ruled states only??

In Mangalore churches were attacked, grottos were vandalised, silent protestors were lathi charged. Why as an Indian you dont have the right to be a christian in Indian soil? Who hijacked your religious freedom? How long would you tolerate. When the whole community bleeds, retaliation is quite natural. How long these minorities shall keep quiet? If the state sponsored attacks on minorities conitunes unabetted, I am sure that will lead to terrorism. All these days you heard about muslim terrorism, Now very soon you shall hear about Christian terrorism.

Oppression, alienation and discrimination gives birth to terrorism. Terrorism inside the country is more dangerous than outside terrorism. How will you stop internal terrorism? BJPs policy have given and would give birth to more terrorists. BJP is indirectly promoting terrorism. The terrorism started in India with the demolition of Babri Masjid and there was not even a single bomb blast before 1992. Explore and find out. NOw BJP talks about Pak/LoT/Taliban terrorism. We as a nation are capable of facing and defeating these outside terrorist.

Why dont BJP talk about inside terrorism? My brother I am talking about cause, prevention and remedy for internal terrorism. My heart bled when I saw in youtube, the police of mangalore using their butts of service guns to break the glass windows of churches. Women were beaten up mercilessly. Christians are very very peaceloving community and do lots of social service. Even this community is not spared during the BJP rule. Lets put our house in order first.

This is the time for us to decide who is better for us. We have to decide between peace and tension, between secularism and communualism, between domestic terror or international terror, between freedom and slavery, between independence and phobia. Now as a matured citizen you decide to whom you vote. May God giv

I am totally disagree with Mr.Vijay Saxena as well as Mr.Richard Alvares. They are not called chamachas. These people are obeidant followers of Nehru/Gandhi family from the begginning. For each and everything they will do Jai Ho. Jai Ho.

Eventhough, by any chance Sonia's hand struck in between door of a car and shout 'kai' 'kai' (my hand my hand- help), these people will shout 'Jaiho'Jaiho'. Because they won't see what consequences happened to them due to congress.

They had shown only symbol 'HAND', nothing else. I don't think they ever change their track. Only true leaders like Anwar Manippady Shahnawaz Hussein etc. only can make differences.