rcalls that his childhood and teen age years were characterized by education in a

local school, marriage to Kasturba at the age of 13 and an intrinsic love for ‘truth’
and ‘duty’.Gandhi Jayanti is national holiday celebrated in India to mark the

occasion.

Gandhi Friend.
http://www.desievite.com/Desi-Indian-ecards.asp

However, I do think Gandhi may have been misinterpreted. The passive resistance was evidently due to his spiritual creed. The illusion of this life, presumably, could be fast forwarded with the offering up of self.

As for a Jewish homeland, although I firmly back Israel’s right to exist, Gandhi put his views somewhat differently from the quotes above.
http://www.hartford-hwp.com/archives/51/207.html

Pacifism = the monsters win

It is the right and DUTY of people to defend themselves, because no one otherwise will.

This is what the ‘peace studies’ departments fail to recognize. There are ideologies out there that glorify and delight in death. Offering yourself up to the executioner would then do nothing to weaken the executioner’s resolve, rather it emboldens them.

For telling Indians to not fight the Nazis, for not supporting Jews as they were being annhilated and then for his extreme antizionism, Gandhi will forever live in infamy. It is said that his ideology is what enabled India to get its independence; this is patently untrue. India’s independence occurred after World War II, when England was dumping its colonies left and right. And even if one could say that Gandhi’s ideology made a positive impact upon India’s fight for independence, this is only because England, unlike Nazi Germany or Islamists, had (and has) some degree of humanity, and English people were horrified at the prospect of mass murdering Indians.

I will go a few steps further. Gandhi claimed to represent the Hindu philosophy, but this is a lie; Hinduism does not represent nonviolence, rather it says that if you fight, you need to fight for the right reasons. His ideology was closer to Buddhism. As far as Buddhists go, let’s all examine how successful those Buddhists have been in their struggle in Tibet. Moreover, Gandhi’s economic policies of “swadeshi” have held India back decades in its struggle to modernize. And his total appeasement to the Muslim League did nothing to prevent the rise of Pakistan.

So what exactly is Gandhi’s positive legacy? What of it? His nonviolence was accepted by Martin Luther King, Jr. and worked in the USA during the struggle for civil rights, but again, this was a country that believed in humanity.

What proof is there that Gandhi’s ideology has any relevance when dealing with enemies whose goal is annhilation? I see none at all, and following his ideology will only lead to our destruction.

All very well and good for the liberal Biritish Empire, but law, democracy and rights at home is not an image in the mirror Saddam Hussain would have ever recognised.