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Mind yuh damn business and go to hell!”
This was the Indian Arrival Day message sent by secretary general of the Sanatan Dharma Maha Sabha Sat Maharaj yesterday to Roman Catholic Archbishop Joseph Harris. He said so in the feature address at the Maha Sabha’s and South Regional Council’s Indian Arrival Day celebrations at the Parvati Girls Hindu College in Debe.
Maharaj, who began by recounting some of the trials East Indian indentured laborers faced when they came to T&T 171 years ago, soon turned child marriage, an issue on which he has been very vocal in recent weeks
“We have a spectacle in Trinidad over the last few years, where you have the leader of a church, the most corrupt church in the whole world, they have corrupted more young children than anyone else, the Pope in Rome had to pay ten of millions of dollars for corrupting the children of the world and here we have a Catholic Archbishop telling us how to get our girls married,” he said. “Mind your damn business, Archbishop, mind your own damn business. This is the business of the Hindu community and the state.”
Turning his anger on the United Nations, Maharaj continued: “You even have ambassadors coming here, telling us we should change because the United Nations passed a resolution that a boy and a girl can’t get married until they reach 18 years old.
“Mt Hope reported last year 74 teenaged girls between 12 and 14 years old make child and they eh know who the father is but you have an archbishop who want to tell us how to get married? How to raise children? I say Archbishop, mind yuh own damn business.”
Maharaj said he had received permission to put full page ads in the daily newspapers with the marriage age in different parts of the United States.
“You have ambassadors coming here telling us what age we can get married I am publishing, I got permission to take full page ads, in the United States of America, where the UN is located, in every state there is a different age (for marriage) and the age is as low as 13, Mr Ambassador, cure your own evil before you come to tell us how to cure our own evil.
“This is my Indian Arrival Day message. Nobody must interfere with the way we worship, the way we raise our families, the way we bring them up.”
He was adamant the current legislation, which allows Hindu girls is get married from as early as age 14, is only a safety net.
“Because when you are young you take chances and if a girl at the age of 14 took a chance and she got pregnant, the two sets of parents will come together, they will offer support and send them back to school and they will take charge of the child.
“This is the culture of our community, so don’t discuss our business out there, we will discuss our business and members of the state and media, we will discuss our business, discuss the business of the Hindus with the Hindus.”
Maharaj’s had a final message to Archbishop Harris and others opposing underage marriage: “Look at the mote in your own eye, before you point out the mote in eye of the Hindu.
“If I had to leave one message, the message is ‘Alyuh go to hell, this is a business of the Hindu community and the state.’ If we require a change in the law, we will invite the government to speak to us and change the law but at this point in time, over the last two years, not a Hindu girl under the age of 18 have gotten married. You ever see any statistics anywhere?”
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Habit7 wrote:Glad to hear the leader of SWAHA publicly disagree with Sat. Although the president of SDMS fully endorse Sat and what he said yesterday.
Sat is a bully. I hold no briefs for the RC archbishop but he was one out of many who spoke out against child marriage. Sat out of nowhere poise the man's comments as speaking specifically to Hindus and tell him to go to hell and to mind his business. Yet in the same speech he condemn Presbyterian missionaries who evangelised Indo-Trinidadians.
Ppl who would like to think that Sat's message would die with him are deceiving themselves. He is sowing enough seed of discord that could make T&T a zoomrader paradise.
maj. tom wrote:Yeah he may be right about traditional values and family. But the man have to learn how to word it better when he speaking in public. All the nation saw there was a racist old man ranting like White Oak done.
Evoloution wrote:apart from all comments being made about child marriages......if the law was changed...will it stop teenage pregnancy.....which is the bigger picture....just my two cents
“Mt Hope reported last year 74 teenaged girls between 12 and 14 years old make child and they eh know who the father is but you have an archbishop who want to tell us how to get married? How to raise children? I say Archbishop, mind yuh own damn business.”
“Because when you are young you take chances and if a girl at the age of 14 took a chance and she got pregnant, the two sets of parents will come together, they will offer support and send them back to school and they will take charge of the child.
Premchand1976 wrote:This man was always an idiot. Knew him from a teenager to now. s.
K74T wrote:He means that he knew Sat since he (Prem) was a teenager.
Duane 3NE 2NR wrote:ZR is that you?
timelapse wrote:Truth does offend I guessing...
K74T wrote:timelapse wrote:Truth does offend I guessing...
What truth?
Dizzy28 wrote:But the big question is.......Does Sat still get offended by visible panty lines??
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