{"id":3709,"date":"2015-08-07T09:29:56","date_gmt":"2015-08-07T09:29:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mauritiustimes.com\/mt\/2015\/08\/07\/from-the-pages-of-history-mt-60-years-ago-6\/"},"modified":"2017-09-25T10:38:12","modified_gmt":"2017-09-25T06:38:12","slug":"from-the-pages-of-history-mt-60-years-ago-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mauritiustimes.com\/mt\/from-the-pages-of-history-mt-60-years-ago-6\/","title":{"rendered":"La campagne du mensonge ou l\u2019art de rouler le peuple !…"},"content":{"rendered":"

MT 60 Years Ago<\/span><\/strong>2nd — YEAR NO. 44 \u2013 11 June 1955\u00a0<\/span><\/strong>
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Par Cassandre<\/p>\n

Depuis que le monde est monde, on n\u2019a jamais manqu\u00e9 de rouler le peuple comme un tonneau\u2026<\/p>\n

Fort heureusement, avec la grande diffusion de la page imprim\u00e9e, avec tous les apports de la science moderne — radio, t\u00e9l\u00e9vision, avion, etc. \u2013 le peuple pense aujourd\u2019hui, et pense avec une candeur et une profondeur parfois d\u00e9concertantes.<\/p>\n

Ecoutez la remarque de mon voisin, un modeste charpentier qui lit difficilement son journal, sur l\u2019\u00e9pineux probl\u00e8me de la Formose :\u2026 \u2018Oui, monsieur,\u2019 m\u2019a-t-il dit, \u2018cette histoire est fort compliqu\u00e9e ; mais pourquoi les Nations-Unies ne s\u2019occupent-elles pas plut\u00f4t des probl\u00e8mes plus importants, tels l\u2019exploitation des Africains par des blancs, dans un pays qui logiquement est aux Africains ?\u2019<\/em><\/p>\n

J\u2019avoue franchement qu\u2019on ne peut pas toujours r\u00e9pondre facilement \u00e0 des questions aussi simples.<\/p>\n

Un journaliste m\u2019a encore dit une fois lors d\u2019un entretien men\u00e9 dans notre savoureux patois :<\/p>\n

\u2018Les Am\u00e9ricains et les Anglais, mon cher monsieur, sont friands d\u2019un mot : agression\u2026 !\u2019 \u2018Mais, dites-moi,\u2019 continua-t-il, \u2018quels sont les peuples qui jusqu\u2019en plein 17-18\u00e8me si\u00e8cle, faisaient le commerce d\u2019esclaves, avec une Bible \u00e0 la main et un fusil dans l\u2019autre ?…\u2019<\/p>\n

Et tout cela avait lieu autrefois, en v\u00e9rit\u00e9, au nom d\u2019une civilisation douteuse et au nom d\u2019un christianisme pervers et combien diff\u00e9rent du vrai !…<\/p>\n

Aujourd\u2019hui, le peuple pense et pense bien. Le 20\u00e8me si\u00e8cle est bien le si\u00e8cle du r\u00e9veil et de l\u2019\u00e9mancipation du peuple.<\/p>\n

Et cependant les plus malins, les mythomanes, les mercenaires pay\u00e9s pour d\u00e9fendre le capitalisme le plus odieux – condamn\u00e9 par le Pape – sont toujours l\u00e0 pour tromper le peuple, l\u2019homme de la rue, par une propagande sournoise, mais subtile ; mais une propagande qui a le m\u00e9rite d\u2019\u00eatre scientifique, inspir\u00e9e directement des m\u00e9thodes d\u2019un Adolf Hitler ou d\u2019un Hermann G\u00f6ring.<\/p>\n

Cette propagande consiste \u00e0 r\u00e9p\u00e9ter, \u00e0 diffuser jour apr\u00e8s jour, avec conviction un mensonge ou un bobard. Et la psychologie \u00e9l\u00e9mentaire nous dit que n\u2019importe quel mensonge ou n\u2019importe quelle b\u00eatise finit par s\u2019ancrer dans l\u2019esprit de l\u2019homme, si le mensonge est habilement lanc\u00e9 !…<\/p>\n

Le Cern\u00e9en<\/em> n\u2019a jamais cess\u00e9 de r\u00e9p\u00e9ter \u2018ad nauseam\u2019 que les leaders hindous sont des communistes, des Jagan, etc., qui veulent faire de Maurice une colonie indienne ; et que les hindous, envo\u00fbt\u00e9s par leurs leaders, finiront par former un bloc anti-mauricien, pour dominer finalement toutes les autres communaut\u00e9s, surtout le bloc chr\u00e9tien-musulman-chinois !…<\/p>\n

NMU conna\u00eet par c\u0153ur ce petit couplet. A l\u2019entendre, on croirait que les hindous sont responsables de l\u2019exploitation des Arabes et des Nord Africains, dans tout le Maroc ou dans toute la Tunisie.<\/p>\n

Les hindous sont probablement responsables du r\u00e9gime de Strydom qui frappe d\u2019ostracisme les noirs, les chinois, les hindous et les hommes de couleur, en Afrique du Sud !…<\/p>\n

Probablement les hindous et leurs leaders en 1789, en France, caus\u00e8rent tout le d\u00e9sordre que l\u2019on conna\u00eet\u2026<\/p>\n

Quand NMU parle des hindous ou de leurs leaders, il en a la bouche toute pleine.<\/p>\n

\u2018Les hindous, les Ramgoolam, les Roy,\u2019 affirme l\u2019ex-agent des lampes goudrons et actif chef d\u2019\u00e9quipe de f\u00e9d\u00e9rations et de comit\u00e9s morts-n\u00e9s, sont des fanatiques, des exploiteurs, des pa\u00efens\u2026 il nous faut leur barrer la route !<\/p>\n

NMU oublie qu\u2019il faut surtout faire la guerre \u00e0 la b\u00eatise des uns et des autres qui pensent qu\u2019un nom, une couenne, un pedigree douteux, des yeux verts ou bleus ou des particules, constituent des marques \u00e9videntes de sup\u00e9riorit\u00e9 !…<\/p>\n

Que NMU m\u00e8ne une active croisade contre les \u2018gros bonnets\u2019 qui ne connaissent qu\u2019eux-m\u00eames, qui ne vivent que pour leurs crevettes, leurs cerfs ; gare aux autres qui veulent en manger. On leur r\u00e9servera du plomb et des balles de 303 !…<\/p>\n

Le danger hindou pour nous n\u2019est qu\u2019un mythe bien lanc\u00e9 par quelque malins qui ont tout \u00e0 gagner \u00e0 voir leur \u2018Etat\u2019 prosp\u00e9rer au sein de l\u2019Etat.<\/p>\n

Le danger r\u00e9el pour nous est l\u2019infernal esprit de sup\u00e9riorit\u00e9 des uns et des autres, des brutes qui ne pouvant arguer avec la langue ou la plume, ont recours \u00e0 leurs poings et tel loustic, cynique et plus sot encore que Sancho Pan\u00e7a, pense au Cern\u00e9en que ce sont de tels moyens qui prouvent la sup\u00e9riorit\u00e9 de l\u2019homme sur son prochain ! Ou l\u2019esprit de sup\u00e9riorit\u00e9 de quelques petits imb\u00e9ciles qui, sur une plage un jour eurent le courage de dire \u00e0 un petit blanc qui jouait sur le sable avec un petit noir :<\/p>\n

\u00ab Laisse ce petit noir ! Laisse ce petit noir !…\u2019<\/p>\n

Le danger hindou n\u2019existe que dans l\u2019imagination malade de NMU.<\/p>\n

Le v\u00e9ritable danger pour nous c\u2019est la pauvret\u00e9 intellectuelle et culturelle de tous ces \u2018fadas\u2019 qui ne connaissent rien de l\u2019\u00e9conomie de leur pays, d\u2019ailleurs lorsque l\u2019Hon Vaghjee d\u00e9veloppa sa remarquable motion sur l\u2019extraction du sucre beaucoup ne purent rien dire, sinon des niaiseries, et le petit hindou noir l\u2019emporta brillamment sur toute la ligne !…<\/p>\n

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Subsidies to Christian Ecclesiastics<\/strong><\/p>\n

A Historical Survey<\/strong><\/p>\n

By D. Napal, BA (Hons)<\/strong><\/p>\n

As early as December 1723, when the island was under the rule of the \u201cCompagnie des Indes\u201d, Louis XV, by letters patent from Versailles, recognized the Roman Catholic Church as the only lawful church of the islands of Reunion and Ile de France. The Lazarists, four of whom came with the French Governor de Nyon, were the first priests to land on our shores. At this time the Church was independent of the government.<\/p>\n

The French Revolution left its mark on religion as on other matters. As soon as it was known here that the National Assembly had confiscated church property, the \u201cAssembl\u00e9e G\u00e9n\u00e9rale\u201d which was in power at that time in the island proceeded to follow in the footsteps of the mother country. It passed a \u201cD\u00e9cret de Confiscation\u201d and took upon it the responsibility of ministering to the spiritual needs of the island. According to a pamphlet published by W. Green in 1883, since the 17th February 1791, the Roman Catholic priests were to be paid by the government. From this time it was declared that the necessary taxation to meet the expenses were to be imposed on the whole population and not on the Catholics alone.<\/p>\n

Religion continued to undergo other changes, in accordance with what happened in France. In 1801, Napoleon made a treaty with the Pope known as the \u201cConcordat\u201d. This treaty recognized the position of the Roman Catholic Church in all French territories. The Government undertook to provide buildings to be used as places of worship and to provide for the salaries of the clergy.<\/p>\n

One thing which is certain about religion in Ile de France is that it was the preserve of the masters, very few of whom were sincerely religious. They were living in a slave owning island where they had unlimited power upon their blacks, who in matters of religion as in other matters depended upon the whims of their masters. If they happened to have a master who was religious minded, so much the better for their souls. If not, and this was more often the case, the religious instruction of the slaves suffered a gross neglect. The indifference of the masters in what concerned the religious instruction of those who were so directly under their control was proverbial. Hence the Code Noir enacted that \u201cevery master was compelled to see that his blacks were taught the principles of religion, that they were regularly married among themselves and that their children were regularly baptized.\u201d The law was there but it is a matter of doubt how far it was enforced.<\/p>\n

Such was the position of religion in the island when in 1810 the English took possession of it. In the Act of Capitulation, it was enacted that the \u201cinhabitants shall preserve their religion, laws and customs\u201d. The word \u201cinhabitants\u201d in the Act of Capitulation implied the minority of masters who were in the island at the time of the capitulation for the slaves and the coloured population who on an aggregate comprised two thirds of the population had no civil and political rights. They were, so to say under the tutelage of the whites. They could have no voice in matters concerning \u201creligion, laws and customs\u201d.<\/p>\n

The Report of the Royal Commission of 1909 had its comment on this clause of the Act of Capitulation.<\/p>\n

We read in the Report: \u201cAs, however some witnesses endeavoured to persuade us that the maintenance of the Roman Catholic Church at the expense of the state was in some way guaranteed by the British Government in consequence of the Act of Capitulation of the Island, it may be well for us to state that we are unable to accept this claim.\u201d<\/p>\n

Two other churches which receive grants are the Church of England and the Presbyterian Church.<\/p>\n

When the British (most of whom were Anglicans) came in 1810, the military chaplains were the only resident priests who ministered to their religious needs. It was in 1812 that the Church of England had his first Cathedral Diocese established in what was the Old French Powder Magazine, which underwent for the purpose many alterations and additions. Governor Sir James Higginson opened the first Scotch Presbyterian Church, the St Andrews, in the year 1853.<\/p>\n

With the abolition of slavery and the immigration of Indians a new problem was created which has not been solved till today, after more than a century. The Hindus, Chinese, Muslims and some Christian sects as the Seventh Day Advent, who altogether form more than two thirds of the population receive no subsidies from the Government, though they contribute their share of rates and taxes, from the proceeds of which the three ecclesiastical establishments benefit.<\/p>\n

We are no more living in an age when blood was shed in the name of God. The study of comparative religious has done much to dispel the misty belief that only the souls of Christians will be saved, while those of heathens (the word itself is reminiscent of something base) will burn in Hell-Fire. It is a recognized fact today that there are other religions, besides Christianity, which are age-old and deserve the respect of cultured people. In the light of these facts it is deplorable that many religions, whose adherents form the majority of the population, are totally ignored by the Government.<\/p>\n

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