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“In a sociological sense, I am still part of the Catholic community,… Nevertheless, I am no longer a Roman Catholic. I am a secular humanist with an active interest in religions, particularly Taoism and Hinduism, and keeping a close watch on the variegated Pagan revival in Europe.”

The Problem of Christian Missionaries , 7 June 1999. https://web.archive.org/web/20190311003524/http://koenraadelst.bharatvani.org/articles/chr/missionaries.html <br class="br">1990s

“I never use the word nationalism, certainly not as a model for Hindus to adopt. Nationalism is a misstatement of Hindu concerns. It leads to misconceptions.”

Koenraad Elst on Twitter https://twitter.com/Koenraad_Elst/status/1213206747021578240 <br class="br">2020s

“Both genetic and archaeological proofs of intrusions into Europe from Russia are plentiful, but in India these are significantly missing.”

2010s, Still no trace of an Aryan invasion: A collection on Indo-European origins (2019)

“The final paragraph is merely an exercise in slamming open doors. Or so it seems, for several in-your-face assertions are built into this innocuous piece of journalistic emptiness.”

2010s, Still no trace of an Aryan invasion: A collection on Indo-European origins (2019)

“There, in Europe, we really have an invasion of Aryans moving in from the east. And now that we know what a real Aryan invasion looks like, we note that it is completely missing in India.”

2010s, Still no trace of an Aryan invasion: A collection on Indo-European origins (2019)

“I have been disinvited at several conferences (and no doubt silently excluded from speaking there at many more) because, though my abstract was judged interesting enough, someone up there was briefed about my views and associations, and intervened to my detriment.”

2010s, Still no trace of an Aryan invasion: A collection on Indo-European origins (2019)

“So: as of 2011, after many decades of being the official and much-funded hypothesis, the Aryan Invasion Theory has still not been confirmed by even a single piece of archaeological evidence.”

2010s, Still no trace of an Aryan invasion: A collection on Indo-European origins (2019)

“The behaviour and character of academic mullahs is once again consistent with their sorry record of misdeeds.”

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2010s, The argumentative Hindu (2012)

“It seems that white people on average are quite silly, for most of us have lapped up the version of Indian history propagated by India's "eminent historians" whose eminence results from their toeing the hegemonic party-line rather than from a respect for the data in the primary sources.”

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2010s, The argumentative Hindu (2012)

“Perhaps he doesn’t realize the implication of his own position, viz. that by these standards, proselytising religions like Christianity and Islam, even without counting crusades and jihad, are ipso facto intrinsically “intolerant.””

That point has indeed been made often enough by apostate Christians and Muslims, but in India it is usually vetoed as “Hindu communalist propaganda”.
2010s, The argumentative Hindu (2012)

“But the solution is not to “get around these stubborn, disturbing facts” of astronomy by smugly dismissing them as testimonia non grata. Nor to declare dogmatically that “we know that it can't be correct.””

2000s, Asterisk in bharopiyasthan: Minor writings on the Aryan invasion debate (2007)

“But I’ll admit that temperamentally, I do take a certain “delight” in exploring theories that go against the established consensus.”

Source: 2000s, Asterisk in bharopiyasthan: Minor writings on the Aryan invasion debate (2007)

“Unfortunately, scholars tend to cite a colleague's mere hypothesis as an argument of authority. So many certainties in this field are merely someone’s casual opinion quoted over and over again.”

2000s, Asterisk in bharopiyasthan: Minor writings on the Aryan invasion debate (2007)

“By relating an ancient instance of white colonization in a dark subcontinent, it confirmed the colonial worldview.”

2000s, Asterisk in bharopiyasthan: Minor writings on the Aryan invasion debate (2007)

“Let me put on record here that in my 9 years of close involvement in this debate, I have seen time and again that it is the invasionist school which, when it did not refuse the debate, has spoiled the debate by replacing argument with mud-slinging.”

2000s, Asterisk in bharopiyasthan: Minor writings on the Aryan invasion debate (2007)

“To whom it may concern: the present writer, at any rate, is neither a Hindu nor a nationalist.”

Source: 2000s, Asterisk in bharopiyasthan: Minor writings on the Aryan invasion debate (2007)

“In the Hindu sphere of influence, by contrast, this kind of sobriety and intellectual discipline is the exception rather than the rule. Serious integrated teaching of Vedic tradition is as yet available only on the margin, as in the Arsha Vidya Gurukulam.”

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2010s, The argumentative Hindu (2012)

“All it demonstrates is the bullying rhetoric so common in the debate between the scientific and the secularist schools of Indian history.”

2000s, Ayodhya: The Case Against the Temple (2002)

“In the Islamic world many places of worship belonging to the earlier religion have been converted to mosques.”

M. Shokoohy: “Two fire temples converted to mosques in central Iran”, Papers in Honour of Professor Mary Boyce, EJ. Brill, Leiden 1985, p.546.
Source: 2000s, Ayodhya: The Case Against the Temple (2002)

“It is quite bizarre that scholars trying to prove a point discredit their own case by using a proven forgery without any comment.”

Source: 2000s, Ayodhya: The Case Against the Temple (2002)