Size is important for fair representation in a democracy. Or would you rather have the community, religious, ethic or other, seek and be classified under schedule and protected status, and then ignored and forgotten? Or seek correction through civil war? Witness Sri Lanka, N. Ireland, Lebanon, Timor, etc and more yet to be played out. I Nunes
--- On Sat, 10/24/09, Frederick Noronha <fredericknoro...@gmail.com> wrote: ..."....To repeat, I don't subscribe to the view that the size of a "community" is important, or even that a "religious community" shares a commonness of economic or political interest. "