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International Cuisine Conference on Traditional Asian Diet Panaji, Goa, September 2-5, 2007 - http://www.indologygoa.in Online Media Partner: http://www.goanet.org ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Dear Fred: Please take some time if u could, to carefully read my posts At no point in time have I justified any act of violence commited by the hindu right wing nor have I given any lengthy explanations as to why Manu or the caste system or the sati was right Please dont try to create the impression that I am trying to make it "my religion is better than yours" issue here My point has simply been that those who claim to stand for religious tolerance and pluralism and liberalism should condemn Manu and Francis xavier using the same yardstick One cant be a "apostle of peace" and "product of his time" while other a racist bigot Gabe Averthanus and others have openly supported the act of Churchill wrt INOX and Da vinci code but are qucik to condemn bajrang dal Of course Gabe has given some convoluted explanation for it too but even dara singh has one for burning Staines alive Regards C A Bhandare ____________________________________________________________________________________ Looking for a deal? Find great prices on flights and hotels with Yahoo! FareChase. http://farechase.yahoo.com/