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Dear Bhandare, Thanks for exposing yourself, your thought process, and
your bigotry. Did you ever spare a thought of why
discriminated-against and undeniably excluded minorities find the
Congress, their corruption and many sins notwithstanding, a safer bet?
Is it a time for introspection?
The term "vote bank" [See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vote_bank ] is
an Indian contribution to understandings of representative rather than
participative "parliamentary democracy". I wonder if you would apply
the same to understand the electoral behaviour of say, "dominant
caste" groups, professionals, businessmen, mineowners, graduates,
those who support theories of ethnic superiority, etc .... After all,
"democracy" can be "manipulated" not just by those who have numbers
(including, but whom you seem to conveniently overlook, those
indulging in majoritarian politics), but also by those who have the
money-power, the brain-power or can leaverage media manipulation.
Why do you specifically choose "Muslims" to hit out against? Would we
have felt the same if your chosen community-for-abuse was replaced by
"upper castes", "Hindus", "Catholics", "expats", "affluent citizens"
or some such term? The other day, I came across an old gentlemen
talking about "Goans" and "Hindus" (suggesting the latter were not
Hindus). I found his exclusivist approach as abbhorent as yours!
What, to your mind, is the link between religious fundamentalism and
religion? Does one necessarily follow the latter? (If so, how do you
explain non-religious people like M A Jinnah and L K Advani being
cynical manipulators of religion?) Do you have, per se, a problem with
places of worship of any religious group being set up in Goa? If so,
on what grounds?
And do you take note only of "Muslim fundamentalism" and intolerance,
or all types of religious and non-religious fundamentalism which
spreads the vision of hate and mistrust?
Are you just loosing out in the debate, to reveal your true colours
and feelings, which you did so much to hide for so long? FN
[Goanet] reply to kamlaksh
Bhandare bhandare1978 at yahoo.com
Fri Jul 13 09:51:33 PDT 2007
Dear Kamlaksh:
You are right. In Ponda, margao fatorda cortalim vasco
st cruz and margao the migrant muslims are the
congress's solid votebank
also there is massive infiltration of fundamentalist
muslims like tablighi jamat and u will soon find
mosques and madarsas mushrooming in goa
the important question is what are we doing to stop
this?
Regards
Bhandare
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