Date: Sat, 8 Nov 2008 22:03:52 +0530 (IST) From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Article on hindutva terror in Frontline. Read on. http://www.frontlineonnet.com/stories/20081121252310100.htm > How laws are used to browbeat and subdue minorities in India. POTA for muslims and Freedom of Religion Act for christians. http://www.frontlineonnet.com/stories/20081121252303200.htm > Mario asks: > Marshall, > I am noticing recently a pattern of posts under your name, which amount to a barrage of selective information about Hindu extremism in India, without the context of Hindus generally. > Is it news that there are Hindutva extremists in India? Who do you think killed Matatma Gandhi? I grew up way back in the good old days with members of groups called RSS and Hindu Mahasabha. I know what makes them tick better than most Hindus on Goanet. > To put some perspective on the Hindutva extremists, > a) There are some 800 million Hindus in India who do not believe in the Hindutva philosophy, compared to the relatively small number of Hindus who do. > b) Proof of this lies in the rejection of the BJP and their "India Shining" campaign of a few years ago, when they were ousted largely by Hindus who believe in secularism and tolerance, and > c) If this were not so, India would have been as ethnically cleansed as Pakistan by now. > Don't you find it ironic that the series of articles you are posting exposing the Hindutva movement are from Frontline, a magazine from the publishers of the Hindu? > It is up to local, state and federal governments and the legal system in India to put any extremist genies who escape, back in the bottle. If they are failing to do so, your complaint should be with them. > However, the information you have posted suggests the legal system did do its job in preventing POTA to be abused by the Gujarat government. > Look, the fundamentalist Christians who engage in coerced conversions think you Catholics are evil and Pope Benny is the anti-Christ because you all deny that the Bible was literally dictated directly by Christ in modern English, as well as all the Indian languages simultaneously. > Perhaps we should call theirs the Christutva movement. >
