If one bears the pain of reading the open letter in the post appended below, it
becomes clear how ridiculous this type of political activism has become.
The dishonest smear tactics begin by citing a strained trivial association,
such as the fact that you have belonged, no matter how nominally or in how
unrelated a context, to a religious community, cultural organization or
political party whose extremist members have committed crimes, and then it all
goes down hill from there. You are then held responsible for similar links of
other members of your family, your relatives, your friends, your
co-religionists, people of your native state and other states in the country of
your birth. What you say and what those who really know you say in your defense
are ignored, or worse, twisted to compound your offenses. Finally, the entire
history of all the atrocities committed by people who somehow can be juxtaposed
in the same sentence with you is recited, and a judgment is passed that the
heavy burden of their crimes rests on you.
What a disgrace! No wonder these dime-a-dozen activists do not mature past
their existence on the fringes.
Cheers,
Santosh
--- On Fri, 11/21/08, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Here is the full text of the Open Letter sent to Sonal Shah
> by Coalition against Genocide, a brief report of which was
> carried in yesterday's DNA newspaper and posted here.
>
> Regards,
>
> Marshall
>
> AN OPEN LETTER TO MS. SONAL SHAH, MEMBER OF PRESIDENT-ELECT
> OBAMA'S TRANSITION ADVISORY BOARD
>
> "Your recent statement on Hindu nationalist groups
> raises more questions than it answers."
>
