It is almost like gujarat is, for muslims, the equivalent of the deep south for negroes back in the 60s. Ask a goan catholic friend of mine, who tried to rent there and was told 'they dont rent to muslims'. Went through a different broker to the same landlord but giving him his 'old' hindu name mohan prabhu (lots of goan rcs were saraswat brahmins back in portuguese times) and he got just that house
In other words, no, not unfair -- srs/nokia e71 -original message- Subject: Re: [silk] Need some help From: "." <svaks...@gmail.com> Date: 21-04-2009 08:59 On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 9:54 AM, sur...@hserus.net <sur...@hserus.net> wrote: > Owners right? If today, in birmingham AL, some redneck refused to rent a > flat because the prospective tenant is a 'nigger', he'd be arrested If the redneck is bent on discriminating on the basis of skin color he could circumvent a future arrest with a tactical reason to not rent. People may not openly discriminate because of fear of being sued but that does nothing to change their internal real selves, which is what needs to change even though that is slow change, harder to achieve and probably impossible and crazy to expect 6 billion "perfect" people. Whether discrimination is based on religion, skin colour, one's singular status, gender, nationality, or any other criteria, its still discrimination. Degrees and hurt levels do vary but there is nothing nice about being on the receiving end. Its equally unfair to label an entire Gujarati community as evil for the actions of a few when language is still the link between a Gujarati Hindu and a Gujarati Bohra. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bohra -- .
