On Monday 18 May 2009 7:01:05 pm bonoba...@yahoo.co.in wrote: > In other words, some citizen wants to explain why murdering Muslims doesn't > really matter, against the greater good of the greater number, and other > citizens with a narrow mind call him or her a Hindutvabadi and shut off a > proper reasoned argument on why and under what circumstances murdering > Muslims should be permitted.
IG I have already sent a verbose response to another post of yours but this one is too tempting. In the original post that defended Modi's actions I do not recall Bharat Shetty describing himself as either "Hindu", or "Hindutva" or even "Hindutvabadi" (Hindutva-baddie" :D ) If you would like to retrace the sequence of events, Bharat Shetty defended Modi, but, as I stated did not identify himself as either "Hindu", or "Hindutva" or even "Hindutvabadi" That "identification" was made by SRS as "playing the Hindutva card" and that identification is being endorsed by you. Why not simply say that Bharat Shetty is defending Modi the murderer? Why pull all supporters of Hindutva into this? What you are doing in effect is to smear all people who represent Hindutva and being representative of a murderer. You need to ask yourself if you believe this to be true. No harm if you do believe it to be true. It is a viewpoint. But recall that when all Hindutvadis can be dubbed as apologists or representatives of murderers, the same argument can be conveniently applied to other people in other contexts to reach equally spurious conclusions. Why not allow all viewpoints to be aired? shiv
