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The link to the 1st article is broken.Subject: Re: troubles in South Asia
The link works for me, it's just that the article isn't displayed on the page. They may be having database problems, which is fatal if you're serving up dynamic pages like they are.Subject: Re: troubles in South Asia
Sorry, I had to pull the article temporarily because Zahir is having it published in a major newspaper. It will go back up after publication there...Subject: Re: troubles in South Asia
Being a Hindu and having been lived in a truly secular environment, most of my school classmates being muslims, I can assure you that you are viewing the issue of Hindu fundamentalism through a prism of what gets reported in the media. If not for the pluralism and truly secular nature of India, you wouldn't have had more Muslims in India than in Pakistan! Cheer up, it isn't always as bad as the media potrays!Subject: Re: troubles in South Asia
What happened in Gujurat was horrific.Subject: Re: troubles in South Asia
You know there is an old saying, if you point 1 dirty finger at others then 3 dirty fingers point back at you. Yes what happened at Gujarat was horrific. But it still doesn't take away the fact that India being a pred Hindu country allows unprecedented freedom to religions of all faiths - Muslims, Xians, Budhists, Parsis....My grandpa used to read all his Hindu religious books in Farsi and Urdu! His comments in old books at home are in Farsi (Persian) It is difficult to find someone today who can help us out in translating it. My mother stills subscribes and reads an Urdu newspaper. I tell you, show me any other country that allows this kind of religious freedom!Subject: Re: troubles in South Asia
What do you mean by "fingers point back at you"? Are you saying that Muslims are to blame? You jump to say that Hindus are being smeared by the media and that the threat of Hindu fundamentalism is much over-rated. Do you consider that Muslims are also being smeared by the media and that the threat of Muslim fundamentalism is much over-rated?Nobody here is saying that India is a bad place. However, it's clearly got some serious problems with religious extremists, however small a percentage of the population they are (and I'm sure that they're a very small percentage). It sounds like you're trying to deny that this problem exists. I'm sorry that you choose to feel that way.
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I am a lapsed catholic whose parents were born in Goa so I don't have any of the biases of muslims or hindus. From my own experiences in India and what I have heard of Pakistan, I would have to say that Pakistan is a million times more intolerant than India. Christians in Pakistan are regularly raped, killed and persecuted whereas in India they are relatively secure. In India the extremists represent a small minority whereas in Pakistan the moderates are a small minority. To compare Pakistan and India as if their human rights abuses are similar is completely ridiculus. In fact I would say that the fundamentalism that is seen in India is the result of extreme oppression by Muslim conquerers over centuries and centuries. Indeed, Hindus are not the only ones to become violent due to contact with Muslims. Sikhs were once a very peaceful and fairly idealistic religion under Guru Nanak but were turned into a millitant religion after suffering under extreme oppression from Muslims.