In order to understand Congress, you have to understand Sonia. Like many of us who come to the west, she has come to India from strict Italian catholic backgrounds. She has minimal assimilation in Indian society, unlike most of us. Indians who come to the west have to speak English, work with white people, laugh at their jokes, understand their slang, wish them on their religious festivals and assimilate. She didnt have to do that, which means she is a hard core Catholic at heart which is how she has raised her kids.
So, like most racist Christians, she views Hinduism as a relgious of monkey gods like hanuman, multi-armed godesses like Ma Durga and idol worship which they see as a religion of the moron (but they love yoga and meditation), they see our traditions as that of the primitive Neanderthal who is extinct.
Now do you see why she calls Hindus as merchants of death while keeping quiet at the Kashmiri genocide and Islamic fundamentalism, Bangladeshi infiltration and Christian missionary's cunning conversion through bribery in the North East