Bidwai you remind me of a flea. Yes a flea, just like the ones that wander around in your beard. So why a flea, I here you NOT ask. Simple, because just like a flea, you are irritating and pointless. Listen Bidwai, whether you like it or, and you can jump up and down like a blue arsed marxist all you like, but the affinity to USA in India is growing. And there ain't a damn thing you do about it. Oh this is so much fun.
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by sheela mathew mathews on Aug 28, 2007 06:23 AM Permalink
"...but the affinity to USA in India is growing. And there ain't a damn thing you do about it.."
Are you forgetting our religious rigt (BJP) also opposed the nuclear deal? Anyway it is a good thing that India's friendship with US is growing. Us has an inherent dislike for Nazi-like racist ideologies and extremism (of all variety and religion). The new friendship will eliminate the already marginalized religious extremists.
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by Rajan Shah on Aug 28, 2007 07:53 AM Permalink
"Will eliminate the already marginalized religious extremists"
I agree with you 100%. There is no room for bigotry in any society. Especially those that claim their religion is the only one that can lead to salvation and demean other religions as superstitous and deride it as mere idol worship with false Gods.
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by Bhaumik on Aug 28, 2007 09:13 AM Permalink
Extremism has nothing to do with one's private beliefs. You may believe your is the only true way, it is your belief, which nobody has the right to question.
But by 'extremism' one means the type of ideology typical of BJP, SIMI, RSS, Taliban et al. Christian fundamentalists are a strange group, but not violent as a class, as the forgoing despicable lot.
You are just being disingenuous in pretending to be not understanding this.
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by Rajan Shah on Aug 28, 2007 10:03 AM Permalink
Hmm, I see, so certain religions have extremists and other religions have absolutely no extremists but only "strange groups". So if some one accuses others of superstition, cow worship, rat worship, idol worship, mumbo jumbo etc etc, that is not extremism, but merely "strange" behaviour. Okay, thank you so much for clearing that one up.
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by Sumit Dutta on Aug 28, 2007 03:50 PM Permalink
Well spoken Rajan Bhai, it is because of such limited understanding of our own brethren that we had been subjugated for 900 years
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by Shankar Panday on Aug 29, 2007 01:22 AM Permalink
The BJP if it can be a religious right would be considered an extreme Leftist by Paki or Bangladesh standards. The center there is equivalent of extreme right in India. Even by US standards BJP would be far left of even the Republican party. BJP could be a nationalist party but not a religious pary by any stretch of imagination. Firstly, the Hindu religion does not mandate a political system, even Ram Rajya is more conceptual than an agenda. It is only the Semitic religions like Judaism, Christianity & Islam that has this wierd concept of a political system that has come from God. Of the three mentioned however, only Islam established a Caliphate ordained by God, and a the present time it is the only religion with a Theocratic state agenda. The BJP has not insisted on altering Indias secular framework with any like say Manu Code.
