>What I object to is claiming to be secular on the one hand, while practising religious hegemony, on the sly or overtly.
C'da, While this sounds nice, it is really Utopian. I don't believe there is a single country where religious hegemony does not exist in some for or the other (of course, I am talking about democracies). And in democracies, it's not just the problems of religious hegemony, don't forget to add language, state, race, caste & color into the mix. ---Ram On Fri, Feb 11, 2011 at 11:11 AM, Chan Mahanta <[email protected]> wrote: > *** I think so too. They have a long and enviable history and civilization. > > *** I have no problem with a homogeneous society willing to remain bound > by religious rule--its their choice. What I object to is claiming to be > secular on the one hand, while > practising religious hegemony, on the sly or overtly. > > > > > > On Feb 11, 2011, at 10:59 AM, Ram Sarangapani wrote: > > > Hehe! > > > > Now, we will have to see if that bit of 'secularism' you were just > talking > > about will be palatable :-) > > > > But, I think, the Egyptians will just fine. From all indications, it > looks > > like the army will facilitate the transition, and Egypt will have a > > government chosen by it's people. > > > > ---Ram > > > > On Fri, Feb 11, 2011 at 10:49 AM, Chan Mahanta <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > >> > >> Now comes the hard part :-) > >> > >> > >> > >> On Feb 11, 2011, at 10:41 AM, Ram Sarangapani wrote: > >> > >>> > >> > http://www.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/africa/02/11/egypt.protests/index.html?hpt=T1&iref=BN1 > >>> _______________________________________________ > >>> assam mailing list > >>> [email protected] > >>> http://assamnet.org/mailman/listinfo/assam_assamnet.org > >> > >> > >> _______________________________________________ > >> assam mailing list > >> [email protected] > >> http://assamnet.org/mailman/listinfo/assam_assamnet.org > >> > > _______________________________________________ > > assam mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://assamnet.org/mailman/listinfo/assam_assamnet.org > > > _______________________________________________ > assam mailing list > [email protected] > http://assamnet.org/mailman/listinfo/assam_assamnet.org > _______________________________________________ assam mailing list [email protected] http://assamnet.org/mailman/listinfo/assam_assamnet.org
