--- Elisabeth Carvalho <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have to wonder why we tolerate such a communal > party > as the BJP. Isn't it time that we took legal action > against this partisan, communal virus that has taken > a > stronghold in India. In any sane society they would > be > shunned. Is there any difference between them and > the > KKK or the Al Qaeda. They are nothing more than the > political wing of a fundamentalist, militant RSS and > should be treated as such at every junction. > Mario adds: > As I said in another post, I grew up with these RSS guys. They are Hindu supremacists with a chip on their shoulders and can be pretty nasty characters, especially against Christians whom they suspect of trying to exploit and convert poor Hindus, or Muslims whom they suspect of having sympathy for Pakistan. > Unfortunately, in a country with a 80% Hindu population, they had enough political support to have been elected to run the country a few years ago. > Fortunately, there are enough sane Hindus with a strong committment to the secularism of India's heroic founding fathers that they were also subsequently voted out. This secular sentiment among most Indians is what will eventually contain their supremacist paranoia. > I don't think there is any legal avenue under the Indian constitution to prosecute them just for being partisan and communal, unless they go beyond free speech and assembly and actually become violent. >
