Dear Jason: Thanks for your response. I will try to adress some of the issues you raised.
As regards giving the benefit of doubt to muslims I will do that provided you also return the favor. Are you ready to speculate that pastor Staines committed suicide and killed his kids to protect them from dara singh? or the muslims in Gujarat commited harakiri to save themselves from the rioteers? You see, speculation works both ways :-) So why not speculate this way rather than blame Hindutva? As regards the commision reports and i presume you are reffering to the Bannerjee commision, are you ready to accept every commision set up by the Govt of India or are you going to decide the usefulness/validity of a commission depending on whom it blames? For example, the wadhwa commision exonerated the RSS in the Staines murder..are you willing to accept that report? the RSS was exonerated of mahatmas murder too by a similar commssion.. The RC church has collected billions of dollars from gullible folks for the purpose of charity and alleviating human suffering, and used that money to buy justice None of the paedophiles have ever been punished and the Pope himself instructed his cardinals not to collaborate with law enforcemnet efforts. All this is in public domain. yet you see no problems in associating with such an organization and expressing dissent when you feel fit. By the same token , do you accept that there are thousands of RSS members who dissent with some things that the organization does? But you seem to tar all the RSS people with the same brush... As regards freedom of speech I consider it absolute. everyone has a right to say freely what one wants, and you by the same token have a right to protest.What is incitement of hatred for me might be a tenet of the religion for you and vice versa.from what I understand from your point regarding the "believers" i presume that you will have no problem if I start preaching that muslims and christians are inherently unpatriotic and inferior people. I do not understand how do you draw the line between propaganda and actual incitement to violence...because one inevitably leads to the other in due course of time. If you have carefully read my posts on Goanet, I have never defended all that the HJS or the RSS does. I have merely tried to expose the hypocrisy and the arrogant self righteous attitude of a few vocal posters on Goanet who selectively target the Hindutva organizations. In my opinion these people who circulate biased white papers, screen films which are designed to spread mistrust and facilitate talks by communal elements have no moral right to criticise what the HJS is doing.That has been the gist of my arguments. Regards Bhandare __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com