2008/7/8 Santosh Helekar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Richard Zimler has issued a strong rebuttal on Goa Research Net to the > vacuous innuendo and prejudiced stereotyping that he has had to endure, both > publicly and privately, from his detractors, on the basis of a fictional > novel that none of them seems to have bothered to read. > > In addition to cringing from Gilbert's rehashing below of his longstanding > baseless hypothesis that Goan inquisition was a law enforcement exercise > against criminals, I noted that he was accusing Zimler of making a claim that > the latter had never made, namely that the inquisition was directed at > non-converted Hindus. Zimler had clearly stated that its targets were the New > Christians - converted Jews, Muslims and Hindus - with the intent to deter > them from lapsing into their old ways. > > Cheers, > > Santosh
RESPONSE: Zimler's novels are fiction, with very little fact to back them up; this being the case, I am left, scratching my head, as to why we are giving such incredulous credence to such imaginings! Perhaps a pig in a poke? -- DEV BOREM KORUM. Gabe Menezes. London, England
