Mario Goveia wrote: > > This is tragic. The terror in India from the government's > failure to protect them has reached a point where the > jihadis don't even have to plant a bomb any more to kill > hundreds of innocent Indians; all they have to do is plant a rumor. > --- On Tue, 9/30/08, Frederick [FN] Noronha wrote: > Mario, it's not just "jihadis" who take the responsibility for stoking up religious intolerance and hate in today's India (though your ideology would probably want to blame them alone). FN > Mario responds: > Fred, > While you are correct that it is not "just" jihadis who stoke religious intolerance and hate in India, I would like to know" > a) how did you understand from my comment above that the jihadis were the only ones? > b) how does it compromise my ideology which opposes all terrorists, as compared with the selective opprobium I have noticed by Indian Catholics worldwide? > Perhaps I need to remind you that it was my ideology, not yours, that recently liberated 50 million Muslims from brutal oppression by Muslim tyrants in Afghanistan and Iraq and previously led the liberation of Muslims in Kosovo from Christian Serbs. > BTW, I'm glad you thought of mentioning my ideology, because it provided an opportunity to compare my ideology with yours. > c) how does my comment above change the facts of this latest incidence where the stampede was caused by a rumor of a jihadi bomb, unless you think they were concerned about a bomb planted by someone else? > d) perhaps the fact that it is jihadis who are reported to have killed over 60,000 innocent Indians since Independance while ethnically cleansing most of Kashmir when compared with the relatively fewer casualties attributed to all the others who stoke religious intolerance and hatred in India, that puts a better perspective on what is going on, and especially on the selective opprobium by the Indian Catholics. >
