Date: Thu, 4 Dec 2008 13:39:09 +0100 From: "Yogesh Desai" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
http://www.financialexpress.com/news/why-india-needs-narendra-modi/375103/0 Mario responds: In his opening sentence the author of this article of pragmatism over righteousness calls Narendra Modi a modern Hitler. While this comparison is absurd as are almost all comparisons with Hitler, it shows the hysteria and hyperbole this author is capable of, which is further illustrated when by the end of the article he is referring to his erstwhile "Hitler", Narendra Modi, as a veritable "God". Revisionists who sympathize with tyranny often point out to the "good" things the tyrants have done, as if this can cancel out the bad things they have done, especially when they have not repudiated violence against their own citizens that they were responsible for or shown any remorse for the deaths and destruction they caused. The new mantra among these pragmatists is that Modi was not as bad as the Congress Party because they were responsible for many more deaths against Sikhs in the aftermath of the Indira Gandhi assassination. The problem with this ridiculous comparison is that one wrong action by one group, makes that group wrong - it cannot be used to justify wrong by another group. In most civilized countries Narendra Modi would have been convicted to death or life in prison for his involvement in the deadly aftermath of the Godhra train burning. Now, he is being hailed as a modern God by some "pragmatists" who want to ignore his communalism and Hindu-supremacism. India has enough problems with communalism without a Hindu-supremacist like Modi in a national leadership position. Whatever he has done for the economy of Gujarat is not rocket science and can be duplicated by any state governor or national leader with a soupcon of common sense.
