Date: Fri, 12 Dec 2008 09:33:17 +0530 From: "Marshall Mendonza" <[email protected]>
Shah, former member of Vishwa Hindu Parishad, has said if she could have anticipated the outfit's role in the 2002 communal violence in Gujarat, she would have never associated with its US branch a year earlier of the incident. Earlier we were informed that it was 'guilt by association' and that the VHP of A is different from the VHP. Now that the cat is out of the bag, I wonder what her apologists and spin doctors will tell us next. Mario responds: I think you have proved in your post that Sonal Shah was being accused of being guilty by association. Her fundraising preceded the communal violence in Gujarat. If she is guilty of supporting violence in Gujarat because she did not speak up earlier in a public forum, then everyone who did not speak up in public when Al Qaeda was attacking US interests throughout the 90s, did not speak up when Saddam Hussain was brutalizing his people, and did not speak up when the Taliban were whipping women in the streets, are guilty of the same infraction as well.
