--- On Tue, 2/17/09, Mario Goveia <[email protected]> wrote: Have I been silent in criticizing the fundamentalism of non-Hindus? I recall there used to be a Muslim Goanetter years ago who dropped out because he couldn't deal with my trenchant critiques of Islamic fundamentalists - I think he construed my criticisms of Islamic fanatics as criticisms of regular Muslims.
--- Mario is talking about a goanetter by the name of Tariq who was not only attacked for his views, but because he happend to be a muslim. Mario's comments above are at best false and at worst a blatant lie. At least Chris Vaz had the decency to retract his comments .. see link below. http://lists.goanet.org/pipermail/goanet-goanet.org/2004-November/020610.html Unfortunately Mario continues to engage in sheer denial and continues to engage in the character assassination of Tariq on a forum he is no longer able to defend himself. There were several individuals who continued to hound Tariq just because he happened to be a muslim and did not share their views, as the link to the post below indicates. http://lists.goanet.org/pipermail/goanet-goanet.org/2005-July/031784.html I shared Tariq's views, but was not personally attacked in the same crude manner. I wonder why? Tariq was on goanet since its formation almost 15 years ago. During that span, he consistently displayed no religious biases that I know of. Tariq did not leave goanet because of disagreements on islam. He left because he was personally attacked because of his religion. It is as simple as that. Marlon
