It is sad, shocking and repugnant that Marlon has tried to intimidate and threaten Marshall for his fight against the cancerous Hindutva brigade. Marshal has always distinguished it from the gentle Hinduism in his writings.
That this Marlon has sought his personal details for an engagement with the extremists Hindutva elements, smacks of his baser instincts and to an extent goondaism-traits that one would least expect from a decent and able debater. In a further rejoinder to Frederick he has shamelessly denied that his original post had nothing to do with Marshall's exposure of Hindutva's various of bigotry but more to do with his alleged labelling of his mascot Santosh as communal and Indian-Americans as perceived supporters of that idealogy. Marshall has evidently rattled many a head, by his logical and studious arguments.Hence a bete-noire to some. As a crafty diversionary tactic, reminiscent of any fascist ilk, he has been unjustly accused of being, to use their pet-phrase, a 'cut-and-paste' guy.More often than not, robbing the argument of its substance and camouflaging and embellishing it with a thin veneer of atheism, which somehow as time went by, got transformed into soft Hindutva. T hat some charlatan has fallen for the trap is an indication of Santosh's uncanny mastery of deception (yes, he reminds me of Advani in this) or a low-grade ability of his admirers, in a hurry to dish out character certificates! If anyone desires to be a foot soldier of anyone, I grant it is thier business. But please spare the decent Goa netters of such puerile intimidatory post, that neither enhances the argument nor does justice to the agenda one wishes to pursues. Or perhaps it does! Thanks J. Mario Fernandes > Message: 11 > Date: Fri, 27 Mar 2009 09:31:31 -0700 (PDT) > From: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [Goanet] The hunting-Marshall season... > To: [email protected] > Message-ID: <[email protected]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 > > > Marshall is being attacked not for his fight against hindutva extremism, but > for his rather paranoid and gross generalizations about Indian Americans. He > has also made some rather outrageous allegations suggesting that Santosh > supports hinduvta terror in India. Santosh has a track record, both on and > off the net in supporting causes and individuals, regardless of religion. > > I am strongly opposed to hindutva extremism.? Since Marshall claims that the > Indian-American community is full of such extremists, I have provided him > with my personal details for which he my permission to provide to these > alleged American-Indian groups. > http://groups.yahoo.com/group/GoenchimXapotam/message/20516 ] to say > "can anyone provide me with personal details on Marshall, such as his > phone number, address etc? I would like to help him in his fight > against the extremist hindutva forces, but posting his contact details > on various hindu forums. He can then get acquainted with these people > directly and stop bothering us with his paranoia." is not just unfair. > It also shows an inclination to incite further bigotry when we see it > as suiting our goals, or scoring points. FN _________________________________________________________________ So many new options, so little time. Windows Live Messenger. http://www.microsoft.com/india/windows/windowslive/messenger.aspx
