re: the Swiss vote against Minarets anil desai wrote " Things will change if and only if Salcette has more mosques than churches."
COMMENT: I have been reading the above "broad sentiment" ever since Manohar Parrikar was defeated. The fault it seems is that of the Salcete Catholics. Garbage. A minority (26%) cannot kick out a majority party from power.......just so. These MGP/BJP chaps did their best to decimate the Catholic vote - even bringing in deputationists and "consultants" to fill jobs that Goans could do ....and now they are whining. Hey! hear me again .... I will say it one more time .... The Catholic Goans are done for good. You have convinced them that they are best served as "pulverised". Don't expect them, now, to stand up for their own rights, let alone yours. They are finished as far as Goa is concerned. You have won. The "Fontainhas-vandalistas" and the " Bogus Video-CD clowns" convinced many Goans (I believe) that those who had Portuguese-sounding names and those who were NOT "swadeshi-Catholics" had defaulted on the right to express themselves in Goa. So, there they are drinking up all the caju feni they can find and calling it a success. Furthermore, I ask: Was there NO increase in the number of mosques during the Parrikar-BJP regime? Was there NO illegal ghetto settlements on the Dongar - during the BJP regime? Was Digu Kamat (then BJP) NOT doing the very same thing then that he is doing now? Why was there NO outrage at that time? Of course: I do not know if it is legal to ban the construction of legal mosques in Goa. Remember - since 1961(OK 1962-63), the operative document in Goa is the Constitution of India. As far as the Swiss vote is concerned, I am not sure how it will stand the anti-discrimination clauses of EU law. But then again, the Swiss association with the EU is both loose and complicated. jc
