You can see below a distortion of my argument to prop up unsustainable logic.
I'm talking specifically about the attempt to divide Muslims into good "Goan Muslims" and bad "migrant Muslims". No prize for guessing where this ingenuous argument comes from! You can find examples of this here: http://www.goanews.com/news_disp.php?newsid=128 http://www.colaco.net/1/TGFCommunalRiots.htm http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg09023.html and many other places since this hybrid of communalism-regional chauvinism (specifically focussed on the Muslim) was first floated into the market. FN PS: Bias against the "outsider" is not mainly communal at this point of time, though it could be given such a twist, as done in Assam, for instance. Rajan Parrikar wrote: Frederick Noronha wrote: >Yep, it's like the argument which goes >Muslims-from-Goa-are-good-but-not-the-immigrant-Muslims-from-other-States. Yet another of Frederick Noronha's many lies that have been thundering flops. Admin Noronha has tried hard to spread the canard that those Goans who oppose the uncontrolled ghati influx do so based on their religion. Everyone knows this to be flase, but Admin Noronha keeps trying. You have to give the flop Admin Noronha marks for trying though. * * * Encounter hints (and more) of the Goan life in Zanzibar, Poona, Mombasa, Basra, Dubai, and even Nuvem and Colva, Sanvordem and colonial Goa. Learn of experiences that shaped Goans worldwide. Selma Carvalho's *Into the Diaspora Wilderness* now available at Broadways Book Centre, Panjim [Ph +91-9822488564] Ask a friend to buy it, before it gets sold out. Price (in Goa only) Rs 295. http://selmacarvalho.squarespace.com/ * * *
