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INDIA: A DEMOCRACY STRUGGLING FOR RELIGIOUS FREEDOM
Congressional Record ^ | May 8, 2007 | Rep. Cliff Stearns

Posted on 05/28/2007 10:07:03 PM PDT by TBP

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To: TBP

Graham Staines murder is not reflective of the average Hindu mindset. It is not even relfective of the BJP/RSS mindset, though I bet some of their cadres were lustily cheering at what happened to him.

Truth be told, India doesnt have any racial/religious hate groups like KKK/blackpanthers, etc. Having been called a Paki by some britishers, I know first hand that racism is more virulent in Europe than in India.

If India was indeed over run by Hindu extremists, the richest Indian wouldnt be a MUSLIM, the country’s PM wouldnt be a SIKH and the president wouldnt a MUSLIM.


21 posted on 05/30/2007 2:57:17 AM PDT by design engineer
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To: TBP

Yes now lets see you come up with one.


22 posted on 05/30/2007 8:35:21 AM PDT by Gengis Khan
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Please educate us, what parts are “Hindustan” and what parts are “different”. BTW Pakistan and parts of Afghanistan were also part of what was historically called Hindustan. Is it the same Hindustan you are talking about?


23 posted on 05/30/2007 8:53:22 AM PDT by Gengis Khan
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To: Gengis Khan

Clearly, those areas that are not predominantly Hindu but are predominaantly something else (Christian, Sikh, etc.) and ahve a different religion, culture, language are distinct entities from predominantly Hindu India.


24 posted on 05/30/2007 2:00:45 PM PDT by TBP
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To: design engineer
"Graham Staines murder is not reflective of the average Hindu mindset."

"Victory to Hannuman" isn't reflective of the Hindu mindset?

What are you smoking?

25 posted on 05/30/2007 3:36:04 PM PDT by TBP
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To: CarrotAndStick; Gengis Khan

I am very tempted to call Tim Phares- the FR Resident Idiot, but in view of civility I will resist that temptation.


26 posted on 05/30/2007 5:50:18 PM PDT by HarmlessLovableFuzzball
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"Victory to Hannuman" isn't reflective of the Hindu mindset?

Oh, you mean, like flaunting the Cross isn't reflective of the Christian mindset?[/Sarc.]

What dope-smoke has taken the place of your brain? Or has your bladder taken up the vacant lot in the n@mb-skull?

27 posted on 05/30/2007 6:53:37 PM PDT by CarrotAndStick (The articles posted by me needn't necessarily reflect my opinion.)
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"Clearly, those areas that are not predominantly Hindu but are predominaantly something else (Christian, Sikh, etc.) and ahve a different religion, culture, language are distinct entities from predominantly Hindu India."

You, mean like these areas that you would love encouraging a secession in? Answer, please!

28 posted on 05/30/2007 7:05:39 PM PDT by CarrotAndStick (The articles posted by me needn't necessarily reflect my opinion.)
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To: TBP
“Clearly, those areas that are not predominantly Hindu but are predominaantly something else (Christian, Sikh, etc.) and ahve a different religion, culture, language are distinct entities from predominantly Hindu India.”

......But then India is not a Hindu country anyways so what does it matter that some places are Christian, Sikh or something else?

BTW you mentioned some parts are culturally and linguistically and religiously different, and I asked what parts are different? Didn't get an answer yet. I guess you have no India so ask your Paki masters.

30 posted on 05/31/2007 5:29:46 AM PDT by Gengis Khan
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To: CarrotAndStick

You folks have yet to rebut even one of the statements Congressman Stearns makes. Instead, you choose to spread disnformation and attack the messenger with smears.

Now, try addressing the issue for once.


31 posted on 06/01/2007 2:00:04 PM PDT by TBP
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Like I said before, no new points. And you picture yourself a messenger? Lol!


32 posted on 06/01/2007 8:31:52 PM PDT by CarrotAndStick (The articles posted by me needn't necessarily reflect my opinion.)
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Lemme hear your take on this, Mr. Secessionist-Messenger:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1841242/posts?page=28#28


33 posted on 06/01/2007 8:40:12 PM PDT by CarrotAndStick (The articles posted by me needn't necessarily reflect my opinion.)
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First, as I showed, India and China have been discussing some form of security cooperation since at least 1999.

Second, India has a long record of anti-Americanism. it was a longtime ally of the Soviet Union. it votes against the US at the UN more often than any country except Cuba.

It has made deals to sell heavy water to Iran and was in oil deals with Saddam’s regime, which described Indiai as its “strategic partner.”

India has done nothing to help in the War on Terror.

Firther, India is a terrorist sponsor. The Washington Times of January 2, 2002 reported that it sponsors cross-border terrorims in Sindh. It created the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), according to India Today, and put up its leaders in the finest hotel in Delhi. The LTTE has been identified by the U.S. government as a terrorist organization. The newspaper Hitavada reported that the late governor of Punjab, Surendra Nath, was paid $1.5 billion to foment terrorist activity in Punjab and in Kashmir.

And it has been cited as a major violator of religious freedom.

Tens of thousands of minorities, including over 52,000 Sikhs, are being held as political prisoners. (The overall number comes form Amnesty International; thenumber of Sikhs comes froma report by the Movement Against State Repression, an organizathion that should not be needed ina democracy.)

It was India that started the current nuclearization of South Asia.

Furthermore, over half the population lives below the international povery line, many on less than $2 per day!

Is this a country we should look upon as a “natural ally”?


34 posted on 06/01/2007 10:10:31 PM PDT by TBP
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Yada yada. Every one of your points is refutable by a fact or a similar deed by the US. Face it, India is a stable, thriving democratic republic. America knows is, and is taking more trouble to court India than the other way round.

India went into the Soviet camp precisely because America, thinking Pakistan was the more survivable entity of the two, placed her eggs in the Islamist basket. The shift was started because an Indian request for the urgent need of warplanes from Britain was blocked by America, and the Soviets chanced upon it to help India establish aircraft factories which saved India in the consequent wars, fighting mostly American-made weaponry at the hands of the Pakistanis. You may be courteous enough to shut the trap on “Blame America First” and all the other nonsense that you’ve beem orgasmating over here. And face this fact too- not a SINGLE Soviet base on any Indian territory. India has pretty much done a good job with regard to safeguarding her interests.

What’s that cock-n-bull about Saddam? Need I dig back into US support for Saddam right through the 80s? Or are you, as a Pakistani, trying to lay a trap to get me to post something anti-US, so others can chew on it? It won’t work, my ignorant friend!

You can take the Punjab and Kashmiri separatist nonsense right up into where the sun don’t shine on you. Mr. KPS Gill and his likes have given a more-than-befitting reply to every one of them. Also the same with the LTTE. Contra, LTTE, same-same. So go bark up some other tree.

Fighting terrorism? India was fighting it atleast a dozen years before America even thought that Islamic terrorism would knock hard at her doorsteps. The same groups that India fought, and America was only providing lip-service in regard to fighting them, are all now prominently placed in America’s terrorist entity list. So you can take your misconceptions and shove it.

Also, answer the question I asked... or are you still dumb-founded for one?


35 posted on 06/01/2007 10:42:48 PM PDT by CarrotAndStick (The articles posted by me needn't necessarily reflect my opinion.)
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