[Pearls Before Swine]

I don't recall the Jews rioting and burning trains with German women and children in them before WW II.

[tallhappy]

I don't recall the Jews rioting and burning trains with German women and children in them before WW II.

Excellent point, I'm sure lost on the auhor.

The analysis at the host site, Foreign Policy in Focus, seems consistently leftist.

[Almondjoy]

OHHHHHH but that's right you only think of muslims being the minority there.. you might want to remember the ten's of thousands of christians and sieks that have died their too.. sheesh.. could you at least try to be a little less biased and a tad more factual?

[TBP]

The train that was attacked was filled with militant Hindu nationalists who were chanting slogans about building a Hindu temple on the site of the most revered mosque in India. They also bought food from a vendor and then refused to pay for it. When he made an issue of it, they took his daughter and held her captive on the train. The rioters were provoked.

But it's not just that incident. Some of you Indian apologists can't see beyond the small incidents that the Indian government wants you to see.

The Indian government has practiced oppression against Chrsitians, Sikhs, Muslims, Dalits, Bodos, and other minorities. According to the January 2 Washington Times, they are sponsoring terrorism in the Pakistani province of Sindh. According to India Today, tehy created teh Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam.

The Indian government admitted to holding 52,268 Sikh political prisoners, according to a report by the Movement Against State Repression (MASR.) Some of these have been in illegal detention since 1984! India has murdered over 200,000 Christians in Nagaland, over 250,000 Sikhs since 1984, over 75,000 Kashmiri Muslims since 1988, and tens of thousands of other minorities. According to teh Hitavada newspaper, it paid the late governor of Punjab, Surendra Nath, to foment terrorist activity in Punjab and Kashmir. About 50,000 Sikhs have been made to "disappear." Minorities of all kinds are killed in police custody.

Chrsitians are being singled out. Priests have been murdered, nuns have been raped, churches have been burned, missionary Graham Staines and his two young sons were murdered by these Hindu militants and all India does is throw his widow out of the country. A Chrsitian religious festival was broken up by police gunfire.

Does this sound like a secular democracy to you, or does it sound like Nazi Germany? Rep. Dana Rohrabacher knows. On August 2, 1999, on the floor of the House, he said that for the minorities, "India might as well be Nazi Germany."

[TBP]

I don't recall the Jews rioting and burning trains with German women and children in them before WW II.

You do realize that the incident you're talking about was set up by the Indian regime, don't you?

[dfwgator]

I don't recall the Jews rioting and burning trains with German women and children in them before WW II.

That was the evil Poles who did that, at least that's what Nazi Propaganda said.