Posted on 07/08/2005 6:48:29 AM PDT by TigerLikesRooster
July 7, 2005
Thousands Are Arrested in India in Unrest Over Temple Site
By SOMINI SENGUPTA
NEW DELHI, July 6 - The police on Wednesday fired tear gas at hundreds of demonstrators in the center of this city, the Indian capital, who were protesting an attack on a disputed religious site that has emerged as India's most potent symbol of sectarian strife.
A day after the attack on the site, the temple compound in the northern town of Ayodhya, protesters led by the opposition Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party, and their allied organizations, also stormed the airport and hurled potted plants in Indore, a central Indian city, and smashed car windows in Ranchi, in eastern Jharkhand State.
In the capital, the political protest led by the opposition party chief, Lal Krishna Advani, resulted in the arrests of more than 2,800 people. The local police said that 76 were arrested in Indore and 115 in Ranchi. Strikes have been called by Hindu political groups for Thursday.
The demonstrations were peaceful and small, though, in comparison with the Hindu-Muslim violence that has previously broken out in this country. In the attack on Tuesday, gunmen brazenly laid siege to the heavily fortified Ayodhya temple compound.
In December 1992, led by the rallying cry that it was the birthplace of a Hindu deity called Ram, a Hindu mob demolished a 16th-century mosque that had stood there. Mr. Advani was present at the time. In the riots that followed, thousands were killed.
What kind of traction Mr. Advani will get from renewing the Ram temple call remains to be seen. Also on Wednesday, a court in Lucknow, near Ayodhya, charged Mr. Advani and several other leaders of his party with inciting the mob that demolished the mosque in 1992.
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Thank goodness Christianity doesn't get caught up over shrines like this.
This has more to do with BJP/RSS politics than religion.
Muslims attack one of Hinduism's holiest shrines and you put the understandable reaction down to BJP/RSS politics. Kinda like saying the London bomb blasts are essentially political in nature!!! You just refuse to get it, don't you?
I guess I do, oh wise one.
Maybe only if someone should try to blow up the vatican ?
You guessed wrong.
Hello All,
Its correct decision to arrest RSS/VHP workers. That is purely for law & order situation.
Having said that, I would also like to add, that the Islamic Jihadi Bas... have been killed, and should be killed, killed & killed.
"You guessed wrong"
Sure, indian conservative. You are of course right and everyone else is wrong. Moron.
Welcome to FR.
No, Ketan Desai. It is just you who is wrong.
No, you are wrong.
are you a liberal or a muslim? the logical faculties in your brain seem to have gone kaput! you are blaming the victims here. somini sengupta's last name says it all - she is a dumb bengali. since bengalis are mostly commies, it follows that she is probably a dumb bimbo.
Thanx,
I hope we can eliminate the Satan's messengers!
I'm neither liberal nor Muslim.
Try to be polite in your postings - if not, there is no point discussing with you.
Try again and I'll explain to you. Otherwise, take your lack of manners elsewhere.
Gengis, you have just been pegged as a "dumb Bengali" by a fellow Indian.
Bengali is not = commie or dumb
Commies are anti-nationals & anti-bengali & they should be wiped out ... to hell..
They have converted West Bengal to WASTE Bengal. Derogated the whole Bengali society & its people. They should be given a ONE WAY TICKET TO HELL
I couldn't follow all the logic of the preceding arguments, but I must say I agree wholheartedly with your sentiment above.
In Russia, Communism was also by its very essence "anti-national" and specifically against ALL nationalisms, including Russian. This pertains to the Indian question because it is good to see someone such as yourself understanding the threat to human nature from such movements which purport to be the elite guiding all to a better world (although of course the elite must brush aside all opposition from those who wish not to be led).
I don't understand all the RAM-ifications of local Indian politics :) but must applaud your good sense.
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