08-31-2005, 10:03 PM
Different situations require different tactics. Non-Violence and publicity stunts may have worked in South Africa and British rule, but these won't neccessarily work against Islam.
Acting this way in front of Islamic extremists actually incites them to violence because they see it as a sign of weakness. Neither the Islamic or Christian leaders who bad mouth Hindus and babble about secularism truly believe in being secular. They are just biding their time, waiting to strike when the time is right. If they had their way, India would be a Christian or Islamic theocracy.
Hindus and Hinduism is what keeps India naturally secular.
<!--QuoteBegin-abhishek_d+Aug 30 2005, 12:10 PM-->QUOTE(abhishek_d @ Aug 30 2005, 12:10 PM)<!--QuoteEBegin-->I could not understand your question K. Ram. Can you elaborate.
I will put my point. A person's or individual's fault cannot be put on his community. Just like if a person does a fault his family cannot be punished, if a person kills someone then his father or his sister cannot be killed. Can I give any basic concept or human perception to rationalise it??? I dont think that i can rationalise it. My human values says that guilty should be given punishment and no innocent should be punished.
As regards gujrat riots. Well I have a belief. Muslims create hatred. No doubt. I will resist there hatred and not give into that. I will not appease that hatred. I will not cover that hatred. I will not be a hypocrite in the name of peace and tranquilty.
But I will not generate hatred(i know you wont like it). But if nelson mandela can have the resolve to goto jail for 27 years and then get his basic human rights. When Martin luther king could get all civil rights for his fellow blacks and when mahatma gandhi can bring india together then definitely it can be done(i dont know how much you like these characters or do u think that they were apologists).
But i believe that hatred has to be resisted. The islamic theology has to be resisted. It has to be exposed. It has to be shown as barbaric, inhuman and degrading to humanity just as gandhi showed british empire to be degrading and inhuman.
It is a fight for morality and justice and human rights. Islamic theology is degrading to human beings. It creates distinctions, creates hatred and i will resist it, not by force but by exposing it and by not generating hatred further. By making people realise what is really bad and degrading about islam.
Abhishek
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Acting this way in front of Islamic extremists actually incites them to violence because they see it as a sign of weakness. Neither the Islamic or Christian leaders who bad mouth Hindus and babble about secularism truly believe in being secular. They are just biding their time, waiting to strike when the time is right. If they had their way, India would be a Christian or Islamic theocracy.
Hindus and Hinduism is what keeps India naturally secular.
<!--QuoteBegin-abhishek_d+Aug 30 2005, 12:10 PM-->QUOTE(abhishek_d @ Aug 30 2005, 12:10 PM)<!--QuoteEBegin-->I could not understand your question K. Ram. Can you elaborate.
I will put my point. A person's or individual's fault cannot be put on his community. Just like if a person does a fault his family cannot be punished, if a person kills someone then his father or his sister cannot be killed. Can I give any basic concept or human perception to rationalise it??? I dont think that i can rationalise it. My human values says that guilty should be given punishment and no innocent should be punished.
As regards gujrat riots. Well I have a belief. Muslims create hatred. No doubt. I will resist there hatred and not give into that. I will not appease that hatred. I will not cover that hatred. I will not be a hypocrite in the name of peace and tranquilty.
But I will not generate hatred(i know you wont like it). But if nelson mandela can have the resolve to goto jail for 27 years and then get his basic human rights. When Martin luther king could get all civil rights for his fellow blacks and when mahatma gandhi can bring india together then definitely it can be done(i dont know how much you like these characters or do u think that they were apologists).
But i believe that hatred has to be resisted. The islamic theology has to be resisted. It has to be exposed. It has to be shown as barbaric, inhuman and degrading to humanity just as gandhi showed british empire to be degrading and inhuman.
It is a fight for morality and justice and human rights. Islamic theology is degrading to human beings. It creates distinctions, creates hatred and i will resist it, not by force but by exposing it and by not generating hatred further. By making people realise what is really bad and degrading about islam.
Abhishek
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