<!--QuoteBegin-Bodhi+Mar 18 2009, 04:51 PM-->QUOTE(Bodhi @ Mar 18 2009, 04:51 PM)<!--QuoteEBegin-->Besides, <b>by judging him through stretched blames like his being born from a musalman grandfather and father</b>, a matter in which he had no choice (unlike others who happily send their daughters to moslems), is not only unfair but may also reflect paranoia of some kind.[right][snapback]95599[/snapback][/right]<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->Sure it would be unfair. Fortunately, whoever said/implied that wasn't me. What I wrote was entirely different (repeated below). I wondered why he was chasing away an old Sikh person from his Hindu meeting when his mum is apparently a Sikh. And going by his exclusion of the Sikh person - apparently for not being Hindu enough for him - if VGandhi didn't get his Hindu ID from his mum, then where did he get it from since his dad appears to be islamic? Wherefrom this identification (that is, is it election-time opportunism)? And why at the expense of Sikhs?
<!--QuoteBegin-Husky+Mar 18 2009, 01:21 PM-->QUOTE(Husky @ Mar 18 2009, 01:21 PM)<!--QuoteEBegin-->Sounds like this Feroze Varun Gandhi is only alienating Hindus (me, in any case) and other Dharmics apparently. I mean, what IS this:
<!--QuoteBegin--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->The 70-year-old Sikh from Ramnagar village was even asked to leave one of the Hindu meets being addressed by Varun.
"He neither has respect for any other religion nor even for elders. In his arrogance, he has gone to the extent of forgetting that his mother was also a Sikh before her marriage," Gurudial said.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->His dad Sanjay Gandhi was islamic, wasn't he (or am I getting the various Goondas mixed up)? <b>ADDED:</b> Well, here is Bodhi referring to Sanjay's islamism, so maybe I didn't get it completely wrong.
And his mother Maneka a Sikh according to the above. Yet Varun obviously thinks Sikhs are not Hindu since he sent this elderly Sikh person packing.
Where does this Varun get his 'Hindu' identity from (if he doesn't think his Sikh mother is a Hindu either on account of her being Sikh)? Or is his 'Hinduness' a 'self-discovery' he has made to help the KKKangress by scaring Hindus off voting BJP (and scaring off other BJP members) through his KKKangressi rhetoric?[right][snapback]95590[/snapback][/right]<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd--><b>ADDED:</b> Concerns the questionable nature of the above allegation -
<!--QuoteBegin-Bodhi+Mar 20 2009, 05:58 PM-->QUOTE(Bodhi @ Mar 20 2009, 05:58 PM)<!--QuoteEBegin-->some supposed eviction of some sikh person from a rally, for unspecified reason, by unspecified actors, in a story run only by CNN-IBN, only once, in a vague language reminding one of their Gujarat style, and then copied pasted by their cousins, but not taken up by any sober media outlet.[right][snapback]95657[/snapback][/right]<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->The episode is not about judging VG, and that would be juvenile thing to do, but it is really about analyzing reactions it has generated within different quarters, especially within BJP.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->Also a good time to analyse whether he's just another kkkangress plant meant to drive a wedge into and split the BJP votebank. And to look at how big the media blows this up. Maybe they just want to give lots of exposure to VG for a reason? Media always attempts to manipulate Hindu responses. Especially at election time. And Congress machinations are also enlarged at election time.
<!--QuoteBegin-Husky+Mar 18 2009, 01:21 PM-->QUOTE(Husky @ Mar 18 2009, 01:21 PM)<!--QuoteEBegin-->Sounds like this Feroze Varun Gandhi is only alienating Hindus (me, in any case) and other Dharmics apparently. I mean, what IS this:
<!--QuoteBegin--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->The 70-year-old Sikh from Ramnagar village was even asked to leave one of the Hindu meets being addressed by Varun.
"He neither has respect for any other religion nor even for elders. In his arrogance, he has gone to the extent of forgetting that his mother was also a Sikh before her marriage," Gurudial said.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->His dad Sanjay Gandhi was islamic, wasn't he (or am I getting the various Goondas mixed up)? <b>ADDED:</b> Well, here is Bodhi referring to Sanjay's islamism, so maybe I didn't get it completely wrong.
And his mother Maneka a Sikh according to the above. Yet Varun obviously thinks Sikhs are not Hindu since he sent this elderly Sikh person packing.
Where does this Varun get his 'Hindu' identity from (if he doesn't think his Sikh mother is a Hindu either on account of her being Sikh)? Or is his 'Hinduness' a 'self-discovery' he has made to help the KKKangress by scaring Hindus off voting BJP (and scaring off other BJP members) through his KKKangressi rhetoric?[right][snapback]95590[/snapback][/right]<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd--><b>ADDED:</b> Concerns the questionable nature of the above allegation -
<!--QuoteBegin-Bodhi+Mar 20 2009, 05:58 PM-->QUOTE(Bodhi @ Mar 20 2009, 05:58 PM)<!--QuoteEBegin-->some supposed eviction of some sikh person from a rally, for unspecified reason, by unspecified actors, in a story run only by CNN-IBN, only once, in a vague language reminding one of their Gujarat style, and then copied pasted by their cousins, but not taken up by any sober media outlet.[right][snapback]95657[/snapback][/right]<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->The episode is not about judging VG, and that would be juvenile thing to do, but it is really about analyzing reactions it has generated within different quarters, especially within BJP.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->Also a good time to analyse whether he's just another kkkangress plant meant to drive a wedge into and split the BJP votebank. And to look at how big the media blows this up. Maybe they just want to give lots of exposure to VG for a reason? Media always attempts to manipulate Hindu responses. Especially at election time. And Congress machinations are also enlarged at election time.