Comments on: Terrorist Attack in India Ignites Anti-Muslim, Pro-Hindu Rhetoric http://www.splcenter.org/blog/2011/08/02/terrorist-attack-in-india-ignites-anti-muslim-pro-hindu-rhetoric/ Hatewatch is a blog of the Southern Poverty Law Center Fri, 24 May 2013 18:34:23 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: whatsinname http://www.splcenter.org/blog/2011/08/02/terrorist-attack-in-india-ignites-anti-muslim-pro-hindu-rhetoric/comment-page-1/#comment-496655 whatsinname Fri, 06 Jul 2012 06:22:35 +0000 http://www.splcenter.org/blog/?p=7424#comment-496655 ofcourse intolerance is growing too much in india...at the same time there are lot of people(hindus) who do support the cause of muslims...the people who are straight minded never thinks like these hindu fanatics....these guys have done lot of damage to muslim community .....rioting killing more than 4000 people...etc....and no police cases...government is reluctant to punish, that can cause the backlash in elections.....now whats differance between swamy and taliban.... ofcourse intolerance is growing too much in india…at the same time there are lot of people(hindus) who do support the cause of muslims…the people who are straight minded never thinks like these hindu fanatics….these guys have done lot of damage to muslim community …..rioting killing more than 4000 people…etc….and no police cases…government is reluctant to punish, that can cause the backlash in elections…..now whats differance between swamy and taliban….

]]> By: ruben http://www.splcenter.org/blog/2011/08/02/terrorist-attack-in-india-ignites-anti-muslim-pro-hindu-rhetoric/comment-page-1/#comment-313918 ruben Fri, 05 Aug 2011 15:40:37 +0000 http://www.splcenter.org/blog/?p=7424#comment-313918 to jonas.....believe me i am very tolerant, i can care less who you kneel down and pray to......but if you worship cows and monkeys do not try to make me feel like i am some kind of evil or outsider just because i don't share your religous views and most of all don't try to shove your religion down my throat with threats. to jonas…..believe me i am very tolerant, i can care less who you kneel down and pray to……but if you worship cows and monkeys do not try to make me feel like i am some kind of evil or outsider just because i don’t share your religous views and most of all don’t try to shove your religion down my throat with threats.

]]> By: Shadow Wolf http://www.splcenter.org/blog/2011/08/02/terrorist-attack-in-india-ignites-anti-muslim-pro-hindu-rhetoric/comment-page-1/#comment-313685 Shadow Wolf Thu, 04 Aug 2011 18:24:45 +0000 http://www.splcenter.org/blog/?p=7424#comment-313685 Jonas, The Chechyna separatists are Muslims. That was precisely my point with Russia's conflict in Chechyna. Jonas,
The Chechyna separatists are Muslims. That was precisely my point with Russia’s conflict in Chechyna.

]]> By: Reynardine http://www.splcenter.org/blog/2011/08/02/terrorist-attack-in-india-ignites-anti-muslim-pro-hindu-rhetoric/comment-page-1/#comment-313577 Reynardine Thu, 04 Aug 2011 13:00:07 +0000 http://www.splcenter.org/blog/?p=7424#comment-313577 @ Jonas Rand: Not the Babri Masjid, as when it was blown up, I was in transit, with a snowy little portable Motorola that didn't pick up anything. This was within this century, though I may be wrong about Kashmir- it was a border/ disputed area, which could have been Indian Punjab. It was not such a masterpiece, about whose demise I am devoutly sorry, because local citizens, Hindus as well as Muslims, have begun to rebuild it. No one can ever rebuild the Babri Masjid. @ Jonas Rand: Not the Babri Masjid, as when it was blown up, I was in transit, with a snowy little portable Motorola that didn’t pick up anything. This was within this century, though I may be wrong about Kashmir- it was a border/ disputed area, which could have been Indian Punjab. It was not such a masterpiece, about whose demise I am devoutly sorry, because local citizens, Hindus as well as Muslims, have begun to rebuild it. No one can ever rebuild the Babri Masjid.

]]> By: Ruslan Amirkhanov http://www.splcenter.org/blog/2011/08/02/terrorist-attack-in-india-ignites-anti-muslim-pro-hindu-rhetoric/comment-page-1/#comment-313513 Ruslan Amirkhanov Thu, 04 Aug 2011 08:08:56 +0000 http://www.splcenter.org/blog/?p=7424#comment-313513 Rand, Japan's religion is Shinto. Rand, Japan’s religion is Shinto.

]]> By: Aron Levy http://www.splcenter.org/blog/2011/08/02/terrorist-attack-in-india-ignites-anti-muslim-pro-hindu-rhetoric/comment-page-1/#comment-313452 Aron Levy Thu, 04 Aug 2011 03:14:02 +0000 http://www.splcenter.org/blog/?p=7424#comment-313452 Reynardine, That was a beautiful story. Thank you for sharing it with us. It brought a smile to my face on what was otherwise a bleak day. Aron Reynardine,

That was a beautiful story. Thank you for sharing it with us. It brought a smile to my face on what was otherwise a bleak day.

Aron

]]> By: Reynardine http://www.splcenter.org/blog/2011/08/02/terrorist-attack-in-india-ignites-anti-muslim-pro-hindu-rhetoric/comment-page-1/#comment-313440 Reynardine Thu, 04 Aug 2011 01:33:13 +0000 http://www.splcenter.org/blog/?p=7424#comment-313440 I went out this evening and saw the Ramadan crescent, white as peace against a lavender- blue dusk, and it filled me with melancholy. Thirty-five years ago, I was fairly surrounded with a Subcontinental diaspora out at Texas Tech: several young men who were engineering students, and the sister of one of them, a doctoral student in pharmacology. How many discussions did we have over how many cups of tea, concerning how many political, philosophical, cultural, and even religious subjects? How many Bollywood, Lollywood, and just plain Hollywood movies did we see together? How many goats did I sit on while they met their fate, and then how many times did I sit down at tables where these same goats, far more fragrant, graced our plates? And then, how many times, after dust storms, was I cured of strangling respiratory infections with a dish of Snot Nose Chutney? Ah, Snot Nose Chutney, I will never forget you! Far more painful than the penicillin shots the local Stetson- wearing doctor doled out, yet a thousand times more effective, the only ingredients it had that an American would have recognized as food were the tomatoes, the olive oil, and maybe the garlic... lots and lots of garlic... the rest we'd have kept in a flammable chemical cabinet. These people were stubborn in their convictions, but sweetly so; they'd no more have committed mass murder than Mr. Rogers. And these are the people that the haters want to exterminate like termites! Either not all passage of time brings progress, or not all progress is good. I went out this evening and saw the Ramadan crescent, white as peace against a lavender- blue dusk, and it filled me with melancholy.

Thirty-five years ago, I was fairly surrounded with a Subcontinental diaspora out at Texas Tech: several young men who were engineering students, and the sister of one of them, a doctoral student in pharmacology. How many discussions did we have over how many cups of tea, concerning how many political, philosophical, cultural, and even religious subjects? How many Bollywood, Lollywood, and just plain Hollywood movies did we see together? How many goats did I sit on while they met their fate, and then how many times did I sit down at tables where these same goats, far more fragrant, graced our plates? And then, how many times, after dust storms, was I cured of strangling respiratory infections with a dish of Snot Nose Chutney? Ah, Snot Nose Chutney, I will never forget you! Far more painful than the penicillin shots the local Stetson- wearing doctor doled out, yet a thousand times more effective, the only ingredients it had that an American would have recognized as food were the tomatoes, the olive oil, and maybe the garlic… lots and lots of garlic… the rest we’d have kept in a flammable chemical cabinet. These people were stubborn in their convictions, but sweetly so; they’d no more have committed mass murder than Mr. Rogers.

And these are the people that the haters want to exterminate like termites! Either not all passage of time brings progress, or not all progress is good.

]]> By: Jonas Rand http://www.splcenter.org/blog/2011/08/02/terrorist-attack-in-india-ignites-anti-muslim-pro-hindu-rhetoric/comment-page-1/#comment-313436 Jonas Rand Thu, 04 Aug 2011 01:07:49 +0000 http://www.splcenter.org/blog/?p=7424#comment-313436 Reynardine - Do you mean the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Babri_Masjid" rel="nofollow">Babri Masjid</a> (which was not in Kashmir)? Reynardine – Do you mean the Babri Masjid (which was not in Kashmir)?

]]> By: Jonas Rand http://www.splcenter.org/blog/2011/08/02/terrorist-attack-in-india-ignites-anti-muslim-pro-hindu-rhetoric/comment-page-1/#comment-313435 Jonas Rand Thu, 04 Aug 2011 01:06:20 +0000 http://www.splcenter.org/blog/?p=7424#comment-313435 @Ruben - So much for tolerance. I think polytheistic worship of cows and monkeys is far less repulsive than eating eucharist, a cannibalistic ritual. Jesus Christ's death was violent, the symbol of Christianity is one of death, Christians dropped the atomic bomb on a Buddhist country. The violence of Christianity and the Bible is irreconcilable with Jesus' message of peace and unity. @Ruben – So much for tolerance. I think polytheistic worship of cows and monkeys is far less repulsive than eating eucharist, a cannibalistic ritual. Jesus Christ’s death was violent, the symbol of Christianity is one of death, Christians dropped the atomic bomb on a Buddhist country. The violence of Christianity and the Bible is irreconcilable with Jesus’ message of peace and unity.

]]> By: Jonas Rand http://www.splcenter.org/blog/2011/08/02/terrorist-attack-in-india-ignites-anti-muslim-pro-hindu-rhetoric/comment-page-1/#comment-313432 Jonas Rand Thu, 04 Aug 2011 01:01:02 +0000 http://www.splcenter.org/blog/?p=7424#comment-313432 @"Shadow Wolf" - Not only "Muslim Jihadists" (the Caucasus Emirate) but Islamic separatists and nationalists, struggling for independence. Additionally, the Tamil Tigers no longer operate, and they never operated in Indonesia, a majority-Muslim country. The Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam were Hindus in northern Sri Lanka; the Sinhalese in Sri Lanka are mostly Buddhists. Islam had little to do with it. @”Shadow Wolf” – Not only “Muslim Jihadists” (the Caucasus Emirate) but Islamic separatists and nationalists, struggling for independence. Additionally, the Tamil Tigers no longer operate, and they never operated in Indonesia, a majority-Muslim country. The Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam were Hindus in northern Sri Lanka; the Sinhalese in Sri Lanka are mostly Buddhists. Islam had little to do with it.

]]> By: Reynardine http://www.splcenter.org/blog/2011/08/02/terrorist-attack-in-india-ignites-anti-muslim-pro-hindu-rhetoric/comment-page-1/#comment-313379 Reynardine Wed, 03 Aug 2011 20:57:44 +0000 http://www.splcenter.org/blog/?p=7424#comment-313379 Didn't Hindus like this man blow up a famous mosque in Kashmir a couple of years back?... and "Hindostan" refers to a linguistic area, not a religious one. It's true that India was united as such by the Moghuls, originally Central Asiatic and always Muslim, after they were driven out of their native land by the Uzbeks. Islam won converts because it abolished the caste system, and so did Christianity. Didn’t Hindus like this man blow up a famous mosque in Kashmir a couple of years back?… and “Hindostan” refers to a linguistic area, not a religious one. It’s true that India was united as such by the Moghuls, originally Central Asiatic and always Muslim, after they were driven out of their native land by the Uzbeks. Islam won converts because it abolished the caste system, and so did Christianity.

]]> By: ruben http://www.splcenter.org/blog/2011/08/02/terrorist-attack-in-india-ignites-anti-muslim-pro-hindu-rhetoric/comment-page-1/#comment-313367 ruben Wed, 03 Aug 2011 20:09:28 +0000 http://www.splcenter.org/blog/?p=7424#comment-313367 a religion that worships cows,monkeys and other animals.....and swamy wonders why they convert to other religions!......whats this guy smoking! a religion that worships cows,monkeys and other animals…..and swamy wonders why they convert to other religions!……whats this guy smoking!

]]> By: Cholan http://www.splcenter.org/blog/2011/08/02/terrorist-attack-in-india-ignites-anti-muslim-pro-hindu-rhetoric/comment-page-1/#comment-313325 Cholan Wed, 03 Aug 2011 16:50:41 +0000 http://www.splcenter.org/blog/?p=7424#comment-313325 As an Ex-Hindu who converted to Christianity, I find Mr. Swamy's views on Conversion utterly repugnant. Conversion to any religion or Ideology is a Natural Right endowed by the Creator to all men. Mr. Swamy in his intolerance for conversions is just as bigoted and intolerant as Islamic Terrorists. Hindu Extremists in India presently' frequently assault, rape and murder Christians with impunity. This in spite of the fact that Christianity in India is as old as the Christian Faith having been established in India in AD 52 by the Apostle Thomas, whose Church is still in South India. As an Ex-Hindu who converted to Christianity, I find Mr. Swamy’s views on Conversion utterly repugnant. Conversion to any religion or Ideology is a Natural Right endowed by the Creator to all men. Mr. Swamy in his intolerance for conversions is just as bigoted and intolerant as Islamic Terrorists. Hindu Extremists in India presently’ frequently assault, rape and murder Christians with impunity. This in spite of the fact that Christianity in India is as old as the Christian Faith having been established in India in AD 52 by the Apostle Thomas, whose Church is still in South India.

]]> By: Difluoroethene http://www.splcenter.org/blog/2011/08/02/terrorist-attack-in-india-ignites-anti-muslim-pro-hindu-rhetoric/comment-page-1/#comment-313182 Difluoroethene Wed, 03 Aug 2011 03:19:10 +0000 http://www.splcenter.org/blog/?p=7424#comment-313182 Apparently Anders Breivik, though not a Hindu himself, was a supporter of this kind of Hindutva (extremist pro-Hindu and anti-Muslim) rhetoric. Apparently Anders Breivik, though not a Hindu himself, was a supporter of this kind of Hindutva (extremist pro-Hindu and anti-Muslim) rhetoric.

]]> By: Shadow Wolf http://www.splcenter.org/blog/2011/08/02/terrorist-attack-in-india-ignites-anti-muslim-pro-hindu-rhetoric/comment-page-1/#comment-313172 Shadow Wolf Wed, 03 Aug 2011 02:24:59 +0000 http://www.splcenter.org/blog/?p=7424#comment-313172 You forget to add Russia on to this list. Since it's globally known that Russia has been waging a prolonged chronic conflict with Muslim Jihadists in Chechyna for quite sometime now. And for those in Indonesia where the terrorist Tamil Tigers operate. Anti-Muslim is now universal. You forget to add Russia on to this list. Since it’s globally known that Russia has been waging a prolonged chronic conflict with Muslim Jihadists in Chechyna for quite sometime now. And for those in Indonesia where the terrorist Tamil Tigers operate. Anti-Muslim is now universal.

]]> By: Aron Levy http://www.splcenter.org/blog/2011/08/02/terrorist-attack-in-india-ignites-anti-muslim-pro-hindu-rhetoric/comment-page-1/#comment-313145 Aron Levy Tue, 02 Aug 2011 23:46:51 +0000 http://www.splcenter.org/blog/?p=7424#comment-313145 This is actually nothing new. Hindu radicals have been attempting to outlaw conversion for years and years. And yes, it is very likely that the vast, vast, vast majority of native Indians are at least descended from Hindus (it is, after all an intensely old religion), that does not mean that India was only meant for Hindus. Look at the Mughals! They produced some of the greatest architectural and literary works in the sub-continent's history. And they were Muslims! Does he wish to demolish the Taj Mahal? What of the Golden Temple, holiest site of the Sikhs? One of the most amazing things about India is its historical religious diversity and acceptance. It would be foolish to throw seven thousand years of culture in the rubbish bin due to ethnic strife. Indian culture is a thing of beauty. And it should remain so. This is actually nothing new. Hindu radicals have been attempting to outlaw conversion for years and years. And yes, it is very likely that the vast, vast, vast majority of native Indians are at least descended from Hindus (it is, after all an intensely old religion), that does not mean that India was only meant for Hindus.

Look at the Mughals! They produced some of the greatest architectural and literary works in the sub-continent’s history. And they were Muslims!

Does he wish to demolish the Taj Mahal? What of the Golden Temple, holiest site of the Sikhs?

One of the most amazing things about India is its historical religious diversity and acceptance. It would be foolish to throw seven thousand years of culture in the rubbish bin due to ethnic strife.

Indian culture is a thing of beauty. And it should remain so.

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