Thursday, December 26, 2002

Togadia and Asghar Ali Engineer both made statements about a civil war recently. I believe talks of a civil war on anything but religious grounds are highly exaggerated.
i must first extend my congratulations to Togadia for being a liberal amongst his flock. At least he considers the Muslims to be our own for it to be a civil war. Good.

I once read some SS propaganda that proclaimed, "Indian Muslims must differentiate themselves from Pakistani Muslims. Otherwise all that separates them is a passport". Given that India and Pakistan are at loggerheads, this insecurity is understandable, if not justifiable.

The civil war will begin when the irrationality of the Hindu Nazi leads to pre-emptive strikes against Muslims who 'might' be traitors. To take a leaf from Germany's book, there were very few Germans who wanted to do to the Jews what the Nazi did, when they had given the power to the Nazi, there was little they could do.

The only way to stop the Hindu Nazi is not secularism, but an enlightened Hindutva. India is a Hindu nation, has been, will be. Even at the height of Mughal supremacy, the chants of the Vedas were loud and clear. No one can deny the Hindus in India that. But it is another matter altogether to assume that Hinduism will unite India. One would be making the same mistake that Iqbal made when he said Islam would unite Pakistan.

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