RISING THREAT OF HINDU EXTREMISM
H.D.S. Greenway, Boston Globe, 7/12/2002
http://www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/193/oped/Rising_threat_of_Hindu_extremism+
.shtml
WHILE THE Western World worries about Islam, the specter of Hindu
nationalism carries the potential of threatening the stability of the
Indian subcontinent and the world beyond. A bit of bad news out of New
Delhi earlier this month was that the hard-line, Pakistan-bashing home
minister, Lal Krishna Advani, had been named the number two man in the
Indian government and a potential successor to the ailing and aging Prime
Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee…
Like their Muslim extremist counterparts, Hindu nationalists seek to expel
Western secularism from their midst, persecuting non-Hindus, trashing
hotels that celebrate Valentine's Day or Christmas, and demanding that
cities with Islamic names, such as Allahabad, be changed. Other religions -
and there are more Muslims in India than there are in Pakistan - are
considered offshoots of a basic Hindu entity that should submit to Hindutva…
The crowning moment of Advani's brand of Hindutva came exactly 10 years ago
when an ancient mosque believed to have been built on a Hindu site was torn
down by a howling Hindu mob egged on by BJP leaders including Advani.
Militants shouting “Hindustan is for the Hindus” and “Death to Muslims”
rioted, and more than 1,000 people were slaughtered, most of them Muslims...
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