Joe Shearer
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Its not about being Hindus or not, it shows the bigot hiding behind the facade of a liberal who is extremely intolerant to any views other that hers.
There is a common fallacy which several people have repeated. Opposing intolerance is not intolerance. Suggesting open-mindedness is not a mirror image of suggesting close-mindedness. The two are fundamentally different.
Those who advocate the superiority of Islam over any other religion are in the same frame of mind as those who advocate the superiority of Hinduism over any other religion. They are almost the same, in fact.
The test of difference is to enquire if a Muslim person accepts the validity of religions other than his own, and if a Hindu person accepts the validity of religions other than his own. If it is so, both are almost the same, but by no means are they in the category of the other two.
Tolerance is not symmetric. Broad-minded people are not the opposite of narrow-minded people. That is why there is more emotion than fact behind the recent screams of pain that were heard.
To be honest differences between Marathi and Telugu are lesser than the differences between Tamil & Telugu.
And in the border areas,languages converge in general.
I see them all not too different.
How can you say this? The grammar, the structure, the composition of sentences, all are radically different. Please look these up inw any text and satisfy yourself.
Convergence towards border areas is in terms of usage of similar nouns, languages do not change in the direction of other languages from an alien group.