But Why focus on the irrelevant part instead of the crux of my post - the liberal disrespect of Hinduism will lead to further rise of BJP because it is the only party that respects us and our beliefs
Why, because he can't! One has to be blind if he can't see what Hindus go through in the name of secularism in India.
It is celebration of creative expression of freedom when MF Hussein paints the Hindu deities in a nude, erotic way but it is perfectly halal to maim and kill anyone who draws a decent caricature! It is celebration of secularism when you proclaim that Islamists must have first claim on resources, but it is sleazy to say all communities have equal rights. Celebrating your own festivals like Jallikattu is cruelty against animals but it is perfectly OK to literally slaughter millions animals in the middle of the street in the name of Qurbani! Firecrackers during Diwali and loudspeakers during festival season is sound pollution but it is perfectly normal to listen to their call of prayers tens of times a day, everyday of the year (number of mosques in your vicinity multiplied by 5!) in which they open
proclaim that their's is the only G*d and all other's are just impostors!
What these people don't realize is that their bashing of the Hindus and their culture while turning a blind eye to everybody else, is pushing even merely cultural Hindus, like myself, further right.
Until recently, I was against firecrackers during Diwali and loud speakers at the temples and hated the sound and air pollution it caused. But after seeing the unabashed hypocrisy of the Left, I genuinely feel that my own culture, let alone religion, is under critical threat and is being systematically attacked by a far more organized and better funded coalition of Evangelicals and Islamists.
I will take the rationalists more seriously when they reserve some of their rational thinking to Evangelicals and the Islamists as well. Until then, they are just being hypocrite bullies picking on a meek community, doing a disservice to the real rational thinkers and atheists. Nothing else.
Your beliefs and you are not above the nation.
You should understand that.
Cheers, Doc
As if the onus of holding the nation together falls entirely on one community!
BTW, is that a threat? Why is it that the nation's integrity is suddenly in jeopardy if Hindus ask to be treated with equal respect?
Anyway, I know and you know, and I know that you know, that there is almost nothing that Hindus can do to prevent another partition should the Islamists decide collectively once again that they can't coexist in a multi-cultural, multi-ethnic, multi-religious India where Hindus are a majority. Bowing down meekly will only embolden the Islamists!
Besides, I will take more seriously an Islamist's playbook on how to fight one's adversaries than that of a Parsi - who not only lost their grand civilization to ragtag Islamists but also have all but been annihilated worldwide as a community.
No disrespect to Parsis, who I admire greatly as an ancient civilization and
pity!
