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From the Internet: In today’s India, promoters of the most radical fringe of Hindu nationalism within Modi’s Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) want to constrict Indian diversity and enforce an imagined civilizational purity they call Hindutva. Their campaign has already demonstrated its power to oppress and kill Muslims, destroy their mosques, force the “reconversion” of Christians and Buddhists, wade into censorship, limit critical or analytical scholarship and police the arts. Hindu zealots drove the country’s most celebrated painter, M. F. Hussein, into self-imposed exile in London, where he died in 2011.

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I didn't know that the Indians considered themselves so pure. I thought that was a Pakistani thing. "Pak" means "pure" and "stan" is "country." Thus the Pakistanis are from the Land of the Pure.

However, most of the world considers the Indians and Pakistanis the same root people, separated only by their religions.

The Hindu pantheon contains some 330 millions gods and goddesses, some people, some animal, some objects and some fantastical creatures of someone's imagination. Who knows.
Also in Hinduism women don't go to heaven. They must return to earth and be reincarnated as a man before they can get to heaven. No women in Hindu heaven, just men.

The Muslims just believe in Allah and Allah is NOT the loving father figure of the Judeo-Christian faith. All people are Allah's slaves. The common Arab Muslim name of Abdallah means "slave of Allah."

Between the Hinduism's ban on women in heaven and the Muslim vision of being Allah's slaves for eternity, I am VERY grateful to our good Lord for making me who I am.

[Cronos]

well, under cover of saying "anti-minority", the Nation forgets to mention that this is actually anti-Islam. India suffered for 800 years under Moslem occupation which was worse than Moslem occupations of other lands primarily because Moslems have to give a shred of decency when they rule over people of the book (Christians), but can do whatever they like with Hindus, no holds barred

However, most of the world considers the Indians and Pakistanis the same root people, separated only by their religions -- North Indians and Pakistanis. Pakistanis belong to 6 major ethnic groups:

1. Punjabis -- the same ethnicity as the Sikh and Hindu Punjabis in India, Canada etc.
2. Sindhis - related to Punjabis, the Hindu Sindhis fled to India after independence
3. BAluchis: an Irani people related to the Irani people living in the next door Irani province of Sistan-e-Baloch
4. Pathans: a mix Indo-Irani population who are the same people as the Pashtuns/PAthans who make up 80% of Afghanistan. The tribes etc. are divided by a British era line in the sand
5. Muhajirs: Moslems from the area around Delhi and East who moved to Pakistan after Independence
6. Kashmiris: these live in Pakistani occupied Kashmir and have quite a bit of Greek blood, but are an Indic people related to the Hindu Jammu people in INdian Kashmir

The Punjabis, Sindhis and Muhajirs are ethnically the same as the Punjabis, Sindhis and UPites/Bhojpuris in India, however India also has a number of other nations/ethnicities that are not related to the PAkistan nations:

1. Rajputs
2. Maharashtrians
3. Bengalis
4. Assamese
5. Gujaratis
6. Konkanis

and those are just the Indo-Euroepan groups, besides these there are non-Indo-European nations, the largest group of which are Dravidians (related to the ancient Sumerians and Elamites and Indus Valley civilisation):

1. Tamils
2. Malayalis
3. Andhraites
4. Kannadigas
5. Tulus

and then the Tibeto-Burmese peoples

1. Nagas
2. Mizos
3. Manipuris
4. Sikkimese
5. Ladakhi
6. Arunachali

and you have Mon peoples related to the Khmer: the Bhil, Gond tribals

And you have peoples related to the Papua New Guineans and Aborigines in the Andaman and Nicobar Islands and tribals in central India

No women in Hindu heaven, just men. -- not true

They have myriad goddesses, and for Hindus, even heaven is temporary -- they believe more in reincarnations, an endless cycle of reincarnation. To escape you attain Mokhsa/nirvana/advait -- and that's open to men and women.

Of course this is not Judeo-Christian, but they're not as bad as Islam's treatment of women -- there is no "ban on women in heaven"