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To: Cronos

>>cultural sense

Many, many Christians partake fully in many Hindu festivals, and social gatherings involving Hindus, Christians and Muslims are commonplace, at least in the big cities for major festival days......

Bollywood in particlar emphasizes cultural and national commonalities and unity while decrying “communalism”.


17 posted on 05/20/2009 1:23:05 PM PDT by swarthyguy ("We may be crazy in Pakistan, but not completely out of our minds," ISI Gen. Ahmed Shujaa Pasha)
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To: Cronos

Funny thing is, I do know Muslims in America, in this case Shias from India, whose women used to wear saris and western dresses too, the former because of being from India.

Now, after years in America, the women are wearing traditional Islami types dresses after exhortations from their mullahs.

One of the men now claims the family’s ancestors as being from Yemen originally, instead of the Rann of Kutch.


19 posted on 05/21/2009 11:36:20 AM PDT by swarthyguy ("We may be crazy in Pakistan, but not completely out of our minds," ISI Gen. Ahmed Shujaa Pasha)
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