Posted on 05/17/2014 1:40:42 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Anti muslim, free market head of state? Now &THERE& is an H1-B I could get behind.
Sounds like a good guy to me....
Several Freepers have commented to posts I made that Modi is an evil, anti-Muslim bigot. Of course, they don’t exactly adhere to all the facts.
A under-appreciated fact is that no other non-muslim country has suffered the most from islam through pogroms and terrorism for the last 1300 years than India.
Give’em hell Modi1
Anti Islamist, distrustful of sweet peaceful Pakistan, and capitalist to boot!!! Quick, run away, we’re doomed!!!!!
My very conservative buddy Raj, that runs the quickie mart down the road,
sees the election of Narendra Modi as a very positive step.
You're deluded and gullible if you think a BJP Hindu fanatic is a good thing. Christian persecution in India to increase as if it weren't too high already. My wife (from Mumbai) was sick when she watched the election results come in.
Now that right there is funny, folks. [/cableguy]
Was there a missing sarcasm tag?
He’s great if you’re for continuation and escalation of the anti Christian mob violence that’s erupted in India.
Read with a box of salt in one hand and a barf bag in the other. The NR is simply not an unbiased reporter.
The enemy of my enemy is not necessarily my friend.
Extremist Hindus can be every bit as bigoted as extremist Muslims, at least in rhetoric.
It might also be remembered that it was Hindu fanatics who invented suicide bombing, the Tamil Tigers, though their activities were mostly limited to Sri Linka and were seldom aimed at the West.
The deal is, while I can agree with Modi’s anti-Jihadist and Capitalist views - the fact remains that Modi’s BJP party is not just hostile to Muslims - but to Christians as well.
Modi and his party are ‘radical Hindus’ who seek to expel ‘foreign’ elements from India’s culture - which includes Christianity.
BJP party members are said to be largely responsible for intimidation, beatings and persecution of Christians in many rural areas of India that I have been to. Several brethren conveyed these facts and fears to me just a few weeks ago while elections were going on.
Christians there understand that Modi represents the Caste structure of India under the Hindu system - and Modi to them will usher in a greater wave of anti-Christian and anti-American/English bias as his party seeks to ‘purify India’ and return it to it’s ‘mother religion’.
That an official of the BJP party told Muslims in India to ‘get out’ and go to Pakistan or elsewhere is as frightening to Christians in India as well as to the 13% of Muslims who live in India.
How can one be TOO ANTI-MUSLIM?
It’s gotten worse in recent months and there is real fear among the Christians in India about what the mobs will do now that they feel they can ‘purge’ India of all ‘foreign’ influences in their culture.
Christians are already as you said a horrifyingly persecuted people there - virtually unknown in this country. But I have seen and heard such institutionalized persecution myself and got a very mild taste of what it is like to be a Christian living in a slum area amongst high caste Hindus.
It’s like food being too delicious.
On a policy level, Modi’s has presided over strong economic growth in Gujarat, although his state has not done as well on various social development indicators.
That is probably why there was strong economic growth...
It’s like being too rich.
I fear some day all this appeasement in this country will lead to a backlash like what may come to india.
This is what liberals don’t realize withany of their social experiments. They push reasonable people too far after the initial goal is acheived then a backlash always occurs..
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