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It's not really food for thought - just more propaganda typical of the kind Hindus toss at Moslems, particularly Pakistanis, or that Pakistanis or Moslems toss at Hindus and Buddhists.

A lot has "gone down" in the Subcontinent over the centuries, and a good deal of it is remembered.

This fellow wants us to get excited about the plight of slaves from India being transported to the Middle East over the Hindu Kush in the 1300s. Frankly, I get much more excited about the Anglo-Saxon barbarians invading Brittany and slaughtering many of the relatives of my ancestors back in the 1300s! Why don't the Hindus get excited about that? It was certainly more relevant to history. Could it be that their experience under the iron heel of those very same Anglo-Saxons in later centuries has given them pause to wave around that particular set of dirty linen - after all, "they" might come back, and then what would Indian politicians do?

The only way these people are going to be able to move into the future is to adopt a more enlightened attitude toward their neighbors - and toward each other for that matter. There are still 100s of millions of people in India identified as harijan, or "outcaste". That problem is much closer to home, and more relevant, than the 1300s in the Himalayas. Time for these people to start taking care of their own problems first.

You evil, evil man. Why do you berate me for posting articles with diverging views from your own? Or are you doing just what Free Republic is doing, omitting posts from conservatives who wish to educate people about what's really going on? I feel sorry for you, and the blinders you are wearing are occluding your vision, and your reason.

Go here

http://www.rediff.com/news/2001/oct/01franc.htm

and here

http://www.rediff.com/news/franc.htm

Then write me back and I will be happy to talk to you. Until then, leave me alone.

Facts, not propaganda. Muslims are slaughtering christians all over Southern Asia (and Malaysia, Indonesia, and the Philippines) today, and for the last 5+ years (and that's when I started reading these reports...) These Muslims are just not very nice people at all. Perhaps the 'jihad' is on big-time--and perhaps a little American retaliation or "preventive medicine" is necessary.

.........Anglo-Saxon barbarians invading Brittany and slaughtering many of the relatives of my ancestors back in the 1300s!

Hate to tell you this, but those folks were no more Anglo-Saxon than the Pope, and he's Polish! They were Norman, more French that English, and many of them didn't even speak the same language as the people they ruled. They spoke French at home and took French wives, and considered their property in France to be much more important than their property in England. It was certainly more valuable.