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To: Zipporah
I have a very hard time believing this story.. if you know anything of Hindus.. this just doesn't fit.

AM CURIOUS what you find doesn't fit about it.

I studied for approx 9 university course hours--3 hours per year for 3 years from a Hindu in my BA program. I disagree with you. From what I know, it fits entirely.

Besides all that--virtually any individual or group has a CAPACITY to become violent--and many extremely so. . . .given certain contingencies and conditioning.

Hinduism is so multifaceted, one "god" can be construed as creative and another as extremely destructive. Given the belief in reincarnation--killing is just assisting someone into their next incarnation. . . .

But rabid belief acted out by insecure, hostile, disaffected, perceived as threatened etc. sorts of folk can readily join up with the likes of Bin Laden or a rampaging mob of Hindus against those they feel threat from--real or imagined.

61 posted on 12/31/2001 4:16:45 AM PST by Quix
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To: Quix
..sorry took so long to reply... but my son has spent a year in India.. is married to a Hindu.. and she is now living here. Her family stayed with me for many months this summer.. My knowledge is personal and Hinduism pretty much is a live and let live religion.. that is why I said what I did.
174 posted on 01/06/2002 5:23:30 PM PST by Zipporah
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