This thread has descended in to vitriolic attacks and false accusations against missionaries(many of whom are Americans), false accusations that America restricts religious rights through its visa system, false accusations against the Southern States in America.
When your fellow country men attempts to falsely accuse India for restricting religious freedom you would be naive not to expect those issues to come up.
Brainwashed? Hardly , I dont watch the MSM or Leftist media, my sources of news are FR, Lucianne,newsmax etc hardly leftist sites. I am not so sure that the Hindu right wingers are such big supporters of Americas, they only are because of the Business and $$$ America provides to India and the jobs it creates.
Aww how many times I have heard of those kind of condescending remarks, "those Indians don't like us they only like our $$$, they care only for our money and our jobs". Your comments are so reflective of your attitude for Indians.
They have their own ideology(Swadeshi) and while rabidly Anti-American they are not ..they certainly dont sound very enthusiastically pro American. Also also you cannot be against Christian values and for America, likewise someone cannot be against Hindu values and pro-India?.So i doubt the stromg American support among the Hindu right wingers, it is more a selfish alliance of needs, same goes for support for Israel.. where alliances have risen because of the war on terror. Are you brainwashed by listening to the likes of the sangh group.
The Sangh group are the last people in India to bother themselves in business of other countries. They are the last ones to raise the stink over lack of religious freedom elsewhere. They are busy with their own squabbles within their party and with their opponents to bother themselves over America, Vatican or the Pope unless deliberately provoked (and the Pope seems to excel in the art of provoking the Indians).
And if you have any doubts ask any Indian as to which is the party thats most pro-American and pro-Israel in the Indian polity. It would be far better to get a first hand idea then to be fed with rhetorical BS about "Hindu fascist" from Christian propagandist sites or the liberal media. And if some there are any right wing Hindus who are less enthusiastic about US it only because of their hesitancy as regarding Evangelical fascism. And BTW I don't consider your brand of Christianity as representative of the majority Christian values in US or representative of American culture. Yours is only a narrow minded bias that has nothing to do with actual Christianity. Your brand actually closer to Sangh parivar ideology.
it is valid to question the motive of people who post here who don't agree with the sites principles.
I stick to forum rules :
NO profanity, NO personal attacks, NO racism or violence in posts.
That does not mean I have to toe what in your opinion should be the standard partyline of FR. If that is what you mean by "conservatism" then I am sorry to say that you don't understand the first think about "conservatism".
"When your fellow country men attempts to falsely accuse India for restricting religious freedom you would be naive not to expect those issues to come up."
Legislating against conversion is a religious freedom issue, there are no examples of Americans doing the same.
'Aww how many times I have heard of those kind of condescending remarks, "those Indians don't like us they only like our $$$, they care only for our money and our jobs". Your comments are so reflective of your attitude for Indians. '
Whats condascending about that? People want to do business, even Americans are like that when they are in India, to sell goods ands services to the Indian market.
'And if you have any doubts ask any Indian as to which is the party thats most pro-American and pro-Israel in the Indian polity. '
I am not deceived by their policies, they may be the most pro-American party in India and that is not saying much. Again it is a case of common causes uniting( the war on terror) rather than a real alliance of ideology.
'And BTW I don't consider your brand of Christianity as representative of the majority Christian values in US or representative of American culture. '
Since you are not an American, you are clueless about its value or the religion of its citizens, mainstream Christians are a big force in US politics and the Republican party.
'That does not mean I have to toe what in your opinion should be the standard partyline of FR. '
Read the mission statement of Fr, it is clear what they stand for.