Posted on 07/23/2016 7:32:14 AM PDT by yinandyang
We as a people, and I as businessman, believe that both material and spiritual human prosperity come from a system in which individuals are free to pursue their dreams and aspirations, where private enterprise creates economic expansion and jobs, and where government involvement in the lives of the citizenry is limited. Human development comes from individuals, families and communities, and not from government, which only spends taxpayers’ money without much regard for its value.
Some four million Hindus reside in the United States.
(Excerpt) Read more at realclearpolitics.com ...
Welcome aboard!
And he might have added ... “Finally, since hundreds of millions (accurate figure) of my fellow Hindus have over the centuries been murdered by Muslims who else can I support?”
Hindus and Muslims don’t really get along do they?
Thank you for that article! I really enjoyed reading it.
God bless you.
Hindus were minding their own business in the 12th Century when hordes of muslims attacked them (as they did everyone), so no love lost there. The muslims lost the conquest of India because three are so many more Hindus then locals in all the other countries the muslims overran.
Hinduism metaphysically is the opposite of monotheism, but much of its ethics, with the three stages of life (student, householder, elderhood) and personal family orientation, is very compatible with the traditional American lifestyle. The types of Indians who are willing to move from there to America are similar to all those in previous generations who came to America as a land of opportunity, and they have generally made very good use of that opportunity. It is amazing to me that they are not all Republicans, but identity politics have kept them from understanding who their true friends in American politics are.
Good karma.
Modern Hindu belief has seen a lot of Christian influence through the colonial days of Britain, even though we still sometimes see tragic conflicts between Hindu and Christian believers in India itself. This influence has helped focus this belief on more progressive and western-friendly ideas.
I know there are fears in the Indian business community that Donald will reduce the incidence of H1B contracting in America. Maybe he will try to do that or maybe he won’t. But larger trade with India itself does not need to be imperiled. The kind of trade that makes sense is where two countries share their blessings with one another in roughly equal measure, leaving neither chronically beholden to the other in an asymmetrical relationship. The idea of procuring “cheap junk” while producing nothing to trade back in return, has turned America more and more idle, and this cannot be a trend that Donald would encourage.
I hate to say this, but you’ll probably note Indians even then were more advanced than most the Moslems attacked.
Hindu faith has mixed and sometimes incongruous elements in it. As a traditionalist Christian, I found one of the oddest things claimed by Hindu faith was that literally anything can be worshiped. This is wrong; however it points to a truth that Christians can miss — that God Himself can operate and express Himself through the humblest of entities in His creation. Glorify Him for it, by all means, and do not ever believe spirits who lie to you that the meaning that the entities deserve is anything but what God wills them to have. It certainly is not what man, in fallen sin, wills them to have. But it still can be quite a lot.
Hindus get along fine with most people. The muslims don’t get along with themselves, let alone with other people.
Than most of the Moslem attackers, I think you mean?
That’s what you would expect from a philosophy that is bent on subjugation and destruction.
Among those who take the trouble to come to Western countries, this seems to be particularly true. I work in an office largely populated by H1B Indians, about half of whom are Hindu and the rest Christian. The Hindus know that America still bears traces of its Christian past, and do not take offense at it in America. A Muslim will come in and try to squelch it as best he can.
There are sometimes assaults on Christians in India by Hindus who think the Christians, especially evangelists, are robbing them of faith. That is going to happen many places that evangelists go. They offer a starkly different faith view than that of their audiences and some will take bitter offense. But in America, this kind of conflict is rare; I’ve never personally observed it. Simply wanting to come to America already applies a kind of philosophical filter.
Everyone was more advanced than the muslims. Then, like now, the muslims lived to die, to follow in their founder’s footsteps and slaughter everyone not them.
Good point there too. Donald Trump would be a definite friend there. The Democrats? They’d sell Hindus out for the sake of currying Islamic favor before one could say “karma.”
Muslims could enjoy an uneasy kind of civilization, but Mad Mo’s sword always hung over it.
Bfl
They do not have a civilization of their own - they are parasites using the bits and pieces of the civilizations they have overrun/conquered/obliterated.
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