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I agree that BJP has some unsavory supporters and associates. I also agree that the government has not done enough to halt religious persecution and violence. Particulaly disturbing is the murder of Christians and suppression of the Christian church in many states.

I stand by my view, however, that BJP has moderated its more extreme views since going into government, to my surprise.

I do believe that BJP's time in power is coming to a close. It would be interesting to see what Congress would do in a new government - would they continue the trend to economic liberalization or would they revert to Nehru-style socialism?

While I'm a Christian, and know that the atrocities against Christians in India are in line with reports I've heard before, the muslims are a far more immediate enemy than the Indians are. We ally ourselves with others from time to time in order to accomplish a more important purpose. We need to ally with India to combat the Muslim onslaught. If along the way, the Indians prove to be Nazi-like, then we can disengage from them. A poster noted above that the current party in power, the BJP, is losing popularity, and might be out of power not too far down the road. India is a relatively new democracy, with an educated middle class just now forming. Let's give India a chance to mature and realize that the West is their best partner for the future. It certainly ISN'T the lunatic Muslim world, killing every thing in sight that does bow the knee to their false god. And with hegemonistic China next door, India should seek out allies where they can. The only enemies the US has on the entire planet are Communist ones, (China, Cuba, N Korea), and the Muslim world. Let's help India see the light of moving into the Western family. If the situation winds up being the Muslim world and China vs the rest of the planet, that will be the best outcome. I would not prefer Pakistan over India; once Pakistan returns to what they loosely term "democracy" there, (more like "mob rule"), we will find out that Turkey is the only Muslim nation that we could ever hope to trust.....

in my opinion the nehru-style socialism and general incompetence of the Congress party that the Indians suffered under for so long is worse than the BJP. Sure, it's true that the BJP has some real fascists among them, but they are a minority that the BJP leaders feel compelled to grovel before. Vajpayee government in my opinion has been an improvement for India.

India is so big and so diverse with so many passions in so many directions that nobody could unite it and drive it in a concerted direction as Hitler did Germany.