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To: Steelfish

It’s funny you mention the Sikh riots, engineered by the thugs on the payroll of the Congress party.

Ask the Sikhs what the role of the RSS was, during the riots, and then report back to me.

It’s not coicidental that Sikhs support this Hindu fundamentalist group, to this day.

As for the Christian North-East terrorists, the less said, the better. So too about garbage like The Lord’s Resistance Army.


34 posted on 07/29/2009 8:44:52 PM PDT by MyTwoCopperCoins (I don't have a license to kill; I have a learner's permit.)
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To: MyTwoCopperCoins

Any comments on this Wikipedia post below?
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1984 anti-Sikh riots
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

“A Sikh family in front of their dwelling after a rampaging mob attacked their property”

The 1984 anti-Sikh pogroms were triggered by the assassination of Indira Gandhi on October 31, 1984, by two of her Sikh bodyguards. The assassination itself was in retaliation for Operation Bluestar, in which the Indian Army attacked Sikh militants hiding in the Harmandir Sahib, the holiest Sikh shrine.

Over the next four days, as many as 3100 Sikhs were killed in retaliatory attacks.

The most affected regions were neighborhoods in Delhi.

Many ordinary Indians of different religious dispositions made significant efforts to hide and help Sikh families. There are allegations that the massacre was organized.

On November 1, 1984, large mobs descended on eastern and central Delhi. Sultanpuri, Mangolpuri, Trilokpuri, and other Trans-Yamuna areas of Delhi were the worst affected.

The mobs carried iron rods, knives, clubs, and combustible material, including kerosene. They used voters’ lists, allegedly provided, by the politicians themselves[citation needed], to identify houses and business establishments owned by Sikhs.

The mobs swarmed into Sikh neighborhoods, arbitrarily killing any Sikh men they could find. Their shops and houses were ransacked and burned. In other incidents, armed mobs stopped buses and trains, in and around Delhi, pulling out Sikh passengers to be lynched or doused with kerosene and burnt.

The argument has been made that these events should not be called riots, but be described as a pogrom or a crime against humanity.
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35 posted on 07/29/2009 9:20:15 PM PDT by Steelfish
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To: MyTwoCopperCoins
It’s not coicidental that Sikhs support this Hindu fundamentalist group, to this day.

You're kidding, right? Sikhs don't club themselves with the RSS in any way -- maybe the fundamentalist Akal Takht, but not others. And yes, the Congress played politics with the Sikhs, just like the BJP plays politics in Orissa etc. The politicians like chaos, because they can then play it up to get elected.
67 posted on 07/30/2009 10:12:40 AM PDT by Cronos (Ceterum censeo, Mecca et Medina delendae sunt + Jindal 2K12)
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