Why India should not be Secular

["Sam Garg" <gargsam@hotmail.com>]

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dear prabhu writes:

>Please do not be patronising to 140 million of our fellow-Indians.
>There are people from all communities who "need to see themselves as
>part
>of the same secular solution".

this is an absurd comment.  Hindus are by nature, inclination, training
and
behaviour much more secular than any other religion.  It is muslims who
are
situationally secular.  When they are in a minority position, they
become
'committed' secularists.  As soon as they achieve majority status,
secularism goes out the window.  Name one muslim majority/ muslim ruled
country in the world which is truly secular.  It is muslims who need to
prove that they regard secularism as a worthy goal in of itself and not
as a
means to an end.

>Less mythologisation and a better study of history may also make us
>better at anticipating future problems, unlike the RSS and its sister
> >bodies.

All your examples of 'de-mythologisation' look suspiciously like the
marxist
propaganda churned out dime a dozen in West Bengal and which are not
worth
the paper they are written on. Making statements such as these are easy
- my
10 year old does it daily.  Providing evidence to support one's comments
is
another matter altogether.

It is amazing how otherwise intelligent people fall victim to propaganda

that is designed to fool the captive audiences in the backwaters of the
world like Kerala & WB. It is only here that marxism still survives like

some diseased mutant.

The unimaginable planetary scale horrors and degradation unleashed by
this
ideology is only now being revealed as declassified documents become
available from Russia.  I would strongly suggest a good reading of "The
Black Book of Communism" which was published in France (1997) and
translated
in English only 2 years ago.


Sanjay Garg



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