Why India should be Secular

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

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And you keep evading the point.  Turkey is 'secular' because it is NOT
allowed to be islamic.  Just having a muslim sounding name is not
enough...you must really be muslim.

Sorry for bursting your bubble...

SG


>From: Abhijeet Pradhan <perdi420@yahoo.com>
>Reply-To: debate@indiapolicy.org
>To: debate@indiapolicy.org
>Subject: Re: Why India should be Secular
>Date: Mon, 15 Jan 2001 07:38:27 -0800 (PST)
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>You keep digressing.  You asked for a secular country with a majority
>muslim
>population and I gave you one.  End of story.
>
>AP
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>--- Sanjai Kukreti <skukreti@home.com> wrote:
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> > Abhijeet Pradhan <perdi420@yahoo.com> wrote:
> > > If you choose to equate fanatics with the religion that is your
>mistake.
> > >
> > > By the same token, to make India secular we need to curb the influence
> > > of
> > > fanatic Hindu organizations (and fanatic Islamic organizations as
>well).
> > >
> > > But by your twisted logic, India can only be secular by suppressing
> > > Hinduism.
> > >
> > > AP
> >
> >
> > What about in the Soviet Union and other Communist countries, (eg.
>China,
> > Eastern Europe) where priests of all kinds were imprisoned or executed?
> > (Catholic, Protestant, Orthodox Christian, Muslim Imams, etc)
> >
> > In the USSR, atheism was the official State Religion. Do you feel that
> > this
> > made them secular, by stamping out all the other religions, and
> > aggressively
> > imposing atheism?
> >
> > As we all know, Leftists have a very notorious record, of exterminating
> > other beliefs, in the name of "secularism". Would you call the Soviet
> > pogroms a triumph of secularism?
> >
> >
> >
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