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To: goldsnow who wrote (6)6/29/2002 10:48:23 AM
From: ChinuSFO  Read Replies (1) of 3959
 
Goldsnow, in 1947, during the partitioning of India, the departing British viceroy Lord Mountbatten had said that forming a nation on the basis of religion does not serve the goal of a country's survival. 25 years after the creation of Pakistan (West and East Pakistan), it broke up and proved Mountbatten to be true. The people of the East and West Pakistan were culturally different even though majority of them were Muslims.

This was also what the founding Fathers of the US indicated when they The founding fathers did not want to give any specific religious faith the priviledge and hence the term "In God we Trust" and not "In Christ we Trust" even though they were all Christians. The framers of the Indian Constitution in 1947-1950 took the cue from the US and ensured that it was a "secular democracy"

And that has paid off in that India has had Hindu Presidents and Muslim Presidents, Christian Cabinet Ministers and Buddhist leaders in govt. And you ask if that has paid off? Do you think it has paid off in the US? If your answer is no then where do you think the US gets all the money to send the massive aid to Israel and Egypt. So the US model has paid off, is it not? If so then the Indian model has paid off also. India does not get that massive economic aid any more, Its exports in the field of high tech and medicine are impressive. The Al Qaeda will never set foot in India even though India is the second largest Muslim country. Why? The Muslims there are happy to share power with those of other religious faiths and they shun the Islamic fundamentalist dogma. Besides they are not that economically depressed so as to readily embrace Islamic fundamentalism as in other countries such as Pakistan, Indonesia, Phillipines etc where there is also a sizeable Muslim population.

Hence the term India is not Israel.
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