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To: Jacob Snyder who wrote (72898)	2/10/2003 4:42:47 PM
From: kumar	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 281500

<So, after they finish converting/expelling/slaughtering the 130,000,000 Muslims in India, Hindu Nationalism become a satisfied status quo Idea.> You have a lot to learn about India if you really believe this will happen.

To: Jacob Snyder who wrote (72898)	2/10/2003 5:46:30 PM
From: Rascal	Respond to of 281500

Thank you for that insight Rascal@ greatfocus.com

To: Jacob Snyder who wrote (72898)	2/10/2003 7:52:06 PM
From: arun gera	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

>1. The Hindus are using the methods of Holy War, but their ambitions are strictly limited. Hinduism is an aspect of Indian national culture, not a global religion. So, after they finish converting/expelling/slaughtering the 130,000,000 Muslims in India, Hindu Nationalism become a satisfied status quo Idea. > Check your facts. Are Muslims rising as a percentage of the total population in India? And now check the percentage of Hindus left in Pakistan and Bangaldesh since 1947. I think Bangladesh had between 10-15 percent Hindu population at one time. It is greatly reduced. I don't have the exact numbers. And what is the Hindu population in Pakistan? Like one percent. Do you know what happened to the Hindu population in Kashmir after militancy began in 1990 or so? I never see you pointing those facts. Just get into the bandwagon of Hindu bashing! -Arun

To: Jacob Snyder who wrote (72898)	2/10/2003 9:58:42 PM
From: Nadine Carroll	Respond to of 281500

You are doing your best to define Islam as the Other, with every other Idea on your side. Good tactics, bad history. No, I am trying to factually describe the major religio-political ideologies of today. What Christians did 1000 years ago or Jews did 3000 years ago is irrelevant, out of scope. Fundamentalists may have no sense of time, but I do. Today, as you say, there are only two universalist, credal religions - Islam and Christianity. One of these has a sect with a full political program that is using terrorism to spread itself. The other doesn't. Missionaries are not the same thing. I don't mind receiving missionaries. Suicide bombers who believe in killing infidels by self-immolation are quite a different matter. The other struggles you mention are local - nationalist Hinduism is a force only in India, and a Confusionist revival only in China. These ideological differences are simply factual and really ought not to even be a matter for debate. They just are.