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| David Warren: Modi |
| 2014-05-19 |
| Perhaps I'm not quick enough, but I would like to be the first to not welcome the landslide election victory of India's new "Hinduist" prime minister-elect, Narendra Modi. Democracy has done it again, and I gather they are dancing in the streets at Delhi, as "the people" are wont to do, whenever they have decisively achieved some profoundly stupid result, that is going to cost them big. (I had the same feeling, albeit slightly milder, when Americans were congratulating themselves for electing as their president a certain Barack Hussein Obama Soebarkah, back in November 2008.) The immense victory of the Bharatiya Janata Party is, as the saying goes, "Bad news for Jews." Actually, this is not said, for there are so few Jews in India, and the clever hack pundits of the world instead opine that it "may" be very bad news for Muslims. We will see how bad, soon, as the new government handles the police. For the police are never popular when defending minorities from majority mobs; and governments never popular when they are telling their cops to do the right thing. There is, or at least was, however, a flourishing Jewish community in Bombay ("Mumbai," according to the Hindu nationalists); even more flourishing and numerous Zoroastrians; and the Armenians there, but even more in Calcutta ("Kolkata"), are also close to my heart. I pray they are small enough to become invisible, when they keep their heads down, the way Christians try to do in Pakistan (and Bangladesh). The Christians in India, as too the Sikhs, Buddhists, Jains, are sufficiently numerous to make hiding difficult. Whatever they do, the Christians in particular will be accused of illegal proselytizing among the Hindus, whenupon there is invariably hell to pay. |
| Posted by:Pappy |