Re: [nukkad] BJP Landslide in Gujarat

[Vipul Lotke <>]

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> Gujarat is a harbinger of things to come.

You might think so in your infinite wisdom but allow
me some room to differ.

> If it is
> taken to its 
> logical end, muslims will have NO place in India,
> either they will 
> be killed like jews in Germany or flee.

I fail to see how you would come to this conclusion.
Muslims in India are nowhere in the similar position
as Jews were in the post WW-1 Germany. I suspect that
yours is a visceral reaction, when need of the hour is
a cerebral one.

> We better
> start searching 
> for our own Israel.

Who is we? Ideally there shouldn't have been such a
thing as a "Muslim" reaction, but since there is, and
I can't come up with a better term to characterize it
as such, I would rather have a Dr. Kagalwala speaking
for the community than a Mubashir. If I am not
mistaken, Pakistan was supposed to be an "Israel"
wasn't it? Given the position of some of the demented
Hindutva extremists that as long as there are people
with extra-national loyalties, there will be people
looking for their own "Israels"; are you looking to
convert more people to that point of view?

> If they don't have anywhere to
> go, there will 
> be a civil war.

If self-preservation is an instinct that you possess,
and you have the wherewithal to project what such a
course of action would result, then it should be
obvious that this is entirely counterproductive for
all the agents that are party to this project. Just
one question, a civil war to what end? There is
nothing civil about a "civil war", and given the
preponderance of the opposition, it won't be much of a
war. I do not condone what happened in Gujarat, even
if it was in reaction to Godhara. Even from a
"Hindutva" point of view it was a case of cure being
worse than ailment. Do you propose to spread the
malignancy so that we have our own little Mai Lai on a
national scale?

> Any way it is going to be a tragic
> for all 
> Indians.This is going to   happen in our life time.

Not very optimistic are we? And I was voted the most
pessimistic person for my graduating class.

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