Why does this animosity only exist between Hindus and Muslims and not Hindus and other minorities?
Um....you may not have heard this, but Sri Lanka recently experienced a twenty-year civil war between the Sinhalese Buddhist majority and the Tamil Hindu minority which cost tens of thousands of lives.
Can you name a country with a large Hindu community which has not experienced ethnic violence?
India has, Sri Lanka has, Fiji has....So why don't you post against Hindu hegemony?
Saigon----your are doing the "FMG is not islamic" arguement-----citing
the exceptions to the rule. Way back when RAJIV --was assassinated--
I confronted an Indian tamil colleague who seemed to me to be utterly
pacifistic------with "WHATs HAPPENING?----this has got to be strange
for you guys" and he said----"oh no----there are plenty of us capable
of murder" and he described some of the reasons for tensions in a
disppasionate and even handed manner which has been impressing me
as "VERY HINDU" ----since I got my first lessons in the history of
the indian subcontinent-------the Hindu version from Hindus (the
one which describes conflict as "lots of people got killed on both sides")
and the indian muslim and pakistani version which is >>>
---Re hindus ---
"they did all the murdering and someday we will drink their blood"
yes----everyone does it---one time or another------
BUT NOT AS MUCH and not with the
same sense of UTTER SELF-RIGHTEOUSNESS
and ENTHUSIASM and DESIRE FOR MORE
Incessant behavior characterizes a culture---and
HIGHLY PRIZED behavior characterizes a culture----
---occasional examples of "acting out' - does not