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What is wrong in being a hindu nationalist?
by Rishi Mon Sep 23, 2013 9:59 pm
An even more interesting headline, in fact, would be about what Parrikar thinks about the term “Hindu nationalist” – a term for which Modi was routinely pilloried.
Parrikar was asked: “You are seen as the moderate face of the Hindu right, but where do you see yourself ideologically? Are you a Hindu nationalist?” His reply: “I am a perfect Hindu, but that is my personal faith, it has nothing to do with government. India is a Hindu nation in the cultural sense..A Catholic in Goa is also Hindu culturally, because his practices don’t match with Catholics in Brazil, except in the religious aspect, a Goan Catholic’s way of thinking and practice matches a Hindu’s. So Hindu for me is not a religious term, it is cultural. I am not the Hindu nationalist as understood by some TV media – not one who will take out a sword and kill a Muslim. According to me that is not Hindu behaviour at all. Hindus don’t attack anyone, they only do so for self-defense – that is our history. But in the right sense of the term, I am a Hindu nationalist.”
In short, when Modi says he is a Hindu nationalist, we think the worst of him, but when Parrikar says more or less the same, with different nuancing, he is a moderate Hindu, a secular Hindu.
Read more at: http://www.firstpost.com/politics/wilfull-blindness-the-art-of-misreading-parrikar-on-modi-1091923.html?utm_source=ref_article
Parrikar was asked: “You are seen as the moderate face of the Hindu right, but where do you see yourself ideologically? Are you a Hindu nationalist?” His reply: “I am a perfect Hindu, but that is my personal faith, it has nothing to do with government. India is a Hindu nation in the cultural sense..A Catholic in Goa is also Hindu culturally, because his practices don’t match with Catholics in Brazil, except in the religious aspect, a Goan Catholic’s way of thinking and practice matches a Hindu’s. So Hindu for me is not a religious term, it is cultural. I am not the Hindu nationalist as understood by some TV media – not one who will take out a sword and kill a Muslim. According to me that is not Hindu behaviour at all. Hindus don’t attack anyone, they only do so for self-defense – that is our history. But in the right sense of the term, I am a Hindu nationalist.”
In short, when Modi says he is a Hindu nationalist, we think the worst of him, but when Parrikar says more or less the same, with different nuancing, he is a moderate Hindu, a secular Hindu.
Read more at: http://www.firstpost.com/politics/wilfull-blindness-the-art-of-misreading-parrikar-on-modi-1091923.html?utm_source=ref_article
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Re: What is wrong in being a hindu nationalist?
by Merlot Daruwala Wed Sep 25, 2013 2:26 am
Breasty Beauty, we think the worst of Modi for his intolerance for dissent and his unapologetic contempt for minorities. He flatters himself by calling himself a "Hindu Nationalist". He's no nationalist. Anyone who makes other people insecure in their own land is an anti-nationalist. So no extremist - regardless of religious affiliation - can be a nationalist at the same time.Rishi wrote:In short, when Modi says he is a Hindu nationalist, we think the worst of him, but when Parrikar says more or less the same, with different nuancing, he is a moderate Hindu, a secular Hindu.
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