I now know who is and my wife agrees with what Godse did. If not, then maybe India would not be a 3rd world country with the amount Gandhiji gave to them to run the country.
I am shocked at your comment. Regret supporting you a bit earlier on. You really are a hypocrite. You leave your Hindu motherland to come to a christian country and enjoy all its freedom (of religion) but you have no qualms of butchering others who do not worship your god. Why don't you quit the US and move back????
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I am sorry, I do not know who he is, but my wife does. I only lived in India(kolkatta and nagpur) till I was 10 yrs old so and have not studied Indian history.
I now know who is and my wife agrees with what Godse did. If not, then maybe India would not be a 3rd world country with the amount Gandhiji gave to them to run the country.
My wife and family agree with Tilaks' thoughts. He would gotten freeedom much earlier than Gandhiji.
Any eight year boy who has gone to school in India would know who Godse was. What happened in your school on January 30th at about 11:00 a.m.?
It's a useless debate whether Tilak would have won Independence for India sooner than Gandhi. Why not people like Bhagat Singh, Or Chandra Shekhar Azad? MInd youm who would have India's freedom sooner is OT.
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I would have thought it was obvious - the plan was to kill the Jews, everyone else who died was merely a diversion to make it seem as if the plan wasn't to kill the Jews
Has no-one ever watched CSI / Columbo?
Gotcha. Some people are so smart.
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I have been scratching my head and thus my expression. Anyone who has had ancestors from India -don't have to be born there knows who's who during that period.
Last yr I watched an informative documentary on Gandhi and his assassin and it seems to be that the Godse is a hero the BJP, RSS and VHP. At one point someone was enquiring whether "there is any musalmane" amongst the BBC crew before he showed his hatred towards the muslims. It was not because of so-called atrocities which were supposedly committed but because Mother India ( or Hindustan) had to be sub-divided.
btw: Lt Col Shrikant Prasad Purohit is from Pune and he has been in the news lately.
We interrupt this ethnic cleansing to bring you a message from Chabad.
As Shabbos approaches we must do what Gabi and Rivka would want us to do, redouble our efforts of bringing light and goodness to a world filled with evil and negativity. We must not let these evil Muslim terrorists ruin our resolve, and we must move forward with the mission, that Gabi and Rivka gave their life for.
We at Chabad Lubavitch of [my state], ask you to do a good deed, a Mitzvah in their memory, as this will bring their sparkling souls a great comfort. Rivka would've lit her Shabbos candles today, she would've lit one for her son Moshe'le as well; but she will not. I ask all Jewish women, please light Shabbos candles this evening before sunset, and do it for the Holtzberg's, lets light up this dark and gloomy world, with as much light as possible.
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Any eight year boy who has gone to school in India would know who Godse was. What happened in your school on January 30th at about 11:00 a.m.?
It's a useless debate whether Tilak would have won Independence for India sooner than Gandhi. Why not people like Bhagat Singh, Or Chandra Shekhar Azad? MInd youm who would have India's freedom sooner is OT.
I left India when I was 9 and have no recollection about Indian history. I have no idea who he is.
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I left India when I was 9 and have no recollection about Indian history. I have no idea who he is.
Age creep!. Soon you will have moved to the U.S. as an infant. You have no recollection yet you now, instinctively, that Muslims committed atrocities against Hindus. I suppose it was instilled in you. You have no idea who Godse was because you left India when you were 9 9didn't you say before that you were 10?), but youy know all about how much Gandhi gave away to Muslims. Do you really want us to believe your thoughts are rational? DO you expect us to suspend our rationality?
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Question for Yaatri because I know that you grew up in India and are still in touch with people there.
1. What % of the population does speak Hindi and do they do so in the Maharashtra state ( I thought that the lingua franca would be Marathi based on my understanding of the language of the descendants of people from that state in parts of Africa) ? I know that some Indian actress made a big boo-boo on David Letterman's show by saying that Hindi is the official language.
2. Is it common for non-Hindus to speak Hindi in states where Hindi is the Lingua Franca.
Reason I am asking: a. the e-mail supposedly sent by the Daccan Mujahideen was written in Hindi
b. the Chef who was shot 4 times at the Taj was addressed in Hindi by one of the terrorists.
Thanks for your answer
What is your source for the belief that the e-mail was in Hindi? I have not been able to read much about the incident as I am travelling (26th-30th) and am in Prague.
What I did find was that the e-mail was signed Guru al-Hindi. Among Arabic speakers Hindi means Indian (possibly Hindu, which also orginally meant Indian). Hindu came to be associated with religion distinct from Islam only after Islam made incursions into India. Even in the 1th and 18th centuries, Europeans used Hindu or Hindoo to refer to people of India.
P.S. Hindu militants are stupid for falling in line with thinking of extremist Muslims.
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and while we are at it, lets resolve the issue of Kashmir once and forever.
Even if you find that report credible, can you not read? The article casts serious doubt on the claim that the Pakistani government was involved in this. So why would you want India to get into another pointless war? And why is a backwards, mountainous piece of land that important to either side?
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We interrupt this ethnic cleansing to bring you a message from Chabad.
As Shabbos approaches we must do what Gabi and Rivka would want us to do, redouble our efforts of bringing light and goodness to a world filled with evil and negativity. We must not let these evil Muslim terrorists ruin our resolve, and we must move forward with the mission, that Gabi and Rivka gave their life for.
We at Chabad Lubavitch of [my state], ask you to do a good deed, a Mitzvah in their memory, as this will bring their sparkling souls a great comfort. Rivka would've lit her Shabbos candles today, she would've lit one for her son Moshe'le as well; but she will not. I ask all Jewish women, please light Shabbos candles this evening before sunset, and do it for the Holtzberg's, lets light up this dark and gloomy world, with as much light as possible.
Done.
Only one person has advocated eradication of Muslims and he has been rightly taken to task. It is mighty unfair of you to characterise this thread as "ethnic cleansing".
It is sad, that so many people died, including a number of jews. IS there any reason you choose to remember only Jews? Yet you feel superior by denigrating, rightly though, who thinks so parochially! It is ironic isn't it?
You use a terminology that I, and I am sure there are others who, don;t understand it. Can you please explain what it is we are supposed to do to remember the people who died and are close to your heart? And are we alowed to do the same for the non-jews? We won't want to belittle the death of the people who are special in your heart.
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Even if you find that report credible, can you not read? The article casts serious doubt on the claim that the Pakistani government was involved in this. So why would you want India to get into another pointless war? And why is a backwards, mountainous piece of land that important to either side?
So stupid.
Just because the vessel that is alleged to have carried the terrorists was not owned and operated by the Pakistani Government does not mean Pakistani Government was not involved. There are lots of thigs that our Government/CIA has done by private contractors or non-U.S. entities. I would not be surprised if this operation had involvement of Pakistani Government in planning and financing.
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Just because the vessel that is alleged to have carried the terrorists was not owned and operated by the Pakistani Government does not mean Pakistani Government was not involved. There are lots of thigs that our Government/CIA has done by private contractors or non-U.S. entities. I would not be surprised if this operation had involvement of Pakistani Government in planning and financing.
The poster used the article as a base for advocating war with Pakistan. I pointed out that the article does not support his position that the Pakistani government was involved in this. That is mere supposition on the part of both of you. Yes, the Pakistani government could be involved, but so could it also be the work of non-government agents. Or rogue agents on either side.
I also pointed out that another war is stupid. I hope you agree with at least that.
I don't see we had any legitimate reason to be there. Do you?
Some people are so smart. 
