In a recent article, it is pointed out that the US State Department report on religious freedom indicates that India's record of religious freedom has significantly improved.
Additionally, it has specific paragraph, which I find laughable. Here it is..
"With a Muslim President, Sikh Prime Minister and a Christian head of the governing parliamentary party, the UPA government has demonstrated its commitment to a policy of religious inclusion at its highest levels and throughout this generally tolerant and highly diverse society," said the report which takes a broad sweep of religious freedom across the world under a mandate of US Congress.
My question is who is US to decide who is more religiously free and who is not. This should be an internal Indian matter and not for other countries to decide. Our media also catches on these things to create a hype. It is indeed laughable that just because we have a President, PM and Head of governing parliamentary party who are of different religions, we are more secular. What bollocks!!! See what they kind of work they have done. Except for the President, the other two are horrible. Are we to be satisfied that just because we elect idiots of different religions to such positions, that India automatically comes out ahead? Why? Because US says so? The person is made by the kind of work he/she does, not because he seemingly belongs to a particular religion. What a crap statement by a crap government!!
Maybe, it would be a good to remind the US State deprtment that India already has given woman PM in 58 years of Independence and US hasn't even had a woman vice-president, let alone a president. Heck, even a African American hasn't even come close to becoming a president of USA. Religious right seem to rule the roost in USA right now.
I think USA need to refrain from bringing up Gujarat time and again. Remember just 50 years back, african americans were being tortured and discriminated against. No violence can be justified and that includes the innocent burning of the passengers in Sabarmati Express and subsequent riots in Gujarat. However, US should look at its own history before putting out reports on other's countries religious beliefs and practices. What India does is its business. US has absolutely no right to interfere.
US does not have a trademark on what is right in a religion and what is not and which practices are right and wrong. I can easily say that conversion which is allowed in Christianity and practiced aggressively by Evanlegical christians is wrong. Should I now write a report about it just because I think it is wrong? Idiotic!!
Additionally, it has specific paragraph, which I find laughable. Here it is..
"With a Muslim President, Sikh Prime Minister and a Christian head of the governing parliamentary party, the UPA government has demonstrated its commitment to a policy of religious inclusion at its highest levels and throughout this generally tolerant and highly diverse society," said the report which takes a broad sweep of religious freedom across the world under a mandate of US Congress.
My question is who is US to decide who is more religiously free and who is not. This should be an internal Indian matter and not for other countries to decide. Our media also catches on these things to create a hype. It is indeed laughable that just because we have a President, PM and Head of governing parliamentary party who are of different religions, we are more secular. What bollocks!!! See what they kind of work they have done. Except for the President, the other two are horrible. Are we to be satisfied that just because we elect idiots of different religions to such positions, that India automatically comes out ahead? Why? Because US says so? The person is made by the kind of work he/she does, not because he seemingly belongs to a particular religion. What a crap statement by a crap government!!
Maybe, it would be a good to remind the US State deprtment that India already has given woman PM in 58 years of Independence and US hasn't even had a woman vice-president, let alone a president. Heck, even a African American hasn't even come close to becoming a president of USA. Religious right seem to rule the roost in USA right now.
I think USA need to refrain from bringing up Gujarat time and again. Remember just 50 years back, african americans were being tortured and discriminated against. No violence can be justified and that includes the innocent burning of the passengers in Sabarmati Express and subsequent riots in Gujarat. However, US should look at its own history before putting out reports on other's countries religious beliefs and practices. What India does is its business. US has absolutely no right to interfere.
US does not have a trademark on what is right in a religion and what is not and which practices are right and wrong. I can easily say that conversion which is allowed in Christianity and practiced aggressively by Evanlegical christians is wrong. Should I now write a report about it just because I think it is wrong? Idiotic!!
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