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Pope, Prophet and Policies.............

The context is the Pope's speech which many Muslims feel is offending Islam.
Read this link for some excerpts of the Pope's speech :
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/5348456.stm

Curiously, the Pope hints to an "argument against violent conversion". I wonder whether he thought about the Crusades of the past and the current "induced" conversions in Asian, African & Latin American countries, including India.

This link speaks about the Muslim protests against the Pope's remarks :
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/5349578.stm

But did the Islamic protestors think what would the followers of other faiths think, when Muslims quote the Koran and call them "Infidels" and "Kafirs" ? (Similarly the Christian proselytisers call the non-Christians as "sinners" - 'Paavigale .....').

And read this for the next news :
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/5353208.stm

But, in all this discourse, imagine the Hindus being involved for something. The Hindus would have been called "fundamentalist", "intolerant" and what not. But the truth is, Hindu faith does not believe in conversion or elimination of the non-believers.

Let all the people who talk ill of Hindus and Hindutva think.......

(Written in September 2006)

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