BJP, RSS behind Samjhauta blasts: Indian minister

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Re: BJP, RSS behind Samjhauta blasts: Indian minister

@nikhil25

why would this be a huge blow? total denial at all times is already status quo.

“hindu terror” is an interesting case study. pakistanis just cannot comprehend or relate to the fact that there is no societal or governmental impulse to defend or support such hindu terrorists. they are not the agents of powerful puppeteers in RAW or the military who will ensure they are untouched. indian agencies moved quickly to investigate this ragtag team of hindu terrorists and arrested them promptly - no brushing it under the rug or cover-up effort. the state has been transparent and very vocal about it.

trying to draw parallels to pakistani terrorists and the jihadi-military complex is just plain silly. they are not comparable at all. sorry to disappoint.

Well, except when the BJP is in power, some of who’s party members are linked or have been linked to Hindu militants… No?

Now to say there is no “societal” support for Hindu extremists is a bit of stretch. I dont think you can honestly say you KNOW for certain whether the majority of Hindus in India support them or not. And if they do, to what degree they are wiling to support them. Unless you can provide us with evidence to support such a claim. First tell us what you mean by “support” exactly, and then demonstrate to what extent that support does or does not exist, otherwise, it would seem like your soft spot for al things hindu, is hindering your objectivity.

And your conclusion that Pakistanis cannot “comprehend” or “relate” to the “fact” sounds bigoted. The assumption you make are as ignorant as your assumption about most Hindus in India. The impulse to “support” extremists on either side I think is not black or white. While most people on both sides i believe would condemn hardcore extremism, many would still qualify every statement with a “but”. For example, Indians will giving passive support to the knocking down of the babri Mosque if on principle only, terrible what they did, BUT the mosque was on a Hindu site, or they might add qualifier to their condemnation of the murder of Sikhs in 84 or Muslims in 02, such as “but the shouldn’t have done such and such otherwise they would have been ok etc…” Pakistanis do something similar with Mumbai citing Indian Human rights violations.

And as for the situation regarding govt. Pakistan seems to have grown out of this phase of using “proxies” for its own ends, a sin that many other countries have committed and will undoubtably commit in the future. The problem is not one of compulsion to support violent extremists for the sake of supporting extremists. Its an issue of politics. The extremists groups, while unsavory, provide political leverage and are useful tools during election time. Make of it what you will, but extremists groups have political clout in Pakistan;and extremist groups having political leverage is not something unheard of in India mind you.

I agree with your Jihadi military complex is not being comparable line. But to say that Pakistanis have more sympathies for extremism then Indian is a bit of an overstatement. To conclude that Pakistanis cannot comprehend NOT supporting extremists is ridiculous. if anything, the opposite should be true. Pakistanis have felt the fallout of extremism far more acutely then Indians. If anything, it should be the other way around. Indeed, if anything, the nationalism bred among Indians, by 20 years of solid growth should at the very least have engendered a stronger sense of self -righteousness not less.