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Orissa riots: SC says won't allow minority persecution

New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Monday said it would not allow "persecution" of minorities and asked the Orissa government to resign if it was unable to protect Christians who were targeted in recent riots that followed the assassination of a VHP leader. "We are secular country. We cannot allow persecutio ....Read more

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What about Kashmiri PunditsBy: KLD | Monday , 5 Jan '09 16:49:25 PM Reply | Forward Not to justify what happened in Orissa, but what was the SC doing when over 5 lakh Kashmiri Pundits were persecuted and chased out of J

Meaningless comparisonBy: DD | Monday , 5 Jan '09 18:06:33 PM Reply | Forward An elected government should not support anti social elements. Otherwise we would be the same as Pakistan.

JudiciaryBy: Adab | Monday , 5 Jan '09 18:02:10 PM Reply | Forward Are you questioning our Apex Court Sir ?

Yeh bhi Bika hua haiBy: Nirala | Monday , 5 Jan '09 17:50:02 PM Reply | Forward You are bro. Yeh judge bhi bika hua hai. The most perosecuted people in India are Hindus.In the name of majority all are trying to degrade hindus. Yaaaak-thu.

BecauseBy: Abdul | Monday , 5 Jan '09 17:19:49 PM Reply | Forward Because SC ,Government in India takecare of Minourities not Majourities.

What difference does it makeBy: akz | Monday , 5 Jan '09 17:16:38 PM Reply | Forward If something wrong has happened else where do you have the right to practive a wrong thing because some else has done it? This argument is pretty similar to the bjp saying you did it in delhi riots so dont talk about riots.

Hindu CountryBy: Anvar | Monday , 5 Jan '09 17:11:12 PM Reply | Forward See your people forget onething that this is a secular country. All your thinking is that this is a Hindu Conuntry and forget about the minorities. Always accept the truth and don't go for tit for tat as you write in your column.

hindu countryBy: kowstuba | Tuesday , 6 Jan '09 10:05:18 AM Reply | Forward mr anvar. pl see around the world. how all the muslim countries treated the non muslims as per the shariah. this country is seculer only because this is a hind mejority country. by the by what about the hindus in j

Secular India in a better perspectiveBy: MMK Rao | Tuesday , 6 Jan '09 9:54:18 AM Reply | Forward Dear friend Anvar, Your statement is true but only partially. At the bottom, Indian psyche is Hindu even if Islam was thrust down the throat by force and Christianity began to be pushed artificially to exploit poverty misusing Constitutional religious rights of expression for conversion.MUSLIM AND CHRISTIAN FRIENDS MUST APPRECIATE THAT THEY ARE A WIE BETTER THAN THEIR COUNTERPARTS OUTSIDE INDIA only because of the immemorial Hindu (Vedic) wisdom that has seeped into their blood stream which is after all Indian, not connected with Allah or Jesus who came artificially. Pls.consider this point dispassionately. If you do, you will appreciate better the fact that we are better people as Indians, who welcome other religions and other ideas even if they are alien, and that we are secular ONLY in that sense.

Kashmiri Pandits....By: Rajesh | Monday , 5 Jan '09 17:07:47 PM Reply | Forward A very appropriate and Important question. Lets see what politician has the guts to ask this question?

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