Indian Hard-Liner Narendra Modi Leads in Prime Minister Race

[Ken Burch]

51. I don't support Pakistan. I oppose right-wing nationalist movements.

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Especially ones like Modi's that are predicated on hatred.

I'd have preferred to see a non-partitioned India come into being in 1948, but that discussion is all over now. Pakistan is here and there's no possible way to break it up, even if breaking it up would be a good thing(you'd see at least four or five border wars start between the Balkanized remnants, and there's no way that would be good for anybody).

If Modi had achievements in Gujarat, he could have achieved ALL of them without treating Muslims as the enemy and without falsely equating being an Indian Muslim with being a fifth columnist for Pakistan. Indian Muslims and NOT Pakistanis and don't want to be. If they wanted to be, they'd just move TO Pakistan.

And Hindus who kill Muslims ARE killing "non-believers". There's no moral difference between a Hindu killing a Muslim and a Muslim killing a Hindu. Both are acts of unjustified hatred.

A vote for Modi and the BJP is a vote for authoritarian, Hindu-supremacist hate politics. India deserves better than that. And the big problem India faces is the hoarding of wealth among the English-speaking Hindu elite-something Indian Muslims bear no responsibility for whatsoever.