RE: India - Muslims told to stop eating beef
October 16, 2015 at 3:58 pm
(This post was last modified: October 16, 2015 at 4:52 pm by Anomalocaris.)
The surprise at this sort of thing results from the disconnect between
1) what India is advertised to be in American media: the world's largest democracy, on the verge of embracing capitalist free enterprise and become an honorary western nation, and almost ready to play the part assigned to it by America in America's effort to retain absolute preeminence in the pacific and Central Asia, and
2) what it actually is: a chaotic, sectarian strife riven nation, not all that far from being a failed state, whose majority hindu population just put a Hindu fanatic into the prime minister's office, who until recently was on United States state department's list of terrorists and gross human right abusers forbidden to enter the United States for conducting pogroms against the Muslim minority while he was a regional governor in India.
1) what India is advertised to be in American media: the world's largest democracy, on the verge of embracing capitalist free enterprise and become an honorary western nation, and almost ready to play the part assigned to it by America in America's effort to retain absolute preeminence in the pacific and Central Asia, and
2) what it actually is: a chaotic, sectarian strife riven nation, not all that far from being a failed state, whose majority hindu population just put a Hindu fanatic into the prime minister's office, who until recently was on United States state department's list of terrorists and gross human right abusers forbidden to enter the United States for conducting pogroms against the Muslim minority while he was a regional governor in India.
