| How I Became A Hindu - My Discovery Of Vedic Dharma |
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| Books By David Frawley |
| DISCOVERY OF SOCIAL AND POLITICAL HINDUISM | |
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same time I noticed that the Indian newspapers would praise Islam and defend the cause of
the Palestinians. One paper had an editorial on how an Islamic Republic was good for
members of all religions, would protect minorities and was really the ideal system of
government deriving from God. Of course, I was well aware of how intolerant such Islamic
states as Saudi Arabia, Iran or Pakistan really were. That Hindus could praise the idea of
an Islamic state and condemn Hindu political groups that were nowhere near as intolerant
was amazing to me. There is no idea of a Hindu state, a Hindu law code, or a Hindu
theocracy, nor any history of such comparable to the medieval ideal of a Christian state
or the current idea, which is still medieval in nature, of an Islamic state. The same newspapers praised Marx and Communism. They kowtowed to China and to the Soviet Union as the most progressive countries in the world. As communism declined in Eastern Europe in the late eighties, they lamented the fact, and nostalgically hoped for a restoration of communist rule.
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