[Assam] beef-eating in india

[Ram Sarangapani]

Xourov,

>talking about the past and the record of beef-eating in hinduism is >a
means to difusing the situation.

I agree. These communal riots take place because most involved are either
egged on by some politician or religious bigot.

The fact that there are more incidents of Hindus attacking Muslims in India
is because Hindus are a majority. In Pakistan, its the other way around. The
Dalit incident is terrible and I do remember it, but I am sure that even
such incidents are really not about "Beef eating" but to just cloak it as
one. Behind the scenes, its probably someone trying to grab some land or
simply wanting to "unite" the local community behind a common cause (lousy
cause, nevertheless, a cause) for political reasons. In this case, they
probably roused up some people by touting the beef horn.

I would suspect, most Hindus don't fall for such ploys, and that is the
reason, minorities in India do have voice and support and when attrocities
against them are committed, they are brought to light.





On 6/18/06, xourov pathok <xourov at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>
>
> --- Ram Sarangapani <assamrs at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > All I am saying is that some small segment like the
> > BJP or some Govt.
> > official/s took it upon themselves to prove or
> > disprove some issue that most
> > Hindus are either ambivalent or truely don't care
> > whether ancient Hindus did
> > or did not eat beef.
>
> people are actually very sensitive about eating beef
> and cow slaughter.  you probably remember that most
> communal riots in the past were started by someone
> placing a dead pig in front of a mosque or a dead cow
> in front of a temple.  in an incident a couple years
> ago 5 dalits were lynched by a mob because they
> suspected they were skinning a live cow.  they were
> actually skinning a cow that was already dead for 24
> hours.  the dalits made their living by collecting
> cowhides and selling them to tanneries.
>
> http://www.hinduonnet.com/fline/fl1923/stories/20021122003703800.htm
>
> eating beef and cow slaughter are big and potentially
> explosive issues in india.  talking about the past and
> the record of beef-eating in hinduism is a means to
> difusing the situation.
>
>
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