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Too busy with communists.
I meant the extremist slot is taken up by communist groups at the moment. You know Nazalites and the like.
Nice question. Taj Mahal Hotel bombing and other terrorist incidents happened because of Pakistani ISI. It is democracy which keeps the Muslims in place. They are a part of the political process in India. Of course, the government machinery helps. Both communities are living together for the last 1,000 years. If an employer is Muslim, his employees might be Hindu or vice-versa. We do not have even the Shia-Sunni conflict in India. We are sort of proud of it. To go in detail, Muslims have constructed Hindu temples and worship Hindu Gods, temples have graves of Sufis in their compound. India is a mixed story. Of course, at times, we fight and may fight violently, but soon come back to the default position of living together. In terrorist actions, even Muslims get killed. How does one separate the two?
Communists in India are a fringe except in South, in the state of Kerala. Don't know how long they will last there, but finally they are going to be replaced there too.
Nice question. Taj Mahal Hotel bombing and other terrorist incidents happened because of Pakistani ISI. It is democracy which keeps the Muslims in place. They are a part of the political process in India. Of course, the government machinery helps. Both communities are living together for the last 1,000 years. If an employer is Muslim, his employees might be Hindu or vice-versa. We do not have even the Shia-Sunni conflict in India. We are sort of proud of it. To go in detail, Muslims have constructed Hindu temples and worship Hindu Gods, temples have graves of Sufis in their compound. India is a mixed story. Of course, at times, we fight and may fight violently, but soon come back to the default position of living together. In terrorist actions, even Muslims get killed. How does one separate the two?
Temple with dargah in Alwar, Rajasthan; Muslims worshiping in a Hindu temple; Muslims in a 'kavad' yatra (honoring Shiva); last image: devotees at the dargah of Khwaja Moinuddin Chishti in Ajmer.
Now, I do not know if the person in foreground is a Hindu or a Muslim, he could be either.
India has not attacked Iraq, had good relations with both Palestine and Israel, had good relations with Iran as well as Gulf countries where many Indians live for a living, has not invaded Afghanistan or Pakistan despite grave provocations, does not (after the fiasco of Tamil Tiger problem in Sri Lanka by the lamentable Indira Gandhi) seek to act as mediator in other people's problems. I do not there is any democracy on earth where both a party representing highly conservative religious Muslims or Hindus or Sikhs and a party representing hard core communists contest in a civil manner with both left liberal and right conservative parties of various hues. The current effort (led, unexpectedly, by the BJP for now) is to cash out this representative diversity in terms of effective government in nation, state, district and village level (each had its own election cycle). China had gone for governance first model, which while consistent with its basic historical trends, is running into difficulties in adding freedoms and accountability into the picture. India had gone for freedom and representation first and is beginning to add effective governance in the mix and, so far, quite successfully. Thus people are optimistic and it shows
Well, a few do and die in Iraq and Afghanistan. Government agencies know about them and keep a watch. If and when they return, they are arrested, then follows years of investigation. All that deters the candidates. ISI is trying its best but they have not been able to disturb the communal equilibrium. We have yet not used strong arm tactics in Kashmir like China does in Xinzang.
