Opinion of the Bharatiya Janata Party

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Disgusting, f**king filth and utter trash, as are all their voters. Basically on the level of Le Pen supporters or Party for Freedom or Golden Dawn. Horrible Party.

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I just basically put their voters in the same category as Golden Dawn voters.

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I have read books recently as noted thoughnot on Indian politics. But I do know the BJP are a nasty bunch who love to stir up sectarian hatred and riots. If I missed sometging redeeming about them please advise.

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Well in the dedicated following thread you'll see people who are more familiar with Indian politics who obviously aren't thrilled with them...and here you have Xahar.

Also comparing a party to the Republicans is not going to make me more fond of them.

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Well in the dedicated following thread you'll see people who are more familiar with Indian politics who obviously aren't thrilled with them...and here you have Xahar.

Also comparing a party to the Republicans is not going to make me more fond of them.

None of them think all BJP voters are filth or that the BJP is Golden Dawn. I know your capacity for logical thinking is very limited so I won't bother explaining that I don't expect you to be fond of the BJP but recognize that unless you think all GOP voters are total scum Nazis you probably shouldn't think that of the BJP either.

Well if we're going to use Republicans as the standard for that then it's not necessarily all but well over 90%.

Although I'd expect most Republicans wouldn't fond of the BJP because the BJP hates Christians (also one of the reasons why I'm not, hey guess I agree with Republicans on something.) Hell the BJP even supports BANNING converting to Christianity.

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While it might be more of a state level thing, the BJP has proposed and passed laws in some states to make it illegal to convert to Christianity (and other religions too granted but it's obvious who it's targeted at.)

And the BJP and its allies threw a fit over the possibility of Sonia Gandhi being PM, and clearly not just because she was from the other party.

Yeah, that has to be it! Goddamn, is India a horrible place or what?

Slumdog Millionaire is actually depressingly pretty accurate from what I've been told.

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Black people CAN'T stop being black though (I suppose there's Michael Jackson style skin bleaching but even that doesn't make them genetically not black.) The analogy here would actually be more akin to attacking some individual black person because they want to completely renounce and leave behind black culture and got involve in say my scene (yeah I know how BRTD-centric the example is and ridiculously narrow, but it fits as it's an almost exclusively white subculture) and have people say "no no you can't do that! It's wrong! It goes against your culture!" Except in this case it's the law. And here's a great example of how messed up and oppressive the law can be if set up this way: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lina_Joy

I'm aware Hindus don't proselytize. But that's not really too important, going on those grounds to argue that thus conversion from Hinduism is also wrong is basically stating someone born into some identity is locked into that for life and there's nothing they can ever do to leave that, I should point out most of the earliest Christian converts in India were of the lowest castes...and hey what I said above actually sounds like the caste system itself, and that's simply such a massive affront to freedom I can't tolerate it under any circumstances or in any culture. Now I know some people might say something like "It's one thing if some individual person opts to convert out of their own entire free will and choice but that doesn't excuse the type of aggressive proselytization some of these missionaries do." That is a valid distinction to make. However the BJP for the most part does not.

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http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_converts_to_Hinduism_from_Islam

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_converts_to_Islam_from_Hinduism