Word: hindus
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...respected, had ordered that the mosque be left alone. The existence of the mosque, built by a nobleman of a Mughal Emperor in 1528 on the spot where the Hindu god Rama is said to have been born thousands of years earlier, was deemed an insult by many Hindus, egged on by politicians eager to convert fervent faith into political power...
...great majority of India's 700 million Hindus were repelled by the violence of the fanatics. But the Ayodhya riot ignited forces that lie just under the surface of the vast multicultural state. Indian democracy has survived by balancing the interests of many groups, particularly those of the Hindus and the Muslims, now 110 million strong, who stayed behind when India was partitioned in 1947. But militancy on one side breeds it on the other. In the wake of the Babri mosque's destruction, Syed Ahmed Bukhari, a Muslim religious leader, vowed to lead a mass march...
...said Jeffries' rant was "so egregious that the City University ought to take action or explain why it doesn't." Cuomo later backtracked and defended Jeffries' "freedom to abuse ((freedom))." New York Times columnist A.M. Rosenthal was not ambivalent. He placed Jeffries in the dreary international tribe of bigots -- Hindus paranoid about Muslims, white South Africans who proclaim black inferiority, Jew baiters everywhere. In the Washington Post, critic Jonathan Yardley wrote, "Talk such as Jeffries engaged in at Albany has nothing to do with 'ideas' -- it's bigotry, pure and simple...
Hedgewar argued that the only way to restore Hindu vigor was to stir a sense of martial nationalism in Hindus. The R.S.S., which has grown quickly in recent years to nearly 100,000 members, emphasizes fighting arts and militant Hindu pride, choosing as its heroes figures like Shivaji, a 17th century Hindu king who successfully fought the Muslim Mogul emperors...
...nation, a society and government centered on respect for Hinduism and in particular Rama. The party's emphasis on depriving minorities, especially Muslims, of special rights such as funding for religious schools and a separate civil code has also tapped a powerful vein of resentment among anxious middle-class Hindus, who feel their interests are being ignored by New Delhi. Indians have taken as well to the party's emphasis on civic virtue and piety. But some leaders are worried that in a polyglot society like theirs, such self-righteous credos can too easily degenerate into cultural intolerance. At B.J.P...