Word: hindus
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...However, Harris Chowdhury, a key adviser to Prime Minister Zia, denies the charge that his government is lax in protecting the rights of Hindus and says Bangladesh's record in safeguarding religious minorities is superior to that of many of its neighbors. Dismissing critics who accuse his government of failing to curb lawlessness, he insists: "The law-and-order situation in this country is quite good...
...WHAT'S TINA GOT TO DO WITH IT? Filmmakers Ismail Merchant and James Ivory have set many of their films in India. But the duo's The Goddess, still in preproduction, has Hindus up in arms over Tina Turner's being cast in the title role as the goddess Shakti: the singer's sex appeal is "improper" for the divinity, according to one anti-Tina petition...
...success of the Congress Party resulted from people voting against the economic policies of the then government. Many Indians, however, are bent on portraying the victory as a defeat of Hindu nationalism. Just as Americans are being called enemies of Islam, the majority Hindus of India are said to be intolerant of the minority Muslims, despite much evidence to the contrary. Some in the Congress Party have been exploiting the Muslim vote by spreading the canard of Hindu intolerance. It may sound unbelievable, but apart from a small lunatic fringe, most Hindus raise their voices against discrimination toward Muslims. Rajendra...
...national debate. At different points in time, we choose different agendas. In the 1970s, it was corruption. In the 1980s and 1990s, Ayodhya; we utilized it to have a debate about what was genuine secularism and how there was a different civil law for Muslims [from the one for] Hindus. Now the focus is on economic development...
...Making the violence more toxic is the spread of a brand of intolerant Islamic fundamentalism in a country with a history of religious tolerance. Bangladesh's Hindus, who constitute about 10% of the population of the predominantly Muslim nation, say they are increasingly being intimidated by gangs of Islamic fundamentalists, who attack them in their homes, warn them to pack up and leave for India and, for good measure, extort ransom from them. "The condition of religious minorities has become terrible under the present government," says Subrata Chowdhury, a Dhaka-based Hindu human-rights lawyer. The brutal attack on well...