Interesting

That is all I will say about this opinion piece by Francois Gautier - I like him in that he is an ardent defender of all things Indian and Hindu - I cringe sometimes at his writing, since he is very anti-American sometimes, and may be anti-West. I still have not made up my mind about him. Personally, I think that being pro-India, pro-Hindu and pro-America and the West are not [she was stupid enough to forget the not the first time around - Ed] mutually exclusive goals.

Francois Gautier on Marxism and the Saffron wave

Yet the Indian voter has always shown that he is smart and that he usually casts his ballot in a certain way because he wants to put across a message. What if Gujarat was the first sign that tolerant, peace-loving Hindus who for centuries have accepted other religions and ethnicities and allowed them to practice and prosper in peace (UNESCO recently released a report saying that out of 128 countries where the Jews lived up to 1948, in only one -- India -- were they not persecuted), are fed-up of being made fun off, sullied, harassed, killed, their temples sprayed with bullets and grenades, their train burnt, their Parliament attacked, their markets blown up, their women raped?

What if it was a warning to the Muslims of India that the majority community of this country will no more allow the burning of innocent children and women, for the only crime that they are Hindus? What, however reprehensible their acts was, if peace-loving Hindus have shown, for the first time, that they can retaliate in kind and that Islam doesn't have a copyright on hatred, bloodshed and mad violence? At a time when India's government is the laughing stock of the world -- as shown by the contempt that much smaller countries such as Malaysia, Portugal or Saudi Arabia have shown to India by refusing to extradite criminals -- the common Hindu is telling his government, his countrymen, whether they are Hindus, Christians or Muslims, and the world, that he has had it…