Awful!

The INS will be putting in too much work and effort with extremely little to show for it, if they really include Indian and Chinese men in the registrants - we make up a huge chunk of immigrants, but we are not related terrorism in any way. How much sense does it make for INS to spend hours questioning my husband, who is from India and a Hindu. What sense would it make for INS to question the Chinese? How many Chinese hijackers were there? I will tell you - none! This is going to result in nothing but a PR disaster for INS and make it a little hard for people like me to defend the policies of national security.

I'm next
(link via Suman Palit)

Update: This is in response to PG's comment - It was getting too long, so I am posting it here -
"So, Hindus terrorize missionaries - If you dig deep enough, you will find that most of the clashes were results of tensions between the tribals that the missionaries were trying to convert and the missionaries.

As for the minister who is being asked to leave, he was in violation of his visa status, since he was not permitted to do any conversions while under his particular visa status. That doesn't strike as terrorism to me.

As for what happens within India, issues are a lot more complex than, he is a Hindu, he beat up a Muslim/Christian/who ever, ergo Hindus are terrorizing others. Fact is, it happens within India. How many Indian suicide-bombers are blowing up Pakistanis in ice cream parlors? It is easy to mouth platitudes about a country as huge and as diverse and as complicated as India. It is hard to back them up.

I am not saying Hindus have not committed crimes or that they are completely innocent in everything. I am saying that 80% of the terrorists in India are not Hindu, while 80% of the population is.

It is also interesting to note that the persecution.org website notes all the BJP's sub-orgs as extremist, but makes no mention of the Muslim terrorists - why? Where is the mention of Godhra where Muslims burned Hindu women and children alive? Another issue that the web site argues is for reservations for non-Hindu lower caste people - come again, how can the people be lower caste, if they have already converted into a caste-less religion? Why should they be treated any different from other people belonging to the same religion? If I wanted to throw around biased web sites as objective evidence, there are plenty of http://www.hvk.org would be a good one. Let's just discuss facts here, not one web site's agenda.