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**defenderfors** · 02-24-2011, 11:24 PM

I'm not a fan of 'feather in your cap' conversions where you tally up numbers and then win the game. I don't know if I'd say it's unethical. Some tactics surely are. But, all-in-all I don't know why people get their panties in a twist about it. That being said, if you're trying to convert people, you should probably be respectful and not piss off large groups of people in the area where you're living.

Also, the whole sugar in milk imagery is a romanticization of Indian inter-communal relations. Babri wasn't quite sugar.

Babri happened to those who didn't want anything to do with being the sugar. OTOH, you will never hear of stories of persecution among Indian Jews or Parsis or Jains or Sikhs (the Sikh pogrom in Delhi in the 1980s was a political reaction to Indira Gandhi's assassination by one of her Sikh bodyguards...many Hindus stood up to Congress Party goons and protected their Sikh neighbors) or Buddhists. The Muslims have had a history of attacking their Hindu hosts. So do Christians of all stripes. That's the difference that the article is trying to convey. I should note, though, that India is home to world's 3rd largest number of Muslims (yeah, hard to believe). And for the most part, people manage to live and let live and many Muslims (and Christians and other religious minorities) hold commanding stature in the mainstream of Indian society. Richest resident Indian is a Muslim, many sports and Bollywood stars are Muslims, etc...

02-24-2011, 11:24 PM	#5
defenderfors Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 463 Senior Member	I'm not a fan of 'feather in your cap' conversions where you tally up numbers and then win the game. I don't know if I'd say it's unethical. Some tactics surely are. But, all-in-all I don't know why people get their panties in a twist about it. That being said, if you're trying to convert people, you should probably be respectful and not piss off large groups of people in the area where you're living. Also, the whole sugar in milk imagery is a romanticization of Indian inter-communal relations. Babri wasn't quite sugar. Babri happened to those who didn't want anything to do with being the sugar. OTOH, you will never hear of stories of persecution among Indian Jews or Parsis or Jains or Sikhs (the Sikh pogrom in Delhi in the 1980s was a political reaction to Indira Gandhi's assassination by one of her Sikh bodyguards...many Hindus stood up to Congress Party goons and protected their Sikh neighbors) or Buddhists. The Muslims have had a history of attacking their Hindu hosts. So do Christians of all stripes. That's the difference that the article is trying to convey. I should note, though, that India is home to world's 3rd largest number of Muslims (yeah, hard to believe). And for the most part, people manage to live and let live and many Muslims (and Christians and other religious minorities) hold commanding stature in the mainstream of Indian society. Richest resident Indian is a Muslim, many sports and Bollywood stars are Muslims, etc...
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