Quote from: Barrister on April 23, 2024, 03:58:42 PMSo I really tend to dislike the casual use of the word "lying".
In order to lie, you have to know what you're saying is false, and yet say it anyways. If you believe in something false and say it, you're not lying. An ardent flat earther is not lying when he/she says the world is flat - they are just badly mistaken.
So sure - in some alternate history, maybe the relationship between hindus and muslims would be completely different. But as they say - if grandma had wheels, she'd be a wagon.
The BJP views islam as the religion of foreign invaders. Whether they're right to or not doesn't really matter.
Quote from: Barrister on April 23, 2024, 02:16:40 PMQuote from: Admiral Yi on April 23, 2024, 01:19:39 PMThe King of Queens?
Fits as being a lower class family comedy. Hardly any cultural impact though IMHO.
Quote from: Admiral Yi on April 23, 2024, 03:52:52 PMI get that am I'm suggesting they're lying. That at least in part the reason they feel animosity towards Islam is because it was the religion of the conqueror. The religion of the tax collector, of the judge, of the punisher. that if, as in Indonesia, a couple Gulf merchants had shown up and told them about this great religion that helps you stop drinking so much, they would not feel the same animosity.
Quote from: Sheilbh on April 23, 2024, 02:49:52 PMQuoteNever got the obsession with sick time. Either you get one person perhaps slacking, or you chance getting more people in the office sick. Second outcome seems worse to me. And besides, if someone is slacking then chances they're doing more wrong than just calling in sick and are underperforming so you fire them... we'll, from a NA perspective I guess, don't know how easy it is to fire someone over yonder.Very difficult to fire people in most jobs. And that would be an immediate unfair dismissal claim at the tribunal.
Quote from: Barrister on April 23, 2024, 03:32:11 PMAgain, so I'm hardly a BJP apologist nor member.
As I understand it (and I can be wrong) though if you're a hindu nationalist you only care about India. Islam (and to a much lesser extent Christianity) were brought in by outside invaders. Sikhism, Buddhism, and Jainism are native Indian religions, not brought by outside invaders. What happened in other countries is immaterial.
(No idea what they think of Zoroastrians who arrived as refugees, but given the incredibly tiny numbers it hardly matters)
Oh - I came across the term they use - "Dharmic religions". Which basically just means what I said - religions that originate in India, and are hinuism, buddhism, sikhism and jainism. The fact that buddhism is probably more popular outside of India than inside of it again just doesn't factor in to it.
Edit: pretty sketchy stuff (Quora) suggests that Zoroastrians are actually on pretty good terms with the BJP due to mutual antipathy with muslims. Sigh.
Quote from: Jacob on April 23, 2024, 03:21:20 PMYi's point is that the set [foreign faiths] and [the faith of the invader] are not a perfect one to one. [Foreign faiths that came here peacefully] are still [foreign faiths], but not [the faith of the invader].
Yi gave examples of foreign faiths that arrived peacefully - Islam in Indonesia, Buddhism in China, Japan, and Korea.
Quote from: Barrister on April 23, 2024, 02:27:56 PMSo?
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