about thirty activists of the Hindu Right's
political formation, the BJP, stood before the US
Embassy outraged with this news. "We are not cats,"
said one man, "we are lions."
And lions don't lie with the lamb, or with the
goat.
...
... In the 1930s, the Hindu Right was ecstatic about
the advent of Hitler, and one of its founders,
V. D. Savarkar was feted in the Nazi press for his
enthusiasm at the Blitzkrieg... Another important
Hindu Right figure, M. S. Golwalkar, reflected on
the Holocaust, and concluded: "Race pride at its
highest has been manifested here. Germany has shown
how wellnigh impossible it is for Races and
cultures, having differences going to the root, to
be assimilated into one united whole, a good lesson
for us in Hindustan to learn and profit by."
Indeed, this philosophy remains at the heart of the
Hindu Right's ideology, what is known as Hindutva.
But the alliance with Israel is not so strange after
all, because at the ideological level, Hindutva is
much like Zionism, for both extol the importance
of the Race-State, and both cast aspersions at
the presence of a Muslim minority.
...
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