A new report from India documents the storming of a Christian school by radical Hindus who demanded the cross emblem on students' uniforms be replaced with a Hindu om logo, and Hindu idols be installed in the facility.
Dozens of Hindus armed with flags and wooden stocks broke open the gate and charged into the principal's office, the reports said.
They reportedly were members of several radical Hindu factions, including the Rashtriya Swayam Sevaks and the Bajarag Dal.
Under the threat of "serious attacks" if their demands were not met, they insisted that the Christian cross emblem on student uniforms be replaced and that Hindu idols be placed in the building.
It would be easy to dismiss these people as extremists who are acting on their own. However, that would not explain away the tendency of the ostensibly secular state in India to pass laws which are designed to keep people from converting to other religions from Hinduism. Islam isn't the religion which is actively using violence to scare people away from looking at other religions. <sarcasm>Now, I know that the 700 Club and other Christianist organizations are still the epitome of all that is violent in 21st century</sarcasm>, but it's worth taking into consideration the next time you hear that Islam is uniquely prone to using violence as a systematic political tool to protect its turf and advance its interests.
See, this is why the Good Lord invented guns.
All kidding aside, the godless are evil. Why should anything they do surprise us?
Well, I warned 'em about the Hindus...
(paraphrasing George C. Scott in Patton) ;)
It's true that Muslims aren't the only ones prone to violence; it's just that Islam goes with violence like bacon goes with eggs.
Mmmm...bacon...