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Thursday, July 28, 2011

That's a spin

According to this article in Rediff, Breivik was a Christian fundamentalist who wrote in his 1500 page manifesto that he was inspired by the Knights Templar, a 12th century armed Christian movement with a history of battles against the Muslims to save Europe. This should not be confused with the Hindutva ideology, writes an RSS member. RSS, for the uninitiated, is the armed Hindu movement with a history of battles against the Muslims to save India. Clearly, they are as different as day and night.

In related news, crows are white and milk is black.
By the way,
"killing innocents is reprehensible in strongest possible words. But the attempts to link it to Hindutva movement are also equally reprehensible"
He could have removed the word "equally" and still would have been an enormous douchebag.

And just to prove that Hindutva is not ideologically similar to the Norwegian, the first commenter, a Vishnu Sharma helpfully writes, Brevik's anger is understanable but his actions were premature.

Night and day, I say. Completely different.

Well! That's a spin that would bamboozle even Sachin.

Update: The author of the article led me to believe that sensationalist newspapers were trying to link Hindutva with Breivik based on passing references to the state of India. This is what Breivik actually wrote in his manifesto about the Hindutva movement

It is essential that the European and Indian resistance movements learn from each other and cooperate as much as possible. Our goals are more or less identical.

The PCCTS, Knights Templar support the Sanatana Dharma movements and Indian nationalists in general.

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