The Same Story Redux
from Seriously Sandeep by Sandeep
The US Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF), a statutory body created by the US Congress and funded by the US government, announced yesterday that its members will “travel to India for the first time in June 2009”.
Government officials, who objected to an USCIRF visit at this time and were overruled, suspect that politics, not diplomacy, is behind the unprecedented permission to allow the Commission into India.
And now, this. Doesn’t it remind you of our erstwhile conquerors and/or the snake that bit the frog? The Brits who were just traders graduated to mediators in domestic conflicts because our rulers invited them to mediate. Before we knew it, we became their slaves. Now, these traders suddenly realized their “inherent racial superiority” and began spinning “scientific” theories to the effect. And so it is with this outrageous move.
The US Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF), a statutory body created by the US Congress and funded by the US government, announced yesterday that its members will “travel to India for the first time in June 2009”.
Government officials, who objected to an USCIRF visit at this time and were overruled, suspect that politics, not diplomacy, is behind the unprecedented permission to allow the Commission into India.
And now, this. Doesn’t it remind you of our erstwhile conquerors and/or the snake that bit the frog? The Brits who were just traders graduated to mediators in domestic conflicts because our rulers invited them to mediate. Before we knew it, we became their slaves. Now, these traders suddenly realized their “inherent racial superiority” and began spinning “scientific” theories to the effect. And so it is with this outrageous move.
