Monday, November 30, 2015

Will Ms Gandhi speak up against intolerance in the US?

If any Martian visited earth he would think that India is the most intolerant country in the world where 'Wahabi Hindus' are going around killing everyone. A fierce debate is raging in the parliament on rising intolerance in the country with every party blaming BJP for being Hindu. And where is the President of the Congress, Ms Sonia Gandhi, the party which seeks to be the torch bearer for tolerance? She is visiting the US, that bastion of tolerance, which has used nuclear weapons, napalm, dioxin, white phosphorus, depleted uranium, water-boarding, Abu Ghraib, Guantanamo, renditions and is presently bombing in Iraq and Syria and using drones as a video game to blow up people, for fun. The Congress says that Ms Gandhi is visiting the US for medical check up. What is this mysterious illness that cannot be checked up in India but only in the US, does not seem to require any treatment, and does not seem to progress? If it is so rare should it not be published so that we can learn about the condition, how to diagnose it and what advice to give our patients? It is gross intolerance not to let us ordinary Indians benefit from her experience of this esoteric condition. So what about the US? There was an attack on a Planned Parenthood clinic in Colorado, which carries out abortions as part of women's healthcare program. This is because of a video which claimed that Planned Parenthood was selling fetal parts for research, which was investigated but found to be false. This has not stopped presidential candidate, Carly Fiorina from repeating the falsehood, even after the shooting. Another candidate, Jeb Bush, Brother of George W and son of George HW Bush, would not have any qualms about shooting a baby Hitler, if he could go back in time. " Hell yeah, I would. You gotta step up man," he said. He would kill a baby without trying to reach out to him or trying to educate him on the dangers of war. Naturally the question arose: wouldn't it be kinder to abort Hitler before his birth. To which another candidate, Ben Carson said that he would not support abortion. Carson is deeply religious. The front runner, Donald Trump has some interesting comments regarding reactions of Muslims after 9/11. He blamed the media for not producing videos to prove his claims. Trump supports identity cards for Muslims and Carson thinks that Syrian refugees are " rabid dogs ". Meanwhile unarmed black men are being regularly executed by US police. A policeman who shot a black teenager 16 times, including in the back, is out on bail. An Indian grandfather was left paralysed after being slammed on the ground by a police baboon in the US even after he kept saying that he does not understand English. The baboon walked free when the jury accepted the defense that not knowing English is a crime. Does that mean that Americans are fair game in countries that do not speak English? We hope that Ms Gandhi takes up intolerance with the US government while she is there.

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