RSS funding hate against non-Hindus- Hindustan Times

This article caught my eye by accident only because I usually do not RSS feed for VHP or RSS. When I found this article on the Internet, I was at complete loss for a moment as to how funds can flow from India to US when Indian government still has strict foreign exchange regulations. As I started reading the details of this article, I was further confused. We have constitutional guarantees for freedom of expression in the US. All American citizens are entitled to express their political and religious views without fear of oppression by the government. People have a right to promote their religion and the principles they believe in. I would like to urge the author of this article to read about debates we have in our country about gay rights, abortion, immigration, terrorism and so on... All sides of these debates feel passionately about their beliefs and life goes on. I think the author's attention is misplacd about religious hatred in America. In daily walks of life, we Americas do not recognize others by their religion. There are seldom discussions about religion with people you know or don't know unless you are meeting them at a religios gathering. People do not care what your religion is when you are in school or at work or you are watching sports or shopping. Government does not have the power to destroy any places of worship unless the matter was settled in the court. Now the big question that comes to my mind is - how can one class of people create hatred for the other?

Then I decided to do some research about India Development and Relief Fund (http://www.idrf.org/). I did not find any political or religious agenda on its web site. It seems to me that it is a NGO. If this organization is indeed a religious outfit promoting extremism or hatred, I am sure the UPA government of Dr. Manmohan Singh would have already banned it. Laluji would have lost his sleep over it. In my recent memory of Indian politics I have never seen so many secular leaders governing the country at one time.

Unlike India our American society is not polarized along the religion. People belonging to all religions are free to express their views. Within the boundaries of the law, all Americans are free to pursue what they like to do. As a society we are more concerned with terrorism. We do not have a state government in our country which can help organizations like LTTE. We do not look at the religion of the criminals. If a terrorist should get death penalty, his/her religion will not matter to us. When our children go to school, teachers and the government do not identify them by our religion. Every religion has extreme believers and they are entitled to express their opinions without fear. It applies to all religions, therefore, singling out Hindus is unjust to Indian Americans. Most of us love our religion (whatever it is) and respect others'. In the name of secularism, we Americans will not give in to Osama Bin Laden or Al Quaida or any other terrorist outfit like LTTE.

The fact of the matter is that there is more religious hatred in India than in America. The Indian society is facing the problem of division for political gains. The politicians spread hatred there to maintain the vote banks. No one ever cares to uplift the people and provide them essential services. Politicians claim that they are secular, yet they make policies based on religion.

In nutshell, the author of this article seems to claim that India's religious hatred is somehow being exported to America. For all practical reasons, we must note that if activities of any of the organizations listed in the article were illegal, these folks would be prosecuted. We don't have a system of law enforcement based on people's political clout, religion or ethnicity.