Thread by @Aakar__Patel

What is Hindu Rashtra?

States founded on religious principles have 2 paths. 1) Enforce piety. 2) Excluded minorities.

Pak constitution founded on 1). State pushed zakat, mandated direct debit from bank accounts in Ramzan. Excluded Shia. Sunnis didn’t want to pay either
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Many Sunnis declared themselves Shia to avoid zakat.
State pushed hard piety. Lashing for drinking, Friday holiday instead of Sunday. Didn’t work. Ehteram e Ramzan law bans eating, drinking dawn-dusk. Restaurants unhappy, went to court.
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Pak court declared interest to be Haram. Economy would collapse if implemented. Musharraf had to fix court. Zia corporal punishment, cutting off hands for theft. Pak judges trained in common law, Macaulay code, appalled. Too scared to implement.
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All piety-based stuff failed. State turned to 2) Exclusion of minorities. Non-Muslims cannot be PM, Prez by law. Bhutto apostatised Ahmedis. They call their prayer namaz. Cannot call their place mosque, cannot vote, persecuted. Shia harmed in Karachi. Hindus in Sindh.
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India Hindu Rashtra not enforcible from piety. Will mean applying Smriti. Most Hindus will reject caste bcos it will exclude them from power, learning. Nepal was Hindu Rashtra only bcos ruler was Kshatriya advised by Purohit as recc by Manu Smriti. Not possible in 2020.
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Violation of UDHR. World won’t allow either. So what can Hindutva do in Hindu Rashtra? Same as Pak. Screw over minorities. Discriminate, deny, find diff means of torture. That is all there is to Hindu Rashtra.
Petty, useless and with nothing positive for Hindus. Only hate.
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