Thread by @Bot_Gopal

Why are so many Indians supporting Israel?
Here's what Balagopal wrote in 2001 about Indians supporting United States' war on terror:

"For many in India, there is an even less defensible reason for wanting to egg the US on: the
muslims should be taught a lesson."

"It is even being said by influential columnists that there is Islamic terrorism in the world because Islam is terror, and the faster the world realises this the better. One does not have to quote from the Quran to answer this."

"One does not have to argue abstractly that religion by itself does not make any body violent. It is a fact of history that organized violence to subserve their ends, noble as well as ignoble, has been perpetrated by armed groups of all communities."

"Hitler’s SS consisted of Christians of mainly protestant
persuasion. The fearsome LTTE cadre are Hindus. Latin American communist or ethnic guerrillas belong mostly to catholic Christian communities. Mao’s red army cadre came from confucian-buddhist communities."

"No community has a monopoly of violence. And yet, the image of violent Islam is so strongly rooted in the modern Hindu psyche, more particularly the minds of India’s current rulers, that we are unable to look
critically at the world-destructive rhetoric of the US. "

"The danger is that this blindness may well
lead the country into a position that is morally indefensible and physically dangerous."

- 'September 11 and After', K Balagopal, The Indian Express (2001)