Why do you think I brought it up here on the list for redressal? It is because I am confident that if neutral and objective people look at the issue, they will find that I am correct.
Another finding was made.
It is based on the presumption that others will see anything associated with communists as necessarily bad. If the reader can be made to associate the views of one Gujarati faction with the communists, then it will imply the conclusion that anything associated with that faction is also bad. This is a very dishonest way of debating.
Come on, I presented facts. I pointed out the lies. I gave links. And I made the point about Communists in India only to explain why the opposing view which I had proven to be factually inaccurate existed. It is a fact that Communists indulged in propaganda soon after the riots. Imagine calling the riots in Cincinnatti as a Govt sponsored "pogrom."
No problem if that's what it was. Something very similar to a pogrom did happen in Tusla, Oklahoma in 1921. See http://www.manningmarable.net/works/apr03a.html We should have an article on this by the way.
Pogroms (Which really only happened in Russia and what is now Belarus and Ukraine) were both spontaneous and government tolerated mass murder which gave the majority population a way of letting of steam, and are really quite comparable to the events in Gujarat. Communists do tend to be quite opportunistic and are constantly looking for issues and are often less than honorable in their exploitation of them, that said, give em a good issue and they'll fit you out with a new butthole. Of course, they exploit the outrage generated by Hindu attacks on minorities just as they exploited racial discrimination in America, but what is really involved is that there is a wrong and that the energy generated by that wrong is being used by someone. It does not mean that the wrong is not real.
Fred