Indian politician calls for Hindu suicide bombers to target Muslims

[Ian David]

THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Thursday, June 19th 2008, 6:55 AM

MUMBAI, India - A radical right-wing Indian politician called on Hindus to form suicide bomber squads and attack Muslim neighborhoods — a threat promptly condemned by political friends and foes alike.

Bal Thackeray, a Hindu extremist linked to past waves of mob violence in the western state of Maharashtra, has long advocated attacks against Muslims. He said suicide bombers, along with bombs planted in Muslim neighborhoods, were needed "to protect the nation and all Hindus."

"Islamic terrorism is on the rise. To combat this, Hindu terrorism must be created of similar strength," Thackeray wrote in an editorial published Wednesday in Saamna, the newspaper of his Shiv Sena party. The editorial was unsigned, but his party said Thackerary wrote it.

"Hindu suicide squads must be built," he wrote. "Only then will Hindus survive."

More:
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/us_world/2008/06/19/2008-06-19_indian_politician_calls_for_hindu_suicid.html

[chelsea0011]

1. Kind of like Bill O'Lielly asking terrorists to attack San Fran and blow up the Coit Tower

[hobbit709]

2. Nutjobs are all the same-doesn't matter what the cause.

The world would be a whole lot better of without the fanatics of any stripe.

[acmavm]

3. Let him go first

[no_hypocrisy]

4. Gandhi would not have approved.

Shows you that right-wing fundamentalist religious whack-jobs are not restricted to this country.

[ashling]

5. I was going to say the same thing about Ghandi

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

8. Understatement of the year.

He'd have performed a triple back somersault, turned blue with yellow polkadots, and grown orange hair before verbally eviscerating this neanderthal.

[Occam Bandage]

6. Well, there's a reasonable response to a problem.

[struggle4progress]

7. A rich Hitler-admiring hate-monger who thinks not enough other folk are dead yet