RE: Financial Times. February 20, 2003.
Blood and money, By Edward Luce and Demetri Sevastopulo

Dear Editor,

The RSS has been at the forefront of fighting for Hindu rights and true secularism because India is not truly secular. For example, Muslim and Christian educational, health, and religious trusts operate without government interference, while similar Hindu institutions are government managed. Muslims have a separate personal law allowing them to marry four wives while the rest of the nation follows a secular personal law. All Indian governments, including the current BJP-led coalition, have funded Islamic madrassas and have subsidized the Haj pilgrimage, but do not fund similar trips for India's other religions.

RSS has played a major role in calming the anger of the majority of the population to Pakistan-sponsored terrorism. This restraint was successful over the past 2 years after Islamic terrorist attacks on the Jammu and Kashmir state assembly, India's parliament, and the famous Akshardham temple in Gujarat - all of which were not followed by riots. India's traditionally marxist aligned journalists and academics have avoided mentioning this or debating the real issues, and instead have sought to create fear among India's Muslims and people in the west of Hindu fascism.

The sheer barbarity of the terrorist burning to death of 57 Hindus train passengers in Godhra, Gujarat while over 1,000 Muslim militants watched led to riots that unfortunately neither the Sangh Parivar nor the government could control. The subsequent exploitation of this by marxists like Biju Mathews and their success in promoting their anti-Hindu agenda in respected papers such as the Financial Times is equally quite shocking.

Sincerely,