Are You Kidding Me?

[Boandlgrama]

We have seen in the 90's what can happen if the 80% piss off one of the 5% minorities. Be it Sikh or muslims.
Temples on fire, mosques on fire, hundreds dead.

[Cadillac]

Sure, but most of the radical muslims in India come from Pakistan.

[Creeping_Death]

If the middle east was threatening to nuke countries if the world doesn't bow to their demands, I don't think 5% of any nation is going to decide what that nation's government will do. If anything, they will be treated as a threat and jailed or worse.

India isn't America, and the Indians are Hindu, not Christian. They are not Europeans either. The cultures are totally different. In my general observations [which admitedly, are limited on this matter as far as personal experience] it seems Indians are far less likely to tolerate the things that Americans or Europeans might.

If you point to the riots and religious strife within India, sure, it is there. But I garantuee you that India would go to war with Pakistan regardless of what some minority group may think, or do. So, if this is true, then what would be to stop India from taking on an even greater threat to their nation [in the worst-case-scenerio talked about previously]?

You know, here is an interesting thought. During the first few months of the USA's invasion of Afghanistan [in late 2001], tensions were rising on the Pakistan/India border, India and Pakistan almost went to war. In fact, it is now being said by US diplomats who were negotiating between the two, that this came very close to being a nuclear confrontation, closer than anyone may wish to think about. Anyways, it was estimated that had an exchange of nukes between India and Pakistan actually occured, then Pakistan would be gone, a few Indian cities would be hit and destroyed, but the majority of Indian territory would be intact [IE: India would survive, Pakistan clearly would not], however, China was estimated as to almost certainly becoming involved, possibly even attempting a takeover of a temporarily weakened India. Not to mention, the American forces at the time be centered in Afghanistan and surrounding countries. For about four or five months during this time in history, the world was probably closer to a real nuclear war than at any other time.

Most "inside" US people point to this crisis as the most dangerous. The 1970's Israeli-Arab war was the #1, but it is now #2. This is when a Soviet nuclear weapon was put on a Soviet ship and was sent to Egypt, USA caught wind of it before it got to Egypt, and Nixon threatened that if that nuke weapon reached Egypt, the USA would retaliate with a nuclear attack. The Soviet ship turned around back to the Soviet Union. It wasn't a very publisized crisis as the 1960's Cuban Missile Crisis, but US officials say the 1970's crisis was actually more threatening because Egypt would have certainly used the bomb against Israel once in their possession. I am willing to bet that in the 1960's crisis, the Soviets were merely using Castro to get their missiles up anbd running, as a tool for barter against USA...I'm not so convinced that the Soviets would have actually nuked the USA from Cuba, not right off anyways...perhaps in a later confrontation [which was the big deal in the first place, couldn't allow the Soviets such an upper hand], but it wasn't an immiate threat like the 1970's. Anyways, of the three known major nuclear war threat crisis, the 2001 was the closest to actually happening. Which is kinda scary considering that all the players involved in the 2001 crisis are still very much alive.

We have gone far off the road and into the forest on the "topic", but...

-CD