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Re:India suspends visas for Canadians as row escalates by deanCommie on Saturday September 23, 2023 @11:54PM (#37630007)
Re:India suspends visas for Canadians as row escalates by screye on Sunday September 24, 2023 @01:43AM (#37630439)
No, but framing them as a religious crusade is.

> almost fascist in the classical sense, ethnic absolutism

I would be very careful with using Wikipedia as a source for politically fraught & contemporary issues.

> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hindutva#:~:text=Hindutva%20id...

When the article moves from the the editorialized introduction to their stated goals, it doesn't sound as bad.

> Replace "pseudo-secularism" with "true secularism", the latter being the Western-style separation of religion and state. Decentralize and reform the Indian economy, end the socialist, centrally-planned, state-owned economic model. Address Christian and Islamic proselytization, religious conversion practices and the arithmetic of religious communities in India; insist that Muslims and Christians accept its doctrine of equality of religions.

That's western Libertarianism in a nutshell.