Nepali CNN, nobody said anything about uprooting Hinduism. It is about according equal status to all religions, no matter how small, in the eye of the law or state! I don't call posting the same message in different similar threads "propaganda". If people want to keep creating different threads to discuss the same topic (when one would have sufficed) I tailor my message slightly for these threads. Do not worry, nothing will happen to Hinduism under "Secular Nepal". It will not get uprooted. If it does, then that probably means it has nothing to offer. So it might as well get crowded out by 'competition'. I, for one, think a distinctively Nepali kind of Hinduism will get much needed oxygen, since Hindu fundamentalism has been slowly choking it to death, so to speak! Gandhi was taken out by a Hindu fanatic - not because he practiced self-restraint or went vegetarian. Why was he taken out? No point for guessing correctly. You see the parallel between Gandhi and Mr. Narayan Pokhrel? Hindu fundamentalism is a bigger threat to Hinduism than secularism! See what I mean? And all this happened not under "Secularism" but under "Hindu Nepal". Nepali CNN, I am not here to provide facts. I'm not in a court. And besides, you are not a judge, and I don't have to be nice to you. Mr. Pokharel was allegedly taken out by Bharat Keshar Simha's henchmen. Why don't you look into it - you'll be all the better educated for it. You want facts? Why don't you call on your government to investigate this murder case! ---- Kalp you have a pretty dim opinion of Gandhi. Why do you call Gandhi, who galvanised Indians to kick out the British colonizers, a sucker - why you hate him so much dude? It's not like Gandhi slept naked with your sisters to test his self restraint - of course not! No point getting so riled up about my reference to Gandhi! Man you the way you refer to Gandhi as if Gandhi were an untouchable. You know what I mean? I can see right through your mask! --------------------- All I have heard from people arguing for "Hindu state" is that it will avert religious violence or rise of BJP and all that crap! "Hindu state" will not avert religious violence - and didn't certainly avert the murder of Mr. Naryan Pokhrel. Hindu fundamentalism has already taken roots in Nepal because the country's been a "Hindu state" for so long. Under Secularism, moderate and reform-minded Hindus will gain lots of grounds they have ceded to the Hindu fundamentalists, who are actually religious bigots and supremacists. I am afraid Kalpi, and Nepali CNN are playing right into the hands of the India-based fundamentali Hindu orgs and their stooges in Nepal. The protests in Birgunj were orchastrated by a few royalists who have since been exposed by the local papers!!!