Posted by: Mr. Hyde May 13, 2009
Nepal: Forms and Origins of Discrimination
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People need to find the truth ultimately. History needs to be dug up not to incite hatred or wage war, but to learn lessons not to repeat the previous mistakes and continue to do what was done right in the past as we move into the future harmoniously as a nation.

I don't see any intention to incite retribution against the Brahmans and Chhetris by the Vaishyas, Sudras, the Non-Hindus here by the originator of the thread. All the places of worship within Nepali territory have always been open to respective followers no matter whether it was Panchayat-era, Constitutional Monarchy period or the current democracy era. Because there is freedom of religion now believers will be drawn to ones that provide better and practical path to salvation. Having said that no religion, just like anything else, is perfect but each religion can work on devising practical reforms so that the followers will stick to their birth or household religion and not seek mass conversion. The goodness of a human being can be judged by invidual personal quality not by the religion he or she follows. If there is no humanity in the words and deed, that individual will never find peace no matter what religion he or she follows or converts to. In a place like Nepal where religion seem to play such a pivotal role in the lives of the people the fate of the nation as a whole rests on a sustainably fair and progressive culture and religions.

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