Posted by: TM May 30, 2006
Poll:Secular state? Y or N? Not justified!
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This is such a Oxymoron kind of poll. We already know there are 85%+ (as per nepali statistics) are hindus, don't you think there will be majority votes by default? When the poll is conducted, of course, most of the 85% of the nepali people will vote for a Hindu state. The question is about whether it's a fair thing for every individual nepali to become a secular state. I don't suggest butchering a cow right from today itself. The kind of tolerance among the hindus, buddhists and others in the country is one of the most prominent examples of religious tolerance the rest of the world can learn from. We should preserve this achievement we have maintained for centuries. But when we as nepalis are considering for a constitutional amendment or an entire new constitution, we should separate the religion from the law, just like separation of Church and State in the US. Though majority of the Americans are christians, it has not been declared a Christian Nation. If we don't do that then people will have to continue to lie on the govenrment job application that they are hindus too so that they will not be discriminated against.
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