<> AHMADABAD, India, March 19 -- Hindu nationalists set fire to a PepsiCo warehouse in western India on Saturday to protest the U.S. denial of a visa to a state official because of his role in religious riots in 2002.
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh asked the U.S. government to urgently reconsider its decision. The State Department said Friday that it had denied a diplomatic visa to the Hindu nationalist chief minister of Gujarat state, Narendra Modi, and revoked his existing tourist/business visa under the U.S. Immigration and Nationality Act. That act bars people responsible for violations of religious freedom from getting a visa.
Now can't we imagine say India refusing to let Rice enter her country because she was involved in creating the mass riots in the middle east by her forcefully calling for the pre-emptive strike against Iraq. Or better, not allowing Baker to visit India since he was the architect of the riots that stopped the hand recounting in Florida that allowed the decision of the Supreme Court to appoint rather than elect Bush in 2000. Maybe it is like not allowing any of the folks in Florida who are protesting the removal of a food tube for some comatose chick. Give me a break people.
One word on Florida, find me one single believer who can point out a passage to me in their bible that says specifically that a person must keep a feeding tube in place in another person to maintain the non-functioning life of that person. Oh you can't?? why??? oooohhh you have to "interpret" passages you swear you are taking literally---you hypocritical bastards.
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh asked the U.S. government to urgently reconsider its decision.
Now can't we imagine say India refusing to let Rice enter her country because she was involved in creating the mass riots in the middle east by her forcefully calling for the pre-emptive strike against Iraq. Or better, not allowing Baker to visit India since he was the architect of the riots that stopped the hand recounting in Florida that allowed the decision of the Supreme Court to appoint rather than elect Bush in 2000. Maybe it is like not allowing any of the folks in Florida who are protesting the removal of a food tube for some comatose chick. Give me a break people.
One word on Florida, find me one single believer who can point out a passage to me in their bible that says specifically that a person must keep a feeding tube in place in another person to maintain the non-functioning life of that person. Oh you can't?? why??? oooohhh you have to "interpret" passages you swear you are taking literally---you hypocritical bastards.
