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Dr. Swami’s DNA piece is brief, we need more insight into Indian (sub-continent) history, the inner working of human psychology and Hindu traditions to understand his policy prescriptions. Whether we agree or disagree is our own democratic right, that is always there. Who destroyed the twin towers on 9-11-2001? We know who. Did we stand any chance? Did we have any methods and tools at our disposal to decipher the minds of these “terrorists”? No. We failed to extrapolate the meaning of the incident which we have conveniently forgotten – March, 2001. What is March, 2001? Well, that was when the Taliban destroyed the Bamiyan Buddhas. Who built those Buddhas? The ancestors of those very people who destroyed them! Why did these ignorant descendants destroy the wonderful work of art and enterprise of their own ancestors? Reasons are many, one of them is that they have now disowned their ancestry and consider everthing about their pre-Islamic history as worthy of destruction. This is also what the Arabians did. Can you find anything of pre-Islamic era in Saudi Arabia? No. They have destroyed everything. And they are proud about it! Do we know anything about pre-Christian Europe? About their “pagan” past? No. They have destroyed it after labelling it as bad and not worthy of memory or preservation or even recollection. This is BIG difference between East and West. Please note that Middle East passes for “East”, not so, by East I mean the Indian sub-continent, China, and other Asian nations. Here we value our ancestry. The ancestry question may not be so much valid in say Western Europe, the Americas or the Middle East today, because there is no survior from the complete conversion/butchering spree. But India being more resilient withstood the onslaught of both Islamic as well as Christian invaders and the native tradition is still alive and flourishing. Now, here, the problem of ancestry is important. Here we have neighbors (some, not all though) who disown and disrespect their ancestry in whose image I stand now!! Western audience should understand the problem now?! It is quite fine if somebody wants to be a Muslim or Christian, but he should not disrespect or disown his ancestry, else in due course of time he would tranform into the Taliban. The consequences of this kind of radicalization in a society like India where both the Native and the newer semetic cultures rub shoulders, they MUST have mutual respect and agree on a certain social common denominator. Commonality is a must for survival. Condemnation will result in discord, enmity and finally violence. We understand this, you Westerns dont because you dont have the context to understand this.