Saddam hanging will haunt Bush (Reaction in India)

[struggle4progress]

By Haroon Siddiqui
The Hamilton Spectator
HYDERABAD (Jan 4, 2007)

I am taken aback by the reaction in India to Saddam Hussein's hanging. The anger cuts across religious and political divides.

This secular nation of 1.2 billion -- the world's largest democracy and emerging economic powerhouse -- has as many Muslims as Muslim Pakistan, at about 145 million. But its majority is Hindu and it has significant pockets of Christians, Sikhs, Zoroastrians and others. Yet the condemnation has been near-universal.

More tellingly, there has been little or no echo here of the Iraqi sectarian divide, with the Shiites there celebrating Sunni Saddam's death ...

If India is a key barometer of the non-Western world, and it often is, Saddam's hanging will come to haunt George W. Bush ...

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[Benhurst]

1. Recommended #5

[Judi Lynn]

2. Really good article. Not unexpected, either! Thank you. n/t

[burythehatchet]

3. Good find.

As an Indian national I pray that the leadership there recognizes what happens when you first decide to do business with the Devil.

[struggle4progress]

4. "When you sup with the devil, bring a very long spoon"