Occassionally on this blog a dispute erupts over the negatives of “fundamentalist Hinduism” (Hindutva). I think that comparing this movement to “fundamentalist Islam” (roughly speaking, the Salafi/Wahhabi International funded from Saudi Arabia) can give us a little perspective. In the 1970s Jeanne Kirkpatrick differentiated between a Totalitarian (Communist) and Authoritarian (Right-leaning despotic) regimes, and argued … Continue reading Metaphor for the new Age of Religious Wars