Comments on: 1949: Nathuram Godse, Gandhi’s assassin http://www.executedtoday.com/2007/11/15/1949-nathuram-godse/ Sun, 22 Nov 2009 04:36:19 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 By: ExecutedToday.com » Themed Set: Unruly Britannia http://www.executedtoday.com/2007/11/15/1949-nathuram-godse/#comment-11435 ExecutedToday.com » Themed Set: Unruly Britannia Wed, 16 Sep 2009 01:02:14 +0000 http://www.executedtoday.com/2007/11/15/1949-nathuram-godse/#comment-11435 [...] February 12th, 2008 Headsman The United Kingdom came out on the winning side of World War II, but its hold on its globe-spanning territorial dominions was irrevocably weakened. As its own imperial offspring, the United States, took up the hegemon’s place, British colonies started breaking free — and those social and political sunderings frequently brought violence. [...] [...] February 12th, 2008 Headsman The United Kingdom came out on the winning side of World War II, but its hold on its globe-spanning territorial dominions was irrevocably weakened. As its own imperial offspring, the United States, took up the hegemon’s place, British colonies started breaking free — and those social and political sunderings frequently brought violence. [...]

]]> By: ExecutedToday.com » 1909: Madanlal Dhingra, Indian revolutionary http://www.executedtoday.com/2007/11/15/1949-nathuram-godse/#comment-10043 ExecutedToday.com » 1909: Madanlal Dhingra, Indian revolutionary Mon, 17 Aug 2009 05:56:34 +0000 http://www.executedtoday.com/2007/11/15/1949-nathuram-godse/#comment-10043 [...] Gandhi was not down with Dhingra — Gandhi’s own differences with Hindu extremists would eventually cost him his life — and plenty of Indian liberal types shared his [...] [...] Gandhi was not down with Dhingra — Gandhi’s own differences with Hindu extremists would eventually cost him his life — and plenty of Indian liberal types shared his [...]

]]> By: ExecutedToday.com » 2000: Dmitry Chikunov, secretly http://www.executedtoday.com/2007/11/15/1949-nathuram-godse/#comment-6589 ExecutedToday.com » 2000: Dmitry Chikunov, secretly Fri, 10 Jul 2009 05:34:44 +0000 http://www.executedtoday.com/2007/11/15/1949-nathuram-godse/#comment-6589 [...] Gandhi said it — “First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you [...] [...] Gandhi said it — “First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you [...]

]]> By: Dr. Thinus Coetzee http://www.executedtoday.com/2007/11/15/1949-nathuram-godse/#comment-48 Dr. Thinus Coetzee Sat, 17 Nov 2007 08:46:45 +0000 http://www.executedtoday.com/2007/11/15/1949-nathuram-godse/#comment-48 Tolerance implies no lack of commitment to one's own beliefs. Rather it condemns the oppression or persecution of others. - JFK Tolerance implies no lack of commitment to one’s own beliefs. Rather it condemns the oppression or persecution of others. - JFK

]]> By: Headsman http://www.executedtoday.com/2007/11/15/1949-nathuram-godse/#comment-39 Headsman Fri, 16 Nov 2007 05:48:35 +0000 http://www.executedtoday.com/2007/11/15/1949-nathuram-godse/#comment-39 Putative saints merit ambivalence by definition. Putative saints merit ambivalence by definition.

]]> By: jeff http://www.executedtoday.com/2007/11/15/1949-nathuram-godse/#comment-32 jeff Thu, 15 Nov 2007 22:32:30 +0000 http://www.executedtoday.com/2007/11/15/1949-nathuram-godse/#comment-32 you seem . . . ambivalent about Gandhi. but perhaps this is just your even-handedness regarding the assassin. odd, isn't it, that we would find ourselves considering the logic of the assassin so closely? or the failings of gandhi? and wouldn't it be ironic if we thought gandhi's greatest failing were his insistence on toleration? i don't. but in these times, when so many "liberals" would like to simply exclude those ideologically opposed to liberal democracy from participating in it, well, what we are prepared to tolerate in the name of toleration seems to have become a central point of contention. you seem . . . ambivalent about Gandhi. but perhaps this is just your even-handedness regarding the assassin. odd, isn’t it, that we would find ourselves considering the logic of the assassin so closely? or the failings of gandhi?

and wouldn’t it be ironic if we thought gandhi’s greatest failing were his insistence on toleration?

i don’t. but in these times, when so many “liberals” would like to simply exclude those ideologically opposed to liberal democracy from participating in it, well, what we are prepared to tolerate in the name of toleration seems to have become a central point of contention.

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