Politics
Although a majority of Shia Muslims, like other Muslims of India generally supporters of the Indian National Congress, Shia Muslims are better disposed towards the Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) than Sunnis.
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“Our democracy, our culture, our whole way of life is a spectacular triumph of the blah. Why not have a political convention without politics to nominate a leader who’s out in front of nobody?... Maybe our national mindlessness is the very thing that keeps us from turning into one of those smelly European countries full of pseudo-reds and crypto-fascists and greens who dress like forest elves.”
—P.J. (Patrick Jake)
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—Dorothy Allison (b. 1949)
“Politics begin where the masses are, not where there are thousands, but where there are millions, that is where serious politics begin.”
—Vladimir Ilyich Lenin (1870–1924)