You are quite wrong.

The foundation of Isreali Law (apart of course from statutes laid down by parliament the Knesset) is Ottoman very very Ottoman.

In fact it represents a continutaion of the millet system a polity of communalised or pillarised religious communities seen as quasi ethnicities each to be governed by their own laws, councils and leaders.

Now of course this kind of multiculturalism as diversity governed through unequal laws and their application through manipulatedly enfranchised communal entities was very much liked by the British Empire indeed it is a consitutionalisation of divide and rule.

The British introduced the all India Muslim Personal Law Act in the 1930’s as a sop to the activist Muslim League.

It contributed quite a bit to partition, to the idea that there could not be one country for Muslims and Hindus.

Because of this at independence it was left alone for fear of further disharmony.

It has meant that there is not and probably never can be a unified civil Law in India, a pretty disastrous outcome.

If you want to see the harm this has caused and the impact it has had on all Indians including Hindus then google ‘Shah Bano’

I look forward to the HP article on “India’s Religious Fascists”.

So, finally we get to the core – ths poster revels in ignorance, seeing India as morally superior to Israel.

Except that Israel also has a set of basic laws functioning as a constitution.

With Israeli law being substantially similar to Indian law – both based on English common law as introduced by colonial administration, both delegating much of personal status to individual communities.

Except that Israel hasn’t mudered Muslims en masse as did India at Partition, or more recently in the Gujarat riots.

The double standards here, and pure hypocrisy, are incredible.

your brand of selfpitying rationalising over historical wrongs

I’m not Jewish. What does it say about you that you assumed me so?

have gone on to murder muslims and christian converts in India

So now Jews in Israel are responsible for Hindu crimes in India?

To my knowledge, Jews have never placed Christians in ovens, nor have any plans to do so.

Once again we have a poster here equating a kashrut cert with mass murder. I wonder what we call a double-standard imputing to Jews the crimes of others?

I personally detest christian evangelism and muslim theocracy and would love to see these two religions disappear first before all the others. But if you value freedom of conscience and the right to practise your religion for your group, you must allow it for everyone else. Some hindu extremists hate christians and muslims too, and with exactly your brand of selfpitying rationalising over historical wrongs, have gone on to murder muslims and christian converts in India. They are absolutely wrong.

India preserved minority rights at Independence by keeping personal civil laws for Muslims, sikhs and christians (which some consider a mistake in retrospect) but arbitrarily abolished hindu personal law (a very good move imo). Apart from muslims, the rest generally get by pretty well with secular civil law. The Indian constitution was written by the brilliant Dr Ambedkar, a dalit and I’d be very surprised if it contained anything like the kind of nasty religious discrimination Stone so fervently favours for Israel.