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[2 Apr 2010 | 24 Comments | 991 views]
Petro Dollars, Wahhabism and India’s waning liberal ethos

…Or Part II of Should foreign funding for religious institutions be banned?
In my earlier post on the subject of foreign funding for religious institutions in India, I posited that these funds and proselytization is affecting communities and slowly turning the liberal, tolerant and welcoming ethos of India into a rigid, intolerant culture.
In this post, I will examine the influx of Saudi petro-dollars in India and its influence on propagation of a particularly …