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Germany shocked the world by her purging the country of the Semitic races—the
Jews. Race pride at its highest has been manifested here. Germany has also shown
how well-nigh impossible it is for races and cultures, having differences going to

the root, to be assimilated into one united whole—a good lesson for us in
Hindusthan (i.e., the land of Hindus) to learn and profit by. 73
Golwarkar’s advice to radical Hindu nationalists is as follows:
This is the lesson the «Guruji» wants Sangh volunteers to learn: «From this
standpoint sanctioned by the experience of shrewd old nations, the non-Hindu

peoples in Hindusthan must either adopt the Hindu culture and language, must
learn to respect and hold in reverence the Hindu religion, must entertain no idea
but the glorification of the Hindu race and culture, i.e., they must not only give
up their attitude of intolerance and ungratefulness towards this land and its age-
old traditions, but must also cultivate the positive attitude of love and devotion in-
stead; in one word, they must cease to be foreigners or may stay in the country
wholly subordinated to the Hindu nation claiming nothing, deserving no privi-
leges, far less any preferential treatment, not even citizen’s rights.» 74
It must be stated here that the goal of “making society uniform at
any costs”, desired by the Nazis as well as Hindu fascists, is contrary to
Islam moral values. The Hindu fascists sought to force the people to
choose between adopting a Hindu identity and ideology or to live as

slaves. The Nazis applied the same despotism, albeit in an even more
horrific fashion on non- German minorities. According to Islam different
races and religious denominations can coexist peacefully within one na-
tion. They all are treated fairly and with affection. Allah reveals in the
Qur’an that people have been created as different races so they can get
“to know each other”. (Surat al-Hujurat: 13) Therefore, in a society ruled
by the morality of Islam, no one will be discriminated because of his eth-

nicity. Affection and understanding towards members of different reli-
gions is ordained in the Qur’an: “There is no compulsion where reli-

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