JOM, I figured you threw in the towel after your erroneous claim about Shrub flying Tomcats. What did happen to HIndu culture? Not much as far as I can see here:
"Hinduism has grown to become the world's third largest religion, after Christianity and Islam. It claims about 950 million followers -- about 14% of the world's population. 2 It is the dominant religion in India, Nepal, and among the Tamils in Sri Lanka.
Estimates of the number of Hindus in the U.S. vary greatly:
Our estimate, for mid-2010, is 1.5 million.
According to the "Yearbook of American & Canadian Churches," there were about 1.1 million Hindus in the U.S. during 1999. 3
The "American Religious Identification Survey" is believed to under-estimate the numbers of Hindus because of communications problems with non-English speaking households. 4 They estimated: 766,000 Hindus in 2001 and 1.2 million in 2008.
Statistics Canada estimates that there were about 157,015 Hindus in Canada during 2001."
http://www.religioustolerance.org/hinduism.htmWhile there may not have been an "aid flotilla" to Darfur, some folks are pitching in in other ways:
"Israel has supplied a rebel group involved in the Darfur conflict in Sudan with a considerable amount of weaponry, a new report says."
http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php? ... &aid=12156http://www.haaretz.com/print-edition/ne ... l-1.270182"Presently 7,000 African Union troops are in Darfur. Their logistical and technical back-up is provided by U.S. and NATO forces. In addition, thousands of UN personnel are overseeing refugee camps for hundreds of thousands dislocated by the drought, famine and war. All of these outside forces do more than hand out needed food. They are a source of instability. As capitalist would-be conquerors have done for hundreds of years, they consciously play one group off against another. U.S. imperialism is heavily involved in the entire region. Chad, which is directly west of Darfur, last year participated in a U.S.-organized international military exer cise that, according to the U.S. Defense Department, was the largest in Africa since World War II."
http://www.iacenter.org/Africa/dafur-sf06032006.htm