Fundamentalist Hindutva

Sounds like an irony to me. Hindutva and fundamentalism, doesn't seem right. From what I've experienced all through my life - Hinduism is an epitome of love and harmony. It's more a 'faith following' than a religion. The crux of Vedas, Upanishads and the Gita reveal nothing but love. Yet, time and again - fundamentalism finds it's way into the religion. I fail to understand, what drives these fundamentalists a.k.a 'soldiers of the religion' who wear saffron robes and conduct such heinous activities that make me cringe. I mean, do these guys even know the significance of the saffron color ? The recent incident at a Mangalore pub Amnesia is a testimony of this fundamentalism. What made these guys attack young innocent women at this pub and molest them, that too in the pretext of protecting Hindutva?

Adi Shankaracharya trekked all over the country in the 8th century, unified Hindus and established the core Hindutva principles, not knowing that his followers some day will resort to such acts of violence. Had he known, perhaps he wouldn't have gone that far and for all we know Hinduism as a religion wouldn't have existed.The Amnesia incident is not he first depiction of Hindu fundamentalist behavior. Enough has been said and written about the various 'Hindu-Muslim' riots and killings. However, all those incidents were acts of revenge or jealousy. What motive did the attackers have against the women at Amnesia? In a country filled with degraded morale and absolute lack of respect for women and children, such incidents do more harm than just generating publicity (assuming that was the motive). To top it all, the so called 'leader' of this activist gang 'Sri Rama sene' (what an ironical name btw) gives extremely foolish, immature and ludicrous statements to the press, justifying the attack.

Is hinduism being Talibanized or what ?