Western liberals ensure that nonwesterners are colonized, deculturated, and deracinated and not able to mount effective challenges to the colonial system. They will shed umpteen tears for a poor converted Mexican, but the independent minded Hindu will be treated with the disdain of a "liberal" Doniger, Dalrymple, Kipling, Thapar, and Witzel. Liberalism is as much a threat to western society as Protestantism is to Christianity; that is, Liberalism is a sect within western colonial discourse.