My satyagrahi spirit tells me that I may not retaliate.
Ahimsa is the strongest force known.
A votary of ahimsa always prays for ultimate deliverance from the bondage of the flesh.
A satyagrahi may not ride two horses, truth and untruth, at the same time, nor, to change the metaphor, trim his sail to catch every breeze as you do in the name of communism.
Hinduism is not a codified religion.
I believe in what Max Muller said years ago, namely, that truth needed to be repeated as long as there were men who disbelieved it.