Is Pramod Muthalik unintelligent?

There has been a lot of discussion about Pramod Muthalik and his Sri Ram Sene lately…He’s been called a bigot, an anti-social, a goonda, a mad man and even unintelligent…He may be an insane bigot but what he’s not is unintelligent…He may be a class 5 drop-out but that is no measure of his intelligence and ambition…This guy was born ambitious – his aim in life was to gain power and control (maybe even money)…What could he do to achieve these goals? Remember, Muthalik grew up in Belgaum, a very conservative area, during a period when the wounds of partition were still raw…He figured out that by preying on this ‘rawness’ (by harping about Hindu solidarity) he could achieve his goals…So, he joined the RSS (at age 13) and the Bajrang Dal but after a few years realized that he wasn’t getting anywhere…By this time, the schism between the ‘haves’ and the ‘have-nots’ had increased; the gap started widening even more rapidly with the opening up of the economy…The 'have-not' youth who could not participate in the new India were discontented and disenchanted with the government and the existing political parties…Muthalik saw an opportunity and started his own party Sri Ram Sene, a more militant version of the Bajrang Dal, by recruiting from the disenchanted segment of the Hindu population…He blamed all the Hindu youth’s problems on the Muslims and the Congress Party for supporting the Muslims…He started militant training camps to ‘protect’ Indians (read: Hindus) from anti-national elements (read: Muslims)…His logic: Since the police were ineffective, it was up to the patriotic Hindu youth to take up arms to protect the country from Muslim terrorists…He made inflammatory speeches, was mentioned in the news (on page 16) but just couldn’t get the front page headline he so desperately desired…

Then in January 2009 with the Lok Sabha elections round the corner, Muthalik decided to do something drastic to get his and his organization's name on the front page of every newspaper in the country...He decided to attack young urban women (attacking rural women would go unnoticed) and informed news channels beforehand...As he had predicted, his henchmen's actions got him the publicity 45 criminal cases couldn't...

So, I ask - is he unintelligent or are we for keeping him in the news?