yes, I write against a religion that
denies the equality and the fundamental rights of every human individual,
denies the freedom to practise any religion other than its own

my views on such religion on this blogs have been criticised

it has also brought criticism of my personal self
a few week ago I was asked by someone calling herself noseycow

If you are a physician, how do you reconcile your intense hatred of any Muslim with your oathe to give each INDIVIDUAL patient your best care?

This is how, noseycows

An incident known to only three individuals; unreported untold –
till now.

I had finished my rotation of senior housejobs and had entered the postgraduate surgical residency. Of the many speciality I had worked through in my rotation, I had come to like paediatric surgery the most.

A speciality not sought after by the young surgical aspirants in the 80s. As with many others, the department was underfunded and understaffed. Led by a consultant dedicated to his work, but not supported by the management. Since starting my residency, I had volunteered many of my off duty hours to work in his wards, scrub up with him in the theatre; for no reason other than it gave a meaning to my life at the time.

I was no longer on the paediatric surgery rota, when one night on my way back from a callout to one of my own patients I was stopped by a wardboy with a callbook. There were no pagers in our hospital in those days. Doctors were called for emergencies by handwritten messages in a ‘call book’, the ‘wardboys’ were sent out to find the doctors in their usual hideouts. The outcome of the emergencies relying how quickly the wardboys could track down the doctors.

That night there was an emergency in the paediatric surgical ward. The houseman needed help, he was too scared to call the consultant at home. He had sent out the ‘callbook’ to me in desperation. Not realising I was no longer in paediatrics and the list on the wall was long outdated.

It was well after midnight. but I have never refused a call.
I went up to the ward. There was an infant, a girl with intestinal obstruction in a state of shock. She was desperately ill, but we had no intensive care units in the hospital.

The houseman was new, on a rotation from the paediatric department. His instructions from his seniors the evening before was to try and resuscitate the child. An emergency operation had been booked for the next morning, provided the child survived the night and was accepted for theatre by the anaesthetists.

And if blood for transfusion could be made available.
Getting blood for transfusion was always the responsibility of the patients’ ‘party’. The parents, the friends, the relatives or the children; whoever would be around for the doctor to hand over the sample and the requisition slip. This little girl only had her parents.

We were the only hospital in the city with a nationalised bloodbank. But they had run out of stocks of her bloodgroup as they claimed. The option left was for the parents to donate themselves or to buy units from one of the many privatised bloodbanks.

The young parents were very poor, from a rural district of Bengal they knew no one in the city. They had somehow scraped the railfare to come to the city hospital. To buy even a single unit of blood was beyond their means. In those days I was no richer and even had I wanted to, I could not offer them any money.

Would they donate themselves?
No, the mother thought it would kill them.
No, the father said it would be against their religion.
They were muslims, they could not be forced to donate nor would they ‘buy’ blood for transfusion.
Their religion came first; they decided to accept the inevitable, they had three other children and the child who was still alive was given up for dead.

The child was the same bloodgroup as I. But I was intensely needlephobic.
The young girl was indeed doomed. Besides it would be a bad precedence if a doctor was to donate his own blood for the treatment of patients.

I do not know what made me go down to the bloodbank and convince the medical officer to be gentle with the needle. One unit of my blood was enough for three baby transfusions. It was not uncommon for rare blood groups to become “lost in transit”, I myself brought them up to the ward with me so it would not go missing and so that no one would know except that houseman of course. I had sworn him to secrecy.

We started transfusing the first unit and still had two more for the theatre. It was almost dawn when I went off to bed. I was too tired to think of the ifs and whys of what I had done.

I was in theatre the next morning with my own unit. My professor called me to say the consultant in the paediatric theatre wanted to see me and I was excused from the rest of our theatre list. My heart sank. I knew it had to do with the incidents of the night. On my way over I thought of various excuses to justify myself.

When I reached, the consultant simply said he had a very sick child he was going to operate on, would I scrub up with him. In relief I agreed. We discussed only the possibilities and prognosis as we scrubbed.

Yes, it was that same little girl.
She had survived the night. And another unit of transfusion had been started.

We prepped and draped the tiny figure in silence. The consultant surprised us all by asking me to swap sides, informed the anaesthetists that I would be the surgeon and for the very first time, handed me the knife.

It was a small gut volvulus, a segment of the intestine was strangulated as was anticipated. I resected it out and anastomosed the healthy ends. Everytime I looked up I saw the blood transfusion trickling in. Only I in that room knew it was my blood.

We did get her safely back to the ward.
As we left the operating theatre, the consultant stopped and shook my hands and thanked me for what I had done the night before. He had known, the house officer had felt compelled to inform him. We never discussed it again.

Whenever I could, I went up to check on the girls progress. I was just another doctor doing a round. One day her bed was empty. She had been discharged home.

I do not know what kind of a life I helped her return to.
I do not know if that little girl survived to even reach her teens.

What I learnt for myself that night was being the doctor we are often the last person who can make that difference between a patient’s life and death. As long as there is a heartbeat, as long as there is an output, it is our responsibility to do everything we can to save that life.

That is how we do it.
That is how I do it, regardless of the race, colour, religion, nationality of my patients.
I have accepted the responsibility, and I am prepared to go beyond the call of duty, everytime.

She would be 24 years old this year.

(I was born to hindu brahmin parents)

and why not,
Pakistan is far from home,
if the Pakistanis are killing Indians in India, its no problem for the Brits.

David Miliband comments on Kashmir welcomed by ‘terrorist’ group

By Dean Nelson in New Delhi – Last Updated: 12:46PM GMT 18 Jan 2009

The radical Muslim group linked to the Mumbai attacks has welcomed Foreign Secretary David Miliband’s call for India and Pakistan to resolve their dispute over Kashmir.

Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT), which is said to have been behind the terror assault in which more than 170 people died, has backed comments he made last week during a trip to the region.

In an article ahead of his visit to India last week, the foreign secretary said the ‘war on terror’ had been mistaken and that individual groups like LeT should be targeted and brought to justice. But solving the Kashmir issue would deny LeT its ‘call to arms’ and free Pakistan to fight al-Qaeda and Taliban militants in its tribal areas.

“Although I understand the current difficulties, resolution of the dispute over Kashmir would help deny extremists in the region one of their main calls to arms, and allow Pakistani authorities to focus more effectively on tackling the threat on their western borders,” he said.

The statement will cause further discomfort for Mr Miliband after India reacted angrily to his ‘interference’ in the issue and senior politicians branded his trip a ‘disaster’.

besides it is the election year,
and his party has to start pandering to the muslim voters in Britain.

is this individual fit to be a foreign secretary?

he has no knowledge of history
he has no knowledge of what constitutes terrorism
he has no knowledge of the cause and progress of the conflict in Kashmir

does this moron know that the Instrument of Accession
by which India came to control the princely state Jammu and Kashmir
which includes Jammu, Kashmir, Northern Areas, Ladakh and Aksai Chin was accepted
by Governor General of India, Lord Mountbatten, a British?

can he answer why in 1947 the Pakistani Army invaded Kashmir?
why Pakistan, in blatant disregard of UN orders continue to occupy Kashmir since 1948?

can he answer why Pakistan has waged wars on India
the latest being in Kargil 1999, masterminded by the ally of the west, criminal Musharraf?

Pakistan has no legal rights on Kashmir,
they have dug their greedy evil claws into the land that has never been their’s

Pakistan has for 60 years fought proxy wars through the “islamic militants”
by “terrorising” Kashmir and India.

what this moron has called for is to give into Pakistani terrorism,

and the reason why?

solving the Kashmir issue would deny LeT its ‘call to arms’ and free Pakistan to fight al-Qaeda and Taliban militants in its tribal areas.

exactly what Pakistan has been blackmailing the world they would do, since the mumbai killings

this is simply for his, for the British and the West’s selfish convenience

George Bush and Tony Blair has so glaringly proved they may be world leaders of the first world west, but when it comes to brains, even the goldfish packs more neuronal power in their pinhead calvaria than these ‘educated’ idiots

these cowards are too worried of keeping their muslim vote banks intact, that they will remain
in a perpetual faked denial that Pakistan the state is not involved in terrorism in India

I have come to recognise this as the “simple white christian married mother of three” syndrome

the loud mouths with little knowledge,
and scant regards for those who are being terrorised by muslims far away from home

is he going to say
the same to the jews in Israel?
tell the Americans to pull out of Saudi Arabia?
did his Britain give into the Irish call for an independent Irish State?
was it not his party and government that invaded Iraq for their own convenience?

oh, no. this is about India,
and why should a British MP give a toss for the welfare of a third world state?

this is about double standards, a familiar stench in the west.
till 9/11s and 7/7s hits their own people

foot in mouth Mr Milliband?
let me help you place it in the only appropriate spot of your anatomy

from the party that will do or say anything to keep their muslim vote bank intact.
the voice of the pseudosecularist, negationist-in-chief, the Indian National Congress,

Term ‘Islamic terrorism’ wrong : Pranab

Press Trust of India | Kolkata, Dec 29 (PTI)

Describing as “unacceptable” the term ‘Islamic terrorism’, External Affairs Minister Pranab Mukherjee today said a “disinformation campaign” has been launched to vitiate the atmosphere and asked the people to protest it.

“Not only is this expression Islamic terrorism unacceptable, there should be protest against it. Islam has nothing to do with terrorism. The patriotism of Muslims is no less than others in the country,” Mukherjee told a programme to mark 200 years of the Bengali translation of the Quran here.

He said deliberate attempts were being made to vitiate the atmosphere but Islam, which preached love and communal harmony, was against terrorism. “Terrorism is against humanity.” He said universal brotherhood was the basis of Islam which attracted people all over the world to it.

Mukherjee said that after 9/11, people in Europe and US coined the phrase ‘Islamic terrorism’ and tried to project it was a conflict between Islamic and Christian civilisations. Challenging those who described Islam as a religion of fundamentalists, Mukherjee asked them to show which part of the Holy Book encouraged fundamentalism. PTI

through the hypocrisy of a Pranab Mukherjee

Minister for External Affairs of India
Constituency: Jangipur in West Bengal
one of the 12 constituencies (out of entire 543 Parliamentary seats) with a Muslims majority.

and what was he doing when he made the statement?
he was attending a programme to mark a bengali translation of Quran,
it does not take two brain cells to recognise who his audience were.

not to create an universal brotherhood you moron,
but to terrorise the world to accept the islamic caliphate, the ummah wahida
this is what an Islamic scholar and thinker Maulana Wahiduddin Khan himself has admitted
“Muslims have gained nothing from terrorism”

you moron,
it is not only a conflict between Islam and Christians,
it is a conflict between Islam and Jews and Hindus and every other religion.

If India was their target,
why did the 10 spawns of evil that came over on 26/11 kill innocent Jews?

does this moron at all know who are or why they are the Taliban’s
does this moron know what is the ultimate aim of the AlQaeda?
does this moron know what religion are the Lashkar-e-Taiba
those that trained the 10 killers that landed on mumbai?

muslims practice religious tolerance?
is this moron aware that muslims do not accept the Universal Declaration of Human Rights?
that they set out their own version in cairo 1990 – a declaration that does not guarantee EQUAL RIGHTS, but merely EQUAL DIGNITY
above all does not give a guarantee of FREEDOM OF RELIGION?
does this moron need a bigger proof of religious intolerance?

does this moron know the concept of Islamic Ummah or the Caliphate?
to have the entire world under the sharia law?
would this moron himself convert to Islam?
or live life of a ‘dhimmi’ – a second class citizen and forced to pay a ‘jizya’ tax?

does this moron think Ajmal Amir Kasab is a hindu? a christian? a jew?
or was Md Atta? or Mr Osama bin Laden or Abu Musab al-Zarqawi?

do they learn to hate and to kill in a catholic school or the madrassa?
did they kill in the name of Christ? or Buddha? or the 33 crore hindu gods and goddeses?

above all, does this moron know of the existence of the verses of Islamic laws of Jihad?
- that directs jihad against the rejecters (non – believers) of “truth after it has become evident to them”

for a minister to challenge that islam is a religion of fundamentalist, beggars belief.

come to my website you shameless hypocrite,
I have a verbal diarrhoea from a muslim fundamentalist that says it is.
proud to be a muslim fundamentalist, shat he.

islamic terrorism: a fundamentalist finds justification

3. I am proud to be a Muslim fundamentalist
I am a fundamentalist Muslim who, by the grace of Allah, knows, follows and strives to practise the fundamentals of Islam. A true Muslim does not shy away from being a fundamentalist. I am proud to be a fundamentalist Muslim because, I know that the fundamentals of Islam are beneficial to humanity and the whole world.

to accept and perpetuate the propaganda that Islam is a religion of peace
to appease his muslim vote bank, stinks of disgusting hypocrisy

it is an insult to every soul that died to the “cause for Islam” for centuries.

it is a national disgrace that the Minister for Foreign Affairs can so blatantly support
and broadcast the very propaganda that the “moderate muslims” would like to hide behind today.

with ministers like this,
India might as well lay down out the redcarpet to the next wave of terrorists
till someone in his own family gets a bullet through the head,
ONLY THEN he will confirm what he really believes.

Mr Mukherjee, and a nation that elects him,
deserves to be terrorised.

my previous article was based on facts
none of my points are fiction
the events of Mumbai is no tolkein fantasy
the chain of events has no definition other than terrorism

the one terrorist caught alive and has confirmed his nationality,
he has given details of his training, the orders he was given and the way he executed it

The hard facts are,
173 people were killed and 308 injured by 10 Pakistani muslims

these are no extras in a film set, they are very real,
killers doped with cocaine and sent to kill innocent indians, british and jews.

regardless of the rights and wrongs it is cannot be disputed that no other religion is in anyway linked to THIS meaningless act of violence but Islam.

I am yet to come across a “moderate muslim” who has accepted these facts of this attack.
not one will hold up their hand and have the honesty to accept the truth.
or admit that it was committed in the name of Islam.

it has been finger pointings elswheres
excuses, after excuses and theories and anecdotes.
this is the primary reason why there will never be an end to terrorist killings by muslims.

This is a response to the comment left on my last post.

A comment by Naj,

While i am fully aware of how fanatics may interpret Quran to promote violence, I disagree with you that Islam IS the root cause of violence. Jihad is the political umbrella which is abused by the war mongers … war mongers, irrespective of religion, capitalize on IDIOCY of those whom they can brainwash …

A few years ago, Indians of one cult brought down an Air India flight carrying Indians of another cult … a few years ago, I saw a documentary by Anand Patwardhan, I don’t remember the film but it was footage from an Indian Nationalist rally, where the speaker was preaching Indian Supremacy, and how they couldn’t wait to take revenge in the “white” men who had subjugated them for so long … he was praising the nuclear achievements and technological advancements of India, professing “revenge” …

Such idiocracy is NOT particular to Muslims … it is universal and it is motivated by shadowy figures who stand to gain in a very material and tangible way from the intangible faith of the idiots …

My article is based on the global concept that Islamic terrorism is a reality.

I first clarify that
1.I did not say Islam is the root cause of all violence, I have said that if it is Islamic terrorism then the root cause of it can only be Islam, NOT poverty.
2. the idiots I refer to in my article are the GW Bushes and G Browns of this world who have created a frankenstein next door to us.

I do not judge the rights and wrongs of any religious extremism, what disgusts me is the lack of honesty to take responsibility. When the Khalistanis brought down the Air India flight, they did not give any fairytale excuses, they honestly admitted their separatist ideology to create Khalistan. If an Indian nationalist is preaching Indian Supremacy – at least he is honest in admitting his supremacist beliefs.

When a muslim or a muslim organisation carries out killings and themselves admits it to be in the name of Islam, I do not see how the rest of the muslim world say it wasn’t? It is this denial from the so called “moderate muslims” that perpetuates these terrorist beliefs and activities.

sorry Naj, i disagree,
the easily identifiable “fanatics” are never the problem,
the real problem is the dishonesty, hypocrisy and gutless cowardice of the “moderates” who persistently deny the existence of verses in Quran that does direct the killing of non-believers.

I do not agree that any muslim can be brainwashed to believe something that is not written in the pages of the Quran. It is a fact that there is the directive for jihad, to kill non-believers in the Quran; I do not see why muslims the world over does not admit it.

and to claim that poverty is the cause of Islamic terrorism, is an absolute myth.

Mr Osama bin Laden

Let us discuss one person whose name has become synonymous with Islamic terrorist movements. Mr Osama bin Laden.

I challenge anyone to convince me that

1. it was poverty that led Mr bin Laden to form a terrorist organisation. on the contrary it is his own $$$ billions he has used to create terror.

2. Mr bin Laden is of subnormal intelligence or literacy to have been brainwashed.
What ever he has achieved, he has achieved because of his firm convictions of the teachings of the Quran.

3. Mr Bin Laden has any need for war mongering.
He has been honest about his ideology, building an islamic caliphate, the ultimate aim of al Qaeda. and his proposed form of struggle for this ultimate aim the global jihad.

I have no problems with anyone initiating his global jihad as long it is honestly admitted that it is in the cause of Islam for the objectives of the movement is clear and others who do not believe in it can take appropriate steps to protect their own rights.

I have written many times, I would trust the words of the extremists, of the Talibans – for they are not scared to say what their aims are and which passages of Quran they follow in their holy fight. I do not trust the “moderate” muslims who will only find excuses.

So please discuss in specific reference to events of 26/11,
Mumbai was not just words – it has led to 173 deaths of civilians.

Can you explain why Pakistan, even after being shown clear proof of terror arising within her boundaries, is so hostile towards accepting the evidence?
If this attack was indeed war mongering by selfish individuals / organisation – why do they not accept the evidence and prove it was the motive of “shadowy figures” for material gain?

The extreme reluctance to accept the evidence and act on it, it signifies only one possibility,
the Pakistani military or its intelligence is/was involved as alleged –
that is state sponsered terrorism on an international scale.

to fight Mr Bin Laden’s mujahideen is not the problem,
the problem was to have the backstabbing pakistani military of Musharraf as an ally in the war.

if “moderate muslims” accepts that islamic terrorism exist,
then please do not cloud the issues with excuses and misleading rhetorics.

if “moderate muslims” believes in and says they too are in the global “war against terror”
then please do not mislead as to who the real enemies are or what their ideals are.

if “moderate muslims” across the globe expects the world to condemn
the invasion of muslim sovereign soil by US or any other nation, then at least be prepared to acknowledge the atrocity of muslims on another sovereign state, you cannot have it both ways.

if “moderate muslims”
deny the very existence of verses of Islamic Laws of Jihad in the Quran,
deny the very existence of Islam based terrorism, then that is a very different discussion,
please do not waste my time debating it here.

a Pakistani has been caught alive
like a rat he has been squealing his guts out,
giving his life’s details – confirmed by his father and corraborated by his villagers

yet pakistan refuses to believe, even after the truth has been made evident to them

Pak rejects proofs of 26/11 attacks shared by Britain, US

Published on Sun, Dec 28, 2008 at 22:01
Islamabad: Pakistan has dismissed evidence on the Mumbai attacks shared by the US and Britain.

The evidence included information given by India and corroborated through other sources. It included Ajmal Kasab’s confession, transcripts of mobile telephone intercepts, and also the logs of recorded conversations.

The US and Britian have given to Pakistan “clinching evidence” of involvement ofelements within the country in the Mumbai terror attacks but has been dismayed over Pakistan’s pussyfooting and not doing enough. Intercepts of satellite and mobile conversations between the attackers in Mumbai and the Pakistan-based elements guiding them, were handed over to Islamabad by the two countries.

However, Islamabad says this will not stand up in court.

this is beyond what will stand up in court and what will not,
this is a clear proof of international terrorism originating from Pakistan

what do the leaders of the rich west do to show they are “fighting the causes of terror”?

Britain promises more anti-terror aid to Pakistan

Associated Press: Published on Mon, Dec 15, 2008 at 10:23
Brown said Britain promised Pakistan counter-terrorism equipment for detecting bombs and explosives at airports. Britain also pledged $9 million to lure youths away from extremist activities by offering them educational materials and programs.

when will these oafs learn
that giving Pakistan more dollars will create more terror

one 7/7 in London
one 9/11 in New York were lesson not hard enough
every cent poured in will be used to create more terror on the non-muslim world
every cent poured into that cess-pit will come back as AK-47s, and bombs and death

GW Bush sunk $10 billion into Musharraf’s pakistan
now G Brown promises to put £9 million more into Zardari’s
there are millions of human individuals starving “peacefully” – who would benefit from it

the root cause of Islamic terror? it is NOT poverty idiots,
it is not poverty that “lures” these youths to become international criminals
for there are muslim youths of western origin who travel to pakistan to learn how to kill

the root cause of Islamic terror? it is the cause of Islam
it is the writings in Quran that is being preached in pakistan
it is the nations and its military’s obsession to possess Kashmir
it is the covert orders of their military presidents through the evil ISI that
encourages their mullahs and madrassas to preach spreading islam through terror

this frankenstein was created by Britain
and has been nurtured for their own nefarius needs by the CIA and US
the innocents of Mumbai and elsewhere on earth that are now suffering for it

the world cannot fight terror if at every opportunity countries like US and GB helps feed it

Pakistan is blackmailing the world with their N-weapons
nukes they could manufacture only by stealing, blackmarketing and illegal n-proliferation

confiscate their nukes,
stop pouring in the millions and billions -
let the “moderate” muslims really starve – only then they will stand up against their evil military

those who wants to live and kill for a stoneage religion
should also live in the stoneage

Quran directs jihad
against the rejecters of truth after it has become evident to them
Pakistan fits the description perfectly, it is time the long suffering world called for a
jihad against Pakistan

Pakistanislamterrorismjihad

just as night follows day and hides everything under darkness

the kashmir propaganda invariably follows every islamic atrocity in India
the ultimate excuse for a perpetual lie

and does it come any more blatant as this – I Am A Muslim…

it is said a picture conveys a thousand words but it does not have to be the truth
the perfect tool for clever propaganda

this photograph
published on an obscure and untraceable URL
with no means of confirming its source, its context or authenticity
becomes “this picture is of KASHMIR” –
a lie – to be repeated over and over again –
till it becomes accepted by the intentionally lazy ignorants – as the truth.

Kashmir as it is today
is because of atrocities committed by pakistani muslims
on both MUSLIMS and HINDUS, the true kashmiris of 1947 –
as a planned campaign by the pakistani army to invade and annex Kashmir

the muslim founder fathers of Pakistan
could not legally ‘demand’ Kashmir for their new nation
so they had to get their claws into it any which way –
even if it was by setting muslims on muslims

and obsessively so for 60 more years.
why else would Musharraf initiate a war in Kargil?
what right had he to invade and to fly the Pakistani flag atop the Srinagar Assembly?
he is no “terrorist”.
Or is he?

strange that
no muslim will ever mention how “Kashmir” started
no muslim will ever explain how the Pakistan Army happens to be in Kashmir
no muslims will ever mention that Pakistan was ordered by the UN security council to withdraw it forces from the territory that was the Princely state of Kashmir.
no muslim crying for a plebiscite in Kashmir will ever mention the withdrawl of Pakistani troops and militants was a pre-requisite
no muslim will ever acknowledge that Pakistan has occupied Kashmir in breach of UN resolution

UNCIP Resolutions of August 13, 1948

PART II: TRUCE AGREEMENT
Simultaneously with the acceptance of the proposal for the immediate cessation of hostilities as outlined in Part I, both Governments accept the following principles as a basis for the formulation of a truce agreement, the details of which shall be worked out in discussion between their Representatives and the Commission.

A.
(1) As the presence of troops of Pakistan in the territory of the State of Jammu and Kashmir constitutes a material change in the situation since it was represented by the Government of Pakistan before the Security Council, the Government of Pakistan agrees to withdraw its troops from that State.

(2) The Government of Pakistan will use its best endeavour to secure the withdrawal from the State of Jammu and Kashmir of tribesmen and Pakistan nationals not normally resident therein who have entered the State for the purpose of fighting.

(3) Pending a final solution the territory evacuated by the Pakistan troops will be administered by the local authorities under the surveillance of the Commission.

to every non muslim Indian who happens to read such propaganda, I ask
why is it that no muslims in india will ever march with banners asking for withdrawl of pakistan from kashmir?
why if Islam is indeed a religion of peace and tolerance and forbids all killings then how could the ghazni’s and ghoris of history, not once or twice but for centuries; loot, plunder, rape, convert, enslave and systematically destroyed hindu temples in the name of spreading Islam?

so convenient there were no cameras, no photographers in those days
to record the plight of the hindus
not in hundreds
nor in thousands
but in hundreds of thousands;
NOT episodic acts of human rights abuse or extremism – but a hindu GENOCIDE

muslims try to portray themselves as world’s eternal victims
if at all they are ‘victims’, it is only of ‘generalisation’ –
none else to blame but their unquestioned faith
in the teachings of Islam

what I read there is not just a propaganda,
but extremely nauseating in its dishonesty and hypocrisy

the banner should read

“I kill
for I am a muslim and it is my religious duty
to spread Islam – and if necessary to terrorise, invade and kill”

but that would be the truth…

the moon was my ‘chandmama’
my ma sang me so,
chand ~ moon
mama ~ ma’s brother

on nights when the moon was silvery bright,
she would sing to chandmama to come and put a ‘teep’ on my forehead.
teep ~ a bindi,
children, traditionally, would have a ‘kajol’ teep put on foreheads,
kajol ~ kohl based
to keep the evil away.

when I was a little older,
I learnt of the old woman on the moon
who never stopped working on her spinning wheel
all I had to do was to get the right tilt of my head, and there she used to be

with one small step of (a) man,
all folklores I grew up with were shattered
overnight the moon became a barren piece of rock,
a giant nightlamp, helpless, trapped into a spin eternal around earth

many moons have gone by since

the myths broken
the old woman long forgotten,
except on cloudless moonlit nights, when I can almost hear my ma’s voice

I read India too is joining in the giant leap of mankind

but will they be looking for our ‘chandmama’,
forever preparing ‘kajol teeps’
for little children?

when the future of a state or of a nation is decided by a single individual
democracy goes horribly horribly wrong

Tatas pullout jolts Bengal’s industrialisation drive

Sougata Mukhopadhyay / CNN-IBN

Published on Sat, Oct 04, 2008 at 09:18,

Kolkata: West Bengal’s tryst with Nano is over. Ratan Tata has declared that the Nano plant will be shifted out of the state as according to him the atmosphere in Singur was far from industry-friendly.

Tatas announcement to pull out from Singur is a big blow to West Bengal. For two years, West Bengal Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee and Ratan Tata together tried to build the automobile complex in Singur which would have employed at least 6,000 people to begin with.

However, they met with resistance from just a few people who were to lose their lands. In the end the government and the Tatas gave up the fight.

“I think Ms (Mamata) Banerjee has pulled the trigger,” Ratan Tata said at a press conference in Kolkata on Friday

Tata did give a pro-industry certificate to the Left Front government but the state’s image has taken a beating.

It took TWO YEARs for this project to reach this stage – it had not mushroomed overnight -
but Mamata Banerjee’s seige at the factory gates did.
It changed the future of the project in a matter of a week
It has changed the future of my state, for a long long time, if not for ever.

It is argued Tata and the government should have anticipated a rough ride two years ago -
Mamata Banerjee had two years to think and realise what
a Tata pullout would mean for the state.
I doubt if she is capable.

I remain certain
that with billions of Tatas’ money already invested in the permanent infrastructure
she was convinced Tata was unable to pull-out; she deliberately upped her agitation
convincing herself it was too late with three months left to meet the roll-out deadline.

I challenge her to confirm that
her only aim from the outset was to stop this project from going ahead.

She cannot – and there-in lies her hypocrisy -
and her moronic politics of brinksmanship -
of not knowing when and how to stop.

This was about the future of my state, West Bengal.
I do not give a toss for Mamata Banerjee’s political future.

For this fiasco I blame only one person -
Only one person ‘overplayed’ the game of brinksmanship – that is Mamata Banerjee.

The fact remains, had she, as an honest opposition leader,
fought from the outset for the best possible compensation FOR ALL,
and not started her dharna (seige) so late this project would have been up and running.

Let us not forget 8000 farmers had voluntarily given up land, 2000 did not.
What can Mamata Banerjee say to the eight thousands -that their future was never her concern?

As long as this idiot stays in front line politics, no external investors will have the courage to mention the name of Bengal – forget enter the state. We had the glimpse of a better future after 30 years of a left front government. I hope her name goes down in history as a brainless idiot who destroyed our state’s future with her histrionics.

West Bengal RIP

Added: 5 OCTOBER:
I read my response to another blog on this issue.

I challenge Mamata Banerjee now to declare her vision of the future of the state –
will she stop any form of industry coming into the state
from acquiring land to set up their factories?.

As long as this individual remains in active politics,
her face and her name becomes the symbol of failure of industrialisation in the state
her antics will be discussed by every industrialist and they will happily stay away from Bengal.
If we want industries to return to the state after 30 years of damage already done –
it is the responsibility of all concerned, CPM and Trinamul,
to make it a ‘cake-walk’ for them.

I do not give a toss who takes the responsibility to do so, if it is the CPM –
I’ll say its about time.

We were not doing the Tatas any favour – they were doing it to us by taking the risk.

Many people of Bengal wanted Tata to stay –
if a poll is ever conducted, I am certain it will show a majority
democracy has just died in Bengal – along with all the hopes for our future.

Once in long whiles I’ll read a piece of news
that restores my faith in goodness in human beings.

And I feel like screaming it out loud into the empty void – “altruism still exists”.

Probe ordered against hospital

The Hindu | Staff Reporter

Thrissur: The Judicial Magistrate Court, on Tuesday, asked the police to register a case and start an inquiry against a private hospital in the city which allegedly refused to release the body of a woman since the relatives could not remit the hospital bill.

On a complaint filed by the social activist P.D. Joseph, V.K. Mohandas, Judge, asked the Nupupuzha police to investigate the case.

Usha, wife of Chandran from Puthur, had been under treatment in the hospital for four days after being assaulted by her husband’s brother. She died of injuries sustained in the assault. The hospital authorities refused to release the body as Chandran could not remit the bill amount of Rs. 55,000.

Though the hospital reduced the amount to Rs. 20,000, Chandran was helpless.

Constable Aparna of Ollur police station, who was assigned to take the body for post-mortem, came for Chandran’s help. She gave her three gold bangles to him for meeting the hospital expenses.

People from various quarters appreciated the constable’s gesture.

It was the TV
humming in the background.
droning on with a bit of this or a bit of that
a song came on – that suddenly pierced my consciousness,
By the time I focussed on the screen it was a commercial for a butterspread.

But the tune continued to play on in my mind.
I waited for the ad to be repeated.
And yesterday.

It was again the TV humming away in the background.
The same droning of a bit of this a bit of that
and then that song started.
I could not have focused
any quicker.

I got the opening lines of the lyrics before the tub of butter hit the screen,
next hour, tiptapping through Google and the Wikipedia,
I learnt of this song that I did not know,
until now.

I also learnt about Hair: The American Tribal Love-Rock Musical.
It had challenged many of the norms held by Western society in 1968.

Growing up in the 70-80s in middle-class India –
becoming a ‘hippie’ was near impossible.
I realise now I was a flower child at heart,
fate planted me where I was considered more as a weed.
(there’s no pun in it – honest)

In my own way, I have rebelled against the
unquestioned norms and traditions
illogical and unfair establishments
My first act of rebellion was
to let my hair grow long.
To the disgust of my dad and
the school’s Prefect of discipline – yes, got sent home too.

So I share it with you from the musical, “Hair” –

“I Got Life:

by James Rado and Gerome Ragni

I got life, mother – I got laughs, sister – I got freedom, brother
I got good times, man
I got crazy ways, daughter – I got million-dollar charm, cousin
I got headaches and toothaches And bad times too
Like you

I got my hair – I got my head – I got my brains – I got my ears
I got my eyes – I got my nose – I got my mouth
I got my teeth

I got my tongue – I got my chin – I got my neck – I got my tits
I got my heart – I got my soul – I got my back
I got my ass

I got my arms – I got my hands – I got my fingers – Got my legs
I got my feet – I got my toes – I got my liver
Got my blood

I got my guts – I got my muscles – I got life
Life – Life
LIFE!

So why did I not know of this for so long?

I find it has never been staged in
“China, India, Vietnam, the Arctic and Antarctic continents and most African countries.”

Yet again the rabid animals have killed innocent civilians.
Yesterday 5 bomb blasts in a Delhi market place have left 20 dead and 90 injured.

20 DEAD IN DELHI SERIAL BLASTS

CNN-IBN
New Delhi: Five bomb blasts rocked popular shopping destinations in the national capital within a span of 22 minutes on Saturday evening killing at least 20 people and leaving over 100 injured.

The first blast took place at Ghaffar Market in the Karol Bagh area at about 1815 hrs IST in which 16 people were killed and over 20 injured.
Soon after the blast in Ghaffar market, two explosions took place in Connaught Place killing four people.
The two blasts in Connaught place took place at the Central Park near Palika Bazaar and at Barakhamba Road.
There were two blasts in Greater Kailash-I, too, with the first one taking place near Levi’s store and the other blast took place near the Prince Pan Corner damaging 10 shops.
The blasts were of low intensity and ball bearings were used to maximise the impact.

The Indian Mujahideen emailed IBN-CNN minutes before the blasts claiming responsibilities.

Indian Mujahideen claims responsibility

NDTV Correspondence

An e-mail purportedly from a group calling itself the “Indian Mujahideen” claimed it carried out the attacks, adding: “Do whatever you can. Stop us if you can.”

Killed by muslims.
Killed by mujahideen
Killing in the name of Allah.
Killing in the name of Islam.

Yet, there are muslims who will shrug of responsibility under their traditional excuse.
Such as,

All India United Muslim Mocha (AIUMM), in a communique, termed the blasts as an attack on sovereignty, integrity and secularism. “Terrorism has nothing to do with Islam. Persons involved in such heinous acts cannot claim to be a Muslim,” Kamal Ashraf, spokesperson of the AIUMM, said.

On a discussion forum,
when asked to condemn these killing in the name of Islam, a muslim member wrote

those who are killing for repligion are not the followers of the real religion. those who work for peace like myself are the followers of the real religion.

I can only read in disbelief.
With one evasive word and an evasive excuse – the responsibility is wiped off.

Any act that has been committed in the name of a religion the entire religion has to stand up and take responsibility. When there are a series of such acts with the same message it is all the more reason that the religion takes the responsibility to stop it.

Those who killed they were all muslims.
There are no ‘non-real’ muslims, just like there is no ‘non-real’ Islam.

There is only one Quran.
There is only one text from their God – one teaching.
Those who kill also finds justification in the same text.
There is no two ISLAMs.

The question in my mind is,
if and when the perpetrators are arrested, tried and found guilty of mass murder,
should they be hung?
or should they be shot?
or should they be pardoned because their act was in the name of religion?

Should we not ask the victims and their families?

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anyone,
any group,
any religion,
any ideology,
any nationality
who is/are capable of this

Image: From: Sify News
Scene of a blast site outside the Civil Hospital in Ahmedabd on Saturday.

Unborn, yet blown up – Doctor, pregnant wife die in blast

From: Telegraph India

Ahmedabad, July 27: As an orthopaedic surgeon at Civil Hospital, Prerak Shah, 32, would have been preparing for a busy night tending to one blast injured after another as they were wheeled in.

Instead, he was blown up with his wife and unborn child as last evening’s terrorists made the hospital their 16th and last target, hitting the injured a second time and turning a healer into a victim.

The bomb went off in a car in the parking lot as the young doctor and his wife, who had just arrived for a gynaecological check-up, walked past the trauma centre yards from the site.

Many indoor patients left the hospital today. Amid the atmosphere of fear came news that a car bomb had been defused near the trauma ward of Surat’s Puna Hospital. It was a Maruti 800, with a Vadodara registration.

I can no longer believe they too deserve any human rights
the world would be a better place for other humans
the sooner they are exterminated.

Its beyond human tolerance.

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With the controversies raging in Australia
over alleged racism by an Indian cricket player against an Australian,
there are many journalist who are making the most of the opportunity to
to further stoke up the issue – for motives selfish and / or not entirely honest.

Photograph: Sydney Morning Herald

This is one of them from the Guardian Unlimited

India in denial – Mike Marqusee

The response of the BCCI to the cricket row in Australia illustrates
the problem of entrenched racism in India – January 8, 2008 11:00 AM

Racism, towards people of African origin and and more broadly towards people with darker skins, is commonplace and vivid in south Asia, yet rarely acknowledged.

Visit Indian offices and factories, hotels, cricket grounds or airports, and the colour hierarchy leaps out at you. The higher up the managerial scale you go, the more likely you are to find lighter-skinned people. As a white-skinned visitor from the west, I can’t count how many times strangers have boasted to me with pride of their offspring’s fair complexion. Children with darker skins are often teased as “blackies”. Matrimonial adverts frequently emphasise fairness.

Skin lighteners are sold in vast quantities. Advertisements for “Fair and Lovely” skin whitener adorn cricket grounds and intrude endlessly on TV cricket coverage. In one of them, an earnest, dusky-coloured young female cricket fan is transformed by the application of skin lightener into a star cricket commentator.

I doubt if this author really comprehends what constitutes racism?
Yes there is colour hierarchy in Indian society, even to the point of discrimination
but that is not “racism”.
We Indians also believe anything made abroad is better, how does he define that?

The corollary to the authors logic,
Indians by nature bow to fair skinned people, so the Indian team acknowledge
the other 10 players in the Australian team are a “superior” race,
it is Symonds who is the only “inferior” individual.

That is ridiculous.

But as the laws of cricket now recognise, racist abuse is an offence of a special magnitude. If Harbhajan did call Symonds a “monkey“, then it was absolutely necessary for Australian captain Ricky Ponting to make a formal complaint, and for International Cricket Council (ICC) referee Mike Proctor to punish Harbhajan accordingly.

The Board of Control for Cricket in India’s (BCCI) statement on the Harbhajan ban read more like an emotional defence of Indian cricket and India as a whole than a considered response to the referee’s ruling.

There are abuses and swearwords and their are racial abuse.
Every time a person swears at another of a different race,
does that become a deliberate “racist” insult.

Had Harbhajan called Ponting a monkey, would that too be a racist jibe?
It is alleged that Hogg had called an Indian player a bastard – is that a racial insult?

Indians equate stupidity to asinine behaviour.
If an indian calls a white /black person a donkey
does that insult the intelligence of the other or his race?

The match referees has accepted the word of five “white” players
and ignored the evidence of two “coloured” players
with not a shred of corroborative evidence.
Is that a discrimination?

What an enquiry was to prove without doubt as
1. the alleged abuse had taken place
2. to racially insult was the deliberate intent.
I do not see that has been proved against Harbhajan Singh.

Colour hierarchy in south Asia is rooted in the history of caste and labour. (Incidentally, seven of the 11 who played for India at Sydney were of Brahmin background, though Brahmins make up only about 7% of the Indian population.) Colonialism, in which all Indians, however elite, found themselves on the wrong side of the colour bar, entrenched the value of whiteness and its associations with power and privilege. As the US shows, modernisation and GDP growth do not necessarily dissolve colour distinctions, and in their much-vaunted upward mobility, the Indian middle classes do not appear to have abandoned the old prejudices. Indeed, since so many now prefer to identify with their western counterparts rather than their impoverished compatriots, these prejudices are likely to be strengthened.

How does caste come into this?
Other than Ganguly I do not know who the other six brahmins are.
And like myself, there will be million Indians who doesn’t care.
Caste becomes an issue if it is proved
the BCCI is run by brahmins, who have all the selectors of that caste,
the team selection has been deliberately picked only brahmin players
and deliberately discriminated against worthy players from other castes.

I challenge the author to prove this.

This is the author’s attempt to pass off is personal and untrue assumption as an evidence. It is not only irrelevant in the present context I also resent his unsubstantiated insinuations.

The value attached to whiteness is a sickness in south Asian society, which badly needs the antidote of a “black is beautiful” movement. There are precedents in the lower caste insurgencies associated with Periyar (founder of Dravidian movement in south India) and Ambedkar (the Dalit, ie “untouchable” liberator). The skin colour hierarchy can in the end only be uprooted by a transformation in attitudes towards caste, marriage, the female and male bodies, and social stratification in general. But the first step has to be breaching the widespread reluctance to acknowledge or discuss the realities of racism in Indian society. The Indian response to the accusation against Harbhajan indicates that this will be an uphill battle.

Does this author understands what “racism” really is?
Or he seriously believe we, as Indians,
are incapable of defining racisms.

What he describes
is more a “sickness” of many white societies?
I am yet to see a neo-nazi group of fairskinned Indians
goose-stepping through the neighbourhood of coloured Indians?

He equates an individual’s colour preference as racism.
He also wrongly generalises that every Indian prefers whites over others.
Indians in general do not accept homosexuality, would he also condemn
an Indian’s reluctance to accept certain sexual preference
as another “reality of racism in Indian society”?

This is irresponsible journalism.

First they banned her book
but the ban was overturned in a Court of Law.

Then they forced her out of the state,
at the rioting of Islamic extremists and marxist sympathisers.
And refused to let her return, or give her the refuge she had requested.

And all so conveniently timed to divert attention from the Nandigram massacres.

Now,
following the victory for ideology
the defeat of pseudo-secular hypocrisy
Gujarat, has abraded the apathetic eyes of the nation.

We have woken up, at last.
Hopefully some of us.

Questions will be asked, policies examined, manifestos scrutinised.
Where is our freedom of thoughts and expression?
Who robbed us of our basic human rights?

The Marxist politburo is unable to go back on their arrogant stance.
Like cowards they stayed hidden, instead
their 93 years old ex leader made the humiliating turnaround.
“If she wants to return to Kolkata or elsewhere in West Bengal, she is welcome.
But the Centre will have to ensure her security,” Mr Basu told reporters.

It is us Bengalees, who have failed
if not Ms Nasrin,
but surely the rights of every human being, to free thoughts, speech and expression.

Most of all we failed to give safe refuge to one
who today is homeless for her courage to speak out against injustice and prejudice.
The shame is on us.

For freedom of expression

by Taslima Nasreen: November 12, 1999

Taslima Nasreen took the floor during Commission V of UNESCO’s General Conference,
as a delegate of the NGO “International Humanist and Ethical Union” (I.H.E.U.).

This is the full text of Ms Nasreen’s declaration, from Webworld:

“I was threatened by the religious fundamentalists in my country Bangladesh. They have decreed a fatwa against me and set a price on my head. Not only that, I am a criminal according to the government of my country too. The government there has banned my book, and issued an arrest warrant against me for committing blasphemy. I was forced to leave my country. Since 6 years I have been living in exile.

I was born in a Muslim family, but I became an atheist. In course of my training in science, I developed the powers of observation, experiment, analysis, and reasoning. Without reasoning, I found, nothing should be accepted as fact. I have been fighting against injustice, unreason, and prejudice. I exposed the crimes of religion, particularly the injustice and oppression against women.

It makes me surprised that some Western states have declared the protection of human rights to be one of their supreme objectives, but then they patronized fundamentalism both overtly and covertly. Democratic governments recognize military dictatorships for short-run political interests. Secular states make friends with autocracies as well as theocracies. They even tolerate the completely inhuman behavior of their own fundamentalists. Such double standards practiced by so-called democratic and secular states at home and abroad give the fundamentalists a sort of legitimacy. Governments then have to succumb to the fundamentalists’ pressure and proscribe books and make arrangements to send its writers and authors to prison.

Some Westerners argue that not all the customs in the third world countries are harmful for women. They find a sort of stability and social peace in the oriental world. It is nonsense. For me, there can be no difference in the concept of human rights between the East and the West. If the veil is bad for Western women, then it is bad for their oriental sisters as well. If patriarchy is to be fought against in the West, it should be equally fought against in the East. The fight, in fact, is more urgent there because most of the women have neither any education nor any economic independence. If modern secular education is good for Western women, why should the Eastern women be deprived of it!

The fundamentalists cannot be countered without a relentless and uncompromising fight. The struggle should be both theoretical and tactical. Democracy and secularism should be applied in practice and not remain a mere play of words.

Fundamentalism is an ideology that diverts people from the path of natural development of consciousness and undermines their personal rights. Fundamentalists do not believe in individualism, liberty of personal choice, or plurality of thought. Moreover, as they are believers in a particular faith, they believe only in propagating their own ideas as autocrats generally do . They do not encourage or entertain free debate, they deny others the right to express their own views freely, and they cannot tolerate anything which they perceive as going against their faith.

I believe in fundamental rights of human beings to express themselves orally or in their writings; in equal rights for women in every sphere of life; and in constructing a society in which everybody gets a fair deal. We all should work for it. Media is helpful for spreading the ideas of human rights. And for media to work, the state has to be secular, the religious laws has to be abolished to create uniform civil code in which women get equalities. Education, of course secular education is important for women to get the knowledge about their rights. Religious education and politics based on religion must be banned to save the mankind. As they are not banned in my country, and the country is not secular, I, as a writer and journalist, once worked in media, was prevented to express my ideas and thoughts. It is impossible to have coexistence of religion and freedom of expression.”

It is never too late to make amends.
We need to stop fighting amongst ourselves
and for once, just once, stand up to say, enough is enough.

We are entitled to our rights, we are entitled to know the truth.

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Photo: Wikipedia

Bengalees
it is time we shrugged off our lethargy and took control of our future.

For too long,
we have let others dictate to us,
we have buried our heads in the sand
hoping someone will come and deliver us from this evil we are in.

It doesn’t happen that way.
Life is not that easy.

Today Gujarat is showing the way,
the way that was paved by one of us, fifty six years ago.
Do you remember Shyama Prasad Mukherjee?

Have you heard about him at all?
You have heard of the road and the college in his name,
but have you ever been curious as to who was, what was his legacy for the Hindus?

Dr. Shyama Prasad Mukherjee

He was a Barrister, the son of
Sir Ashutosh Mukherjee and Jogmaya Devi.
the youngest Vice-Chancellor of Calcutta University.
He was one of the first spokesperson for the Hindus majority.

He was never an anti-Muslim,
but felt it necessary to counteract
the communalist and separatist Muslim League of Muhammad Ali Jinnah,
who were demanding exaggerated Muslim rights or a Muslim state of Pakistan.

He strived to unite Hindu voices,
and protect us Hindus against what he believed to be
the communal propaganda and the divisive agenda of the Muslim League.

In 1951, he founded the Bharatiya Jana Sangh,
the first Hindu nationalist political party
the forerunner of the BJP.

It was SP Mukherjee who created the Hindutva agenda
later to become the wider political expression of India’s Hindu majority.

His party criticized favoritism of India’s Muslims by the Nehru administration,
he promoted free-market economics as opposed to the
socialism of Nehru’s economic and social policies.
His favored a uniform civil code for
both Hindus and Muslims, and wanted to end
the special status of Muslim-majority Jammu and Kashmir.

The Bharatiya Jana Sangh became home to many conservative members
of the Indian National Congress who were disenchanted with
socialist policies and politics of Jawaharlal Nehru
and the Congress Party.

In the 1952 general elections
SP Mookerjee was elected as an MP, his BJS won 3 seats.
As an MP, he had become a major and a vociferous threat to Nehru’s policies.

In 1953 he went to Kashmir to protest the law prohibiting Indian citizens
from settling in the state of Kashmir, a state in their own country
and the need for Indians to carry ID cards.

On 11th May, he was arrested while crossing border into Kashmir.
On 23rd May he died under mysterious circumstances whilst in detention.

His death in custody raised wide suspicion across the country
and demands were made for an independent enquiry.
His mother herself wrote to Jawaharlal Nehru,
but no enquiry commission was ever set up
the cause of his death was never known.

The legislation for ID cards did get revoked.

He had become a major threat to Nehru’s policies,
how convenient it was for Nehru, that he died in judicial custody.
In Kashmir!

Only the name Nehru has changed to Gandhi in these fifty odd years,
everything else has stayed exactly the same.

Shyama Prosad Mukherjee had seen the grim fate
of the Hindu majority under Nehru, and
he had spoken out against it.

Did he die for it? Did he die in vain?
It is time for us to get off our lazy bengali backsides and start asking questions.

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India
has been held hostage by the religious minorities
by giving in to their demands, at the cost of the majorities
by the pseudo-seculars like the Congress and the Communists
by their politics of negatives ever since our independence 60 years ago.

You have proved
that politics of ideology has not died out.
that it is not necessary to pretend to be secular to fight elections
that it is no longer necessary to pander to the minorities for their votes to win.

That it is possible to win, if you stand firm in your beliefs
and deliver what you have promised
for the benefit of all.

I do not care what atrocities Mr Modi had committed,
for every act of human right abuses he may have committed,
his opponents have committed many times more, and of a nature no worse.

Thanks Gujarat,
for proving to the nation
that a time has come when one can say enough is enough
that it is not necessary to turn the other cheek, but to hit back in kind
that the time to be blackmailed by the minorities for their vote is finally over.

The Hindu majority has suffered for too long.
Our rights are no less than those of the minorities.
I hope the rest of the India wakes up and learns from you
that India is a country for all, and not just the religious minorities.

Well done, Gujarat.

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Are we hindus cowards?

Oh yes we are, Mr Gautier, and proud to be so.
We are also apathetic, lazy and hypocrites.
Our so called patriotism is restricted to our living rooms and cricket stadiums.
And on the screens of Bollywood films.

We hindus do not care a fig,
if India eventually becomes a communist, islamic or christian state.
As long as we can ape the West, what happens to the Hindu India is not our concern.
Besides we maybe dead by then, who gives a toss about our future generations.

Been there, done it. I have aped the West to my hearts content.
Till I arrived in the west, and realise how stupid I was aping the first world apes.
The West in so many ways, is more empty than Mother Hubbard’s cupboards.

Will anyone believe me, when I write this? No they will not.
The Scotch always feels smoother going down than any desi liquors.

Please do not ask us to arise and fight, Mr Gautier,
it is uncool,
it is too much of an effort,
besides why should I die for my country, anyway?

We may be cowards, but no one dare call us stupid.

“ARE HINDUS COWARDS “?

- FRANCOIS GAUTIER

“Muslims are bullies and Hindus cowards”, the Mahatma Gandhi once said. He was right – at least about Hindus: there has been in the past 1400 years, since the first invasions started, very few Shivaji’s and Rajput princes to fight the bloody rule of the Moghuls, or hardly any Rani of Jhansi’s to stand against the humiliating colonial yoke of the British.

If a nation’s soul is measured by the courage of its children, then India is definitely doomed: without the Sikhs, whose bravery is unparalleled in the more recent history of India, Hindus would have even lost additional land to the Muslim invaders and there would have been infinitely more massacres of Hindus by Muslims during the first weeks of Partition.

Are Hindus more courageous since they have an independent nation (thanks – not to the non-violence of Gandhi – but to the true nationalists, such as Sri Aurobindo and Tilak, who prepared the ground for the Mahatma at the beginning of the century)?

Not at all! Because of Nehru’s absurd and naïve “hindi-chini-bhai-bhai” policy, the Indian army was shamefully routed in 1962 by the Chinese, a humiliation which rankles even today. Beijing is still able to hoodwink Indian politicians, by pretending it has good intentions, through the interviews the Chinese leaders very generously give to the Hindu newspaper (which should rightly be called the “anti-Hindu”) and Frontline (“the mouthpiece in India for the Chinese communist party”), while quietly keeping on giving nuclear know-how to Pakistan, as well as the missiles to carry their atomic warheads to Indian cities, arm separatists groups in the north-east and continuing to claim Arunachal Pradesh or Sikkim.

Everywhere in the world, Hindus are hounded, humiliated, routed, be it in Fiji where, once more, an elected democratic government was deposed in an armed coup, or in Pakistan and Bangladesh, where Muslims indulge in pogroms against Hindus every time they want to vent their hunger against India (read Taslima Nasreen’s book “Lalja”).

In Kashmir, the land of yogis, where Hindu sadhus and sages have meditated for 5000 years, Hindus have been chased out of their ancestral home by death, terror and intimidation: there were 25% of Hindus at the beginning of the century in the Kashmir valley… and hardly a handful today.

And how did India start the new millennium? By surrendering as a lamb goes to the slaughterhouse to a handful of terrorists who took over flight IC 814 from Kathmandu to Delhi (Nepal is another small inconsequential country, which owes its culture to India, but keeps on indulging India’s enemies, whether Pakistan or China)! India had the opportunity to storm the plane when it landed in Amritsar, at a time when the militants had not been furnished with explosives and more guns by the Talibans, but it did nothing out of bureaucratic bungling and sheer incapability. And not only did this Hindu Government (yes, BJP/Hindu, not Congress/Secular) make an ass of itself by calling the Talibans “friendly”, whereas all along the Talibans only helped the terrorists, but also by its weak “Gandhian” attitude, it lost any credibility in a world, where Might is the only criteria, as the US proves us every day.

And what happens when there is ONE man in India – whatever his faults, quirks, or excesses – who dares to call a spade a spade, is not afraid of words and is ready to stand-up for his opinions? Not only, of course, he is attacked by Christians and Muslims, but he is also hounded by his own brothers and sisters, the “secular” Hindus, the Human Rights activists, the journalists, the judges, the police, the (Congress) politicians! Are Hindus so intent to show the world that not only they are cowards, but also idiots? This man, of course, is Bal Thakeray.

When Bal Thakeray said, already many years ago, that there was no point in playing cricket against Pakistan, as long as Islamabad was sending militants to kill and maim into Indian territory, he was ridiculed by the secular press as fanatic and un-sportive (and cricket is certainly not a gentleman’s game as the recent scandal has shown). But he was proved right, when during Kargil, India refused – for once – to play cricket with Pakistan. When he says too, that since fourteen centuries, Muslims always strike first against Hindus, he has another good point, for those who live in Indian cities which have important Muslim minorities, will tell you that every time there are Hindu-Muslims, it is the Muslims who start them, either by attacking the police, or by provoking the Hindus.

And this is exactly what happened in Bombay, after the Ayodya mosque was brought down by Hindu militants : Muslims, angry of the “terrible” affront done to Islam, started pelting the police with stones and burning shops; but unfortunately for the Muslims, who have made of riots an art (please read the passages of the Koran which deal with riots as part of jihad), they found that for once, the Hindus under the leadership of the Shiv Sena, retaliated blow for blow – an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth – as the Israelis, who have been so long at the receiving end of Muslim bullying, say so well. It is not for us to condone violence: but how long can the Hindus be the butt of killings and persecution, be sacrificial lambs that meekly go to slaughter ?

For in a way, Gandhi was right: Muslims are bullies, they have bullied India and they continue to bully Hindu India, as Pakistan has demonstrated by receiving a well-meaning, but naïve Vajpayee at Lahore, while its soldiers were quietly invading the heights above Kargil; or as Mushraraf shows, by giving gullible Indian journalists pep talk about how he wants peace with India, while Islamabad is still training and arming murderous jihadis for Kashmir.

And what monstrous murder is Bal Thakeray accused of ? What crime against humanity has he committed? He is guilty of having written two “inflammatory” editorials in the Shiv Sena’s mouthpiece. Editorials? Inflammatory? But did Bal Thakeray ever kill anyone ? Is the man going to be arrested for having “written” something ? Are not the leaders of the Muslim organization which spearheaded the recent bombing of churches in Karnataka and Andhra Pradesh, to sow disharmony between Christians and Hindus, still scot-free, by pretending that they believe in secularism ? Has Tiger Memom, who planted deadly bombs in Bombay in 1992, ever been caught and brought to court ? Are not the Muslim organizations, which organized the bomb attacks in Coimbatore a few years back, still functioning under different names ? Isn’t it true that in Kerala, every day a new mosque is built with money coming from the Gulf and that from these mosques and madrasas the mullahs preach openly violence and anti-Hinduism ?

The truth is that there are two standards in India: one for the Hindus; and one for the Muslims. Did the “fanatic” Hindus who brought down Ayodhya (and brought shame onto secular India, according to the Indian media) kill or even injure anyone in the process? No. But Muslims do not have such qualms. When Gandhi said they were bullies, he was being very nice or very polite. For forget about the millions of Hindus killed during the ten centuries of Muslim invasions, probably the worst Holocaust in world history; forget about the hundreds of thousands of Hindu temples razed to the ground, whose destruction – whatever our “secular” Hindus of today say – was carefully recorded by the Muslims themselves, because they were proud of it (see Aurangzeb’s own chronicles); forget about the millions of Hindus forcibly converted to Islam, and who sadly are now rallying under a banner, a language, a scripture which have nothing to do with their own ethos and culture (*).

Yesterday and also today, when the Muslim world feels it has been slighted, in even a small measure by Hindus, these Infidels, who submitted meekly to Muslim rule for ten centuries, it retaliates a hundred fold – this is the only way one intimidates cowards. After Ayodhya, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia (at least in a passive way by giving shelter for a while to Tiger Memon) with the help of Indian Muslims, planted bombs in the heart of Bombay and killed a thousand innocent human beings, most of them, once more, Hindus. Tomorrow, Pakistan might wage, with the blessing of the Muslim word, the ultimate jihad against India, which if necessary, will utilise the ultimate weapon, nuclear bombs. For has not the Koran said “’Choose not thy friends among the Infidels till they forsake their homes and the way of idolatry. If they return to paganism then take them whenever you find them and kill them” (Koran 98:51-9:5-4:89) ?

Unfortunately for India, the British, when they were here, had created an intellectual elite, to act as a go-between themselves and the “natives”, which today, thanks to the Nehruvian culture of successive Congress governments, looks at its own country, not by means of its own Indian eyes, but through a western prism, as fashioned by the white colonizers and the missionaries.

These « Brown Shahibs », these true children of Macaulay, the « secular » politicians, the journalists, the top bureaucrats, in fact the whole westernised cream of India are very critical of anything Hindu. And what is even more paradoxical, is that 98% of them are Hindus !

It is they, who upon getting independence, have denied India its true identity and borrowed blindly from the British education system, without trying to adapt it to the unique Indian mentality and psychology; and it is they who are refusing to accept a change of India’s education system, which is totally western-oriented and is churning out machines, learning by heart boring statistics which are of little usefulness in life.

And what India is getting from this education is a youth which apes the West : they go to Mac Donald’s, thrive on MTV culture, wear the latest Klein jeans and Lacoste T Shirts, and in general are useless, rich parasites, in a country which has so many talented youngsters who live in poverty.

They will grow-up like millions of other western clones in the developing world, who wear a tie, read the New York Times and swear by liberalism and secularism to save their countries from doom. In time, they will reach elevated positions and write books and articles which make fun of their own country, ridicule the Bal Thakeray’s of India and put them in jail; they will preside human-right committees, be “secular” high bureaucrats who take the wrong decisions and generally do tremendous harm to India, because it has been programmed in their genes to always run down their own country.

It is said that a nation has to be proud of itself to move forward – and unless there is a big change in this intellectual elite, unless it is more conscious of its heritage and of India’s greatness, which has begun to happen in a small way, it is going to be very difficult for India to emerge as a real 21st century superpower.

One would be tempted to say in conclusion : “Arise ô Hindus, stop being cowards, remember that a nation requires Kshatriyas, warriors, to defend Knowledge, to protect one’s women and children, to guard one’s borders from the Enemy”….
And do Indians need a Bal Thakeray to remind them of that simple truth ?

FRANCOIS GAUTIER

(*) This is no to say that all Muslims are fanatics; on the contrary, many of India’s Muslims are extremely gentle and their sense of hospitality unsurpassed. The same thing can be said about Pakistan: Pakistani politicians, for instance, are much more accessible than in India and Pakistan has its own identity, which cannot be wished away.

No, the problem is not with Muslims, whether they are Indians or Pakistanis, the problem is with Islam, which teaches Indian Muslims from an early age, to look beyond their national identity to a country – the Mecca, in Saudi Arabia – which is not their country, to read a Scripture which is not written in their own language, to espouse a way of thinking, which is inimical to their own roots and indigenous culture. Indian Muslims, have to think of themselves first as Muslims and secondly only as Muslims. Muslim soldiers fighting against Pakistan in Kargil, have shown the way.

** The author will release his new book “Arise Ô India” (Har-Anand) on the 25th August at India International Centre, 1PM..

It is so fashionable to be seen as secular and to be seen to be thinking “global”,
that we feel proud to lend our voices in support of our enemies and to denounce those
who everyday risk their lives to keep our borders unbreached and our country safe.

From the comforts of our living rooms made safe by those we denounce.
We do not deny being cowards, but it is uncool to be a hindu
or to be patriotic for India.

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On the day Gujrat goes to the polls, is it surprising that indian negationism raises its ugly head again; Lessons on how to demolish a mosque

The Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) excavated the mosque site at the direction of the Allahabad Bench of the Uttar Pradesh High Court in 2003. The archaeologists reported evidence of a large 10th century structure similar to a Hindu temple having pre-existed the Babri Masjid.

It is always the Marxist and Muslim historians who are in denial, and will spread unsubstantiated propaganda.

And as usual we the common hindu are guilty
of being too lazy to find the truth.
to fight for the truth.

Hindus, wake up.
The Marxists are selling off our country in the name of secularism.
Do we have to rely on foreign journalists to fight to reveal the true history?

SUPPRESSING INDIAN HISTORY by FRANCOIS GAUTIER

The anniversary of Ayodhya has come and passed. Once more, many of India’s intelligentsia felt that the destruction of the mosque has signalled the end of a certain tolerant India, for which secularism was the unifying factor and has planted a dangerous seed of Hindu “nationalism” in India’s psyche.

Yet, one should remember that the Hindu ‘fundamentalists’ did not kill a single soul in Ayodhya, whereas the bombs planted a while later in revenge by Indian Muslims with the help of Pakistan, killed more than 350 innocent human beings.

In fact, during its long history, Hinduism has been one of the most peaceful creeds in the world, accepting the reality of different beliefs, never trying to convert -even in a non-violent manner, like the Buddhists did in Asia – and submitting itself rather meekly, except for a Shivaji, a Guru Gobind or a Rani of Jhansi, to numerous invasions.

The same thing cannot be said about Islam, whatever N. Ram says in Frontline. Many historians, amongst them Will Durant, Louis Frederick, or Alain Danielou, have remarked that the Muslim invaders were so certain that they were doing their holy duty by razing temples and killing Hindus, that they had recorded down carefully and proudly their deeds in their own archives.

Mahmud of Ghazni, for instance, who patronised art and literature, would recite a verse of the Koran every night after having razed temples and killed his quota of unbelievers.

Firuz Shah Tughlak, personally confirms that the destruction of Pagan temples was done out of piety and writes: “on the day of a Hindu festival, I went there myself, ordered the executions of all the leaders and practionners of his abomination; I destroyed their idols temples and built mosques in their places”.

Aurangzeb did not just build an isolated mosque on a razed temple, as Romila Thapar would like us to believe, he ordered all temples destroyed, among them the Kashi Vishvanath, one of the most sacred places of Hinduism and had mosques built on a number of cleared temples sites. All other Hindu sacred places within his reach equally suffered destruction, with mosques built on them.

A few examples:
Krishna’s birth temple in Mathura,
the rebuilt Somnath temple on the coast of Gujurat,
the Vishnu temple replaced with the Alamgir mosque now overlooking Benares and
the Treta-ka-Thakur temple in Ayodhya.

The number of temples destroyed by Aurangzeb is counted in 4, if not 5 figures. This is a small excerpt of his own official court chronicles:

“Aurangzeb ordered all provincial governors to destroy all schools and temples of the Pagans and to make a complete end to all pagan teachings and practices”.

Or::

“Hasan Ali Khan came and said that 172 temples in the area had been destroyed… His majesty went to Chittor and 63 temples were destroyed. Abu Tarab, appointed to destroy the idol-temples of Amber, reported that 66 temples had been razed to the ground“..

Aurangzeb did not stop at destroying temples, their users were also wiped-out; even his own brother, Dara Shikoh, was executed for taking an interest in Hindu religion and the Sikh Guru Tegh Bahadur was beheaded because he objected to Aurangzeb’s forced conversions.

As we can see Romila Thapar and Percival Spear’s statement of a benevolent Aurangzeb is a flagrant attempt at negationism (the negation of historical crimes). Even the respectable Encyclopedia Brittannica in its entry on India, does not mention in its chapter on the Sultanate period any persecutions of Hindus by Muslims, except “that Firuz Shah Tughlaq made largely unsuccessful attempts at converting his Hindu subjects and sometime persecuted them”.

Indian school books seem to have taken their cue from the Encyclopedia Brittannica , as there is hardly any mention of this dark aspect of India’s past. But why does India negate its history? We know that Nehru and Gandhi wanted to keep Pakistan within India and wished to avoid the splintering away of Muslim groups. But was it a good enough reason to suppress information about Muslim atrocities during ten centuries of bloody invasions and the massive destruction of Hindu temples ? On the contrary this has only created more terrorism.

Denying and suppressing the history cannot keep the harmony. In its place, truth and reconciliation are necessary. Hiding the truth denies sympathy to the victim, civilization and culture. A nation unless, it is ready to face its own history – the Good and the Bad, the Courageous and the Cowardly – can never bloom into its full plenitude. Hidden aspects of its own history sooner or later will surface and bring with them the guilt, anger, regret, which are the necessary ingredients to wipe-off that particular black karma.

In Germany, for instance, Germans have been reminded again and again about the atrocities committed by the Nazis during World War II, and that has brought a sense of guilt, which has acted as a deterrent to future atrocities. The Jews have constantly tried, since the Nazi genocide, to keep alive the remembrance of their six million martyrs. This has got nothing to do with vengeance.

Do the Jews of today want to retaliate upon contemporary Germany? No. It is only a matter of making sure that history does not repeat its mistakes, as alas it is doing today in India : witness the persecution of Hindus in Kashmir, whose 250.000 Pandits have fled their 5000 year old homeland, or the oppression of Hindus in Bangladesh and Pakistan.

To remember, is to be able to look at today with the wisdom of yesterday.

No collective memory should be erased for appeasing a particular community. Hiding the facts and justifying past Muslim crimes has led to terrorism in the Indian sub-continent. Muslims were never held accountable. One of the first steps to curb violence is to make one aware of past mistakes. Guilt in the culprit and forgiveness in the victim can put an end to self-righteousness and the kind of terrorism we see today in Kashmir, in spite of India’s peace overtures.

This is not a call to take up arms, this is a call to find the truth,
and to reveal to the world the liars who have had it too easy for too long.

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India breathes a sigh of relief. Perhaps.
The controversial Indo-US 123 Agreement is kicking again.

The victims people of Nandigram, lost their own, to give it a new life.
On the day Mr Henry Hyde passed away, his legacy, the Hyde’s Act was reborn.

Nuke deal: BJP slams Left for ’surrendering’ to Cong.

The Hindu News Update Service: November 29, 2007 : 1515 Hrs

Kolkata (PTI): Describing the Indo-US nuclear deal as unacceptable to the party, the BJP on Thursday slammed the CPI and CPI-M for ’surrendering’ to Congress despite making ‘noises’ over it and said if voted back to power it would re-negotiate the deal and if it was not possible, cancel it.

“Congress has surrendered to the USA on the nuke deal and the Communist parties have surrendered to the Congress although they had made so much noises over the deal. It was a trade-off between Congress and Communists over Nandigram and nuke deal,” senior BJP leader M Venkaiah Naidu told reporters here.

Naidu said after Wednesday’s debate in Parliament on the nuclear deal, the ‘double standard’ of the Communist parties was exposed and now ‘they were confining themselves to giving sound bytes and not ready for a real fight’. “They (CPI-M and CPI) want the UPA government to continue even after saying that the nuke deal was a surrender to the USA. After all round condemnation of the CPI-M over its role in Nandigram and Singur, they have developed cold feet about going to the people,” he said.

“Indo-US nuclear deal is surrender to Washington, this is the considered opinion of the BJP. If returned to power, we will re-negotiate the deal and if it is not possible, we will cancel the deal,” Naidu said. The former BJP president said “Congress doesn’t know how to run the country and how to manage a coalition. Congress did not do any homework before negotiating the deal, neither it consulted its allies.

Of course.
It had to happen this way.
The Left Front, who stood up against their coalition partners now need the support of
the Indian Congress to make murder acceptable as a necessity in politics.

Sonia Gandhi comes out in support of N-deal

The Times of India: 17 Nov 2007, 1049 hrs IST, PTI

NEW DELHI: Congress President Sonia Gandhi on Saturday came out fully in support of the Indo-US nuclear deal saying it would have no impact on India’s atomic programme but enable the country acquire fuel and technology and help in getting the much-needed electricity for faster growth.

A day after the Left parties gave clearance to the government to approach the IAEA for working out India-specific safeguards agreement, she told the AICC meeting that there were differences with the outside allies but efforts were on to evolve a consensus through discussions.

Who then is Ms Sonia Gandhi?

Own Biography: Sonia Gandhi

Born into a family of modest means in an Italian village on the banks of a river 57 years ago, Sonia Maino, now Sonia Gandhi, has weaved a dramatic way to a place in history by becoming the President of India’s century-old Congress party. Being the third woman of foreign origin to hold the prestigious post after Annie Beasant and Nelli Sengupta.

Early life:

In 1964, (aged 18), she went to study English at The Bell Educational Trust’s language school in the city of Cambridge. Being from a poor family she used to work in a restaurant as waitress for paying the tution fees. While doing this certificate course she met Rajiv Gandhi, who was enrolled at the time in Trinity College at the University of Cambridge.

Born to Stefano and Paola Maino in Lusiana, a little village 50 km from Vicenza, Italy, she spent her adolescence in Orbassano, a town near Turin being raised in a Roman Catholic family and attending a Catholic school. Her father, a building contractor, died in 1983. Her mother and two sisters still live around Orbassano.

How did she become so powerful in India?
Because it was us who gave her that power.
For in a country of 1.12 billions, we could not find one other person as capable.

In The TIME 100: By Suketu Mehta

Imagine if the U.S. were run by an Indian Hindu woman without a college degree. It’s tough: the U.S. has never elected anyone who’s not Christian, white and male—even as Vice President. But India, which is an even bigger democracy, is run in all but name by an Italian Catholic widow with a high school education. In the 16 years since the assassination of her husband Rajiv, Sonia Gandhi, née Maino, has become the face of the country’s most famous family. As leader of India’s Congress Party, she has also managed the largest political party in the country and steered it to power. And she has done all this wearing a sari.

Orbassano’s Mayor Graziano Dell’Acqua
to VAIJU NARAVANE: In Maino country

“Even so, I wonder if we in Italy would accept a foreigner, and a woman at that, to take over a party which has symbolised the country’s struggle against foreign rule and which continues to enjoy great, if diminished, support across the land.
That a certain section of Indians have trusted her with their destiny speaks volumes for the tolerance of India,” concludes Dell’Acqua.

Italy. Italian. Wasn’t there once before an Italian connection?

Wanted by Interpol: Ottavio Quattrocchi

He & his wife namely QUATTROCCHI Maria were involved in fraud & bribery committed in India between 1982-1987. A percentage of the money paid by the Indian Govt., was illegally transferred by the”AB Bofors” Company to bank accounts in Switzerland, to the benefit of certain Indian public servants and their nominees.

Just who is Ottavio Quattrocchi?

Rediff News: George Iype January 17, 2006

How is he linked to the Bofors guns scandal?

The scandal erupted in 1987 when Swedish radio revealed that Bofors facing stiff international competition had paid more than $50 million in bribes to secure a contract for the sale of field guns worth $1.4 billion to the Indian Army. Then prime minister Rajiv Gandhi was named one of the suspects in the scam.

How could an Italian businessman be the middleman
between the Indian Army and Bofors, which is a Swedish company?
The answer lies in Quattrocchi’s proximity to the Gandhi family. Quattrocchi shifted to India soon after Rajiv married Sonia.

If Quattrochi was in India, why wasn’t he arrested?
When the Swiss authorities formally communicated to the Indian government in 1993 that the kickbacks in the Bofors case were deposited in Quattrocchi’s accounts, a Congress government headed by P V Narasimha Rao was in power. The Opposition immediately wanted the government to impound Quattrocchi’s passport and arrest him. But that was not done, and he was allowed to leave the country. He left India for Malaysia on July 29, 1993. The CBI’s efforts to get Quattrocchi extradited to India have not yet succeeded.

Does the Manmhohan Singh government’s ‘clean chit’ to Quattrocchi absolve him of all charges?

Yes, in a way. Prime Minister Singh said the action of defreezing Quattrocchi’s London bank accounts was taken by the CBI in consultation with law officers.

What does the man himself have to say?
In a statement issued from Milan in Italy this week, Quattrocchi said:
‘I believe it would be in interest of justice and India’s reputation if this case against me is brought to an end.’

So when I read,

Sonia Gandhi raises disarmament issue at UN meet
2 Oct 2007, 2107 hrs IST, PTI

UNITED NATIONS: As the UN marked Mahatma Gandhi’s birthday as the first International Day of Non-violence, Congress president Sonia Gandhi on Tuesday spoke of the international community’s collective failure to move towards comprehensive universal disarmament.

it makes my hair stand on end.

Why her?
There must be many Indians still alive today, who had been with the Mahatma,
shared his vision of non-violence
shared his struggle for freedom,
who should have been representing his country at the UN. Not Ms Sonia Gandhi.
Are we selling off our country, only to perpetuate the Gandhi name?

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And these are my reasons.

The Islamic Bomb

By: Tashbih Sayyed in Pakistan Today: Friday, December 26, 2003

Pakistan’s admission that her scientists may have spread the nuclear technology to Iran, has rekindled the fears that nuclear technology in the hands of an unstable state will remain a threat to the world peace. The serious observers are reluctant to accept that the government of Pakistan has not authorized or initiated any transfers of sensitive nuclear technology or information to other countries. There have been strong indications that Islamabad has sold nuclear secrets to some countries including Iran and North Korea over the years. And the latest development has only reinforced the suspicions.

The fact that the admission was not a voluntary act but a result of the UN International Atomic Energy Agency’s inspections of Iranian nuclear facilities that showed conclusively that “Pakistani-linked individuals” had acted as “intermediaries and black marketeers,” makes the situation more scary. Experts point out that Tehran’s acknowledgment that it had used centrifuge designs that appeared identical to ones used in Islamabad’s quest for the Islamic bomb did not leave any room for Pakistan but to admit.

Even Bush administration’s statement that Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf had assured Washington that his government had not—at least “in the present time”—provided any nuclear secrets to countries like Iran and North Korea did not help in alleviating the anxiety of the international community. The experience of the international community with Pakistan has taught it to be cautious before accepting any assurances. The world still remembers that Pakistani plane was caught picking up North Korean missile parts thought to be part of a swap for Pakistani nuclear technology, long after General Musharraf told the world that he stopped such sales after coming into power.

And the world believed him!
Too many skeletons in the cupboard, for Musharraf, B Bhutto and N Sharif.

NUCLEAR NORTH KOREA: NERVOUSNESS IN PAKISTAN

South Asia Analysis group: Paper no. 2004 dated 26. 10. 2006

8. The nervousness in Islamabad after the North Korean nuclear test is due to,
firstly, fears that fresh enquiries by the US might bring out hitherto unadmitted (by Pakistan) aspects of its co-operation with North Korea;
secondly, fears that the pressure on it to hand over A. Q. Khan for interrogation by US investigators might increase; and,
thirdly, that Mrs. Benazir Bhutto and Mr. Nawaz Sharif, who were considerably in the picture about this c-operation, might reveal the details to the US because of their anger over Musharraf’s refusal to let them return to Pakistan and contest next year’s elections to the National Assembly. If rightly approached by the US, Mrs. Bhutto and Mr. Sharif might be inclined to speak about the role of the Army—particularly Musharraf–in this co-operation, but not about their own role. According to these sources, Musharraf is particularly nervous that Mrs. Bhutto, who is more knowledgeable than Mr. Sharif, might start talking about this co-operation with the Americans. It is to pre-empt her doing so that he has reportedly been trying to make some political overtures to her.

Experts insist that unless Pakistan allows international agencies to install some kind of monitoring devices in its nuclear facilities to make the whole process really transparent, there is no guarantee that radical Islamists vying for power in the Islamic state will not share the secrets with their counterparts in other Muslim countries. In my opinion even if General Musharraf is sincere in his pledge to fight against radical Islamists, he is only one man against a national ethos. And as there is no alternate leadership that shares his enlightened vision, it is only a matter of time before an improved and “wiser” version of Talibaan will seize control of the nuclear installations.

The latest attempt on the life of General Musharraf has highlighted the dangers of continuing dependence on an individual in a non-democratic setup. Pakistan is a very different kind of a Muslim country. No Muslim country in the world was founded in the name of Islam. Pakistan did. As such it claims to be the citadel of Islam. Its armed forces are the armies of Islam and it champions the cause of each and every Muslim. Religion is not just its raison d’être but the only guarantee of survival. A system that has failed to provide equal rights to all of its citizens can only depend on a religious totalitarianism.

Pakistan is not a natural country. It is composed of regions, sects, ethnic groups and linguistic factions who, in the absence of social justice, have never felt a part of the Pakistani nationhood. It is only the iron hand of the armed forces that has prevented them from seceding. Bangalis, taking advantage of their geography that placed them far away from the military and political center, did secede and established their own country, Bangladesh. This is a very volatile state. A country that is kept together by a fascist religiso-military ideology can never be a productive and positive player in the comity of nations. It will always try to seek alliances with totalitarian regimes.

Pakistan was created for the Muslims of South Asian subcontinent. It was supposed to be a secular Muslim state working for the benefit of its citizens irrespective of their religion, color, ethnicity or creed. But soon after its creation, Islamists who had opposed its creation, hijacked it and declared that the state was founded in the name of Islam and will work to defend and expand the frontiers the faith. The non-Muslims were reduced to the status of second class citizens and the armed forces of Pakistan were declared as the armies of Islam.

Radical Islamists do not believe in the true faith of Islam that preaches equality and social justice. They practice an ideology that believes in persecuting those who do not share their philosophy. The fundamentalists found a ready support in an oligarchy that lacked legitimacy. This oligarchy too was in need of a weapon to perpetuate its rule. They knew that the allegiance of all the citizens cannot be won without establishing a system of social justice, which they did not want. So they opted for a system that has always been the choice of the totalitarian minds. Religion was used to enslave different ethnic and linguistic groups in an artificial unity. Pakistan was declared an Islamic state.

Oligarchy’s dependence on religion to sustain their rule forced them to depend more and more on radical Islamic groups. It presented itself as the champion of all Islamic causes. Every issue was now cast in a religious light and the world was either green or ungreen. Although this “Islam” failed to fool the minority groups, it did succeed in winning the support of fundamentalists and religious fanatics from all over the world. From Palestine to Paris, from Indonesia to Indiana and from Kashmir to Karbala, wherever there was religious terrorism, Pakistan found herself defending it. That’s why when Pakistan decided to have a nuclear bomb of its own it touted it as an Islamic bomb.

Religion is the only effective weapon in the hands of an oligarchy that does not respect the will of the people to keep the centrifugal forces tamed. Pakistan’s armed forces representing the ruling class believe that religion can make the minorities and smaller provinces forget the absence of social justice that keeps them in a perpetual state of poverty and helplessness.

There are enough documents
to prove the Americans were aware of China’s nuclear proliferation.
It is entirely possible that Pakistan handed over tracts of Kashmir to China,
as a payment for China’s assistance with nuclear technology as far back as 1963.

In 70s when Pakistan’s then Prime Minister Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto launched his campaign to win funds for the nuclearization, he sold the idea to Libya, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates and Iran as an Islamic project. All these Muslim countries supported the project whole heartedly. Pakistan never faced any shortage of funds as far as her nuclear ambitions were concerned. And therefore it feels obliged to share the technology with other Muslim countries.

Mr Abdul Kadeer Khan,
found reading secret documents in Almelo,
Netherlands’ top-secret gas centrifuge factory, escaped investigation
as he was hurriedly recalled to serve in Pakistan’s Economic Affairs Ministry.

But in 1976,
Dr Khan returned home to head up the nation’s nuclear programme with the support of then prime minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto.… revelations that he has passed on nuclear secrets to other countries have shocked and traumatised Pakistan. Abdul Qadeer Khan, who has confessed to transferring nuclear technology to Iran and Libya, is regarded as a national hero for helping Pakistan become a nuclear state.

There has always been a tacit understanding that Pakistan’s bomb will be used to regain the glory of Islam and defend the “rights” of the Muslims wherever they are persecuted by infidel powers. This was truly an Islamic bomb. On the one hand it strengthened the autocratic hands of the oligarchy and allowed Pakistan’s armed forces to rehabilitate themselves after the humiliating defeat in 1971 and on the other hand it allowed Pakistan to gain a very profitable position within the Muslim world. It was felt that Pakistan’s nuclear capability served as a morale booster for the entire Islamic world. Foreign Minister of Iran expressed his joy and pride and said that the nuclear test by Pakistan has strengthened the confidence of the Muslim world in the face of the nuclear threat from Israel.

Other Muslim nations were equally proud of Pakistan’s achievement. “No more shall the West humiliate Muslims,” thundered the Imam of Al-Aqsa mosque who saw in the explosion of the Pakistani bomb “the beginning of the resurgence of Islamic power.” Sheikh Ahmad Yasin, the leader of the Hamas thought that the Pakistan nuclear bomb was a shot in the arms of the Arabs who had failed to produce even a single tank. The Saudi King Fahd and the Crown Prince Abdullah also expressed their satisfaction over Pakistani detonation of nuclear device and thereby strengthening the defense of the Islamic world. The UAE president too described the Pakistani nuclear response fully justified in the face of serious threats to its security. The Egyptian Mufti called upon the Muslims to rally support for the nuclear blast by Pakistan.

The detonations, which, according to Christian Science Monitor “transformed the global balance of power setting the pace for remaking the world order,” were according to the then Prime Minister of Pakistan, Mian Nawaz Sharif were the results of an inspiration he derived from the holy book – Quraa’n. After conducting the nuclear tests, he proclaimed to the nation on May 28 that in resolving the dilemma “to explode or not to explode” he ultimately turned to the Holy Quran (Muslim holy book) for guidance and he came upon the divine commandment “always to keep your horses ready.”

The relevant verse of the Holy Quran is as follows:
“Against them make ready your strength to the utmost of your power, including steeds of war, (steed of war will mean the latest war technologies in the present context) to strike terror into (the heart of) the enemies of Allah and your enemies and others beside whom you do not known but Allah doeth know, whatever ye shall spend in the cause of Allah shall be repaid unto you and ye shall not be treated unjustly” (VIII: 60)

Islamists quote another verse of Quraa’n, to define the faithful and the enemies of Allah, “Those who believe fight in the cause of Allah and those who reject Faith (Kafroon) fight in the cause of Evil (Taghoot). The concept of Ummah under which all Muslims are like the parts of one body, does make it an obligation for every Muslim to fight in defense of other Muslims. That’s why the Muslims in Indonesia feel their responsibility to come to the defense of Palestinians. And that’s why it is not a surprise if the ISI and the radical Islamists in the Pakistan armed forces and other sensitive establishments do not feel it inappropriate to help Iran, Libya or Saudi Arabia to attain the nuclear power or other weapons of mass destruction. A prominent political analyst in Pakistan wrote, “. . . the Ummah as a whole must keep itself ready with the state-of-the-art weapons and the latest war technologies and never to relent. And whatever spent on it would be recompensed by Allah.”

They have had recompensation hundred times over from America, in US $$.

Islamists want Muslims to conclude from the verses of the Holy Quran that the nuclear capability acquired by Pakistan should not be deployed only for the defense of Pakistan but also for the defense of the entire Islamic world. It should be used against the Judeo-Christian powers to re-establish the Khilafah. Muslim street is made to understand that the world of Islam has common enemies and they have common ideological frontier to defend. Therefore it will always be justified for Pakistan to share its nuclear secrets with the those who are willing to fight the Judeo-Christian powers.

The fall of Saddam Hussein and the establishment of a democratic and true Muslim government in Iraq will change all this. The radical Islamism will have a hard time to find governments ready to share their technologies with them to defeat freedoms.

(The writer is editor-in-chief of Pakistan Today, a California-based weekly newspaper, president of Council for Democracy and Tolerance and adjunct fellow of Hudson Institute.)

Read the original text in full here: http://www.paktoday.com/islamic.htm

Can we really rely on the “promises” of Musharraf or whoever succeeds him next,
that the Islamic bombs will never reach the hands of the fundamentalists?
I cannot.

The threat now faces us all, the whole non-islamic world.
Surely the time has come for the world to
dismantle and remove Pakistan’s Nuclear arsenal and all related technology.
There can be no more blind eyes turned, no more wink and a nudge
to get the promise that these nukes will be only used against the Indians.

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