May 20, 2007 at 9:26 pm (Islamic Terrorism)
We are ignoring the threat from Bangladesh at our peril.
The Telegraph reports:
Andhra Pradesh police today said the SIM cards of the cellphones used as remote-controlled detonators were bought in Calcutta. The subscriber named in the purchase is believed to be the leader of a Bangladesh-based militant group whose cadre move in and out of Bengal at will.
May 20, 2007 at 9:00 pm (fanaticism)
The Akal Takht has made Dera Sacha Sauda an offer it simply cannot accept.
According to the Pioneer:
The situation in Punjab is unlikely to return to normal after the Akal Takht on Sunday rejected the “regrets” offered by Baba Gurmit Singh Ram Rahim, the head of Dera Sacha Sauda of Sirsa and served him an ultimatum to wind up all his deras in Punjab before May 27. The Sikh clergy has also given call of Punjab Bandh on May 22.
This will mollify the extremists who are determined to teach Dera supporters a lesson. The dogged determination with which the Sikh extremists are pursuing the Dera Sacha Sauda reminds one of Madudi’s efforts to get Ahmediyyas declared as non Muslims.
The remnants of the Khalistani movement must be glad, this conflict has given them a reason to be back in the limelight, “Sikhism is in danger” yet once more.
The Hindu reports:
Despite ban orders crowds gathered in many parts of the State, processions were taken out and effigies of the Dera chief burnt.
Security personnel used “light force” to disperse a mob in Patiala. In Amritsar, the protesters were led by the former militant, Gurnam Singh Bandala, who recently exposed the police for allegedly killing a man in a fake encounter and claiming the prize money.
The Sikh extremist demand is simply unacceptable. The Dera followers have the right to follow their religion in their places of worship. I wonder how the media would have reacted if Hindu organizations had served an ultimatum to Muslims to close all mosques.
The Hindu organizations are setting a bad precedent by supporting the Sikh extremists for the sake of “Hindu-Sikh” brotherhood, rather than taking sides in this conflict for narrow political gains, they should be trying to build bridges between the two warring communities. The Dera supported the Congress in the recent elections that does not give anyone the right to declare an open season on its followers.
May 20, 2007 at 1:17 pm (commies)
The commies have lost their touch, they haven’t been able to bludgeon the opposition to submission in Singur … yet.
May 20, 2007 at 12:32 am (evanjihadism, left-liberals, white-mans-burden)
Michael Witzel’s civilizing mission is in serious trouble. Witzel lead a jihad against the removal of distortions in the presentation of Indian and Hindu culture in California textbooks and to a large extent succeeded in influencing the California Department of Education’s decision.
Witzel’s chutzpah in initiating hostile moves against the Hindus and simultaneously presenting himself as neutral expert stemmed form a belief that the Hindus would not move to the courts. Well he was wrong. Civil rights organizations like CAPEEM sued the California department of education and have uncovered interesting details as a part of the discovery process.
Their motion to compel reveals some interesting facts:
Note: They always put back what I erase
CAPEEM’s motion to compel reveals many more instances showing Witzel plotted against the Hindus along with his evangelical friends.
This incident brings into focus yet once more how evangelical Christian organizations are attempting to exploit fissures in the Hindu society to further their agenda. It also shows some Harvard professors are just as unscrupulous as their evangelical friends.
May 19, 2007 at 3:22 pm (left-liberals)
There is one thing that is common to the rightists and left liberals in the west, an immense superiority complex. The rightists hate us, the evangelicals among them want to save our souls, the left-liberals go a step further, they want to save our environment, our women, our poor, our oppressed and now our democracy.
The western view is simple, there are two shades of brown: the “good” brown victim and the “evil” brown oppressor. The “good” brown victim is waiting for the western knight to deliver him from the “evil” brown oppressor, this implies, of course that the west has a moral obligation to keep on intervening in our affairs to set us right. Moreover the evil of “evil” brown man is rooted in Indian culture and traditions and we must change our culture under the direction of the “good” western man.
They have created a new entrepreneurial class, the parasitic class of “professional victims” who beg the westerners to intervene and set things right in India, their masters fling thirty pieces of silver and some awards at them from time to time so that the complaints keep on coming. The west likes these parasites, they massage their fragile egos and bolster their self image as saviors of the brown world.
Sandeep has written about one such savior from the west, Martha Nussbaum. She has chosen her “good” brown victim (the poor hapless Muslims of India) and “evil” brown oppressor (the Hindu male) and made a case for the western knights to set things right in India.
Ms. Nussbaum writes:
What has been happening in India is a serious threat to the future of democracy in the world. The fact that it has yet to make it onto the radar screen of most Americans is evidence of the way in which terrorism and the war on Iraq have distracted us from events and issues of fundamental significance. If we really want to understand the impact of religious nationalism on democratic values, India currently provides a deeply troubling example, and one without which any understanding of the more general phenomenon is dangerously incomplete.
That is, instead of turning Eye-raq into an unlivable hellhole, the Americans should have instead attempted to make India an unlivable hellhole.
The Indians have redeemed themselves in her eyes, for now, by voting out the BJP:
In May 2004, the voters of India went to the polls in large numbers. Contrary to all predictions, they gave the Hindu right a resounding defeat. Many right-wing political groups and the social organizations allied with them remain extremely powerful, however. The rule of law and democracy has shown impressive strength and resilience, but the future is unclear.
Leaving apart the erroneous interpretation of the election results above,(that the difference between the BJP and the Congress was of a few seats and the vote share between the two parties differs by a few percentage points), the above is clearly a call for the western left-liberals to keep a hawk eye on India, in case we Indians choose to vote wrongly.
Since the time Ms. Nussbaum wrote the above section of her book, Indians have voted out the Congress and voted in the BJP in Punjab and Uttarakhand and also in the municipal elections of Delhi and UP, the future indeed is uncertain, Indian society cannot be engineered by remote control, and thank God for that.
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