It’s CHRISTMAS (And You’d Better Like It Or Else)

Mouth piece of Congress Gvt…what can you say? Compare those in power with the Anna Team, I think anna team is much better than these rogues sitting on the chairs like they own this country.

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Country hasn’t forgotten the calls you made and role you played in the 2G scam. If an affective Lokpal established, you will be the first crony journalist to go to Tihar. Good luck!

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Sanghvi must have received a hefty pay for writting this article ! Sanghvi knows that Anna has a far larger following & let me tell him that due to the above article his following is bound to grow more.

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Govt can’t afford 2 let go CBI control because the skeltons of Sonia & other Minister who are drafting the Bill would come out and most of them would land up in jails. They would rather play politics and try get out of the jam. Let us not get them out of the hook this time.

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C’mon, Masha. Think of the Aussies, having Christmas in summer. Sing Christmas carols and all will be well.

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Sorry, Psaxe, I’m not a photo-taking sort of person.

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Grin. And the same to you, Parvana.

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Did the photocopying work, T? I mean, were you able to read comfortably?

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Potiticians in India are a waste of space. They are polluting the whole environment by their smelly gas. The are like worms who slither. Their chamchas are still saying that Parliament is supreme and only they have right to say something against the corruption. The are painting a very gloomy picture of India after the Jan Lok Paul as if it is very bright now. Our own prime minister has said that he is not capable of removing corruption. And yet few months ago they wanted to bring a useless bill that would not help the people of India. Yes parliament is supreme in the western world where politicians stand up for what they believe. Here in India Politicians are standing against Anna.
Why congress always stands up and always discredits Anna, yet nobody spoke of bringing such a bill.
Government is spending tax payers money to gain some credibility, yet it remains to be seen if they succeed.

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It is Congress India lost land to Paksiatan (PoK) and China from Kashmir. Since Congress has ruled the nation for many decades. Not resolving issues with Pak leading to terrorism in various parts of India. Today by doing caste and religion based politics they just creating a Pro congress environment, but the truth is nation has lost more under Congress rule than any other. They will not going to bring strong anti Corruption laws simply because they are scared to looses more important leaders and loose the election. Time has come when people should take best of both sides (Congress and BJP). Since Congress has already cleared quota for minorities, now people in UP should vote only for those who are willing to support Jan lokpal bill and are non corrupt. Idea is take what ever Congress is giving to minorities but choose people of your choice.

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its absurd to belive on blogs you can write anything u like…journalists those who represent nation must do some research before penning down….this article is not less than a farce and another congy trick to derail the movement

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Read your non sence blog and comments on it by people. You still didn’t get it!!!

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“That’s why I don’t care what the government thinks of Kejriwal and gang or their draft or their intransigence. I care only about being able to live my life in a corruption-free society.”

You openly diss Anna Hazare and his team for doing what they can, to get you and everyone else a chance to lead a life in a corruption-free society. You openly support the government in character assassination of the members of India Against Corruption movement. And you care about leading a life in a corruption-free society. What kind of crazy logic is that??

So either you are paying lip service to the anti corruption movement, while deriding it openly for other purposes, or you don’t know how things work.

Pull out your head from your anal aperture, so that you can see the light, buddy!

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This is the result of what may be termed the Rajya Sabhafication of the government.

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Will strong Lokpal change things ???

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I know about the UnChristmassy (is that a word..anyway it’s there now) feelings. I have been inundated with project deadlines But the other day I’d had enough…so laptop was closed firmly, and I got down to cooking. And some more cooking. And calling friends over. And having a couple of barbecues…those things always help And now I’m feeling good and festive….

I insist on wishing you a fantastic, super duper 2012, which is filled with lots of books

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Seeing how the protest has fizzled out, some might say that it is Team Anna that doesn’t get it.

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Zia are you nuts , what utter bollocks you write and I quote
“Yet, the elections in UP, a bellwether state the size of Brazil, ”
HOLY MACCARONI , BRAZIL IS NEARLY TWO AND A HALF TIMES ……….THAT OF ……….INDIA(yes you are reading it correct)
Other than that glaring mistake , generally your arguments are sound , THOUGH MUSLIMS NEED TO DEFINE THEMSELVES AS HUMAN BEINGS FIRST , INDIANS NEXT , and muslim by chance of birth.
If that is the order of priority , then education , material well being , RATIONALITY ought to play a much much bigger role than it does at the present moment.
Oh by the way , Deoband needs to demolished to smitherens

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why are these women dressed in these strange clothese this is not how Indian women dress Indian culture is very colourful full of life these women are being depressed and are dressed in a very depressing manner compeletely against Indias traditions and culture

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You can see Zia is no different than an illiterate muslims. Both whine and always ask for Khairaat..They got 2 nations for themselves but are still begging. This is what is happening around the world.

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according to population.

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bullshit.they vote according to their interest and defeat bloody bjp.

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only brhmn vote in group muslims vote according to their interest.

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Muslims like any other group has layers which behave differently when voting. Like other groups layers, some of the layers do vote as block and some don’t. Zia seems to take a simplistic view of Muslim attitudes to the elections.

“This is especially true when they see an emerging threat from communal politics of Hindu nationalists that threaten their identity”

A good question is if those same Muslims will vote for Islamist communal NUTTERS like the Muslim league and the rest even those the Muslim league is directly and historically involved in splitting this country in communal lines in 1947 which can be blamed for the current religious polarization in parts of India? Is this case of “NUTTERS are ok as long as they are our NUTTERS”?

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RAJX AND DIPANKAR,

10 Indictments Of Narendra Modi

1 JUNE 2002 The then PM Atal Bihari Vajpayee reminded Narendra Modi in a letter to follow “raj dharma”. Vajpayee observed that there was “gross under-assessment of damages” to riot victims.

2 SEPTEMBER 2003 Hearing the infamous Best Bakery case, in which 14 people were burnt, the then Chief Justice VN Khare remarked, “I have no faith left in the prosecution and the Gujarat government. You have to protect people and punish the guilty. What else is raj dharma?”

3 APRIL 2004 In a damning observation on the Modi government, Justice (retd) Arijit Pasayat remarked: “The modern-day Neros were looking elsewhere when innocent children and helpless women were being burnt and were probably deliberating how the perpetrators can be saved.”

4 FEBRUARY 2006 On orders of the SC, the Gujarat HC reopened 1,594 post-Godhra riot cases and action was initiated against 41 police officers. By June 2006, over 2,000 cases were reopened.

5 OCTOBER 2007 A six-month-long investigation by TEHELKA exposed Modi’s complicity in the riots. Several rioters, senior Sangh Parivar functionaries and the state government’s special prosecutor were caught on camera revealing in detail the role played by Modi in the carnage.

6 MAY 2010 The SIT submitted a report finding Modi guilty on many counts: a communal mindset, inflammatory speeches, destruction of crucial records, appointment of Sangh Parivar members as public prosecutors, illegal positioning of ministers in police control rooms during the riots, and persecution of neutral officers.

7 JULY 2011 Amicus Curiae Raju Ramachandran recommended that Modi should be prosecuted under Sections 153A, 153B, 166 and 505 of the Indian Penal Code.

8 SEPTEMBER 2011 The SC ordered that the complaints of late Congress MP Ehsan Jafri’s wife Zakia and Citizens for Justice and Peace against Modi would be heard by a magistrate in Gujarat.

9 JANUARY 2012 Justice VM Sahai of the Gujarat HC upheld the appointment of the Lokayukta by Governor Kamala Beniwal against Modi’s wishes. Justice Sahai’s order read: “The pranks of the chief minister demonstrate the deconstruction of our democracy.”

10 FEBRUARY 2012 The Gujarat HC remarked, “The fact that the riots continued for several days itself suggests lack of appropriate action or adequate action, if not inaction, on the part of the state in handling the situation

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BALWINDER JEE AND SHAN,

10 People Who Got Away

1 MK TANDON, JCP, Sector 2, Ahmedabad, in whose region over 200 Muslims were butchered, didn’t respond to distress calls from Gulberg Society, Naroda Gaon and Naroda Patiya. He was in telephonic contact with VHP general secretary Jaideep Patel and local BJP MLA Mayaben Kodnani.

2 PB GONDIA, DCP, Ahmedabad Zone IV, remained out of his area of jurisdiction when the two areas were burning. His cell phone records have shown that he was in touch with Nimesh Patel, accused in the Naroda killings. He too was in touch with Patel and Kodnani.

3 HARESH BHATT, was with the Bajrang Dal and went on to become the Godhra MLA. He admitted to the TEHELKA sting operation that bombs and other weapons were manufactured at his firecracker factory.

4 GORDHAN ZADAPHIA, the deputy home minister during the riots. Babu Bajrangi, a key accused of the Naroda Patiya riots, revealed in the sting op that he had called up Zadaphia after the carnage and was advised to flee the city.

5 PC PANDE, the commissioner of police, Ahmedabad, was accused of deliberate inaction by riot victims and activists. In 2010, IPS officer Sanjiv Bhatt claimed that Pande was constantly informed about the mob build-up at Gulberg but failed to take action. Call data records show Pande visited Gulberg on the day of the massacre.

6 MADHU SRIVASTAVA, former BJP legislator was caught on a TEHELKA sting operation in 2005 confessing to have bribed Zahira Sheikh, a key witness in the Best Bakery case to retract her testimony. While Zahira was later convicted for perjury, there was no criminal action against Srivastava.

7 DILIP TRIVEDI, general secretary of the VHP’s Gujarat unit, was the senior pleader in Mehsana district, among the worst affected areas. In the TEHELKA sting operation, Trivedi admitted he weakened prosecution cases by coercing and bribing the witnesses.

8 ANIL PATEL, senior Sangh Parivar functionary, told the TEHELKA undercover reporter how he carried out mayhem in Sabarkantha district, where more than four dozen people were killed and hundreds of houses razed.

9 DHAWAL PATEL, VHP functionary, was caught on camera confessing to the manufacture of bombs at his stone quarry in Sabarkantha with the help of RSS man Amrudh Patel, an expert in handling explosives. There was no criminal action against either person.

10 FEBRUARY 2012 PK MISHRA, an IAS officer, who was Principal Secretary and party to many controversial decisions taken during the riots. A top cop had told TEHELKA that Mishra, in collusion with two IPS officers, had fabricated documents and bulldozed officers into submission

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SHAN AND AALOKE,

10 Ways The Judiciary Slipped Up

1 THE SC should have issued suo moto notice to the government after the NHRC’s 2002 report, which had observed that “a serious failure of intelligence and action marked the events leading to the Godhra tragedy and the subsequent deaths and destruction”.

2 IN 2002, the SC should have transferred 10 major cases to the CBI or to some other independent agency. Even though the apex court ordered these cases to be fast-tracked, it ruled out the transfer of cases.

3 THE SC ordered the reopening of 2,000-odd cases, which were closed by the police without proper probes. But the apex court didn’t closely follow up on the reopened cases as a result of which most of them were again closed without meeting the ends of justice.

4 EITHER THE Gujarat HC or the SC should have taken cognizance of call records submitted by police officer Rahul Sharma in 2004. These exposed the administration’s dereliction of duty and subversion of the Gulberg Society and Naroda Patiya massacre cases.

5 IN THE wake of the TEHELKA exposé of state complicity in the riots, Zakia Jafri and the CJP filed an application before the HC asking for verification of the authenticity of the tapes. The court dismissed the application. The SC too failed to take a firm stand and didn’t pass any order. It was finally left to the NHRC to order a CBI inquiry.

6 AFTER STAYING the trials in nine cases in November 2003, the SC allowed the petitions to drag on for the next five years. It was only in March 2008 that it constituted an SIT and ordered reinvestigation.

7 THE APEX COURT enlisted Gujarat cadre cops into the SIT and in a way re-entrusted the probe into the hands of the state police, which was reporting directly to the Modi government and was accused of subverting of justice.

8 THE SC chose a retired CBI director as the head of the SIT, who visited Gujarat not more than once or twice a month and kept himself at an arm’s length from the field investigations. The SC could have instead chosen retired judges to monitor the probe.

9 THE SC first expressed displeasure with the SIT’s report on Modi and made Amicus Curiae Raju Ramachandran carry out an independent exercise of assessing the material collected by the SIT and submit a report. But in a wishy-washy order passed last September, the SC left it to the discretion of the SIT whether it would like to produce the amicus report before the magistrate.

10 THERE WERE several petitions filed before the Gujarat HC and the SC praying for an investigation into the mass graves discovered in more than a dozen places across Gujarat. Both the courts turned down the prayer

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personal interest is banned but bank interest with restriction is allowed in muslim countries.yes islam is against interest banking as it generates slavery.
now big countries of world are slaves of banks.they have to fight wars to repay loans.that is america is continously at war with everbody.destroying world hurting her own economy.THAT IS WHY INTEREST IS BIGGEST EVIL IN ISLAM.

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, that Mohammad of Ghazni was not at all a raider, he did great service to “free” frozen assets! They refuse to look into the chronicler’s records of these blood-thirsty tyrants who noted with unabashed glee

mahmood of ghaznavi was called by competing brhmns who had share in loot.
history is full of these people.PESHWAS OF POONA ALWAYS LOOTED TEMPLE OF SHANKARACHARYAS WHENEVER IN NEED OF MONEY.
SHIVAJEE LOOTED BANIAS OF SURAT IMMEDIATE AFTER CORATION
WHEN THUGS OF BENARAS ROBBED ALL HIS WEALTH DURING CEREMONY.

dead money from the temples must be confiscated and invest in infrastructure projects.GOD DO NOT NEED MONEY.now ashrams have become money laundaring centres.

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rdicalism is due to unemployment not because of religion.economies are destroyed by americans and russian invasion.they became suicide bmber to feed family.

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The use of jizya is again a part of Islamic struggle to win the world in the name of religion.

in india jaziya was not applicable on brhmns,rajputs and muslims as they were contributing in war.remaining has to pay tax for security.all over the world such taxes are imposed when state comes in trouble.

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as if it is the figment of some rabid hindu imagination

sumit hindu is another name of brhmncl slvery.

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no they are victims of american presence in the are where there is america,there is no voilence or suicide bombing.

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1000% correct..but people like be politically correct..

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read arthshastra and dharamshasta and read how aadi shankaracharya kicked out budhdhist from main land.

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Whether it is Muslims, Islam, Muhammad, and Quran, or it is Jesus, Christianity, and The Bible, the Hindus, their numerous gods, their Trinity (Brahma, Vishnu, Siva) that fills in for Isvara (God), or any other religion, its followers, and its texts, the point is every organized religion is no more than a system of thought. A system of thought is not produced except in a human mind, or several human minds. Likewise, a book may be the work of one hand or several hands. There is no way of writing a book except by a human agency. Books are for reading and not for worshipping. There may be some useful things in every book. But it is extravagant to claim that any book could be the result of a revelation or ilhaam or that there could be anything like a divine book, e.g., Srimadbhagavadgita, or, for that matter, that any one book or collection of books could contain complete truth or even knowledge. It is straining human reason to be asked to believe that any book or any line in it could have a divine origin. To my way of thinking, there is nothing distinctive about Islam, Quran, or Muhammad. Those who consider Quran as the embodiment of all the collective wisdom of all ages past and future are ignoring the logic of human growth over the centuries and in the future. For that matter, it is useless to talk about something like jihad, which to my mind is a mere affectation invented by scheming individuals for the sake of claiming some kind of superiority for their religion, its originator, and the supposed author of what all had been ‘revealed’ to him by Allah (God). There is no such thing as Isvara (God) or Allah (God) and there is no such thing as a paighambar (Prophet) or a Son of God or, for that matter, a religious way of doing things. It is extravagant to even talk about something like the efficacy or impact of prayer, because there is no one to pray to and nothing to pray for, because no prayer is answered ever, because there is no one to answer it. We as human beings need to organize our affairs in a matter that conduces to the greatest benefit of everybody as far as we can manage. There are no higher courts of judgement and no rewards or punishments for one’s actions in life. At the same time, there is nothing like reincarnation or punarjanma or resurrection. There was nothing before one is born and there will be nothing after one is dead. Everything on the subject has been the imaginative invention of clever minds who manage to sway the gullible and the weak. V. C. Bhutani, Delhi, India, 13 Mar 2012, 1355 IST

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bernard lewis is voilent zoinist ashknazi jew.people like him write propaganda not truth.they are am-chair analysts.preparing arguments in favour of israel to help their illegal ocupation of middle east.

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abhishek jee u have read more about jihad.it means stuggle for good.

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Good. You can go on haj with him and the other role model and icon Zakir Naik.

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Perhaps that is why Zia mian calls him a role model and icon.

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i think if true democracy comes, secularism and freedom of expression would follow automatically

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“The Politics of Rage: Why Do They Hate Us, in the Newsweek in the aftermath of 9/11. It was delusional, he argued, to think that terrorists target America because they are simply insane. ”

Hate (or rather imagined hate) is a part of the Islamic Theology.

What is the explanation otherwise for destroying the various deities of Kaaba by Prophet Muahmmed if not his hatred towards the people who wouldn’t want to agree with him and his theories on how the Kaaba was built by Abraham. According to archaeological evidence, even the city of Mecca didn’t exist before 3-4th century AD forget about Mecca existing prior to that. So, Muhammed just imagined it in his mind and wanted others to believe it as well and flew into a stubborn confrontation when others refused to accept up is down and down is up.

This is the core of Islam. Every religion is a way to channelize/package some human aspect. “Original and orthodox” Islam packages/redirects the human emotion of “anger and hate” into violence directed disbelievers.

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When was this article written? Could you not have changed some of the references from back in 2005 or so? “Iraq is a rogue nation”? Really? Hasn’t the dust settled on that one? Even a cut and paste artist makes some editorial efforts before pushing out stuff.

That said, I share your admiration for Fareed Zakaria.

However, he is not just a role model for muslims. He is role model for any immigrant in USA. Indeed, he doesn’t identify himself as a muslim on any public forum, nor does anybody else (except of course some right wing nuts leaving comments on public blogs)

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You are patently wrong. He never condoned the attack. In fact, his documentary was a clear expose of Pakistan’s role in the attack. I watched it twice.

Get your facts right.

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Not true. He played a part in the hbo documentary which exposed the chilling fanaticism involved in the way the mumbai attackers and their handlers operated. No Islamist will do that.

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Finally an article from zia with which I don’t have a problem with…almost. Zia calls zakaria right but the American right calls him left. He gets all the best knowledgable guests and his shows are generally informative because of that. Ah…one more thing. Maybe he succeeded because he didn’t wear his religion on his lapel and he has talent and did not restrict himself to looking at the world through a religious and ummah prism like our Zia…

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Interesting. Why do you think that his dad is a closet jihadi?

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I think there are no dearth of Zakarias in India but India chooses not to find or focus on them. For obvious votebanking reason it chooses to look at things from wrong end of the spectrum and gets what it deserves.

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He is what a Muslim is all about > a terrorist in disguise to appease Islam all the time …..

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Fareed Zakaria is one the rarest of the rare persons who wears very lightly “the accident of his birth” in a family that is moslem. He does not make a living , wearing his “muslimness” on his sleeves. He never has an Islamic takkiya (lying) way of approaching facts, he is very sound on logic and given the constraints of dealing with islamic terrorism, does appear to go quite a distance. He has been quite categorical about Pakistan’s dubious role as the epicentre of Islamic Terrorism, he is, as yet, not an apologist.

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Dr. Rafiq Zakaria wrote a book in defense of the Quran when the Saffron terrorist Arun Shourie attacked the Holy Book in the 80s in the columns of the Indian Express – that perhaps is his crime in you view. Dr. Rafiq Zakaria was an Islamic scholar, an educationist who established many educational institutions and a Congress leader with the most secular of credentials. Only those who are extremists and terrorists themselves would call such a genteel, scholarly soul a closet terrorist.

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Are you a bramhin. Only a bramhin can make such stupid comments as yours. You are a bigger plonker than your post suggests.Would you care to watch MICHAEL MOORE’S FILM “SICKO”, or Homer Simpson In THE SIMPSONS.30%of AMERICANS DO NOT HAVE A HEALTH INSURANCE.
Insurance companies will not cover you for Pulmonary Embolism if you had suffered Deep Vein Thrombosis. But Pulmonary Embolism is the only major worry for someone with Deep Vein Thrombosis.
As regards ISRAEL Plaestanian conflici ISRAEL IS MAINLY TO BE BLAMED , palestanians are to be blamed for being a dickhead and not playing their cards right.
AMERICA IS IN THE POCKET OF JEWISH LOBBY
Read Academic work the THE AMERICAN FOREIGN POLICY AND ISRAEL LOBBY BY CHICAGO PROFESSOR John Mearsheimer and HARVARD PROFESSOR Steven Walt.

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If that was the case then the book by Chicago professor John Mersheimer and Harvard Professor Steven Walt called AMERICAN FOREIGN POLICY AND ISRAEL LOBBY would not have been published.
That said AMERICA IS IN THE POCKET OF JEWISH LOBBY

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I have no problems whatsoever with APJ Abdul Kalam, Mohammed Rafi, Maulana Azad, etc. They are Arabic origin names. But I suspect you may have problems with Indian sounding names.

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@Azhar, noted that you have no answer to my points of “mob mentality”, nor about techical or cultural accomplishments right from Morocco till Malaysia. The “non-msulims” working there are there because the locals lack those experstises.
it is incredulus that there can be any Indian feeling “aggreived” at moslem deaths in Iraq, Afghanistan, etc.In our homeland so much blood has been shed before, during and after the partition. Moslems prior to the partition, thanks to the call of “Direct Action” by the Muslim League, went on a slaughtering spree, Want to know the enormity of the tragedy, over 350,000 slaughtered in Noakhali, Calcutta riots, nearly 50,000 killed, then there is the Lahore massacre, Rawalpindi , Quetta killings the list is endless, but it is futile ennumberating any of it to a psuedo-arab as you . Your mind is blinkered only to shed “tears” for Palestine, for Chechnya, Bosnia etc etc, you heart does not bleed for Indians suffering, or for any human suffering inflicted by the Copts in Egypt, Christians in Iraq, Lebanon, or Hindus in Pakistan, Afghanistan and Bangladesh. I wonder why you are residing in this Dar-ul-harb, you would be so much delirious in your dar-ul-islam..I sincerely feel that your education has been a squandered resource.

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YO MR COLD_VOICE! u are an ignorant servitude of system which enslaves you like ur master speak on it. get a life of query-man on 2 points of this blog 1 how he starts first? where he smash the people he do not like without proofs, then cries for ‘his govt’ to lacking in managing. 2 if all those were right for mr veer(congress theer) then make a thrilling master piece of all his findings on anna and his team!? can he… he can only be called media middlemen of congress!

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