Couture or confusion?

Very good analysis, I agree with you entirely, military support for Afghan is a must, it will have international support and lead to isolation of Pak. The US will then have no need to fund the Pak Army and this will give strength to the political parties who may start asserting themselves. I see your suggestions as a win win situation. It is about time India paid more attention to this region, it should use its goodwill with Iran who could prove to be an invaluable ally in supporting a search for a viable form of Government in Afghan.

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in pakistan there are nearly unregistered 10 lakh fully trained militants and 50 lakh untrained militants which are brainwashed to fight and die against india and their master minds continuously working out for various differet perfect plans to assolt india……

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imp note : indian army, government authorities, people should count this informaion :–
in pakistan there are nearly unregistered 10 lakh fully trained militants and 50 lakh untrained militants which are brainwashed to fight and die against india and their master minds continuously working out for various differet perfect plans to assolt india……

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This sound more like a rant of a jealous sulking woman who is seeing progress in others home.

Why not learn from Modi? Even your papers owner invests in Gujrat. Soon all industry will be in Gujrat while other state will just drive them away by corrpution and strikes.

Your party Spokesman Manish Tewari say that Modi is like Nazi germany. But he may rmember that Sonia gandhi father is big votary of Mussolini and Nazi germany.

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yor sucking loser, man grow up, your hatred shows towards the people of Gujarat and NaMo, man please go and make a living in Pakistan, India does not need you.

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Every HITLER has his day. Period

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How and why did Jehadi journalist Zia Haq missed Akbarudding episode? Is the deliberate or oversight? The answer is obvious. Our media is now infilterated by terrorists pretending to be journalists.

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Last Friday, at Modi’s ritzy investor carnival, Ambani publicly professed that Modi’s birth in 1950 was an event equal in importance to Mahatma Gandhi’s in 1869. Greatness was never this small and flattery never so daring.
Zia, My child, have you forgotten, a fellow Assamese, immortal words: India is Indira and Indira is India: Grow up. intellectually, you are a pigmy. you just wear that victimhood. Can you engage with me?? I will show you the mirror.

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Zia you are acting like a Jehadi with rabid anti-Hinduism. You have no idea that Gujarat today is the largest employer in India. Every month more than 40,000 skilled and non-skilled labor force migrates to Gujarat for job opportunity from states like Bihar, UP, Rajsthan, Odisha, WB, NE states and even Maharashtra. All are welcome with open arms and live their amicably while enjoying the fruits of Modi’s Gujarat is developing every year. Modi has not declared that Gujarat is a developed state; it is still developing and has long way to go but it is NOT Somalia. It is much better managed than your model states like WB, UP, Kerala or many other states run by UPA.

Based on per capita, Gujarat state contributes the largest money in the central government in the form of Excise, Customs, Income tax and other fees which exceed rs 60,000 crores in 2010-11 and numbers increasing on daily basis. This money is used by the UPA government to susidise J&K, UP and WB states while giving less to Gujarat. This is the miracle of Modi. This is in addition to the salaries that migrants sent to their native places. Many of Gujarat statics are skewed by the constant migrant workers majority of whom are poor and do not want to spend in the state where they make money.

How many migrate to Kerala? Keralites are spread all over in search of jobs. The development starts step by step starting with peace, development of infrastructure (roads, power and skilled labor), good governance, corruption free system, willingness of indusustry to establish big units followed by meduim and small scale industries, education institutes, etc. It does not happen otherway round as Jehadis like you think. Once there is enough income to spread, people would spend on health and other social indicators.

Another point I would like to mention that there is an ANTI-MODI industry which has fudged many statistics to feed pseudo-secularist and jehadis like you. So take a chill pill and talk about OWAISI BROTHER and stop villifying Modi and Gujarat. You have been proven wrong and bigot many time before on the issue of MODI.

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Well in most of Muslim world, when Muslims had a chance to elect a government after decades of dictatorship, their choice was Islamists like Muslim Brotherhood and Hamas. Is Modi worse than Muslim Brotherhood and Hamas that openly calls for genocide of Jews and second class status for non-Muslims… etc?

Would Muslims in India prefer Muslims are treated they way they treated native Hindus in Kashmir?

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Such morons will never alter their mindset, which is stuck in the 7th century. That is the time when a complete totalitarian ideology was born, so the less Mr Haq talks about totalitarianism, the better. As regards the progress, the state is making, it needs no certification from such sceptics, who peddle outdated statistics. I suggest he read Bibek Debroy’s latest treatise on Gujarat and its development story. Mr Haq, you can choose to remain in an Ostrich mode, if you wish, but the world is passing you bye.

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lets have look at Modi “ he has a big mouth on him but no Idea what he taking about he model his self on the Nazis, dose he not know the Nazi were most blood thirsty people in Europe. they murdered million and millions of Israelis, they gassed them? they started the second world war.

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Modi is a low life murderer

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no wonder they call you a muslim!!!!

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If these “fat cat tycoons had lavished the same “praise” on our beloved Italian ex-maid this jihadi nut-case would have applauded or resounded it with an acquiescing silence.
Mian, why this “thundering silence” on Owaisi’s 15 minutes of time out from the police to show your community’s strength to the coward community? We all would love to hear your “conspiracy theory” on that

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HindustanTimes is run by pakistani terrorists. This article is one of the best evidence. Just the mere tone of the article makes me puke. Keep barking and the day will soon come when you are put in place.

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MODITVA MODITVA MODITVA….AND JUSTICE FOR BHARAT MATA….THE REST, LIKE THIS “JOURNALIST” DON’T EVEN EXIST.

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The author should explain what India is paying now?… remember, India went in the way the author aspires for the past 60 yrs and achieved nothing and now, when Modi is trying to make a change, he is being compared to Hitler.

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Thanks Zia ul Haq (or whatever), I’m rooting for for Modi. Had enough of your Pakistani bro Mickey Mouse Singh.

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The grapes are so extremely sour that we have no recourse, but to resort to lies. lies amd more lies – like our Maha Mad taught us 1400 years ago.

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OK sir agreed . Gujarat is bad – most backward state – and the people there are dumb – in fact it is very very bad and most inconvenient as well as it is very dangerous to live in Gujarat. One does not know how people live in such conditions that can be compared to Uganda as compared to other states which resemble the rich Texas or California in US.

All the industrialists who come to the states are dumb and foolish and they are wasting their precious money which they got from their parents by investing in Gujarat. Unfortunately almost all the industrialists fall in this category – even Tata – who has taken over foreign companies in their country.

what a shame – you see the Gujaratis in this state live their life in darkness unlike other states in India – no electricity – no power and live in medieval times.

Very good analysis. let us all urge people to leave Gujarat.

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Last I heard, Ratan Tata, Godrej and many others who attended the summit and are singing Modi’s praises are Parsees who practice the Zoroastrian faith that was decimated in their home country of Persia by, you guessed it, Muslims. It was Hindus who welcomed them with open arms and never forced them to give up their religion. There are many, many industrious non-Muslims and Muslims like the Bohras who are benefiting from the Gujarat experiment that puts industrialization, infrastructure, development in the forefront to achieve prosperity rather than the utterly failed policy of re-distributing the economic pie through electoral maths based on caste, religion etc., without doing anything to grow it because that is beyond their capabilities. These very same Muslims would be blown to bits like the Hazaras in the land of the pure. But take it from a Muslim crab to turn it into a Hindu hate-fest in disguise. Muslim extremists have learned the art of Goebbelsian propaganda very well to use any and every method, including the pretense of “oppression” if their obsession to make their ideology dominant is thwarted like it has been in Gujarat.

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HT has in its stables horses like this author. Obviously he cannot stomach the appreciation showered on Modi by the industrial elite of India, How to denigrate and downgrade the same ? Development is not the be all and end all of lifeTHe unholy partnership of nationalism and . religious fundamentalism is what has propelled many cultures, but our author has only Nazi Germany in mind and ipso facto Modi is a Hindu HITLER!!Mind you similar idiots have in the past derided the Hindu rate of growth in India !The author wiill find it difficult to point to any Islamic regime which has developed without allowing its natural resources being exploited by the West. Poor in resources and the Islamic countries are prone to dictatorship and the richer ones are dependent upon slave labour..Clearly the desire to make Islam the central force in the world has been stymied by historical factors. Reversing them by force is one cause of terrorism which is funded by rich Islamic dictatorships.Muslims in India are a restless lot for in their case there is a nostalgic desire for times past when Islamic rule prevailed here.That the British created one Islamic state when they left, which divided itself in two, is not consolation enough as both have become failed entities. Animosity and hatred of India is the driving force in Pakistan and acquiring more living space is the motivation in Bangladesh.In the middle India is doing relatively well despite the many problems ,,some created by our neighbors is cause for heartburn, for our ‘friends’..

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On another note, I remember Indian socialists of the ’60’s and ’70’s who wanted every private industry in India to be nationalized (a policy that nearly bankrupted India in the early ’90s) holding their noses at the emerging South-East Asian economies like Singapore, Taiwan, Hong-Kong etc. as practicing screw-driver technology of just assembling things for the rich West. Today those countries have moved into the first world and India is now looking up to their story as a model for growth. Even forgetting the obvious “oh-we-poor-Muslims-are-so-oppressed-in-India-by-evil-Hindus” slant of this article, this is similar attempt to pull down anyone who is actually leading so that those who are incapable of leading but want all the fruits of leadership continue to prosper in India.

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agreed….she should ask this question from Sonia and her congress party…who has ruled this country for almost 50 years…..they had and have all the inpowers..to change this nation for better…..why ppl like Zia have problems with the concept of hindu and hindutva…this is comedy and farce in India ..when I say I am hindu and believe Hindutva is being dubbed as communal

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Not sure what prompts Shobhana Bhartiya and her joker editor _ Vir Sanvghi to allow traitors like Zia to publish her blog in “”HINDUSTAN TIMES”"…

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I was hoping Zia will follow up on the Owaisi episode this time. It was an opportune moment to denounce his hate speech in no uncertain terms- to tell us he does not believe in insulting Lord Ram or Hindus- and to make a case for why people like Owaisi should be marginalized in the Indian society. However, Zia is on his usual rant.

This is revealing, because it tell me Zia is not about better community relations. In fact people like him are more dangerous than Owaisi, because their hatred in cloaked int the sophistication of English columns and blogs.

I hope the youngsters of our country can see people like Zia for who they really are.

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When so many of our industrialists are singing praises of Narender Modi, surely Modi must have done something worthwhile to earn such accolades. My problem with Modi is regarding the way he opted for to grab power – it was a very sinister plot indeed. He sacrificed the lives of Hindu women in that train at Godhra through a mercenary mob; then, within no time (as it was all pre-planned) attacks on Muslims took place in a very organized manner. This type of large scale and wide spread murder established Narender Modi as a champion of Hindus. With the BJP in power at the state and center in 2002, every aspect of the pogrom was minutely stage-managed, with all the requisite cover-ups in place. Dawood Ibrahim does the same thing too; he is ruthless in all executions and as a businessman – legal, illegal, legimate or illegimate they are basically businesses – he is more efficient than Ambani, Tata or Birla. The issue therefore boils down to that age-old question : whether end justifies the means – that is the big moral, ethical question facing us all.

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An article in 2011 about the man who supposedly hates Muslims. I am guessing that the Bohras are persona non-grata in the eyes of their brethren who are instigating such hatred not only in the sub-continent but around the world. It just goes to prove that there is no contempt towards Muslims but it is towards those Muslims who cannot live peacefully not only amongst non-Muslims but those that they think are not Muslims in the first place:

Chief minister seeks bigger role of Bohras in Gujarat development
Published: Sunday, Feb 20, 2011, 15:30 IST
By DNA Correspondent | Place: Ahmedabad | Agency: DNA

If, ‘He came, he spoke and he conquered’ can sum up the one-and-a-half hours that he spent at the Burhani Expo, chief minister Narendra Modi did a Caesar on Saturday morning.

Members of the Dawoodi Bohra community participating in the event from across the country as well as the globe seemed very impressed with Modi after he finished his 20-minute speech. In between showering praises on spiritual leader Syedna Mohammed Burhanuddin Saheb, Modi spoke at length on how the Bohra community had contributed to the state’s growth and appealed them to continue doing so.

While saying that development was the only answer to all social ills, he urged
Bohras to play a bigger role in the state’s development.

The two-day expo is a trade exhibition of Dawoodi Bohra community, the first
of its kind in the country where more than 150 exhibitors from various industries are taking part.

Modi began his speech by praising the Bohras who he said have brought a good name to Gujarat from every place they have been to. Describing Syedna Saheb as a karmasheel person the CM said that the community has been fortunate enough to get Saheb’s blessings and good wishes every year.

“Today Vibrant Gujarat Summit has become a big event but few people know that first Vibrant Gujarat Summit in 2003 had started off in Surat with Syedna Saheb’s
blessings,” Modi said.

Earlier, Saheb’s son Huzefa Saheb praised Modi for taking Gujarat on the fast track of progress. He asked the Bohras to be a part of the state’s development and that the Burhani Expo will strengthen the community links. This will serve as a platform for
Bohras to grow.

Textiles, chemicals, hardware, pharma, machine tools, construction, glass, metal and jewellery are some of the sectors which were presented at the expo.

More than 2,000 Bohra community members were rapt in attention as Modi delivered his speech, and frequently lauded the CM’s words. This, even though, most of them had to remain standing, on account of limited seating arrangement.

Modi said that Syedna Saheb’s 100th birthday (on March 25 as per Islamic calendar) was being celebrated in the state’s Golden Jubilee Year.

He said that Syedna Saheb was turning 100, and he had requested him to remain in Gujarat for his birth centenary celebrations.

The CM praised the importance Dawoodi Bohra community had laid on education. He noted that while Mahatma Gandhi established Gujarat Vidyapith in 1930, Syedna Saheb’s father had established Arabic University in Surat long before that in 1920 itself.

He praised the community for having been able to keep itself away from various ills, and attributed it to the spiritual guidance provided by Syedna Saheb. He said that the Bohras, while being open to change, had managed to retain their culture and preserve the Gujarati language.

He said the community had vigorously taken up the task of building check-dams in the state. He urged Bohra community women to educate pregnant women about the importance of proper nutrition to prevent malnutrition among them. Modi also released a souvenir of the Expo at the end of his speech.

It was announced that Burhani Foundation India would distribute 52,000 bird feeders on March 6 to protect sparrows and other small birds which were on the verge of extinction. He also took a round of the stalls showing keen interest in the businesses exhibited.

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Mia Zia Haq what the hell you mean by a MYSTERIOUS FIRE in that train in GODHRA?

you dont want to blame MUSLIM mobs for setting that train on fire in GODHRA but you have already decided HINDUS as CULPRITS in riots that followed?

you betray your bias towards your community so openly by writing like this.

i advise you to grow up MIA dont be a baby.

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Zia is a coward and always goes for low hanging fruits. Strange that a “Muslim affairs” writer could not write about the treacherous akbaruddin Owaisi story but focus on a Hindu nationalist whipping boy instead.

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no wonder you are called a muslim..zia, you epitomise what a muslim is.

1. muslims cant see the truth. truth for them is what is convenient to their religion. They can lie through their teeth without a shame all in the name of religion – al takiya.
2. muslims do not have sense of gratefulness. They do not have any sense of allegiance to the country that gave birth to ther fathers and forefathers in the past and going to feed them and sustain their future generations.
3. Patriotism is an alien concept to muslims. Muslims can never be patriots. If they are patriots they can never be muslims.

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THE BLOGGER MAY ANSWER ONLY ONE QUESTION.WHY IN ALL THE STATES RUN BY SONIA’S CONGRESS ,THERE IS NO SUCH INTREST IN INVESTING ?
RIOTS TOOK UNDER RAJIV GANDHI IN DELHI -1984,DID THIS BLOGGER EVER WROTE ON THAT,IF NOT WHY NOT?

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well …”fat cats” lavished praises…this “thin dog” lavished gaalis….

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Fantastic article in DAWN by a Pakistani Punjabi. It just details why Pakistan is a failed ideology. In fact it frankly admits that the mohajirs had just no chacne of being treated as equals. While the Bengalis were thoguht to be short, dark and Ugly.

———– to quote DAWN———–

The educational level of India’s Muslims had been generally poor, but that of the Punjabi Muslim was simply pathetic, particularly the business community and the army men had no taste for useless pursuits such as learning and intellect; wealth came as Fazl-e-Rabbi, self-confidence came from the success of the Pakistan Movement, aggressive attitudes were genetic to us as Muslims.

It has been natural for us to dismiss all our other nationalities with contempt if they disagreed or challenged us. So we evaluated our national diversity like this: Bengalis are black, small, ugly, disloyal crooks, Sindhis are lazy, hateful parasites living off our hard work, Balochis are unclean, lazy, ignorant, pagan fools whom we feed, God knows why. And well, Pathans? They are funny homosexuals and deeply jealous of our high merit. We never stopped our loud claims of everything good and right.

We lost the defining part of our identity with disgrace and shame in 1971, although we have never admitted to this day that the Bangla Pakistanis were Pakistan’s identity much more than we were. We supported an illegal and immoral massacre by our army, which was illegal because it acted under orders of an illegal government and immoral because it attacked the elected majority. We externalised our guilt instead of bowing our heads in shame; we blamed India and the world for our disgrace. Today, we are again at a similar crossroads with deeper internal chaos and greater international isolation.

We do not lose an inch of our honor if we submit to the wishes of the units that form tha

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Virulent hate-mongering among Muslims against other religions is not new. It doesn’t matter whether the target is Narendra Modi. It is just a manifestation of a deeply twisted mindset.

Let me present arguments in my favor.

1. As far as the current crisis is concerned, no Muslim condemns the Godhra train burning, which was the tipping point in an already communally-sensitive Godhra. Stupid arguments like ‘was set on fire by RSS/BJP’ is the standard line of the Indian Muslims and a lot of Hindus who want to parade themselves as ‘Secular’. The fact that the local councilor a Muslim, was instrumental in burning the train and prevented help from reaching the victims is already on record. Probably he was aware that the backlash that would follow would play Muslims right into the hate stream of the Jihadi elements, and may have had political and financial backing to do so.

2. Communal riots are not new to India. They have happened right since the time of partition. And the majority of Hindus were comfortable living their own peaceful lives. Muslims, whenever in power, however, always have wanted to establish a separate geographical and political space for themselves. The only way they could do so was to eliminate the remainder of the population in that area. Kashmir is a prime example, and the Pandits and Buddhists are still refugees. Long before the flaring up of the J&K situation, can anyone forget what the MIM and the erstwhile Nizam do in Andhra Pradesh, raising Razakars and butchering poor hindu peasants? There was no Babri Masjid, no J&K at that time. Does anyone condemn that? The events of Babri Masjid and Godhra are just covers for Muslims to justify hate-mongering and violence.

3. Everyone says- Muslims are poor. I agree. But what is the root cause? Has anyone prevented them from going to schools? Anyone prevented them from pursuing higher education? Anyone preventing them from voting? No. These problems stem from a combination of high birth rate, polygamy, putting a twisted religious view before family, non-implementation of scientific education, and rabid opposition to any alternate interpretation of Islam and the Quran. Case in point- why did the Sufi ideology not penetrate the masses? The reason is that the hardliners have always threatened them with violence, and have usually followed up on their threats. We could barely hear a reaction from the Muslims when a Kerala professor got his hands chopped off for setting up a discussion in an exam paper. Really tolerant and peaceful guys, aren’t they?

4. All Muslims talk of a bias against them. The reverse is also true. Try walking the lanes of the Old city in Hyderabad or Lucknow, you’ll realise what I am talking of.

5. When rabid hate-mongerers like Mr Zakir Naik say openly that Islam is the only true religion, and there is nothing wrong with Muslims not allowing any temple or church to be constructed in their vicinity, there is no condemnation of that, no showing placards of equality to him, no sloganeering from the ‘moderate’ Muslims, nothing. This shows that there is no place for ‘moderate’ Islam in today’s society.

6. Development is the best way to keep a society from internal conflict. The hope for progress, better facilities, and a safer life appeals to everyone, so that kids and the youth go to schools and colleges, and are kept off the streets and from drugs. This is how the world, by and large, maintains order. The police are just there to keep the few rowdy elements in check, and not the masses. Keeping a whole state subjugated by violence is the sole provision of Muslims, North Koreans and a few other dictatorships. This idea of progress is not digestible by the likes of Mr Haq, and why? Narendra Modi is the only man in India currently capable of pushing the agenda of development and keeping Muslims interested in anything else apart from violence. That doesn’t serve the Imams, Mullahs, the Owaisis, and the controllers in the Middle East. The sole aim of these groups is to establish an Islamic Caliphate globally, and are unfortunately served by the polished slime consisting of ‘educated’ people like Mr Naik and Haq. A lie repeated too many times over starts sounding like truth. That is what these guys are experts at.

Anyway, I feel that it is time for Indians to wake up, show all extremists, especially Muslims, their place in society, and establish the firm rule of law, without fear and favour. When a socirty goes astray, it is the duty of the law to force them to comply with the rule of law. This is sadly missing in the society. We can reflect on that sometime later.

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If the present progress of Western World is due to Christianity(esp. Protestant) and future progress of India would be due to Hindutva then why Muslim countries failed even though they have declared their respective states Islamic based on Shariah only ? In Pakistan there are 20 crore Modidopplers , why they couldn’t progress ?

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Yes, they carry weapons to the brim, but you tend to forget that they also have two hands blessing the devotes. And those two hands are what make Hindus humble and followers of non violence, but it also tells that if we take to violence, we create history.
And the less we discuss about your god the better, the whole world knows about it, and when some one points it out to you, you guys cannot take it, as they say “truth hurts”.

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This blind and irrational support for “Palestinian” Arabs. Another sign of arabization. Religious network has been used to inform the “believers” about which side to take in political fights over land even though it may have nothing to do with the believers geographical location , local culture or other relevant circumstances. A thoroughly politicized religion. Not sure where religious beliefs end and politics begins. It’s all a mishmash.

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i will awnser ur idiocy tommorow.

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How about plight of native Hindus in Kashmir and Islamic republic of Pakistan? Notice there have been no Hindu terrorists there despite their horrific plight and decimation. Only Muslim terrorists there as well.

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New York Times is writing today that aid to refugees of Muslim on Muslim genocide in Syria is mostly provided by E.U. and USA. It specifically mentions Muslim nations – rich Persian Gulf- as not providing enough aid for fellow Muslim refugees.

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ndia’s Narendra Modi and the Tale of Two Rapes

By Shikha Dalmia Jan 17, 2013 7:42 AM PT

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-01-17/india-s-narendra-modi-and-the-tale-of-two-rapes.html

One of the most obscene moments after the death of the gang-rape victim in New Delhi was a tweet by Narendra Modi, the chief minister of the Indian state of Gujarat, offering regret and condolences to the dead woman’s family.

Modi,
who has quelled restive minorities by allowing attackers to subject
women to unspeakable horrors, has done more than any man to numb his
prudish country to sexual violence. Yet he was elected to a third term
last month and is the presumptive front-runner of the Bharatiya Janata Party, the main Hindu opposition party, for prime minister in next year’s national elections.

So
long as Indians keep rewarding politicos such as Modi, the country’s
collective outrage after the New Delhi case won’t change the culture that makes such atrocities common in India.

The attack on the 23-year-old physiotherapy student was depraved.
Five men and a teenager in a private bus are accused of kidnapping,
beating, raping and violating her with an iron rod — and then dumping
her and her semi-conscious boyfriend on a highway, where they also
allegedly tried to run her over. But as monstrous as this crime was,
consider what happened in Gujarat in February 2002, a few months after
Modi assumed office.

Organized
bands of well-armed Hindus — some from groups tied to Modi’s party —
fanned across the state seeking revenge against Muslims for allegedly
burning a train full of Hindu pilgrims a few weeks earlier. The Hindu
rioters systematically sought out and destroyed Muslim homes and businesses, killing more than 1,000 people.

Extreme Violence

Muslim women were singled out. According to many Indian and foreign sources, including a Human Rights Watch account and a report by
an international research team called “Threatened Existence: A Feminist
Analysis of the Genocide in Gujarat,” women were stripped, gang-raped,
often publicly, and in almost all cases then burned or hacked to death.

The
reason the violence reached such extremes was that the state police
stood back and didn’t intervene to stop the Hindu attacks and even told
victims that it couldn’t protect them. As if the bloodletting wasn’t
horrific enough, Modi subsequently dismantled the shelters constructed by private organizations for dispossessed Muslims, calling them “child-breeding centers.”

Compared
with the New Delhi rape, which has triggered a protest movement in
India calling for the castration and execution of the suspects, the
Gujarat rapes and pogrom elicited barely a whimper. Many Hindus either
deny that the horror even occurred or, if they accept it, claim it
wasn’t as grisly as news accounts suggest. And if they believe the
accounts, they say Muslims had it coming. Fewer than 100 out of the
thousands accused — among them only one state minister and one Bharatiya Janata Party leader — were convicted,
and that was a decade later. Modi himself was exonerated.

Whatever
public disgust there was against him has dissipated, given the stellar
economic growth that Gujarat has seen on his watch. Business leaders and
corporations, from India and overseas, turn a blind eye to Modi’s role
in allowing the bloodshed, and praise his economic stewardship. His
business backers have already managed to
get the U.K. government to reverse its long-standing ban on him and to
give him a visa. Now they are trying to persuade the U.S. government to
follow suit.

What accounts for the wide gulf in the Indian public response to the single crime in New Delhi and the mass crimes in Gujarat?

On a positive side, attitudes toward women have evolved considerably
since the Gujarat atrocity 11 years ago. Indian women’s aspirations and
opportunities have increased, especially in big cities, and they are
demanding that the governing classes keep pace and create an environment
in which they are free to move around safely.

Changed Attitudes

After
the New Delhi attack, any politician or even religious guru — no
matter how revered — who suggested that women need to circumscribe
their lives and choices for their own protection was condemned and
lampooned, something scarcely imaginable when I was growing up in New
Delhi (in a Hindu household) in the 1970s.

But
the darker reality is that the young woman’s rape and murder outraged
the country’s Hindu urban middle class because it was a random and
senseless act that could have just as easily victimized their daughters.
Not so with attacks on the Muslim women in Gujarat. The premeditated
and programmatic violence against them meant that the broader Hindu
majority was insulated from it. If the New Delhi woman’s fate made every
Indian feel more
vulnerable, the attack on the Muslim women made Hindus feel more secure.

There
are other reasons for India’s apathy toward Modi’s misdeeds. India is a
democracy and has its share of human-rights activists and watchdog
groups keeping an eye on government brutality. Yet the public at large
has little appreciation of the dangers associated with overly muscular
government. Indians complain constantly about government dysfunction and
corruption. Yet they have little compunction about giving draconian
powers to their rulers in the name of security. The upshot, tragically,
is that Indians care less about state-fueled rape than when perpetrated
by individuals.

The
scale of the sexual violence in Gujarat was unprecedented in India. But
smaller episodes are a matter of routine. The Indian army has been accused of using rape as
a weapon to crush secessionist movements in Kashmir and Manipur. After
one particularly heinous case eight years ago, Manipuri women stripped
naked and stormed the army headquarters with placards plaintively
protesting: “Indian Army Rapes Us.”

Tolerating
sexual violence for any purpose erodes the overall stigma against it,
opening a moral space where hoodlums can run amok. The lack of national
outrage against the mass rapes perpetrated under Modi reduces their true
cruelty, breaking down the psychological walls that would at least
prevent nonsociopaths from going on a rampage. Hindus who turn a blind
eye to the rape of Muslim women can’t ultimately protect their own.

How
India can restore moral boundaries is a difficult issue, but it
certainly won’t be solved by electing Modi to higher office — even if
he were Adam Smith himself. Protesters shouldn’t just seek justice against the six accused in New Delhi. Modi, too, has much to atone.

(Shikha
Dalmia is a contributor to Bloomberg View and a Detroit-based senior
analyst at Reason Foundation. The opinions expressed are her own.)

To contact the writer of this article: Shikha Dalmia in Detroit at shikhadalmia62@gmail.com.

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Development kise kehte hai yaha Gujarat me aake dekh jao. Aur rahi baat Muslimo ki to Gujarat ke Muslims pure India me se sabse Sukhi Muslims hai. Modi Sher hai. Use PM banna hi chahiye aur ek Gujarati hone ke nate mujhe pata hai uski Governance Skill. He is a Combination of Brilliant Brain, Superb Speech & Megical Memory. I m Proud to be an Indian & I m a Proud to be Gujarati.

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@rich, get lost, you are fit to be only in Zakir Naik’s spin zone.

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Bong brother, these are no threats! just mere warnings and conveying the message. Anyway, your punishment will start from this world, one day angels of death will appear before you and your own relatives will set you on fire i mean on pyre!!
May allah guide you.

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I do not take you or the other riffrafs seriously, but people from your part
of the world may. Most Indians are expert in polemics, ignorance of past history
and have not the ability to appreciate the present nor have the foresight for
the future. They have not the appeciation of what the arabs gave to the European
continent at the time when people lived in our part of the world like
barbarians, most were peasants but did not know how to till the land or irrigate
it economicaly and were illetrates and few of the rich class were barons and
land owners whose life was with courtisans and several mistresses, wine and sex
on the menu and every now and then on the prowl to plunder others from their
land and property.

Inquisition is the term which comes to my mind which the cathlolic chuch
embarked on against muslims and jews in Spain and the many crusades it
proclaimed and organised against the so called Barbarian Arabs. The Byzantinian
empire had to be defeated and the military advancement in the European lands had
to continue until the time the Habsburger holy empire offered to pay the
tributes to the Turkish sultan who then agreed to lift the siege at Wien.

The inquisition of the christian church never stopped todate, within the
christian community and outside, the jews and the muslims in the forefront. It
was the last samurai Pope Bendict who under the influence of the evangelist
christians of the USA and his intensive love of history books, reminded the
muslims that the war of the clergy against Islam is stil on. It was King
Abdullah of Saudi Arabia who paid a visit to the Vatican to remind the Benedict
sixteen that he is also the head of the state and should use common sense if the
intellect cannot keep up with his age and failing health and he should
concentrate on reforming his institution as well as perform his missionary
obligations to sprea the word of God in the world of non-believers. He warned
him that the society will not survive as we are used to if God, the creator is
no longer in the middle of our communities. The social gaps without the belief
shall widen and so on. The Pope was invited to Istanbol, where he prayed
together with the muslim Priest in the blue mosque, thereby taking a step
towards reconciiation.

The unending story goes on

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http://world.time.com/2013/02/15/viewpoint-why-was-the-biggest-protest-in-world-history-ignored/

biggest protest oh humaan history ignored.

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