யூதர்களிடம் செம அடி வாங்கும் சுன்னி வஹாபி
முஸ்லீம்கள்
http://veruvelai.blogspot.com/2008/12/blog-post_28.html
தொடர்ந்து ராக்கெட்டுக்களால் இஸ்ரேலை தாக்கி வந்த சுன்னி வஹாபி முஸ்லீம்களான
ஹமாஸ் போர் நிறுத்தத்தை முடித்துவிட்டு கொக்கரித்தனர்.
ஹமாஸ் தொடர்ந்து ராக்கெட்டுகளை இஸ்ரேல் மீது அனுப்பினாலும் இஸ்ரேல் திருப்பி
தாக்கவே இல்லை.
நவம்பரில் போர் நிறுத்தம் வந்தாலும், அதற்கு முன்பிருந்தே காஜா பகுதியிலிருந்து
தொடர்ந்து இஸ்ரேல் மீது ராக்கெட்டுகளையும் ஏவு கணைகளையும் அனுப்பிக்கொண்டே
இருந்தார்கள் ஹமாஸ் கும்பல்.
இஸ்ரேல் திருப்பி தாக்கவே இல்லை.
ஆனால் திடீரென்று ஒரு நாள் திருப்பி தாக்கியது. மூன்று நிமிடங்களில் 200 ஹமாஸ்
போர்வீரர்களை கொன்று அதிரடி தாக்குதல் நடத்தியது.
உடனே ஹமாஸ் கும்பல் அதில் இடையே வந்து சிக்கி இறந்து போன பொதுமக்கள் சிலரை
வைத்து ஊளையிட ஆரம்பித்துள்ளது வழக்கம்போல.
இதுவரை இறந்துபோன இஸ்ரேலியர்களுக்காக குரல் கொடுக்காத உலக சமுகம், திடீரென்று
கருணையும் இரக்கமும் பொங்கி, இஸ்ரேல் போர் நிறுத்தம் செய்யவேண்டும் என்று
கேட்டுக்கொள்ள ஆரம்பித்துள்ளது.
ஹமாஸ் அடி வாங்கியதும், உலகெங்கும் உள்ள சுன்னி முஸ்லீம்கள் அங்கங்கு
கூக்குரலிட ஆரம்பித்துள்ளனர்.
அவர்களது ஓட்டுக்களுக்காக பிச்சையெடுக்கும் கட்சிகள் (இந்தியாவில் காங்கிரஸ்
கட்சியும் கம்யுனிஸ்டு சிபிஎம் கட்சியும்) இஸ்ரேல் போரை நிறுத்தவேண்டும்
என்றும் காஜாவில் தாக்கியதையும் கண்டித்தும் அறிக்கை விட்டுள்ளனர்.
ஹமாஸ் கும்பல் செய்வதற்கு ஏன் முஸ்லீம் பொதுமக்கள் தண்டிக்கப்படவேண்டும் என்று
இங்கே அறிவுஜீவிகள் கேட்கலாம்.
இந்த முஸ்லீம் பொதுமக்கள்தான் பெருவாரியான அளவில் ஓட்டுப்போட்டு இந்த பயங்கரவாத
கும்பலை அரசில் உட்காரவைத்தார்கள்.
இந்த கும்பல் இஸ்ரேல் மீது தொடர்ந்து கொலைவெறித்தனமான தாக்குதல்களை
மேற்கொள்ளும்போது, பொதுமக்கள் அதனை தடுத்திருக்கவேண்டும். இஸ்ரேல் திருப்பி
தாக்கினால், அது பொதுமக்களைத்தான் பாதிக்கும் என்று சொல்லியிருக்கவேண்டும்.
இந்த முஸ்லீம் பொதுமக்களுக்கு சரியான தலைமை ஹமாஸ் சுன்னி கும்பல்தான்.
இவர்கள் காயம்பட்ட பொதுமக்களுக்கு மருத்துவ சிகிச்சை கொடுக்காமல் செத்துபோக
விட்டிருக்கிறது.
அப்போதுதான் இன்னும் நன்றாக இஸ்ரேல் மீது கெட்ட பெயர் வருமாம்.
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Tuesday, December 30, 2008
Saturday, December 27, 2008
Israel wipes out Hamas police stations
Hamas: All police HQs in Gaza destroyed
Dec. 26, 2008
Jpost.com staff and ap , THE JERUSALEM POST
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Just days after the cabinet gave the military final approval to counter ongoing Palestinian rocket fire against communities in the western Negev, the IDF launched a massive operation, striking Hamas installations throughout the Gaza Strip on Saturday.
The wide-scale offensive on Hamas installations in the Gaza Strip was codenamed 'Operation Cast Lead,' after a Hanukkah poem by H.N. Bialik referring to a "dreidel cast from solid lead."
At least 190 people were reported killed - the majority of them Hamas operatives - and more than 310 wounded in the attacks. It was not clear if the aerial offensive would be coupled with a ground offensive. Asked if Hamas political leaders might be targeted next, military spokeswoman Maj. Avital Leibovich said, "Any Hamas target is a target."
Defense Minister Ehud Barak said in a press conference that the IAF had succeeded in eliminating senior Hamas commanders during the offensive. According to witnesses, among the dead was Hamas police chief Maj.-Gen. Tawfik Jaber.
Despite the massive casualties, Hamas remained defiant, vowing revenge and calling on all other Palestinian factions to join in the fight.
"Today we are stronger then we've ever been," one spokesperson for the group said at a press conference. "We won't raise the white flag, we won't give anything up, we won't retreat."
"We call on the Arab states in the region to take a stance against this massacre and not to be satisfied with just condemnations," he continued.
Minutes after the first wave of air strikes hit areas in the southern Gaza Strip, Palestinians reported a second wave which targeted installations in the center and the north of the Strip. Channel 2 reported that 60 planes were involved in the attack, and nearly 100 targets were hit.
Hamas's Interior Ministry said that all security compounds in Gaza were destroyed.
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Muslims riot over Israeli retaliation against terrorist attacks on Israeli civilians
Israeli Arabs ferment over IAF Gaza op
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Following the IAF assault on Gaza, outbreaks of rioting were being reported in East Jerusalem Saturday.
Soldiers fire rubber bullets and throw stun grenades at Palestinian demonstrators during clashes following a demonstration against the IAF missiles strike on Gaza, at the Kalandia checkpoint between the West Bank city of Ramallah and Jerusalem on Saturday.
Photo: AP
Hundreds of Palestinians at the entrance to the Shoafat refugee camp were hurling rocks at police and Border Police forces, who were attempting to disperse the demonstration. On Salah-a-Din street in the city, dozens of protesters set garbage containers ablaze.
Earlier, several demonstrators were arrested after hurling rocks at police at the Flowers Gate in the Old City, and in the Muslim Quarter.
A police officer was hit by a private car and taken to Augusta Victoria Hospital in east Jerusalem Saturday afternoon. Police were investigating whether the officer was deliberately hit in an improvised terror attack avenging IAF actions in Gaza.
Meanwhile, the Higher Committee for Arab Citizens in Israel called on Israeli Arabs to hold protests against "Israeli aggression wherever it happens."
Israeli Arabs were holding protests in Umm al-Fahm, Nazareth, Tamra and Sakhnin according to Israel Radio.
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Israeli Air Strikes in Gaza Strip Kill as Many as 200 People
Israeli Air Strikes in Gaza Strip Kill as Many as 200 People
By Calev Ben-David and Saud Abu Ramadan
Dec. 27 (Bloomberg) -- Israeli aircraft attacked police and security installations across the Gaza Strip, killing scores of people in the deadliest raid since the occupation of the coastal region ended in 2005, security and medical officials said.
As many as 200 people were killed and 750 injured, including women and children, Mu’awia Hassanien, a Palestinian medical-services official in Gaza, said today. Hamas, which controls the Gaza Strip, called the air strike a massacre and said it would retaliate. At least 30 rockets were fired from Gaza today, Israel Radio reported, killing a woman in Netivot.
Israel’s strikes started at 11:30 a.m. and in two minutes hit more than 30 targets, most of them security compounds run by Hamas, said an official of the movement who declined to be identified. They came after a week in which dozens of Qassam rockets were fired into Israel following the expiration Dec. 19 of a six-month cease-fire with Hamas.
“Israel expects the support and understanding of the international community as it confronts terror,” Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni said. The government ordered the strikes on Hamas only after it saw no other way to stop rocket attacks on its southern towns. The attack comes amid an election campaign in Israel, with the ballot scheduled for Feb. 10.
“The operation will be continued, expanded and intensified as much as will be required,” the Israeli army said in an e- mailed statement. The Israel Home Front Command warned people within 20 kilometers of Gaza to stay close to air-raid shelters.
Police Chief Killed
Most of the Palestinian dead were members of the Hamas security forces, including police chief Tawfiq Jaber and the head of the organization’s Security and Protection Service, Ismail al-Jabary, said Taher Noono, a spokesman for Hamas.
Dead and wounded people were laid in the corridors of Gaza’s Shifra Hospital because the morgue couldn’t cope with the bodies.
There were immediate calls for restraint from around the world.
President Nicholas Sarkozy of France, who holds the rotating European Union presidency, said he “firmly condemns the irresponsible provocations that have led to this situation, as well as the disproportionate use of force,” according to an e-mailed statement.
“President Mahmoud Abbas strongly condemns this harsh aggression that Israel is waging now against the Gaza Strip,” said Nabil Abu Rudeina, a spokesman for the Palestinian Authority president, in an e-mailed statement. “The president calls on the Israeli government to stop this aggression immediately and urges the international community to intervene.”
U.S. Urges Restraint
In Washington, White House spokesman Gordon Johndroe said in an e-mailed statement from President George W. Bush’s ranch in Crawford, Texas, that “Hamas’s continued rocket attacks into Israel must cease if the violence is to stop.” He also urged “Israel to avoid civilian casualties as it targets Hamas in Gaza.”
Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak said in a statement that he “condemns the Israeli military aggression on the Gaza Strip and blames Israel, as an occupying force, for the victims and the wounded.” Egypt ordered the Rafah terminal on its border with Gaza to be opened so that the wounded could be treated in Egyptian hospitals, the statement said.
Hamas ruled out renewal of a six-month cease-fire with Israel as the conflict started to escalate last week, with Palestinian rocket attacks on Israeli border towns and retaliatory air raids on Gaza.
Trade Restrictions
Hamas leaders blamed Israel’s refusal to remove restrictions on the flow of food, medical supplies and other goods through Gaza border crossings, and Israeli military operations, for the failure of the cease-fire. Israel says the restrictions on trade with Gaza and its air strikes were in response to Palestinian rocket attacks.
Israeli and Hamas officials agreed to the cease-fire through Egyptian mediators in June without negotiating directly. Hamas canceled meetings in Cairo planned earlier this month that were aimed at renewing the truce.
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Tuesday, December 23, 2008
திண்டுக்கல் : ஆர்.எஸ்.எஸ் தலித் தலைவர் பாஸ்கர் மீது ஜிகாதிகள் தாக்குதல்
ஆர்.எஸ்.எஸ் தலைவர் மீதான தாக்குதலை கண்டித்து திண்டுக்கலில் தமிழர்கள் போராட்டம்.
ஆர்.எஸ்.எஸ் ஊழியர் மீதான கொலைவெறித்தாக்குதலைக் கண்டித்து பμவலாக ஆர்ப்பாட்டங்கள்திண்டுக்கல், டிசம்பர் 22(ஹிந்துஸ்தான் சமாச்சார்) திண்டுக்கல்லில் ஆர்.எஸ்.எஸ் மாவட்ட அமைப்பாளர் (ஜில்லா பிரசாரகர்) பாஸ்கர் (வயது34) டிசம்பர் 21 ஞாயிறு காலை 6.20 மணிக்கு அடையாளம் தெரியாத ஒரு கும்பலால்வெட்டப்பட்டதைக் கண்டனம் செய்து மாநிலத்தில் பல ஊர்களில் திங்களன்றுகடையடைப்பு, ஆர்ப்பாட்டம் நடைபெற்றது. குற்றவாளிகளைப் பிடிப்பதற்கு முன்அவசμம் காட்டி இன்று திண்டுக்கல் மாவட்த பாஜக தலைவர் போஸ் உள்ளிட்டஆர்ப்பாட்டக்காμர்களை காவல்துறை கைது செய்திருப்பது பல வட்டாμங்களில்ஆச்சரியத்தை ஏற்படுத்தியது.
பாஸ்கøμத் தாக்கிய குற்றவாளிகளை 24 மணி நேμத்திற்குள் பிடிக்க மாவட்ட நிர்வாகம்தவறினால் மாநில அளவில் நீடித்த கண்டன போμõட்டம் நடத்துவோம் என்று ஹிந்துமுன்னணி முதலிய ஹிந்து அமைப்புகளும் பா.ஜ.க.வும் அறிவித்துள்ளன. விøμந்துகுற்றவாளிகளை பிடிக்க காவல் துறை ஆவன அனைத்தும் செய்யும் என்று திண்டுக்கல்எஸ்.பி. பாரிவள்ளல் ஞாயிறு பிற்பகல் தன்னை சந்தித்த ஹிந்து அமைப்புகளின்தலைவர்களிடம் உறுதி அளித்தார்.
நேற்று காலையே, ஹிந்து ஊழியர் தாக்கப்பட்டதை கண்டனம் செய்து திண்டுக்கல்லிலும்மற்றும் பல ஊர்களிலும் கடையடைப்பு நடத்தப்பட்டது. டிசம்பர் 22 திங்களன்றுமாலையில் சென்னை மெமோரியல் ஹால் அருகே ஹிந்து முன்னணி சார்பில் நடந்தகண்டன ஆர்பாட்டத்தில் மகளிர் உள்பட500 பேர் கலந்து கொண்டார்கள் என்று அந்தஅமைப்பின் மாநகμ செயலர் முருகேசன் தெரிவித்தார். ஆர்ப்பாட்டத்தில் ஆர்.எஸ்.எஸ்ஸின்வட தமிழக பிμச்சார் பிμமுக் இல. நடμõஜன், ஹிந்து முன்னணித் தலைவர்இராம.கோபாலன், சேவா பாரதி அமைப்பாளர் μõம. ரரஜசேகர், பாஜக மாநிலத் தலைவர் இல.கணேசன், பாஜக மாநில பொதுச் செயலர் டாக்டர் தமிழிசை சௌந்தரரரஜன் உள்ளிட்டோர் இந்த ஜிகாதி பயங்கரவாதத்தைக் கண்டித்துப் பேசினார்கள்.தி.மு.க. அμசு கடைபிடிக்கும் முஸ்லீம் மகிழ்விப்பு போக்குதான் இது போன்ற ஹிந்துபிரமுகர்கள் மீதான கொலை வெறிச் சம்பவங்களுக்கு முக்கிய காμணம் என்று தென் தமிழகஆர்.எஸ்.எஸ் பிμமுகர்கள் குற்றம் சாட்டினார்கள்.
14 ஆண்டுகளுக்கு முன்பு திண்டுக்கல்மாவட்டத்தை தேசதுரோக, பாகிஸ்தான் ஆதரவு காயிதேமில்லத் மாவட்டமாக மாற்ற அரசு முயன்ற போது அதற்கு தமிழ் ஹிந்து சமுதாயத்தின் நீடித்த எதிர்ப்பு ஏற்பட்டது. அந்த எதிர்ப்பை ஆர்.எஸ்.எஸ் ஒருங்கிணைத்தது என்று அவர்கள் சுட்டிக்காட்டினார்கள்.
சமீபத்தில் சில தேச துரோக முஸ்லீம் அமைப்புகள் திண்டுக்கல்லில் உள்ள ""செல்லாயி அம்மன் கோயில் தெரு""வை, "'ஈத்கா மசூதி தெரு""என்று மாற்ற முயன்ற போது அதற்கு கடும் எதிர்ப்பு ஏற்பட்டது. அந்த எதிர்ப்பில் பாஸ்கரும்மற்றும் பலரும் முன்னணி வகித்தார்கள் என்று கூறப்படுகிறது. கடந்த 20 ஆண்டுகளாகநகரில் அமைதிகரமாக விநாயகர் சதுர்த்தி விழா நடைபெற்றதால் ஏற்பட்ட தமிழ் ஹிந்து எழுச்சி,சமூக விரோத சக்திகளுக்கு எரிச்சலைத் தந்தது; இந்த ஆண்டு விநாயகர் சதுர்த்தி ஊர்வலத்தை பாகிஸ்ததன் ஆதரவு விஷமிகள் சீர்குலைக்க முயன்ற போது ஆர்.எஸ்.எஸ் ஊழியர் பாஸ்கர் தலையிட்டு அமைதியை நிலை நாட்டினார் இது பாஸ்கர் மீதான கொலைவெறித்தாக்குதலுக்கு ஹிந்து அமைப்பினர் கூறும் இன்னொரு காரணம்.
தாக்கப்பட்ட பாஸ்கரின் இடது கால் முழங்காலுக்கு கீழே துண்டாகி விழுந்தது. இடதுகையில் பல வெட்டுக்காயங்கள். நல்ல வெளிச்சத்தில் நடுத்தெருவில் நடந்த இந்த கொலைவெறித்தாக்குதல், திட்டமிட்ட சதியின் விளைவு என்று தென் தமிழக ஆர்.எஸ்.எஸ்அமைப்பாளர் கோ. ஸ்தாணுமாலயன் தெரிவித்தார். குற்றுயிரரக நகர மருத்துவமனையில்அனுமதிக்கப்பட்ட பாஸ்கரின் உடல் நிலை கவலைக்கிடமான நிலையிலிருந்து தேறியதாக இன்று வரை அறிவிப்பு இல்லை.
மூலம்: ஹிந்துஸ்தான் சமாச்சார். நன்றி: நம்பி நாராயணன், இராமநாதபுரம்
ஆர்.எஸ்.எஸ் ஊழியர் மீதான கொலைவெறித்தாக்குதலைக் கண்டித்து பμவலாக ஆர்ப்பாட்டங்கள்திண்டுக்கல், டிசம்பர் 22(ஹிந்துஸ்தான் சமாச்சார்) திண்டுக்கல்லில் ஆர்.எஸ்.எஸ் மாவட்ட அமைப்பாளர் (ஜில்லா பிரசாரகர்) பாஸ்கர் (வயது34) டிசம்பர் 21 ஞாயிறு காலை 6.20 மணிக்கு அடையாளம் தெரியாத ஒரு கும்பலால்வெட்டப்பட்டதைக் கண்டனம் செய்து மாநிலத்தில் பல ஊர்களில் திங்களன்றுகடையடைப்பு, ஆர்ப்பாட்டம் நடைபெற்றது. குற்றவாளிகளைப் பிடிப்பதற்கு முன்அவசμம் காட்டி இன்று திண்டுக்கல் மாவட்த பாஜக தலைவர் போஸ் உள்ளிட்டஆர்ப்பாட்டக்காμர்களை காவல்துறை கைது செய்திருப்பது பல வட்டாμங்களில்ஆச்சரியத்தை ஏற்படுத்தியது.
பாஸ்கøμத் தாக்கிய குற்றவாளிகளை 24 மணி நேμத்திற்குள் பிடிக்க மாவட்ட நிர்வாகம்தவறினால் மாநில அளவில் நீடித்த கண்டன போμõட்டம் நடத்துவோம் என்று ஹிந்துமுன்னணி முதலிய ஹிந்து அமைப்புகளும் பா.ஜ.க.வும் அறிவித்துள்ளன. விøμந்துகுற்றவாளிகளை பிடிக்க காவல் துறை ஆவன அனைத்தும் செய்யும் என்று திண்டுக்கல்எஸ்.பி. பாரிவள்ளல் ஞாயிறு பிற்பகல் தன்னை சந்தித்த ஹிந்து அமைப்புகளின்தலைவர்களிடம் உறுதி அளித்தார்.
நேற்று காலையே, ஹிந்து ஊழியர் தாக்கப்பட்டதை கண்டனம் செய்து திண்டுக்கல்லிலும்மற்றும் பல ஊர்களிலும் கடையடைப்பு நடத்தப்பட்டது. டிசம்பர் 22 திங்களன்றுமாலையில் சென்னை மெமோரியல் ஹால் அருகே ஹிந்து முன்னணி சார்பில் நடந்தகண்டன ஆர்பாட்டத்தில் மகளிர் உள்பட500 பேர் கலந்து கொண்டார்கள் என்று அந்தஅமைப்பின் மாநகμ செயலர் முருகேசன் தெரிவித்தார். ஆர்ப்பாட்டத்தில் ஆர்.எஸ்.எஸ்ஸின்வட தமிழக பிμச்சார் பிμமுக் இல. நடμõஜன், ஹிந்து முன்னணித் தலைவர்இராம.கோபாலன், சேவா பாரதி அமைப்பாளர் μõம. ரரஜசேகர், பாஜக மாநிலத் தலைவர் இல.கணேசன், பாஜக மாநில பொதுச் செயலர் டாக்டர் தமிழிசை சௌந்தரரரஜன் உள்ளிட்டோர் இந்த ஜிகாதி பயங்கரவாதத்தைக் கண்டித்துப் பேசினார்கள்.தி.மு.க. அμசு கடைபிடிக்கும் முஸ்லீம் மகிழ்விப்பு போக்குதான் இது போன்ற ஹிந்துபிரமுகர்கள் மீதான கொலை வெறிச் சம்பவங்களுக்கு முக்கிய காμணம் என்று தென் தமிழகஆர்.எஸ்.எஸ் பிμமுகர்கள் குற்றம் சாட்டினார்கள்.
14 ஆண்டுகளுக்கு முன்பு திண்டுக்கல்மாவட்டத்தை தேசதுரோக, பாகிஸ்தான் ஆதரவு காயிதேமில்லத் மாவட்டமாக மாற்ற அரசு முயன்ற போது அதற்கு தமிழ் ஹிந்து சமுதாயத்தின் நீடித்த எதிர்ப்பு ஏற்பட்டது. அந்த எதிர்ப்பை ஆர்.எஸ்.எஸ் ஒருங்கிணைத்தது என்று அவர்கள் சுட்டிக்காட்டினார்கள்.
சமீபத்தில் சில தேச துரோக முஸ்லீம் அமைப்புகள் திண்டுக்கல்லில் உள்ள ""செல்லாயி அம்மன் கோயில் தெரு""வை, "'ஈத்கா மசூதி தெரு""என்று மாற்ற முயன்ற போது அதற்கு கடும் எதிர்ப்பு ஏற்பட்டது. அந்த எதிர்ப்பில் பாஸ்கரும்மற்றும் பலரும் முன்னணி வகித்தார்கள் என்று கூறப்படுகிறது. கடந்த 20 ஆண்டுகளாகநகரில் அமைதிகரமாக விநாயகர் சதுர்த்தி விழா நடைபெற்றதால் ஏற்பட்ட தமிழ் ஹிந்து எழுச்சி,சமூக விரோத சக்திகளுக்கு எரிச்சலைத் தந்தது; இந்த ஆண்டு விநாயகர் சதுர்த்தி ஊர்வலத்தை பாகிஸ்ததன் ஆதரவு விஷமிகள் சீர்குலைக்க முயன்ற போது ஆர்.எஸ்.எஸ் ஊழியர் பாஸ்கர் தலையிட்டு அமைதியை நிலை நாட்டினார் இது பாஸ்கர் மீதான கொலைவெறித்தாக்குதலுக்கு ஹிந்து அமைப்பினர் கூறும் இன்னொரு காரணம்.
தாக்கப்பட்ட பாஸ்கரின் இடது கால் முழங்காலுக்கு கீழே துண்டாகி விழுந்தது. இடதுகையில் பல வெட்டுக்காயங்கள். நல்ல வெளிச்சத்தில் நடுத்தெருவில் நடந்த இந்த கொலைவெறித்தாக்குதல், திட்டமிட்ட சதியின் விளைவு என்று தென் தமிழக ஆர்.எஸ்.எஸ்அமைப்பாளர் கோ. ஸ்தாணுமாலயன் தெரிவித்தார். குற்றுயிரரக நகர மருத்துவமனையில்அனுமதிக்கப்பட்ட பாஸ்கரின் உடல் நிலை கவலைக்கிடமான நிலையிலிருந்து தேறியதாக இன்று வரை அறிவிப்பு இல்லை.
மூலம்: ஹிந்துஸ்தான் சமாச்சார். நன்றி: நம்பி நாராயணன், இராமநாதபுரம்
Friday, December 19, 2008
சட்டிஸ்காரில் மாவோயிஸ்டு ஏரியாக்களில் பாஜக வெற்றி
Maoists' 'Karma' helps lotus bloom in 'red' Dantewada
Dantewada (PTI): It was Maoists versus Mahendra Karma, the Congress's
Leader of Opposition in Chhattisgarh, which led to the "unexpected"
and maiden lotus bloom in the 'red zone' of Dantewada constituency.
More than Congress MLA Karma's loss, it's the win of BJP's Bheema
Mandavi which surprises many as the CPI candidate Manish Kunjam's anti-
Salwa Judum campaign here had made him a favourite among the rural
masses. Kunjam had appeared a sure winner in case Karma fell from
grace.
Mandavi chances were considered bleak after two important leaders of
the saffron party were killed by Maoists in the same constituency just
a few days prior to the polls.
Despite the odds against him, Mandavi's victory margin was quite
impressive. He secured a total of 36,813 votes, which accounted for
38.06 per cent of the total 96,722 valid votes cast. Kunjam got 24,805
(25.65 per cent) and Karma received 24,250 (25.07 per cent votes) in
his favour.
The Maoists antipathy with Karma, the architect of the Salwa Judum
movement in the state, dates long back and the ultras from the very
beginning made it clear that they will leave no stone unturned to
ensure that Karma loses this election.
Karma, too, in his election meetings, had made it clear that his
contest is not with any political party but with the Maoists.
RSS, VHP back Tamil Hindus in Sri Lanka
News in the New Indian
Express<http://www.expressbuzz.com/edition/story.aspx?Title=RSS,+VHP+back+Hin...>
*RSS, VHP back 'Hindu Tamils' in Sri Lanka*
NEW DELHI: Two leading Hindu groups in India have declared their support to
"Hindu Tamils" in Sri Lanka after a Tamil MP from there alleged attacks by
security forces on temples in the island.
The Rashtriya Swayamsewak Sangh (RSS) and Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP) told
M.K. Shivaji Lingam of the Tamil National Alliance (TNA) separately that
they opposed assaults on Hindu shrines and culture in Sri Lanka.
"You can tell your people that we will be with them. We are here to help
Hindus. Since most Sri Lankan Tamils are Hindus, we won't let them down,"
the Sri Lankan MP quoted HP chief Ashok Singhal as telling him at the
group's headquarters here.
Shivaji Lingam is one of over 20 MPs in Sri Lanka from the TNA, the largest
Tamil bloc in parliament who are allied to the Liberation Tigers of Tamil
Eelam (LTTE).
Shivaji Lingam told IANS that he and K. Nagaimugan, president of the
Bharatiya Forward Bloc in Tamil Nadu, informed Singhal and VHP leader S.
Vedantam that security forces and Sinhalese supremacists in Sri Lanka had
destroyed or damaged scores of Hindu temples.
He said security forces had taken over many Hindu temples and in many cases
property of these shrines had been badly damaged.
"Hindu culture (in Sri Lanka) is at stake," Shivaji Lingam said. Singhal
said he was not aware of the losses suffered by Hindu temples in Sri Lanka's
dragging war.
Most Sri Lankan Tamils are Hindus while an overwhelming majority of the
Sinhalese are Buddhists. Both communities have many Christians too. Muslims,
the second largest minority after Tamils, mostly speak Tamil but consider
themselves a distinct ethnic group.
RSS joint general secretary Suresh Joshi also told Shivaji Lingam and
Nagaimugan that his organisation would not allow Hindu religion as well as
shrines to be attacked in Sri Lanka. "We will not allow Hindus anywhere to
suffer," Joshi reportedly said.
The Tamil MP said his meetings with Joshi and Singhal lasted one hour each.
Shivaji Lingam, who flew into New Delhi Monday, had earlier met Jayendra
Saraswathi, the Shankaracharya of Kanchipuram in Tamil Nadu who enjoys close
ties with the RSS and VHP.
The MP said a meeting had been fixed with Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)
leader L.K. Advani here on Sunday and that other MPs from TNA could join him
that day.
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*திருப்பாவையுடன் எனது நானூறாவது பதிவு !*
சென்ற வருடம் மார்கழி மாதத்தின் போது ஒரு சில திருப்பாவை பாசுரங்களுக்கு பொருள்
விளக்கத்தையும், சிறப்பையும் எனது திருப்பாவைப் பதிவுகளில்
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எழுதியிருந்தேன்.
விட்டுப்போன பாசுரங்களுக்கு, பொருள் விளக்கத்தையும், சிறப்பையும் எடுத்துச்
சொல்லும் பதிவுகளை இந்த மார்கழி மாதம் இட உத்தேசம். திருப்பாவையின் முதல்
பாடலிலிருந்து ஆரம்பிக்கிறேன். அதற்கு முன் மார்கழி பற்றியும், பாவை நோன்பு
குறித்தும் ஒரு சிறிய முன்னுரை !
மார்கழி, பன்னிரண்டு தமிழ் மாதங்களில் ஒரு மாதம். 'மாரி' என்ற
வார்த்தையிலிருந்து உண்டானது 'மார்' என்பது. 'மாரி' என்றால் மழை என்று பொருள்.
'கழி' என்றால் 'கழிந்த' அல்லது 'பின்னர்' என்று அர்த்தம். எனவே, மழைகாலம்
முடிந்த பின்னர் ஆரம்பிக்கும் மாதம் என்று பொருள்.
மார்கழி மாதத்தில், முக்கியமாக பெண்கள் ஏற்கும் விரதம், 'மார்கழி நோன்பு'
ஆகும். ஆயர்ப்பாடியிலுள்ள கன்னியர்கள், நாட்டு நலத்திற்காகவும், பால் வளம்
பெருகவும், நல்ல கணவர்களை அடையவும், நோன்பு நோற்றனர். மார்கழியில் நோற்றதால்
மார்கழி நோன்பு என்றும், கன்னிப் பெண்களால் நோற்கப்படுவதால் 'பாவை நோன்பு'
என்றும் கூறப்படுகின்றது. கன்னியர்கள் விடியற்காலை எழுந்து, மற்றப் பெண்களையும்
எழுப்பி, ஆற்றங்கரை சென்று, அங்குள்ள மணலினால் பாவை போன்ற உருவம் செய்து,
மலர்கள் சூட்டி, பார்வதிதேவியை பாடித் துதித்து வழிபட்டனர்.
தான் பிறந்து வளர்ந்தது ஸ்ரீவில்லிபுத்தூர் ஆயினும், தன்னை கோகுலத்திலுள்ள
கோபியராகவே கருதி, கண்ணனை மணக்க வேண்டி, 'பாவை நோன்பு' நோற்ற சமயம் சூடிக்
கொடுத்த நாச்சியார் பாடிய முப்பது பாடல்களே 'திருப்பாவை'.
'திருப்பாவை' யும் (திருமால் மீது பாடப்பட்ட பாடல்கள்), மாணிக்கவாசகர்
சிவபெருமான் மீது இயற்றிய 'திருவெம்பாவை' யும் பாவைப் பாட்டுக்களில் சிறந்தவை.
திருப்பாவை முப்பது பாடல்களைக் கொண்டது. திருவெம்பாவை இருபது பாடல்களைக்
கொண்டது. இந்த இருபது பாடல்களுடன் 'திருப்பள்ளியெழுச்சி' யிலுள்ள பத்து
பாடல்களும் சேர்த்து அதுவும் முப்பது பாடல்களாக மார்கழி மாத முப்பது
நாட்களிலும் பாடப்படுகின்றது. இப்பாடல்களில் பக்திப் பெருக்கும், தன்னலமற்ற
இறைசேவை ஆகியவை தவிர வேறு நோக்கம் எதுவும் இல்லாமலிருப்பதையும் காணலாம்.
*நோன்பு கொண்டாட விரும்பும் சிறுமியர், மற்ற சிறுமியர்களை விடியற்காலை நீராட
அழைத்தல்*
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*மார்கழித்திங்கள் மதிநிறைந்த நன்னாளால்,
நீராடப்போதுவீர், போதுமினோ, நேரிழையீர்!
சீர்மல்கும் ஆய்ப்பாடிச் செல்வ சிறுமீர்காள்!
கூர்வேல் கொடுந்தொழிலன் நந்தகோபன் குமரன்
ஏர் ஆர்ந்தகண்ணி யசோதை இளஞ்சிங்கம்
கார்மேனிச்செங்கண், கதிர்மதியம் போல் முகத்தான்
நாராயணனே நமக்கே பறை தருவான்
பாரோர் புகழப் படிந்தேலோரெம்பாவாய்.
*
"அழகிய ஆபரணங்களை அணிந்த கன்னிப் பெண்களே! வளமும் சிறப்பும் மிக்க ஆயர்பாடியில்
உள்ள செல்வச் சிறுமியரே! மாதங்களில் சிறந்த மார்கழி மாதத்தில், முழு நிலவு
வீசும் பௌர்ணமி நன்னாளில், பாவை நோன்பில் கலந்து கொண்டு நீராட
விரும்புகின்றவர்கள், வாருங்கள், போகலாம்!
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கூர்மையான வேலைக் கொண்டு பகைவர்க்கு கொடுமை செய்பவனாகிய நந்தகோபனுடைய
குமாரனும், அழகிய விரிந்த விழிகளை உடைய யசோதைக்கு இளம் சிங்கக்குட்டி
போன்றவனும், கரிய வண்ண மேனியனும், செந்தாமரை போன்ற கண்களையும், சூரியனைப்போல
பிரகாசமாயும் நிலவைப்போல குளிர்ந்ததாயும் உள்ள திருமுகத்தையும், உடையவனும், ஆன
நாராயணன், நம் நோன்புக்கு வேண்டிய பொருட்களையும், நாம் விரும்பிய வரங்களையும்
தந்து அருள் புரிவான். எனவே உலகத்தார் நம்மை போற்றும் வண்ணம், நோன்பிருந்து
அவன் திருவடி பணிவோம், வாருங்கள்!"
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*பாசுர விசேஷம்:*
*1. அடியவர், தனக்கும் எம்பெருமானுக்கும் ஆன உறவை உணரும் நாள் "நன்னாள்" என்று
போற்றப்படுகிறது! "நீராடப் போதுவீர்" என்பது அடியவரை கைங்கர்யம் செய்ய அழைப்பதை
உள்ளர்த்தமாக கொண்டுள்ளது.
2. மதி நிறைந்த - அந்த வேண்டுகோளை கேட்ட மாத்திரத்தில், கோபியரின் முகங்களும்
பவுர்ணமி நிலவை ஒத்த பிரகாசம் அடைவதாகவும் வைத்துக் கொள்ளலாம் ! வெண்ணிலவு,
வானத்தில் மட்டுமே இல்லை :)
3. 'செல்வ சிறுமீர்காள்' என்பதில் உள்ள 'செல்வம்' என்ற பதம் கண்ணன் மேல் உள்ள
பேரன்பையும், அவனது துணை தரும் மகிழ்ச்சியையும் உள்ளர்த்தமாகக் கொண்டுள்ளது.
4. இப்பாசுரத்தில், 'ஆய்ப்பாடி' என்பது சம்சார சாகரத்தை உள்ளர்த்தமாக
குறிக்கிறது.
5. "நேரிழையீர்" என்ற பதம் அமைதியையும், புலனடக்கத்தையும் ஒரு சேர வாய்க்கப்
பெற்ற மாந்தரைக் குறிக்கிறது.
6. கூர்வேல் கொடுந்தொழிலன் -- தன்னுடைய சங்கல்பத்தால், நமது பாவங்களுக்கு
நிவர்த்தி தர வல்லவன் கிருஷ்ணன் என்பதை உள்ளர்த்தமாக உணர்த்துகிறது.
7. கதிர் மதியம் போல் முகத்தான் -- பரந்தாமன் ஒரே சமயத்தில், அடியார்களுக்கு
அருளையும் (குளிர்ச்சி), பகைவர்க்குத் துன்பமும் (வெப்பம்) தர வல்லவன் என்பதால்
!
8. பறை தருவான் -- "மோட்ச சித்தியை அடைவதற்கான உபாயங்களை அருள்வான்" என்பது
உட்பொருள்.
9. "நாராயணனே" என்பது உபய ஸ்வரூபத்தையும், "நமக்கே" என்பது அதிகாரி
ஸ்வரூபத்தையும் குறிப்பில் உணர்த்துகிறது. இந்த இரண்டு சொற்களிலும் காணப்படும்
ஏகாரம், பரமனை விட்டால் நமக்கு வேறு கதியில்லை என்பதை அறுதியிட்டு
உணர்த்துகிறது இல்லையா ?
10. மேலும், கர்ம/ஞான யோகங்களை விடவும், பக்தி யோகமே பரமனின் அருளைப் பெறவும்,
அவனை அடையவும் சிறந்த மார்க்கமாக, திருப்பாவையின் முதல் பாசுரம் அறிவிக்கிறது.*
ABVP asks Centre to stop illegal infiltration from Bangladesh
ABVP asks Centre to stop illegal infiltration
The Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP) on Wednesday organised *a
massive anti-infiltration rally in Kishanganj.* According to its leaders,
the rally was organised to highlight the issue of illegal infiltration of
Bangladeshis into the country, especially Bihar.
*Over 50,000 ABVP cadre* and sympathisers drawn from all-over the country
had assembled in Kishanganj, where illegal infiltration has been taking
place on an alarming scale.
The rally was an effort to make people aware of the illegal Bangladeshi
infiltration in Kishanganj and Bihar," said the ABVP president Ram Naresh
Singh. Organising secretary of ABVP B Surendran and national secretary K
Raghunandan too addressed the rally and appealed the Central Government to
take immediate measures to stop illegal infiltration through Kishanganj.
According to the ABVP leaders, over three crore people had infiltrated into
India out of which 1.5 crore have settled in northeastern part of the
country alone. "Despite such a large number of illegal infiltrations the
Central Government is oblivious of the issue and has not been making any
sincere effort to check it which would be a great national security threat
in upcoming days," said ABVP leaders.
"When the entire country is facing terror threat from across the border, how
come the Central Government be oblivious of such huge problem," said ABVP
leader Sunil Ambekar.
Ambekar further said ABVP through its nationwide movement will aware the
people and awake the Central Government about the gravity of the situation
and continue its sustain efforts to deport all these illegal Bangaladeshi
infiltrations. prove
*The 30 km long stretch between Kishanganj and Islampur in the adjacent West
Bengal is known as "Chicken's Neck" area and is completely affected with the
Bangladeshi infiltrators mostly of whom are engaged in illegal activities,
claimed the ABVP leaders.* The ABVP leaders also raised slogans like *"save
Chicken's Neck"* and *"Bangladeshi Bhagao"* in the rally.
Earlier, on Tuesday the ABVP cadres and members had formed a human chain on
the main road of the district, Kishanganj-Dinajpur road highlighting the
issue.
Interestingly, the district officials denied that there was any illegal
infiltration in the district as no case has been registered regarding this
in any police stations of Kishanganj. "As far as knowledge goes there is no
Bangaldeshi infiltration in Kishanganj", said DIG, urnia S K Jha. The
Kishanganj SP MR Naik too said that district administration has no figure on
illegal Bangladeshi settlers in the district.
The Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP) on Wednesday organised *a
massive anti-infiltration rally in Kishanganj.* According to its leaders,
the rally was organised to highlight the issue of illegal infiltration of
Bangladeshis into the country, especially Bihar.
*Over 50,000 ABVP cadre* and sympathisers drawn from all-over the country
had assembled in Kishanganj, where illegal infiltration has been taking
place on an alarming scale.
The rally was an effort to make people aware of the illegal Bangladeshi
infiltration in Kishanganj and Bihar," said the ABVP president Ram Naresh
Singh. Organising secretary of ABVP B Surendran and national secretary K
Raghunandan too addressed the rally and appealed the Central Government to
take immediate measures to stop illegal infiltration through Kishanganj.
According to the ABVP leaders, over three crore people had infiltrated into
India out of which 1.5 crore have settled in northeastern part of the
country alone. "Despite such a large number of illegal infiltrations the
Central Government is oblivious of the issue and has not been making any
sincere effort to check it which would be a great national security threat
in upcoming days," said ABVP leaders.
"When the entire country is facing terror threat from across the border, how
come the Central Government be oblivious of such huge problem," said ABVP
leader Sunil Ambekar.
Ambekar further said ABVP through its nationwide movement will aware the
people and awake the Central Government about the gravity of the situation
and continue its sustain efforts to deport all these illegal Bangaladeshi
infiltrations. prove
*The 30 km long stretch between Kishanganj and Islampur in the adjacent West
Bengal is known as "Chicken's Neck" area and is completely affected with the
Bangladeshi infiltrators mostly of whom are engaged in illegal activities,
claimed the ABVP leaders.* The ABVP leaders also raised slogans like *"save
Chicken's Neck"* and *"Bangladeshi Bhagao"* in the rally.
Earlier, on Tuesday the ABVP cadres and members had formed a human chain on
the main road of the district, Kishanganj-Dinajpur road highlighting the
issue.
Interestingly, the district officials denied that there was any illegal
infiltration in the district as no case has been registered regarding this
in any police stations of Kishanganj. "As far as knowledge goes there is no
Bangaldeshi infiltration in Kishanganj", said DIG, urnia S K Jha. The
Kishanganj SP MR Naik too said that district administration has no figure on
illegal Bangladeshi settlers in the district.
Tuesday, December 2, 2008
Daniel Martin Varisco: Mumbai and the Blame Game
Daniel Martin Varisco: Mumbai and the Blame Game
Source: Tabsir (11-29-08)
[Daniel Martin Varisco is Chair, Anthropology Department at Hofstra University.]
Must every country have its 9/11 moment and must these tragedies continue to be the work of extremists who attack and kill as if they were commanded by Allah? This is a rhetorical question, of course. The latest events in Mumbai have trumped the economic slump in the news. Once again billowing smoke from a famous building clouds the sky; again Islam is tainted as the religion that fosters terrorists. And the blame game begins anew.
The sheer audacity of the attack, more like a Rambo commando raid than the hijacking scenario that felled the Twin Towers, is staggering. How could such landmarks have been targeted in tandem? Where was the security? These are the questions inevitably asked after the fact. As reported in Al-Jazeera, here is the unfolding of the drama:
Following are the key events in the crisis (all times are in Mumbai local time):
Wednesday 26, 2008:
Shooting starts at Chhatrapati Shivaji rail station, one of the world’s busiest, handling thousands of passengers each day.
Within the hour other attacks occur at four other locations: the Nariman House, home of the ultra-orthodox Jewish outreach group Chabad Lubavitch; Leopold’s restaurant, a landmark popular with foreigners; the Trident-Oberoi hotel, a five-star landmark; the Taj Mahal Palace and Tower hotel, a landmark of Mumbai since 1903.
Shooting breaks out in south Mumbai, quickly followed by attacks near the Bombay Municipal Corporation, the civic body that governs Mumbai, and the Cama hospital and the GT hospital in the city centre.
Just after midnight, armed men attack the Vidhan Sabha, the legislative assembly, the lower house of state legislature in India.
Thursday 27
A large fire breaks out at the Taj Palace hotel and an hour later authorities begin escorting people out of the hotel.
Indian security forces are brought in to try to regain control of the Taj hotel and the Oberoi hotel.
Members of the National Security Guard start doing room-to-room searches at the Taj hotel and within the hour surround the Nariman House. Local media show people being rescued from the Oberoi hotel.
A little-known group calling itself the Deccan Mujahedeen claims responsibility for the attacks.
Indian troops continue to battle armed men in the city.
Friday 28
Firing and explosions are reported from both the Taj Mahal and Trident-Oberoi hotels.
Officers kill two gunmen inside the Trident-Oberoi hotel and ended the attack.
Dozens of people are evacuated from the Trident-Oberoi. A bus carrying the rescued guests was seen leaving the scene and police are said to have control of the building.
Meanwhile explosions and gunfire continue intermittently at the Taj Mahal hotel.
An airborne assault gets under way at the Nariban House, where commandos are beseiging a centre run by the ultra-orthodox Jewish outreach group Chabad Lubavitch. Attackers holed up in the building are said to have hostages. The seige is punctuated by gunshots and explosions.
Troops storm the Nariman House, reportedly killing the gunmen inside. The troops emerged from the building to applause but the bodies of five hostages are recovered, including that of the rabbi that ran the centre.
Pakistan warns India not to play politics over the incident, but says the two countries face a common enemy and agrees to send its spy chief to share intelligence on the attacks.
There is little doubt “who” did it as most of the perpetrators appear to be dead, nine out of estimated ten of them. But little is yet known about the individuals behind the who. One rumor is that they are members of Lashkar-e-Taiba, a Pakistan-based group which aims to end Indian rule in Kashmir. If revenge on Americans and Britains was the aim, as is reported from eyewitness accounts, then the raid was a failure. Only 15 foreigners are among the estimated 150 casualties thus far. So far only five Americans were killed.
Why did 100 men commit an act that was sure to result in their own deaths? What did they hope to accomplish by willy nilly killing just about anyone in their way? The pundits and pandits will debate these slippery questions until the next tragedy. An article to be published in Time Magazine by Aryn Baker dredges up the colonial history, highlighting the Muslim-Hindu divide in India (and by extension Pakistan) to the Sepoy Mutiny:
On the afternoon of March 29, 1857, Mangal Pandey, a handsome, mustachioed soldier in the East India Company’s native regiment, attacked his British lieutenant. His hanging a week later sparked a subcontinental revolt known to Indians as the first war of independence and to the British as the Sepoy Mutiny. Retribution was swift, and though Pandey was a Hindu, it was the subcontinent’s Muslims, whose Mughal King nominally held power in Delhi, who bore the brunt of British rage. The remnants of the Mughal Empire were dismantled, and five hundred years of Muslim supremacy on the subcontinent was brought to a halt.
Muslim society in India collapsed. The British imposed English as the official language. The impact was cataclysmic. Muslims went from near 100% literacy to 20% within a half-century. The country’s educated Muslim Élite was effectively blocked from administrative jobs in the government. Between 1858 and 1878, only 57 out of 3,100 graduates of Calcutta University - then the center of South Asian education - were Muslim. While discrimination by both Hindus and the British played a role, it was as if the whole of Muslim society had retreated to lick its collective wounds.
Blame British imperialism: it remains an easy target. But how far back can the blame game extend? Did the Muslim armies ask permission when they first invaded and slaughtered Hindus? Or perhaps the anger is directed at Timur, who not only conquered Delhi some 610 years ago, but dispatched virtually all the inhabitants, sending tens of thousands into eternity without pity? Or perhaps more recent history is at fault. Such tragedies can always be blamed on the Americans or the Israelis, as though the foreign policy or domestic policy of a state creates an open season for killing any of its citizens.
There is only one way to end the blame game; this is a path provided by a native of India who dealt with oppression and colonial power plays with a human rather than a divine dictate. His name was Gandhi. Among the truths he passed on is the following: “Retaliation is not the solution. The policy of an eye for an eye will make the whole world blind.” The men who took the lives of other men and women in Mumbai over the past few days were blind, blinded by a hate that reduces their God to the worst level of human nature. The lessons found in sacred writings of Abraham, Moses, Jesus and Muhammad echo the wisdom of Gandhi. When mortals usurp the divine for vengeance, they dishonor the very notion of God’s greatness.
We should not be blind to injustice nor deny the misdeeds of the past, but those who kill in the name of any God dim the world for us all. There were no Muslim martyrs in Mumbai (except perhaps those who were innocent victims in the killings), no cause great enough to justify taking life. There is room enough in this world for Allah, Yahweh, the Trinity, all the gods and goddesses of Hinduism and even those who deny that divine entities exist. Because we humans have so many blood baths in our history, we owe it to future generations to replace retaliation with tolerance, lest blindness damn us all to more of the same; and for that we will only have ourselves to blame.
http://hnn.us/roundup/comments/57550.html
Source: Tabsir (11-29-08)
[Daniel Martin Varisco is Chair, Anthropology Department at Hofstra University.]
Must every country have its 9/11 moment and must these tragedies continue to be the work of extremists who attack and kill as if they were commanded by Allah? This is a rhetorical question, of course. The latest events in Mumbai have trumped the economic slump in the news. Once again billowing smoke from a famous building clouds the sky; again Islam is tainted as the religion that fosters terrorists. And the blame game begins anew.
The sheer audacity of the attack, more like a Rambo commando raid than the hijacking scenario that felled the Twin Towers, is staggering. How could such landmarks have been targeted in tandem? Where was the security? These are the questions inevitably asked after the fact. As reported in Al-Jazeera, here is the unfolding of the drama:
Following are the key events in the crisis (all times are in Mumbai local time):
Wednesday 26, 2008:
Shooting starts at Chhatrapati Shivaji rail station, one of the world’s busiest, handling thousands of passengers each day.
Within the hour other attacks occur at four other locations: the Nariman House, home of the ultra-orthodox Jewish outreach group Chabad Lubavitch; Leopold’s restaurant, a landmark popular with foreigners; the Trident-Oberoi hotel, a five-star landmark; the Taj Mahal Palace and Tower hotel, a landmark of Mumbai since 1903.
Shooting breaks out in south Mumbai, quickly followed by attacks near the Bombay Municipal Corporation, the civic body that governs Mumbai, and the Cama hospital and the GT hospital in the city centre.
Just after midnight, armed men attack the Vidhan Sabha, the legislative assembly, the lower house of state legislature in India.
Thursday 27
A large fire breaks out at the Taj Palace hotel and an hour later authorities begin escorting people out of the hotel.
Indian security forces are brought in to try to regain control of the Taj hotel and the Oberoi hotel.
Members of the National Security Guard start doing room-to-room searches at the Taj hotel and within the hour surround the Nariman House. Local media show people being rescued from the Oberoi hotel.
A little-known group calling itself the Deccan Mujahedeen claims responsibility for the attacks.
Indian troops continue to battle armed men in the city.
Friday 28
Firing and explosions are reported from both the Taj Mahal and Trident-Oberoi hotels.
Officers kill two gunmen inside the Trident-Oberoi hotel and ended the attack.
Dozens of people are evacuated from the Trident-Oberoi. A bus carrying the rescued guests was seen leaving the scene and police are said to have control of the building.
Meanwhile explosions and gunfire continue intermittently at the Taj Mahal hotel.
An airborne assault gets under way at the Nariban House, where commandos are beseiging a centre run by the ultra-orthodox Jewish outreach group Chabad Lubavitch. Attackers holed up in the building are said to have hostages. The seige is punctuated by gunshots and explosions.
Troops storm the Nariman House, reportedly killing the gunmen inside. The troops emerged from the building to applause but the bodies of five hostages are recovered, including that of the rabbi that ran the centre.
Pakistan warns India not to play politics over the incident, but says the two countries face a common enemy and agrees to send its spy chief to share intelligence on the attacks.
There is little doubt “who” did it as most of the perpetrators appear to be dead, nine out of estimated ten of them. But little is yet known about the individuals behind the who. One rumor is that they are members of Lashkar-e-Taiba, a Pakistan-based group which aims to end Indian rule in Kashmir. If revenge on Americans and Britains was the aim, as is reported from eyewitness accounts, then the raid was a failure. Only 15 foreigners are among the estimated 150 casualties thus far. So far only five Americans were killed.
Why did 100 men commit an act that was sure to result in their own deaths? What did they hope to accomplish by willy nilly killing just about anyone in their way? The pundits and pandits will debate these slippery questions until the next tragedy. An article to be published in Time Magazine by Aryn Baker dredges up the colonial history, highlighting the Muslim-Hindu divide in India (and by extension Pakistan) to the Sepoy Mutiny:
On the afternoon of March 29, 1857, Mangal Pandey, a handsome, mustachioed soldier in the East India Company’s native regiment, attacked his British lieutenant. His hanging a week later sparked a subcontinental revolt known to Indians as the first war of independence and to the British as the Sepoy Mutiny. Retribution was swift, and though Pandey was a Hindu, it was the subcontinent’s Muslims, whose Mughal King nominally held power in Delhi, who bore the brunt of British rage. The remnants of the Mughal Empire were dismantled, and five hundred years of Muslim supremacy on the subcontinent was brought to a halt.
Muslim society in India collapsed. The British imposed English as the official language. The impact was cataclysmic. Muslims went from near 100% literacy to 20% within a half-century. The country’s educated Muslim Élite was effectively blocked from administrative jobs in the government. Between 1858 and 1878, only 57 out of 3,100 graduates of Calcutta University - then the center of South Asian education - were Muslim. While discrimination by both Hindus and the British played a role, it was as if the whole of Muslim society had retreated to lick its collective wounds.
Blame British imperialism: it remains an easy target. But how far back can the blame game extend? Did the Muslim armies ask permission when they first invaded and slaughtered Hindus? Or perhaps the anger is directed at Timur, who not only conquered Delhi some 610 years ago, but dispatched virtually all the inhabitants, sending tens of thousands into eternity without pity? Or perhaps more recent history is at fault. Such tragedies can always be blamed on the Americans or the Israelis, as though the foreign policy or domestic policy of a state creates an open season for killing any of its citizens.
There is only one way to end the blame game; this is a path provided by a native of India who dealt with oppression and colonial power plays with a human rather than a divine dictate. His name was Gandhi. Among the truths he passed on is the following: “Retaliation is not the solution. The policy of an eye for an eye will make the whole world blind.” The men who took the lives of other men and women in Mumbai over the past few days were blind, blinded by a hate that reduces their God to the worst level of human nature. The lessons found in sacred writings of Abraham, Moses, Jesus and Muhammad echo the wisdom of Gandhi. When mortals usurp the divine for vengeance, they dishonor the very notion of God’s greatness.
We should not be blind to injustice nor deny the misdeeds of the past, but those who kill in the name of any God dim the world for us all. There were no Muslim martyrs in Mumbai (except perhaps those who were innocent victims in the killings), no cause great enough to justify taking life. There is room enough in this world for Allah, Yahweh, the Trinity, all the gods and goddesses of Hinduism and even those who deny that divine entities exist. Because we humans have so many blood baths in our history, we owe it to future generations to replace retaliation with tolerance, lest blindness damn us all to more of the same; and for that we will only have ourselves to blame.
http://hnn.us/roundup/comments/57550.html
PRAYERS FOR MUMBAI: USA Temple holds vigil to mourn attacks
PRAYERS FOR MUMBAI: Temple holds vigil to mourn attacks
Rites in Riverdale: Non-Hindus among congregants feeling ‘sense of loss’ after terror attacks
By Ben Smith
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Monday, December 01, 2008
Priests led chants and tossed sacred rice on carved deities. At least 174 candles perched on gold plates flickered at their feet.
The candles burned for the victims slain in a terrorist attack on two upscale hotels and a Jewish center in Mumbai, India, last week.
The death toll was revised down Sunday, but authorities said it could rise again as areas of the Taj Mahal Palace & Tower Hotel, where the militants made their final stand, were still being searched.
The seige lasted three days and targeted 10 sites across India’s financial and cultral capital.
On Sunday afternoon in Riverdale, about 75 congregants braved a rainy-day drive and 20 barefoot steps on cold, wet concrete to attend a memorial service at the Hindu Temple of Atlanta.
Among them were several non-Hindus who felt compelled to participate.
“Being Jewish, we feel a sense of loss,” said Karla Tievsky, wiping away tears.
Tievsky and her husband, Seth Kirschenbaum, said they attended simply because they had read about the event in the newspaper and felt drawn to it.
P.V. Rao, an Emory University physics professor and a Hindu, read sacred texts and urged members of the congregation not to succumb to fear, because the terrorists cannot destroy them.
Reading from the Bhagavad Gita, Rao said, “The soul … is never born, it never dies, nor having once born does it again cease to be. Unborn, eternal, permanent and primeval, it is not slain when the body is slain.”
Rao said of the terrorists, “We want to pray that their kind are converted to a peaceful way.”
Atlanta Mayor Shirley Franklin sent chief of staff Greg Pridgeon to the event. State Sen. Valencia Seay (D-Riverdale) also came.
Probably none of the attendants was directly affected by the Mumbai attack, according to P. Ravi Sarma, president of the Hindu temple. Yet several felt they were connected to the tragedy, in part because of intense news coverage of the 60-hour ordeal. Among the dead were 18 foreigners, including six Americans.
“This has been happening for years,” said Vijay Chennur of Marietta, referring to the decades of violent clashes between Muslims and Hindus in his home country.
Chennur said this attack was different, though, because it was meticulously planned and included the seizing of buildings and the taking of non-Indian hostages. “This time, the conflict went global,” he said.
Chennur was joined by his wife Nandini and his 12-year-old daughter Gautami.
The Chennurs led the congregation in devotional songs. With Vijay Chennur, playing a harmonium, they sang a song to Vinayaka, the elephant-faced lord, to remove all obstacles from the community.
Then, they sang to Krishna to bring light into the world.
Just then, the rays of a setting sun broke through the clouds and streamed through windows of the temple.
Includes information from the Associated Press.
http://www.ajc.com/services/content/printedition/2008/12/01/vigil.html
Rites in Riverdale: Non-Hindus among congregants feeling ‘sense of loss’ after terror attacks
By Ben Smith
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Monday, December 01, 2008
Priests led chants and tossed sacred rice on carved deities. At least 174 candles perched on gold plates flickered at their feet.
The candles burned for the victims slain in a terrorist attack on two upscale hotels and a Jewish center in Mumbai, India, last week.
The death toll was revised down Sunday, but authorities said it could rise again as areas of the Taj Mahal Palace & Tower Hotel, where the militants made their final stand, were still being searched.
The seige lasted three days and targeted 10 sites across India’s financial and cultral capital.
On Sunday afternoon in Riverdale, about 75 congregants braved a rainy-day drive and 20 barefoot steps on cold, wet concrete to attend a memorial service at the Hindu Temple of Atlanta.
Among them were several non-Hindus who felt compelled to participate.
“Being Jewish, we feel a sense of loss,” said Karla Tievsky, wiping away tears.
Tievsky and her husband, Seth Kirschenbaum, said they attended simply because they had read about the event in the newspaper and felt drawn to it.
P.V. Rao, an Emory University physics professor and a Hindu, read sacred texts and urged members of the congregation not to succumb to fear, because the terrorists cannot destroy them.
Reading from the Bhagavad Gita, Rao said, “The soul … is never born, it never dies, nor having once born does it again cease to be. Unborn, eternal, permanent and primeval, it is not slain when the body is slain.”
Rao said of the terrorists, “We want to pray that their kind are converted to a peaceful way.”
Atlanta Mayor Shirley Franklin sent chief of staff Greg Pridgeon to the event. State Sen. Valencia Seay (D-Riverdale) also came.
Probably none of the attendants was directly affected by the Mumbai attack, according to P. Ravi Sarma, president of the Hindu temple. Yet several felt they were connected to the tragedy, in part because of intense news coverage of the 60-hour ordeal. Among the dead were 18 foreigners, including six Americans.
“This has been happening for years,” said Vijay Chennur of Marietta, referring to the decades of violent clashes between Muslims and Hindus in his home country.
Chennur said this attack was different, though, because it was meticulously planned and included the seizing of buildings and the taking of non-Indian hostages. “This time, the conflict went global,” he said.
Chennur was joined by his wife Nandini and his 12-year-old daughter Gautami.
The Chennurs led the congregation in devotional songs. With Vijay Chennur, playing a harmonium, they sang a song to Vinayaka, the elephant-faced lord, to remove all obstacles from the community.
Then, they sang to Krishna to bring light into the world.
Just then, the rays of a setting sun broke through the clouds and streamed through windows of the temple.
Includes information from the Associated Press.
http://www.ajc.com/services/content/printedition/2008/12/01/vigil.html
Leeds(UK) Hindu temple renovated
Leeds Hindu temple 'open for all' thanks to improvement work
Published by Hannah Wooderson for 24dash.com in Communities , Local Government
Leeds Hindu temple 'open for all' thanks to improvement work Leeds Hindu temple 'open for all' thanks to improvement work
Leeds’ only Hindu temple is open for all users, thanks to support worth thousands of pounds to improve its facilities.
The temple and community centre in Alexandra Road, Burley Lodge, can now accommodate its growing number of disabled users after regeneration specialists Frank Haslam Milan (FHM) installed improved accessible facilities at no cost.
Leeds City Council has also provided some support by installing improved lighting in the car park, funded by the Group Repair project.
FHM carried out the work after being told of the grave need for improvements in the centre when Stephen Pearson, Leeds City Council’s Senior Group Repair Officer, and Gail Fairbank FHM’s Resident Liaison Officer visited earlier this year. The company is working in the area improving around 200 homes in partnership with Leeds City Council and saw this move as a chance to support the local community.
The work ends a long running campaign by the Temple’s Management Committee to raise the £5,000 they say was needed to fit the much-needed disabled toilets and washrooms.
This move now means the facilities are more accessible to all elderly and disabled residents who use the centre for lunch clubs, community events and religious gatherings. To show their gratitude, FHM staff were recently invited to a ‘thank you’ event at the centre with committee members and Leeds councillors.
Temple Chairman Niranjan Vakharia said: “This makes a real difference to older and disabled community members, many of whom have used the centre for some years. A few have even used it since it opened in the 1960s.
“As people moved into this area, and have seen their children grow up and live in other parts of the country, this temple has remained important to them. Having facilities that all our members can use is a big bonus for us.
“Myself and the Management Committee are really grateful to FHM for all their help – they have made a huge difference.”
In carrying out the improvement FHM worked with local firms Dale Stephensons, who supplied the toilet facilities, Scott Anson, who carried out the decorating, and Steve Woodman, who supplied and fitted the flooring.
Community Liaison Officer Gail Fairbank said: “So many people use this facility and it’s great that we have been able to help in this way.
“We’ve been working in this part of Leeds for some time now, improving people’s homes, and we have got to know some of the tenants and residents really well.
“It’s extremely rewarding to see how satisfied they are with the completed work.”
http://www.24dash.com/news/Communities/2008-12-01-Leeds-Hindu-temple-open-for-all-thanks-to-improvement-work
Published by Hannah Wooderson for 24dash.com in Communities , Local Government
Leeds Hindu temple 'open for all' thanks to improvement work Leeds Hindu temple 'open for all' thanks to improvement work
Leeds’ only Hindu temple is open for all users, thanks to support worth thousands of pounds to improve its facilities.
The temple and community centre in Alexandra Road, Burley Lodge, can now accommodate its growing number of disabled users after regeneration specialists Frank Haslam Milan (FHM) installed improved accessible facilities at no cost.
Leeds City Council has also provided some support by installing improved lighting in the car park, funded by the Group Repair project.
FHM carried out the work after being told of the grave need for improvements in the centre when Stephen Pearson, Leeds City Council’s Senior Group Repair Officer, and Gail Fairbank FHM’s Resident Liaison Officer visited earlier this year. The company is working in the area improving around 200 homes in partnership with Leeds City Council and saw this move as a chance to support the local community.
The work ends a long running campaign by the Temple’s Management Committee to raise the £5,000 they say was needed to fit the much-needed disabled toilets and washrooms.
This move now means the facilities are more accessible to all elderly and disabled residents who use the centre for lunch clubs, community events and religious gatherings. To show their gratitude, FHM staff were recently invited to a ‘thank you’ event at the centre with committee members and Leeds councillors.
Temple Chairman Niranjan Vakharia said: “This makes a real difference to older and disabled community members, many of whom have used the centre for some years. A few have even used it since it opened in the 1960s.
“As people moved into this area, and have seen their children grow up and live in other parts of the country, this temple has remained important to them. Having facilities that all our members can use is a big bonus for us.
“Myself and the Management Committee are really grateful to FHM for all their help – they have made a huge difference.”
In carrying out the improvement FHM worked with local firms Dale Stephensons, who supplied the toilet facilities, Scott Anson, who carried out the decorating, and Steve Woodman, who supplied and fitted the flooring.
Community Liaison Officer Gail Fairbank said: “So many people use this facility and it’s great that we have been able to help in this way.
“We’ve been working in this part of Leeds for some time now, improving people’s homes, and we have got to know some of the tenants and residents really well.
“It’s extremely rewarding to see how satisfied they are with the completed work.”
http://www.24dash.com/news/Communities/2008-12-01-Leeds-Hindu-temple-open-for-all-thanks-to-improvement-work
Euphemisms No Match for Radical Islam
Euphemisms No Match for Radical Islam
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November 29, 2008
by David J. Rusin
IslamistWatch.org
While Western governments scoff at the anti-blasphemy measure that a UN General Assembly committee passed on November 24, they actually have led the way in perfecting the art of self-censorship. Bureaucrats and elected officials, in de facto sympathy with the resolution's claim that "Islam is frequently and wrongly associated with human rights violations and terrorism," twist themselves into pretzels to cleanse references to the faith from relevant discussions.
The immediate consequences of refusing to call a spade a spade are as predictable as they are maddening. Consider this lesson in the obvious, courtesy of Great Britain:
Attempts to turn young people away from Islamic extremism are being hampered by politically correct language, according to a new report.
Ministers last year directed councils to use the terms "anti-Islamic activity" and "community resilience" instead of terrorism and extremism, as part of a drive to win over the Muslim community.
But the rebranding has spread confusion and is preventing local authorities and public bodies from talking openly about the radicalization of young people.
Home Secretary Jacqui Smith was ridiculed for renaming terrorism "anti-Islamic activity." Given that citizens and councilors alike can point to legions of Muslim terrorists who have sought to justify their atrocities by appealing to Islam, it is little surprise that such policies "spread confusion." The replacement of "extremism" with "community resilience" is even more baffling.
Yet Americans should not laugh too hard at their cousins in the UK. As reported earlier this year:
Federal agencies, including the State Department, the Department of Homeland Security, and the National Counter Terrorism Center, are telling their people not to describe Islamic extremists as "jihadists" or "mujahedeen," according to documents obtained by the Associated Press. Lingo like "Islamo-fascism" is out, too.
The reason: Such words may actually boost support for radicals among Arab and Muslim audiences by giving them a veneer of religious credibility or by causing offense to moderates.
There is, however, a ray of hope. A U.S. military "red team" recently called for the rejection of these policies, arguing that "while there is concern that we not label all Muslims as Islamist terrorists, it is proper to address certain aspects of violence as uniquely Islamic."
Knowing the enemy is prerequisite to defeating him. Islamists and the UN hope to muzzle the West into ignorance; we must not compound the problem by muzzling ourselves.
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IslamistWatch.org A Project of the Middle East Forum Summary: Launched in April 2006, Islamist Watch combats the ideas and institutions of nonviolent, radical Islam in the United States and other Western countries. It exposes the far-reaching goals of Islamists, works to reduce their power, and seeks to strengthen moderate Muslims.
http://www.rightsidenews.com/200811292810/culture-wars/euphemisms-no-match-for-radical-islam.html
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November 29, 2008
by David J. Rusin
IslamistWatch.org
While Western governments scoff at the anti-blasphemy measure that a UN General Assembly committee passed on November 24, they actually have led the way in perfecting the art of self-censorship. Bureaucrats and elected officials, in de facto sympathy with the resolution's claim that "Islam is frequently and wrongly associated with human rights violations and terrorism," twist themselves into pretzels to cleanse references to the faith from relevant discussions.
The immediate consequences of refusing to call a spade a spade are as predictable as they are maddening. Consider this lesson in the obvious, courtesy of Great Britain:
Attempts to turn young people away from Islamic extremism are being hampered by politically correct language, according to a new report.
Ministers last year directed councils to use the terms "anti-Islamic activity" and "community resilience" instead of terrorism and extremism, as part of a drive to win over the Muslim community.
But the rebranding has spread confusion and is preventing local authorities and public bodies from talking openly about the radicalization of young people.
Home Secretary Jacqui Smith was ridiculed for renaming terrorism "anti-Islamic activity." Given that citizens and councilors alike can point to legions of Muslim terrorists who have sought to justify their atrocities by appealing to Islam, it is little surprise that such policies "spread confusion." The replacement of "extremism" with "community resilience" is even more baffling.
Yet Americans should not laugh too hard at their cousins in the UK. As reported earlier this year:
Federal agencies, including the State Department, the Department of Homeland Security, and the National Counter Terrorism Center, are telling their people not to describe Islamic extremists as "jihadists" or "mujahedeen," according to documents obtained by the Associated Press. Lingo like "Islamo-fascism" is out, too.
The reason: Such words may actually boost support for radicals among Arab and Muslim audiences by giving them a veneer of religious credibility or by causing offense to moderates.
There is, however, a ray of hope. A U.S. military "red team" recently called for the rejection of these policies, arguing that "while there is concern that we not label all Muslims as Islamist terrorists, it is proper to address certain aspects of violence as uniquely Islamic."
Knowing the enemy is prerequisite to defeating him. Islamists and the UN hope to muzzle the West into ignorance; we must not compound the problem by muzzling ourselves.
------------------------
IslamistWatch.org A Project of the Middle East Forum Summary: Launched in April 2006, Islamist Watch combats the ideas and institutions of nonviolent, radical Islam in the United States and other Western countries. It exposes the far-reaching goals of Islamists, works to reduce their power, and seeks to strengthen moderate Muslims.
http://www.rightsidenews.com/200811292810/culture-wars/euphemisms-no-match-for-radical-islam.html
Mumbai Attacks: It was the teachings of the Quran that drove these men to terrorism
INDIA! It was the teachings of the Quran that drove these men to terrorism PDF Print E-mail
December 2, 2008
by Mark Harding
This Islamic terror from India is the typical result of the blind leading the blind. It started along time ago with the teachings of a madman called Muhammad, and the world continues to be terrorized by his followers today. Until the world wakes up to the "real cause" of the terror it finds itself facing today, Islamic terrorism will continue.
Hitler was the madman that drove so many Germans to do the un-thinkable terror that eventually caused the world to wake up and react to the destruction the terrorism and the murder of Jews and Christians, it was called Hitlerism.
Today the world must wake up to a new form of Nazism, its called Islam.
The teachings of Islam are the soul reason for the Islamic terrorism that we are seeing today. Muhammad the so called prophet of Islam may be dead but his terrorism lives on today in the hearts and the minds of many Muslim victims today because of the teachings of his manual's for terrorism, destruction and the murder of the Un-believers. These Manuals are the Quran and the Hadiths.
And until we are willing to speak the truth about Islam and protect those who are brave enough to do so, we will continue to see Islamic terrorist attacks like this one that took place in India.
I have studied Islam and its followers for almost 20 years now.
And after some intensive studying I have found that Islam's prophet, Muhammad, was a man that found a way to make other men fight and kill for wealth, power and a false hope of eternal salvation with a war god named "Allah" that does not even exist, unless one calls Lucifer a god.
These men were trained to kill Jews and Christian Infidels or as Islam calls us "Kafirs". There are other Islamic men and women trained to lie and to tell everyone that Islam is a ‘religion of peace'. And yet they're others who have been trained to be moderates and their job is to deceive you and I into believing that these "Islamic radicals" are misinterpreting the Quran and that the media and our governments are lying about the persecution of Christians and Jews in Islamic societies. I have met with all three types of these Muslims and with questioning have found these trained men and women to be lying as they themselves exposed the truth about the teachings of Islam and their true identities in a very short order.
Yes there are many that call themselves Muslims but have never even studied the Quran this is true. They are the victims. They are the ones that follow the crowds of Muslims who want to believe in their hearts that Islam is what the teachers of Islam (Imams) are saying, ‘that Islam is a religion of peace' and yet these same Imams are those who also remind the follows of Islam that they are not allowed to question its teachings. These that have been told not to question Muhammad and his teachings are those who I have talked with on the streets and because of their lack of knowledge about the Quran, have no answers to my questions.
They have won this battle in India against 10 Islamic terrorists, but look at the destruction and murder that these 10 Islamic terrorists have caused.
Does stopping these 10 Islamic followers solve the problem, or does it just create more Islamic martyrs from the teachings of Islam who are willing to follow them?
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Mark Harding
Editor of: Islam is not what you think.com
E-mail: news@islamisnotwhatyouthink.comThis e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it
A video worth seeing.
The strength and bravery of this Jewish man is well worth watching.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zs4sdBflc0I
http://www.rightsidenews.com/200812022836/editorial/india-it-was-the-teachings-of-the-quran-that-drove-these-men-to-terrorism.html
December 2, 2008
by Mark Harding
This Islamic terror from India is the typical result of the blind leading the blind. It started along time ago with the teachings of a madman called Muhammad, and the world continues to be terrorized by his followers today. Until the world wakes up to the "real cause" of the terror it finds itself facing today, Islamic terrorism will continue.
Hitler was the madman that drove so many Germans to do the un-thinkable terror that eventually caused the world to wake up and react to the destruction the terrorism and the murder of Jews and Christians, it was called Hitlerism.
Today the world must wake up to a new form of Nazism, its called Islam.
The teachings of Islam are the soul reason for the Islamic terrorism that we are seeing today. Muhammad the so called prophet of Islam may be dead but his terrorism lives on today in the hearts and the minds of many Muslim victims today because of the teachings of his manual's for terrorism, destruction and the murder of the Un-believers. These Manuals are the Quran and the Hadiths.
And until we are willing to speak the truth about Islam and protect those who are brave enough to do so, we will continue to see Islamic terrorist attacks like this one that took place in India.
I have studied Islam and its followers for almost 20 years now.
And after some intensive studying I have found that Islam's prophet, Muhammad, was a man that found a way to make other men fight and kill for wealth, power and a false hope of eternal salvation with a war god named "Allah" that does not even exist, unless one calls Lucifer a god.
These men were trained to kill Jews and Christian Infidels or as Islam calls us "Kafirs". There are other Islamic men and women trained to lie and to tell everyone that Islam is a ‘religion of peace'. And yet they're others who have been trained to be moderates and their job is to deceive you and I into believing that these "Islamic radicals" are misinterpreting the Quran and that the media and our governments are lying about the persecution of Christians and Jews in Islamic societies. I have met with all three types of these Muslims and with questioning have found these trained men and women to be lying as they themselves exposed the truth about the teachings of Islam and their true identities in a very short order.
Yes there are many that call themselves Muslims but have never even studied the Quran this is true. They are the victims. They are the ones that follow the crowds of Muslims who want to believe in their hearts that Islam is what the teachers of Islam (Imams) are saying, ‘that Islam is a religion of peace' and yet these same Imams are those who also remind the follows of Islam that they are not allowed to question its teachings. These that have been told not to question Muhammad and his teachings are those who I have talked with on the streets and because of their lack of knowledge about the Quran, have no answers to my questions.
They have won this battle in India against 10 Islamic terrorists, but look at the destruction and murder that these 10 Islamic terrorists have caused.
Does stopping these 10 Islamic followers solve the problem, or does it just create more Islamic martyrs from the teachings of Islam who are willing to follow them?
----------------
Mark Harding
Editor of: Islam is not what you think.com
E-mail: news@islamisnotwhatyouthink.comThis e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it
A video worth seeing.
The strength and bravery of this Jewish man is well worth watching.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zs4sdBflc0I
http://www.rightsidenews.com/200812022836/editorial/india-it-was-the-teachings-of-the-quran-that-drove-these-men-to-terrorism.html
Terror In The Name Of God
Terror In The Name Of God
By Yoginder Sikand
01 December, 2008
Countercurrents.org
"Never forget that the life of this world is only a game and a passing delight, a show ….the life of this world is nothing but means of deception:.
(The Quran, Al-Hadid: 20)
"There is no Hindu, there is no Muslim"
(Baba Guru Nanak Sahib)
According to media reports, it is possible that the recent deadly assault on Mumbai was masterminded by the Lashkar-e Tayyeba, a Pakistan-based self-styled Islamist terrorist outfit. Whether the attacks were indeed the handiwork of the Lashkar, as is being alleged, or of some other agency, such as the CIA and the Israseli Mossad, as others believe, remains to be fully investigated, but there can be no doubt that radical Islamism, like radical Hindutva, poses a major threat to peace and security in both India and Pakistan.
What makes such terror-driven self-styled Islamist groups thrive in Pakistan? It would appear that the very foundational myth of Pakistan, the so-called 'two nation theory' on which the country was founded, is itself conducive to militaristic interpretations of Islam. In a mirror image of the thesis propounded by the early ideologues of Hindutva—that the Hindus and Muslims of India were two entirely different nations and that the latter could live in India only if they agreed to turn Hindu or else be stripped of all civic rights—the ideologues of the Pakistan movement claimed that the Hindus and Muslims of pre-Partition India were two irreconcilable nations that could not live together. On the basis of this specious argument, they demanded a separate state for the Indian Muslims. This is how Pakistan came into being.
Thus, the very basis of the Pakistan movement was the myth of undying hatred and hostility between Hindus and Muslims. This so-called 'two-nation theory' remains the official ideology of the state of Pakistan, and is taught to every Pakistani child in school through carefully doctored textbooks. To question the theory, as many Pakistanis privately do, is considered a punishable crime and as akin to sedition. Accordingly, the Pakistani state has, since its inception, seen its survival as being crucially dependent on actively promoting as well as indirectly abetting anti-Indian and anti-Hindu sentiments. As movements for autonomy in provinces increasingly restive of Punjabi domination mounted, first in the erstwhile East Bengal, and then in Baluchistan and Sindh, the Pakistani state came to increasingly rely on an instrumental use and cynical manipulation of Islam and on the bogey of Hindu or Indian domination to ensure its survival and increasingly threatened legitimacy. Naturally, this expanded the space and scope for groups, not just the Lashkar, but scores of others as well, who claimed to speak in the name of Islam to whip up anti-Indian and anti-Hindu sentiments. For them hatred of India and the Hindus were considered as among the defining features of Pakistani nationalism.
The rise of the Lashkar and similar self-styled jihadist groups thus cannot be understood in isolation from these broader political processes. These groups received a major impetus under the American-backed and hugely unpopular military dictator, General Zia ul-Haq, who cynically backed radical Islamist groups to win public support as well as to pursue the CIA-funded war against the Soviets in Afghanistan. It was at around this time that self-styled Islamist groups began entering the political arena in a major way, setting up political parties and fighting elections. This led to all sorts of compromises, to widespread corruption and to rapidly escalating militancy by different Islamist groups competing with each other to prove to the electorate their purported claims of representing and speaking for Islam. The more obscurantist a group's approach was with regard to a whole host of issues—women's rights, the Kashmir question, relations with India and so on—the more ardently 'Islamic' it considered itself to be and it presented itself so to the public whose support it sought to win.
Under Zia, several dozen radical Islamist groups were liberally funded by the Saudis and the Americans in the war in Afghanistan, but soon these went out of control. They turned against their American patrons and started dreaming of exporting their self-styled jihad to the rest of the world. Some of them, including the Lashkar, even went to the extent of calling for the establishment of a global so-called Islamic Caliphate and for conquering the entire world under the 'Islamic flag'. Whether or not the leaders of these groups actually believed all this bombastic rhetoric no one can say, but it certainly appealed to vast numbers of youth, particularly from impoverished families, who were fed on a steady diet of fanciful tales about the luxuries they would wallow in if they died or were 'martyred' in the cause of what was presented to them as a divine mission.
These groups went on to serve what were seen as the strategic interests of the Pakistani state, as for instance in Kashmir, where they were sent to battle Indian forces as well as Kashmiri nationalist groups struggling for a sovereign Jammu and Kashmir, which would be independent of both India and Pakistan. Since Pakistan was a crucial ally of the West, America chose to remain mute in the face of these developments. Likewise, these groups were solidly backed by the Pakistani state in its desperate effort to install the pro-Pakistan Taliban regime in Afghanistan, and this also received American support. The Lashkar set up several training camps in Afghanistan and gave the Taliban considerable military and moral support.
It is thus the consistent assistance given by the Pakistani state to self-styled Islamist groups that has allowed them to flourish in the country, so much so that now, when the Pakistani state has itself begun to face an immense threat from these very groups, it finds itself helpless. It is an indicator of how powerful these groups have become in Pakistan that even though the present government might want to clamp down on them it cannot do so. Large parts of Pakistan are today characterized by extreme lawlessness where the writ of the state does not run. Decades of cynical manipulation of Islam by the Pakistani state for the narrowly construed ends of Pakistan's elites have now led to a situation where even if the state wants to curb these self-styled Islamist groups it finds itself helpless. Powerful sections within the Pakistani state apparatus, including in the ISI and the Army, are fiercely averse to taking any action against these groups, and are said to be consistently providing support to them.
But is the Pakistani state serious in its claims of being determined to take on Islamist terror groups that have mushroomed across the country? It appears not, just as the Indian state has not taken any serious steps against Hindutva terror groups in India. The Pakistani government claims to have banned the Lashkar, to have frozen all its assets and to have put its leaders under arrest. But ample indications exist to suggest that, in actual fact, the Lashkar is being permitted to operate freely after being conveniently allowed to change its name and re-christen itself as the Jamaat ud-Dawa. The Jamaat ud-Dawa's website is freely accessible on the Internet, relaying incendiary, hate-driven speeches of its senior leaders, who seem to be under no control whatsoever. The Markaz's magazines in English, Arabic and Urdu continue to be published, with a reported circulation of several hundred thousand. On a visit to Lahore three years ago I chanced upon a bookshop in the very heart of the sprawling Urdu Bazaar that specializes in Lashkar literature that spews venom and hatred against India and the Hindus, but also against a whole host of Muslim groups that the Lashkar does not consider genuinely Islamic—including the followers of the Sufis, the Barelvis, the quietistic Deobandi-related Tablighi Jamaat and the Shias, all of which it brands as 'enemies of Islam' or their 'agents'. And, I was told, despite the fact that the Lashkar was officially 'banned', it still operated from its headquarters in Muridke, not far from Lahore, and also managed several dozens of centres across the country under various names. Is one to imagine that the Pakistani government is so weak in the face of radical groups as to be unable to close all these institutions down?
In this context, the question arises as to why Pakistani civil society has been unable to effectively challenge the venomous (and what I, as someone who has studied Islam for the past two decades, regard as a wholly distorted) version of Islam that is propelled by self-styled Islamist groups such as the Lashkar. This issue is particularly intriguing given the fact that radical Islamist groups have consistently received only a relatively small share of the vote in successive elections, indicating that their hate-driven vision of Islam does not appeal to the majority of Pakistani people.
There are several reasons for this, among the most salient being the fact that the liberal, progressive middle class in Pakistan is very miniscule, the country still remaining largely feudal, tribalistic and extremely patriarchal in its set-up and ethos. Efforts by the few liberal Islamic scholars that exist in Pakistan to articulate progressive interpretations of Islam on a range of issues—including women's rights, relations with non-Muslims and relations between India and Pakistan—have generally met with stern opposition and even violence from Islamist outfits, with some of these scholars being forced to flee for safety to the West. The sheer fear of being killed for publicly opposing radicals and their perverted brand of Islam keeps numerous progressive thinkers in Pakistan silent, thus perpetuating a vicious circle in which the radicals are allowed to go unchallenged. Furthermore, the state has consistently denied space to progressive Islamic scholars, fearing their potential for dissent from the official view, seeing the radicals as more pliable and amenable to manipulation. This explains, for instance, the fact that despite its bombastic 'Islamic' credentials, Pakistan is yet to produce any well-known Islamic intellectual who has sought to deal creatively with the manifold demands and challenges that modernity poses. The status of Islamic, in addition to social science, research in Pakistan is woeful, and this can be explained, in part, by the fear on the part of the establishment of voices of dissenting scholars that might challenge ruling myths. The fact that Pakistan spends less than 2 per cent of its budget on education and that numerous Vice-Chancellors of Pakistani universities are retired army generals are indicators of this mind-set.
Terrorism—and this includes terror resorted to by non-state actors as well as by the state—today poses a grave threat to the peoples of both India and Pakistan. Islamist and Hindutva terrorism feed on each other, while posing to be each other's most inveterate foes. I recall reading some years ago—I cannot recall where, though—the perverse pleasure that a senior Lashkar expressed when the BJP-led NDA government came to power. Syed Maududi, the chief ideologue of the Jamaat-e Islami, who can be considered the major architect of modern-day Islamism, is on record as having declared that he would prefer India to be an officially Hindu country to being secular because that would further his case for the 'Islamic state' that he dreamed of establishing in Pakistan. Islamist outfits in Pakistan find ready fodder for whipping up anti-Indian and anti-Hindu passions by pouncing on acts of terror and anti-Muslim violence spearheaded by Hindutva groups in India, often abetted by the state. Likewise, gruesome acts of terror committed by Pakistan-based Islamist groups are quickly seized upon by Hindutva forces in India to further demonise Muslims and to build their Hindu vote-bank. Hindu and Islamist terror thus enjoy a symbiotic or mutually beneficial relationship while claiming to oppose each other. This obvious fact must be recognized when conceiving responses to the challenge of terrorism in our region.
There are no easy solutions to the predicament we find ourselves in today. But there is surely at least one thing that we must do, and this was suggested to me by the noted New Delhi-based Arya Samaj scholar, Swami Agnivesh, who has consistently been speaking out against all forms of terror, including in the name of Islam and Hinduism as well as state terrorism. The most effective way to challenge terrorism in the name of religion, Swami Agnivesh suggested, is for Muslims to denounce and stiffly oppose terror engaged in by self-styled Islamic groups who claim to speak in the name of Islam, and for Hindus to do likewise with regard to terror spread by militant Hindu groups. Sadly, today, the approach of many of us to the phenomenon is selective and skewed, with many Hindus denouncing only the terror unleashed by self-styled Islamist groups, and many Muslims denouncing only acts of terror masterminded by Hindu groups. At the same time, many Hindus and Muslims continue to turn a blind eye to, or even support, forms of terror being perpetrated in the name of the very religion which they claim to follow.
And there is something else that we need to do as individuals, and I have found that this simple principle works wonders even at a very personal level. It might sound 'unfashionable' or even 'purile' for those who do not find any place for God in their lives, but for millions of people in India and Pakistan who do believe in some higher force, no matter what they name it, it would strike an immediate chord.
This principle I owe to Rano Devi, a landless Dalit labourer from the Bhil tribe who had been released through the efforts of a human rights' group from slavery-like conditions in the estate of a powerful landlord. I Rano met while on a visit to Sindh in southern Pakistan three years ago. A powerful woman she was—dark and tall, and walking proud and erect. A courteous hostess, she welcomed me into her one-roomed hovel built on a scrawny patch of land that a social activist friend of mine had provided her and plied me with milk-less tea and a roti, which was all that she could afford.
Rano told me her story, of how she was enslaved by a landlord, who happened to be a Muslim, and who kept her for four years in shackles. Then, after a protracted legal battle, she was released through the efforts of my friend and his comrades, all of who happened to be Muslims.
She went on to enunciate a simple but very compelling principle thus:
'Live for your religion, don't die or kill for it. Express your religion through love and service, like the brothers who rescued me did, not through oppression, murder and mayhem, for that is a heinous crime in God's eyes. After all, we are all accountable for all our actions to God. To Him we shall return after we die, when He will decide our fate till eternity based on our deeds in this world'.
'If we were to realize that this world is temporary and that real, eternal life starts after death,' Rano continued softly, tears welling up in her eyes, 'and if we were to constantly keep this in mind, perhaps people would dread to misuse God's name for un-Godly acts'.
And there was another thing that Rano said that inspires me as I write these lines:
'We call Him Ishwar, and Muslims call Him Allah, but He is one and the same', said Rano. 'There are good people in every community, just as there are bad people, too. Just as that landlord who enslaved me claimed to be a Muslim, the brothers who freed me were also Muslims. And there are both good and bad people among Hindus as well. Remember that, brother. It is only when good people in every community join hands that this Hindu-Muslim problem or the problems between India and Pakistan can ever be resolved'.
That sage advice from this impoverished Pakistani Dalit woman is, to my mind, a basic premise we need to start from in our joint struggle against terror in the name of religion and national chauvinism.
http://www.countercurrents.org/sikand011208.htm
By Yoginder Sikand
01 December, 2008
Countercurrents.org
"Never forget that the life of this world is only a game and a passing delight, a show ….the life of this world is nothing but means of deception:.
(The Quran, Al-Hadid: 20)
"There is no Hindu, there is no Muslim"
(Baba Guru Nanak Sahib)
According to media reports, it is possible that the recent deadly assault on Mumbai was masterminded by the Lashkar-e Tayyeba, a Pakistan-based self-styled Islamist terrorist outfit. Whether the attacks were indeed the handiwork of the Lashkar, as is being alleged, or of some other agency, such as the CIA and the Israseli Mossad, as others believe, remains to be fully investigated, but there can be no doubt that radical Islamism, like radical Hindutva, poses a major threat to peace and security in both India and Pakistan.
What makes such terror-driven self-styled Islamist groups thrive in Pakistan? It would appear that the very foundational myth of Pakistan, the so-called 'two nation theory' on which the country was founded, is itself conducive to militaristic interpretations of Islam. In a mirror image of the thesis propounded by the early ideologues of Hindutva—that the Hindus and Muslims of India were two entirely different nations and that the latter could live in India only if they agreed to turn Hindu or else be stripped of all civic rights—the ideologues of the Pakistan movement claimed that the Hindus and Muslims of pre-Partition India were two irreconcilable nations that could not live together. On the basis of this specious argument, they demanded a separate state for the Indian Muslims. This is how Pakistan came into being.
Thus, the very basis of the Pakistan movement was the myth of undying hatred and hostility between Hindus and Muslims. This so-called 'two-nation theory' remains the official ideology of the state of Pakistan, and is taught to every Pakistani child in school through carefully doctored textbooks. To question the theory, as many Pakistanis privately do, is considered a punishable crime and as akin to sedition. Accordingly, the Pakistani state has, since its inception, seen its survival as being crucially dependent on actively promoting as well as indirectly abetting anti-Indian and anti-Hindu sentiments. As movements for autonomy in provinces increasingly restive of Punjabi domination mounted, first in the erstwhile East Bengal, and then in Baluchistan and Sindh, the Pakistani state came to increasingly rely on an instrumental use and cynical manipulation of Islam and on the bogey of Hindu or Indian domination to ensure its survival and increasingly threatened legitimacy. Naturally, this expanded the space and scope for groups, not just the Lashkar, but scores of others as well, who claimed to speak in the name of Islam to whip up anti-Indian and anti-Hindu sentiments. For them hatred of India and the Hindus were considered as among the defining features of Pakistani nationalism.
The rise of the Lashkar and similar self-styled jihadist groups thus cannot be understood in isolation from these broader political processes. These groups received a major impetus under the American-backed and hugely unpopular military dictator, General Zia ul-Haq, who cynically backed radical Islamist groups to win public support as well as to pursue the CIA-funded war against the Soviets in Afghanistan. It was at around this time that self-styled Islamist groups began entering the political arena in a major way, setting up political parties and fighting elections. This led to all sorts of compromises, to widespread corruption and to rapidly escalating militancy by different Islamist groups competing with each other to prove to the electorate their purported claims of representing and speaking for Islam. The more obscurantist a group's approach was with regard to a whole host of issues—women's rights, the Kashmir question, relations with India and so on—the more ardently 'Islamic' it considered itself to be and it presented itself so to the public whose support it sought to win.
Under Zia, several dozen radical Islamist groups were liberally funded by the Saudis and the Americans in the war in Afghanistan, but soon these went out of control. They turned against their American patrons and started dreaming of exporting their self-styled jihad to the rest of the world. Some of them, including the Lashkar, even went to the extent of calling for the establishment of a global so-called Islamic Caliphate and for conquering the entire world under the 'Islamic flag'. Whether or not the leaders of these groups actually believed all this bombastic rhetoric no one can say, but it certainly appealed to vast numbers of youth, particularly from impoverished families, who were fed on a steady diet of fanciful tales about the luxuries they would wallow in if they died or were 'martyred' in the cause of what was presented to them as a divine mission.
These groups went on to serve what were seen as the strategic interests of the Pakistani state, as for instance in Kashmir, where they were sent to battle Indian forces as well as Kashmiri nationalist groups struggling for a sovereign Jammu and Kashmir, which would be independent of both India and Pakistan. Since Pakistan was a crucial ally of the West, America chose to remain mute in the face of these developments. Likewise, these groups were solidly backed by the Pakistani state in its desperate effort to install the pro-Pakistan Taliban regime in Afghanistan, and this also received American support. The Lashkar set up several training camps in Afghanistan and gave the Taliban considerable military and moral support.
It is thus the consistent assistance given by the Pakistani state to self-styled Islamist groups that has allowed them to flourish in the country, so much so that now, when the Pakistani state has itself begun to face an immense threat from these very groups, it finds itself helpless. It is an indicator of how powerful these groups have become in Pakistan that even though the present government might want to clamp down on them it cannot do so. Large parts of Pakistan are today characterized by extreme lawlessness where the writ of the state does not run. Decades of cynical manipulation of Islam by the Pakistani state for the narrowly construed ends of Pakistan's elites have now led to a situation where even if the state wants to curb these self-styled Islamist groups it finds itself helpless. Powerful sections within the Pakistani state apparatus, including in the ISI and the Army, are fiercely averse to taking any action against these groups, and are said to be consistently providing support to them.
But is the Pakistani state serious in its claims of being determined to take on Islamist terror groups that have mushroomed across the country? It appears not, just as the Indian state has not taken any serious steps against Hindutva terror groups in India. The Pakistani government claims to have banned the Lashkar, to have frozen all its assets and to have put its leaders under arrest. But ample indications exist to suggest that, in actual fact, the Lashkar is being permitted to operate freely after being conveniently allowed to change its name and re-christen itself as the Jamaat ud-Dawa. The Jamaat ud-Dawa's website is freely accessible on the Internet, relaying incendiary, hate-driven speeches of its senior leaders, who seem to be under no control whatsoever. The Markaz's magazines in English, Arabic and Urdu continue to be published, with a reported circulation of several hundred thousand. On a visit to Lahore three years ago I chanced upon a bookshop in the very heart of the sprawling Urdu Bazaar that specializes in Lashkar literature that spews venom and hatred against India and the Hindus, but also against a whole host of Muslim groups that the Lashkar does not consider genuinely Islamic—including the followers of the Sufis, the Barelvis, the quietistic Deobandi-related Tablighi Jamaat and the Shias, all of which it brands as 'enemies of Islam' or their 'agents'. And, I was told, despite the fact that the Lashkar was officially 'banned', it still operated from its headquarters in Muridke, not far from Lahore, and also managed several dozens of centres across the country under various names. Is one to imagine that the Pakistani government is so weak in the face of radical groups as to be unable to close all these institutions down?
In this context, the question arises as to why Pakistani civil society has been unable to effectively challenge the venomous (and what I, as someone who has studied Islam for the past two decades, regard as a wholly distorted) version of Islam that is propelled by self-styled Islamist groups such as the Lashkar. This issue is particularly intriguing given the fact that radical Islamist groups have consistently received only a relatively small share of the vote in successive elections, indicating that their hate-driven vision of Islam does not appeal to the majority of Pakistani people.
There are several reasons for this, among the most salient being the fact that the liberal, progressive middle class in Pakistan is very miniscule, the country still remaining largely feudal, tribalistic and extremely patriarchal in its set-up and ethos. Efforts by the few liberal Islamic scholars that exist in Pakistan to articulate progressive interpretations of Islam on a range of issues—including women's rights, relations with non-Muslims and relations between India and Pakistan—have generally met with stern opposition and even violence from Islamist outfits, with some of these scholars being forced to flee for safety to the West. The sheer fear of being killed for publicly opposing radicals and their perverted brand of Islam keeps numerous progressive thinkers in Pakistan silent, thus perpetuating a vicious circle in which the radicals are allowed to go unchallenged. Furthermore, the state has consistently denied space to progressive Islamic scholars, fearing their potential for dissent from the official view, seeing the radicals as more pliable and amenable to manipulation. This explains, for instance, the fact that despite its bombastic 'Islamic' credentials, Pakistan is yet to produce any well-known Islamic intellectual who has sought to deal creatively with the manifold demands and challenges that modernity poses. The status of Islamic, in addition to social science, research in Pakistan is woeful, and this can be explained, in part, by the fear on the part of the establishment of voices of dissenting scholars that might challenge ruling myths. The fact that Pakistan spends less than 2 per cent of its budget on education and that numerous Vice-Chancellors of Pakistani universities are retired army generals are indicators of this mind-set.
Terrorism—and this includes terror resorted to by non-state actors as well as by the state—today poses a grave threat to the peoples of both India and Pakistan. Islamist and Hindutva terrorism feed on each other, while posing to be each other's most inveterate foes. I recall reading some years ago—I cannot recall where, though—the perverse pleasure that a senior Lashkar expressed when the BJP-led NDA government came to power. Syed Maududi, the chief ideologue of the Jamaat-e Islami, who can be considered the major architect of modern-day Islamism, is on record as having declared that he would prefer India to be an officially Hindu country to being secular because that would further his case for the 'Islamic state' that he dreamed of establishing in Pakistan. Islamist outfits in Pakistan find ready fodder for whipping up anti-Indian and anti-Hindu passions by pouncing on acts of terror and anti-Muslim violence spearheaded by Hindutva groups in India, often abetted by the state. Likewise, gruesome acts of terror committed by Pakistan-based Islamist groups are quickly seized upon by Hindutva forces in India to further demonise Muslims and to build their Hindu vote-bank. Hindu and Islamist terror thus enjoy a symbiotic or mutually beneficial relationship while claiming to oppose each other. This obvious fact must be recognized when conceiving responses to the challenge of terrorism in our region.
There are no easy solutions to the predicament we find ourselves in today. But there is surely at least one thing that we must do, and this was suggested to me by the noted New Delhi-based Arya Samaj scholar, Swami Agnivesh, who has consistently been speaking out against all forms of terror, including in the name of Islam and Hinduism as well as state terrorism. The most effective way to challenge terrorism in the name of religion, Swami Agnivesh suggested, is for Muslims to denounce and stiffly oppose terror engaged in by self-styled Islamic groups who claim to speak in the name of Islam, and for Hindus to do likewise with regard to terror spread by militant Hindu groups. Sadly, today, the approach of many of us to the phenomenon is selective and skewed, with many Hindus denouncing only the terror unleashed by self-styled Islamist groups, and many Muslims denouncing only acts of terror masterminded by Hindu groups. At the same time, many Hindus and Muslims continue to turn a blind eye to, or even support, forms of terror being perpetrated in the name of the very religion which they claim to follow.
And there is something else that we need to do as individuals, and I have found that this simple principle works wonders even at a very personal level. It might sound 'unfashionable' or even 'purile' for those who do not find any place for God in their lives, but for millions of people in India and Pakistan who do believe in some higher force, no matter what they name it, it would strike an immediate chord.
This principle I owe to Rano Devi, a landless Dalit labourer from the Bhil tribe who had been released through the efforts of a human rights' group from slavery-like conditions in the estate of a powerful landlord. I Rano met while on a visit to Sindh in southern Pakistan three years ago. A powerful woman she was—dark and tall, and walking proud and erect. A courteous hostess, she welcomed me into her one-roomed hovel built on a scrawny patch of land that a social activist friend of mine had provided her and plied me with milk-less tea and a roti, which was all that she could afford.
Rano told me her story, of how she was enslaved by a landlord, who happened to be a Muslim, and who kept her for four years in shackles. Then, after a protracted legal battle, she was released through the efforts of my friend and his comrades, all of who happened to be Muslims.
She went on to enunciate a simple but very compelling principle thus:
'Live for your religion, don't die or kill for it. Express your religion through love and service, like the brothers who rescued me did, not through oppression, murder and mayhem, for that is a heinous crime in God's eyes. After all, we are all accountable for all our actions to God. To Him we shall return after we die, when He will decide our fate till eternity based on our deeds in this world'.
'If we were to realize that this world is temporary and that real, eternal life starts after death,' Rano continued softly, tears welling up in her eyes, 'and if we were to constantly keep this in mind, perhaps people would dread to misuse God's name for un-Godly acts'.
And there was another thing that Rano said that inspires me as I write these lines:
'We call Him Ishwar, and Muslims call Him Allah, but He is one and the same', said Rano. 'There are good people in every community, just as there are bad people, too. Just as that landlord who enslaved me claimed to be a Muslim, the brothers who freed me were also Muslims. And there are both good and bad people among Hindus as well. Remember that, brother. It is only when good people in every community join hands that this Hindu-Muslim problem or the problems between India and Pakistan can ever be resolved'.
That sage advice from this impoverished Pakistani Dalit woman is, to my mind, a basic premise we need to start from in our joint struggle against terror in the name of religion and national chauvinism.
http://www.countercurrents.org/sikand011208.htm
வெடிகுண்டு வைக்க சதி: கோவையில் மூன்று ஜிகாதிகள் கைது!
அகமதாபாத்தில் குண்டு வெடித்த பின்னர் இங்கே சில ஜிகாதிகள் கைது செய்யப்பட்டு
புழல் சிறையில் அடைக்கப் பட்டனர். அதன் பிறகு என்னவாயிற்று என்று
தெரிவிக்கப்படவில்லை. மக்களும் மறந்திருப்பார்.
இப்போது மும்பை தாக்குதலுக்குப் பிறகு மீண்டும் மூன்று பேர் கைது
செய்யப்பட்டுள்ளனர்.
இதெல்லாம் சீரியஸ்ஸான விஷயமா; இல்லை கேலிக்கூத்தா; இல்லை மக்களின்
ஜீரனத்திற்கா; ஒன்றும் புரியவில்லை. அதெப்படி, நாட்டில் எங்கேயாவது குண்டு
வெடித்தால் மட்டும் இங்கு கைது நடக்கிறது? மற்ற சமயங்களில் காவல் துறை
தூங்குகிறதா?
http://www.maalaisudar.com/newsindex.php?id=23102%20&%20section=1
* கோவை: 3 முஸ்லீம் தீவிரவாதிகள் கைது *
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Tuesday, 02 December, 2008 02:02 PM
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*கோவை, டிச. 2: *கோவை நகரில் 3 முஸ்லீம் தீவிரவாதிகள் சிக்கியுள்ளனர். அவர்கள்
கோவை நகரை குண்டு வைத்து தகர்க்க சதித்திட்டம் தீட்டியதாக கூறப்படுகிறது.
தீவிரவாதிகளிடமிருந்து கோவை நகர வரைபடம், செல்போன்கள் ஆகியவை பறிமுதல்
செய்யப்பட்டுள்ளன.
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மும்பையில் தீவிரவாதிகள் தாஜ் ஓட்டல் உட்பட முக்கிய இடங்களில் புகுந்து
தாக்குதல் நடத்தியதில் சுமார் 200 பேர் உயிரிழந்தனர்.
தேசிய பாதுகாப்புப்படையின் அதிரடிப்படையினர் புகுந்து தாக்குதல் நடத்தி
பிணைகைதிகளை மீட்டனர். தீவிரவாதிகளை சுட்டுக் கொன்றனர். இதனைத் தொடர்ந்து நாடு
முழுவதும் உஷார்ப்படுத்தப் பட்டுள்ளது.
இந்த நிலையில், கோவையில் ஒரு விடுதி ஒன்றில் சந்தேகத்திற்குரிய நபர்கள்
தங்கியிருப்பதாக போலீசாருக்கு தகவல் கிடைத்தது. அவர்கள் வெளிநாடுகளில் உள்ள
சிலரிடம் தொடர்பு கொண்டு பேசி இருப்பது தெரியவந்தது.
இது தொடர்பாக சென்னையில் இருந்து கோவை நகர காவல் துறை அதிகாரிகளுக்கு தகவல்
வந்தது. இதனைத் தொடர்ந்து கோவை நகர போலீஸ் கமிஷனர் ராஜேந்திரன் தலைமையில்,
போலீசாரும், அதிரடிப்படையினரும் கோவை நகரில் உள்ள முக்கிய நட்சத்திர ஓட்டல்கள்,
தங்கும் விடுதிகளில் தேடுதல் வேட்டை நடத்தினர்.
கோவையில் லங்கா கார்னர் பகுதியில் உள்ள ஒரு விடுதியில் அதிரடிப்படையினர் சோதனை
யிட்டனர். அங்கு உள்ள ஒரு அறையில் 3 பேர் பதுங்கியிருப்பதை அதிரடிப்படையினர்
கண்டனர். துப்பாக்கி முனையில் அவர்களை சுற்றி வளைத்தினர்.
அவர்களிடம் விசாரணை நடத்தியபோது அவர்கள் முன்னுக்கு பின் முரணாக பேசினார்கள்.
இதனால் அவர்கள் மீது அதிரடிப்படையினருக்கு சந்தேகம் ஏற்பட்டது. அவர்கள்
மலையாளம், இந்தி, ஆங்கிலம் ஆகிய மொழிகளில் பேசினார்கள்.
அவர்களிடம் விசாரணை நடத்தியதில் சம்சுதீன் (வயது 23), இர்பான் அகமது (வயது 20),
அப்துல் தமீம் (வயது 21) என்று தெரிய வந்தது. 3 பேரும் கேரள மாநிலம்
கோழிக்கோட்டைச் சேர்ந்தவர்கள் என்று தெரியவந்தது.
எர்ணாக்குளத்திலுள்ள எங்கள் தலைவர் கூறியபடி 3 பேரும் கொச்சி துறைமுகத்தில்
இருந்து தனித்தனியாக பிரிந்து கோவை வந்தோம் என்று அவர்கள் கூறினார்கள்.
எதற்காக வந்தீர்கள் என்ற கேட்ட கேள்விக்கு அவர்கள் பதில் சொல்லாமல் மவுனம்
சாதித்தனர். அவர்களிடமிருந்து கோவை நகர வரைபடம், ஒரு டைரி, 4 செல்போன்கள், 2
வில்போன்கள் ஆகியவை பறிமுதல் செய்யப்பட்டன. அவர்களிடமிருந்து கைப்பற்றப்பட்ட
டைரியில் கோவை நகரிலுள்ள முக்கிய இடங்கள், செல்போன் எண்கள் இருந்தன.
அவர்கள் வைத்திருந்த செல்போனை சோதனையிட்ட போது துபாய் மற்றும் அரபு நாடுகளுக்கு
பேசியிருப்பது தெரியவந்தது. கோவை நகரை தகர்க்கும் சதித்திட்டத்துடன் அவர்கள்
வந்திருக்கலாம் என்று போலீசார் சந்தேகிக்கின்றனர்.
இவர்கள் 3 பேரும் மும்பை குண்டுவெடிப்பு சம்பவத்திற்கு பிறகு கோவை வந்துள்ளனர்.
கோவையைச் சேர்ந்த 2 பேர் அவர்களுக்கு கோவை நகரை சுற்றி
காண்பித்திருக்கிறார்கள். ரெயில் நிலையம், விமான நிலையம், கலெக்டர் அலுவலகம்,
போலீஸ் கமிஷனர் அலுவலகம், தலைமை டெலிபோன் அலுவலகம், அரசு மருத்துவமனை, உயரமான
கட்டிடங்கள், நட்சத்திர ஓட்டல்கள் ஆகிய இடங்களுக்கு சென்று இவர்கள் கண்காணித்து
இருக்கிறார் என்று விவரமும் தெரியவந்துள்ளது.
இவர்களுக்கு உதவிகரமாக இருந்த கோவையைச் சேர்ந்த 2 பேரை போலீசார் வலைவீசி
தேடி வருகிறார்கள். கைதான 3 தீவிரவாதிகளையும் ரேஸ் கோர்ஸ் போலீஸ் நிலையத்தில்
வைத்து உயர அதிகாரிகள் விசாரணை நடத்தி வருகிறார்கள்.
http://newstodaynet.com/newsindex.php?id=12705%20&%20section=5
Three terrorists held at Kovai
Tue, 02 Dec, 2008,03:06 PM
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It seems that the new Union Home Minister P Chidambaram has got some job in
his home State itself. Just days after a terror attack rocked Mumbai, three
Islamic terrorists have been arrested at Coimbatore. Sources say that they
had plans to blow up vital installations in the textile city. A map of
Coimbatore, mobile phones and other materials were seized from them.
Based on a tip-off from Chennai that few suspicious persons were staying at
a lodge in Coimbatore, a police team led by city police Commissioner
Rajendran raided hotels and other boarding places in the industrial hub,
which witnessed serial bomb blasts a decade ago.
During one such search at Lanka Corner, the police found three men hiding in
a lodge. When enquired, the trio Samsudeen (23), Irfan Ahmed (20) and Abdul
Thameem (21), all reportedly from Kozhikode, gave contradictory statements
in Malayalam, Hindi and English.
This further fuelled the doubts of the police. A search in their room
revealed that the trio possessed a map of Coimbatore, a diary, four mobile
phones and two 'willphones' (wireless in local loop). It was found that they
spoke to Dubai and Arab countries from their phones.
Police sources said that they might have had plans to 'orchestrate'
explosions in the city. A search is on for a duo, both Coimbatore residents,
who allegedly took the three persons on a tour to important places of the
city including railway station, airport, Collector's office, Police
Commissioner's office, telephone exchange, star hotels, hospitals and other
important establishments. Further interrogations are on at the Race Course
police station.
It is to be noted that Chief Minister M Karunanidhi on Monday said Tamilnadu
would seek a detachment of the elite National Security Guards to be
stationed at Chennai, following the terror attacks on the country's business
capital Mumbai.
At an urgent meeting of senior police officials at the
Secretariat, Karunanidhi took stock of the security scenario and
preparedness of the police force in Tamilnadu. Among other issues, the
reaction mechanism of the law enforcing agencies in the event of an
emergency was discussed at length.
According to Inspector General of Police (Operations), Ashutosh Shukla, the
Tamilnadu Commando Force, which presently has 290 well-trained commandos,
would request for acquiring modern weaponry, sophisticated gadgets and
specialised training facilities**
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புழல் சிறையில் அடைக்கப் பட்டனர். அதன் பிறகு என்னவாயிற்று என்று
தெரிவிக்கப்படவில்லை. மக்களும் மறந்திருப்பார்.
இப்போது மும்பை தாக்குதலுக்குப் பிறகு மீண்டும் மூன்று பேர் கைது
செய்யப்பட்டுள்ளனர்.
இதெல்லாம் சீரியஸ்ஸான விஷயமா; இல்லை கேலிக்கூத்தா; இல்லை மக்களின்
ஜீரனத்திற்கா; ஒன்றும் புரியவில்லை. அதெப்படி, நாட்டில் எங்கேயாவது குண்டு
வெடித்தால் மட்டும் இங்கு கைது நடக்கிறது? மற்ற சமயங்களில் காவல் துறை
தூங்குகிறதா?
http://www.maalaisudar.com/newsindex.php?id=23102%20&%20section=1
* கோவை: 3 முஸ்லீம் தீவிரவாதிகள் கைது *
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Tuesday, 02 December, 2008 02:02 PM
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*கோவை, டிச. 2: *கோவை நகரில் 3 முஸ்லீம் தீவிரவாதிகள் சிக்கியுள்ளனர். அவர்கள்
கோவை நகரை குண்டு வைத்து தகர்க்க சதித்திட்டம் தீட்டியதாக கூறப்படுகிறது.
தீவிரவாதிகளிடமிருந்து கோவை நகர வரைபடம், செல்போன்கள் ஆகியவை பறிமுதல்
செய்யப்பட்டுள்ளன.
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மும்பையில் தீவிரவாதிகள் தாஜ் ஓட்டல் உட்பட முக்கிய இடங்களில் புகுந்து
தாக்குதல் நடத்தியதில் சுமார் 200 பேர் உயிரிழந்தனர்.
தேசிய பாதுகாப்புப்படையின் அதிரடிப்படையினர் புகுந்து தாக்குதல் நடத்தி
பிணைகைதிகளை மீட்டனர். தீவிரவாதிகளை சுட்டுக் கொன்றனர். இதனைத் தொடர்ந்து நாடு
முழுவதும் உஷார்ப்படுத்தப் பட்டுள்ளது.
இந்த நிலையில், கோவையில் ஒரு விடுதி ஒன்றில் சந்தேகத்திற்குரிய நபர்கள்
தங்கியிருப்பதாக போலீசாருக்கு தகவல் கிடைத்தது. அவர்கள் வெளிநாடுகளில் உள்ள
சிலரிடம் தொடர்பு கொண்டு பேசி இருப்பது தெரியவந்தது.
இது தொடர்பாக சென்னையில் இருந்து கோவை நகர காவல் துறை அதிகாரிகளுக்கு தகவல்
வந்தது. இதனைத் தொடர்ந்து கோவை நகர போலீஸ் கமிஷனர் ராஜேந்திரன் தலைமையில்,
போலீசாரும், அதிரடிப்படையினரும் கோவை நகரில் உள்ள முக்கிய நட்சத்திர ஓட்டல்கள்,
தங்கும் விடுதிகளில் தேடுதல் வேட்டை நடத்தினர்.
கோவையில் லங்கா கார்னர் பகுதியில் உள்ள ஒரு விடுதியில் அதிரடிப்படையினர் சோதனை
யிட்டனர். அங்கு உள்ள ஒரு அறையில் 3 பேர் பதுங்கியிருப்பதை அதிரடிப்படையினர்
கண்டனர். துப்பாக்கி முனையில் அவர்களை சுற்றி வளைத்தினர்.
அவர்களிடம் விசாரணை நடத்தியபோது அவர்கள் முன்னுக்கு பின் முரணாக பேசினார்கள்.
இதனால் அவர்கள் மீது அதிரடிப்படையினருக்கு சந்தேகம் ஏற்பட்டது. அவர்கள்
மலையாளம், இந்தி, ஆங்கிலம் ஆகிய மொழிகளில் பேசினார்கள்.
அவர்களிடம் விசாரணை நடத்தியதில் சம்சுதீன் (வயது 23), இர்பான் அகமது (வயது 20),
அப்துல் தமீம் (வயது 21) என்று தெரிய வந்தது. 3 பேரும் கேரள மாநிலம்
கோழிக்கோட்டைச் சேர்ந்தவர்கள் என்று தெரியவந்தது.
எர்ணாக்குளத்திலுள்ள எங்கள் தலைவர் கூறியபடி 3 பேரும் கொச்சி துறைமுகத்தில்
இருந்து தனித்தனியாக பிரிந்து கோவை வந்தோம் என்று அவர்கள் கூறினார்கள்.
எதற்காக வந்தீர்கள் என்ற கேட்ட கேள்விக்கு அவர்கள் பதில் சொல்லாமல் மவுனம்
சாதித்தனர். அவர்களிடமிருந்து கோவை நகர வரைபடம், ஒரு டைரி, 4 செல்போன்கள், 2
வில்போன்கள் ஆகியவை பறிமுதல் செய்யப்பட்டன. அவர்களிடமிருந்து கைப்பற்றப்பட்ட
டைரியில் கோவை நகரிலுள்ள முக்கிய இடங்கள், செல்போன் எண்கள் இருந்தன.
அவர்கள் வைத்திருந்த செல்போனை சோதனையிட்ட போது துபாய் மற்றும் அரபு நாடுகளுக்கு
பேசியிருப்பது தெரியவந்தது. கோவை நகரை தகர்க்கும் சதித்திட்டத்துடன் அவர்கள்
வந்திருக்கலாம் என்று போலீசார் சந்தேகிக்கின்றனர்.
இவர்கள் 3 பேரும் மும்பை குண்டுவெடிப்பு சம்பவத்திற்கு பிறகு கோவை வந்துள்ளனர்.
கோவையைச் சேர்ந்த 2 பேர் அவர்களுக்கு கோவை நகரை சுற்றி
காண்பித்திருக்கிறார்கள். ரெயில் நிலையம், விமான நிலையம், கலெக்டர் அலுவலகம்,
போலீஸ் கமிஷனர் அலுவலகம், தலைமை டெலிபோன் அலுவலகம், அரசு மருத்துவமனை, உயரமான
கட்டிடங்கள், நட்சத்திர ஓட்டல்கள் ஆகிய இடங்களுக்கு சென்று இவர்கள் கண்காணித்து
இருக்கிறார் என்று விவரமும் தெரியவந்துள்ளது.
இவர்களுக்கு உதவிகரமாக இருந்த கோவையைச் சேர்ந்த 2 பேரை போலீசார் வலைவீசி
தேடி வருகிறார்கள். கைதான 3 தீவிரவாதிகளையும் ரேஸ் கோர்ஸ் போலீஸ் நிலையத்தில்
வைத்து உயர அதிகாரிகள் விசாரணை நடத்தி வருகிறார்கள்.
http://newstodaynet.com/newsindex.php?id=12705%20&%20section=5
Three terrorists held at Kovai
Tue, 02 Dec, 2008,03:06 PM
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It seems that the new Union Home Minister P Chidambaram has got some job in
his home State itself. Just days after a terror attack rocked Mumbai, three
Islamic terrorists have been arrested at Coimbatore. Sources say that they
had plans to blow up vital installations in the textile city. A map of
Coimbatore, mobile phones and other materials were seized from them.
Based on a tip-off from Chennai that few suspicious persons were staying at
a lodge in Coimbatore, a police team led by city police Commissioner
Rajendran raided hotels and other boarding places in the industrial hub,
which witnessed serial bomb blasts a decade ago.
During one such search at Lanka Corner, the police found three men hiding in
a lodge. When enquired, the trio Samsudeen (23), Irfan Ahmed (20) and Abdul
Thameem (21), all reportedly from Kozhikode, gave contradictory statements
in Malayalam, Hindi and English.
This further fuelled the doubts of the police. A search in their room
revealed that the trio possessed a map of Coimbatore, a diary, four mobile
phones and two 'willphones' (wireless in local loop). It was found that they
spoke to Dubai and Arab countries from their phones.
Police sources said that they might have had plans to 'orchestrate'
explosions in the city. A search is on for a duo, both Coimbatore residents,
who allegedly took the three persons on a tour to important places of the
city including railway station, airport, Collector's office, Police
Commissioner's office, telephone exchange, star hotels, hospitals and other
important establishments. Further interrogations are on at the Race Course
police station.
It is to be noted that Chief Minister M Karunanidhi on Monday said Tamilnadu
would seek a detachment of the elite National Security Guards to be
stationed at Chennai, following the terror attacks on the country's business
capital Mumbai.
At an urgent meeting of senior police officials at the
Secretariat, Karunanidhi took stock of the security scenario and
preparedness of the police force in Tamilnadu. Among other issues, the
reaction mechanism of the law enforcing agencies in the event of an
emergency was discussed at length.
According to Inspector General of Police (Operations), Ashutosh Shukla, the
Tamilnadu Commando Force, which presently has 290 well-trained commandos,
would request for acquiring modern weaponry, sophisticated gadgets and
specialised training facilities**
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Monday, December 1, 2008
பெண்கள் விவாகரத்து கோருவதை இஸ்லாம் தடை செய்கிறது
Pakistani Law Minister: Islam Does Not Allow A Woman To Divorce
Pakistan’s Minister for Law and Justice Farooq H. Naek has stated that in Islam a woman does not have the right to divorce her husband. Naek declared that he will review a recommendation of the Islamic Ideological Council in this regard.
The Islamic Ideological Council, a constitutional body that advises the government of Pakistan, recently recommended that the government enact a law under which a Muslim woman can have her marriage annulled if her husband fails to respond to her request for divorce within 90 days.
The Council’s recommendation has been widely criticized by religious groups in Pakistan. Naek pledged to consult with religious leaders in Pakistan before legislating on the issue. He added that the government will make laws in consonance with Islam.
Source: Roznama Jang, Pakistan, November 25, 2008
http://www.thememriblog.org/urdupashtu/blog_personal/en/11639.htm
Pakistan’s Minister for Law and Justice Farooq H. Naek has stated that in Islam a woman does not have the right to divorce her husband. Naek declared that he will review a recommendation of the Islamic Ideological Council in this regard.
The Islamic Ideological Council, a constitutional body that advises the government of Pakistan, recently recommended that the government enact a law under which a Muslim woman can have her marriage annulled if her husband fails to respond to her request for divorce within 90 days.
The Council’s recommendation has been widely criticized by religious groups in Pakistan. Naek pledged to consult with religious leaders in Pakistan before legislating on the issue. He added that the government will make laws in consonance with Islam.
Source: Roznama Jang, Pakistan, November 25, 2008
http://www.thememriblog.org/urdupashtu/blog_personal/en/11639.htm
காபிர் இந்தியாவுக்கு எதிராக பயங்கரவாத முஸ்லீம்கள் கைகோர்த்தனர்
Roznama Jang: Militant Organizations Support Pakistan Against India
The Urdu-language newspaper Roznama Jang reports that all key militant groups in Pakistan’s tribal districts have offered a ceasefire in support of the Pakistani government should it decide to deploy its troops on the Indian border in view of the increasing tension after the Mumbai attacks.
There are indications that Pakistan may accept the ceasefire offer and stop military operations against the Taliban. The report added: ‘‘As a positive sign that this ceasefire offer may be accepted, the Pakistan Army has, as a first step, declared before the media some notorious militant commanders, including Baitullah Mehsud and Maulvi Fazlullah, as “patriotic” Pakistanis.’’
Baitullah Mehsud and Maulvi Fazlullah are the key leaders of the Taliban movement in Pakistan. Baitullah Mehsud has also been accused of plotting the assassination of former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto.
The report added: ‘‘These two militant commanders... have invariably been accused of terrorism against Pakistan but the aftermath of the Mumbai carnage has suddenly turned terrorists into patriots.’’
The Roznama Jang quoted a senior Pakistani security official as saying: “We have no big issues with the militants in Fata [tribal districts]. We have only some misunderstandings with Baitullah Mehsud and Fazlullah. These misunderstandings could be removed through dialogue.”
Source: Roznama Jang, Pakistan, December 1, 2008
http://www.thememriblog.org/urdupashtu/blog_personal/en/11745.htm
The Urdu-language newspaper Roznama Jang reports that all key militant groups in Pakistan’s tribal districts have offered a ceasefire in support of the Pakistani government should it decide to deploy its troops on the Indian border in view of the increasing tension after the Mumbai attacks.
There are indications that Pakistan may accept the ceasefire offer and stop military operations against the Taliban. The report added: ‘‘As a positive sign that this ceasefire offer may be accepted, the Pakistan Army has, as a first step, declared before the media some notorious militant commanders, including Baitullah Mehsud and Maulvi Fazlullah, as “patriotic” Pakistanis.’’
Baitullah Mehsud and Maulvi Fazlullah are the key leaders of the Taliban movement in Pakistan. Baitullah Mehsud has also been accused of plotting the assassination of former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto.
The report added: ‘‘These two militant commanders... have invariably been accused of terrorism against Pakistan but the aftermath of the Mumbai carnage has suddenly turned terrorists into patriots.’’
The Roznama Jang quoted a senior Pakistani security official as saying: “We have no big issues with the militants in Fata [tribal districts]. We have only some misunderstandings with Baitullah Mehsud and Fazlullah. These misunderstandings could be removed through dialogue.”
Source: Roznama Jang, Pakistan, December 1, 2008
http://www.thememriblog.org/urdupashtu/blog_personal/en/11745.htm
பாகிஸ்தானில் ஆதிவாசி புஷ்தூன்களுக்கும் மேல்ஜாதி முஸ்லீம்களுக்கும் இடையே ஜாதிக்கலவரம்
பாகிஸ்தானில் ஆதிவாசி புஷ்தூன்களுக்கும் மேல்ஜாதி முஸ்லீம்களுக்கும் இடையே ஜாதிக்கலவரம் - குறைந்த பட்சம் இருபது பேர் படுகொலை.
Karachi Burns In Ethnic Conflict – 20 People Killed
During two days of rioting and arson attacks between the city’s native residents and Pashtun settlers in Pakistan’s biggest commercial city of Karachi, at least 20 people have been killed and 50 injured and hospitalized.
Recently, media reports had spoken of allegations that Taliban militants from Pakistan’s tribal districts are hiding among the Pashtun populations settled in Karachi, causing tensions between Pashtun and non-Pashtun populations in the city.
On Sunday, attacks on residents and aerial firings were reported from North Nazimabad, New Karachi, Gulberg, Sachal, Gulshan-e-Iqbal, Nazimabad, Gulbahar, Orangi Town, Manghopir, Peerabad, Papoosh Nagar and other areas in Karachi.
Source: The News, Pakistan, December 1, 2008
http://www.thememriblog.org/urdupashtu/blog_personal/en/11778.htm
Karachi Burns In Ethnic Conflict – 20 People Killed
During two days of rioting and arson attacks between the city’s native residents and Pashtun settlers in Pakistan’s biggest commercial city of Karachi, at least 20 people have been killed and 50 injured and hospitalized.
Recently, media reports had spoken of allegations that Taliban militants from Pakistan’s tribal districts are hiding among the Pashtun populations settled in Karachi, causing tensions between Pashtun and non-Pashtun populations in the city.
On Sunday, attacks on residents and aerial firings were reported from North Nazimabad, New Karachi, Gulberg, Sachal, Gulshan-e-Iqbal, Nazimabad, Gulbahar, Orangi Town, Manghopir, Peerabad, Papoosh Nagar and other areas in Karachi.
Source: The News, Pakistan, December 1, 2008
http://www.thememriblog.org/urdupashtu/blog_personal/en/11778.htm
உ.பியில் வெளிநாட்டு இஸ்லாம் மத பிரச்சாரகர்கள் வெளியேற்றம்
மும்பை ஜிகாதி தாக்குதல்களை தொடர்ந்து உ.பியில் வெளிநாட்டு இஸ்லாம் மத பிரச்சாரகர்கள் வெளியேற்றம்.
12 Foreign Preachers In Indian State Barred
In the Chandauli district of India’s northern state of Uttar Pradesh, police officials have asked 12 foreigners on tourist visas to stop preaching Islam and leave the district.
Police officials disclosed that the 12 foreigners were residing in a mosque in the Chakiya village of the district. Of the 12 preachers, seven were from Indonesia, two from Australia and one each from South Africa, Trinidad and England.
Source: ibnlive.in.com, India, November 29, 2008
http://www.thememriblog.org/urdupashtu/blog_personal/en/11779.htm
12 Foreign Preachers In Indian State Barred
In the Chandauli district of India’s northern state of Uttar Pradesh, police officials have asked 12 foreigners on tourist visas to stop preaching Islam and leave the district.
Police officials disclosed that the 12 foreigners were residing in a mosque in the Chakiya village of the district. Of the 12 preachers, seven were from Indonesia, two from Australia and one each from South Africa, Trinidad and England.
Source: ibnlive.in.com, India, November 29, 2008
http://www.thememriblog.org/urdupashtu/blog_personal/en/11779.htm
Pakistani Leader: ‘‘If India Attacks, Several Pakistans Will Be Created Within India’’
Pakistani Leader: ‘‘If India Attacks, Several Pakistans Will Be Created Within India’’
Expressing a growing concern in Pakistan about a likely Indian response to the Mumbai terror attacks, Sheikh Rasheed Ahmed, who was Pakistan’s federal minister for information and broadcasting until early this year, has warned that if India attacks Pakistan, several Pakistans will be created within India.
Urging the Pakistani government to give a befitting reply to Indian accusations that the 11/26 attacks in Mumbai were planned by Pakistani nationals, Ahmed added that the United States, Israel and India are working to dismantle Pakistan’s Inter-Services Intelligence and the country’s nuclear program.
Ahmed, who early this year formed his own political party called the Awami Muslim League, also asked the government of Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani to stop the supply lines through Pakistan to the U.S. and NATO troops in Afghanistan. He added: ‘‘If Pakistan stops the supply lines, NATO cannot fight the Afghan war even for two days.’’
Source: Roznama Khabrain, Pakistan, December 1, 2008
Source:
http://www.thememriblog.org/urdupashtu/blog_personal/en/11744.htm
Expressing a growing concern in Pakistan about a likely Indian response to the Mumbai terror attacks, Sheikh Rasheed Ahmed, who was Pakistan’s federal minister for information and broadcasting until early this year, has warned that if India attacks Pakistan, several Pakistans will be created within India.
Urging the Pakistani government to give a befitting reply to Indian accusations that the 11/26 attacks in Mumbai were planned by Pakistani nationals, Ahmed added that the United States, Israel and India are working to dismantle Pakistan’s Inter-Services Intelligence and the country’s nuclear program.
Ahmed, who early this year formed his own political party called the Awami Muslim League, also asked the government of Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani to stop the supply lines through Pakistan to the U.S. and NATO troops in Afghanistan. He added: ‘‘If Pakistan stops the supply lines, NATO cannot fight the Afghan war even for two days.’’
Source: Roznama Khabrain, Pakistan, December 1, 2008
Source:
http://www.thememriblog.org/urdupashtu/blog_personal/en/11744.htm
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