Tuesday, December 19, 2006

Islam vs. Rest of the World IV: Steps to Embrace

In the preceding article, I proposed the six steps the Rest of the World should take up to reconcile with the Islamic World. In this article, I shall elaborate on how these steps can actually bring in major changes to alter the dynamics between these two colliding worlds.

Before starting off, I would like to clear one misconception. Conceding to these demands, which also happen to be the demands of terrorists outfits like Al Qaida, is not tantamount to conceding to the coercion tactics of terrorists. Just because Noam Chomsky asks for statehood to Palestine and Osama Bin Laden also asks for the same does not equate these two individuals.

1. Give Palestine its nationhood.

Most of the Islamic terrorist groups in the world, including Al Qaida, and the nations which house these terrorist groups demand for an independent Palestine. The rallying cry for these nations and terrorist groups and the unifying factor amongst various Islamic sects has been this demand. By conceding to this demand, which is actually a very valid demand, even supported by many UN resolutions, the Rest of the World will send the first signal towards reconciliation towards the Islamic World. This is a step which is not only demanded by Islamic World but is also welcomed by some of the West nations and countries from developing and under-developed world.

What does one make of other demands of some of these terrorist groups and nations which call for complete annihilation of Israel? I reason that this demand is only an exaggerated claim that comes out of frustration and utter despair. A person with no hope can demand annihilation of his enemies, but a person with something to hold onto- like his freedom and land, will be able to tolerate his enemy’s existence. Once statehood to Palestine is achieved, there will not be the same kind of fervor among different sections of Islamic World which currently support and fund these terrorist groups. Without the support of the state and people, these terrorist groups will have to wither away or find a new haven. And even some nations do not till recognize Israel, does that change anything from what it is right now? Would Israel compromise its position vis-à-vis those nations just because it has accepted statehood to Palestine?

2. Give Kashmir its independence.

Indian Islamic terrorism is strongly linked with Partition of Indian sub-continent which gave birth to unresolved conflict of Kashmir. Pakistan has gone to war with India three times overtly and once covertly, all in the name of Kashmir. Since its inception, most of the domestic politics and foreign policy of Pakistan is dictated by politics of Kashmir. The problem of Kashmir has remained a sore issue between these two countries since time of Independence. It has contributed to most of the Islamic terror activities in India. [Though, of late, the growing Hindu nationalism is also spawning another set of Islamic terrorism which is independent of Kashmir issue.] Most Kashmiri would like to be either independent of India or join Pakistan. This is a freedom movement whose roots are in the Partition of India.

Freedom for Kashmir also happens to be the key demand for major outfits, like LeT, Harkut, Al Qaida and every Pakistan regime. Though the Kashmir rebellion is nationalistic in nature, it involves many foreigners fighting together under Islamic banner. There are many terrorist groups housed in Pakistan which get active or passive support from its government and intelligence agencies. Even when these outfits are blacklisted (say, by US), they change their name and thrive with connivance from the authorities. Some of them are involved in charity and social work and receive praise from people and its leaders. Many of these outfits openly seek donations to kill Indian soldiers in Kashmir. Pakistan actively supports these terrorists and when pushed turns a blind eye to feign ignorance, all in the name of fight for freedom for Kashmiri Muslim in India.

Creation of an independent or autonomous Kashmir is something that India should do to do something right to the people of Kashmir. It will also make most of the terrorist outfits in Pakistan and Kashmir to lose wind out of their cause. By giving independence to Kashmir, India will see less of Islamic terrorism in India. Pakistan and its people won’t have a noble cause that will allow them to fund and tolerate these outfits within their countries. With no state support and no people support, these forces will wither away. Pakistan will then be open to discuss other economic tie-ups with India. Such bonhomie between these two nuclear nations is vital for this region, and it can come only after solving Kashmir. Without Pakistan supporting these groups most of the Islamic outfits in India will not get the necessary funding and support. This will eventually lead to curbing most of the Islamic terrorist activities in India. [Of course, Indian also has to leash its Hindutva forces from further exacerbating the relations between Muslims and Hindus. It is a topic of another discussion.]

3. Give Chechnya its independence.

Occupation of Afghanistan and its control has actually started a new breed of Islamic militants in the world- people from different nations coming under one flag of Islamic radicalism. Though such groups are not uncommon, Afghanistan took it a different level altogether. Complicity of Russia in the affairs of Islamic World is notable. Now, Chechnya is the crux of Islamic terrorism as far Russia is concerned. Its obstinacy to work with Muslim leaders of Russia has resulted in creating another haven for Islamic terrorists. Once Chechnya becomes independent, it will have similar status like Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan, etc, which are predominantly Muslim but quite inactive in harboring Islamic Terrorism. Independence for Chechnya also happens to be the key demands for most Islamic outfits, including Al Qaida.

Conceding to the above three demands should not be equated with giving into the demands of terrorist groups. The reason why many terrorist groups survive is because the nations which harbor them also share the dream of these terrorist groups. The people of that nation gleefully support such terrorist groups and tolerate them in their midst, and even contribute funds. A huge chunk of population on this planet seeks an independent and autonomous Palestine. Once that is achieved, many nations and its people will do not see a need to support these terrorist activities. No nation, including Islamic, do not want to harbor terrorist elements if given choice. They have own set of troubles when they house terrorists, as experienced before, like in Syria having problems with PLO, Pakistan harboring Afghan militants, and now Iraq seeing sectarian terrorism.

Conceding to these demands doesn’t mean one has to satisfy other demands of terrorists- like when they hijack a plane, or a kidnap an official or bomb a boat, etc. Criminal activities have to be dealt with according to the law of the land. These demands are not exclusively of terrorist groups but of almost entire Islamic World and even some of the non-Islamic nations and should be treated as such.

It is extremely important to stop these breeding spots from producing more of these radical youth. The youth of these countries are their future leaders. Unless immediate action is taken, these countries and people will continue to encourage, support and fund these radical thoughts on the name of a cause.

4. Stop meddling in Middle East and other Muslim nations. Allow their forms of governments. Don't topple their governments.

While the above three steps require specific nations like Israel, India and Russia, to give up their lands to the local populations, this step involves whole of West and other developed and developing nations, which comprise Rest of the World. Since the fall of Ottoman Empire, the West has practiced a policy on continued involvement in the affairs of Muslim World, especially Middle East and nearby regions. This has not gone well with the people of Islamic World. Showing defiance to the Western World is a sure shot success for any hero in this world. Many people on this planet adore and idolize Osama, not because he blew up World Trade Center, but because he stood up to the might of the West. In a world of no examples, even a bad example is good enough. In a world of gutless and coward leaders who suck up to the West, Osama stands out as a saint who renounced all riches to embrace the great cause of taking on the West.

Continued mastery of the West over every regime in the Muslim World doesn’t go well with the people. The ruling class of Saudi enjoys great friendship and patronage from the West. King of Jordan and his family had close ties with European powers. Saddam himself was a puppet of West before he turned against them. Shah of Iran was another puppet which the people of Iran dethroned only to have back by CIA. Many leaders in Pakistan were stooges of US. Many regimes were installed by the West when the previous one buckled or previous one became stronger.

A conscious effort by the West to stop meddling with the affairs of Muslim World will allow these people to form their own governments, choose their own leaders, and set their own rules and laws. Imposing our institutions hasn’t worked. It only resulted in disenchanted and disillusioned youth which feed Islamic terrorist groups. Democracy and its institutions cannot be imposed. They have to be embraced by its people willingly.

Once the hatred for West is gone, the people will look inward at their own leaders. There might be periods of strife, but they will form their own systems which work for them.

5. Don't use Muslim nations as your battleground to wage your ideological wars.

When you use their lands and people to wage your wars, and then leave them unassisted and unaided with loads of weapons in their hands and landmines in their towns, what you get is a huge population which is ready to die to kill the one who imposed this cruel punishment onto them. Such events create easy and fertile breeding grounds for Islamic militant outfits.

Once the Rest of the World LAYS OFF these lands and its people, we will see a slow but gradual decrease in the hatred towards the Rest of the World.

6. Let them control their natural resources.

Nobody likes to see their natural resources being shipped off to far-off land that benefit only certain local leaders. They do not like to be politically influenced, stripped off their freedoms, bombed out of their homes, killed and raped, just because they are sitting on top of large reservoirs of oil, natural gas or diamonds. Many in Islamic World believe firmly that US invaded Iraq twice to protect and secure its oil supply. While few elite reap the rewards serving the distant masters in the West, the ordinary people get disenchanted and disillusioned. They seek refuge in only those voices which seem to comfort them, which seem to give hope fighting a noble cause- either at home or in a far away land. Those voices are that of religious leaders who divide the world into white and black, good and evil. These voices create the necessary framework upon which the terrorist groups feed.

No human would like to take help or advice from someone they know has ulterior motives. Only when the people and the governments of Islamic World get the assurance that they control their natural resources, they will open to suggestions, advice and even help. Their hatred for these ‘greedy’ foreigners lessens and they will look at overt political maneuver in positive light. Right now, they discard every incentive, advice and suggestion as another of that White man’s trick.

I believe the above six steps will ease the tensions between Islamic World and Rest of the World. Some of these steps need to be enacted right away, while few others will take up time to implement. Unless we move forward along these steps, we will create this world for clash of civilizations.


20 comments:

  1. ah its looks so good on papers but we are not in an utopian world where these issues can be addressed. Sadly many countries need these issues to remain controversial because thats what they bank on!

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  2. sharique:
    Yes, such solutions look good on papers. Those who write such solutions are not in a position to implement them.

    The effort is to bring many people to start thinking on these lines with the hope that new generations (which will spawn new leaders) can take up such solutions because (hopefully) by then the public mood is conducive to such debates.

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  3. Another example of your blindly pro-Muslim opinions.
    Are you doing it to attract hits to your blogs from Middle East (bad trick)
    Anyway,
    If you have anyidea at all about ideology of Islam you would have realised
    1.Islam seeks to impose Arab cultural imperialism on other nations through a doctrine of divide and murder
    2.Islam is based on the doctrine of hating and murdering non-Muslims and reducing them to the status of political slaves. It is totally false to say that Islam is the ambassador of international brotherhood.
    3.Muslim nationality is a myth, which is extremely injurious to the non-Arab Muslims but highly beneficial to the Arabs. And this is what leads to the inevitable conclusion that Islam is not a religion but the Arab National Movement.
    --taken from one of anwar shaikh's interviews--
    4.We gave them pakistan...were they
    satisfied?No,on the contrary they said
    Ladke liya Pakistan
    Haske lenge Hindustan

    You are advocating a very danderous brand of appeasement

    5.There are express commands of the Prophet, which state that a person is not Muslim until he loves him more than his own father and mother. The idea is that people must be weaned from their own nationalities and motherlands, and attached firmly to Mecca. This is the reason that the Muslims of India call their own homeland as the battlefield and Arabia the fountain of peace and celestial glory., Now, it is perhaps, easy for you to understand why the Muslims of India partitioned their own motherland for practicing the Arab cultural values in Pakistan (and Bangladesh). ----anwar shaikh again----

    You may delete this post and keep only those which say "great article"

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  4. Anonymous:

    Another example of your blindly pro-Muslim opinions. Are you doing it to attract hits to your blogs from Middle East (bad trick)

    I do not write to impress people, get congratulatory notes, or to attract hits. I write my opinions- some agree to them and many others disagree. If you look at some of the comments in some of the topics you will realize that I get many negative comments. That will not detract me from writing my opinions.

    It is totally false to say that Islam is the ambassador of international brotherhood.

    I never said that.

    Muslim nationality is a myth,

    I never talk about Muslim nationality.

    We gave them pakistan...were they
    satisfied?No,...


    I am not sure who gave Pakistan to whom?

    You may delete this post and keep only those which say "great article"

    As long as commenters do not use abusive language and harsh words, I accept all criticism.

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  5. you are avoiding my points in the previous post.some more points to mull over...plz reply to my earlier post also.do not exhibit ostrich mentality

    1.Most Kashmiri would like to be either independent of India or join Pakistan
    yeah right..."most Kashmiris" after taking the Kashmiri Pandits out.
    The only aim of Islam is world domination and sharia law everywhere.The sooner India realizes this..the better (America already has)

    2.Stop meddling in Middle East and other Muslim nations. Allow their forms of governments. Don't topple their governments

    cool.....kill our people...we won't do anything..go ahead..bomb the rest of the world.....

    3.Don't use Muslim nations as your battleground to wage your ideological wars
    Wow!!hearing that for the first time!!
    It should be the exact reverse shouldn't it?
    Muslims in non-Arab countries should stop regarding their nations as Dar-ul-Harb i.e battlefield for Jihad.
    4. Let them control their natural resources
    Again a first Sujai..

    It's not as if they are getting anything in return...they are getting paid dude...how do you think they got so rich??By Allah's grace??(..and btw have you heard of a cartel called OPEC formed by those poor victimized souls who are having their resources taken away ???
    (Oil is the second most significant contribution of Islamic nations after terror.)

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  6. Anonymous:
    You write:
    you are avoiding my points in the previous post.some more points to mull over...plz reply to my earlier post also.do not exhibit ostrich mentality

    I am not sure why I should respond to your points. They are not new. My whole idea to write these four sections is to answer to some of the points you raise

    1.Islam seeks to impose Arab cultural imperialism on other nations through a doctrine of divide and murder

    Its your opinion. My opinion is a bit different. I believe that it is the western powers which impose their cultural imperialism, and have earlier resorted to dividing the nations and installing puppet governments in the Middle East.

    2.Islam is based on the doctrine of hating and murdering non-Muslims and reducing them to the status of political slaves.

    I see it differently. What you say is true for many other religions- Christians have done the same to non-Christian lands. Such doctrine of hating and murdering other people were the norm of those societies and those times. It was not unique to Islam alone.

    Many nations and regions that were under Muslim rule have thrived well and have been able to maintan their culture, identity, language and power centers. For example, though Russia was under Tatar Muslims, Russians could practice Orthodox Christianity without any hinderance.

    And this is what leads to the inevitable conclusion that Islam is not a religion but the Arab National Movement.

    I am not sure if I need to answer to this. If you think Islam is not a religion, that’s fine. If you think that it is an Arab movement, you should talk to Iranians, Malaysians, Bangladeshis and see if they subscribe to it.

    5.There are express commands of the Prophet,

    I wrote an article on this- How one need not look at the founder of the religion or its texts to analyze the behavior of the religion.

    Now, it is perhaps, easy for you to understand why the Muslims of India partitioned their own motherland for practicing the Arab cultural values in Pakistan (and Bangladesh).

    May be, they did. May be, they didn’t. My opinions are not affected just because Pakistan wants to embrace Arab culture. Its up to them to do what they want to do.

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  7. Anonymous:
    Again a first Sujai..
    We seem to be on the first name basis. Don’t you think it is polite to write your name as well?

    "most Kashmiris" after taking the Kashmiri Pandits out.
    Even if you were to include Kashmir Pandits, it would still be ‘most Kashmiris’. Muslim population was more than 90% even when Pandits were living there.

    Wow!!hearing that for the first time!! It should be the exact reverse shouldn't it?
    Well, we do seem to hear many things for the first time. Its not too late in life to hear new things. Ever heard of Afghan war against Soviet Union? Ever heard of Iraq-Iran war? Ever heard of Yugoslavia? Ever heard of Lebanon or Philippines? Ever heard of Korean War or Vietnam war?

    It's not as if they are getting anything in return...they are getting paid dude...
    So are the Liberians for their diamonds. and Iraqis for their oil. For some reason, lives are being lost!

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  8. We seem to be on the first name basis
    Do I want to be on a first name basis with you?...Trust me,I DO NOT

    Such doctrine of hating and murdering other people were the norm of those societies and those times
    Of those times??
    What about these times??Not exactly loving actions by the Muslims..don't you think??

    Many nations and regions that were under Muslim rule have thrived well and have been able to maintan their culture, identity, language and power centers
    What about India?..Ohh..ghazni,babur,aurangzeb etc. came as peaceful tourists to Incredible India did they?


    Muslim population was more than 90% even when Pandits were living there.

    Who says that all Muslims of Kashmir do not want to be part of India?
    No one knows the real sentiments of the kashmiris..the referendum hasn't even happened and Mr.dont-call-me-by-my-first-name
    comes up with the results.


    ever-heard-of-dept

    Well,it cannot possibly be a coincidence that Islam is involved in majority of the wars that you mentioned...not to speak of those that you didn't mention..

    For some reason, lives are being lost!
    Ohh...Mr.IslamLover hates to see Muslims die!!
    Do you even have the remotest idea of how many Hindus the Islamic terrorists have massacred?or for that matter the Moghals?

    Forget it....

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  9. Anon


    yeah right..."most Kashmiris" after taking the Kashmiri Pandits
    out.


    As was already pointed out to you, even after taking the Kashmiri Pandits out, it remains a majority. Kashmiri Pandits have never been more than 3-6 % of the total population. And you did not ask about the Sikhs and other minorities living in Kashmir? Is it because they chose to live in Kashmir and chose to support our struggle.

    After getting to know the facts you came up with yet another figment of imagination


    Who says that all Muslims of Kashmir do not want to be part of India?


    Doesn't a 17 year conflict tell you, the fact that India has to station 700,000 troops in Kashmir to allegedly control some 2,00 militants. 2,000 militants is the official number of the militants active. But, no they are not there to control the militants, they are there to control the people. How many more troops, how many more enforced disappearances, how many more custodial deaths, how many more mistaken-identity deaths would make you say what Kashmiris want.

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  10. hi sujal.i recently stumbled upon ur interesting blog.read a few articles and could find hardly anything to disagree.right now going thro ir islam and world stuff.not read compleletely.but seems u r trying to be too much politically correct and all.i m a bit negative about islam.may be my immaturity or prejudice.but would like reading ur deeper analysis about islam.can i request u to write on something?

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  11. Vihang, you say:
    but seems u r trying to be too much politically correct and all. i m a bit negative about islam.

    May be, I am being "politically correct" while talking about Islam. Or may be I am trying to ignore certain blatant incongruities just for the sake of discussion?

    Actually, I am critical of religion itself (as an atheist), but I have learnt to accept certain idiosyncrasies without protesting too much, unless it starts to encroach on other people's rights.

    In that sense, I am critical of all religions and therefore critical of Islam too. When I sit down berating religions (in future), I think I will do it in one big sweep where I would denounce every religion, including Islam. Then, I won't be so sympathetic to certain idiosyncrasies.

    It all depends on who I represent in a discussion- an atheist, an Indian, a Hindu, a Telugu, an engineer? I have not donned the role of an atheist as much as I would like to. May be, that’s for future.

    Every religion, including Hinduism, is filled idiosyncrasies that are quite irrational. Should we start criticizing Islam for its irrationalities while still continuing to harbor ours?

    Every religion seems to rationalizing its irrationalities, some better than the other. Just because they have better methods in such sophistry do they turn out to be better religions?

    can i request u to write on something?

    Please go ahead and suggest. If you think you want to send a personal mail, you can do that as well.

    Thank you.

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  12. True Hard Facts, no one can argue with




    * Most terrorists are (Arab) Muslims.


    * Most Muslims killed (even in the areas which they love to blame the west), have been murdered by other Muslims.


    * Most Arabs, Most Muslims are oppressed by their own government, or most Arab Muslims regimes are extremely oppressive.


    * Most hungry Muslims in the third world are rather fed by Christians & Jews.

    * Most Muslims are still tought that Christians are Pigs & Jews apes...

    * Most hateful cartoons in the world appear in the Arab press ( http://memri.org , http://pmw.org.il, http://www.adl.org/main_Arab_World/default.htm).


    * Slavery today is exclusively by Muslim Arabs.


    * Most oil (& by it the power to dictate policies) are in Arab hands.


    * Most conflicts today, all over the world, involve Muslims against non Muslims.


    * Most Arab Muslim regimes are still that facist "not even giving Israelis the right to exist".


    * Most Arab Muslim "insurgents" - terrorists in Iraq are not Iraqis.


    * Most mass murder in Iraq are on the basis of inner facism Shiite - Sunnis.


    * Mosts Zionists are Christians.


    * Most ultra orthodox Jews do not serve in Israeli atmy, still they & they're children are as much a target by the racist Arabs / Islamofacists terrorists.


    * Most Arab 'Palestinians' are - vote for, support and back facist terror Hamas & it's call/attemps for genocide.


    * Most Arab women killed in Gaza ('Palestinian' death cult main city) are of that evil 'honor killing'.


    * Most crimes comitted in major European cities like: Paris, Amsterdam, Rome, Bruxelles, Rome, Milan, etc. are by Arab Muslims (Moroccans, Algerians, Tunisians, etc.).


    * Most Arab Muslims in Europe are anti west (a tip of the iceberg showed itself in the 2005 massive cartoon-Jihad or the latest poll on British Muslims).


    * Most Arabs hate all Jews (polls show even in "moderate" countriers like Jordan http://pewglobal.org/reports/display.php?ReportID=248 ), most Israelis don't hate anyone.


    * Most aid groups dedicated to helping 'Palestinians' impoverished by their cruel leadership are: Jews, Zionists, Israelis.


    * Most Israeli Arabs participate in Israel's democracy, vote, getting to high positions, etc. all Jews in Arab Muslim countries live in fear, in the shadow.


    * Most (online) searching (logging on) for the kinkiest, most twisted sex are from Arab Muslim countries (http://www.westernresistance.com/blog/archives/002161.html Muslims Are Sex-Starved Surfers, With Bestial Interests...).

    _____________

    http://theproblemwithmostarabmuslims.blogspot.com

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  13. they should also make all small colonies of muslim inhibited areas all over the world separate countries cuz muslims can never live with anyone other then their own religion. So some parts of old delhi, saharanpur, bangalore etc should all become newly independent countries, that would really make them happy and we should also plan about new areas that may have majority populations of muslims in future to be new countries cuz whatever happens there are two kind of species in the world. muslims and non muslims and they can never live with each other at least muslims cant stand non muslims at all cuz everyone else stinks

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  14. Hi Sujai,
    Very well articulated. It is the sad state of affairs of the world today. And a select few seem to be taking matters into their own hands for the lack of a better solution.

    I hope that things dont go from bad to worse. In that sense, even India is heading in the wrong direction. On the contrary, when things go from bad to worse, maybe then will the rest of the world realize.

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  15. I wonder why Sujai left out India from the lists of land that need to be given to muslims to bring peace in the world. After all "hanske liyaa hai pakistaan.." has not been very old.

    People fail to understand that it is impossible to placate "rage boys". It is even stupid to try. I would let Hitchens explain my point:

    http://www.slate.com/id/2169020/fr/rss/

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  16. Actually speaking, I had become pretyy weary of Islam after so much of Islamophobic propoganda.
    But lately I believe,
    Islam have been overfocussed by the world as a religion than no other religion. There are people, and it is obvious how much hate they carry for Muslims, and they are at influential positions of the most powerful nation in the world.
    I have only understood this phenomenon after I came across several Jewish students at my Campus in US.
    Jewish hatred is no ordinary hatred like that of our right wing hindutva. It is 10 times worse.
    These Jews in America are stinking rich. They have immense influence over the political system, nothing can go against their will despite their population being only 7 million out of 300 million Americans.
    Obviously with so much of Power at your hands, you are free to put into effect all that you hold - Both good and Ugly.
    Many Jews have opted to muscle up their Ugly hate against Arabs and Muslims, and they go to all extents to tarnish them in all ways.

    There are campaigns, NGOs, Websites setu up against Islam, their purpose purely to discredit Islam and put in Evil light.
    With the amount of Money they hold they literally dictate the course of Media.

    Putting Islam under Microscanner, and hurling all sort of evils against it, so as to show it as a Devilish religion.
    By I recently came across a website, which refutes such attacks, and in response exposes Judaism and Christianity under the same light from its own holy books, proving how the others had similarly twisted and coaxed Islamic texts to discredit itself.
    www.answering-christianity.com

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  17. The problem of Kashmir has remained a sore issue between these two countries since time of Independence. It has contributed to most of the Islamic terror activities in India. [Though, of late, the growing Hindu nationalism is also spawning another set of Islamic terrorism which is independent of Kashmir issue.] Most Kashmiri would like to be either independent of India or join Pakistan. This is a freedom movement whose roots are in the Partition of India.
    >>> Is that so, I doubt the validity of your logic, even though this sounds valiant, like some NGOs. do visavis Human rights violation, etc. If Kashmir is taken out of India, the Muslims will certainly intensify terrorism and openly demand another partition for all Muslims drawn from the different states of India, such is their huge no., around 15% of total. At that point, it will be a terrorist holocaust all over India, and a repetition of Pakistan-India partition and the Kashmir partition you are advocating. And a certain group of people will insist on accepting another partition only attributing it, through specious logic, to Hindu nationalism Hinduttva, etc. There are millions not belonging in the BJP parivar, who certainly will not buy your logic and advocacy.

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  19. In the Name of God, Most Gracious, Most Merciful.

    Sujai,

    The spotlight on Islam and muslims in general have been so long that people from all races and religions have begun to become curious about it (for eg: you), which i personally consider as boon rather than bane. Accept it or not... people have begun to take notice. They have started looking up for what Islam actually is and represents.

    Result: Most are impressed. Some of them are converting... which, otherwise, was rather difficult. Others are left with no disagreements save a few (in Sujai's case, concept of homosexuality among others which I am not aware of).

    Sujai, I believe your notions on Islam come from authentic set of sources and which I encourage. And I also believe your a very rational person.
    You look upon things rationally, but in the process you complicate things with many facts and figures. 'Rational and complex'. The trick is to make it 'rational and simple'. I bet you wont have much problem in understanding Islam more easily. And hopefully, you will come to embrace the truth.

    I am glad you are not motivated or biased by blind hatred and have an ability to recognize the anti-social propaganda nurtured by some mischief mongers (people-who-claim-to-be-muslims and non-muslims alike) propaganda which only concludes in destruction of ALL.

    All I would like to convey in the end is Islam's principal motive in catering a society is by the means of peace and propagating it. And a true muslim will abide by this. But dont presume that a muslim will remain passive if provoked. He will reason first... if he is unsuccessful, he will strike. This phenomenon can be observed on any sane person.

    And to the extremists who are reading this comment... please start reasoning things with your rational part. Dont let the blind hatred cloud your judgment.


    Peace,

    Muslim

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  20. "All I would like to convey in the end is Islam's principal motive in catering a society is by the means of peace and propagating it. And a true muslim will abide by this. But dont presume that a muslim will remain passive if provoked. He will reason first... if he is unsuccessful, he will strike. This phenomenon can be observed on any sane person."
    ===
    Exactly!!! And we even allow women to become martyrs.

    -chirkut

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