FT on china's string of pearls choking india

jul 15th, 2009

http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/84a13062-6f0c-11de-9109-00144feabdc0,dwp_uuid=a6dfcf08-9c79-11da-8762-0000779e2340.html

the chances are that there will be a short, sharp war again with china attacking and walking off this time with arunachal pradesh.

history repeats.

the last time there was a malayali defence minister (v k krishna menon), malayalis bigwigs in foreign service (sardar panikkar as amb to china), malayalis as secretaries to nehru dynasty types (m o mathai), etc. india lost tibet and aksai chin.

this time it is even worse. india may lose arunachal, sikkim, and maybe the pasupati-to-tirupati corridor will become an international boundary. or the northeast with its pious christists, will secede and become 'greater nagaland'.

what joy is in prospect for india's 'strong' prime minister. who will then whine that he has lost sleep because the hans killed some mohammedans inadvertently while bombing bengal. (btw, why hasn't he already said he has lost sleep over the killing of uighur mohammedans by the hans? or is it ok because it is hans doing the killing?)

brahma chellaney: china's next india war

jul 15th, 2009

a terrifying scenario, but quite plausible.

the yechuris and karats will get their opportunity to do the marigold garlanding pretty soon at the gateway of india.

when -- and it's 'when', not 'if' -- the chinese invade, i think some people -- you know who they are -- will use their foreign passports and decamp to those foreign countries. (or they may go hang out at their embassies).

http://chellaney.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!4913C7C8A2EA4A30!648.entry?wa=wsignin1.0&sa=716767734

Australian slavery: pay to be a slave

Even the american south did not require slaves to pay for being slaves. Of course this is what awaits those Indian ‘students’ going to Australia. and if this is not enough – the Lebanese simply finish them off after they have put in their 900 hours of indenture. Regrettably there is the angle of diaspora indian business owners exploiting their own. They should all be locked up

The vermin UPA (alas Krishna & Tharoor) are happy to dismiss it as an “internal matter”

http://www.theage.com.au/national/foreign-students-slave-trade-20090714-dk6d.html

African AlQaida Threatens China

AlQaida's alleged African arm has threatened China over its treatment of Uighur Muslims. China's aggressive push for Africa's natural resources, along with its military response to pirates in the Gulf of Aden, now followed by the latest troubles between Uighurs and Han Chinese, may be setting the stage for new confrontation between China and pan-Islamist militants.

Meh - works for me.

Econophysicist Predicts Chinese Market Collapse

jul 14th, 2009

OT: une bonne "bastille day" pour mes ami(e)s francaises! aux barricades!

oh, and if you have some spare change, short the shanghai market, according to this article.

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http://www.technologyreview.com/blog/arxiv/23839/   The theorist behind this prediction is Didier Sornette at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich, who has pioneered the study of market bubbles. The tell tale sign of a bubble, he says, is a faster than exponential growth rate caused by a positive feedback mechanism that generates this non-linear growth.

shourie on decline of the system

jul 13th, 2009

http://www.indianexpress.com/news/on-the-way-down/488780/0

adha:patanam, that is descent into the netherworld.

the euphrates is dying; so are india's rivers

jul 13th, 2009

water security is going to be one of our biggest headaches, esp. at a time of global warming and the disappearance of the glaciers, not to mention short-term issues like this year's presumed el nino.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/14/world/middleeast/14euphrates.html?_r=1&src=twt&twt=nytimes

aussie miscalculates and gets egg on his face: How Kevin Rudd has mismanaged Australia's relations with China

jul 13th, 2009

convict can suck up to hu jintao now in 'chaste' mandarin.

(off-topic, i have never understood what 'chaste' urdu is all about, given that urdu is not exactly a pedigreed language, being the child of many fathers, arabic, farsi, hindustani, maithili, bhojpuri, and god knows what else. it must be a product of the knee-jerk belief that everything mohammedan is good, so urdu is good.)

http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,25769691-7583,00.html

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From: Brahma

Glenn Milne | July 13, 2009

Article from:  The Australian

ABSENT a swift, open and just resolution to the Stern Hu case, Kevin Rudd now has a China problem. And it is largely one of his own making.

Let us be clear here. Without the laying of serious charges against Hu, followed by a transparent and just trial process, China is in the wrong. Thus far this appears to be an unprovoked and unreasonable act that has the potential to open a significant diplomatic and trade rift between China and Australia.

The commercial, if not diplomatic implications are immediately clear and reach beyond Australia. Who will want to do business in China if local laws can be shredded to conjure a charge of state espionage out of the cut and thrust of robust business deal making?

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Reading links: more on nuclear “deal”

Three important links on the nuclear front

Vardarajan exposes manmohan hypocricy - http://www.hindu.com/2009/07/13/stories/2009071351090900.htm

Parthasarthy warns of danger ahead - http://www.thehindubusinessline.com/2009/07/09/stories/2009070950280800.htm

Pratap Mehta senses buyer’s remorse on deal - http://www.indianexpress.com/news/the-nuclear-games-begin/488710/0

Brutal fact is nobody cares. The cash tills in Switzerland are ringing as India will soon buy American reactors. thank you EVM’s. thank you chawla

The yanks are doing to us on nuclear front (enrichment and re-processing) what they are doing to China on the economic front (ever declining US treasury) i.e. selling a bill of goods they have no intention of honoring

Where are the deal huggers – eagerly lapping up US intentions to ‘make’ India into a superpower? Also where are the Obama automatons? No ‘hope and change’ – it is all “cap, rollback and eliminate”

Unrest in Xinjiang: Where’s the Muslim outrage?

As the title says - where's the Muslim outrage?

India to Put 2 People in Orbit by 2015

India has announced its intention to put 2 astronauts into orbit by 2015. So in babu-speak, that would mean approx 2025.

so shopian rape was done by victim's relatives?

jul 12th, 2009

wouldn't surprise me in the least.

http://www.hindu.com/2009/07/12/stories/2009071255830800.htm

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/NEWS-India-Shopian-rape-murders-a-family-feud/articleshow/4768680.cms

doesn't this remind you of the 'jhabua-nun-rape' case where it turned out the rapists were also christists, or the 'tribal-christist-girl-raped-and-murdered' case where it turned out that her christist uncle had done it? in all cases, hindus or army men or both were accused. and the evil media jumped on these and blew them out of proportion, because it fit in with their prejudices.

the ELM is the most evil entity in india. 

What is your view on these charity orgs?

jul 12th, 2009

i don't know about this entity. anybody with first-hand knowledge?

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From: Sujoy 

Hi Rajeev,
I recently received a flyer to donate money to an organisation, Vidya Daanam (www.vidyadaanam.org) which claims through its website to be an initiative by the Sanatana Dharma foundation. Sanatana Dharma Foundation, in its website (http://www.sanatanadharmafoundation.com/) looks to be a committed Hindu org and align itself with the views of people like Francois Gautier, Robert Spencer and Joe Kaufman.

Anyway, looking into the faq page on Vidya daanam (http://www.vidyadaanam.org/vidyadaanamfaq) I found this in question 7 -
7. Is Vidya Daanam a secular charity? Vidya Daanam is a 'Secular' Charity that is being run by 'Committed Hindus' ...
And this confuses me a bit, although it claims to be inspired by Sw. Dayanand Saraswati

You have previously suggested donations to SEWA and IDRF. Do you have any suggestion on this? I like the idea of donating for education, like in Ekal vidyalayas, but I was once duped into donating for ASHA when I was a "fresh off the boat grad student"; but now I'm being more careful and make sure I'm not donating to extreimsts like ASHA and AID.
Thanks,
Sujoy

 

Its God's responsibility to forgive the terrorist organizations
It's our responsibility to arrange the meeting between them and god."
- Indian Armed Forces

what the hans will probably do: attack india

jul 12th, 2009

i had predicted some years ago that the chinese would attack a) russia to grab siberia, b) taiwan, c) japan using an electromagnetic pulse in the air (which of course they may get north korea to do), d) india.

they do have to kill off all those war-like, testosterone-fueled 30 million young men who will never find wives because they have murdered 30 million female foetuses. best bet is to go to war and have these young men killed while gaining some territory. easiest target is 'useful idiot'-filled india.

http://www.rediff.com///news/2009/jul/12nervous-china-may-attack-india-in-2012-defence-expert.htm

VS Ramachandaran: neurology and the genius of the Chola bronze

This guy is absolute class – I heard him on the radio talking about the neurology of the mystical hindu experience (or Samadhi) and it led to this program. The art pieces start at around the 30 minute mark and go on for an hour. But you have to hear the first 30 minutes to understand the neurology.

Notice how he seems almost electrified when looking at the Nataraja.


The study by modern neurology of meditation practices is the most amazing frontier of science. Matthew Ricard had something like that. I am generally ignorant of Ramachandaran’s work – any fans of his around here?

Obama screws india over on nuclear “deal”

http://www.hindu.com/2009/07/11/stories/2009071158290100.htm

one more step in “cap, roll-back and eliminate”. Interesting this comes the same week as Obama gave money o the pakis to kill more hindus with. this is how the yanks treat all strategic allies - by neutering them and making them utterly dependent on yankee largesse. where are the supporters of Obama and nuclear deals?

no word from Manmohan- the cash till is ringing in Switzerland. lady boos is happy
http://www.hindu.com/2009/07/11/stories/2009071152701000.htm

Limey-land: the real ‘thugee’ at last!

I am always so amused to read the british administrators of the nineteenth century dream up all sorts of castes in india. They included many thousand backward castes of course. They also included ‘martial’ castes and – you guessed it – criminal castes and tribes

Wonder if the limey’s will set-up a “Thugee and Dacoity Department” to deal with their own losers. Of course – I am not surprised to see teenage crime in limey-land’ limey kids are good for not much else. They are only good for stealing and impregnating their teenage girls

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/politics/lawandorder/5796887/Teenage-robbery-crime-wave-sweeping-Britain.html

what? hans being dissed by limeys?

jul 11th, 2009

the checks haven't arrived from peking, or what?

http://www.economist.com/displayStory.cfm?story_id=13988479&fsrc=nwlgafree

irfan husain of dawn (pak) after seeing the channel 4 video (dispatches) of the mumbai invasion

jul 10th, 2009

this man has far more decency than the mavens of the UPA, who have now completely forgotten mumbai 11/26.

same with all the mohammedans demanding special concessions for themselves. this massacre was done by mohammedans, for mohammedans, and it is only the twisted logic of mohammedan 'martyrdom' that could have produced these cold-blooded killers and their handlers. these are not human beings, they are devils.

           The Mumbai massacre revisited

                    By Irfan Husain

 

All too often, natural disasters and human atrocities make only a fleeting impression. We watch fascinated and horrified as TV anchors give us their impressions in breathless, doom-laden voices, while images of death and disaster roll across our screens. But soon, one particular crisis is overtaken by another, and relentlessly, the news cycle moves on to cover another trouble-spot, often thousands of miles away.

 

It is not until one sees and hears the survivors that the magnitude of a disaster really sinks in. This is what I experienced while watching Channel 4's programme on its Dispatches series. Called Terror in Mumbai, the documentary retraces the steps of the terrorists as they first landed in Mumbai by boat, and then made their way across the city, spreading mayhem over a period of 60 hours.

 

We were shown clips from CCTV cameras that had captured the killing spree in grainy but graphic detail. Casually, almost nonchalantly, the killers shot everybody who moved. At the VT railway station, where 52 innocent people died, they massacred a family, and a young boy who survived later recounted who had died: "My father. My mother. My aunt. My uncle. Their two sons. What had we done to them? So many dead. What had they done to the terrorists?" What indeed?

 

When I wrote a couple of columns after the  atrocity last year, expressing my sympathy for the victims and condemning the killers and those behind them in Pakistan, I got a flood of angry emails, demanding to know the proof that linked the terrorists to Pakistan. Our government was in similar denial for weeks. And although it has grudgingly accepted that the controllers and planners of the attack were based in Pakistan, and has even arrested some members of the Laskar-e-Tayyaba that has now morphed into the Jamaat-ud-Dawa, very little progress has been made on punishing those responsible.

 

The most chilling part of the Channel 4 documentary was the constant voice contact between the terrorists and their handlers. Talking on cell phones, the controllers urged on their pawns in Punjabi and Urdu, interspersed with the odd English words and phrases. They certainly did not sound like graduates of a madressa. Rather, they were professionals doing a job, instructing the young terrorists to kill as many people as possible; urging them to move from one target to another; reminding them of their tasks; and repeating that above all, they must not allow themselves to be captured. 

 

Soon after his arrest, Ajmal Kasab was questioned by the police, and admitted that he had been sent by the Lashkar-e-Tayyaba. Asked why and how he had joined the group, he said his father had 'sold' him to the Lashkar. When asked to elaborate, Kasab replied that his father had explained that the money would lift the family out of poverty, and it would pay for his sisters' weddings. How many more young men are being sold to terror outfits across Pakistan?

 

One Turkish couple, spared because of their faith, recount how the bodies of massacred guests at the Trident Oberoi piled up around them, and how slippery it was to walk over the pools of blood that had gathered. A neighbour of the rabbi and his wife who were murdered at the Jewish Centre describe how one by one, the couple said 'shoot me' to the killers, and were duly shot. After the terrorists had left, the two-year old son of the murdered couple is filmed in a heart-breaking sequence, walking around in the room, clearly confused.

 

After Kasab had been captured, the controllers realized what would happen if he spilled the beans. They ask two of the killers to take a hostage and get her to call the authorities with a demand to free Kasab in exchange for her life. After an hour or so, when there is no response from the government, they are told to finish off the hostage ('Khatam kardo').

 

All through the atrocity, the handlers – obviously watching the drama on TV – keep urging their foot-soldiers on, encouraging them by descriptions of what they are seeing on TV. "The whole world is watching your deeds… Remember this is a fight between the believers and the non-believers… If you speak to the authorities, tell them this is only the trailer and the real film is yet to come…"

 

And when the terrorists are clearly exhausted, the controllers urge them on: "Throw some grenades, my brother, there's no harm in throwing a few grenades. How hard can it be to throw a grenade? Just pull the pin and throw it. For your mission to end successfully, you must be killed. God is waiting for you in heaven."

 

After each such exhortation, the young terrorist at the receiving end says "Inshallah". At the start of the programme, the handler asks the landing party if they have eliminated the captain of the hijacked boat, and if so, how? "Zibah kar diya", is the chilling response. (Literally: "We have slit his throat"; but there is a ritualistic connotation to 'zibah' that does not translate well into English.)

 

This repeated use of Islamic phrases and responses underlines the extent to which the faith has been cynically used to spread violence. While Muslims argue that that Islam does not condone this kind of terrorism against unarmed, innocent civilians, most do not condemn it in clear, unequivocal terms. After agreeing that such acts are un-Islamic, there is all too often a lingering 'Yes, but…' hanging in the air.

 

It is this ambiguity that has given terror groups in Pakistan and elsewhere the space and legitimacy they need to operate. Now that Pakistanis have seen the true face of terrorism in Swat, and have begun to support the government in its drive to rid us of this cancer, the lesson needs to be reinforced. One way would be to dub the Channel 4 documentary and show it extensively on various TV channels in Pakistan. We need to hear ordinary people who survived or lost close relatives, and see their pain. We need to see the horrors inflicted in the name of Islam.

 

Above all, we need to share the agony of our neighbours.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

kashmir woman 'assaulted', dies

jul 10th, 2009

goodness me, a mohammedan man 'assaulted' a mohammedan woman! now how could this ever be? could they produce the 4 witnesses to the 'assault'? (that would be the requirement in real mohammedan lands, certainly under pakistan's hudood laws, and possibly under sharia in general).

so when it suits them, the kashmiri mohammedans want secular indian laws.

india is a colony of kashmiri mohammedans, starting with jawaharlal. (or even his grandfather, 'ganga dhar', aka ghiyasuddin ghazi).

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http://www.thestatesman.net/page.news.php?clid=2&theme=&usrsess=1&id=260416   Kashmiri woman 'assaulted', dies   ;Press Trust of India Srinagar, 9 July: Protests rocked the frontier district of Kupwara today following the mysterious death of a college girl after an alleged attempt to molest her by a Territorial Army jawan who was arrested later. The jawan Ashiq Hussain was arrested following widespread demonstrations in the North Kashmir district over the mysterious death of a 20-year-old girl Amina at her residence at Doolipora-Trehgam, 100 kms from here. The girl was found dead by her family shortly after she raised an alarm when some persons intruded into her room in the wee hours. The family caught hold of one of the intruders but he managed to escape leaving behind his identity card. "We have arrested the jawan of Territorial Army accused of intruding into the house and entering into a scuffle with the family of the deceased," Senior Superintendent of Police, Kupwara, Mr Uttam Chand told PTI. He said a murder case was also registered at Trehgam Police station in connection with the death of the woman. A team of doctors from Srinagar have been requisitioned to conduct the post-mortem of the deceased to ascertain the cause of her death, the Kupwara police chief said. The police action cooled the tempers of the locals who had taken to the streets demanding immediate arrest of the Army jawan and severe punishment to him and his friends for their immoral act. The news of the death of Amina spread like wildfire and within no time, groups of youth hit the streets in various parts of the district and indulged in stone-pelting on passing security vehicles demanding action against the culprits. As tension mounted, the shopkeepers pulled down the shutters of their establishments and the transport also went off the roads, official sources said. However, the SSP along with civil officials visited Trehgam and assured the protesters that the incident would be thoroughly probed and appropriate action would be taken against the guilty. Soon after the police arrested the Army jawan and registered a murder case, the protests died down in Kupwara town and adjoining areas and normalcy returned, the sources said adding people of Trehgam are assembled at the main chowk and waiting for the completion of the autopsy of the deceased. Earlier, officials said Amina consumed some poisonous substance following the intrusion and attempt of molestation by the jawan. "We can't comment on the cause of death at the moment. Once the post-mortem is completed, a clear picture will emerge," the SSP Mr Kupwara said.

12 Hindus killed in riots in Murshidabad

jul 10th, 2009

no tears from manmohan singh or the fraudulently elected home minister.

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Just got this news.
Will know more as people on the ground report back.
rk

MAJOR COMMUNAL RIOT IN MURSHIDABAD, 12 HINDU DEAD, HUNDREDS INJURED INCLUDING ONE DEPUTY SUPERINTENDENT OF POLICE
http://www.hindusamhati.org/

Today, 10th July, a major communal riot broke in Murshidabad district. Till now 12 persons dead, most of them Hindus, hundreds injured including 10 policemen and one D.S.P. rank police officer. Two village markets and hundreds of Hindu houses were looted and burnt. Firing between police and Muslim rioters still going on at 11.30 night. Curfew imposed in the whole area. BSF and CRPF deployed to help police and RAF.

Perhaps the whole incident planned to welcome the proposed Aligarh Muslim University Campus in this district.

Jhaubona High School is a big higher secondary school in Jhaubona village under Nawda polie station in Beldanga sub division in Murshidabad district. Among total 1000 students of this school, about 50% are Muslim students. For long they were demanding to offer Friday Namaz inside the school. But school management and the Hindu students resisted it apprehending that it will create a virtual mosque inside the school. So, the furious Muslim students made objection against Saraswati Puja in the school and the school management has been compelled to stop Saraswati puja last year in the school. In spite of that, the Muslim students were not satisfied. So they planned to offer Friday Namaz today (10 July) by force inside the school without any permission from Head Master or School Management. Hindu students protested and altercation started at 12 noon between two groups of students. Muslims were prepared. Through cell phone they spread the false message that Hindu students attacked Muslim students in the school. Within 10-15 minutes, thousands of Muslims led by the students of nearby Trimohini Madrasa rushed to the school. They attacked the school students, the big village market of Trimohini, and two Hindu villages Jhaubona and Trimohini. Many Hindu shops in the Trimohini market were burnt and looted. Many Hindu houses were burnt and looted in the villages Jhaubona and Garapara. In one house 4 Hindus died in the fire including one father and his daughter.

Till now, according to our sources, 12 Hindus are dead, more than one hundred injured, though the district administration will surely give a lesser number.

Many are missing. Nobody knows how many of the missing persons are already dead.

Police and RAF could not control the situation. So, BSF and CRPF are called in. Till evening, police fired 250 rounds. 10 policemen were injured, among them condition of 4 are very serious. One D.S.P. is seriously injured. He has been admitted in a private nursing home to avoid media scrutiny. On the road at Begunbari village, Muslims burnt 2 buses and one matador. One Tata Sumo car and its passengers were attacked. The broken car and its passengers have been brought to Beldanga Bharat Sevashram Sangha for their safety.

The injured persons have been admitted to Baharampur and Amtala hospitals. Till mid night, firing was going on between Muslim rioters and security forces at Trimohini bazaar.

As usual, the electronic media/ TV channels are silent and totally blacked out this major incident.

Murshidabad district is a Muslim majority distrct. All the 3 police stations in Beldanga sub division – Beldanga, Nawda and Hariharpara – are Muslim majority. This is a border sub division. All the Hindu villages under Nawda and Hariharpara p.s. are awake tonight. They are scared of possible Muslim attack upon their villages.

In sub divisional town Beldanga, in evening Muslims gathered in front of Congress office. Hindus are fearing that the famous Bharat Sevashram Sangha, whose President highly revered Swami Pradiptanandaji (Kartik Maharaj) may be attacked by communal Muslims. Swamiji is now away from Ashram. He went pilgrimage to Mansarovar-Kailas. He is expected to return in 5-6 days.

India's Finance Minister Mr. Pranab Mukherjee has been elected from this Murshidabad district. As a gratitude to the Muslims of this district, he announced in his finance Budget in parliament that he would allocate a huge sum of money to establish a campus of Aligarh Muslim University in this district. This Aligarh Muslim University spearheaded the separatist movement for creation of Pakistan in pre- 1947 years.

jay dubashi: West is rooting for the Gandhis

jul 9th, 2009

naturally, the white guys like it when india is ruled by white guys or those who totally love whites, like the nehru dynasty.

they sure as hell know this cannot be done to china: no darn white guy is going to get within 10 miles of power there.

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Syncretism in subcontinent : the reality -- sufis as wolves in sheep's clothing

jul 9th, 2009

i am always baffled when i hear pseudo-seculars eulogize sufis, especially their so-called philosophy. what philosophy? sufis are not considered heretics by mohammedans, so then that means sufis have exactly the same philosophy as the koran does. as this note below suggests, they are just like the christist godmen who preceded conquest in latin america (cortez and the other europeans used the godmen to brainwash converts into revealing all about the incas' and mayas' secrets). and also just like the 'inculturation' godmen like bede griffiths. in fact from the sufi example it is clear that inculturation = al taqiya. which of course was the sufi specialty.

please don't go to or give money to the sufi guys' tombs. they are -- like ajmer's -- expressions of conquest and often built on the ruins of razed hindu temples. also, don't fall into the death-worshipping habits of the semites.

and all the wah-wahing about sufi qawwalis! yes, they are the most sublime expressions of art and music in india according to the wagah-candle crowd. au contraire, it is some kind of tuneless caterwauling. after all, the sufis are the original whirling dervishes -- the objects of mirth when the limeys first encountered them.

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From: rishi


Sufis of India Villains:
in-the-Guise- of-Saints.

BY IBRAHIM LONE


India Has always was a land of diversity. Secularism and peaceful
co-existence is not a concept in this land, it is a way of life. The
credit goes to the understanding of our great Vedic ancestors (I count
Hinduism as practiced today as not Vedic in spirit or essence) who were
men of great letters and a mighty spirit. Christianity reached the
Indian shores much before it reached Europe. There are Christians, know
as Syrian Christians, whose links with the Christian doctrine far
outdates that of any other country outside the Middle East. Jews,
Zoroastrians, Bahai's all have found home and safe refuge in this great
country.

However the only exception to these immigrants was the Muslim, who did
not come here to adapt himself to the local culture and live in peace
and harmony. He had only one aim, which was to subdue the native
populations and wave the flag through the length and breadth of this
once great Nation which extended from Dhaka in the East to Khyber in the
west.

Islam changed smeared the face of this country with a paint so
horrific that the colours still refuse to wither out. While there is no
denying the fact that Islam was spread in India mostly by the sword,
there is another aspect of Islamic proselytization, which is ignored.
This face is that of Sufism and the Sufis.

Most people in the India have been mislead into believing that the
Sufis mostly by their own soft-headed scholars, to cherish the fond
belief that the Sufis were spiritual seekers, and that unlike the
Mullahs, they loved Hindu religious lore and liked their Hindu
neighbors. The Chistiyya Sufis in particular have name chosen for such
fulsome praise. The orthodox among the Muslims protest that the Sufis
are being slandered. But the gullible Hindus remain convinced that they
themselves know better. Professor Aziz Ahmad, a renowned scholar of
Islam in India, clinched this matter in the following words: "In Indian
sufism anti-Hindu polemics started with Muinal-din Chisti. Early sufis
in Punjab and early Chistis devoted themselves to the task of conversion
on a large scale. Missionary activity slowed down under Nizam al-din
Auliya, not because of any new concept of eclecticism, but because he
held that the Hindus were generally excluded from grace and could not be
easily converted to Islam unless they had the opportunity to be in the
company of the Muslim saints for considerable time." In other words the
native Hindus were as a nation, not fitting to become Muslims. This is
the sort of hatred that the Sufis had for the Hindus.

Of course, the Auliya who lived in a sprawling mansion and received
rich gifts out of plunder was convinced that he himself was such a
Muslim saint. His temper and teachings can be known easily from the
writings of Amir Khusru, the poet, and Ziauddin Barani, the historian.
Both of them were leading disciples of the Auliya. Both of them express
intense hatred for Hindus, and regret that the Hanafi school of Islamic
Law had come in the way of wiping out the "curse of infidelity"
completely from the face Hindustan (India).
A similar Sufi saint who died a mere 79 years before Waliullah's birth,
was Ahmad Sirhindi (1564-1624). He was always foaming at the mouth
against Akbar's policy of peace with the Hindus. He proclaimed himself
the Mujaddid-i-alf- i-sdni, (renovator of the second millennium of
Islam). Besides writing several books, he addressed many letters to
several powerful courtiers in the reign of Akbar and Jahangir. His
Maktiibctt-i- Imdm Rabbant have been collected and published in three
volumes. According to Professor S.A.A. Rizvi, "Sharia can be fostered
through the sword' was the slogan he raised for his contemporaries.

Let us see a few specimens of his writings in which he expressed the
love for the Indian infidels: "The honour of Islam lies in insulting
kufr and kafirs. One who respects the kafirs dishonours the Muslims. The
real purpose of levying jiziya on them is to humiliate them to such an
extent that they may not be able to dress well and to live in grandeur.
They should constantly remain terrified and trembling. It is intended to
hold them under contempt and to uphold the honour and might of Islam."
In Letter No. 81, he said: "Cow-sacrifice in India is the noblest of
Islamic practices. The kafirs may probably agree to pay jiziya but they
shall never concede to cow-sacrifice. " After Guru Mun Deva had been
tortured and done to death by Jahangir, he wrote in letter No. 193 that
"the execution of the accursed kafir of Gobindwal is an important
achievement and is the cause of the great defeat of the Hindus."

Sirhindi ranks with Shah Waliullah as one of the topmost sufis and
theologians of Islam. Referring to his role, Maulana Abul Kalam Azad
(Former Preident of Post Colonial India) has written in his Tazkirah
that "but for these letters Muslim nobles would not have stood by Islam
and but for the efforts of Shaikh Ahmad, Akbar's heterodoxy would have
superseded Islam in India."'Later on, when K.A. Nizami published a
collection of Shah Walilullah's letters addressed to various Muslim
notables, including Ahmad Shah Abdali, he dedicated it to Maulana Azad.
The Maulana wrote back, "I am extremely happy that you have earned the
merit of publishing these letters. I pray from the core of my heart that
Allah may bless you with the felicity of publishing many books of a
similar kind." That should give us a measure not only of 'Muslim
Revivalism' but also of many Maulanas who masqueraded as ardent
nationalists in order to fight the battle for Islam from within the
Indian National Congress.

It is strange that most of the present-day Muslim scholars refuse to
cite the actual statements made about Hindus and Hinduism by their
heroes such as Ahmad Sirhindi and Shah Waliullah while praising them to
the skies as saviours of Islam in India. Maulana Abul Kalam Azad and
Allama lqbal were shining examples of this intriguing silence. The late
Professor Ishtiaq Husain Qureshi published two significant books on the
history of Islam in India - Ulema in Politics (1972), and The Muslim
Community of the Indo-Pakistan Subcontinent (1977). He has devoted many
pages to Ahmad Sirhindi and Shah Waliullah in both the books. But he has
not cited a single sentence written or spoken by the 'great sufis' on
how they looked at Hindus and Hinduism. I have no doubt that Nizami has
also suppressed those letters of Shah Waliullah in which the latter has
poured out his heart about kufr and the kafirs. It is only Professor
S.A.A Rizvi who has taken us into the secret chambers so to say.
Professor Rizvi is a Shia. And the venom which characters like Ahmad
Sirhindi have poured on Hindus and Hinduism is quite comparable to that
which they poured out on Shi'as and Shi'ism.

Professor Rizvi has cited select passages from the original Persian of
Ahmad Sirhindi's letters. It is only recently that the letters have
become available in Urdu translation. Ahmad Sirhindi wrote to many
Muslim notables in the reign of Akbar and Jahangir. Some of these
letters were in strong protest against Akbar's liberal, equitable
policies vis-à-vis Hindus. One of Sirhindi's patrons was Abdul Rahim
Khan-i-Khanan whom many Hindus cherish as a Hindi poet and a devotee of
Krishna. It is unfortunate that quite a few recipients of these letters
cannot be identified straight away because they are addressed by their
titles and not by their names. As the letters are not dated, it is
difficult to say whether the bearer of a particular title belonged to
the reign of Akbar or Jahangir. The same title was given to several
persons in succession. I reproduce below some passages from these
significant letters in order to show how the mind of this great sufi
functioned. He was the leading light of the Naqshbandi sufi silsila, and
the foremost disciple of Khwaja Baqi Billah who brought this silsila to
India in the reign of Akbar. I may add that the Prophet appeared quite
frequently to both Baqi Billah and Ahmad Sirhindi in their dreams or
states of trance, and gave guidance to them.

Some of his statements translated from the original Urdu script have
been reproduced below:

"It is said that the Sharia prospers under the "shadow of the sword"
(al-Shara' tahat al-sait). And the glory of the holy Sharia depends on
the kings of Islam."

"Islam and infidelity (kufr) contradict one another. To establish the
one means eradicating the other, the coming together of these
contradictories being impossible. Therefore, Allah has commanded his
Prophet to wage war (jihad) against the infidels, and be harsh with
them. The glory is Islam consists in the humiliation and degradation of
infidels and infidelity. He, who honours the infidels, insults Islam.
Honouring (the infidels) does not mean that they are accorded dignity,
and made to sit in high places. It means allowing them to be in our
company, to sit with them, and talk to them. They should be kept away
like dogs. If there is some worldly purpose or work which depends upon
them, and cannot be served without their help, they may be contacted
while keeping in mind all the time that they are not worthy of respect.
The best course according to Islam is that they should not be contacted
even for worldly purposes. Allah has proclaimed in his Holy Word (Quran)
that they are his and his Prophet's enemies. And mixing with these
enemies of Allah and his Prophet or showing affection for them, is one
of the greatest crimes."

"The abolition of jizyah in Hindustan is a result of friendship, which
(Hindus) have acquired with the rulers of this land... What right had
the rulers to stop exacting jizyah? Allah himself has commended
imposition of jizyah for their (infidels) humiliation and degradation.
What is required is their disgrace, and the prestige and power of
Muslims. The slaughter of non-Muslims means gain for Islam. To consult
them (the kafirs) and then act according to their advice means honouring
the enemies (of Islam), which is strictly forbidden."

"The prayer (goodwill) of these enemies of Islam is false and
fruitless. It should never be called for because it can only add to
their numbers. If the infidels pray, they will surely seek the
intercession of their idols, which is taking things too far. A wise man
has said that unless you become a dewanah (crazy) you cannot attain
Islam. The state of this mania means going beyond considerations of
profit and loss. Whatever one gains in the service of Islam should
suffice..."

"Ram and Krishan whom Hindus worship are insignificant creatures, and
have been begotten by their parents... Ram could not protect his wife
whom Ravan took away by force. How can he help others? It is thousands
of times shameful that some people should think of Ram and Krishan as
rulers of all the worlds. To think that Ram and Rahman are the same, is
extremely foolish. The creator and the creature can never be one... The
controller of the Cosmos was never called Ram and Krishan before, the
latter were born. What has happened after their birth that they have
come to be equated with Allah, and the worship of Ram and Krishan is
described as the worship of Allah? May Allah save us!"

"Our prophets who number one hundred and twenty four thousand have
encouraged the created ones to worship the Creator. The gods of the
Hindus (on the other hand) have encouraged the people to worship them
(the gods) instead. They are themselves misguided, and are leading
others astray. See, how the (two) ways are different!"

"Before that kafir (Guru Arjun Dev) was executed, this recluse
(meaning himself) had seen in a dream that the reigning king had smashed
the skull of idolatry. Indeed, he was a great idolater, and the leader
of the idolaters, and the chief of unbelievers. May Allah blast him! The
Holy Prophet who is the ruler of religion as well as the world, has
cursed the idolaters as follows in some of his prayers - "O Allah,
demean their society, create divisions in their ranks, destroy their
homes, and get at them like the mighty one."

"It is required by religion (Islam) that jihad should be waged against
the unbelievers, and that they should be dealt with harshly. It is
obligatory on Muslims to acquaint the king of Islam with the evil
customs of false religions. Maybe the king has no knowledge of these
evil customs. Some Ulama of Islam should come forward, and proclaim the
evils present in their (unbelievers' ) ways... It will be no excuse or,
the Day of Judgment that they did not proclaim the tenets of the Sharia
because they were not called upon (to do so)."

"Therefore, it is necessary that infidelity should be cursed in order
to serve the faith (Islam). Cursing unbelief in the heart is the lesser
way. The greater way is to curse it in the heart as well as with the
body. In short, cursing means to nourish enmity towards enemies of the
true faith, whether that enmity is harboured in the heart when there is
fear of injury from them (infidels), or it is harboured in the heart as
well as served with the body when there is no fear of injury from them.
In the opinion of this recluse, there is no greater way to obtain the
blessings of Allah than to curse the enemies of the faith (be impatient
with them). For Allah himself harbours enmity towards the infidels and
infidelity.. ."

"Once I went to visit a sick man who was close to death. When I
meditated on him, I saw that his heart was layered with darkness. I
intended to remove those darkness. But he was not yet ready for it...
When I meditated more deeply, I discovered that that darkness had
gathered due to his friendship with the infidels. They could not be
dispersed easily. He had to suffer torments of hell before he could get
purged of them."

"Every person cherishes some longing in his heart. The only longing
which this recluse (meaning himself) cherishes is that the enemies of
Allah and his Prophet should be roughed up. The accursed ones should be
humiliated, and their false gods disgraced and defiled. I know that
Allah likes and loves no other act more than this. That is why I have
been encouraging you again and again to act in this way. Now that you
have yourself arrived at that place, and have been appointed to defile
and insult that dirty spot and its inhabitants, I feel grateful for this
grace (from Allah). There are many who go to this place for pilgrimage.
Allah in his kindness has not inflicted this punishment on us. After
giving thanks to Allah, you should do your best to ruin that place and
their false gods ... whether the idols are carved or uncarved. Let us
hope that you will not act slow. Physical weakness and severity of the
cold weather, comes in my way. Otherwise, I would have presented myself,
and helped you in doing the job. I would have liked to participate in
the ceremony and mutilate the stones."

This is short history of the love that Sufis has for the native Indians.
With the advent of Wahabism in India more and more Muslims are
abandoning the practice of going to the tombs of these Sufis and
offering Fatiha to them. However the funding to these shrines continues
as Hindus visit these tombs. In fact many of these tombs in India get
more Hindu visitors than Muslim visitors.
Needless to say large amounts of money are dolled out by the gullible
non believers at these tombs.
What exactly this money goes on to fund is anybody's guess. However all
I can say here is that : Viva Hindus keep it up!*

how india can become prosperous in 20 years (but not if the kkkangress continues to steal elections)

jul 9th, 2009

white guys just love manmohan singh, don't they? just like they love the nehru dynasty. why? it's because these people allow colonialism at a distance -- the white guys know they can still pull the strings.

but otherwise this makes some useful points: martin wolf in the FT

http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/dc1a9462-6b1c-11de-861d-00144feabdc0.html?nclick_check=1

and the paper it refers to from the ADB is quite entertaining too. hat tip to brahma chellaney's twitter feed.

http://www.emergingmarketsforum.org/papers/pdf/2009-EMF-India-Report_Overview.pdf?bcsi_scan_447638299E31E942=0&bcsi_scan_filename=2009-EMF-India-Report_Overview.pdf

GM cereal crops created to grow in salty water

jul 9th, 2009

well, this is good. another thing pakistan and bangladesh can do is reduce their production of babies from what is it, 5.1 per woman? then they will need less food production.

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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/agriculture/geneticmodification/5770087/GM-cereal-crops-created-to-grow-in-salty-water.html

The case against EVMs: Channel X News from 9.7.2009 8. p.m. onwards

jul 9th, 2009

posting this a little late.

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From: sohan

Hello, 

          tonight 8.00 p.m. onwards TV channel News X will begin a series on Election problems 2009 featuring Saraph. Please spread the word.  The feature will continue for next 30 days including EVM fraud and more so about the 6th, 7th, 10th may spreadsheet anomaly on ECI sites and tally against final results..

spread the word.

sohan

China bans mosque prayers in Urumqi

There are always good things to learn from others. Even from your enemy countries...

documentary on mumbai invasion removed from youtube: see it here before it disappears

jul 8th, 2009

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Dear Rajeev
The youtube link has already been removed.Please include the link I have provided below

Terror in Mumbai: must-watch documentary from UK's channel4
http://rajeev2004.blogspot.com/2009/07/terror-in-mumbai-must-watch-documentary.html

Dear Friends

This eye-opening documentary Terror in Mumbai is made by award winning filmmaker Dan Reed for Channel TV of UK It is very well edited and they have sourced excellent footage.

Please make sure you watch so that we do not make mistakes for more terror attacks

Terror in Mumbai

http://vimeo.com/5409826