Saturday, July 23, 2005

nytimes: friedman on terrorists and their supporters

jul 23rd

we know some of them excuse makers, don't we? the entire indian ELM (english-language media) is full of them, some names of arch-apologists verily leap off the page.

oddly enough, not many of them have pontificated at length on the london bombings so far as i know, although i have not been perusing indian newspapers carefully, being preoccupied.

is it because the venerated excuse-makers have no excuses to make when whites are killed, it's only when brown hindus (1/50 the value of a white life and 1/33 the value of a muslim life) are killed that they get all excited about the 'human rights' of terrorists and not of the victims? why are there no calls from you-know-who about the 'human rights' of the fellow shot on the tube in london? or appeals to not call them 'terrorists' but rather 'misguided secular boys'?

the excuse-makers are the worst sinners of the lot. at least the terrorists believe in *something*, but the excuse-makers prostitute themselves. much like the pharisees of christian mythology.

truth-tellers, for instance sandhya jain, are vilifed for telling the bald and complete truth.

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/07/22/opinion/22friedman.html?incamp=article_popular

9 comments:

Anonymous said...

I have come to believe that somewhere somehow 1000 years of foreign (mis)rule has inflicted some genetic damage in India. Otherwise it is just unfathomable that a civilization which boasts of people as Chanakya has got infected with acute masochist tendencies.

Anonymous said...

Indeed. And then we have the esteemed JNU, the self-hating communist bastion, the treasure house of all masochist ideas. What could have been more embarrassing than our very own PM congratulating the British for their good-governance. All that remains is for us to invite our masters to once again hand over the reins of the country.

Anonymous said...

http://www.indianexpress.com/full_story.php?content_id=74988
Tavleen Singh's latest column.

She has been writing her mind looks like. And she does make a valid point that there are no Muslims who are openly condemning/debating the madrassa system. She also writes of the huge amountof hate mail she has received over the previous columns.
These are the kind of columns that can make ELM "fair and balanced"

Anonymous said...

Yes,I agree with San.

Anonymous said...

ryan,

JNU is not a self-hating Communist bastion. They don't hate themselves nor do they hate their religion, Marxism. They hate Hindus and the Hindu civilization. The correct description is that JNU is a bastion of hateful commies.

Anonymous said...

ak,
Good analysis. The JNU types are actually supremists, hate mongerers, just that they think they can achieve supremism by following marxist donkeys.

Anonymous said...

Let us not lose sight of the fact that churchianity with its 'conversion' cult is AS DANGEROUS as 'islamic jihadism'.The architects of 'Joshua
project'with their staggering panoply of subterfuges are more smart,sinister and knavish.

I have not exhausted my tears of agony for all my forefathers unjustly and ruthlessly tortured and killed by the invaders(colonisers!);the relentless killing of my country's Army personnel which never seems to end(Who says your lot is not to reason but to die?Wake up!);I spend sleepless nights rewinding Inquisition in my country and how the Natives of America "received" small-pox virus infested blankets from the cloyingly "compassionate and charitable" peddlers of Churchianity.The Ayurvedic texts burnt,our indigenous culture raped,the imperialistic tentacles-relentless and unapologetic.I could go on....

God has His own ways (not entirely inscrutable)of dealing out comeuppance.

Anonymous said...

"JNU is not a self-hating Communist bastion. They don't hate themselves nor do they hate their religion, Marxism. They hate Hindus and the Hindu civilization. The correct description is that JNU is a bastion of hateful commies"

AK,

By self-hating..I meant that they are essentially Indians and yet they hate everything that is Indian. By Indian, I mean Hindu (which includes Sikhism, Jainism, Buddhism which many dont like to agree)...because without Hinduism, there can be no India.

Anonymous said...

Wonder if you have read this..

http://www.nationalreview.com/hanson/hanson.asp