The Japanese lefties seem to know how to say a whole lot more than 'no' these days. And all this time, the Western lifafa journalists have been focusing on demonizing the Japanese right-wingers as the enemies of pro-Western solidarity, only to find themselves upended by the left. Looks like the Western attempts to keep herding Japan along are now falling apart.
Japan seems to be increasingly toeing China's line these days, which is making the US nervous. But what does this portend for India? If Japan and China join hands to become founding members of an East Asian Economic Community, will India end up left out and always begging from the outside to be let in, like Turkey? We'd better watch out, or we too could end up on Japan's 'no' list.
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Wanted to bring this to everyone's attention:
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Temple demolished in Malaysia
http://www.indopia.in/India-usa-uk-news/latest-news/689013/International/2/20/2
Published: October 22,2009
Kuala Lumpur, Oct 22 A Hindu temple was demolished in Malaysia's opposition-ruled Selongor state today...
"The Selangor (state) government has committed treachery to the Hindu community by not stopping the demolition of the temple,"party president Samy Vellu said commenting on the demolition of the Mathurai Veeran Temple in the Shah Alam neighbourhood, which saw protests last month by some Muslim residents who were against the relocation of a Hindu temple to the area.
Vellu noted that this was not the first incident as another shrine, the Sri Maha Kaliamman Temple, in the state had been demolished in September last year.
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" They just went and demolished it", he said in a statement here.
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We need to raise voices against this, big time, through as many channels as possible. The developments in 60% Muslim majority Malaysia (Buddist 19%, Christian 9%, Hindu 6%) needs to be closely watched, as radical and rabid Islamism is spreading its ugly wings at an alarming pace there since it "went Islamic."
Here is a list of Hindu temples in Malaysia at the wiki (not sure how comprehensive or uptodate it is): List of Hindu temples in Malaysia we should keep track of.
Is the Indian "media" going to report this temple demolition (and call the destroyers the names they speciously peddle against Hindus) or are they instead going to keep burnishing their anti-Hindu credentials by training undeserved venom against Hindus in the land where Hinduism was born?
Hindu human rights is a burning issue both inside and outside India, as Hindus in many countries have been systematically marginalized over the last 60-65 years since world war 2 (not to mention what happened during the imperial Islamic rule of India):
-- There were 16% Hindus in the original Pakistan in 1950 (well after the bloodshed of the partition, when the Pakis sent packed trains full of dead Hindus and Sikhs back to India), but in 2001-2002, they were only about 4-5% combined in Pak+B'Desh (1.6% in 2002 in Pak, and 9% in B'Desh in 2001.) By contrast, in India, there were 35 million Muslims in 1951, but in 2001, there were 140 million (according the official census results), and now there may well be over 200 million.
-- Similar story in Sri Lanka, even before the recent and continuing genocide of Tamils (both Hindu and Christian Tamils are under assault in internment camps, after apparently tens of thousands of Tamil civilians were butchered in the army operation early this year), the Tamil population had been dropping like crazy: there were 1.9 million SL Tamils (not counting in "Indian Tamils" in SL, who were the descedents of the platation workers that were brought to SL in early 1800s, and who were made a separate group and discriminated against badly ever since Sri Lanka's independence/formation), but there were only 732 thousand of them in 2001. See this important pdf and check the population trends reported through the censuses.
This 2008 HAF Hindu Human Rights report which gives a round up of Hindu human rights situation around the world (not including India, except for the Hindu/Pandit persecution and ethnic cleansing in J&K by the Jihadist infiltration and the resulting terrorism: must see link on this) should be given wide publicity to: Link
postscript: One suggestion for your site: are you able to maintain an "Open Thread" (OT) post where people can come in and post links that may not be related to any of the top few posts on the FP? If and once created, you can post a link to the OT prominently at the top somewhere (top of the left hand side bar should work out quite well.) When the thread fills up, a new OT can be created and a link to the previous OT posted in it, thus making it easy to visit older OTs.)
Thanks.
A major reason for Chinese cockiness, I just learnt, is the thawing of their relations with Russia, having resolved the last of their border disputes last year. Now, they don't see any threat from the north. They are insecure about themselves but are quite confident when dealing with external enemies - a perfect recipe to start conficts.
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