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Are We The Most Racist Of Them All?

Rakesh Mani February 12, 2006

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#113 Posted by Raw_Dust on February 15, 2006 3:44:38 pm
nothing special. i was thinking of Americans` efforts in reforming Shintoism half a century back. Here is a time fragment :



6 Aug 1945 Hiroshima.
9 Aug 1945 Nagasaki.
15 Aug 1945 Failed coup attempt.
2 Sep 1945 Foreign Minister Mamoru Shigemitsu signs the instrument of surrender aboard the USS Missouri.
27 Sep 1945 Emperor Hirohito of Japan meets with SCAP Douglas MacArthur.
1 Jan 1946 Hirohito publicly renounces his divinity.


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#113 Posted by mohar11 on February 15, 2006 3:44:39 pm
Pakis destroying pakis in protest against Denmark.... this is what madrassa education does to people.....:)))


http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2006 02 16 story_16-2-2006_pg3_1

School and college boys had entered the streets with clubs in their hands. It was obvious that the march was planned to be violent. The way they set about breaking the cars and then setting fire to them was no spontaneous response to provocation. ......The destruction was planned and the boys knew what they had to do. Many had handguns, which they fired. On Davis Road in fact they got together in a phalanx and fired their guns in volleys.

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#129 Posted by HasanMahmood on February 16, 2006 6:52:52 am
Re: # 113 read by post q128 and then go and convert to Islam...Your kali mai is not gonna save you....
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#110 Posted by Raw_Dust on February 15, 2006 3:18:26 pm
it is zillion times better to be told by a human about one`s existence than by a ghost in an incomprehensible language.

doubting that ghost jeopardizes the existence hence the anal-retention and all these fireworks......

japanese are intimately familiar with this dilemma...
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#112 Posted by mohar11 on February 15, 2006 3:36:09 pm
Re: # 110 raw
[...japanese are intimately familiar with this dilemma...]

Huh? please explain...
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#107 Posted by HP on February 15, 2006 2:50:30 pm

Since there is no history of Hindu being one religion, what we have is an accumulation of zillions of rites practiced in many parts of ancient India. That also explains the worshipping of millions of objects anywhere from insects to lizards to animals to body parts.

If the invaders had not called people living east of Indus Hindu, chances are Indians would not had one identity. That is why I say Hindus have a serious identity crisis because they are still looking for one something; history, culture or religion, and buildings to identify with.

Now I am sure Red Fort was constructed by some Hindu Raja…
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#109 Posted by shishapa on February 15, 2006 3:11:48 pm
Re: # 107

That is called distributed computing, even if one node fails/falls, others keep chugging.
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#111 Posted by mohar11 on February 15, 2006 3:35:33 pm
Re: # 109 shish

Distributed computing?.... LOL .... but then HP, the madrass-educated paki wouldn`t know anything about that - would he? :))))
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#108 Posted by mohar11 on February 15, 2006 3:03:11 pm
Re: # 107 HP
[....are still looking for one something; history, culture or religion, and buildings ....]

You are wrong as usual..... hinuds have all the history, culture, religion, buildings that anybody ever needs......

Only people who need an ``identity`` is muslims.... a people who get riled up by a cartoon are in serious trouble - the inferiority complex is just too much - it`s killing the community..... :)))))
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#105 Posted by Behram1 on February 15, 2006 2:32:46 pm

Ref: #103 by shishapa

Hello cousin,

OK...how about Bhagvan ditta, Bhagvan rakha, Bhagvan Baksh, Farhat Bhagvan, Neimat Bhagvan, Iman Bhagvan, etc.
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#104 Posted by HP on February 15, 2006 2:03:46 pm

#100 by swarrier
“And Urdu is a Deccani language or was it invented in Arabia.....-) Don`t go too far to have fun....”

Now whether Urdu is a deccani language or not does not matter (and that debate will not take you far) but the point was there is no “I” in Pakistan.



“#99 by shishapa”

“Hindavya Jaat Sarvaa”

Congratulations Shishapa! You have done it…. Now Hindu is a hindi word… or was that sanskrit?

I think Bhagvan Hafiz sounds as good as allah hafiz...

``I mean nobody had heard of Allah in the land of Pakistan before Mohammad Bin Kasim
showed up in 712AD or 732 AD! ``

Did anyone say that Islam is an Indian or Sindhi religion?
You are just making a pathetic point.

Okay, Bhagvan Hafiz!





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#119 Posted by swarrier on February 15, 2006 8:26:43 pm
Re: # 104

HP cutie
I mean there is an I in Pakistan . Even you write it so. Now why do I care whether PayAlifKafStan has an I or not. Though I`d say Alif has an I. You know as well as I do that the land of the pure never contained such things. Be nice you made it up right now....

Googling is good for the soul. It enables one to find mines of information. They even invented a new type of ball in cricket. It`s and off break bowled with a leg break action ... Even you figured out what Sanatana Dharma was.... Isn`t that nice. Did you do your googling today. And no poor invading Afghani gave us such words. We figured it out ourself. Not like your Alif Bay Gulf of Cambay Aleph Null etc etc... Even that script had to be picked from Arabic and Persian. Be original child. Follow your own dream

Now why should Hindus have any identity crisis. You call us Hindus. We are free to call ourselves what we want. We are free spirits. Look no priests if we don`t want them, no gods (yes we have atheist philosophies) if we don`t want them , no books setting rights or wrongs.
Just some meanderings of old folks ..... Its a free for all. And Indians have never had one identity. Why would you be satisfied with one.? Variety is the spice of life old chap.

We`ve at least been trying for one identity since 1947. Seems to me you depend on us for yours. I am not Indian, not Hindu etc. boo hoo hoo......
Now come on be a good boy and admit that you are trying to find an ``I`` in identity.

Have a single malt, have two ... three..... Warm the cockles of your heart.
I raise my glass to you.

Salut.

S
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#103 Posted by shishapa on February 15, 2006 1:53:52 pm

At least Hindus call their gods with hindu names.

How about Pakistanis, do they have native name for god? Why do they call Allah,
a foreign name? Should not they be calling Bhagvan Hafiz instead of Allah Hafiz?
I mean nobody had heard of Allah in the land of Pakistan before Mohammad Bin Kasim
showed up in 712AD or 732 AD!

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#102 Posted by mohar11 on February 15, 2006 1:47:54 pm
HP
[....That is stupid Santana Dharma just means eternal religion. ...]

So?..... it`s the name given to that religion..... The word ``Islam`` is suppsoed to mean ``submission``, but it`s the name of that religion......

Hindu is as good a name as any other - so what invaders gave it?......
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#97 Posted by muqaddam on February 15, 2006 1:35:04 pm
The first name derisively coined for the Indian commercial film industry was Follywood, most films were then associated with follies. In the word Bollywood that later came into usage, the B stood for Bombay and therefrom Lollywood in which L came from Lahore.
The word Hindoo was used by the goras to refer to natives of the Indian subcontinent. They did not use Indian because that description was reserved for the natives of America. Although in most countries people from India are now refered to as Indians, yet the word Hindoo is still prevalent in Western societies.
Recently I heard an East European telling me that when he was stationed in India his driver wsa a Muslim Hindoo. Now that should sound really odd, but he was actually refering to him as an Indian Muslim.
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#96 Posted by HP on February 15, 2006 1:21:30 pm

#95,
Okay Jang....

Just admit it and move on ... Hindus are hindu because invaders said so. That is all there is to it.

..But I need more fun... Okay I will pick on asadi now!



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