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Islam and the Age of Globalization

Bina Shah June 18, 2006

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#225 Posted by sadna on June 22, 2006 9:58:58 am
#220
Where did I say Hindus were perfect or holy? And I don`t think you personally are one of those who support jihadis. It is for people like Akbar Ahmed to be honest about what precisely the Pakistani state is supporting 20 years into its Kashmir policy and what are its implications for ``Islam and the Age of Globalization``.
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#225 Posted by tahmed32 on June 22, 2006 9:59:01 am
#223 bjk: Another Supremely Gifted Genius from India!! Pure and Brilliant - the very definition of an Indian on Chowk.
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#224 Posted by tahmed32 on June 22, 2006 9:57:10 am
#221: That`s right. Who can teach deluded Pakis that India is perfect. Just ignore them.
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#223 Posted by bjk on June 22, 2006 9:56:30 am

#219, #220

Ummah yaar,

If you like to use more than one nicks at least post different stuff!

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#222 Posted by tahmed32 on June 22, 2006 9:55:52 am
#218 even Verticle-Smile agrees about the Supreme Purity of the Hindus.
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#221 Posted by Raw_Dust on June 22, 2006 9:53:27 am
sadna:
spot on. But dont waste your breath on paki uncles. They are half dead already.
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#218 Posted by sadna on June 22, 2006 9:47:17 am

#209
Which fingers? There are no freedom fighters in Kerala and Tamil Nadu and any `freedom fighters` are overwhelmingly outnumbered in Mizoram and Punjab. The essential dishonesty in citing these doesnot effect India, it affects only Muslims whom Pakistanis have been misleading since day one.

Insurgencies in India are generally taken to be frustrations and alienation due to powerlessness and many of the accords aimed at ending insurgencies, however effective or ineffective have reflected this recognition.

In contrast Pakistan`s last 30 years` record has shown that Pakistan considers only jihadi fundamentalists as worth empowering. This has also been amply demonstrated in Pakistan`s choices in J&K and Afghanistan. To address endless seminars and interfaith groups on Islam without acknowledging this is plain hypocrisy from which any situation in India is not going save people like Akbar Ahmed.
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#220 Posted by tahmed32 on June 22, 2006 9:52:57 am
#218 ``Which fingers? ``

ha! ha!

Like I said, only deluded pakis like hamidm see them. No one in the rest of the world has any doubt about the Supreme Holiness of the Hindus.
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#216 Posted by Salim_Chauhan on June 22, 2006 9:29:38 am
#209, {``Imagine!! Who but a deluded paki could ever dream of there being anything being less than perfect in India.``}

The second ``being`` in your post is both superfluous and confusing. It is embarrassing to read your less than mediocre English in mixed company - both Indians and Pakis are present. If we let you continue like this, then the Indians will win.
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#213 Posted by bongdongs on June 22, 2006 9:27:27 am
#211

cut the crap and first tell me about militants and ``freedom-fighters`` in Kerala.
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#219 Posted by hamidm2 on June 22, 2006 9:48:45 am
Re: # 213

bong mian,

......... i don`t pay much attention to what goes on on the wrong side of the border, but i heard somewhere that naxalites (or some such militants) were killing innocent people in keralaland ......... i might be wrong - maybe they were simply killing venal landlords and corrupt policemen ........
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#210 Posted by Dash_Dot on June 22, 2006 9:25:24 am
a quick visit to the site Bina_shah recommends - belief.net - and looking athe the olde professors latest entry - makes you weep.
a quick look at this http://www.belief.net/story/187/story_18723_1.html
gives a full range of his observations. My god how trite can you be! And this from an Anthropologist. This is on par with the observations made in the article itself. Trite, banal, and dare I say AR.

I guess beards or a feather gather together.....

thank you for recommending this website. I now realise why the islamic world is so full of charlatans (with the noble expection of H2, HP, Mantolives, Nasah, Urstruly and a few other votaries)
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#220 Posted by Verticle-Smile on June 22, 2006 9:52:57 am
#218 ``Which fingers? ``

ha! ha!

Like I said, only deluded pakis like hamidm see them. No one in the rest of the world has any doubt about the Supreme Holiness of the Hindus.
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#209 Posted by tahmed32 on June 22, 2006 9:21:50 am
#207, #204: I think what hamidm is trying to say is that every time an Indian on chowk points a finger at Pakistan, he/she is pointing four at India.

Imagine!! Who but a deluded paki could ever dream of there being anything being less than perfect in India.
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#208 Posted by bjk on June 22, 2006 9:20:05 am

#203 H2

Ama yaar,

The problem is never with what one thinks – no matter how idiotic those thoughts – it is always with the way one expresses it – for example, when one expresses it through shooting people.

Kashmiris have always had the right to vote for their own – you mean to tell me that out of so many millions, they can’t pick at least ONE person who is a democratic leader – and that all their leaders simply yearn for the bear-hug of the outlandish outhouse of the Pure?

Let them pick their person. And let them whine all they want to – let their leaders whine all that they want to – the freedom of expression even to whine is all there for them! Like it has always been there! Like it was there before 1989 when Pakistan started funneling all those arms and jihadis – boosted in their own hearts by the power of the newly, clandestinely acquired nukes, no doubt – not to mention the head-spinning glory of having acquired “strategic depth”!

Some like it rather deep, you see!

VERY deep!

(Well, much good it did them!)

Anyway, what these Kashmiri folks don’t have the right to – and you better get this through that Merlot-clouded head of yours – is to start practicing Shariat in the land (except perhaps inside their own homes) – and start killing people who disagree with them – and start saying that they are above the laws of the land and that they will make their own!

(And YOU can’t say that either, by the way! So stop preaching to others what you don’t have the “guts” to practice yourself!)


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#207 Posted by sadna on June 22, 2006 9:13:36 am
Ghazi hamidm2 #203
What precisely do ``mizoram, nagaland, kerala, tamilland, punjab`` have to do with `Islam and the age of globalization` including the Pakistani state`s support for attacks on Kashmiri devrishes ? Such attacks are a totally intra-Muslim thing between the Pakistani state, freedom fighters and Kashmiris.
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