Indian Shuakat Aziz and Pakistani Manmohan Singh

#61 by bulleya on February 19, 2007 1:03pm PT


only a population as naive as usa would buy it..


Umm...these are the same practitioners of the religion of peace that think 9/11 was a zionist/US conspiracy because we all know allah`s homies are incapable of such a thing...

Re: # 63
[...One Arab professor said ...]

Arabs have ``professors``?... Wow... :)

#Nasah,

My point exactly. I was amusing myself with the idea of a Arab/French lovefest.

#61 by Bulleya,

Are you completely delusional ? You seriously think that the presence of a lot of
Algerian/Moroccan and assorted Arabs in France means that white France likes the Arabs ??? The racial divisions in France are about as deep as they can be - the entire country has been in denial for a long time. Most Arabs are completely ghettoized (by exclusion at times, by choice at other times) and there is a nice and healthy visceral dislike going in both directions. The riots didn`t happen for nothing.

As far as France speaking up for the Palestinians, it means jackshit. They don`t walk the talk. Tons of Arab countries speak up and down and sideways about Palestinians, with complete insincerity.

[The weak and poor nations of the third world enthusiastically send their brilliant children to Oxford and Howard and think that they would return with more intelligence, expertise and knowledge.]

Such learned writers add to Chowk`s importance.;)

Has anyone noticed that when capt clueless posts about the practitioners of the religion of peace ``hating`` some county(US, Israel), it`s always accompanied by some righteous justification...

if the world has a negative opinion of muslims, that`s islamophobia...

#63 by ahmedmadani

... before landing 30 minutes before at Patana airport people go out to scare away cows, there was picture of cow not cooperating ...

Haha. Thanks for the anecdote. But Ranjit has a point in #64 re the Gandhian Guilt Complex.

... re the rabid dogs if ITBillionairesville aka bhangilauru, now I know why the Taliban did what they did. They had to remove the head altogether to stop it shaking from side to side otherwise it just wouldn`t stop shaking ... haha.

Ranjit,

Infrastructure development is one area where the politicians have to do a much better
job of persuading people - mostly poor and insecure people where the land is all they
have. Forced displacements are neither humane nor sustainable in a democracy. The
govt has to come up with compelling arguments in this matter. A case in point is the
Singur incident in Bengal - the govt will surely follow a less ham-handed approach in
the future. If govt/big business plans to take away my land, it damn well better tell
me (in vivid detail) what I stand to gain from it. The gains always there; one just
needs to make a good case.

This will become increasingly relevant as India starts creating Shenzhen-like SEZs.

I don`t think the poverty fetish is dominant in India anymore. It used to be imposed
from the top in a morbid fashion, and has been eroding rapidly.

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plats8:

``A case in point is the Singur incident in Bengal - the govt will surely follow a less ham-handed approach in
the future. If govt/big business plans to take away my land, it damn well better tell
me (in vivid detail) what I stand to gain from it. The gains always there; one just
needs to make a good case. ``

Thats a very good point. Personal/private property has to be respected. But what if some one is squatting on goverment property and then refuses to move without a ransom?

Re: # 73

Netizen,

I don`t know how that would be handled. I suspect it will be some combination of political muscle-flexing/coercion/persuasion/offering jobs that works.

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To ballukhan – for ur information Shahnawaz Farooqi could be any thing but “Jernail’s boot licker” he is one of the biter critics of Fauji rule in Pakistan, I am saying this bc I read his newspapper columns. Irrespective of our political views we should respect the brave souls who voice our opinions against illegitimate regimes.

pakis clutching at straws again...