Burqa Vaganza – A Satirical Backlash

GT:
That would be a mob rule if you remove those underlying principles or let people vote on it. In liberal-democratic setup, a State and Individuals rights and contract is defined (eg. first amendment of US constitution) that doesnot come necessarily by the dictation of majority but the ``higher principles`` that define a state. When those governing principles be called into question by the majority then the State as it was ceased to exist, for example if Turkey has an Islamist revolution then Turkey would become something else (perhaps islamic republic of turkey) not the Turkey as we know it. I dont know any country that let its people vote on the makeup of constitution in elections.

Re: # 270
No!
Ghalib

`` Naa luuT-taa din ko toa kyooN raat ko yoon baikhabar soataa
rahaa khT-kaa naa choaree kaa, dua daita hoon rehzan ko``

tr:
Were I not robbed in broad-daylight, would I be sleeping so sound?l
Possessions I`ve none, I`m free now ,My thanks to the blessed thief

# arjun 269 he arjun weorry about languishing Madhab Devi for 15 yers in confinement for NOTHINGSir —

It is ironic that just a day after India became a $1-trillion economy (“Billion with a trillion on paper”, April 27), came the front-page news of Madhabi Das being imprisoned in a room for five years. This shows that all claims of India having progressed are plain hogwash. Reaching a particular figure in the GDP growth chart cannot make India a ‘modern’ nation, on a par with its Western counterparts, when the outlook of the majority of its population remains frozen in the Middle Ages.

Yours faithfully,
Yagnaseni Roy, Siliguri





Sir — Cases like that of Madhabi Das abound in India, though only a few get exposed. Even Madhabi had to endure fifteen years of partial and total confinement before she was ‘discovered’ and rescued. And for one Madhabi rescued, there are still hundreds launguishing within abusive domestic spaces.


Yours faithfully,

echoboom:

Re. Tavia Grant`s article

Nothing surprising there. It is ``bania`s`` dharma to seek money-making opportunities wherever he finds them.

Re: # 259 by Raw_Dust

Raw:

Whatever be the principles governing a state, they need to be changeable and democracy is a procedure that allows it. By construct, the coercive nature of the state will resist any attempt at limiting its priviledges whether or not they are in line with the said principles. This has very little to do with those in whom the power is invested - Bush, Indira Gandhi, Margaret T, Ayatollah K etc. etc. This coercive nature can only be combated by an adequately empowered population. Democracy, and I do not mean just elections, (along with education, awareness etc) helps in empowering the people against the state. And if the principles, that you talk about, come in the way of popular consensus they should be amenable to democratic change too. Ultimately, if you are a democrat then you will have to allow people to be responsible. Democracy is simply a tool. Hitler was responsible for curtailing the democratic rights of the Germans (let us not forget that there was very little democracy in Germany at that time). And the German people were responsible for allowing Hitler to take their rights away. Together they were responsible for Nazi Germany. People should have democracy simply to fight the powers of the state. What they do with it is their responsibility.

HE#262:

You seem to know about Turkey more than I do. But didn`t Erbakan come to power only because Turkish army was forced by the European countries to remove restrictions from his party if it wanted to join Europe?



echoboom#264

````Vafadaari b`shar-i astavaari asl-ay Eemaan hai
Mray buut-khaanay meiN, toa kaabay meiN garRoa Brahmin ko``....Ghalib


Isn`t that verse by Iqbal?

#255 by tahmed32 on May 8, 2007 8:25am PT


aww...DM is about to lose the prophet tahmed seal of approval...

tahmed32#261:

Ki gal ai? aj manji tau putthe paason uttare si?

I think that you misunderstood -hopefully not misrepresented- my post. Just because I made a factual statement that arjun`s cuts-and-pastes are about current situation and not about the partition, does not mean that I support his ad nauseum preoccupation with paki-this, paki-that.

``And only two chowkies (both carefully selected by you to be muslims!!) regret partition!! this would be funny if it wasnt such so totally absurd.``

Yes, that would be an absurd statement if I had made it, but I didn`t. Many of us, maybe even you, regret the partition but have swallowed that pill long ago but I do not know of many chowkies who want to undo it. Actually, I am not so sure about Balu either; Salim_Chauhan is the only chowky who readily comes to mind who wants to undo the partition.

#265 arjun: lying is second nature to you. i remember quite well reading your claim that you are here for ``paki bashing``. anyway, you are excused because anyone who suffers from hatreds like you has to be insane.

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#261 by tahmed32 on May 8, 2007 10:03am PT


he himself claimed that he came to chowk for ``paki bashing``!!


No..I said I come to chowk to open the eyes of the wagah-candle-lighting indians like dm and others to the true nature of pakis..

Dost-Mittar, Raw-Dust, Khurram, Pew-Research et al

My Salaams to you all.

``Vafadaari b`shar-i astavaari asl-ay Eemaan hai
Mray buut-khaanay meiN, toa kaabay meiN garRoa Brahmin ko``....Ghalib

tr:
Devoutness, in tandem with consistency is the essence of Faith
If a Brahmin dies in the temple, he deserves burial in Ka`abaa``

I hope that are you enjoying the comic-buffoons here. Now do you understand my revulsion
for the Cantonment Canines?

Compromisers, Good-life Charlies, Security-seekers..in short White-House Niggers!.

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`` Raqs-e Mae-i taizz karo, Saaz kee lae-i taiz karo
Soo-e maei-i-khana , safeeraan-e harUm aatay haiN``...Faiz

tr:
Pump up the volume, Fill up your wine-glasses!**
The emissaries from the Ka`aaba at last in!``

** In Urdu, Farsi, & arabie verse they are mostly used metaphorically for good-times.

and for white-house Niggers:

Stoke the fires, Heat the ovens, roast some shackled hearts
or how else would the prisoned-minds learn these fine arts...echoboom

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