Worldwide India-Pakistan peace movement begins?

Nigeria is over 50% muslim.There women being Muslim can be advocate activist & leader ....Harami ,Unkal Jay Shankar plz note

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Nigerian women prolong oil standoff



July 17, 2002 Posted: 12:22 PM EDT (1622 GMT)



The women have disrupted the operation at the terminal



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UGBOEGUNGUN, Nigeria (AP) -- Hundreds of unarmed women are continuing their siege of a ChevronTexaco oil terminal in Nigeria.

The has siege trapped hundreds of American, Canadian, British, Nigerian and other oil workers inside the terminal.

It also shut down the southeastern facility, which exports a half-million barrels of oil daily and accounts for the bulk of the company`s Nigeria production.

The protesters insisted last week that ChevronTexaco negotiators visit one of the villages near the facility so they would witness the abysmal living conditions, said Anino Olowu, head of the women`s negotiating team.

``I don`t know how (ChevronTexaco) can allow other human beings to live like this. Why do they treat us like animals?`` she said.

The women also complain that flaring of natural gas at the export terminal and other sites causes environmental damage, killing fish and the cassava crops on which they depend.

ChevronTexaco and other oil companies say there is no evidence of negative health or environmental affects.

During often heated negotiations, the company agreed to hire at least 25 people from nearby villages over the next five years. The company also said it would build schools, provide electricity, water and other amenities.

Details of the deal had been expected to be finalized on Tuesday. However, by evening the women said they were still waiting for final documents to sign.

Oil site takeovers are common in Nigeria, the world`s sixth-largest exporter of oil. But the peaceful protest is a departure for the oil-rich Niger Delta region, where armed men routinely resort to kidnapping and sabotage to press their demands with multinationals.

Dennis Ojogor, an unemployed mechanical engineer, said the women`s protest was a last-ditch effort after the men`s repeated efforts ended in failure.

``It used to be the men who did the protesting. But the police and soldiers would use guns, chains and whips to drive us out,`` Ojogor said. ``So now it is the women who have taken action. They cannot be touched.``

The women say their grievances are aimed equally at Nigeria`s government and at ChevronTexaco.

But since the capital, Abuja, is more than 250 miles away, they took their protest to the facility next door.

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Nigeria is over 50% muslim.There women being Muslim can be advocate activist & leader ....Harami ,Unkal Jay Shankar plz note

http://www.cnn.com/2002/WORLD/africa/07/17/nigeria.oil.ap/index.html

Nigerian women prolong oil standoff



July 17, 2002 Posted: 12:22 PM EDT (1622 GMT)



The women have disrupted the operation at the terminal



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UGBOEGUNGUN, Nigeria (AP) -- Hundreds of unarmed women are continuing their siege of a ChevronTexaco oil terminal in Nigeria.

The has siege trapped hundreds of American, Canadian, British, Nigerian and other oil workers inside the terminal.

It also shut down the southeastern facility, which exports a half-million barrels of oil daily and accounts for the bulk of the company`s Nigeria production.

The protesters insisted last week that ChevronTexaco negotiators visit one of the villages near the facility so they would witness the abysmal living conditions, said Anino Olowu, head of the women`s negotiating team.

``I don`t know how (ChevronTexaco) can allow other human beings to live like this. Why do they treat us like animals?`` she said.

The women also complain that flaring of natural gas at the export terminal and other sites causes environmental damage, killing fish and the cassava crops on which they depend.

ChevronTexaco and other oil companies say there is no evidence of negative health or environmental affects.

During often heated negotiations, the company agreed to hire at least 25 people from nearby villages over the next five years. The company also said it would build schools, provide electricity, water and other amenities.

Details of the deal had been expected to be finalized on Tuesday. However, by evening the women said they were still waiting for final documents to sign.

Oil site takeovers are common in Nigeria, the world`s sixth-largest exporter of oil. But the peaceful protest is a departure for the oil-rich Niger Delta region, where armed men routinely resort to kidnapping and sabotage to press their demands with multinationals.

Dennis Ojogor, an unemployed mechanical engineer, said the women`s protest was a last-ditch effort after the men`s repeated efforts ended in failure.

``It used to be the men who did the protesting. But the police and soldiers would use guns, chains and whips to drive us out,`` Ojogor said. ``So now it is the women who have taken action. They cannot be touched.``

The women say their grievances are aimed equally at Nigeria`s government and at ChevronTexaco.

But since the capital, Abuja, is more than 250 miles away, they took their protest to the facility next door.

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Hindutva`s Foreign Hand





The killing fields of Gujarat seem a world away from the NRI utopias increasingly depicted by Bollywood films like Kabhi Khushi Kabhie Gham.

But the two are intimately linked. Gujarat is the trial lab of the Vishwa Hindu Parishad`s Hindutva experiment, and non-resident Indians, the largest number of whom have roots in Gujarat, are widely believed to be its primary funders.

?Ramjanmabhoomi has been an NRI-financed movement from the start,? says political psychologist Ashis Nandy, who has written extensively on the subject. The VHP has branches in 20 foreign countries, and affiliates in 50 nations across the world. In the USA, VHP America has been a registered tax-exempt, non-profit charitable organization since 1974, long before the birth of the BJP. Since then, it has raised $2.5 million (or roughly Rs 11.75 crore) for various social service activities in India, from Gujarat earthquake relief to support for families of Sikhs massacred in Kashmir. The organization claims to have 10,000 members. It`s youth wing, the Hindu Students Council - which runs Hindu summer camps, etc - claims a strength of 50,000. Given that life membership to VHP America costs $1,000 (or Rs 47,000), and the VHP neither has offices nor paid staff in the USA, the question is where does the money go? Not to India, assert VHP officials. ?We don`t take foreign funds,? says Balkrishna Naik, VHP`s international division joint-secretary in Delhi..

The VHP, along with the Bajrang Dal, are registered in India as charitable organizations. Since both conduct political activities, they must clear all foreign donations through the Home Ministry under the Foreign Contributions Regulation Act. Yet, MHA`s Foreigner Division director Sanjay Dutta states that neither VHP nor the Bajrang Dal has ever applied for FCRA clearance. According to the government, the VHP has not received one paisa of foreign aid. Instead, money raised abroad, says Naik, is sent to subsidiary Sangh Parivar NGOs such as Bharat Kalyan Pratisthan, Sewa Bharati, and others, which have FCRA clearance. There have been allegations that funds earmarked for charitable purposes are then diverted back to VHP for other activities.. In 1999, Congress leader, Kapil Sibal alleged that in 1997-98, of the Rs 2.70 crore raised by VHP, only Rs 10,101 was spent on charitable purposes. Sibal demanded a government investigation into VHP finances. No investigation took place.

As charitable organizations, both VHP and Bajrang Dal are required to provide an account of funds raised and total expenses to the Income Tax department. Independent sources reveal that in recent years, the Bajrang Dal has reported it has raised no funds at all. Some also believe that VHP also under-reports it`s annual total inflow of funds.

Yet, there appears to be no political will to investigate accounting irregularities.

VHP funding has not been investigated since the days of the VP Singh government. In 1989, the government discovered that VHP had received foreign funds for its Ramshila Puja. The funds had to be returned. Soon thereafter, the Income Tax department asked the VHP to furnish details of its accounts, and reveal the sources of its funds, including money transferred from other accounts, such as affiliated NGOs with FCRA clearance. VHP was ordered to freeze fund-raising temporarily.

The main investigator, deputy commissioner Vishwa Bandhu Gupta, found the VHP`s report had pages missing, and funds which were unaccounted.

Gupta wanted to know how and where funds raised abroad for building the Ram temple at Ayodhya where being channelled into the VHP without FCRA permission. ?He had circumstantial evidence that there were lots of irregularities,? says Anand Patwardhan, who interviewed Gupta for his documentary - In the Name of God - on the Ramjanmabhoomi movement.

Midway through, Gupta was transferred to Chennai and subsequently suspended. The investigation was dropped.

In the past few years, much has been made by the Hindu Right (including statements by now Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi) over the need to toughen the FCRA. The criminal act was initially introduced during the Emergency, mainly to curtail the pro-democracy Jayaprakash Narayan movement in Bihar.. Now, the BJP claims that lax FCRA regulations are enabling the ?foreign hand? to spread Christianity and abet ?anti-national? organizations. In reality, most groups that receive funding through FCRA are development agencies. Only six per cent of foreign funds are received by religious groups. The largest recipients are non-VHP affiliated Hindu groups such as groups devoted to the Maharishi and Sai Baba, not Christians. On the contrary, several women`s NGOs have been targeted by the MHA (during LK Advani`s term) under FCRA, for alleged political, and ?anti-national? activities.. The NGOs have criticised the government`s record on women`s issues.

In reality, none of the fundamentalist religious organizations - Hindu or Muslim - use the FCRA route to receive funds. Most funds come either through hawala channels, or as in the case of the VHP in Gujarat, through the internal finances of joint families with members both here and abroad. Because of a long tradition of sea-route contact with Africa, Gujarat has a millennia-old remittance channel. ?Money has come through unofficial channels for 2000 years. FEMA (the FCRA equivalent for the corporate sector) was always meaningless for Gujaratis,? says Achyut Yagnik, a social activist in Ahmedabad who has written about the rise of Hindutva.

Following the VHP money trail in Gujarat is quite difficult primarily because funds are transferred from NRIs to native Gujaratis within the extended business family structure, which is still common in Gujarat.

?Every upper caste Gujarati has NRI links,? says Yagnik, ?People are always coming and going.? Money is transferred across continents from brother to brother (on which the Indian government has no regulations) and then contributed - often in cash - to the VHP, Bajrang Dal or various affiliate organizations. Says Yagnik, ?It should never be thought of as just VHP. It`s a hydra. You cut off one head and another appears.? No one knows how much is really transferred through these channels. It is impossible to trace, and impossible to stop.

Hindutva holds an eerie appeal among the over one million Gujaratis in UK and USA. It`s not just the VHP, support for extremist groups like the LTTE in Sri Lanka or the IRA in Northern Ireland comes largely from expatriates in First World countries. ?Expatriates are always more aggressively and pathologically nationalistic,? says Nandy.

Part of it is that many go abroad and are treated as second-class citizens, and seek self-esteem within an imagined national identity. In traditional Gujarat, identity was largely constituted by caste. But abroad, one is forced to leave one`s limited caste community. No longer simply Kutchis or Baniyas or Gujaratis, religion and nation gel as one`s main identity as many embrace a strident nationalism in Hindutva.

In addition, NRIs often fear that they may be becoming too modern, too Western. ?They`re eating beef at McDonalds and then thinking they`re losing their Hindu roots,? says Nandy, ?Hindutva is a bogus ideology that takes advantage of their alienation, and feeds their desperate attempt to cling on to what they think is Hinduism.? Increasingly these alienations from traditional bonds and the anxieties about modern and Western influences are finding expression among Gujarat`s rising urban middle class as well. Following the example of their NRI brethren, Gujarat`s middle class, has increasingly embraced Hindutva.

Gujarat has traditionally been a state divided along caste lines. The state`s Hindus comprise Brahmins, Patidars (such as Patels, formerly Sudras who have used their upper class status as wealthy farmers and traders to negotiate a higher caste standing), Baniyas (the trader caste) and Dalits. Modern Hindu fundamentalism was initially a high caste movement. Now, aside from the Brahmin base, it draws from all sections of the middle class - from upper caste aspirants like the Patidars and the Vaishnavite Baniyas, as well as middle class Dalits, all seeking to transcend their caste stigma. For the middle class, caste identities have not dissolved, but rather are now supplemented by the broader religious identity.

?The middle class has one foot in caste and one in religion,? says Yagnik.

In fact, in 1985, the first major communal riot in recent decades started on caste lines as anti-reservation agitation and then took on a communal flavour. Since then, there have been riots in Ahmedabad in `86, `87, `89, `90 and `92. The subsequent transfer of a MM Mehta, who had built a reputation for controlling riots in Vadodara, as Commissioner of Police, and the BJP`s successful rise to state power, may have been contributing factors for the long peace. Apart from occasional communal flare-ups, the city witnessed no major violence for a decade.

But the conversion of the Hindu middle class was well underway. In the last decade, Muslim shops and homes have slowly been pushed into the old city`s Muslim ghettos. The police and bureaucracy, civil society as a whole, have become ideologically committed to Hindu fundamentalism.

?Since 1990, you can see the change in the middle class,? says Yagnik.

?People begin to even omit green from their clothing and their interior designs. A new mindset developed, especially in the new generation, raised (during the riots) in the 1980s.? The VHP claims it now has seven lakh members in the state, and lakhs more sympathisers.

With 30 cities that have a 100,000 plus population, barring Delhi, Gujarat is India`s most urbanised state. Urbanisation and industrialisation everywhere have given rise to a large, affluent middle class, but also anxiety and hatred. Since 1947, over 96 per cent of deaths in communal riots have taken place in cities, where less than one third of Indians live. The Hindutva campaign has always been more successful in urban India, severed from the traditional bonds of village life, where a vast majority of Hindus and Muslims still lead inter-dependent lives. Now in Gujarat as extensive family and business ties link cities to villages, rural areas too are increasingly embracing modern affluence and Hindu-nationalist violence in equal measure. ?The key factor in Gujarat is not the money,? says Yagnik, ?its that the middle class has found an identity in Hindutva.?

Kushanava Choudhury is a regular contributor to the SALA. This piece also appeared in The Statesman, a Kolkata-based newspap

Lighting The Nuclear Fire

The Last Crusade Akash 220,222,223,225

Arjun_m 218,228,229

Your type Yankee Hindutva Intellectuals with overseas BJP RSS VHP indians are persecuting the best of muslims ,THE INDIAN MUSLIMS ,who bear the most brunt of these individuals.

THINK how many hindu could endure living in Pakistan .And dont tell me Indian muslims have life easier than Hindus in Pakistan .

agar Khare sagarkhare@HOTMAIL.COM wrote:

Shabana Azmi will read from ``Riot`` in NY. The following is one Mr.Narain

Kataria`s appeal against Azmi, Tharoor, ``Riot`` etc. Below that is Vijay

Prashad`s article about this appeal.

Sagar.

INDIAN AMERICANS FOR TRUTH AND FAIRNESS IN MEDIA

41-67 Judge Street (#5P)Elmhurst, N.Y. 11373(718) 478-5735

PROTEST DEMONTRATION AGAINST SHABANA AZMI IN NEW YORK

Shabana Azmi has been invited by some of her Communists-Islamists

friends to talk about Ayodhya, Gujarat and Babri Maidan. We have decided

to stage a boisterous demonstration against her with a view to expose

her anti-Indian activities.

You are kindly requested to participate in the demonstration. We have

obtained Police permission to do so. The date, time and location of the

demonstration are as under:

Date: May 21st (Tuesday)Location: 65 Fifth Avenue, between 13th and 14th

Street

Time: 5:30 to 7:30 p.m.

If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to call the

undersigned.

Brotherly yours,

Narain Kataria

Shabana`s bio-data

SHABANA AZMI UNMASKED

Shabana Azmi, daughter of Kaifi Azmi and Shaukat Azmi, both hard core

Communists, is again in USA. Last time, when she was here, there were

protests in many cities against her. Ostensibly, she has come to read a

passage from ``Riot`` a book written by infamous Hindu-hater, Shashi

Tharoor . [Mr. Tharoor has done more damage to Hindu society and India

than Pakistan by publishing anti-Hindu and anti-Indian articles in

mainstream media.] But behind this façade, there is an ignoble intent

and a hidden agenda hatched by deadly combine of Marxist-Islamists to

denigrate Hindus, discredit India and strain Indo-American relations.

This time, she has come to wash dirty linen in public at the invitation

of her leftist friends, having closer links with Islamic fundamentalists

in this country. In the interest of national security, both, Government

of India and FBI should keep a watch on the contacts of this

sophisticated woman.

This notorious woman has soft corner for Islamic militants and Talibans.

In order to protect Islamic terrorists, she unsuccessfully tried to

block the passage of Prevention of Terrorist Act in Indian Parliament.

For the same reason, she condemned American attack on Talibans. She is a

very controversial and cunning person. This time, it seems, she is on a

mission to create communal conflict and discord between Hindus and

Moslems living in peace and harmony in this country.

Being a professional actress, she is very good at acting. She uses her

charm to hoodwink gullible Indian-Americans in believing that she is a

liberal Moslem woman. She practices sophistry and stratagem with equal

vehemence. In India, she hobnobs with followers of Lenin and Stalin.

When in USA, she struts around as a progressive Moslem women. It may

sound paradoxical, but, in fact, at heart, she is a strange blend of a

fundamentalist Moslem woman and a diehard Communist, out to defame

Hindus and tarnish the image of India.

This crafty woman suffers from Hindu phobia and needs urgent counseling.

At the mention of the word ``Hindu``, Shabana plunges into spontaneous

rage and starts hurling scurrilous innuendoes on Hindus. She uses her

dramatic skills to belittle and denigrate Hindu civilization. All her so

called cultural and social activities (including Narbada Bachao Andolan

and upliftment of slum-dwellers in Mumbai) are calculated to slander

Hindus and create disdain in the younger generation for their Hindu

heritage. With a view to insult Hindus, in the movie ``Tumhari Amrita``,

Shabana played the role of a characterless Hindu woman addicted to

drinking and many other vices, begging a married Muslim man to have sex

with him. In ``Fire``, the two lesbian girls were deliberately and

mischievously named Radha and Sita. In ``Earth``, she played the role of a

Hindu widow in Varanasi 100 years ago.

She is always in the forefront of anti-Hindu activities. She had taken a

leading role in Safdar Hashmi Memorial Trust (``SAHMAT``, a fundamentalist

Islamic group) exhibition, in which Hindu deities were ridiculed and

Bhagwan Ram and Mother Sita were depicted as brother and sister.

Shabana is born with an animus against Hindu society. She is a

hypocrite. Whenever Hindus are terrorized by Islamic militants, she

either goes underground or maintains sphinx like silence. The following

are a few examples: (a) when more than 500,000 Hindus and Sikhs were

ethnically cleansed from Kashmir and Afghanistan, (b) in 1993, when more

than 400 Hindus were blown to bits in Bombay, (c) in 1998, 50 Hindus

were bombed in Coimbatore, India, and (d) on February 27, 2001, 60

innocent Hindu women and children were burnt alive by Islamic

terrorists.In the backdrop of what has been said above, it is crystal

clear that Shabana is a very dangerous woman and has the potential to

create trouble in the society. It is not understood on what grounds this

vicious lady has been allowed by American Embassy to come to this

country and pollute the peaceful atmosphere.



Yankee Hindutva`s Intellectual.

Who is Naarain Kataria and why is he after Shabana Azmi?

Deja Vu

The Aga Khani

Betrayal again by Fernandez to glorify Modi & include him into peace maech at the last moment upsetting to Gujrati Muslims .....too recently hurt to forgive at least for NOW.

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MARCH IN SHADOW OF MODI ROSHNI

FROM BASANT RAWAT Ahmedabad, April 28: Carrying Atal Bihari Vajpayee?s secular beacon in his person, George Fernandes placed chief minister Narendra Modi ? hero to some, killer to others ? in new light. ?Roshni? (ray of light) was how the defence minister described Modi, recalling Jai Prakash Narayan?s fascination for the chief minister who was then a youthful leader.

?He (JP) looked to him as roshni. He used to mention 10 times a day how impressed he was by this youthful leader,? Fernandes told a peace rally today.

When members of the minority community, some of whom lost their relatives, friends and homes in the fire that has been burning in Gujarat for two months, saw this roshni flickering at the head of the peace march, most decided to stay away.

?I won?t join hands with these people,? said S.B. Syed. ?They have no place in a peace rally,? he said of Modi and members of his government.

With their followers, Syed, a member of the Gujarat Chamber of Commerce and Industry, the rally?s organiser, and the Samajwadi Party state secretary, Khurshid Syed, had come to join the peace march, but changed their minds when they found Modi, home minister Godhan Zadhaphia and revenue minister Haren Pandya there.

?We came because we were told the chief minister will not come. It is a betrayal. We are boycotting the peace march because killers and mass murderers are pretending to be peacemakers,? they said.

The march drew about 1,000 people, way below expectations of a turnout of tens of thousands, despite the presence of several Central ministers ? Arun Jaitley, Harin Pathak and Digvijay Singh ? and some local Congress leaders, who gave the exercise the respectability of not being an entirely government-sponsored event.

Minority community members, standing in large numbers on both sides of the road, held placards that said: ?Modi law of peace, kill Muslims to win election?; ?Modi law of peace, break down Muslims financially?; and ?Modi law of peace, a Muslim life costs nothing, rape them, kill them, police with you?.

Some might have joined ? but most just watched ? the 3.5-km march that began from Manilal Mansion near Kalupur railway station in the minority-dominated area of Lal Darwaja, passing through riot-hit localities that remain stripped of signs of day-to-day life despite relaxation of curfew.

Gun-toting police and Central force personnel stood guard at strategic positions and on rooftops as the marchers walked, carrying banners demanding an immediate end to ?insane communal rage?, to patriotic songs sung by NCC cadets.

Hours before the march, four persons were killed and 18 injured in police firing in the Millat Nagar area at Maninagar on the outskirts of the city.

Hours later, one person was stabbed to death.

Addressing a meeting at the end of the march, an emotionally-charged Modi said: ?Everyone has lost something. What Gujarat now requires is trust between people.?

?It is time to forget the past and to isolate those who are indulging in violence?. No one will be able to disrupt peace and communal harmony if miscreants are identified and isolated.?

Trust is something the chief minister will have to work harder on. Sheikh Memon, a protester holding a placard, said: ?Had we known Modi would join the peace march, we would have imposed janata curfew. You would have not seen so many Muslims today.?

Scores of them looked on from inside their barricaded colonies as the marchers went by. Holding a small baby in her arms, Zareena Biwi peeped through the iron gates.

?Peace is when I can come out and join you in the streets,? she said.

He Said, She Said

Soundmeister #21

``......And finally, an honest confession: ``There is too much of confusion. I don`t understand. I am confused myself.``]]



Whats wrong with that?...nothing

A WOMAN/MAN CONFUSED & NOT KNOWING HE/SHE IS CONFUSED IS WORSE

THAN MAN WHO KNOWS HE IS CONFUSED.

We all have limits .Its beter to be aware of those limits than be oblivious dazed & confused & not know you ARE!!

Memories of December 6th

Farzana you are really

Excellent ,Superb & beutifull.

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