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From Marx to Mao to Jintao
Posted by harimau Aug 15, 2008 03:44 am
India's decline can of course be traced to the fact that we went from Chanakya to Jawaharlal Nehru!
The Indian Mujahideen – The Answer to BJP’s Pseudo-Secularist Fascism or a New Method to Spread Unrest?
Posted by harimau Jul 31, 2008 08:10 pm
Ref Mullah32 #217

[Why would I, a gujjar (as I mention below), want to deny my ancestry and start calling myself a brahmin if offered the chance? Why do non-brahmin hindus put up with this implied insult to their heritage by "being offered a chance to become brahmin" is beyond me!!]

Why Muslims blow themselves up for a chance at 72 virgins in Jannat while they can get laid in this world is equally beyond me!
The Indian Mujahideen – The Answer to BJP’s Pseudo-Secularist Fascism or a New Method to Spread Unrest?
Posted by harimau Jul 29, 2008 03:15 pm
The author writes [...This is not the United States or Christian Europe where slogans like “All Muslims are not terrorists but all terrorists are Muslims” will work like a charm as the cultures are too intertwined to separate that easily on the name of religion.]

Too difficult to separate? Hurry, someone inform Jinnah!
Responsibility of the Media and the Repercussions of Terror Strikes
Posted by harimau Jul 29, 2008 09:41 am
Ref parthaab #18

[How can we expect the police force to 'suddenly' rise up to global standards to investigate REAL terrorist activities?

For years now, the police force has been busy using draconian, POTA like, laws made by the WCD ministry to settle ( and scuttle ) domestic family disputes. They are being used ( along with the lawyers ), by the feminists to settle scores, take revenge, socially ostracise and simply, make more money from young Indian males.]

Yo, what happened?

Usually, you are in the vanguard of the leftists denouncing casteism, male chauvinism, the BJP, etc.

All of a sudden, you have now been denouncing the anti-dowry laws.

Did the wife take you to the cleaners with a divorce or had you castrated by a dowry complaint against you?
Responsibility of the Media and the Repercussions of Terror Strikes
Posted by harimau Jul 29, 2008 09:35 am
Ref aaendra #5

[School teachers,older people who are physically unfit are the real threat you want me to believe that. I have seen guys rounded up just because they walked past the Charminar.]

In US airports, they single out minorities for frisking with a wand at the gate.

Just so that they cannot be accused of targeting minorities, the TSA always pulls out an 84-year-old woman in a wheelchair for frisking.

The Indian Police must be following TSA's example in selecting older people who are physically unfit to be terrorists for checking and body cavity searches.
Responsibility of the Media and the Repercussions of Terror Strikes
Posted by harimau Jul 29, 2008 09:32 am
Ref aaendra #6

[....Feminist politicians???]

No. Effeminate politicians. Eunuchs. Hijras.
Government Wins Manmohan Singh Loses
Posted by harimau Jul 24, 2008 08:23 am
Ref Dash_Dot #16

[....interesting and lovely...Pakistan wins friend..it is the unravelling of the united indian consensus on foreign policy!]

The united Indian consensus on foreign policy has been one of standing at the edge of a precipice on an icy mountain and pissing against the wind and getting a warm feeling from the experience!

Good thing someone dumped this sh!t. The next thing that should go is the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) and any association with creeps like Robert Mugabe and other Presidents-for-Life in African countries. The only deal we should have with Mugabe is the right to exploit Zambia's copper mines no matter who comes to power there.
Government Wins Manmohan Singh Loses
Posted by harimau Jul 24, 2008 08:15 am
Ref zeemax #15

[What's this news about Shiv Senaks barging into Taj Mahal to do puja? Have they made a new God/dess out of Shah Jehan/ Mumtaz Mahal now?

But what about passages from the Qur'an all over the walls?]

Well, are Delhi's Muslims about to perform namaz at the mosque near Qutb Minar?

What are they going to do about all those figures of celestial nymphs on the pillars of that mosque?

Are they the 72 virgins promised the shahids? Will they then make love to the pillars? Does the lack of foreskin improve the act of intercourse with figures carved in granite?

Zeemax, we all have questions but the answers are short in supply!
A Journey Interrupted: Being Indian in Pakistan by Farzana Versey
Posted by harimau Jul 14, 2008 06:54 am
Ref vengatramanan #194

[Harimau,

How did your cycling expedition go?]

Quite badly. Our team of 4 cyclists was struck down by intestinal flu (polite word for diarrhea). Only one member of our team completed the entire distance. I couldn't ride at all on the last day. Another (just 32 years old) threw up from the exertion of climbing up the mountain pass on a bike and gave up. One more guy also gave up in disgust when the printed chart gave wrong information about the distance to the next rest stop where he could get food to refuel his body. I saw a young girl in her early 20s getting totally disoriented from the effort and who had to be taken by ambulance to the medical station.

The food vendors were fewer than in the past, leading to long, long lines at rest stops. This meant that your knees froze up in the cold and you couldn't ride again.

I don't know if we had that salmonella poisoning everybody in the US is still talking about.

It is sheer stubborness that makes us do this year after year! We will probably be back next year.

You would love this: The ride started out in Durango, Colorado. The food service manager at the local college is an Indian, a Mech Engg graduate from MNM Jain Engineering College on Old Mahabalipuram Road in Chennai, not too far from my home. (Don't ask how a Mech Engg graduate turned out to be a food service manager... I didn't ask him). So, there was an Indian curry dinner available there during the community dinner. Even in far-off Durango, there is the possibility of talking to someone in Tamil!
A Journey Interrupted: Being Indian in Pakistan by Farzana Versey
Posted by harimau Jul 14, 2008 03:59 am
Ref vengatramanan #178

[...Pity he doesn't know about Kerala's intellectuals.]

The worst of the entire lot: Arundhati Roy, Bengali intellectual-wannabe with a Malayalee mother!
Muslim Ghettoisation
Posted by harimau Jul 9, 2008 08:06 am
Ref Mullah32 #315

By the way, the number of Nobel Prizes in Physics earned by Muslims is zero.

Rememebr that the only thing the Sunnis, the Shias and everybody else agrees on is that Ahmadiyas are not Muslims and Abdus Salam was an Ahmadiya. Thus he is a non-entity in Pakistan. He couldn't even get a job in Pakistan and worked in Italy.

That being the case, there is no hope that S. Chandrasekhar would ever be acknowledged by anybody in Pakistan as a native son let alone celebrated, despite being born in Lahore. Contrast that with the Bangladeshis who claim Rabindranath Tagore as their own and celebrate Amartya Sen.

That is the trouble with people who believe that all wisdom for etrnity to come is contained in one book that was written by an illiterate trader 1400 years ago. I am trying to read that book to see where it contains detailed construction plans for ICBMs, geostationary satellites and fusion reactors. I find that all rights of women are contained in a chapter titled "The Cow"!
Muslim Ghettoisation
Posted by harimau Jul 9, 2008 07:57 am
Ref Mullah32 #315

[#313 and what have the brahmins accomplished that they are so proud of?]

The only two Nobel Prizes in Physics awarded to Indians were earned by brahmins. To top it off, the two were related to each other as uncle and nephew.

[convince the rest of the duds in india that the rich and powerful are rich and powerful because they were good in their previous incarnation, and that the poor and oppressed are poor and oppressed as punishment for being evil in their previous incarnation!]

Brahmins were seldom rich and seldom were kings.

[but then, i am merely a lying muslim scoundrel, what do i know. :-) ]

You are correct about you being a lying Muslim scoundrel who knows nothing!
Muslim Ghettoisation
Posted by harimau Jul 8, 2008 06:15 am
Ref Mullah32 #304

I suppose slinking around in the US or Canada hoping nobody notices you, being singled out for body cavity searches at airports, etc., -- all because you have a Muslim name -- qualify you as a winner.
Muslim Ghettoisation
Posted by harimau Jul 8, 2008 06:12 am
Ref okhla99 # 303

Thanks. I am doing well despite what might have been salmonella poisoning in Southwest Colorado.

You must have really liked that statement of mine. I don't think any low-life Islamic thug had a come-back when I wrote that.
Muslim Ghettoisation
Posted by harimau Jul 8, 2008 06:07 am
Ref Shah2 #301

There is a difference between racism and honor killings.

Mohammad told you it is okay to marry across races so long as you convert the other person to Islam. He also told you that your women need to obey their fathers, brothers and husbands; otherwise they can and should be killed.

I am only surprised that the Pakistani arrested two days ago in Atlanta only strangled his daughter. I thought the appropriate Koranic punishment was stoning to death.
Muslim Ghettoisation
Posted by harimau Jul 8, 2008 06:03 am
Ref Mullah32 #302

I knew you would have a come-back even when I point out that the World doesn't accept honor killings.

I am only surprised that you, with your Islamic education and vast Koranic knowledge, didn't quote from the Koran or Mohammad the Pedophile's life.
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