Many Questions, No Answers This is in response to Harish. Read what I wrote again, and add yourself to the list of deluded Indians, who think that by cutting and pasting articles from different sources criticizing Pakistan, they can conceal their true lack of reason and intelligent rebuttal. Use your own thoughts my friend, not a soundboard for what others write. If you read what I wrote, you would understand that atrocities and negativism are prevalent on both sides. Just own up to your own failings and your country`s holier than thou attitude and I will consider you worthy of discussion. But at this stage, you can include yourself in the Studebaker, Jay mold. Writing babble and inflammatory garbage that is of no particular interest to anyone out there.

Your response is eagerly awaited. Hopefully a more credible and intelligent response. Not cutting and pasting and certainly not the mindless, gramatically-challenged stuff coming from your sympathizers.

Many Questions, No Answers Dear Shahid-

Enjoyed your informative and timely article on extremism in its various forms. I`m sure that others with intelligence could comment ad nauseum, both positive and negative, on the points you raise in your piece.

However, I will reserve my comments for now and instead, I would like to draw the attention of our fellow Chowk readers to the deplorable, mindless, and overall useless comments that have been brought to this forum by two people in particular. Their pseudonyms are Studebaker and Jay. As is typical with uninformed and ignorant people in general, these two self-absorbed, brainless and witless people have polluted this forum with inflammatory remarks with no basis in fact and certainly with no regard to a potentially intelligent discourse. Instead, we are subjected to tit for tat responses and what is left is nothing of value to any of us who actually would like to understand Shahid`s viewpoint.

There is an alarming cancer that is growing in the subcontinent and it comes in the form of holier than thou, superiority complex-laden, armchair Indian conversationalists, who unlike their smarter, more reasonable and more appealing fellow countrymen who actually care about finding solutions to problems, just perpetuate the already evident truths that plague this group of individuals. In our case, we have these two characters as proof of this cancer. The recent events of atrocities committed in Gujrat, the rising tide of Hindu mullahs and their own madrassah`s, preaching hate and fascism, and the absolute apathy of their so called democratic, representative government, teaches one great lesson - that look at yourself before you throw epitaphs and gross generalities around indiscriminately. The Indian nation, like Pakistan, would be much better off without these rabid, trouble mongers, with no other agenda but hate, intolerance, and violence. So please, Studebaker and Jay, get off this website and move over, and give some enlightened people a chance to speak moderately and allow their view points to be aired in an atmosphere of intelligent debate. Go yourselves, and try to write something down of substance, post it on this web page, and then we will take you seriously. Don`t bore us with your lack of substance and your sarcasm. Write something and then you have a leg to stand on regarding your comments.

The problems in Pakistan and the muslim world are apparent and need rectification. But inflammatory comments by Indians, who forget about their own intolerance, excesses and brutalities, are not going to forge trust or create solutions between the two nations. Like Israeli Zionists, who harp on their past and all that is owed to them, Indians similarly have developed the same complex. Deal with your past, and accept that you are no better than anyone else.