Current affairs *Talibanised Pakistan: a threat as well as a crucial lesson for us in India <http://www.newageislam.com/NewAgeIslamArticleDetail.aspx?ArticleID=1283>*
A nuclear-armed Taliban, whether 'good' or 'bad', whose sworn agenda is ceaseless war against all infidel nations which includes India, along with the US and Israel is South Asia's worst nightmare becoming a reality. That's the literally terrifying threat that a Talibanised Pakistan holds out for India. *And the lesson?* That there but for the grace of democracy and a vigilant civil society go we. That we in India could follow Pakistan's slippery path to extremist perdition. The thought of a Talibanised India might seem absurd. But the seeds of fanaticism have been sown and have begun to sprout on Indian soil, not just among the Muslim minority but far more alarmingly among the Hindu majority. While most Muslims and Hindus cleave to the Indic tradition of what has been called spiritual secularism the belief that all faiths are deserving of reciprocal and interdependent respect there is growing and disquieting evidence of radicalisation in both communities, be it in the form of SIMI or the Indian Mujahideen or their mirror avatars like Abhinav Bharat or the Sri Rama Sene. -- *Jug Suraiya* More...<http://www.newageislam.com/NewAgeIslamArticleDetail.aspx?ArticleID=1283> Islamic Society *What Muslims Really Want: Life in The Hereafter or Here and Now? <http://www.newageislam.com/NewAgeIslamArticleDetail.aspx?ArticleID=1282>* Are these poor Muslims not orthodox because Islamic organisations have not tried hard enough? The truth is that neither Jamaat-i-Islami nor Jamaat-i-Ulema-i-Hind is keen on advocating fundamentalist lifestyles. They have no interest in sponsoring madrasas that teach only Arabic and the Quran. Instead they have set up schools that provide secular education, and there is one such even in Naroda Patiya where Hindu violence was at its worst in 2002. These schools are not a ruse for Islamic organisations, or clerics, to pump religious fervour into Muslim kids. On the contrary, these Muslim institutions are clear that they want the boys and girls in their care to learn secular sciences and skills and heave themselves out of parental poverty. The curricula in these schools are so designed that they conform to the requirements of the state education board. There would be some religious instructions in these institutions, but they would be on the side, and a minor matter. -- *Dipankar Gupta* More...<http://www.newageislam.com/NewAgeIslamArticleDetail.aspx?ArticleID=1282> Islam,Terrorism and Jihad *Terror and its roots in sexual frustration <http://www.newageislam.com/NewAgeIslamArticleDetail.aspx?ArticleID=1281>* I am as convinced as one can be about these things — that the impulse to terror in our times has its roots deep down in sexual frustration. I have observed, read about and have been peripherally acquainted with the young men who turned to Islamicist terror in Britain in recent years. Living in Britain one recognises the type. Even if one didn’t know these namak harams who are brought up, fed, housed and educated at the expense of the British tax-payer, what can one make of the motives of ugly young men who load a car with home-made explosives and attempt to blow up a night club? One may even distinguish between these losers and the 4,000 British citizens, the majority of them from Mirpuri immigrant backgrounds, who go to Afghanistan to fight American and British troops. One may understand the motives of a person who feels he should go and join Hamas in Gaza and shoot rockets into Israel, though one may wonder at his ignorance of the fact that there are enough people doing that anyway and it’s not the cleverest choice of revolutionary strategy. The fellows who want to bomb, in their own words "the bitches that drink and dance" at the night clubs of London — what sort of ideological commitment are they demonstrating? Are they setting out to prove some twisted Freudian thesis about cultural repression and sexual frustration finally breaking out in this rage of powerlessness? -- *Farrukh Dhondy* More..<http://www.newageislam.com/NewAgeIslamArticleDetail.aspx?ArticleID=1281> -- Syed M. 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