So now these idiots who are so obsessed with religion are fighting over it even in the USA. I would have thought they would have directed their energies towards consolidating the people of Indian origin to make a force to reckon with. Instead, small minds work over petty issues and they are busy trying to fight themselves over religion.
And in the bargain they ridicule the one Muslim person who had the guts to openly tell Imam Bukhari of the Jama Masjid, New Delhi to get lost when he gave a call to Muslims in India to fight the jihad against the Americans in Afghanistan. In fact she said something to the tune of : why doesn't someone do us a favour and air drop him (the Imam) into Afghanistan, so he can fight his jihad and the rest of us can get on with our lives. Of course the Imam could not swallow that and called her a prostitute. And she replied saying if that is the way he speaks about people, his mind has little about Islam in it. Incidentally she is also the lone Muslim woman who had the guts to go on record on television and advocate an uniform civil code rather than the current many religious related personal laws which only serve to divide the Indian people. Okay, I am a big fan of her (she is one of the best actresses in Bollywood and if you have seen "Arth" you will know what I mean) but I do not agree with a lot of things she says especially with her Communist connections. But I have no doubt in my mind that India would be a much better country with a million Shabana's rather than the same of the Imam's or the Singhal's. Anyway, I do agree with Viv's smart democratic comments. Cheers, Sunila >From: George Pinto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: [Goanet] Article on Shabana Azmi & Narain Kataria >Date: Sat, 18 May 2002 15:28:08 -0700 (PDT) > >From the South Asia Citizens Wire Dispatch #1 | 18 May 2002 >http://www.mnet.fr > >For Information & news on the Gujarat Carnage visit: >http://www.onlinevolunteers.org/gujarat/ > >__________________________ > >1. European Parliament Concern over violence in the Indian state of Gujarat >2. India: Chhote Modi Lives up to Bade Modi's Reputation >3. India: Memorandum from women's groups May 1, 2002 >4. India: Suggestions For Medical Teams. Doctors Needed for Gujarat >5. Gujarat Appeal >6. Politics, Religion and Our Ailing Public Institutions (J B D'Souza) >7. Yankee Hindutva's Intellectual. >Who is Narain Kataria and why is he after Shabana Azmi? (Vijay Prashad) > >#7. > >Yankee Hindutva's Intellectual. >Who is Narain Kataria and why is he after Shabana Azmi? > >Vijay Prashad >Little India >17 May 2002. > >Narain Kataria's Indian Americans for Truth and Fairness in Media (IATFM) >sends out a notice that >it will conduct a protest of a book reading in New York on 21 May 2002. The >note threatens the >reading itself, but principally its most well known participant, the film >star Shabana Azmi. > >Shabana Azmi, the note fulminates, "is a strange blend of a fundamentalist >Moslem woman and a >diehard Communist, out to defame Hindus and tarnish the image of India." >Furthermore, "this crafty > >woman suffers from Hindu phobia and needs urgent counseling." > _________________________________________________________________ Chat with friends online, try MSN Messenger: http://messenger.msn.com =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-W-E-B---S-I-T-E-=-=-= To Subscribe/Unsubscribe from GoaNet | http://www.goacom.com/goanet =================================================================== For (un)subscribing or for help, Contact: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dont want so many e=mails? Join GoaNet-Digest instead ! =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Help support non-commercial projects in Goa by advertizing!! * * * * Your ad here !!
