Dear Walter, The BBC report, 'Million' march against Iraq war (at < http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/2765041.stm>), is not exactly in alignment with your description of BBC reporting.
The three-and-a-half mile march - organised by Stop the War Coalition, the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND) and the Muslim Association of Britain - was started early by police, over concern at the number of people gathering. ... Former US presidential candidate the Rev Jesse Jackson also spoke and led the crowd chanting "give peace a chance, keep hope alive". Among other high-profile supporters were writer Tariq Ali, ex-minister Mo Mowlam, London's mayor Ken Livingstone, actress Vanessa Redgrave, human rights campaigner Bianca Jagger and former MP Tony Benn. Playwright Harold Pinter made a rare public speech, saying America was "a country run by a bunch of criminal lunatics with Tony Blair as a hired Christian thug". [Source: ibid.] The Stop the War Coalition and CND, I'd assume, are with very definitive Leftist tilt. And even if we don't count Jesse Jackson, even with my limited knowledge about British politics, I can very much recognise Tariq Ali, Ken Livingstone, Vanessa Redgrave, Tony Benn and Harold Pinter as well-known figures from the Left. In fact, Tariq Ali and Vanessa Redgrave are the two best known British Trotskyists, from two different streams; and Tony Benn and Ken Livingstone - two leading figures from the Labour Left. Sukla On 7 April 2014 07:25, Walter Fernandes <[email protected]> wrote: > > > As a student of history I studied two major dailies each of Britain, > France, Italy and Spain in the 1920s.I found in them a commonality of > expressions concerning the enemies of the European "mainstream". Whoever > was unacceptable to the dominant majority was given the triple title of > "Free Masons, Jews and Communists." These three words went together and > this terminology and these attitudes were prelude to Fascism and Nazism and > you know what Hitler and Mussolini did. Go to the West today and the words > used against the Jews prior to Nazism are used against Muslims today and > you know what George Bush and his ilk have done to protect their oil > interests and the vested interest of Israel by invading Muslim majority > countries in the name of democracy. For example, during the second Gulf war > in 2003 one heard BBC saying that some Muslims and leftists demonstrated at > the Hyde Park against the war. According to other reports there were half a > million demonstrators, very few of them Muslims and leftists. > > Come to India and we see the Sangh Parivar using these terms against the > minorities. We are told that the majority community is giving us all that > we need. We are not Indians but they tolerate us and do us a favour and if > we are not grateful to them we are anti-nationals. Thank you Hitler and > George W. Bush combined. > > Walter > > > On 6 April 2014 20:23, ggjey1 <[email protected]> wrote: > >> >> >> So the Indians are getting some favor from majority community rather than >> it is their right. The writer seems american. Is he thankful to Christians >> in america for the good life? >> >> 'Half of these so called intellectuals have names similar to jihadists >> and half of them are far left guys. They have slandered and demonized >> patriots for a very long time. They will have to be punished for their >> misdeeds against Indian society. They have to pay for their bad karma >> against majority community. These shameless and ungrateful people >> masquerading as intellectuals instead of being thankful to majority Hindu >> community who have given them good life, shelter, liberty and freedom to >> express their views, are always trying to sabotage and balkanize India >> from within with the help of their foreign masters. Shame on them!. >> >> >> >> >> On Sun, Apr 6, 2014 at 1:27 AM, Sukla Sen <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> >>> >>> Just a sample. >>> Gives a fair idea what is to be expected. >>> >>> Sukla >>> >>> ---------- Forwarded message ---------- >>> From: <[email protected]> >>> Date: 6 April 2014 08:01 >>> Subject: Re: [IHRO] Intellectuals flag threat to secular polity >>> To: [email protected] >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> Half of these so called intellectuals have names similar to jihadists >>> and half of them are far left guys. They have slandered and demonized >>> patriots for a very long time. They will have to be punished for their >>> misdeeds against Indian society. They have to pay for their bad karma >>> against majority community. These shameless and ungrateful people >>> masquerading as intellectuals instead of being thankful to majority Hindu >>> community who have given them good life, shelter, liberty and freedom to >>> express their views, are always trying to sabotage and balkanize India >>> from within with the help of their foreign masters. Shame on them!. >>> >>> >>> In a message dated 4/5/2014 10:05:01 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time, >>> [email protected] writes: >>> >>> >>> >>> Intellectuals flag threat to secular polity >>> >>> >>> http://www.thehindu.com/news/national/intellectuals-flag-threat-to-secular-polity/article5876770.ece?ref=sliderNews >>> >>> A group of noted academics, artists and concerned citizens have issued >>> an appeal, in the context of Elections 2014, to defend India's secular >>> democracy. >>> >>> The statement, the lead signatories to which are Zoya Hasan, Rooprekha >>> Verma, Sashi Kumar, Vivan Sundaram, Achin Vanaik, Jayati Ghosh and Prabhat >>> Patnaik, said: >>> >>> "Never before in post-independence India have political forces, which >>> are a front for an organisation committed to creating a Hindu Rashtra, made >>> as strong a bid for power as in the coming elections. These forces are led >>> by a person who presided over a pogrom against Muslims in Gujarat in 2002 >>> and has never expressed any contrition over his role in that ghastly >>> incident. And they enjoy the backing of the most powerful corporate houses >>> in the country. The prospect of this alliance of corporate capital and >>> communal forces coming to power constitutes a palpable threat to the future >>> of our secular democracy. >>> >>> "We urge all responsible individuals and political formations to ponder >>> over the situation and urgently take whatever steps are necessary for >>> defending our secular democracy. We appeal to the electorate to foil this >>> corporate-communal alliance's bid for power by voting against the BJP-led >>> NDA." >>> >>> Rooprekha Verma Sashi Kumar Vivan Sundaram >>> >>> Achin Vanaik Jayati Ghosh Prabhat Patnaik >>> >>> Kumar Shahani Nirmalangshu Mukherjee Abhilasha Kumari >>> >>> Githa Hariharan Ajeet Caur Anand Sahay >>> >>> Doodh Nath Singh Arpana Caur Amit Sen Gupta >>> >>> Maya Rao Amiya Kumar Bagchi Akeel Bilgrami >>> >>> Irfan Habib M.K. Raina Amit Upadhyay >>> >>> Ram Rahman Saeed Mirza C.P. Chandrasekhar >>> >>> Shakti Kak Anil Sadgopal Janaki Nair >>> >>> Suvira Jaiswal S. Kalidas M.M.P. Singh >>> >>> Vishwamohan Jha Neeladri Bhattacharya Madangopal Singh >>> >>> Aban Raza Abdul Maboob Lima Kanungo >>> >>> Ali N. Rizavi Amar Farooqui Amar Kanwar >>> >>> Amarjit Chandan Jehangir Jani Aijaz Ahmad >>> >>> Angelie Multani Aniket Alam Anil Bhatti >>> >>> Anita Cherian Apoorva Gautam Archana Prasad >>> >>> Arjun Dev Arunkumar H.G. Asad Zaidi >>> >>> Ashish Dasgupta Ashish Ghosh Ashley Tellis >>> >>> Ataullah Atlury Murali Atul Bhardwaj >>> >>> Ayesha Kidwai B.P. Sahu Badri Raina >>> >>> Banwari Taneja Biswamoy Pati D.N.Jha >>> >>> Deepak K. Singh G. 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