On 9/5/06, sastry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
By blindly being critical of anti-terrorist action some people in India are weakening the people within and outside the security forces (in India) who
I may have missed some earlier posts, but has anyone on this list been _blindly critical_ of anything, ever? I exclude posts by a certain Ayn Rand fan.
I find it interesting that you single out the question arbitrary detention of innocent Muslims. That is obviously wrong, as was the detention of twelve Indians on a Northwest flight for misbehavior of a commonly seen kind that, for the first time in the history of aviation, was considered suspicious of terrorist behavior. This arbitrary detention seems to be a bigger worry in the West that it is in India.
My perception is that it was a big worry in India as well, from the amount of coverage Indian TV channels gave to it. Even Indian channels based in the UAE. Also, a few years ago, an Indian actress and her colleagues were briefly detained upon landing in the US because their co-passengers found their excitement (on their first trip to NY) suspicious. That was also a major story.
declared Islamic state like Saudi Arabia or Iran. Nevertheless India is described (in semantically accurate words) as "Hindu dominated" India.
It's Hindu-dominated all right. I have worked for two large employers in India. One was a state-owned life insurance company, with over a 100,000 employees. The other was a family-owned business. In both, every time a Hindu religious festival came around (which is roughly every other week), offices resources and time would be used to perform religious rituals in office premises. This does not happen for Muslim or Christian festivals. Even though the branch of the insurance company that I worked for was in a Muslim-majority area, and we actually had a significant percentage of Muslims in the office.
does not strike anyone that the US should really be described as "a Christian dominated nation where Muslims are in a minority"
Just like it doesn't strike anyone to describe Saudi Arabia as a Muslim dominated nation. It's obvious that the US is a Christian dominated nation - it even has a President who talks to God!
Hindu dominated India has some peculiar problems of its own resulting in a caste system of criminals. Certain criminals always get away, and certain people are always spared from terror. Certain people always get incriminated and another group always is at greatest risk from terror. The actions that need to be taken to stop this in India are quite different from the very very Western viewpont that I believe you have posted. But the last time I said something like this Udhay got worked up and said I was trolling.
I agree. It's time to stop people with money, influence and connections abusing the legal system to get away with murder. Or any other crime. The reason Udhay (and I) felt you were trolling is because you ignore the rich and the politically connected evading the law, and focus on the religious leaders doing so. Blinkers, Shiv. We need to get all the bastards in jail. Preferably in a single cell. Irrespective of which God they pray to. Actually, as far as I am concerned, praying to any God should be grounds for the strictest punishment.
I have been deeply immersed in this subject for a while now
Yes, we know. It'd be fun to have the old Shiv back, at least once in a while. Ram
