Archive for June, 2010
Hindu-Muslim Marriages-2: Islamic tolerance for mixed marriages in Jammu and Kashmir
In the October of 2009, the custodial death of a Sarwal youth in Sringar triggered tension outside Mortuary department of GMC after family members alleged police hand in the death of the youth instead of the police claims of suicide by the detainee. Moreover the police had put in the name of the elder brother [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )The geopolitics of the Gaza adventure
The recent fiasco in the “Gaza adventure” throws up in sharp light the current tomfoolery that is being played on Asia. Since the fall of USSR there was a temporary lull in pandering to Islamist violence from the west. Within that space, the Jihadis consolidated and turned their attention from Russia towards their real objectives [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( 2 so far )Islamist universalism to regionalism to imperialism to jihad
The history of transformation of the revealed traditions is the history of empires. Most of the inspiration for empire building appear in communities that are not much productive in knowledge/technology terms themselves, but who are located on the major trade routes that carry continental level economic exchanges. Ambitious among them, see the potential in transforming [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( 4 so far )Jews and outraged world opinion, “remember Khyber” – thus spake humanitarians
All anti-Israel forces are celebrating today. There were even chants of humanitarians to remind the Jews of Khyber. Khyber – the symbol of Islamic tactic of shouting that someone somewhere was against them and planning to attack Islam and therefore liable to genocidic erasure. This “running the blockade” has perhaps been carefully planned for a [...]
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