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- Is Kerala moving towards another 1947?
- C. I. Issac
- On 15 August 2009, Justice Cyriac Joseph of the Supreme Court, while addressing the International Laity Conference organized by Commission for Laity of Syro-Malabar Catholic Church [CLSMCC] in Kochi, openly declared his commitment to the church is higher than to the judiciary! He said there was no decline in his affection and love for the Church [PTI, 15 August 2009; Janmabhoomi Daily, Kottayam, 17 August 2009]. The speech is undoubtedly a clear violation of his oath of allegiance.
- Earlier he proved his commitment to the Church with an unconstitutional visit in the laboratory where narco tests were conducted on two priests and a nun accused of the murder of Sr. Abhaya on 27 March 1997 in Pius X Convent at Kottayam. Justice Joseph made an unauthorised visit in the Forensic Lab at Bangalore on 23 May 2008, and viewed the CD of the test – a gross violation of legal ethics.
- Justice Cyriac Joseph was then Chief Justice of the Karnataka High Court. The CBI has reported the matter to the designated court [Janmabhoomi, Kottayam, 11 August 2009]. The purpose of his visit to the Lab is shrouded in mystery because the High Court of Kerala had noticed some dishonest editing of the CD!
- The Catholic Church is planning to purchase 10,000 acres [approx. 24 sq km] of land in the Konkan area on the Karnataka-Maharashtra border to build an exclusive Catholic township, a matter of discussion in Church circles in recent years. This was formally proposed in the recent Assembly of CLSMCC at Kochi on 15 August, and the response was very positive. This was identified by the council as “second migration.” The first migration took place between 1920 and 1960 wherein Kottayam-based Christians occupied the revenue and forest lands of Northern Kerala and Southern Karnataka.
- The above picture is sufficient to understand the forthcoming changes and their impact over the nation as a whole. The majority Hindu community is highly politicized and is not in a position to understand the depths of the problems it will face in the near future. Hence, for the sake of national integrity, the intervention of Hindus in the rest of India is unavoidable in this alarming situation of Kerala.
- The author is a retired Professor of History, and lives in Trivandrum
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Wednesday, September 9, 2009
Vijayvaani.com - Is Kerala moving towards another 1947?
Airline bombers’ conviction: Locked down | The Economist
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- British efforts to clamp down on jihadist terrorists are showing partial success
- The police and intelligence services launched an enormous investigation to prevent the attacks, employing 200 people to provide round-the-clock surveillance. Operation Overt was cut short when Rashid Rauf of Birmingham, believed to be an al-Qaeda link man for the plotters in Pakistan, was arrested there, allegedly at American instigation. This caused the British to close in earlier than planned, perhaps at the cost of gathering more explicit evidence.
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Shadow Warrior: myth of moderate malaysia
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Shadow Warrior: myth of moderate malaysia
- just goes to show: the richer a mohammedan individual or country gets, the more fanatic they are.
dirt-poor mohammedans tend to be the most decent of the lot.
just look at the shahabuddins and the zakarias and madanis of india: they are the ones who foment riots and bigotry, using the poor mohammedans as a fast-breeding, easily-enraged army to wrest concessions from the nation.
http://www.forbes.com/2009/08/30/malaysia-islam-religion-opinions-contributors-sadanand-dhume.html
Taken together, these cases illustrate two issues--both central to the debate about Islam and modernity--that Malaysia is struggling to come to terms with. Can a Muslim majority live with a non-Muslim minority as equals, or must the former be explicitly dominant--in law as well as in day-to-day life? And can Muslims reconcile piety with a culture where the rights of the individual (say, to order a beer) are given precedence over communal beliefs?
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महाजाल पर सुरेश चिपलूनकर (Suresh Chiplunkar): दो अफ़ज़ल, मिरज़ के दंगे, महाराष्ट्र सरकार और सेकुलर मीडिया… Miraj Riots Ganesh Mandal Mumbai Secular Media
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- दो अफ़ज़ल? जी हाँ चौंकिये नहीं, पहला है अफ़ज़ल गुरु और दूसरा शिवाजी द्वारा वध किया गया अफ़ज़ल खान, भले ही इन दोनों अफ़ज़लों में वर्षों का अन्तर हो, लेकिन उनके "फ़ॉलोअर्स" की मानसिकता आज इतने वर्षों के बाद भी वैसी की वैसी है।
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nsX6LYdNBNw
हाल ही में सम्पन्न गणेश उत्सव के दौरान मुम्बई में "अफ़ज़ल गुरु और कसाब को फ़ाँसी कब दी जायेगी?" का सवाल उठाते हुए, कुछ झाँकियों और नाटकों में इसका प्रदर्शन किया गया। वैसे तो यह सवाल समूचे देश को मथ रहा है, लेकिन मुम्बईवासियों का दर्द ज़ाहिर है कि सर्वाधिक है, इसलिये गणेशोत्सव में इस प्रकार की झाँकियाँ होना एक आम बात थी, इसमें भला किसी को क्या आपत्ति हो सकती है? लेकिन नहीं साहब, "सेकुलरिज़्म" के झण्डाबरदार और "महारानी की गुलाम" महाराष्ट्र सरकार की वफ़ादार पुलिस ने ठाणे स्थित घनताली लालबाग गणेशोत्सव मण्डल को धारा IPC 149 के तहत एक नोटिस जारी करके पूछा है कि "मुस्लिम भावनाओं को ठेस पहुँचाने वाली अफ़ज़ल गुरु की झाँकियाँ क्यों निकाली गईं?"। ध्यान दीजिये कांग्रेस सरकार कह रही है कि अफ़ज़ल गुरु को फ़ाँसी लगाने की माँग करने का मतलब है मुसलमानों की भावनाओं को ठेस पहुँचान।
महाराष्ट्र में चुनाव सिर पर हैं, उदारवादी मुसलमान खुद आगे आकर बतायें कि क्या अफ़ज़ल गुरु को फ़ाँसी देने से उनकी भावनायें आहत होती हैं? यदि नहीं, तो मुस्लिमों को कांग्रेस के इस घिनौने खेल को उजागर करने हेतु आगे आना चाहिये।
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Agent Provocateur: Qatil-e-Azam Mohammed Ali Jinnah
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Agent Provocateur: Qatil-e-Azam Mohammed Ali Jinnah
- Like Jaswant Singh, I am neither a scholar nor a historian. But unlike him, I am the child of parents who suffered the horrors of Partition; my father arrived in India from East Pakistan with his widowed mother and four younger siblings, penniless and virtually with nothing more than the clothes on his back. He didn’t have the privilege of growing up in princely Jodhpur, nor did life afford him the luxury of pondering over the minutiae of the politics of Partition in the amiable surroundings of Nehru Memorial Library. Yet, I do not recall him ever expressing either rancour or regret. Even if he wanted to, my mother wouldn’t have let him. The struggle for survival rode rough-shod over any emotional struggle that might have peeked hesitantly in their minds.
- I belong to the minority which believes that Partition was the second best thing to have happened to us. The first was the failure of the ghazis to prop up a dissolute badshah in 1857. In his literally weighty tome Jinnah: India - Partition - Independence, Jaswant Singh obviously disagrees with this contention: “It was here in the middle of the 19th century that the symbol of our sovereignty was finally seized and trampled underfoot by British India.” Not everybody mourned that event, just as Hindus in Bengal were not terribly upset when Nawab Siraj-ud-Daulah was given the boot in 1757.
- But that defeat of presumed Muslim supremacy in 1857 was not without significance. Rudely stripped of their status as a minuscule minority ruling over India’s vast majority, Muslims discovered salvation in separatism in the subsequent decades — first in terms of faith and culture, and later with the formation of the Muslim League in 1906, in Muslim identity politics.
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- Why I say United India would have been Plato’s Utopia? For that we need to understand the core idea which lead to partition, it was “Hindus and Muslims were separate nation because of their differences and cannot stay together”.
- The origination of this psyche can be found in Fall of Mughal Empire in 18th century and with rise of Marathas. Many may not know, buts it’s a fact that the rise of Maratha and their dominance on mughals was so much hated by muslim elites that they invited “Ahmad Shah Abdali” to invade their own country against their own Emperor to get rid of Maratha dominance.
- After 1857 sepoy mutiny and complete annihilation of Mughals, this class saw Hindus gaining prominance in British Empire and they were getting marginalized. It was then Sir Syed Ahmed Khan the founder of Aligarh Muslim University perpetuated the idea that Muslims should align with British to marginalize Hindus.
- Later the same psyche was found in Aga Khan, Alma Iqbal, Rahmat Ali and later espoused by Jinnah for his own political and personal gains.
- It was the fear of Muslim elite that in a Hindu majority country, Hindus will use their majority to treat the Muslims as though they were Second-class citizens in an alien State. They had the guilt feeling that Hindus will treat them same as they treated Hindus for 800 years.
- Regards,
S. Chatterjee
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