the author - please also emphasize the basic point: Muslims themselves have bred radicalism and failed to modernize themselves. M J Akbar categorically stated - for Muslims the main challenge now is to become modern and break away from traditions that are holding them back.
A sensible strategy to revive India Against Corruption
Sad that India Against Corruption (IAC) failed. Good people-AnnaHazare, Kejriwal, Gogoi, LOST: no direction.
IAC as a political party has no chance. But it can cleanse politics.
LokPal Law is now blocked by the ruling party. Who is suspect? Who oppose it? Congress and its UPA allies, all oppose it.
With AntiCongress campaign in the Hisar by-election, due to IAC, Congress did Bad. Its vanquished leaders turned violent. Hisar loss drove TERROR into Congress.
But IAC turned hyper-sensitive to media criticism. In Khadakvasla election, IAC kept away, so IAC lost the game.
IAC need not be defensive in antiCongress campaign, as Congress is ruling India, and blocking a LokPal law.
But IAC fell into the trap laid by Congress plus the MediasPaidNews. Kejriwal on TV, lost the goal, lost the people, and the fickleMedia won. Anna Hazare Team fell to their machinations.
Now how to revive IAC? Dont repeat past mistakes.
PoliticalParty way is wrong: it canKill IAC. But IAC should go back to basics, and start after Hisar. Just Target the Centre: No other way.
Then IAC will be named antiCongress, proBJP, proHindutva, proRSS, antiNational, proBig business, antiPoor, proUS, etc. Just quietly and coldly avoid the talkers: Be ruthless 4 its objective: Central Govt.
Like the great archer of Mahabharata, IAC should "only see the eye of the fish".
Re: Truth
by nitmohan on Aug 13, 2012 11:15 PM
After decades of waging the propaganda war against India for its highhanded treatment of Kashmiris, Pakistan is now the subject of a similar campaign by India who has highlighted the plight of Shias being murdered by sectarian terrorists in Gilgit-Baltistan.
The Asian News International reported recently that “in Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan’s only Shia dominated province, ethnic cleansing is being carried out systematically.” At the same time, the Shia-dominated town of Kargil in the Indian controlled Kashmir recently shut down the main bazaar in solidarity with the Shias of Gilgit and Chilas who were murdered in cold blood in early April. Several Sunni Muslims also lost their lives a few days later when sectarian violence broke out in the region.
The comparative statistics on terrorist violence between India and Pakistan speak volumes of how the tide has indeed turned against Pakistan. The data compiled by South Asian Terrorism Portal reveals that in the current year alone, approximately 150 civilians, mostly Shias, have died in sectarian violence in Pakistan. In comparison only 23 violent deaths were recorded in the Indian controlled Kashmir in 2012.
Even with a six-times larger demographic footprint, 62 civilians reportedly died in terrorist violence in India in 2012, whereas 734 civilians became victims of terrorist violence in Pakistan during the same time period. For decades, Pakistan had pointed finger at India and accused her of failing to protect
