Journey to the Center of Our Souls

Re: # 19
Majumder...
why go to bihar, even in Bangalore there are regular, scheduled power outage....

Laddu, NGK, VRV, Mishra; have a break and a KitKat.

Get off the anti-Islam train as soon as you grow up.

Grow up soon.

The usual trick by the paki army. When the US pressure mounts, the paki army will get one al quida guy from the army HQ and hand over to teh US forces.

from bbc.

Pakistan seizes Taleban spokesman
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A former spokesman for fugitive Taleban leader Mullah Omar has been arrested in north-west Pakistan, officials say.

Ustad Yasar was detained in the city of Peshawar after a tip-off, they said, without giving further details.

Mr Yasar was arrested in Pakistan in 2005 and handed over to Afghanistan, where he was released in exchange for a kidnapped Italian reporter in 2007.

An apparently old entry on the Internet says that “Most controversial will be Huntington’s tough-minded view of Islam. Not only does he point out that Muslim countries are involved in far more inter-group violence than others, he argues that the West should worry not about Islamic fundamentalism but about Islam itself, ‘a different civilisation whose people are convinced of the superiority of their culture and are obsessed with the inferiority of their power’.� from dawn of today

..........Huntington..you are right..only have to visit chowk to understand the paki situation.

Re: # 26

Pagans never worshipped stones.........it is like saying that the muslims bow down to the mosques.....

Islam raised this stereo-type in order justify their genocide of pagans........and this makes their ideology a pure evil.

weird, very weird, - i mean how did islam get itself implicated in jerusalem? - old man mo' never made it out here - he was far away in Mecca and Medina.

So the bottom line is - islamic presence in jerusalem is just a vestige of islamo-imperialism - a viewpoint in which military conquest and religous control are the one and the same thing. Its just a variation of the kind of spiteful ugliness that has resulted in large islamic mosques right next to traditional hindu worship sites in kashi, mathura and elsewhere.

But none of that is reflected in this article - why should it be - its a feel-good ignorant piece of emotion. Otherwise, a honest writer would make reference to this ugly historical aspect of islamic history.

Personally, my guru had a dream that Mecca is also a hindu place of worship. We have applied to the Saudi goverment to go there and conduct kirtan and puja. We are sure we will be allowed to travel there - after all thats the spirit of this article, right?

Worshipping stones was not the sole right of Hindus alone. Many civilisations did stone/totem worshipping.

That way.....

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Mohammad USED pretext of Abrahmic-lineage to occupy my pagan forefather's Kabba.

There is NO evidence that kabba was 'Abrahmic-Temple'.

Even till date the horrible genocide against hindu idolators is done following this pretext about Abrahmic-lineage.

Muslims must see through this fraud in order to stop following the cult's violent behaviour.

Dear writer,

Nice article. I enjoyed reading it, felt transported to Jerusalem and could relate to your experiences - although I do not belong to any of the three faiths you deal with.

The only comment I have is w.r.t. the last 4 words of the sentence: "Jerusalem is perhaps the only city in the world that is considered historically and spiritually significant to all three monotheistic faiths."

This implies that these are the only 3 faiths in the world that are monotheistic, and uses a very narrow (and Occidental) definition of monotheism.

Happy 2009!

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Re: # 19

majumdar

The paki problem is structural. It is probably the only country where electricity generation capacity is going down due to poor maintenance. Inbstead of going for new capacity, which the pakis are talking about, more cost effective is to do some preventive maintenance.

The sad part is that these generators are very old, one cannot get spares readily, needs some local engineering capability. These are lacking and declining in pakistan.

These are structural issues, cannot be changed easily, need some capable managers, competant engineers, ...as one can see on chowk, the intelectaual capability of the pakis are very limited.

This again is due to religion, which asks for obedience to the book, and not individuality. That si why all islamic countries are in a mess. Pakistan was ok at the time of independane, but now the TNT generation has come to power. There is no hope for pakistan.

Jayp sahib,

The main culprit was electricity which would go out every hour for one hour.

He should have visited Bihar or UP, where power wud go out for 23 hours after every one hour of it.

Regards

Visit to Pakistan


A VISIT to Pakistan turned out to be a bigger fiasco than I had imagined. The main culprit was electricity which would go out every hour for one hour. There was no water during my whole stay of around four days and I had to take a shower after returning to Dubai.

I needed some medicine which was not available here. There was no gasoline available and I saw long lines of motorbikes and cars at gas stations. The national carrier was able to mismanage their baggage handling system and were using the old system of tagging the baggage. The only road leading to the city from the airport was broken.

There were vendors everywhere occupying city property. No one here knows how to handle garbage and dispose it off.

Add to that the mess of the suicide bombers who are onto their jihadi mission. Thank you Pakistan. Usually when I go to another country I have my camera in hand and take nearly 200 pictures. I did not take any picture in Lahore as nothing was worth taking.

MOHSIN MALIK
Dubai

.....the above is from dawn of today. Dubai is a pretty wretched place for most of teh people there, if a pakistani can find dubai better than lahore, well what could be the experience of pakis coming from the west.

Re: # 11

thanks Tahir. Wish you an aethiestic new year.