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Scylla or Charybdis?

Faysal Malik January 20, 2009

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#22 Posted by nkg on January 26, 2009 8:02:38 pm
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#21 Posted by pinku on January 22, 2009 4:07:30 pm

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this feeling of relocating them to some other part of world or universe will only grow....
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and it wil grow in all of the rest of humanity not just indians..... with some ups and downs eventually rest of the humanity wil understand this problem....
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#20 Posted by pinku on January 22, 2009 4:06:15 pm

#18 Posted by vakibs on
vakibs,
mjakbar is more or less right about what indian think of pakistan, but doesn't matter what you do, till muslims change their psychology or religion or whatever to feel more human and less muslims this feeling of relocating them to some other part of world or universe will only grow....

this "us" vs "them" psychology where muslims' strongest identity is is "being a muslim" and nothing else, is what is the problem. Whether you create oil rich billionaires or whatever, till they get out of this psychology they will look as not so reasonable or rational humans to others........


So amount of development can help here, education can help but neither high tech education nor madarsa education can help... they need the basics... taught between 6-10 standard, in biology, maths, science and may be history..... they need to be told of history before Muhammad...


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#19 Posted by Alphalpha on January 22, 2009 1:54:15 pm
vakibs, MJ akbhar is already too late for that poll....two japanese banks consider Pakistan to be part of the middle east but afghanistan as part of south asia...go figure...
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#18 Posted by vakibs on January 22, 2009 1:15:00 pm
Dash Dot,

Every terror attack that originates in Pakistan will strengthen the right wing politics in India and push it backwards. Every time Muslims are murdered in India or a mosque is razed down, it strengthens the fundamentalists' grip in Pakistan.

So yes, the destinies of India and Pakistan are entwined. There is no other way. As the columnist MJ Akbar has written recently "If a poll were taken in India asking whether Pakistan should be relocated in Latin America, the answer would be an unanimous yes." But sorry, Pakistan is going to stay next to India. Some things are a given.

India and Pakistan have to crush poverty and emerge as strong and stable democracies together. There is no other way.
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#17 Posted by Dash_Dot on January 22, 2009 7:43:06 am
no w vakibs - India's destiny is not entwinned with any bodies.

India's destiny is in its own hands, as is pakistan's. This equalisation is the one and only problem. And people like you should be sent to reeducation camps - whether in the SWAT or in the RSS heartlands.
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#16 Posted by vakibs on January 22, 2009 6:12:09 am
Faysal,

The solution to Pakistan is to develop strong politics (http://the-redpill.blogspot.com/2008/12/we-need-strong-politics-not-strong.html )

It is possible to be a secular and democratic republic with 100% Muslim population. Turkey shines as a great example. We Indians wish you well in that endeavour. Because our own destiny is entwined with your fate.
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#15 Posted by vakibs on January 22, 2009 6:09:27 am
nkg,

Please shut up ! - A personal request from another Indian.
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#14 Posted by nkg on January 22, 2009 12:22:58 am
#13 contd...
search for "islam is a death cult", will get 3500 hits....
.....
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#13 Posted by nkg on January 21, 2009 11:49:00 pm
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tahir..
"filth called islam...."
mr. caveman, it is not my personal opinion alone...
search in google "islamic barbarism", you will get more than 20000 hits...
search "islamic savagery" you will get more than 1000 hits
seach for "islamic filth" you will get more than 780 hits....how will you banish all these pages from the WWW?
rather, stay away from using this tool invented by infidels...
meanwhile in SWAT people are living happily following islamic way of life- no school, no credit card....

so, you will remove all the web pages from the net...
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#12 Posted by tahir on January 21, 2009 11:05:00 pm
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"the filth called Islam..."

Watch the sick 'ChowQ stuffed' not banning this abomination called NKG!!

What an insult to Hinduism!!
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#11 Posted by truth_seeker54 on January 21, 2009 8:56:05 pm
#9 Posted by haroon808

"I think you should be punished for touching Islam"

Yeah, nkg also says so!! (#5)
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#10 Posted by truth_seeker54 on January 21, 2009 8:52:39 pm
#8 Posted by nkg

"Everything is not over yet...just learn to accept, what Afghanistan and India says...It will create better Pakistan, Afghanistan and even India.... "

Der aye durusth aaye, laut ke buddhu ghar ko aaye?
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#9 Posted by haroon808 on January 21, 2009 8:35:48 pm
I think you should be punished for touching Islam, you such a filth. If cant share ne thing civilized, better stay quiet.
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#8 Posted by nkg on January 21, 2009 8:31:48 pm
Faysal...
Only honest people will survive in the long run.....
Regarding creation of jihadis, both the neighbors- India and Afghanistan warned Pakistan to use non military establishment to engage in war. It will poison the society....
But then for Pakistan everything starts from Saudi Arabia and Saudi Arabia is close to USA, it will be close to it.
...
Everything is not over yet...just learn to accept, what Afghanistan and India says...It will create better Pakistan, Afghanistan and even India....
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#7 Posted by nkg on January 21, 2009 8:19:21 pm
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