The MF Husain Controversy: Identity, Intent and the Rise of Militant Fascism Let us condense this down to a nutshell.

If a Muslim, Salman Rushdie, writes a book "Satanic Verses', considered offensive by Muslims, it must be banned by the Government of India to prove its secularism.

Salman Rushdie of course must incur a fatwa of death from the ayatollahs of Iran and India should not condemn it to prove its secularism.

If a Muslim Bangladeshi writer, Taslima Nasreen, seeks refuge in India after writing a book critical of the treatment of Hindus in Bangladesh, she should be hustled out of the country to prove India's secularism.

If M F (what EXACTLY do those initials stand for?) Husain paints Hindu goddesses in the nude, Hindus must accept it without protest and the Government of India must give him protection, all to prove their secularism.

Is that a fair summary, Beena?

Exactly what would be your reaction if M F Husain paints a picture of Mohammad having sex with a 6 or 9 pear old Ayesha? Would you be writing an article standing up for M F Husain's right to seek and see purity in the sex act?

In fact, did you ever write an article supporting the right of the Netherlands newspaper to publish cartoons of Mohammad?

Mr. President, Stop the War! The author wrote

[The destruction of the Twin Towers was a fluke mass murder by a bunch of terrorists led by an evil genius who is now in your custody, and who, like Zarqawi, used to communicate with Osama bin Laden now and then. That's about it, get over it, it's been eight bloody years. Thank you for putting safeguards and procedures in place to combat terrorism, and your country has avenged itself more than a hundred-fold in the killing of innocents. Enough blood!]

Terrorists led by an evil genius, eh?

You wouldn't be talking about MohamMAD's leadership here, would you? You know, the man to whom Gibreel dictated The Book to End All Books?

Book Review: The Shadow of the Great Game – The Untold Story of India’s Partition Mullah32,

Remember this?

[#105 Posted by tahmed32 on October 3, 2009 7:14:55 am

dm sahib: Pakistan does not need US weapons against India. It built the bomb on its own, remember.]

Yep, Pakistan has switched from Urdu to Chinese writing and that is why the bomb blueprints were in Chinese.

Book Review: The Shadow of the Great Game – The Untold Story of India’s Partition Ref Mullah32 #147

[RiazSahib #142 I have read about India trying to set up a missile shield with help from Israel. If India jumps into a well (per the urdu saying), we dont need to do the same. By this logic, we should also have started building nuclear subs and aircraft carriers with help from China.]

Why Chinese help? Aren't you the one who was trumpeting from the rooftops that Pakistan had designed and built its own nuclear weapons?

[As the prophet said - the pen is mightier than the sword.]

Did the Old Gooat actually say it? I doubt very much. Why don't you google and find out who might have originated the phrase? It certainly wouldn't have been an illiterate Arab trader who couldn't read or write if his foreskin depended on it!

An Indian Abroad Yo Sangeeta,

Learn about the meaning of secularism while you are abroad.

It is NOT pandering to Muslim/Christian vote-banks, as they do in India.

Indian Technical Recession Ref bharat25t #74

[Mr Sharad Chandra and Others here

Will you discuss about what China is doing with its Higher Education and what the IIT Alumnus who hold some clout with Mr Sibal (considering he will be attending the PAN IIT meet) should be doing.]

Arjun Singh, when he was Minister for HRD, announced that foreign universities, if they want to come to India, must admit MBC/OBC/BC/SC/ST students on the same quota basis as in force for Indian universities.

Harvard and Princeton, Stanford and Yale, and Oxford and Cambridge are NOT interested in taking money and handing out degrees to poorly qualified students.

So, you don't see them in India.

Indian Technical Recession The trouble with Indians is that everyone wants to be a brahmin.

What I mean is, nobody wants to do anything except work at a desk job, and that too a job that requires only pencil-pushing.

The nearest they can get to that is writing code.

It is thus that EE grads out of engineering colleges in India cannot design a simple circuit on their own.

Just came back from lunch with a retired IIT professor.

All those OBC/MBC/BC idiots who were let into the IITs because of vote-bank politics are flunking out, he said.

They don't even know what is good for them. They could have gone to an engineering college in Tamil Nadu and graduated easily.

But they want to be able to say "IIT graduate" on their resumes and so flunk out!

Pushing the Press Ref major #9

[Despite your nick - you seem to be an eternal optimist, against all evidence to contrary...]

I guess 98% of all Pakistanis are nicked in some part of the anatomy!

But somehow, it seems to have the same effect as a lobotomy!

When India Banned Thought Ref Pew_Research #74

[Furthermore... it must also be realized that the Cabinet Mission Plan did not go far enough to meet the proposal of the Lahore Resolution... it actually rejected all the planks of League's demand including parity. Therefore it is very significant that Jinnah accepted it nonetheless. It is equally significant that Congress chose to reject the CMP.]

The CMP provided for Group B provinces (the Muslim majority ones) to break away from the federation after 10 years if they so chose.

No wonder the Congrss rejected it.

When India Banned Thought Ref Pew_Research #84

[Do keep reading the book further, and you will note that the Partition Plan had to be ratified by the Punjab and Bengal assemblies. In both assemblies, the ratification for Partition succeed not because of Muslim votes, but because of Hindu and Sikh ones.]

So, it is the Hindus and Sikhs who have to be blamed for the division of the Punjab and Bengal provinces?

Why should they accept living under Muslims in a Pakistan when Muslims would not accept living under Hindus in a united India?

What did 1000 years of Islamic rule teach them? That they would be safe in a Muslim majority country and that their religious and other rights would be respected?

Exactly what is the record of Pakistan and Bangladesh in safeguarding the rights of religious minorities?

So, were these Hindus and Sikhs wrong in trying to safeguard themselves from the Muslims?

Or do you believe that only Muslims need safeguards but not members of any other religion?

When India Banned Thought Ref Sociologist #109

[I think the Jinnah gift has kept "giving and giving" to India as well as it destroys itself in its obsession over Pakistan...]

Pakistan of 1947 = Pakistan of 1971 + Bangladesh.

And you say it is India that is destroying itself?

That is a laugh!

When India Banned Thought Ref Sanatani #112

[The Bloody Khalsa should have come in 1299 not in 1699. It would have been lovely to see the Khalif in istanbul pay for Karha pershad.]

It is never too late.

Nuke Mecca and Medina today for exporting the Wahhabi virus to the world.

Let us see what Pakis do with their nukes. Will they bomb India for nuking Mecca?

When India Banned Thought Ref Pew_Research #68

[All the above aside, if Jinnah wanted his own country, why did he not sell his valuable property in Bombay?]

Too late. There is only 24 hours in a day and the man was pounding his typewriter trying to get Pakistan. (Remember "I with my typewriter got Pakistan"?)

After August 15, 1947, Jinnah-bhai's house in Bombay was declared Alien's property and attached by the Government of India.... just like all those houses that Hindus were forced to abandon in Pakistan were attached by Paki government.

When India Banned Thought Ref Mullah32 #70

[#66 I never saw YLH - in the years he was here, discussing Jinnah - ever claiming that Jinnah did not want partition. You just made up your own "facts".]

So, tell us, what was Yasser Latif Hamdani telling us when he repeatedly referred to Ayesha Jalal's book "The Sole Spokesman"? That Ayesha Jalal was wrong and Jinnah-bhai was REALLY demanding Partition?

If so, then isn't Jaswant Singh's book totally wrong when he says that Jinnah-bhai didn't want Partition?

[PS: I dont wish to waste time with lowlife like you, so dont try to start any lengthy arguments with me like you were trying to do yesterday.]

You don't have the ability to think coherently for two hours in a row so you don't wish to engage in arguments.

When India Banned Thought Ref major #51

[Re: # 50 Pew

you want communal "safeguard", here is your share of land, enjoy the show... (T)]

I want PewResearch, Yasser Latif Hamdani, Mullah32, RiazHaq and a bunch of Pakis who are peddling the line that Jinnah was demanding "communal safeguards" for Muslims in a united India to explain exactly what communal safeguards they have offered Hindus, Christians and Sikhs in Pakistan.

Heck, let them first explain the "communal safeguard" they offered East Pakistan's Muslims. I will wait for the explanation of Pakistan's communal safeguards for Hindus, Sikhs and Christians.

When India Banned Thought Ref RiazHaq #33

[In my view, a healing process can do a lot of good for the people of South Asia. It can potentially move us toward a successful common market similar to EU.]

You Muslims already have your Common Market... the market where you have suicide bombers.

We want no part of it, thank you very much.