India-Pakistan: Empathy, grief in Pakistan for Mumbai mayhem #147:btw didnot mean to imply that beenasarwar's reply had blackmail component, just the pak fauj's position.

India-Pakistan: Empathy, grief in Pakistan for Mumbai mayhem #143: "there you went again..the blackmail component of the reply...its always there."

Dash, the problem is, quite apart from the blackmail component (which is quite clearly there) there is the reality as rf786 pointed out that the only realistic option is to work with the civilian government. It's a miserable situation all around, I agree.

India-Pakistan: Empathy, grief in Pakistan for Mumbai mayhem "You can check the News - Pak Army spokespoerson is already calling Mehsud a patriot."
minor correction: it was a Hamid Mir column (only source), and it was an "unnamed senior army official", not the army spokesperson!

Mumbai Attacks: Shocking #572
"a quarter of the world's population is not going to change their religion either because you want them to"
well, my idiot brother in islam three quarters of the world is not going to sit there and do nothing either, ever thought of that?

The Correct Turn #196
[What surprises me the most that the great sufis who were supposed to create Muslim-Hindu understanding and 'joint culture' (according to Hindu liberals) did not explain any of this to their Muslim followers]
yeah, because you're wrong. it's obviously not the same thing that your grandmother doesn't let you into the kitchen unless you've showered and if she doesn't let an impure muslim into her kitchen ever.

The Correct Turn #51
"Who cares about the Kashmiris? We're only interested in the land"

thanks for revealing your true face and that of your pathetic compatriots like Faruk here. Not that we didn't know this, but now we can safely ignore you next time you whine on and on about Jinnah the evil communalist -- anyone who talks about the citizens of his own country like this hasn't the slightest right to judge the morality of separatist movements.

Hail Obama sattar2: here's a question. Isn't it perfectly natural for those with faith to defend their faith with the claim of rationality? otherwise they wouldn't really have faith, would they :)

Three Cups of Tea & Pennies for Peace http://outside.away.com/mediaplayer/application.html?uniqueid=v07160&page=po pup
check out this video; he's planning to build schools in Afghanistan now (kunar, nuristan & panjshir)

Sonal Shah to Help Divide Obama\'s Victory Spoils #84
[Keep this up, you will make it impossible for a Muslim to ever be in US politics. No skin off my nose.]
I don't want to keep fighting, so in all seriousness: there are lots of issue with north american muslim organizations. I spent a lot of time in college reading danielpipes.org, and so while I have a lot of good friends who were active in MSA, ISNA, CAIR, etc, I would not be surprised if their ties to these organizations came under scrutiny if they were ever appointed to a political office. Anyway, MSA membership in college is one thing, and being in a leadership position in Jamat-e-Islami USA (which doesn't exist, but just hypoethically) even for humanitarian work at the age of 33 is an entirely different matter. I am 100% sure that someone like that would have absolutely no chance at political office here and I would be the last person to be defending them.

Sonal Shah to Help Divide Obama\'s Victory Spoils nb: I guess you should go fix the wikipedia article about the Bajrang Dal which says that it's the youth wing of the VHP.

Sonal Shah to Help Divide Obama\'s Victory Spoils #59
nb: If you notice there were two parts to my post #33. The second part (which you are referring to) was addressed to another commenter, not you. I did answer your question, I said the press usually asks questions about these things and the onus is on the person being vetted to answer them in a way that is sufficiently satisfactory way for the public -- if they want their political career to survive. In any case, this whole point is moot because I've been reading more about Vijay Prashad's claims and pretty much everything he said about her was on the public record.

I guess you can compare the Edhi foundation to the VHP if you want, but despite Edhi's occasional outbursts of stupidity against "zionists" he hasn't ever engineered riots or has his own violent youth militia so the comparison is kind of stupid. By the way, a better comparison to the situation is if Edhi were ever appointed to political office in the US. He would probably be vetted and some of his more silly statements about the zionists would probably prevent him from being appointed. That's just politics.

Sonal Shah to Help Divide Obama\'s Victory Spoils #36
I actually have no problem with Sonal Shah's links with VHP. That would be a little ridiculous considering some of the war criminals serving in the current US cabinet. I was only arguing that those defending her appointment should present better arguments than "Why should she have to justify everything because she is an Indian Hindu woman?" which is just dishonest.

Sonal Shah to Help Divide Obama\'s Victory Spoils #32
when political associations are called into question by the press, the onus is on the person in question to clarify them to the public and so far this hasn't really been done. An easy way out is to start whining about victimhood, guilt by association, etc.

#29:
See, it's up to you. You don't consider a VHP-A association to be a big deal. So be honest, and admit this. Somehow I doubt your reaction to a similar appointment of someone with JI links would be to make a donation to the US chapter of JI.

Sonal Shah to Help Divide Obama\'s Victory Spoils #21
by the way, can you clarify what do you see as "mindless slander"? The fact that her membership in VHP-A is being made a big deal or that the accusation itself is false?

Sonal Shah to Help Divide Obama\'s Victory Spoils #21"I read through all the Sonal Shah stuff and I think you guys are just out to slander mindlessly and it pisses me off and make me defensively want to support her."

well, welcome to real life. I read through all these posts on chowk about cutting off the water supply to Pakistan and I have this urge to put on a green bandana with la ilaha illallah on it and start my own execution video studio.

Sonal Shah to Help Divide Obama\'s Victory Spoils "You guys (the Paki opportunists) and the Indian hard left (like Vijay and Biju) keep up this slander and you will make VHP-wallah's out of nominal-hindu's like myself"

oh boo hoo. What is is this, victimhood day? Individuals are responsible for their own fucking decisions, excuse the language.