I am surprised at the level of ignorance of our kashmiri friends, who have been behaving like loose canons and dancing like puppets of the tune of anyone who wants or pretends to be their leader. These leaders, ultimately make a fool out of them by giving them false rays of hope which in many cases have been proved to be the headlight of an incoming super fast train, about to run them over.
In the latest case, gathered kashmiri people were shown fake pics of the burning of Koran in U
The result - burning down of a catholic school and the building of social welfare department, and the mayhem which followed took the life of 17 young bloods. After seeing these things happening again and again, I am feeling compelled to ask few questions from anyone who feels or has any interest in Islam or its teachings.
1 What is the authenticity of this news and why Islamic people always believe in words of mouth facts?
2. Even If it was true, does that give anyone the freedom to burn other people’s religious places, as those whose buildings got burnt wouldn't have been responsible directly or indirectly for this act.
3. Why they always pretend that they are the only ones who have true religion and behave too touchy for it. All religious symbols and places have been attacked by mischief, time and again, but nowhere one will find the kind of irrational, barbarian and stupid way of reaction that can be seen when an Islamic symbol gets attacked.
4. Isn't it a fact that Muslims not in entirety, but mostly are insecure about their religion and to get rid of this insecurity end up doing more damage to it, which no other religion could possibly think of.........
and at last I condole the killings of 17 people yesterday in the firing, but
for this time at least, please don’t blame the forces, because the bullet doesn’t kill anyone nor does the person who fires it wearing the uniform, it’s the cunning leaders who prepare situation for the events like these so that they can sacrifice the ignorant at the alter of their greed. For people like these the cost of human life is equivalent to that of a sacrificial lamb. So why blame the Butcher?
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Inder,
ReplyDeleteI like the strong position you have taken. I would pose a question to you -- do you think it's coincidence that the only places in the Muslim world where the protests over the Koran burning turned violent happen to be places under heavy military occupation? It's easier to whip up public sentiment around religious grievance when the people are already feeling oppressed by an unwanted military presence.
BEN,
ReplyDeleteThrough the incident of the killings of 17 kashmiris in one day, i am trying to show that these type of incidents mostly happen with muslim people only. i know its pretty radicalised view point and i could have avoided to generalise all the islamic world but still, why is it that these things happen mostly with muslim people ?. kashmir and palestine are few places where one could understand the condition of the oppressed population but why it happens in Iran(fatwa against salman rushdie),soudi arabia(many cases of stoning innocent people on the charges of blasephemy), pakistan and even to a lesser extent in indonesia, malasia..i guess islam as a religion itself has been used by several leaders to justify status quo and their failures, so to hide their misdeeds kingdoms like shah of iran, saudi arabia and else where in middle east use the muslim teachings and when the air of free speech or thought come from somewhere they try to suppress it either with the help of islamic law i.e sharia or in places where they are in minority by whipping up public sentiments.