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Just how authentic your theory is can be seen by the long time it took you to inaugrate a new hitherto unknown one. Go to any renowned encyclopaedia and read about Arabian Nights. There is not a mention of that unique theory you try to pedal here. The Prophet Mohamed, (PBUH) who is the continuation of hundreds of prophets before him, like Jesus (PBUH) who were sent to humanity, some with more high profile agenda and some with lower agenda, was chosen to be from the Arabs because until then the whole Arabian Peninsula was fraught with female infanticide, lawlessness, violence and what not. After he brought his message they were transformed into a people who now had a constitution in the form of the Koran.
Unselfish as they are by nature, they decided that this new found knowledge had to be shared with the rest of the world. Like little children who will go around showing off ther new toys or toffees to friends and siblings, they began to spread across the world to spread the message of the Oneness of God.
Contrast this with the colonists who came from Central Asia, the Mughals, the Europeans et al, whose primary motive was loot, domination, imperalism, and subjugation of local population, as we can see in the history of the Americas first in the hands of the Spanish and then in the hands of the white europeans, now called Americans.
For your knowledge the arrival of Islam into India actually precedes the Mughal invasion by a large extent and going by any history of interaction, the publication of the Arabian Nights is much before Arabs or any Muslim came into contact with India. In fact, the epic is based on present day Iraq, which, again for your information was a land known for knowledge and literature. It certainly did not require any input from us for them to write the Arabian Nights.
Please don't get carried away by the delusion that we were then what we are today. We had no name called India then, nor did we have any borders. We were just a bunch of multiple kingdoms and fiefdoms run by various selfish kings and rajahs and maharajahs, all fighting among themselves, looking to hoodwink one over the other and all that. History is replete with such details, if you care to read school textbooks for a beginning. It was the Arabs who began to call us by the precursor to our present name, which was Sindhu, which then became Hindu and then Hind, and then India.
You have once again betrayed a lack of sound knowledge by saying Arabs have no basic humanity. For your information, today nobody has humanity in them. When invading American terrorists go around the streets of Baghdad urinating on small children, mix urine in bottles of water and hand over the bottles to begging Arab children, when a terror nation called Israel can nibble at Arab land chunk by chunk under the noses of pseudo-civilised people like you, I know there is no such thing as humanity anymore. All such talk is just pure academic. But then compare all this and still there is a good amount of humanity left in Arabs.
You must come out of the glass house in which you seem to reside. For your information we are one of the capital countries for incest, we are steeped in corruption, public hygiene is something alien to us, we can kill a ten year old who demands his possession back, as happened just a week ago, we are capital country for killing of female infants, etc, etc, ; where are you? You think just because you wallow in some feel good factor, everybody else is enjoying the same? Look around, you have a lot to learn. But before you do that, shed your prejudices against Muslims.
KM
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Goa!
Just as this blog suggested things do look fishier and fishier in Goa these days. Drugs and politics nexus, sex, promiscuity, no-gooders from foreign lands masquerading as tourists, et al. Add to this the admission by the police there that they did try to cover up the Scarlette Keeling murder, leads one to call into question the very claim of civilisation and rule of law in our country.
KM
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Going by some of your ill-informed comments I can imagine to what sources you have been confining your reading to. For your information and education, may I remind you that selling land is indeed a legitimate act and shows the Arabs' trusting nature when they sold their lands to the Jews, unsuspecting of their diabolical well planned motives underwritten and financed by Zionists.
Little did the Arabs imagine that those sales would one day mean they would be asked to leave the land Palestine and be driven out hordes of Jewish terrorists led by none other than men like Menachem Begin, who wen t on to become Israel's PM.
Everyday we all sell land and buy land all over the country as Indians. For example if most land is owned by North Indians in Mumbai does it mean North Indians can drive out Maharashtrians out of Maharashtra in order to make room for more North Indians to settle down in Mumbai? (This is just an hypothesis, and I hold no chagrin against North Indians)
But this is what Zionism has done to the unsuspecting Arabs. Therefore your pitiable defence of Israel's purchase of land and all that is a result of prejudiced reading or plain lack of depth in your knowledge. Today, millions of foreigners who happen to be Jews can come form all over the world and settle down in Palestine, just because they are Jews, just because the white people could not put up with them in Europe and elsewhere.
Your correlation with the situation in the occupied territories and how we Indians tackled invasion into our lands is also completely flawed for two main reasons. Firstly, it is not Arabs who invaded us for your information, and Arabs did not perpetrate sordid deeds on us. It was the Mughals from Central Asia, with whom we are pals today. Secondly, the occupiers, be they Mughals or British, did not ever seek to displace us and replace us with their communities which would have meant a massive transfer of humanity from Central Asia to India or from the Britsh Isles into India. But this is what is happeneing against the Arabs and Palestinians in Palestine under the very hypocritical nose of the world community!!!
By the way here is some more educative news fr you. When you refer to the Arab Israeli conflict, you cannot talk in terms of anti or pro semitism, as you do aping the western press propaganda, because the Arabs too are as Semitic as any Jew. Therefore they cannot work against themselves, can they.
However, I will certainly agree with you the Arabs could have done with more finesse and skill full diplomacy, non-violent methods, and literature, in both Arabic and English, French and German to put forth their points of view to the world community. but then we know what a discouraging prospect that can mean considering their rivals' clout in the publishing community.
But dont worry, Truth must Prevail finally, Insha Allah. Let there be no violence, and less diabolism in world politics.
KM
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I shudder to think that I have been discoursing with someone who promotes or, at least is soft on state terror, expansionism, hegemony, might is right syndrome, and all the heady stuff of similar nature which saw humanity go overboard in the first World War and the Second, not to mention the many conspiracies against humanity in the form of the Vietnam War, the French bullying in the Suez, the Apartheid against Blacks in Africa, the creation of Israel by the Europeans in order to get rid of the Jews from their backs, Zionism's influence in the world, and the list of infamy can go on and on, and it has made to come to the conclusion that you are more in favour of might for the bad than for good.
You say it is human trait to grab land, but you do not favourably acknowledge the right and fundamental need for any people to also fight to resist assault on their freedom, on their land etc as the heroic people pf Palestine have been doing the past 60 years now under the eyes of a hypocritical international commuinity.
You say the use of religion and its emotions will not bring results, but you are wrng in two ways. The creation of Israel itself is the result of religious and racist supremacist beliefes for which the Arabs too have adopted similar means to resist. When it all started it was thought by powers of that time that somehow the Arabs will wilter away and lose their determination, but thanks to their religious fervor they ahve been able to keep up the pressure on Israel. Only I wish they do not call for its wiping off the face of the earth, and killing of Jews is stopped, and terror is given up completely.
For you information the Palestinians are not even allowed to call themselves a state or to have an army of their own!!!
When their people elect democratically a government it is shunned by the world!!!
But the nibbling away of Arab land continues unabated!!!!!!
KM
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That is the most naive answer one could give. I have news for you. The day we come under the greed or mischief radar of the USA that is when I would like to hear all this naive talk. You did not even have the courtesy to acknowledge the struggles our Freedom Fighters had had to go through to extricate the nation from colonialism in your gloat over "intellectual prowess" and all that stuff you feel so heady about. What happened to that intellectual prowess and education then? If you think those were those days and today the story is happily different, then so be it. The same logic should apply to others too, doesn't it?
There is education everywhere, and there is much more education in thse places than you might like to know.
The only difference is we are not in the strategic scanner until now and I certainly hope we will never come.
KM
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I shall give my all to see that the injustices perpetrated by the western powers on the Palestininans is resoled peacefully. In fact by writing these blogs this is what i am doing in my own little way. However, it pays to keep a perspective on history too. I don't know if you will agree with me, but the occupation of a land after driving its natives away to neighbouring lands in order to bring in foreigners from all corners of the world to settle there in their place, with the cunning connivance of an occupying power, to me also constitutes violence. No less a person than Mandela, Naom Chomsky, President Carter have sopken out their consciences against the way Israel keeps nibbling away at Arab lands with settlements after settlements, kills scores of Arabs in retaliation for one or two Israelis killed, also unfortunate either way, while the world is just worried about how the oil from Iraq can be stolen better and used by one and all for so-called world prosperity.
But God has His own plans. Look at the prosperity Bush has brought to the USA after the cunning terrorist invaded a sovereign nation spending 6 trillion dollars for nothing!
Today the world community is more educated and more aware. They do not take things lying down. In fact nobody does.
The rich and the powerful must first denounce violence for non-violence to set in.
Having said that, I pray no more small Israeli children are killed, no Jew or Arab is killed by rockets and dirty bombings as done by Israel in Lebanon, and I certainly wish the USA packs up and leaves the Middle East to the people of that region.
It is all very nice now for us to be seen supporting the US, but when the same plight befalls us, God forbid, it is then that we have to see what our responses represent.
KM
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Thanks indeed for that advice. Frankly, I meant to show them in the pitiful light they deserve to be shown in, in my own way as much as my simple intellect would allow, which is why I used the word nincompoops. I did not and still do not accept them to see reason because people like them work on a totally different plane of thought when it comes to handling spiritual figures, and the reasons for that I think I have explained in my earlier comments.
Yes, indeed age and experience can be a boon in these matters, not to mention time too because this is is not one's bread and butter if you know what I mean.
I understand the difficulty in appreciating the mind of the non-violent Muslim at times like these. These are testing times for adherents of a great faith, though not for the faith itself, because on the one hand non-violence is a very potent option if unselfish leadership is available, while on the other its enemies are armed to the teeth and subscribe to extreme racial views like Zionism, which is nothing but apartheid in a different context.
However, I have good news for you. In the Arab press today there is discussion on how non-violence might still hold the key to bring about a solution to the Arab Israel issue, if only the ugly hand of the USA does not play its dirty cards for its political ends in the region.
KM
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Welcome back. In fact a debate such as this can only become richer with you around. I suppose u are right. It is too much asking the world to become perfect for one's liking. Regarding the language I must apologise to u if it put u off, although it was not my intention to sound or read repulsive. One cannot know the true feelings in a Muslim these days, especially one who is convinced only peaceful non-violent means can counter the sinister turn the nature of world politics has taken against his faith, which is why I am not surprised that you find the language harsh. If you care to take a tour of the world press you will be saddened by the irascible nature of attention Islam and Muslims have been getting these days.
Reasons are many so they cannot be enumerated without recourse to a dedicated blog.
Regarding your perception that India is only looking after its own interests by arresting those who take out peaceful protests against Zionism, I think even the Israelis will be taken by surprise at the sycophantic nature of that surmise. Because, even within the Jewish community there are saner people who view the whole question of Palestine under Israeli occupation as not only untenable but even morally impeachable. And we claim to be a democratic country don't we?
I cannot accept that a peaceful anti-Zionist protest is snuffed out by the police in Gandhi's India.
KM
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Game shows – don’t thumb your noses
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A fine article that one on Game Shows with reference to our own KBC. You were right to ask when we will climb up the ladder and bring out game shows like Jeopardy, and that is because you have seen them all in the US and maybe elsewhere. I dont know much about what norms the producers of Game Shows follow to choose the format and content or even theme of a GS, but I suppose it has all got to do with the type of viewership they envisage in Indian homes. Let me tell you, we are no less intelligent than the average European or American or perhaps even the Chinese, but we are still a far away from acquiring the gumption to accept mind wrenching creations for entertainment, which is why as far as the advertisers do not think we are ready for such shows they will not come our way any time soon. For a sampler, aren't we still in the same old hero heroine mold in popular cinema since time immemorial?
But, your lamentation is well justified and I know that you miss such shows here. However you are in the minority.
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