Such incidents provide untold joy to watch how they unfold.
An embattled Vatican has launched a damage limitation exercise, 72 hours after Pope Benedict XVI set off a storm in the Muslim world and beyond with comments that appeared to criticise Prophet Mohammed, the concept of jihad and apparent lack of rationality in the Islamic faith.
What [...]
The BBC, which once boasted of people like George Orwell has abandoned all claims to objectivity so much that Watch-BBC sites have flourished all over the Web. Here’s a news piece to substantiate that:
Muslims jailed for killing Hindus
In a more neutral tone, this could easily read Indian court sentences 6 youths. Try and imagine [...]
From the excellent Gates of Vienna,
According to Dr. Daniel Pipes, Omar Ahmad, the long-serving chairman of CAIR, the Council on American-Islamic Relations, reportedly told a crowd of California Muslims in July 1998, “Islam isn’t in America to be equal to any other faith, but to become dominant. The Koran … should be the highest authority [...]
Sagarika Ghose hath penned a furious piece on the state of the Indian youth. In a tone that reminds you of a middle-aged, spinster aunty threatening to spank the unruly kids, she blasts away.
Our great hope is that 65 per cent of our population is under the age of 35. But has India’s youth [...]
Musharraf has again demonstrated why he’s the only one-man film industry in Pakistan.
Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf, arriving in Kabul today for a two-day trip, told his counterpart Hamid Karzai the two countries must join forces to fight the “common enemy’’ of terrorism being fanned by al-Qaeda and Taliban. Musharraf also said Pakistan would never allow [...]
Every aftermath of a terrorist attack has the media covering up for them. The said covering up is clothed in assorted linguistic finery. However, the phrase most in vogue happens to be Muslims under seige.
Message for Mumbai police: being tough on terror cannot mean targeting an entire community
It sounds like a sane statement. Yet, it [...]
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I condemned the study-Hinduism-sympathetically plea in my previous post on this subject. This is akin, in my view, to appeasement, begging. Instead of asking people to study it, it is the responsibility of every thinking Hindu to draw people to study it: Swami Vivekananda did this with amazing success. Zillions of [...]
Sarod eminence Ustad Ali Akbar Khan’s son converts to Hinduism from Islam and the father is understandably upset.
Aasish Khan, the son of sarod maestro Ustad Ali Akbar Khan, has embraced Hinduism, sparking off a raging debate and heartache to the 84-year-old father who has told TOI his son was besmirching his illustrious family’s name.
Aasish, who [...]
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