Comments on: Pakistania Delenda

By: Pete

Pete — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 19:42:42 +0000

The population of Russia is much smaller, about 150 million and constantly declining. That's why some analysts predict the country will be partitioned by its neighbours, chiefly China, due to its low population density.

By: gargi

gargi — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 16:07:27 +0000

Good article about how a good dose of nationalism and patriotism can fight terrorism:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/01/opinion/01kristol.html?_r=1&emc=eta1

By: gargi

gargi — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 15:38:23 +0000

@george

"But a lot of recruiting and funding to terrorists groups and organisations come from Mosques in European capitals and Universities financed by organised crime and fund raising events/charities.
The Algerians for example finance militant activity with credit card fraud."

But what if kingdoms like Saudi begin to face problems when the world no longer needs their oil? Without oil, I think most Islamic countries would no longer be significant players at all ...The future clearly belongs to those who can adapt and survive in a changing world--this applies to both East and West....But irreversible damage has already been done in places like Kashmir....

By: gargi

gargi — Sun, 14 Dec 2008 22:40:55 +0000

Interesting article on India's Hindu hating media by Francois Gautier...
http://francoisgautier.wordpress.com/2008/10/12/a-french-journalists-view-on-india-and-its-media/

By: george

george — Sun, 14 Dec 2008 20:53:22 +0000

@46gargi

But a lot of recruiting and funding to terrorists groups and organisations come from Mosques in European capitals and Universities financed by organised crime and fund raising events/charities.
The Algerians for example finance militant activity with credit card fraud.

By: gargi

gargi — Sun, 14 Dec 2008 17:44:07 +0000

What I think will really stop Islamic fundamentalism is when the source of its funding everywhere is stopped. America needs to bring smart people from around the world to develop alternative sources of energy, it will save the environment and stop radical Islam. It has to be pursued seriously, with the seriousness with which the Manhattan project was accomplished. Even now many oil dictatorships are having trouble balancing their budgets because the price of oil has fallen. Now when the world no longer needs their oil, they will have to confront modernity and modernize or perish. It is not with violence but with human ingenuity that this problem can be extinguished. Artificial economies built on petrol will collapse and will be forced to modernize just as India was forced to abandon Nehruvian socialism when it nearly went bankrupt a while back...

By: george

george — Sun, 14 Dec 2008 16:05:12 +0000

@44gargi

400,000 that’s double that of the Serbs cleansed from Croatia in Operation Desert Storm and that was considered the biggest mass ethnic cleansing since WW2.

Good website.

I think the US or the CIA is partly responsible for what happened in Kashmir.

After the Afghan war Pakistan diverted $1 billion dollars to Kashmiri militants and the CIA knew about this and let it happen.

By: gargi

gargi — Sun, 14 Dec 2008 03:30:38 +0000

@george
The Kashmiri Pandits are really, really old people from the Vedic heartland--they had the highest literacy rate in India (100%) and even after 400,000 were expelled from Kashmir and had to live in refugee camps, many have come out of the camps since 89 and are leading productive lives in the modern world.. No one helped them, they helped themselves...However, those among them who relied on land for income and did not have professional skills were those hit hardest and some still remain in camps. Perhaps because they are a gentle community involved in educational and philosophical pursuits--most were teachers in Kashmir-- they do no make much noise and are not heard. ..But there are some people like this French journalist who has spoken out for them...
http://refugees-in-their-own-country.blogspot.com/

Now the problem is that everyone is scattered after having to leave Kashmir...

The suicide of the farmer is terrible. Farmers are really innocent so their suicide just strikes one to the core...There was one farmer who committed suicide and his poems were published and I will never forget one line of his which roughly translates as "We cultivate pearls/Our children go hungry... The Congress government has done nothing except give loan waivers to them which does not help much and is just cosmetic without addressing the real problem...India needs a strong government at the center without coalition partners which can enact strong reforms...nothing short of a benign dictator...Democracy does not work when you have many illiterate people electing a government such as the current utterly corrupt Congress government...The Western media, however, loves this government....

By: george

george — Sun, 14 Dec 2008 02:17:24 +0000

@42gargi

In the news here in Britain there were reports of Indian farmers committing suicide due to being in debt.

What was the number of Kashmiri pundits ethnically cleansed from Kashmir?

This was never covered in any recounting of Kashmiri history in British media TV and print.

By: gargi

gargi — Sun, 14 Dec 2008 00:15:41 +0000

@george
The agricultural production capacity of India is second only to the USA--it can feed the world. However, India can barely feed itself because there has been no agricultural revolution.
All the terrorism into Kashmir comes in from the Muzzafarabad region in Pakistan controlled Kashmir. This area is very backward and Pakistan has done nothing to develop it unlike the Indian controlled Kashmir which receives huge amounts government subsidies.
India is very diverse and not composed of a single ethnic group.
The population has swelled from bout 350,000,000 to over a billion since 1940's. It is going to be hard to adopt a 2 child policy when Muslims can have more than 1 wife still by law. India is urgently in need of a uniform civil code. Hindus are angry becasue the secularism practised by the government there is not really secular.