Comments on: The Indian Muslim: Problems and the Future

By: The Burden of being Muslim « Wonders of Pakistan

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By: Anna Cook

Anna Cook — Wed, 19 May 2010 17:12:21 +0000

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By: needy mom

needy mom — Tue, 20 Apr 2010 22:10:15 +0000

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By: Bill the Butcher

Bill the Butcher — Wed, 24 Mar 2010 09:31:03 +0000

Tamizhan, Kalam never “pulled himself up”; he was always a political creature and a self-promoter who has virtually no real accomplishments to his credit. He isn’t even a PhD, incidentally, but feels an honorary doctorate gives him the right to call himself “Doctor” Abdul Kalam.

I think you know as well as I do that today one needs money to make money, and to have a chance at access to good education and so forth. In the East and South the Muslim middle class never left, and could therefore build on its long-standing base. That is not true for the Muslim masses of North India, who have also been regularly “kept in their place” by pogroms so they wouldn’t get “uppity.”

Incidentally, all over India (and as a non-Muslim I have an “insider’s view”, as it were) even where Muslims aren’t officially discriminated against, the level of barely-hidden anti-Muslim animosity is extremely high.

By: Tamizhan

Tamizhan — Mon, 22 Mar 2010 16:53:26 +0000

Bill, You missed the whole point of my comment and referencing Abdul Kalam. The point is, one who pulls oneself up like Abdul Kalam and other Tamil Muslims does not have the time to play the victim. Abdul Kalam is a self made man who grew through the Indian scientific establishment and was picked to be the president and he used that opportunity (token or not) creatively to influence youth positively and became the most popular president in Indian history. That is the kind of can do attitude (with a little bit of parapharsing Kennedy, ‘Ask what you can do for the country, not the country can do for you’) that I would like Muslims in other states could take from the Muslims in Tamil Nadu.

By: Bill the Butcher

Bill the Butcher — Sun, 21 Mar 2010 03:33:19 +0000

Joe Six-Pack:

Stoning to death is a hoary old Jewish punishment. Read your Bible.

I really can’t be bothered with someone so unconcerned with the facts.

By: W.D. Noble

W.D. Noble — Sat, 20 Mar 2010 16:55:54 +0000

“All the them (sic) talk about the ‘occupation’ of Muslim ‘land’. This issue has historically triggered many wars.”

Would that life were so black and white.

In your blog, you state that they “love death more than we love life” and that we (the U.S.) is “well equipped to help them.”

What you seem to have forgotten is that while many Islamic nations have one foot firmly in the 13th century, we’ve done nothing to help enlighten anyone.

Instead, we’ve supported a racist/neoFascist regime (Israel) for over sixty years; the human-rights depredations of which are well-documented and well-nigh-incontrovertible.

Until the U.S. takes a good look in the mirror and changes some very fundamental aspects of its foreign policy, we’re going to be no better than the people we subject to our colorful double-standards.

In the end, Islamic nationalism is no better than good ol’ Amurrican aggrandizement; American fundamentalist Christianity is no better than fundamentalist Islam — and hate, no matter the stripe, is still hate.

By: Joe Six-Pack

Joe Six-Pack — Sat, 20 Mar 2010 14:38:49 +0000

Islamic nationalism is one of the root causes. The Islamic ‘army’ is in fact the terrorist groups. All the them talk about the ‘occupation’ of Muslim ‘land’. This issue has historically triggered many wars.

Another example: Stoning people to death has no place in the modern world. Yet to drop this important aspect of Islam, violence will result, as has been seen on numerous occasions.

A major problem is not economic opportunity. It is the fact that Islamic nationalism is in direct conflict with modern governance.