its time we realise that CM Modi is the best we Indians can ask for lets not keep carrying the baggage of past . To be real , all the politicians of our nation have a past which they have conveniently erased, today everybody ic so concerned about modi and riots in gujarat , well folks UP has seen number of riots in all major and minor towns for a long long time . Incidentally the govt was alwaz congress, no one raised a hue and cry about it as hindus were the abject victims of these riots. I as a kid could understand the heaviness in the surrounding before the outbreak of riots . My muslim classmates woul sstop attending school and refrain from mixing up with us. Nothing ever was done to prevent these as they were politically motivated and funded. In modi at least gujarat has an able and development oriented CM , riots are painful but lets get ahead with life and see that any politician wins only and only if he work sfor the state. Believe me with this yardstick we wont have many politicians to vote for. Gujarat i s aproud land and lets salute the people's decision. Look at Lalu , he ruled Bihar for 15 years and milked the state dry. lets accept the virtues of a man with his follies ,like all of us modi is also a human being and better still a politician , learn to live in a humane environment and not ask for a perfect situation.
RE:RE:New Islamic Directions Blog
by hakeem on Dec 23, 2007 11:49 PM Permalink
First of all, we have to realize that a function of faith is the realization that worldly survival is not the ultimate end of life. That being the case, the people addressed in this verse realized that a noble death in the defense of lofty principles is better than a life that is lived in violation of those principles. They also realize that displaying courage in the face of grave danger is the way of people of faith.
RE:RE:RE:New Islamic Directions Blog
by hakeem on Dec 23, 2007 11:51 PM Permalink
Satan, he seeks to instill in you the fear of his dupes. Fear them not! Rather fear Me (God), if indeed you are believers. (3:175)
In this verse, God makes it clear that one of the guiles of Satan is to instill into humans the fear of the damage and destruction that can be inflicted by his dupes. In the terror war all of those who allow themselves to be used to murder, usurp, and wreak havoc through tumult, turmoil, and oppression all in opposition to what God demands of us are Satans dupes, regardless of their actual religion or lack thereof.
RE:RE:RE:RE:New Islamic Directions Blog
by hakeem on Dec 24, 2007 12:00 AM Permalink
Say: O My servants who have transgressed against your own souls: do not despair of God's mercy, for God forgives all sins. It is He who is the Forgiving, the Merciful.Qur'an (39:53)
Riots is something everyone needs to move on. If we start judging political parties by riots, then we'd rather not vote. Congress backed riots against sikhs in 1984, under congress govt only there were cases of riots in Gujrat too. Thousand of hindus and sikhs were killed in Kashmir under congress. Because of BJP, we had babri masjid demolition, and godhra riots where muslims were targetted. So neither party is clean when it comes to riots. Neither is secular, trust me guys, any party would kill anyone from any religion if it helps them get votes. Modi indeed had done a lot for Gujrats development, and did deserve to win. Still he needs to do a lot more for the muslims, and tribals in gujrat, hope he does that in the next 5 years
RE:Challenging a %u201CNew%u201D Type of War with True Faith
by Imaan on Dec 23, 2007 11:35 PM Permalink
Its end is contingent on the eradication of fear, and fear is too easily provoked to be readily eliminated. How then will this war end? It will end when ordinary people conquer their fears and insecurities. In this sense, the war on terror is not as novel as it seems. One of the great ironies of this war is that Islam, which has been presented as the force to be feared, the source of the terror being fought, actually analyzed a terror war, and presented the strategy for victory in such a war.
RE:RE:Challenging a %u201CNew%u201D Type of War with True Faith
by Imaan on Dec 23, 2007 11:36 PM Permalink
This analysis begins with the Qur%u2019anic statement, Those to whom the people said, %u201CThe enemy hosts are gathering to overwhelm you, therefore fear them.%u201D [For the believers] this only increased their faith and they said, %u201CGod suffices us, what an excellent one to trust in.%u201D (3:173) In this verse, the believing folk are being threatened with annihilation by the surrounding hordes. Certainly, the threat was not that of a nuclear attack, however, the prospects of their annihilation at the hands of forces that were numerically far superior and better equipped was very real. This threat only increased their faith for they realized that hardship and tribulation are realities that God has created to test the mettle of human beings.
This Qur%u2019anic verse, and one following shortly after it, gives us tremendous insight into what we need to do to defuse this terror war. First of all, we have to realize that a function of faith is the realization that worldly survival is not the ultimate end of life. That being the case, the people addressed in this verse realized that a noble death in the defense of lofty principles is better than a life that is lived in violation of those principles. They also realize that displaying courage in the face of grave danger is the way of people of faith.
RE:RE:RE:Challenging a %u201CNew%u201D Type of War with True Faith
by Imaan on Dec 23, 2007 11:37 PM Permalink
Additionally, they realize that gaining God%u2019s pleasure is the ultimate objective of our worldly strivings, not victory in some mythical contest of power where we trample on the lives of innocent people to earn the right to hail ourselves as the victors. All people of faith must come to this realization.
Secondly, we have to understand that if our security is purchased at the price of the suffering and insecurity of others, then the cost is unacceptable. Most of the things we fear are beyond our effective control in any case. Sudden death from car accidents claims far more lives than terrorist attacks ever will. To allow ourselves to accept the murder, mass detentions, suffering, deprivation, resource usurpation, and the other abuses inflicted by our government on the hapless people of Iraq, Afghanistan, and others, allegedly in the name of our security, is to allow our cowardliness to trump our loftiest principles. At the end of the day, God suffices the believers, and He is the most excellent one to trust of lives and security with.
RE:RE:RE:RE:Challenging a %u201CNew%u201D Type of War with True Faith
by Imaan on Dec 23, 2007 11:39 PM Permalink
Turning away from God and our best religious principles, and seeking to secure our physical existence by any means necessary is not only irreligious, it constitutes a deal with the devil, as a Qur%u2019anic verse coming shortly after the one we initially quoted makes clear. That verse reads, Rather that is Satan, he seeks to instill in you the fear of his dupes. Fear them not! Rather fear Me (God), if indeed you are believers. (3:175) In this verse, God makes it clear that one of the guiles of Satan is to instill into humans the fear of the damage and destruction that can be inflicted by his dupes. In the %u201Cterror%u201D war all of those who allow themselves to be used to murder, usurp, and wreak havoc through tumult, turmoil, and oppression%u2014all in opposition to what God demands of us%u2014are Satan%u2019s dupes, regardless of their actual religion or lack thereof.
God is calling us to something higher. Let us all reach higher, and adhere to the loftiest of our principles. If we are able to do so we can collectively move beyond being manipulated by fear into accepting the brutalizing of those we share our lone planetary home with.
RE:RE:RE:RE:RE:Challenging a %u201CNew%u201D Type of War with True Faith
by Imaan on Dec 23, 2007 11:40 PM Permalink
New Islamic Directions Blog: Imam Zaid Shakir
Congress should realise now that 'secularism' does not mean continuous suppression of the majority community in the country.
Congress is trying to run the majority community, by taking it for granted' with the help of minority and its ministers belong to the minority communities.
Modi's win is only the beginning. Congressi raj with the help of Italian leader is bound to be the target of the suppressed majority community in the country.
RE:Who are the Fascists?
by hakeem on Dec 24, 2007 12:12 AM Permalink
Hindusim- Fight Kill Burn Loot and Rape even children if they are muslims and then try to convert them to hinduism
RE:RE:Who are the Fascists?
by hakeem on Dec 24, 2007 12:14 AM Permalink
There are unbroken chain of non muslim communities living in the arab lands since the time of isa bin maryam *as*
Best example is the Christians and Jews of Palestine.
RE:Who are the Fascists?
by Imaan on Dec 23, 2007 11:14 PM Permalink
Leaving aside the allegations of weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, a skillful use of the %u201Cbig lie%u201D technique, let us consider the allegation that so-called Islamic Fascism threatens Western Civilization. This is another big lie. The nature of this lie is revealed by the fact Ayman Zawahari, Usama Bin Laden, and the movements they lead were incapable of posing a significant threat to the Egyptian and Saudi states respectively. Zawahari%u2019s Jihad group was ruthlessly crushed by the Egyptian government during the mid-1990s. Bin Laden%u2019s challenge to the Saudi state in the aftermath of the 1991 Gulf War was similarly thwarted. Hence, both men eventually ended up in a cave in Afghanistan. The terrorist acts they orchestrated in Egypt and Saudi Arabia proved to be a nuisance, in a strategic sense. However, at no time did those acts constitute an existentialist threat to either state.
While terrorist acts perpetrated by what has come to be known as al-Qaeda may be disruptive, they could never pose a significant threat to the integrity of Western Civilization, neither politically, economically, nor socially. By way of illustration, it took less than two months for the stock markets to rebound to pre-September 11, 2001 levels in the aftermath of the attacks of that day. Today, five years after those attacks, American exports are higher, global trade levels, led by the United States, are higher, world tourism is up, domestic air travel, the sector hardest hit in the aftermath of th
RE:RE:Who are the Fascists?
by Imaan on Dec 23, 2007 11:14 PM Permalink
Those attacks, which occurred under dubious circumstances that have yet to be thoroughly investigated, are unlikely to be replicated and did little lasting damage to this country. This illustrates the overblown threat of the %u201CIslamic Fascist%u201D enemy.
The question here is how could groups that were incapable of destabilizing two middling Third World states pose a mortal threat to the United States, the world%u2019s sole superpower? Moreover, how could such groups ever pose an existentialist challenge to the whole of Western Civilization? The very allegation is so preposterous that we can only describe it as a %u201Cbig lie.%u201D
Closely associated with this lie is the allegation that Bin Laden, and now Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, are comparable to Hitler and Stalin. Such an allegation is totally baseless. Both Hitler and Stalin presided over modern industrial states with strategic resources that rivaled and in many sectors surpassed those of Western Europe and even America. Hitler%u2019s Germany was the most advanced state on earth, in terms of military technology. They were the first nation to employ militarily-viable ballistic missiles, the V-2 rocket; a jet-powered tactical fighter aircraft, the Messerschmitt Me 262, and at one point were months away from developing an atomic bomb. Stalin%u2019s Soviet Union possessed the largest collection of conventional armed forces on earth, and would eventually preside over a nuclear arsenal of over 20,000 warheads, most of them aimed at the
RE:RE:RE:Who are the Fascists?
by Imaan on Dec 23, 2007 11:15 PM Permalink
most of them aimed at the major industrial, military, and population centers of the United States. These warheads were situated on sophisticated land, sea, and air-based delivery systems that posed a significant threat to the survival of the United States and Western Europe.
As compared to the resources possessed by those states, the %u201CIslamic Fascists%u201D have nothing. Only one Muslim country, Pakistan possesses nuclear weapons, and that country%u2019s handful of nuclear warheads is neutralized by India%u2019s larger and more sophisticated nuclear arsenal, as well as Israel%u2019s estimated 200-300 nuclear bombs. By all reasonable estimates, Iran is at least five years away from developing a nuclear bomb, and possesses no delivery system capable of reaching Western Europe, to say nothing of America. As for non-state %u201CIslamic Fascists%u201D they possess neither a nuclear weapon nor any delivery systems.
As far as the threat of a an agent of an %u201CIslamic Fascist%u201D organization or state getting his hand on a small nuclear devise and carrying it to the United States to be detonated, that threat is less credible than a rogue security operative affiliated with a western power getting his hand on such a devise. Such an eventuality itself is less credible than any random act of terrorism that may emanate from an unimaginable array of actors. As last year%u2019s shootings in Montreal and a rash of school shooting sprees throughout the United States demonstrate, any stray lunatic is capable of engaging in
RE:ITS TIME INDIAN MUSLIMS SHOULD RE-CONVERT INTO HINDUISM
by Brendan DeCruz on Dec 23, 2007 11:21 PM Permalink
i ASSURE YOU NEED NOT WORRY ABOUT THE INDIAN CHRISTIAN RECONVERTING... THEY DO NOT NEED YOUR ADVICE.... INDIAN CHRISTIANS HAVE DONE MUCH MORE THAN YOUR LOUSY ASS COULD EVEN THINK OFF....INDIAN CHRISTIANS ARE EQUALLY PATRIOTIC...WHY DONT YOU GO TO KARGIL AND GIVE URSELF UP INSTEAD OF GIVING UR USELESS SUGGESTIONS...
Rediff should leave proterrorism attitude by hiring some educated and pro-Indian reporter not like this Syed Firdaus Ashraf who looks like bangladeshi migrant and pro-talibani. Because whatever he writes here is a total lie. I recommand ppl to stay sometime in gujarat and realize the modi ruling its purely fantastic without any bifurcation. Congress used to subsidize muslim even with criminal records. they help illegal bangladeshi migrant, illegal electricity connections. thats why due to illegal activity everyone likes congress. Otherwise CONGRESS DID NOTHING IN LAST 45 YEARS AND BJP DID 1000% MORE THAN CONGRESS UNDER MODI'S RULE WITHIN 7-8 YEARS. I AM PROUD TO SAY NARENDRA MODI IS OUR CHIEF MINISTER.
RE:traitor author!
by deepak sharma on Dec 24, 2007 12:53 AM Permalink
Like U few idiot ppl are responsible to lying far behind in everyfield for community and ur worse condition due to ur crap and selfish idiology. Without reading entire statment of narendra modi u r getting CM as cheif minstr whereas in his statment cm depicts as a common man which modi wnt to be forever. So u ppl need to change ur crap idiology and look out of box with broad mind so that u n ur cummunity can also grow with the growth of country as a Indian first. We ppl are nt interested to mess with u. We jst wnt to focus on our progress as Indian and individual sothat we and country can grow. So change ur selfish idiology and use ur mind and thoughts to make this country more prosporus to live and grow togather. Its a betterment for all.
RE:RE:traitor author!
by nikhilhaas on Dec 24, 2007 06:44 AM Permalink
Don't live in fools paradise.How many ppl voted for vajpayee to become pm in 1996 and 1998
RE:Modi and God
by saturn on Dec 23, 2007 11:16 PM Permalink
You minorities think only about your advantages and gains and turn a blind eye on the suppression of majority community by the rulers.
Suppose a Pakistani government makes policies of suppressing the majority Muslim community and apeasing the minority Hindu community there, what will be the reaction of the Muslims there?
Exactly, same thing happened in Gujrat. Gujrati people have rose against these pseudo-secular policies of Congress and that is why Narendra Modi has basically been elected.
Unless the Congress realizes that 'secularism' does not mean continuous suppression of the majority community, they are bound to lose everywhere hereafter. This is only the beginning.
RE:RE:Modi and God
by hakeem on Dec 24, 2007 12:08 AM Permalink
Majority Oppression is a big lie. If it was so India wud have been an Islamic republic.
On the contrary muslims constitute the most backward community in India in socio=economic terms AND no NATION CAN PROGRESS IF IT IS HANDICAPPED!
RE:Modi and God
by sridhar on Dec 24, 2007 03:23 AM Permalink
You produce dozens of children per family and you are backward. when bjp tells about family planning it is communal.
Congress wants more muslims because of votes. You guys suffer for voting congress. vote for bjp. feel indian. join indian development.
RE:Modi and God
by saturn on Dec 23, 2007 11:37 PM Permalink
Old Monk, people don't become infidels just by calling them so. If at all there are any infidels, it is YOU and the likes of you!
Modi is a great person and a leader. He will surely always win against infidels like you.
Bush, Jews, as you say, will surely win because they can THINK in wider sense. But you are MADE to think only upto your outdated Madrassa education!
If you think, by calling anybody infidel, he becomes so, you are in a fool's paradise and would have to wait till you get your 72 (eighty year each) virgins!
RE:Modi and God
by Old Monk on Dec 24, 2007 12:11 AM Permalink
Dear Saturn,I am a great admirer of Modi and do wish him all the best.Now please dont confuse yourself,Muslims consider all others who do not submit to their blood thirsty deity as infidels.madrassa is an outdated version and belongs to the 7th century.I wish I had the 72 virgins,but in this world.
There were anxious moments during initial phase of counting as trends showed Congress catching up with the ruling BJP in a neck and neck race. But the mood soon changed as the saffron party surged ahead and a banner emerged saying that "BJP has won in Gujarat, now it is time to capture New Delhi".
