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frenchmen should be grateful to indians incuding indian muslims
by krupakaran on Aug 02, 2008 03:28 PM

gautier should know that he & his nation owe their survival to indians including many distinguished indian muslims. During world war 1, britain as india's colonial ruler forcibly recruited indians from villages to fight in Europe against Germans who had quickly occuppied Northern France and Belgium.Notable triumphs of indian army in first world war include battle of ypres in Belgium and at neuilly-chapelle in France.And many martyrs were muslims. The first indian to win the Victoria Cross was Khudadad Khan from Northwest Frontier Province (NWFP, now part of Pakistan) who was injured at ypres.So , it does not behove Gautier to sling mud at segments of the Indian people. But for Indians, the Germans would long ago have castrated his nation of sissies and flirts.

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India: A weakening civilisation