If the Supreme Court has banned SIMI then the ban is justified. Nothing is above the law of the land only fanatics will think otherwise. But wat i am not able to understand after going thru some of the messages n replies is why such a bad language is being used against Muslims in particular n Islam. I have seen Ppl on streets talking the way they r over here. Plz guys we r an educated lot and need to respect other religions and there Prophets even if it my religion or anybody else's Saif
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by vijay parasar on Feb 16, 2007 01:27 AM Permalink
why didn't u react when M F Hussein painted Indian godessess nude. U with like minded group should have have come out on the sts. and should have reacted with hindus.
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by jayan Narayanan on Feb 16, 2007 04:08 AM Permalink
you people talk great and there are some political parties like samajwadi, congress, dmk etc to support to get some political milage, but how many muslims honestly love this great country, how many muslims want dawood ibrahim to be brought back to India and punish, how many want salman to be punished?
how can some one love this country who is not willing to sing vande mataram at least once in a year.
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by shantanu mukherjee on Feb 16, 2007 04:28 AM Permalink
How many muslims were quizzed if dawood needs to be brought back, how many muslims were asked if they even care what happens to salman khan. political parties target the poor and illeterate population who have nothing to cling on but religion.And guess what these parties win, do you guys really think that the govt. gives a damn about religious minorities or majorities, they do a year before the polls. Banning SIMI is not a hindu muslim turnmoil, but its about nationalism. When india wins cricket matches, hindus and muslims take equal pride. When sania mirza does well hindus take pride, and that is because all the sports persons represent the the country. We believe or rather the media has made us believe that we will be a super power by 2010 or maybe 2020, but super power is not having 1 ambani and 1 Tata. Super power is growing toghther as a nation. And growing toghether means to shed casteist, linguistic and fascist barriers. Whenever it comes an issue like Afzal or SIMI, forums like this get flooded with hate mails. I don't understand this, we as a country need to prosper or we as a country need to be bothered about who is getting what. I think its time that we grow up and understand that the holy books frm all religions are books and we are humans and it is important that alongwith keepin the dignity of our religious beliefs we put forth humanity and nationalism before everything else.
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by Kaushik Das on Feb 16, 2007 07:53 AM Permalink
and how do you suggest we prosper? by giving reservations to muslims in the army? or by funding more haj subsidies with money from our temples? This is not about hatred. you media-educated guys take any attempt to educate the muslims as hatred. If you are so much in love, go and teach them that. They are living in a hindu majority country with equal rights (in fact, more than that). if we really hated them, would that have been so? however, they are taking advantage and have started organisations like simi so that they can actually get more than equal rights.
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by Arvinder Paul on Feb 16, 2007 05:32 AM Permalink
Very well said...hit the nail on the head !!! Hope we have a majority of people thinking like u !
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by Kaushik Das on Feb 16, 2007 07:54 AM Permalink
And why did these muslims not protest when salman claimed he was being targetted for being muslim? Why did aamir khan get support when he took a stance against development???
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by Kaushik Das on Feb 16, 2007 03:27 AM Permalink
I agree with you on the language thing. However, I cannot respect a person just because you respect him. E.g., I cannot respect musharraf and osama and their likes although they may have followers. The distinguishing thing should be right and wrong (same as al halaal and al haraam) but the halaal and haraam have to be decided on righteousness and not on who belongs to which religion. If certain things are fundamentally wrong, they should be opposed. The opposition to muslims is against their beliefs and fundamentals and harmful actions arising out of those, not against the people.
