Good points

Submitted by Vijay (United Kingdom), Jul 28, 2007 at 08:43

>Submitted by dhimmi no more, Jul 22, 2007 at 07:22

>I do believe that all the efforts of the war on terror should have been aimed at Pakistan. This artificial >country that was created by carving part of historical India to create a Muslim country. I will never forgive the >Brits for creating such a country.

Compare the haste with which the British allowed the partition of India on religious grounds to the extreme sensitiveness to Arab opinion by preventing the formation of independent Kurdistan or breaking up Iraq. After all Iraq was an artificial creation of the British imperialism in the 1920s, by banging together disparate communities unde the supremacy of Sunni Arabs.

>And why did we allow the Pakistanis to create their own Atomic weapons? And why do we allow Pakistanis to move >to the west by the truck load? I believe that the bigeest crime that was committed by Indian Muslims (read >this as Pakistanis also) was the conversion of the Hindu/Buddhists on Indonesia to the religion of the Arabs >and I do believe that this is the aim of Pakistanis to convert all of us. Can you imagine the world now with less >200M muslims and an extra 200M Buddhists and Hindus? We will have more peace for sure.

The part played by the US and other western powers in the propping up of Radical Islam is a shameful chapter of 20th century. The present crisis has come about due to the unconcious collusion between the US/West and Islamic radicalism. Unless the countries around the world are determined to root out Islamic radicalism and it's overt and covert supporters, whether they are governments, businesses , mosques, financiers, academics, or individuals by taking them head on, islamic terrorism will only grow.

Ordianry Muslims will reject islamic terrorists only if everry act of Islamic terrorists are connected with their Islamic roots and Islam itself is in danger of extinction. Islam is NOT a moral or a spiitual system, but a power system. It is the power system of supremacy of man over women, Arabs over non-Arabs, Muslims over non-Muslims. Only when they are shown to be powerless, they will come to their senses.

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