Tuesday, March 02, 2010

Riots have broken out in Bangalore because a newspaper published a translation of an article by the Bangladeshi author Tasleema Nasreen that women should refuse to wear the burqa even if it is written in the holy book. Mobs have burnt cars and looted shops forcing the police to open fire. The editor of the paper has been charged with spreading communal hatred. It remains to be seen what the lying, freeloading press makes of that. If the past is anything to go by there will be a lot of hand wringing and articles saying that muslims must be hugged and loved no matter what they do. There will be no abuse as directed against Hindus for objecting to M. F. Hussein's painting a naked picture of the Goddess Saraswati and wanting to sell it. The gratuitous insult ' Hindu Taliban ' was used against the people who objected to this gross provocation. Now however there will be only lies and some long dead skeleton from the past, such as Kabir, will be dug up to provide support to the ' peaceful muslim ' idea. The truth is that in any part of the world where there are more than a hundred muslims there is violence. I am sure the Quran or the Prophet never said to kill indiscriminately in the name of Jihad but that is what muslims do. The most dangerous lie is of course that of the ' moderate muslim.' Like the ' moderate Taliban ' it is a complete oxymoron. Even those who do not actively kill other human support the killer with money, refuge or silent consent. There is only one way this scourge will be banished from the earth and that is the ' war of civilisations.' Or else we are all dead.

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