Sick and tired of Islamic fanatics holding the world to ransom

The UK government’s decision to bestow knighthood upon Salman Rushdie has scores of Islamic fanatics around the world (noticeably in Iran and Pakistan right now) fuming in collective insanity…..yet again!

Both Pakistan and Iran have lodged strong protests with the UK government and have asked the latter to withdraw Rushdie’s knighthood. Pakistan’s Minister of Religious Affairs (puke) Ijaz-ul-Haq has gone to the extent of calling this an incitement to terrorism on the part of the UK government.

Predictably, effigies are being burnt, slogans are being chanted (Death to Britain, death to Rushdie) on the streets of Pakistan.

Give it a week and news of such incidents would start pouring in from India, Indonesia, Netherlands, far and wide, just like it happened during the Danish cartoon imbroglio.

What really takes the cake is the Pakistani minister justifying future acts of terrorism because of Rushdie being granted knighthood. This is yet another example of Islam-o-freaks threatening the world to fall in line with them or be ready to face the consequences. Their problem is they forget that there is a world beyond the Koran, Prophet Muhammed and Islam, at least for the rest of us. Not everyone in the world has the luxury of being unemployed and illiterate, therefore having the freedom of getting out on the steets protesting this or that/blowing up this or that. We have jobs, not to mention freedom of expression, which may be an alien concept in these societies, but is a way of life for us.

Our world is going a scarier place by the day, if their response to every thing that displeases them is threats of violence. Why is it that they have suddenly become the dictators of what is right/wrong, acceptable/unacceptable to the rest of the world?

Britain is an independent country. Now, if a free country wants to felicitate or punish an individual for their corresponding actions, it should be allowed to do so at free will. How does what the UK government do within its borders, make any difference what so ever to Pakistan and Iran? In fact, why should the latter two give any importance to Britain’s actions? Are they not then claiming Britain’s supremacy to them in the world order? Secondly, Britain’s constitution declares Christianity to be their state faith, with an established church. Given that as well, Britain is not expected to treat other religions at par. Islamic nations should know; they are the worst perpetrators of religious discrimination. In UAE for instance, people from other religions are not allowed to pray in public. Similarly in Afghanistan, historic Buddhist Baamiyan statues were destroyed by the Taliban. I don’t remember Buddhists of the world taking to streets or threatening to become suicide bombers. Would I be committing blasphemy by claiming that this is probably because Buddhism is a religion of peace, and has leaders like Dalai Lama and not the Shahi Imam of Delhi’s Jama Masjid.
A Google search will reveal recent news pieces about Hindus/Christians in Pakistan being threatened to convert to Islam or be killed. While the Babri masjid demolition in India made news around the world and the echoes are still heard, when Malaysia repeatedly bulldozes Hindu temples, no one even blinks.

Why is it that these people are not willing to accord respect to other faiths yet expect the same from the rest of us? Brute force, is what these Islam-o-fascists are becoming and increasingly dividing the world into two factions. Also, would it be too wrong to argue that they know their strength is in their numbers and their spread around the world, and they have now begun to exploit that? Either you are with them or you are against them!!

Given the growing trend of Islamic fanaticism within UK, it won’t be a surprise if the issue soon erupts within the country itself. I for one can only pray to Allah (J) that the UK government doesn’t bow to these bigoted minds!!

Why should Anna Nicole Smith's death make any difference to the average Indian?

Okay, I used to think that the Times of India's obsession with Paris Hilton is ridiculous...but last week when Anna Nicole Smith (ANS) , an absolutely inconsequential starlet/former Playboy playmate died, scores of Indian media sources carried this piece of news..Tell me why does the average Indian, people like you and me, need to know about this..??

I was surprised to find a small piece on ANS's death in the Indian Express, had expected it in the Times of India but definitely not bang on top of the Indian Express website. Later, I found the same story on Indian Express's Screen, their entertainment portal which was still okay...my patience really ran out when I saw the story in nothing less than the Financial Express..

A quick Google search reveals the following other media organizations carried news bits on ANS's death and the controversy surrounding her baby's father:

DNA

The Times of India

NDTV

CNN_IBN

Nagaland Post (really!!! see, www.nagalandpost.com)

The Statesman

Hindustan Times Tabloid

Samachar.com

Indo-Asian News Service

Zee News

The Statesman, otherwise known as the snobbish Bengali mouthpiece, carried the story in its in"international section", along with other stories like:

‘Jinnah wasn’t a real hero’
Another flawed Iraq probe
Fonda, Sally take a decision
N-talks hit Chinese wall

No coup plans, says Bangla army

Sure, they carried the story as a stub, but imagine placing the news item between stories about international wars, a possible coup in a neighboring nation, the nuclear debate etc...

It is really really HARD to get over our colonial mindsets, isn't it?

These videos below are pretty scary...

There are occasions, when I wonder if the non-Islamic world is doing a disservice to itself by trying to be politically correct all the time...You know apologizing for anything or everything that comes out of a newspaper or someone's mouth like say the Pope...

The undercover investigative videos which were done by an undercover British reporter leave no doubt in mind about the fanaticism of a particular breed of Islam. They talk about conversions, about killing gays, about women being deficient to men in every sense of the word...they talk about every non-Muslim being a Kafir and therefor not worthy of being an acquaintance of Muslims. It is okay, they say, to kill a non-muslim. Or to throw a homosexual down a mountain...

These are NOT the people one sits and TALKS with...These are NOT the people who believe in Live and Let Live...Why then does the world have to bend over backwards to these despots apologizing and pleasing them??? Correct me if I am wrong, but the world still awaits a Muslim apology over the destruction of the Bamiyaan statues...I don't remember Buddhists breaking into riots all over the world because of that...Bamiyaan was history, Bamiyaan was religion....yet peace prevailed

The Indian government is talking about reservations for Muslims, for more industrial loans etc etc...and in one of the videos below one of the Mullahs is telling the listeners to bomb Indian businesses as a duty...

I know eye for an eye make the whole world blind...but should it be allowed to come to a point where the other person takes advantage of your reluctance to give back in the same measure...I am not sure

Richard Gere to prostitutes: Say no to customers who don't use a condom

Yeah, and then call Richard Gere to ensure that your family has food to eat....

Really...where do all these rich people get off saying such stupid stuff....

If only a prostitute had the wherewithal to say NO to her customers, she wouldn't be a prostitute in the first place...Gere's statement is so typical of people put in situations they don't really understand....

And what is with making such a song and dance about AIDS...its either fashion shows, or film stars dancing or Shahrukh Khan playing Santa to AIDS effected kids....it is a bloody carnival, they make a mockery out of the damn disease...

And now here is a photo of Bipasha Basu dancing with 1500 sex-workers....a tamaasha really...at the end of the day, Basu would still go back to her film-star life, a bungalow, ten cars and the works...the sex workers would still be sex workers....they probably would go straight to "work" after the show is over..

Basu's dancing and Gere's hollering No Condom No Sex unfortunately doesn't do much to change a prostitute's life...

Go Home Gere...!!!

is it just me who finds the Saddam Hussein videos unnerving?

Seriously, what is the world coming to? The videos of Sadam Hussein's execution were on You Tube in less than 24 hours. What would news channels have not given to be present there?

Yet another example of how the role of the mainstream media is being superceded by ordinary individuals all over the world. What this trend says about our increasingly voyeuristic world is another story...

Isn't this the first execution of a war criminal/nation head/international figure/ call him what you may....shot on amateur video? Are there any other examples of something of this sort?

Yet, I can vouch that a huge percentage of us were scrounging YouTube or random video websites, expecting or knowing in a way that someway, somehow a video would land on the internet....in fact, it would have surprised us had we not found anything....long live the internet???