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Militants Planned Attack On Indian Software Firms
Alien54 writes "Militants killed in an encounter in New Delhi on Saturday night planned to attack leading software companies in Bangalore in addition to the Indian Military Academy in Dehra Dun, Delhi police said on Sunday Indian police claim the men were members of Lashkar-e-Toiba - a Wahabi militant group fighting for an independent Kashmir. Apart from maps of call centers police also recovered 100 kilos of dynamite, 10.5 kilos of RDX explosive, 450 detonators, three AK-56 rifles and a satellite phone."
Well, would the independent Kashmir be based upon a policy of the total destruction of the nation of India, the elimination of all ethnic Indians from the peninsula and the destruction of all ancient Indian holy sites?
Now, about Palestine...
is that USofAns think "oh, outsourcing! the end of the world! lost American jobs!" and the rest of the world thinks "globalization is about if you send McD's to India, suits that you have to send some jobs too."
Only USofAns are bigots about outsourcing. Nah, not only them, but they are the worse bigots IRT outsourcing.
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First off nobody died. Second get off your high horse. These people are making light of our reaction to a possible problem in a region that is supposed to be supplying the replacements for us all. Yeah, sorry if them not having their shit together and us letting them know it offends you. Blow it out your ass.
Your right we were pissed off about people dancing in the fucking streets about 9/11, I wonder if you were talking to the happy arabs when that happened ? Perhaps you were going doctor phil on them and explaining how insensitive they were being, its a fucking wonder you didnt get your head chopped off.
Now please explain to me about how a failed attempt at terrorism is anywhere near the level of the worst terrorist action in history ? Then explain to me how your equating those two things is any less insensitive than people joking about call centre's and indian terrorists.
While your at it perhaps you could explain to me how this is any different than some americans finding humor in the constantly flooded/mud-slided/wild fire/hurricane/snowed on areas of the country ? Or did you miss the fact that we also mock/tease ourselves ?
"Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the the universe." --Albert Einstein
Many nations have conflicts over borders. Look at the African countries or the countries in latin/south america. Even Europe many years ago. Was that due to an inherent religious flaw?
.. yeah .. but it also says not to kill people etc. There are a few whacko militant type texts some of the whackos follow .. but those are separate from the Koran, which is technically the only book they are supposed to follow.
You get whacko muslims who think they are under some kind of seige from the west. And yeah you for example just said you want to kill all of them without regard to who's innocent so I'd say they aren't really living in an illusion about that are they? Does the Koran say some whacko shit
Read http://www.submission.org/ and find out what non whackos (the majority) of muslims believe.
AS for India's being secular ... isn't USA supposed to be the same ? Heck it is supposed to treat blacks and whites equally.
You are right. The way the USA treats white people is quite unfair. Blacks are given extra points to get into college and civil service jobs. It's institutional racism against white people
India to its credit has had a muslim president and a female prime minister.
Who cares? The race nor gender of a leader is really important.
When was the last time US could boast of either or those or a black heading the country ?
Colin Powell was the first choice for the Republican party as a nominee for President in 2000. He didn't want the Job. He would get elected very easly in the US since he has a lot of cross-party appeal. Condi Rice may run in 2008, Hillary Clinton will run. It's only a matter of time before there is an African American or Female president, my hope is that they are elected because of their talent, and not race or gender.
And despite the declarations of equality and black and whites peacefully coexisting, there have been riots between these two factions often enough.
The last 'riot' was around 1992 over the Rodney King trial and that wasn't much of a riot despite the news coverage. For the most part in American everyone gets along, in another generation or two I doubt it will even be much of an issue.
Heck in the light of current events I would go as far as to say, USA is ruled by a fundamentalst Christian Government. Care to dispute that ? who cares ?
You've really bought into this sterotype of Bush as some kind of right wing religious zealot haven't you? Well, as soon as their is forced prayer in school or mandatory bible studies then get back to me. Bush isn't even that far to the right in American politics, I suggest you look up the work of Pat Buchanan.
Given the choice Kashmir would leave India *and* Pakistan... and next morning have the Chinese walking in just like Tibbet, costing India a major militarily strategic region, and gaining the Kashmiris nothing as Chinese would be happy to wipe out the local muslim populace to make room for their own.
Highly unlikely. Most of the nations China trades with wouldn't take kindly to such action.
Any attack on our call centers is an attack on America. We should be clear on that.
The Soviets gave us much more reason to be terrified than the Wahabis probably ever can. But they never directly attacked our interests. Why? Because we threatened total destruction of their homeland. What is the homeland of the Wahabis? A hint: Mecca is its capitol. What could make the Wahabis stop? A suggestion: A credible threat to totally destroy Mecca if they ever step over the line again.
Look, Moscow is an incredibly beautiful place deeply rooted in world history too. But why were we so much readier to take ultimate action against those who believed in the utopia of Marx, but unwilling to offer to same level of threat against those who believe in the heaven of Mohammed?
Both Marx and Mohammed are equally flawed branches of the same tree our own culture grows from. Both have had worldwide followers who, despite sometimes good motivations, individually, collectively brought repression and backwardness to large parts of the world, while threatening more enlightened and realistic regions.
We're not angels, and the followers of these two flawed ideologues aren't devils: the Russians weren't, and neither are the Islamists, on the whole. But threatening the Russians with total destruction, and meaning it, was integral to surviving their threat and ultimately (or at least temporarily) dissolving their global reach and the depth of repression in their homeland. Let's make the same threat to the Islamists. And let's let them know that, just as we were prepared to defend our interests across the world from the Russians, so too will any significant strike in any part of the world against our interests be the end of Mecca.
"with their freedom lost all virtue lose" - Milton
Well considering the Jews are responsible for 9/11 and the Iraq war and insurgent bombings and Yasser Arafat's death and Laci Petterson's death, and Michael Jackson's child molestation and the Pope's fever and smog in Los Angeles and the 2005 tsunami and world hunger and U.N. sexual abuse in the Congo and genocide in Darfur and malaria and everything else evil in the world you are probably right. Blame the Jews!!!
Yo. Those cow-dung eating curries deserved to die regardless.
When you find me these other groups flying jets into buildings while crying Allah Akbahr, call me.
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