Sound is the propagation of a wave within a medium,
Well it's a little more complicated than that. Sound is MICROSCOPIC VIBRATIONAL modes propagated within a medium without any bulk motion. Matter waves of other kinds propagate through vacuum just fine. http://arxiv.org/abs/physics/0512047
Also, the rotating double-spiral structure of our own galaxy is believed by astrophysicists to be a soliton (a special kind of wave).
and in space, there is no medium with the density required to propagate a wave of any kind
not quite, since not all waves require media to propagate. Radiation doesn't, and it propagates through space just fine.
The Indians gained their independence by the grace of a first-world, free-press, gun-weilding populace in Britain, who were shocked at the treatment of the Indians at the hands of their own government. Care to cite some sources for this? Most of the British populace would not give a damn about Indians, seeing that they weren't white. Essentially the parent PakProtector was closer to the truth. The British simply abandoned India because controlling a rebellious populace was simply not worth it to a war-ravaged Britain, even if the rebellion was primarily nonviolent. Were it not for WW-II the British would never have freed the country solely on the basis of nonviolent protests and the various armed rebellions led by the Bengal revolutionaries and the socialist parties in South India would have had to do their job.
I just got back from NO. Things have improved significantly post-katrina. The French quarter is pretty clean. Even Bourbon street is clean except during , er, "operating hours" (ie at night hehe).
This wave of immigrations is several orders of magnitude larger than the previous waves. 50%+ of some of our southwestern cities are now hispanic, a change that has happened in the last 30 years, which also means that this wave is lasting far longer than the previous waves of immigration. which also means that the assimilation process will take a few more generations than with earlier cases, but it WILL happen. Also, large parts of the US (California, Texas etc) were traditionally Hispanic, so this is not a new thing at all. Hispanics have been around in US territories for a while, not just in the last 30 years.
This is NOT a left/right issue, since the extremes of both political ideologies actually agree on this, albeit for different reasons. Nope, it's pretty much for the same reason. Create a stereotyped "other" to fester some leftist Trotskyist state of "permanent revolution" through ethnic warfare (like Lenin and Stalin did with the Kulaks in Ukraine).
I never claimed a majority of them were in such groups, or that such groups were a threat to much of anything. I'm pointing this out to refute the parents claim that there is a universal will to assimilate, In the US there IS a universal will to assimilate. Otherwise the US would have broken up through sectarian insurgencies a long time ago.
or that all of them come here for our cultural values. Most come to the US to get rich. Believe it or not, that's a normative aspect of the American cultural value system ie good old Laissez-faire Capitalist greed,
It was a small example, and not quite worth some strange strings of vehement ad hominem, and odd attempts at politically classifying me. It wasn't my premeditated intention to lash out at you. It's just that I have been seeing a disturbing alliance between the fanatic left and the paleocon right in the US, and your rhetoric resembles theirs. All of the racism and xenophobia in the US today is the result of this bizarre alliance (and the stupid media blames it all on the new right, which is against all of this stuff).
Your collectivist judgment of "islamofascist" societies just plain stinks. Before the Lebanese civil war, Lebanon was a multicultural, pluralist society with a Christian majority. After the Lebanese civil war, Christians have been ethnically cleansed, Beirut is in ruins, and Jackbooted Hezbollah thugs rampage across the now-Muslim majority country. What else would you call this except Islamic fascism?
Saying they engage in imam-sanctioned gang rapes is like saying hispanics are paramilitary guerrillas who kidnap, rape, and torture. Some Hispanics DO kidnap, rape, and torture. The difference is that their motivations are economic and geopolitical, not religious (unlike Muslims). Hispanic Roman Catholics don't chant "death to infidels" in churches (though Roman Catholicism has it's fair share of bad eggs, to be sure; they just don't scare me as much as the Moslems do).
The correct word is Muslims not Moslem, and the end of your post shows how ignorant you are. You are generalizing the stereotype that is dominant in the US. It ain't a stereotype when it's true, effendi
"engage in forced female circumcisions". How is that attributed to Muslims when it is only conducted by very few African tripes? Assalam Alaykum, Ibn Khaldun (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Racism#Racism_in_the_Middle_Ages_and_during_the_Renaissance):). Try not to pass the buck so transparently.
"honor killings". Do you see this happening every where in the Muslim world? How often does it happen? Doesn't that happen among Hindus in India too or you just conveniently ignore it? 40 cases among Hindus in the last 60 years. Compare with 3000 cases a year in Islamic Pakistan.
"imam-sanctioned gang-rapes". I guess you have been watching too much of FOX News because it is one of their most popular stereotype they like to repeatedly play. Yes, the facts have a conservative bias, don't they?/sarcasm
"mass-riots and supremacist terrorism.". Protests are freedom of speech except when Muslims are protesting to voice their dismay. Burning down churches, synagogues, and other buildings and then throwing their women in them are "protests of dismay"???
Just remember that the re-actions of the Middle Eastern people are the product of the western policies in that region. Like they say, you make the bed you sleep in. No they are not. They have been invading, pillaging, raping and murdering under Islamic commandments long before the modern western world ever existed.
There are parts of my town that look exactly like Mexico, whole stretches with nary a sign in English, with mariachi and polka music blaring, and not a single business does business in English. In the latter half of the 19th century, the Irish started fleeing the potato famine and settling in New York. Parts of the city became like Dublin ghettoes.Whole stretches with "nary a sign" (AN IRISH PHRASE, oh the irony!) in English, with lewd drunkards step-dancing to raucous violins (and "confessing" their sins away in Church the next day). How is that any different from this? We're looking at a common thing among first-generation immigrants, eventually, they all assimilate, as have the Irish,
In the colleges here we have a sanctioned club (MeCHA) based on retaking the original Mexican territories back, based on the claim of "La Raza" ("The Race"). 1 in 10 cars here have Aztec imagery on them. None of these point towards a desire to assimilation. Anyone who believes that a few chicano ethno-extremists (like the ones you mention above) point to some systematic resistance to assimilation has had a paleoconservative blowjob affecting their brain functions. Too many stupid leftists are buying into the racist fascist crap of Pat Buchanan and his Paleoconservative Neo-Nazi propaganda.
Unlike previous waves of American immigrants, they don't want to be American, they just want a living wage, while keeping their culture. Its more Balkanization than assimilation. This is complete nonsense. The culture of Hispanic immigrants is already a unique thing, incorporating BOTH Hispanic and conventional American norms to a syncretic mix that is radically different from Mexico. It's not Balkanization at all. I've BEEN to the Balkans, and people are blowing each other up there. No Hispanics are blowing anything or anyone up here, nor will they.
A minority of them are willing to learn English to the point of actually doing so. In the past, there were neighborhoods in Brooklyn, New York, that were Yiddish only, German only, Hebrew only, Italian only, Russian only. When Maronite Christians from Lebanon started fleeing the Islamofascists and settling in the US, many of them were Arabic speakers only at first (most spoke French too, though). Eventually, all of those linguistic enclaves syncretized with the broader American culture, each contributing to the other. The same thing will happen here. The same thing is ALREADY happening here. How many Spanishisms do we use in American English already, mi amigo? American English is peppered with Irish, German, and Yiddish words already. Adding a few Spanishisms won't kill us unless you believe in some fascist ideas of "linguistic purity", in which case I suggest a trip to the library to study the history of the English language (Or even the Spanish language for that matter, which was liberally "Arabized" during the Andalusian period in Spain).
would be turning them back, and handing them a book on Che Guevara (and the history of the American revolution), and a M16 with a box of ammo. Are you crazy, or a leftist (same thing)? A large bulk of Hispanics came to the US to FLEE that sort of horror, and you want to send them back into it? This is not the 18th century you know!
There is no culture war with Hispanics in the US except in the collective imagination of the far-left/old-right alliance. Most of the issues (crime, poverty, welfare etc) are class-conflict issues that have nothing to do with culture. This is in sharp contrast to Moslem immigrants in Europe, where a clear Kulturkampf exists. last time I checked, Mexican immigrants don't engage in forced female circumcisions. honor killings, imam-sanctioned gang-rapes, mass-riots and supremacist terrorism. There was a 1 million strong Hispanic pro-immigration rally in the US just a few years ago, and not one drop of blood was spilled. Compare that with throngs of fanatic Moslems burning down France in the wake of the Mohamed cartoons...
Like 'Monkey,' I had to look up this 'Jenkem' stuff. It is apparently a hoax which has been debunked. See Monkey's link. Actually, it's not quite a hoax. It really exists in sub-saharan Africa. There was a hoax perpetrated that it was spreading to the US
[quote] Put any kid of any race (say, your kid) in a third world country with little food, no medical care, and have unlearned people raise him, and don't send him to school, and he'll be just like the native Africans. [/quote]
Absolutely true. As an example, look at the Kalash tribal people of Pakistan. They're basically white-caucasian (descended from Greeks), but they are among the poorest ethnic groups in the region.
In an exchange during a case against a Canadian racist/antisemite named Marc Lemire, Canadian Human Rights Commission (HRC) investigator Dean Steacy was asked "What value do you give freedom of speech when you investigate?" Dean responded: "Freedom of speech is an American concept, so I don't give it any value."
You're only allowed to say you hate white people, especially white men, anything else and you're a racist hate monger. There are parts of the world where white people are the minority (such as the Kalash tribes in South Asia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kalash ). Disparaging them is generally considered bad taste in polite society.
This double standard in the west regarding anti-white racism is related to white majoritarianism in democratic countries, rather than an injustice targeted at whites specifically.
The only exception is the white Boer minority in South Africa, who can be freely hated without any consequences for the haters. Keep in mind that the Boers, through the apartheid system, maintained quite an oppressive choke-hold over the black majority for quite some time. So now that apartheid is dead and stands universally condemned, racists among South African blacks are bound to exploit this to their propagandistic advantage (as we have seen with the anti-Boer pogroms going on in rural South Africa that largely go underreported in media). Hopefully, this is a temporary upheaval that'll balance out in the end...
As for blaming castes on the British, that's just low. If that's true, please explain why Britain does not have a caste system based on ethnicity The British most certainly aggrandized the caste system. They created an entire pseudohistorical narrative that identified themselves with the upper castes in India. Many Indians bought into this narrative because it allied themselves with the British
Also, treating Caste as race is politically mischevious nonsense, since there are no consistent racial or phenotypical differences across the castes. For a scientific analysis on this, I suggest you read Andre Beteille's "Race and Caste"
All TV news (including CNN, NBC and especially FOX, but perhaps excluding PBS). CNN? Don't make me laugh. CNN is the most radically pro-Islamist news outfit in the country (Christianne Amanpour, anyone?). FOX is a right wing rag, to be sure. To a moderate, however, NYT is just the left-wing FOX news. Full of falsifications, distortions, decontextualizations and xenophobic propaganda against certain targeted ethnicities. It's popular mainly because of it's art sections and it's self-comforting left-wing orientalism, not unlike a certain FOX News's right wing orientalism.
Just so we're clear, this is the daniel pipes who started the Middle East Forum ("one of a number of hardline neoconservative think tanks devoted to promoting a broad war on terror focused on the Middle East.") and its offspring, Campus Watch (a group intended to monitor middle east studies on college campuses, in a rather mccarthy-like manner). The one who has been a consistent warmonger (from vietnam onward). The one who wrote in The National Review:
"Western European societies are unprepared for the massive immigration of brown-skinned peoples cooking strange foods and maintaining different standards of hygiene...All immigrants bring exotic customs and attitudes, but Muslim customs are more troublesome than most." This is complete nonsense. Pipes' statement was taken out of context (mostly by radical far-left/Islamist propagandists). Pipes wasn't expressing any prejudices himself. His goal in it was to characterize the thinking of Western Europeans, not give his own views. Here is Pipes:
http://www.danielpipes.org/article/198
In retrospect, I should either have put the words "brown-skinned peoples" and "strange foods" in quotation marks or made it clearer that I was explaining European attitudes rather than my own." And he's basically right! I don't like it. I think it's ignorant. but he's right when you think about it. A majority of westerners ARE orientalists in that way. What can we do? Thanks for that bit of selection bias though. Very "moderate", inshallah.
Who the New York Times referred to as the leader of an "organized movement to stop Muslim citizens who are seeking an expanded role in American public life" Ah, the New York times, that bastion of impartial scribes./sacasm
That is different from your accusation of Indian Communists actively helping Chinese Military in the border skirmishes in Arunachal Pradesh!!! No. The CIA have clearly unearthed a major pandora's box here.CPM leaders EXPLICITLY aided the Chinese CCP against India. They deserve to hang from lampposts for this.
What you falsely accuse Indian Communists is of treason! You even link to PDFs on CIA website -as if CIA is an upholder of truth, democracy and all other shiny and lofty ideals. The CIA never lies outright. They are a pretty reliable source for the hard facts (the CIA world fact book is a standard repo of information, for instance). And yes, Indian Socialists are treasonous parasites. ALL of them. No exceptions. They are all pure and simple traitors, terrorists, and general purpose scum.
Kanu Sanyal and Charu Majumdar are revolutionaries No they are not. They are terrorist murderers and jackbooted thugrats. Pure and simple. Kanu Sanyal was SELF ADMITTEDLY a terrorist. He ADMITTED TO IT mate. he devised an entire terrorist strategy to destabilize a large part of the country (he called it yugantar) which is similar to Trotskyist communism (the worst most horrible form of communism there ever has been in the horrible blood-soaked history of horrible horrible communist evil).
However I dislike the ultra right wing elements and proponents of Hindutva - the versions of Hindu Taleban - Hindutvavadis are not beheading women or ramming planes into buildings. Hindutvas didn;t murder 3 million people in Bangladesh in 1971 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1971_Bangladesh_atrocities) unlike Islamists. I AM a Hindu nationalist of the Bal Gangadhar Tilak style (not quite the same as a Hindutva, which would be the Savarkar style) and there is much to criticize in the Hindutva ideology (wtf is it exactly? A lot of it isn't very specific), but it simply is not morally equivalent to the Taliban, and to make such an offensive analogy betrays your far-left/militant Islamist biases. Stop reading nonsense Indian media, which is controlled by a core group of ultra-fanatic Communist ideologues like Prannoy Roy and his minions. Stop reading racist bullshit from the New York Times or the Guardian. get some REAL information from political analysts and specialists in the South Asian region. Good sources are (google the names):
The South Asia Analysis Group (Indian)
The Washington Institute for Near-East Policy (American)
The Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs (American)
...given that China has an absolute authoritarian system of control, and India is bitterly divided along ideological lines, China should have little trouble penetrating and subjugating the country. Already, the Han Chinese chauvinists have been responsible for funding the entire Communist party machinery in India, and have effectively created a subversive government (The Communist Party of India) that is the agent of a hostile foreign country. The CIA has already provided evidence as to how Indian Communists, underthe instructions of their Chinese paymasters, infiltrated the Indian Army during the Sino-Indian war and betray military secrets to Beijing.
#CPI(M) [Communist Party of India Marxist] heavyweight HK Surjeet influenced by Communist Soviet Russia to setup an underground organization #CPI(M) did proceed to recruit a secret organization within the Indian Army. #China and Soviet Russia both insisted that the CPI(M) must develop a standby apparatus capable of armed resistance, while intensifying penetration of Indian Military forces. #With the People's Liberation Army now present along the Indian Border the Indian Party had a channel of support for Armed Operations and a potential "liberator" in the event of mass uprisings - 13 Sept 1959 #4 powerful radio sets had been installed in the office of the China Review in Calcutta to listen to broadcasts from Beijing #Chinese Financial Subsidies to sections of the CPI(M) particularly the left faction strongholds in West Bengal #A foreign supply base was now available for the underground organizations with the Chinese occupation of Tibet and other frontier areas. #Letter asking for collaboration in Indian underground organization work aimed at an eventual revolution, because China has a border with India and can provide arms and supplies. #Also Jaipal Singh, head of the illegal organization within the Indian Army decided to reactivate his organization in 1961 following the hard left faction gaining control of the party.
In addition, the Communist Party of India have successfully carried out several pogroms and genocides against Hindus and Tibetan refugees in India, particularly during the 70's and 80's, all as part of a Trotskyist strategy of maintaining a state of "permanent revolution" (the most recent one being the Nandigram SEZ Massacre), all at the behest of their Chinese paymasters.
China has also aggressively sponsored the terrorist Naxalite Communist terror movement in India by financing major Communist radicals (ethnic Bengali Bolshevists like Charu Mazumdar and Kanu Sanyal received training from Chinese war camps in Tibet only to subsequently lead the naxalite reign of terror across India's "Red Corridor").
For a developing country, India is too damn democratic. If India was more authoritarian it would have taken care of such subversive Communist elements a long time ago, but India's democracy is it's greatest weakness, particularly when it is surrounded by totalitarian regimes like Pakistan and China that represent a major existential threat to the country.
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Interesting paper. Although I always thought that "Crysknife" was taken from the Sikh "Kirpan" rather than the Malaysian dagger as the paper claims. Plus, the Fremen codes of conduct are definitely closer to the Sikh Khalsa Panth than any martial culture in the mideast that I'm aware of (maybe the Pukhtun in Afghanistan, but they're not Arabs either). Also, "Bene Gesserit" seems closer to Hebrew or Akkadian than Arabic per se ("Bene"/"Venei" the Hebraic phonetic of the Semitic root word "Children"; the Arabic is "Banu" I think). Then again, Semitic languages are so closely interconnected that it's hard for the non-linguist/non-native speaker to tell them apart...
Abul Ala Mawdudi [1903-1979], the founder of the Jamat-i Islami, is perhaps the most influential Muslim thinker of the 20th century, being responsible for the Islamic resurgence in modern times. He called for a return to the Koran and a purified sunna as a way to revive and revitalise Islam. In his book on apostasy in Islam, Mawdudi argued that even the Koran prescribes the death penalty for all apostates. He points to sura IX for evidence: "But if they repent and establish worship and pay the poor-due, then are they your brethren in religion. We detail our revelations for a people who have knowledge. And if they break their pledges after their treaty (hath been made with you) and assail your religion, then fight the heads of disbelief Lo! they have no binding oaths in order that they may desist."(IX: 11,12) Interestingly, Sayyid Abul Ala Mawdudi (a Pakistani) was also well-known for admiring Nazi germany and Fascist Italy. His books were published by an Islamic publication known as Dar-al-Ansar where he wrote:
German Nazism could not have succeeded in establishing itself except as a result of the theoretical contributions of Fichte, Goethe and Nietzsche,coupled with the ingenious and mighty leadership of Hitler and his comrades From Minhaj al-inquilab al-Islami by Abul Ala Mawdudi p 19
Furthermore, he stated explicitly that the "ideal Islamic society" would be identical to Fascist Italy or Nazi Germany. He was also responsible for launching pogroms against non-Muslim minorities in Pakistan throughout his life through his Islamic brownshirt organization, Jamaat-e-Islami. He was also involved in the genocide of Hindus and moderate Muslims in Bangladesh in 1971 using two front organizations, al-Shams and al-Badr.
There is an excellent paper, titled "Theoretical Paradigms of Islamic Movements" by Y. M. Choueiri (Political Studies 41 (1) , 108-116 doi:10.1111/j.1467-9248.1993.tb01641.x ) where his Nazi connections are described in greater detail.
Regardless of what the source publishes regularly, the stated author in the article, Gordon Thomas, is an award-winning Welsh author who wrote books exposing CIA abuses that became very famous. Here is the review of a book by Thomas about Mossad http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m2242/is_1606_275/ai_58055879.
Exposing this sort of propaganda is right up Thomas's alley.
It is possible that the Communist Parties of India (marxist as well as maoist) are involved in these cyber-attacks. They're pretty much the worst variety of radical Communist thugs in South Asia right now, and they have been known to engage in pogroms against Tibetan monks/exiles in India at the behest of their Chinese paymasters.They have rigid editorial control over the Indian media, and routinely spew forth venom and propaganda that glorifies the Chinese CCP and demonizes Tibetans. They even tried to blacklist Tibetan expats in India during the early 90s. Plus, they have a large pool of brainwashed IT types whom they recruit from colleges in Calcutta using their youth wing, the Students Federation of India (basically a terrorist group in on itself that once got caught training suicide bombers in North Bengal in India). It is entirely within their means to pull of this type of cyber-attack if they can receive tactical support from their communist counterparts in the US like the fringe CPUSA.
And I was disgusted to see the article "Tibet", supposedly about the history and culture of the regon, mostly devoted to a long rationalisation of why it is and always has been a part of China (excpet for when it was influenced by Evil Western Colonialists). Believe it or not that damn page has a google page rank of 7. Although a glance at the history page seems to indicate that some of the communist tripe has been toned down over the months, WTF??!??! I think that the Tibetan diaspora should start their own wiki-site (wikis get higher placement on google searches than regular websites) and counter such bullshit.
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Sound is the propagation of a wave within a medium,
Well it's a little more complicated than that. Sound is MICROSCOPIC VIBRATIONAL modes propagated within a medium without any bulk motion. Matter waves of other kinds propagate through vacuum just fine.
http://arxiv.org/abs/physics/0512047
Also, the rotating double-spiral structure of our own galaxy is believed by astrophysicists to be a soliton (a special kind of wave).
and in space, there is no medium with the density required to propagate a wave of any kind
not quite, since not all waves require media to propagate. Radiation doesn't, and it propagates through space just fine.
I just got back from NO. Things have improved significantly post-katrina. The French quarter is pretty clean. Even Bourbon street is clean except during , er, "operating hours" (ie at night hehe).
There is no culture war with Hispanics in the US except in the collective imagination of the far-left/old-right alliance. Most of the issues (crime, poverty, welfare etc) are class-conflict issues that have nothing to do with culture. This is in sharp contrast to Moslem immigrants in Europe, where a clear Kulturkampf exists. last time I checked, Mexican immigrants don't engage in forced female circumcisions. honor killings, imam-sanctioned gang-rapes, mass-riots and supremacist terrorism. There was a 1 million strong Hispanic pro-immigration rally in the US just a few years ago, and not one drop of blood was spilled. Compare that with throngs of fanatic Moslems burning down France in the wake of the Mohamed cartoons...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jenkem
But it does exist, unfortunately. Extreme poverty often breeds extreme desperation. It's also very poisonous. sad.
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Put any kid of any race (say, your kid) in a third world country with little food, no medical care, and have unlearned people raise him, and don't send him to school, and he'll be just like the native Africans.
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Absolutely true. As an example, look at the Kalash tribal people of Pakistan. They're basically white-caucasian (descended from Greeks), but they are among the poorest ethnic groups in the region.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/4748292.stm A Sudanese man has been forced to take a goat as his "wife", after he was caught having sex with the animal.
In an exchange during a case against a Canadian racist/antisemite named Marc Lemire, Canadian Human Rights Commission (HRC) investigator Dean Steacy was asked "What value do you give freedom of speech when you investigate?" Dean responded: "Freedom of speech is an American concept, so I don't give it any value."
http://www.nationalpost.com/opinion/story.html?id=405744
Holy shite! Is this guy for real?
This double standard in the west regarding anti-white racism is related to white majoritarianism in democratic countries, rather than an injustice targeted at whites specifically.
The only exception is the white Boer minority in South Africa, who can be freely hated without any consequences for the haters. Keep in mind that the Boers, through the apartheid system, maintained quite an oppressive choke-hold over the black majority for quite some time. So now that apartheid is dead and stands universally condemned, racists among South African blacks are bound to exploit this to their propagandistic advantage (as we have seen with the anti-Boer pogroms going on in rural South Africa that largely go underreported in media). Hopefully, this is a temporary upheaval that'll balance out in the end...
For details, see
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aryan_race#British_Raj
Also, treating Caste as race is politically mischevious nonsense, since there are no consistent racial or phenotypical differences across the castes. For a scientific analysis on this, I suggest you read Andre Beteille's "Race and Caste"
Linky:
http://wcar.alrc.net/mainfile2.php/For+the+negative/14/
"Western European societies are unprepared for the massive immigration of brown-skinned peoples cooking strange foods and maintaining different standards of hygiene...All immigrants bring exotic customs and attitudes, but Muslim customs are more troublesome than most." This is complete nonsense. Pipes' statement was taken out of context (mostly by radical far-left/Islamist propagandists). Pipes wasn't expressing any prejudices himself. His goal in it was to characterize the thinking of Western Europeans, not give his own views. Here is Pipes:
http://www.danielpipes.org/article/198 In retrospect, I should either have put the words "brown-skinned peoples" and "strange foods" in quotation marks or made it clearer that I was explaining European attitudes rather than my own." And he's basically right! I don't like it. I think it's ignorant. but he's right when you think about it. A majority of westerners ARE orientalists in that way. What can we do?
Thanks for that bit of selection bias though. Very "moderate", inshallah. Who the New York Times referred to as the leader of an "organized movement to stop Muslim citizens who are seeking an expanded role in American public life" Ah, the New York times, that bastion of impartial scribes.
I AM a Hindu nationalist of the Bal Gangadhar Tilak style (not quite the same as a Hindutva, which would be the Savarkar style) and there is much to criticize in the Hindutva ideology (wtf is it exactly? A lot of it isn't very specific), but it simply is not morally equivalent to the Taliban, and to make such an offensive analogy betrays your far-left/militant Islamist biases. Stop reading nonsense Indian media, which is controlled by a core group of ultra-fanatic Communist ideologues like Prannoy Roy and his minions. Stop reading racist bullshit from the New York Times or the Guardian. get some REAL information from political analysts and specialists in the South Asian region. Good sources are (google the names):
The South Asia Analysis Group (Indian)
The Washington Institute for Near-East Policy (American)
The Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs (American)
and other similar groups.
...given that China has an absolute authoritarian system of control, and India is bitterly divided along ideological lines, China should have little trouble penetrating and subjugating the country. Already, the Han Chinese chauvinists have been responsible for funding the entire Communist party machinery in India, and have effectively created a subversive government (The Communist Party of India) that is the agent of a hostile foreign country. The CIA has already provided evidence as to how Indian Communists, underthe instructions of their Chinese paymasters, infiltrated the Indian Army during the Sino-Indian war and betray military secrets to Beijing.
http://www.foia.cia.gov/CPE/POLO/polo-07.pdf
http://www.foia.cia.gov/CPE/POLO/polo-08.pdf
http://www.foia.cia.gov/CPE/POLO/polo-09.pdf
http://www.foia.cia.gov/CPE/ESAU/esau-15.pdf
Highlights include:
#CPI(M) [Communist Party of India Marxist] heavyweight HK Surjeet influenced by Communist Soviet Russia to setup an underground organization
#CPI(M) did proceed to recruit a secret organization within the Indian Army.
#China and Soviet Russia both insisted that the CPI(M) must develop a standby apparatus capable of armed resistance, while intensifying penetration of Indian Military forces.
#With the People's Liberation Army now present along the Indian Border the Indian Party had a channel of support for Armed Operations and a potential "liberator" in the event of mass uprisings - 13 Sept 1959
#4 powerful radio sets had been installed in the office of the China Review in Calcutta to listen to broadcasts from Beijing
#Chinese Financial Subsidies to sections of the CPI(M) particularly the left faction strongholds in West Bengal
#A foreign supply base was now available for the underground organizations with the Chinese occupation of Tibet and other frontier areas.
#Letter asking for collaboration in Indian underground organization work aimed at an eventual revolution, because China has a border with India and can provide arms and supplies.
#Also Jaipal Singh, head of the illegal organization within the Indian Army decided to reactivate his organization in 1961 following the hard left faction gaining control of the party.
In addition, the Communist Party of India have successfully carried out several pogroms and genocides against Hindus and Tibetan refugees in India, particularly during the 70's and 80's, all as part of a Trotskyist strategy of maintaining a state of "permanent revolution" (the most recent one being the Nandigram SEZ Massacre), all at the behest of their Chinese paymasters.
China has also aggressively sponsored the terrorist Naxalite Communist terror movement in India by financing major Communist radicals (ethnic Bengali Bolshevists like Charu Mazumdar and Kanu Sanyal received training from Chinese war camps in Tibet only to subsequently lead the naxalite reign of terror across India's "Red Corridor").
For a developing country, India is too damn democratic. If India was more authoritarian it would have taken care of such subversive Communist elements a long time ago, but India's democracy is it's greatest weakness, particularly when it is surrounded by totalitarian regimes like Pakistan and China that represent a major existential threat to the country.
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Interesting paper. Although I always thought that "Crysknife" was taken from the Sikh "Kirpan" rather than the Malaysian dagger as the paper claims. Plus, the Fremen codes of conduct are definitely closer to the Sikh Khalsa Panth than any martial culture in the mideast that I'm aware of (maybe the Pukhtun in Afghanistan, but they're not Arabs either). Also, "Bene Gesserit" seems closer to Hebrew or Akkadian than Arabic per se ("Bene"/"Venei" the Hebraic phonetic of the Semitic root word "Children"; the Arabic is "Banu" I think). Then again, Semitic languages are so closely interconnected that it's hard for the non-linguist/non-native speaker to tell them apart...
"But if they repent and establish worship and pay the poor-due, then are they your brethren in religion. We detail our revelations for a people who have knowledge. And if they break their pledges after their treaty (hath been made with you) and assail your religion, then fight the heads of disbelief Lo! they have no binding oaths in order that they may desist."(IX: 11,12) Interestingly, Sayyid Abul Ala Mawdudi (a Pakistani) was also well-known for admiring Nazi germany and Fascist Italy. His books were published by an Islamic publication known as Dar-al-Ansar where he wrote: German Nazism could not have succeeded in establishing itself except as a result of the theoretical contributions of Fichte, Goethe and Nietzsche,coupled with the ingenious and mighty leadership of Hitler and his comrades From Minhaj al-inquilab al-Islami by Abul Ala Mawdudi p 19
Furthermore, he stated explicitly that the "ideal Islamic society" would be identical to Fascist Italy or Nazi Germany. He was also responsible for launching pogroms against non-Muslim minorities in Pakistan throughout his life through his Islamic brownshirt organization, Jamaat-e-Islami. He was also involved in the genocide of Hindus and moderate Muslims in Bangladesh in 1971 using two front organizations, al-Shams and al-Badr.
There is an excellent paper, titled "Theoretical Paradigms of Islamic Movements" by Y. M. Choueiri (Political Studies 41 (1) , 108-116 doi:10.1111/j.1467-9248.1993.tb01641.x ) where his Nazi connections are described in greater detail.
No it's not. If he was a conspiracy theorist then he wouldn't be peer-reviewed.
Regardless of what the source publishes regularly, the stated author in the article, Gordon Thomas, is an award-winning Welsh author who wrote books exposing CIA abuses that became very famous. Here is the review of a book by Thomas about Mossad http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m2242/is_1606_275/ai_58055879.
Exposing this sort of propaganda is right up Thomas's alley.
It is possible that the Communist Parties of India (marxist as well as maoist) are involved in these cyber-attacks. They're pretty much the worst variety of radical Communist thugs in South Asia right now, and they have been known to engage in pogroms against Tibetan monks/exiles in India at the behest of their Chinese paymasters.They have rigid editorial control over the Indian media, and routinely spew forth venom and propaganda that glorifies the Chinese CCP and demonizes Tibetans. They even tried to blacklist Tibetan expats in India during the early 90s. Plus, they have a large pool of brainwashed IT types whom they recruit from colleges in Calcutta using their youth wing, the Students Federation of India (basically a terrorist group in on itself that once got caught training suicide bombers in North Bengal in India). It is entirely within their means to pull of this type of cyber-attack if they can receive tactical support from their communist counterparts in the US like the fringe CPUSA.