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rfmcdonald(Picked up at the Drake Hotel with my morning two-pieces-of-fruit-and-coffee breakfast, actually.)
This morning, in the letters section, one Naresh Raghubeer had a letter published entitled "Religious Rage." This letter was written in reply to Daniel Pipes' bizarre article "Between Rage and Appeasement", which criticizes the French not only for not mobilizing violently against their vulnerable Muslim minority in the recent incident of the journalists taken hostage in Iraq, but for actively recruiting willing French Muslim leaders to condemn the atrocity. The Nepalese approach, dominated by a pogrom, impresses Pipes at the very least for its force. The full text of "Religious Rage" is available here. The salient paragraphs are excerpted below:
It's rather impressive how Raghubeer manages to conflate the Muslims who attacked the train with the two thousand Muslims who ended up being slaughtered in Gujarat in the spring of 2002 by Hindu mobs, as if the two groups overlap significantly in any way apart from a shared Muslim identity (out of a Muslim population numbering well over 100 million in India), and as if the VHP-organized massacres represent any kind of civilized response.
I encourage people who feel as outraged as I do to send in critical letters to the National Post (include your name, address, and daytime phone number). The CCD is probably a lost cause, but their contact page includes their E-mail.
You know, it would be nice if the West's own radicals didn't equate democracy with Islamophobia.
This morning, in the letters section, one Naresh Raghubeer had a letter published entitled "Religious Rage." This letter was written in reply to Daniel Pipes' bizarre article "Between Rage and Appeasement", which criticizes the French not only for not mobilizing violently against their vulnerable Muslim minority in the recent incident of the journalists taken hostage in Iraq, but for actively recruiting willing French Muslim leaders to condemn the atrocity. The Nepalese approach, dominated by a pogrom, impresses Pipes at the very least for its force. The full text of "Religious Rage" is available here. The salient paragraphs are excerpted below:
A similar level of rage [to the Nepalese pogrom] occurred in Godhra, India, in 2001, when Muslims attacked a train carrying Hindu pilgrims. Fifty-six Hindu men, women and children met their premature death in the most gruesome way. They were burnt to death by a mindlessly hateful mob on a train where the compartments were doused with inflammables and locked from outside to cause the maximum number of deaths. Like the Nepalese, these people were singled out because of their religion.
These unprovoked attacks stirred the Hindu communities in Nepal and India, and what resulted was violence and rage against those who murdered them in the name of Islam.
Unlike the Euarabian French, Hindus in India and Nepal no longer appear willing to appease Islamic terrorists at the price of their religious and cultural survival.
It's rather impressive how Raghubeer manages to conflate the Muslims who attacked the train with the two thousand Muslims who ended up being slaughtered in Gujarat in the spring of 2002 by Hindu mobs, as if the two groups overlap significantly in any way apart from a shared Muslim identity (out of a Muslim population numbering well over 100 million in India), and as if the VHP-organized massacres represent any kind of civilized response.
I encourage people who feel as outraged as I do to send in critical letters to the National Post (include your name, address, and daytime phone number). The CCD is probably a lost cause, but their contact page includes their E-mail.
You know, it would be nice if the West's own radicals didn't equate democracy with Islamophobia.
