Killing with best of intentions

Some one who considers whole world to be his family, thereby endeavours to help others in need can be considered as humanists.

However those who refuses to take cognizance of the fact that evil exists, who denies any distinction between moral and immoral, good and evil, who vehemently rejects the truth that sometimes it might be necessary to indulge in violence and destruction to save what is vital, and critical, those worthies are not friends of humanity. By their acts of falsification unintended or deliberate, they become worse enemies of mankind.

The moral of story is to be wary of do- gooders.

Treason

J & K CM seeks clemency for Afzal,

Unbelievable ! Bloody Traitors! Azad & other like him should be hanged along with Afzal.

Evidence & Punishment

ISI backs Al Qaeda: British Intelligence,

This is predictable. Now Indian media will flaunt this as a evidence that Pakistan supports terrorism. If the next news cycle doesn't kick in, it might be turn into a gleefest as well.

I admit, I find this puzzling. The so called "evidence" is required for whose satisfaction exactly ?
Surely, not for Indians or at any rate those who have been in touch with real world during last decade (rules out most of the progressives and few journalists turned bloggers I admit, but we are talking about reasonably sensible person, not those who have leaped off the cliff of reality).
It would be beyond absurd if Indians require convincing at this juncture.

But of course the evidence is not meant for Indians, it is meant for west in general, and Uncle Sam in particular. And at least to me this is truly astounding. Presenting evidence to USA implies that we expect them to save our skin. This kind of idiocy is only the result of ideological bankruptcy. In real world, which is invisible to those living within thick walls of moral equivalence & Utopian ideals, but which is what matters; the very simple rule is, everyone is on his own.

If India thinks that terrorism is a significant threat (as opposed to a platform to launch libertarian rant about traffic signals being worse than terrorism) then it is up to Indians to evolve a solution. No one will be coming forward to take the burden off our shoulder.

We should have the capability and the willingness to punish those whom we find as perpetrators of crime against Indian citizens.

AfterThought : There is another issue involved, demanding US to solve our problem and at the same time criticizing that country for crimes (real and imagined), pretending poverty to be intellectual (or spiritual depending on which side one stands) superiority as opposed to American hedonism is not only hypocritical or delusional, it is beyond pathetic.

It is my speculation that a man's worst enemy ,more often than not, is he himself.
Same goes for civilizations. Today the only power that can stop India is not US, China or Pakistan. It is our own moribund world view.

Update: gems of posts from Nitin.

Induhvidualism

Assume (hypothetically of course) that amongst the current crop of Aym-Gramds, few not so eminent ones decide to establish a church of roarkin' creed. These devotees of Ayn Rand (the only purveyor of truth), declare that to them imposition of tax, in fact the very existence of state is anathema and acceptance of authorities is violation of their religious principles, there they can not pay any kind of taxes.

According to our proponents of individual rights and freedom, since this action doesn't violate any one Else's rights, no one (least of all the state or heaven's forbid society) has any right to coerce or compel them contrary to their wishes.

This is why the proponent of individual rights are induhviduals.

Aphorism: Redundancy

India needs secularism as much as Boeing needs propeller.

Islamophobia !

This blogger has discovered some blatant and nauseating incidences of Muslim hatred from people hitherto unsuspected of communal leaning.

Mussalmans have an ordeal to pass through. There can be no doubt that they
are too free with the knife and the pistol. The sword is an emblem of Islam. But
Islam was born in an environment where the sword was, and still remains, the
supreme law. The message of Jesus has proved ineffective because the environment
was unready to receive it. So with the message of the Prophet. The sword is yet
too much in evidence among the Mussalmans. It must be sheathed if Islam is to be
what it means - peace."

This said by Mahatma Gandhi, 80 years ago, after murder of Swami Shraddhanand. Outrage, how could he say this, knowing that except for few extremists Islam is just like any other religion.

But the oppression against Muslims and Islam doesn't stop here.
Sample this

Islam divided the world into Dar-ul Islam ( Abode of Islam) and Dar-ul Harb
(Abode of War) and that it is incumbent of Muslims to wage war against any
country that is not controlled by Muslims.

My cup of woe runneth over ! This said by Mr. Ambedkar ! He must be denounced (here cognitive dissonance must be setting in, after all it is one oppressed group vs. another oppressed group)

I assure you this is just the tip of the iceberg. Our leaders, whose fossils are revered as leading figures of secularism, have frequently been critical of Islam and its adherents.

Which automatically means that they are communal. For isn't this criteria (i.e. criticism of Islam) applied to brand Bankim Chandra Chattopadhaya and Vande Matram as communal.

Kashmir Redux

Via Strategypage,

The 32 months of violence in the Moslem south have so far caused nearly 4,300 casualties (40 percent of them fatal). During that period, there were some 5,500 incidents of Islamic terrorist violence. That's an average of 5-6 a day, among a population of 2.4 million (some 80 percent Moslem). The violence was largely directed at the 400,000 or so non-Moslems.

The terrorist attacks have had the effect of doubling the normal murder
rate in the south. A religiously inspired crime wave, so to speak. But the
terror is very real as well, especially for non-Moslems.

Since most of the deaths are among the non-Moslem minority, the
death rate for that community has risen to about 15 per 100,000 per
year. The rate in the U.S. is about 6 per 100,000 people per year.

While the number of bombings has increased this year, the casualty rate has gone down. This is largely because of the thousands of additional soldiers and police
sent to the south. These security forces are everywhere down there.

But the damage has already been done, and thousands of non-Moslem Thais have fled the south. The main objective of the Islamic terrorists is to expel all non-Moslems from the south, and then
set up a religious dictatorship. (Emphasis mine)

This is of course a repetition of what happened in Kashmir during 80's. And I am reasonably sure this results will turn out to be same. Modern civilization has lots will to defend itself because its instinct for survival has been lost by the progressive shenanigans. This is a civilization ripe for destruction. Perhaps this is how Kali Yuga culminates.