This Months Article
This Months Article
Starting: Sat December
1, 2001
Ending: Sun December
30, 2001
Messages: 153
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Tribal leader accuses
missionaries of 'terrorist' activities
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Times News Network, The Times of
India, December 30, 2001
Chand Lok, a tribal leader from
the north-cast, alleged that Christian missionaries in Meghalaya are engaging
in terrorist activities. Mr Lok alleged that the missionaries were forcefully
converting the tribals to Christianity. ......
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UK suspends 3 Muslim
clerics
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The Times of India, December 30,
2001
Britain's prison service said on
Friday it had suspended three Muslim clerics for making inappropriate comments
about the September 11 attacks in the U.S. ......
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India faults U.S.
perception of Musharraf
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Siddharth Varadarajan, The Times
of India, December 30, 2001
The Vajpayee government is aware
that the "nuanced difference" which exists between Washington and New Delhi
about the sincerity of Gen Pervez Musharrafs "conversion to the anti-terrorism
cause" could influence the diplomatic and military steps India takes in
the weeks ahead. ......
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'We could take a
(nuclear) strike, survive and then hit back, Pakistan would be finished'.
(Interview with Fernanded)
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The Hindustan Times, December 30,
2001
Union Minister for Defence George
Fernandes is gung-ho... ready to take on all comers, Pakistan, the United
States and even the defence bureaucracy. My autobiography will be called
"George: My life as an obstacle course" he says laughing. In a wide-ranging
interview with Swati Chaturvedi, Fernandes speaks about the clouds of war,
defence procurement, the coffin scam and his return to the Cabinet. ......
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Al-Qaeda leaders
are in Pakistan, heading for Kashmir: Indian diplomat
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Agence France-Presse, December 30,
2001
India's ambassador to the United
States said Sunday al-Qaeda leaders were already in Pakistan and may soon
be carrying out terrorist activities in the disputed border areas of Jammu
and Kashmir. ......
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The military's grip
on Pakistan must be loosened
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Brahma Chellaney, International
Herald Tribune, December 29-30, 2001
The border skirmishes and the largest
military build up between India and Pakistan since their last war in 1971
could escalate to a full-blown confirmation unless Pakistan is willing
to go beyond symbolic steps against the terror groups that its military
and intelligence service have nurtured and directed for years. ......
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Pak. not to act
against LeT, JeM
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B. Muralidhar Reddy, The Hindu,
December 29, 2001
Pakistan today made it clear that
it had no intention of proceeding against the Lashkar-e-Taiba and the Jaish-e-Mohammad
- accused by India as the main culprits behind the December 13 attack on
Parliament - despite the decision of the United States to declare them
as terrorist. ......
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The mosque as beacon
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Editorial, The Times, UK, December
27, 2001
Courage, vigilance and quick thinking
averted a catastrophe aboard the American Airlines fight to Miami. But
the discovery that the man accused of trying to blow up the plane came
from Bromley is further alarming evidence that terrorists based in Britain
still pose a deadly global threat. ......
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Beware the General
across the border
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Wilson John, The Pioneer, December
26, 2001
Let us not underestimate Pakistan
President Pervez Musharraf. After finding himself cornered within his country
by jihadi Generals and militant mullahs and from outside by the rampaging
forces of the Northern Alliance and the United States, Musharraf ran to
Beijing for shelter. That's what he did when he engineered the Kargil War.
He was sitting pretty when his troops intruded into the Indian territory.
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Hurriyat in quandary
over Pak funds
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Press Trust of India, The Indian
Express, December 26, 2001
Curbing of funding by some groups
in Pakistan of Hurriyat Conference has worsened the growing infighting
within the amalgam with some of the leaders making frantic calls to Islamabad
for the release of funds, intelligence sources said today. ......
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India-Pakistan Confrontation
(PBS interview: Sumit Ganguly)
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PBS, December 26, 2001
Betty Ann Bowser reports on the
latest in the escalating conflict between India and Pakistan. Gwen Ifill
gets three perspectives on the recent flare-up between the two nuclear-capable
countries and the possible consequences on the war against terrorism. ......
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Buddha weeps silently
as recession comes home
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Aloke Banerjee, The Times of India,
December 24, 2001
The economic slowdown that has
been devastating millions of homes in West Bengal for the last couple of
years has now invaded the home of none other than the chief minister of
the state, Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee. ......
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Terrorism against
India: Who's to blame?
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Chidanand Rajghatta, The Times of
India, December 23, 2001
Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf
might deny it. The Bush administration might refuse to acknowledge it.
But as far as the world media is concerned, Pakistan's role in nurturing
and fomenting terrorism is beyond doubt. ......
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'Given a chance,
I'd do it again'
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Neeta Sharma, The Hindustan Times,
December 21, 2001
"Given a chance, I would do it
again. I have no qualms," says 30-year-old Afzal the main co-ordinator
for Jaish-e-Mohammad in Delhi. ......
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Rising from the
Rubble (Q & A Masood Khalili)
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The Times of India, December 18,
2001
On December 22, Afghanistan's interim
government will take office. One of its key men, the Afghan ambassador
to India, Masood Khalili, will, however, not be there to see it. Khalili,
who was badly injured in the blast which claimed the life of Commander
Masood, is still recovering from his injuries. A key player in the Northern
Alliance in the past, he continues to play an important role even from
New Delhi. Here he speaks with Aunohita Mojumdar of his hopes and anxieties
for his war-ravaged country: ......
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'Who is the US to
restrain us?'
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Narendra Kaushik, Mid-Day, December
18, 2001
"RESTAINT, what restraint? America
did not wait in Afghanistan. How can it tell us to be restrained?" ask
leaders in the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-led National Democratic Alliance
after US Secretary of State Colin Powell advised India to observe restraint
with regard to military action against terror camps in Pakistan. ......
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Taliban and Indian
Muslims
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Ramesh Patange, Organiser, December
9, 2001
The discussion is raging on several
levels all round on the likely consequences of the Afghan war on India.
How it will affect the Kashmir issue? Will it end terrorism that is proving
a scourge in Kashmir? How will it affect the Indo-Pak relations? Will it
help India and the USA to come closer? Are some of the questions raised
by the aftermath of the terrorising Tuesday in September. ......
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India read Afghan
wicket correctly
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Chidanand Rajghatta, The Times of
India, December 8, 2001
Perhaps it has to do with the dicey
pitches back home, but as the end game approaches in Afghanistan, India
appears to have read the treacherous wicket there better than any other
country and has come out on top of the political situation. ......
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'9-11 will haunt
an entire new generation'
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Martha Groves, The Times of India,
December 8, 2001
Franklin Delano Roosevelt called
it a "date which will five in infamy", words that resonate even now for
those who remember the bombing of Pearl Harbour 60 years ago. ......
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Pakistan's liberal
folly
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Ayaz Amir, Mid-Day, December 1,
2001
The Afghan situation has presented
a unique opportunity to draw a line in the sand against a tiny minority
of unenlightened, obscurantist and backward-looking religious extremists
who hold the majority of moderate, dynamic and futuristic-looking Pakistanis
hostage." - General Pervez Musharraf in New York ......
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Civilizational War
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Dr. M.K. Teng, Kashmir Herald, December,
2001
The sudden and surprise attack
which ripped through the World Trade Center and tore down the part of the
complex of buildings of the Pentagon in the United States, evidently administered
a rude shock. American administration, had for more than three decades
used the Muslims as their allies in the Cold War. ......
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Wanted in Pakistan,
a little bit of humility
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Ayaz Amir, The Indian Express, December
1, 2001
Accepting our weakness and bowing
to the inevitable is one thing. But can we please stop pretending that
by acting the way we have done in this Afghan crisis. We have somehow rescued
Pakistan's defences? ......
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Christian Unholy
Deeds - Blatant Vandalism By Christian Missionaries
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Seetanagaram, Krishna River bank,
Andhra Pradesh India
On the banks of Krishna River,
during the Holy season of Pushkara, Christian Pastors from the local church
resorted to vandalism on Hinduism. The Christian Pastors encouraged the
local and newly converted Hindus to spit on the photographs of several
Hindu gods. They further stamped on the idols, photographs of Hindu deities
and threw them in Krishna River. The police was a mute spectator for this
entire drama, which took few hours. ......
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Johnny Walker Green
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Daniel Pipes, The New York Post,
December 24, 2001
John Walker Lindh's case may seem
eccentric and unique. How many 20-year-olds from Marin County, Calif.,
especially ones named after a Beatle and children of a convert to Buddhism,
end up in a dank cellar in Afghanistan fighting with the most fanatical
of al Qaeda terrorists? ......
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CE urges Chinese
Muslims to be patriotic
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Dawn, December 23, 2001
President Gen Pervez Musharraf
on Saturday urged Chinese Muslims to be "very patriotic" and work for the
betterment of their country. ......
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Translation of bin
Laden tape may embarrass Saudi Arabia
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www.tehelka.com, December 22, 2001
ABC translation has bin Laden's
visitor, Khalid al Harbi, a Saudi dissident, claiming he was smuggled into
Afghanistan by member of Saudi religious police New York, Dec 21 (PTI):
An independent translation of the videotape of Osama bin Laden talking
about Sept 11 terror attacks is potentially embarrassing for the US ally
Saudi Arabia and also raises questions why the Bush administration omitted
certain parts of the tape in the official release. ......
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Uneasy Ally in Terror
War Suddenly Feels More U.S. Pressure
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John F. Burns, The New York Times,
December 21, 2001
By adding two more Pakistan-based
groups to Washington's terrorism list, President Bush sharply increased
the political pressures that have gripped Pakistan's military leader, Gen.
Pervez Musharraf, ever since the Sept. 11 attacks in the United States,
according to Pakistanis with close links to the Musharraf government. ......
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'Bengal is ISI hub
for plotting terror attacks'
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Rahul Das, The Asian Age, December
20, 2001
Intelligence sources have said
that Bengal is more than, a transit for international terrorists as the
Left Front government has described it. The state has also been the plotting
centre for several terrorist attacks executed across the country, intelligence
sources say. ......
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Did Vedic Hindus
really eat cow?
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Sandhya Jain, The Pioneer, December
20, 2001
Under the pretext of disseminating
true knowledge about the past to young, impressionable school children,
a perverse assault has been launched upon the religious sensitivities of
the Hindu community. Marxist historians allege that ancient Hindus ate
beef, that this is recorded in their sacred scriptures, and that this should
be taught to school children. ......
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History meets Dharma
in politics
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Sandhya Jain, The Pioneer, December
18, 2001
An inscrutable destiny, Mahakaal,
has presented modern India with a strange paradox. Punjab, land of the
Vedas, and Uttar Pradesh, quintessential Aryavarta where Vedic civilization
reached its pinnacle, are caught in a peculiar face-off between History
and Dharma, even as both states prepare for assembly elections in the forthcoming
year. ......
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Communist Party
of India (Talibanist), West Bengal Unity
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Our Special correspondent, BJP Today,
December 1-15, 2001
"Those who selected such a film
for exhibition are idiots", thundeted Biman Basu, top leader of the ruling
party of West Bengal after two shows of "Taurus" at the Kolkata Film Festival
raised the hackles among Leftist" intellectuals" who even took to the streets
against this film. ......
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POTO: approve swiftly,
and then toughen it (Part II of II)
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Arun Shourie, BJP Today, December
1-15, 2001
The provisions of TADA were much
more stringent than those of the new Ordinance. The constitutionality of
those provisions, of TADA itself had been challenged in the courts. The
Supreme Court specifically upheld TADA, and declared its provisions -the
much more stringent provisions - to be in accord with the Constitution.
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POTO: interception,
confession, confessions, torture (Part I of II)
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Arun Shourie, BJP Today, December
1-15, 2001
"But look at Chapter V. It allows
the police, the intelligence agencies to listen in to and intercept communications
between any of us whatever means we use: electronic, wire, oral, paging
devices, tracking devices. This wasn't there in the Law Commission draft.
It is a clear license to police, IB, CBI, anyone the Government fancies
to invade our privacy." ......
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PM's speech at the
chief minister's conference on internal security
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BJP Today, December 1-15, 2001
The Prime Minister, Shri Atal Bihari
Vajpayee inaugurated Chief Ministers' Conference on Internal Security here
on Nov 17. Apart from Chief Ministers of various States, Union Home Minister
Shri L.K. Advani, Defence Minister Shri George Fernandes, Union Minister
for Law, Justice & Company Affairs Shri Arun Jaitley, Deputy Chairman
of the Planning Commission Shri K.C. Pant Minister of State in PMO, Shri
Vijay Goel, Ministers of State, Home Shri I.D. Swami and Shri Vidya Sagar
Rao were also present on the occasion. ......
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Cardinal principles
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Vijay Kumar Malhotra, The Hindustan
Times, December 14, 2001
The issue of deletion of some select
paragraphs from the history texts published by the National Council for
Educational Research and Training (NCERT) needs to be understood in the
context of the desperate struggle for self-preservation by a group of scholars.
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Advantage: No One
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Rahul Shivshankar, The Times of
India, December 11, 2001
A day after Terrible Tuesday and
before anyone in the US administration had even thought about "hunting
down" Osama bin Laden, an Indian security expert had predicted that events
after 9-11 would impact on Pakistan the most. ......
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Arabs fear the war
against terror may strike home
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Vasantha Arora, The Economic Times,
December 11, 2001
As the war in Afghanistan draws
to a close, there is reportedly increasing fear in Iraq and other Arab
countries that the US and the West might be out to 'suppress the Muslim
world. The Arab League and several Arab governments have given a clear
warning to the West: 'Attack any Arab country, and you'll lose our support
for the war on terrorism. The international coalition will unravel. ......
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Indo-US working
group on terrorism to meet early '02
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Indrani Bagchi, The Economic Times,
December 11, 2001
With terrorism emerging as top
priority among key nations in the world, the next India-US joint working
group (JWG) on terrorism will meet again in the early weeks of next year,
in what sources call an 'accelerated schedule'. The two countries will
also work on expanding the ambit of the co-operation to include a military
component for the first time in the talks. ......
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Wadgaon Wins the
Battle
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Vinita Deshmukh, The Indian Express,
December 9, 2001
Think of a small village about
45 kms north-west of Pune on the Pune-Mumbai National Highway no.4. Think
of the all-conquering British Empire. Think of a Maratha chieftain valiantly
guarding his land and folk. Think Wadgaon in 1779. ......
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Terrorism, historians
& literary feuds
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Soli. J. Sorabjee, The Times of
India, December 9, 2001
Discussions on terrorism, human
rights and POTO should bear n mind certain essentials. Firstly, the Security
Council Resolution adopted on November 12, 2001 which "reaffirms its unequivocal
condemnation of all acts, methods and practices of terrorism as criminal
and unjustifiable, regardless of their motivation, in all their forms and
manifestations, wherever and by whomever committed". ......
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With Poca in place,
Leftist lose out on anti-Poto drive
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Aloke Banerjee, The Times of India,
December 9, 2001
Two women in their early 2081 Deepa
Sarkar and Kakoli Mandi, are languishing in jail for the last five months
for daring to carry a pamphlet calling upon former U.S. president Bill
Clinton to 'go back'. Both the women were arrested in July this year in
Midnapore. ......
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World media blames
Pak for terrorism
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Chidanand Rajghatta, The Times of
India, December 21, 2001
General Musharraf might deny it.
The Bush administration might refuse to acknowledge it. But as far as the
world media is concerned, Pakistan's role in nurturing and fomenting terrorism
is beyond doubt. ......
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Single Doctrine,
Double Standards
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K.P. Nayar, The Telegraph, December
20, 2001
And now, the Bush doctrine. The
White House has conceded under increasing pressure from the US and the
international media that as long as India does not "retaliate harshly"
for the attack on Parliament, the Americans would look the other way. ......
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Stop Building Up
Pakistani Military Capacities Against India
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Selig S. Harrison, The International
Herald Tribune, December 20, 2001
The unconditional American embrace
of General Pervez Musharraf as an ally has emboldened government-sponsored
Pakistani terrorist groups to step up pressure on India, increasing the
danger of a new war over Kashmir. Secretary of State Colin Powell has responded
decisively to the attack on the Indian Parliament last week by placing
two of these groups, Lashkar-e-Taiba and Jaish-e-Mohammed, on the official
U.S. list of foreign terrorist organizations. ......
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India must respond
to Pakistan-backed terrorism
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Tunku Varadarajan, The Wall Street
Journal, December 19, 2001
Last Thursday, five Islamist terrorists--bent,
to a man, on suicide-by-jihad--attacked the Parliament building of the
world's largest democracy. They murdered eight policeman and one hapless
gardener (shot up in a bed of chrysanthemums, a sickle clutched to his
side), before being killed in the intense firefight. ......
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Holes found in Pakistan's
'sealed' border
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Arnaud de Borchgrave, The Washington
Times, December 18, 2001
Oghaz Pass On The Pakistani-Afghan
Border - Pakistan's tribal areas are free-passage zones for Taliban and
al Qaeda's foreign legionnaires escaping from Afghanistan, a weeklong visit
showed. ......
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The Muslim cause
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Pran Chopra, The Hindustan Times,
December 4, 2001
It is wrong to take a distorted
view of Islam or of Muslims. Or of any religion or community. To do so
deliberately is vile, and an invitation to trouble. Unfortunately, this
happens most when it is most important to avoid it. That is, in times of
tension and anxiety, when the broad brush of prejudice is most often used
to paint those we disagree with. ......
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Christmas Symbols
Don't Make the Grade in U.S. Schools
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Zenit.org, December 14, 2001
Despite the rise of religious sensibilities
in the wake of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, Christmas is an unwelcome
holiday in many U.S. public schools this year, reports the Washington Times.
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POTO Pin-up (Interview
with Arun Jaitley)
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Bisheshwar Mishra, The Times of
India, December 13, 2001
Q.: Despite TADA diluting the trial
procedure for suspected terrorists by making confessions admissible, etc,
the conviction rate was only 1.5 per cent. Don't you think that POTO -
which has watered down these provisions because of the 'safeguards' you
have introduced - will lead to an even lower rate of conviction? If so,
how does having such a law help fight terrorism? ......
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Divisions over faith
schools
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BBC News, December 12, 2001
Education ministers' desire to
see more faith schools in England continues to cause controversy, following
the reports on the riots in northern towns this summer. ......
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Turn out the party-poopers
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Rakesh Sinha, The Hindustan Times,
December 4, 2001
The change of guard in Gujarat
and Uttar Pradesh carried out this year was done smoothly by the BJP. However,
in the past, the party had experienced serious trouble in both these states.
The party had to witness embarrassing revolts by two senior leaders, Kalyan
Singh and Sankarsinh Vaghela. Thus the predicament of controlling the 'power
elite' remains a major concern for the BJP. ......
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Tipu Sultan:Villain
or Hero?
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Edited by Sita Ram Goel, IndiaStar
Review of Books
In 1989, the national Indian TV,
Doordarshan, ran a serial on Tipu Sultan, ruler of Mysore from 1782 to
1799 A.D. With the lofty objective of national integration and communal
harmony, the national TV presented Tipu Sultan as a hero of Hindu-Muslim
amity and a staunch freedom fighter against the British. ......
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The Religious Beginnings
of an Unholy War
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A "Best Seller" by Avro Manhatten
Avro Manhatten was the world's
foremost authority on Roman Catholicism in Politics. A resident of London
during World War II , he operated a radio station called "Radio Freedom"
broadcasting to occupied Europe. ......
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Malegaon Riots -
Unlearnt Lessons from the Past
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Asghar Ali Engineer, Economic &
Political Weekly, December 1, 2001
The communal riots in Malegaon
were the most serious in Maharashtra after the post-Babri masjid killings
in the state in 1992-93. The riots have underscored once again the role
of politicians in fanning communal tensions and the failure of the police
and the administration to contain the violence in time and prevent it from
spreading. ......
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ULFA camps along
Bangla border run by Osama outfit
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Prabin Kalita, The Hindustan Times,
December 15, 2001
At Least six camps of ULFA situated
at Chittagong Hill Tracts (CHT) along the Tripura-Bangladesh border are
being run by Harkat-ul-Jehad. ......
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America's double
standard on terror
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Michael Moran, MSNBC, December 14,
2001
Two nations, two democracies: both
key American allies, both nuclear powers plagued by Muslim extremists and
instability on their borders. Israel just got a green light from America
to turn its guns on Yasser Arafat's Palestinian Authority, if not the source
of the terrorism, certainly the source of instability. ......
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Terrorism has to
go at all costs
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Arun Jaitley, The New York Times,
December 8, 2001
In the last 15 years, we have lost
61,000 civilians and 8,700 security personnel to terrorism. Compare this
to the number of lives lost in the four wars India has fought: 5,400. What
we have lost to terrorism, which we regard as low-intensity conflict, is
several times more than what we lost in those high-intensity wars. ......
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Pakistan, an ally
or enemy: Pak ended aid to Taliban only hesitantly
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Douglas Frantz, The New York Times,
December 8, 2001
One month after the Pakistan government
agreed to end its support of the Taliban, its intelligence agency was still
providing safe passage for weapons and ammunition to arm them, according
to Western and Pakistani officials. ......
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India Rally Fails
to Yield Widespread Christian Conversions
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Andy Butcher, Charisma News Service
A highly publicized rally at which
leaders of India's millions of downtrodden "untouchables" planned to renounce
their Hindu faith went ahead yesterday, but without the widespread turning
to Christ anticipated by some Christian groups. ......
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Germany bans extreme
Islamic caliphate
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The Times of India, December 13,
2001
The German government cracked down
on Wednesday on an extreme Islamic organisation regarded as a "state within
a state", banning the so-called caliphate and mounting raids on some 200
premises across the country. ......
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On balance, Musharraf
loses
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J N Dixit, The Indian Express, December
13, 2001
Two visual clippings on CNN broadcast
over the last week brought out the confusing and critical predicament in
which Pakistan finds itself in, two months after the US-led military campaign
commenced against the Taliban and the Al-Qaeda. One clipping showed an
Afghan Pushtun lamenting the destruction caused by the US bombing. He said
it is the common people who are the greater sufferers. ......
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Hizb tells Lashkar,
Jaish to 'dump terrorist elements'
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Press Trust of India, www.expressindia.com,
December 13, 2001
Differences have cropped up in
the militant groups operating in Kashmir with Hizbul Mujahideen accusing
Pakistan-based militant groups of having some "terrorist elements" in their
rank and file and warning of retaliation if suitable action was not taken
against them by their respective heads. ......
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Bin Laden detected
by US intelligence in Tora Bora
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Agencies, The Indian Express, December
13, 2001
US intelligence services believe
they have detected Osama bin Laden and members of his inner circle in Afghanistan's
mountainous Tora Bora region, a US government official said. ......
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2 Nuclear Experts
Briefed Bin Laden, Pakistanis Say
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Kamran Khan and Molly Moore, The
Washington Post, December 12, 2001
Two Pakistani nuclear scientists
reportedly have told investigators they conducted long discussions about
nuclear, chemical and biological weapons with suspected terrorist Osama
bin Laden in August in the Afghan capital of Kabul, according to Pakistani
officials familiar with the interrogations of the men. ......
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Loyalty oath urged
for immigrants
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Philip Johnston, The Telegraph,
December 12, 2001
Newcomers to Britain should swear
or affirm an oath of allegiance to show their "clear primary loyalty" to
the nation, a report into the causes of last summer's inner city riots
said yesterday. ......
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Pak's dream of American
backing on J&K shattered
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Chidanand Rajghatta, The Times of
India, December 12, 2001
As Pakistan fights an uphill
battle to be relevant in a post-Taliban Afghanistan, it has suffered the
biggest blow from the country expected to be its chief patron - the U.
S.. ......
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Almost flushed out
of Tora Bora, Al Qaeda cracks
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The Indian Express, December 12,
2001
Afghan fighters chased Osama bin
Laden's forces to ''one last base'' in the mountains on Tuesday. Tribal
forces, aided by a rain of American bombs, said they pushed diehard fighters
from Al Qaeda network into a final stronghold near Tora Bora in the east.
......
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Race 'segregation'
caused riots
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BBC News, December 11, 2001
Reports into the summer riots in
Bradford, Oldham and Burnley have urged government action to bring together
Britain's "shockingly" divided communities. ......
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What is the chosen
path?
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T V R Shenoy, Rediff on Net, December
11, 2001
Did anyone catch United States
Vice-President Dick Cheney being interviewed on NBC this past Sunday? [Its
sister channel MSNBC is available on Indian cable networks.] If you didn't
catch it, let me quote the relevant portion: "[The Palestinians] are led
by someone who can't control terrorists. ......
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Pakistani Islamic
leaders disoriented by rout of Taliban
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The Times of India, December 6,
2001
The weakness of Islamic religious
parties, and radical groups in Pakistan has been exposed following the
rout of the Taliban in Afghanistan and about-face by Islamabad, analysts
said. ......
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Fears over 'double
agents' in Rajasthan's border districts
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Statesman News Service, The Statesman,
December 2, 2001
The double agents in the bordering
districts of Rajasthan, who are on the 'pay rolls' of both the Indian intelligence
agencies as well as Pakistan's ISI, are becoming a menace for Central intelligence
agencies and local police alike. ......
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Joshi swears by right
to rewrite textbooks
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Rajesh Ramachandran, The Times of
India, December 2, 2001
Amidst a raging controversy over
the 'saffronisation' of education, Union human resources minister Murli
Manohar Joshi, speaking from a Sangh Parivar platform on Saturday, announced
an "intellectual freedom struggle" and pledged to continue with his programme
of changing the curricula until the country became "intellectually free".
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Hurriyat blasts Pak's
bid to create a parallel amalgam
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Press Trust of India, www.expressindia.com,
December 12, 2001
Fresh differences have cropped
up between the Hurriyat conference and Pakistan with some of the senior
leaders of the amalgam criticising "moves by certain agencies" to create
a parallel to the 23-party conglomerate in the state. ......
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Musharraf begins
to clean up Pak, LeT HQ shifted to PoK
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Press Trust of India, www.expressindia.com,
December 12, 2001
Under growing pressure reportedly
from the Musharraf government, Pakistan-based militant group Lashkar-e-Toiba
has shifted its headquarters from Lahore to Muzafarabad, capital of Pakistan
occupied Kashmir (PoK). ......
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US to withdraw from
1972 ABM treaty
-
The Times of India, December 12,
2001
President George W Bush has decided
to give Russia notice that the United States will withdraw from the 1972
nuclear treaty that bans testing of missile defence systems, US government
officials said on Tuesday. ......
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Foreigners hide along
Pak border
-
John Pomfret, The Indian Express,
December 11, 2001
A Red pickup truck packed with
fighters and guns rolled up on the mud outpost where Abdullah Mohammed
was guarding Pakistan's border on Saturday night. When the men began firing,
Abdullah dove into the dirt, ripping a hole in his left cheek. He fired
back twice, driving off the truck. ''The men weren't Afghans,'' Abdullah
said. ''They were lighter skinned. They wanted to sneak in." ......
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Rebel groups fighting
in Kashmir lying low after Taliban surrender
-
The Daily Excelsior, December 11,
2001
After the devastation faced by
the Taliban, major Pakistan-based rebel groups fighting in Kashmir are
said to be "fearful" about their future, a report from Lahore has said.
......
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Taliban, al-Qaida
troops slip away
-
MSNBC, December 11, 2001
Hundreds of Taliban and al-Qaida
troops -- including many of the remaining leaders -- have slipped out of
Afghanistan into neighboring Iran and Pakistan, alarming military officials,
Pentagon sources told NBC News on Tuesday. As U.S. soldiers tried to block
escape routes, America's Afghan allies waited to see if a group of al-Qaida
fighters near Tora Bora would surrender by a deadline just a few hours
away. ......
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Pakistani Taliban
returning home get cold shoulder
-
Juan O. Tamayo, Knight Ridder Newspapers,
December 11, 2001
The roughly 200 Taliban fighters
who have come home to the apple-growing oasis of Pishin on Pakistan's border
with Afghanistan are not getting the hero's welcome they might have expected
when they set off across the border to fight the holy war. "People blame
them for the destruction of Afghanistan," said shopkeeper Mohammed Akhram.
......
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Tape Surfaces With
Remarks by bin Laden
-
David E. Sanger, The New York Times,
December 10, 2001
A tape of Osama bin Laden found
recently in Afghanistan shows him recounting how he listened to news reports
on the radio of the first plane crashing into the World Trade Center three
months ago and quickly told others around him "there will be more" as he
awaited the second attack. ......
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Immigrants 'should
try to feel British'
-
BBC News, December 9, 2001
UK Home Secretary David Blunkett
has urged people from ethnic minorities to develop what he calls a "sense
of belonging" in Britain. ......
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The Peacemaker of
the Pashtun Past
-
Karl E. Meyer, The New York Times,
December 7, 2001
As the Afghan war enters into what
may be its final days, and the international community begins discussing
its next steps, Americans will be learning more about the warrior people
known to the British as Pathans, and more correctly nowadays as Pashtuns.
Most of the Taliban were Pashtun - as is the new interim leader of Afghanistan,
Hamid Karzai, to whom Mullah Muhammad Omar, the Taliban leader, has ceded
power. ......
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Does Indian history
need to be rewritten? (Part II of II)
-
Sumit Sarkar, The Times of India,
December 2, 2001
The Prime Minister has justified
the deletion of ten passages from NCERT history textbooks (to be followed
soon by their replacement and then the abolition of history as a separate
subject till Class XI) on the ground that these books are "one-sided".
......
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Does Indian history
need to be rewritten? (Part I of II)
-
Tarun Vijay, The Times of India,
December 2, 2001
The British wrote history to suit
their empire and the Leftists distorted it to further their 'ism'. It's
time now to correct these wrongs in a transparent and objective manner
so that India benefits, not any 'ism' or party. Hence, Prime Minister Vajpayee
is right in saying that distortions in history have to go. ......
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Pak hurt most by
attack on Afghanistan
-
The Times of India, December 1,
2001
The Pakistani economy, already
in crisis since 1998, has been hit particularly hard by the U.S.-led military
offensive launched in Afghanistan. With investors more leery, tourism oft
manufacturing orders down and production costs on the rise, Pakistan has
suffered more than its share of economic grief from Washington's Afghan
venture. ......
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Publicly defiant
Taliban were planning their escape
-
Kathy Gannon, The Times of India,
December 1, 2001
It was 6 p.m. on Monday, November
12. The U.S. bombing had been punishing. The fighting outside Kabul was
intense. In the capital, the Taliban decided it was time to go. ......
-
Taliban image tarnished
in Indian Kashmir
-
Izhar Wani, AFP, December 11, 2001
The swift rout of the Taliban regime
in Afghanistan has left Kashmiri supporters of the radical Islamic militia
angry and disillusioned. ......
-
Taliban resurface
in new political party
-
Jack Redden, The Indian Express,
December 10, 2001
Several officials of the defeated
Taliban, including their envoy to the United Nations, surfaced on Sunday
to announce the formation of a new political party to help bring peace
to Afghanistan. ......
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'Pak settlers can't
come to J-K'
-
ENS & Agencies, The Indian Express,
December 10, 2001
The Union Government will not allow
the controversial Jammu and Kashmir Resettlement Act, permitting people
who migrated from Jammu and Kashmir to Pakistan in 1947 to return to the
state, to be implemented, Minister of State I.D. Swamy said here today.
......
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Taliban ties: B'lore
firm under microscope
-
www.sify.com, December 10, 2001
The Karnataka government has despatched
a team of officials to a Chinese IT facility here to investigate reports
that it had developed equipment for the Taliban in Afghanistan, an official
said Monday. "We have sent officials of the Software Technology Parks of
India to investigate the report," said Vivek Kulkarni, Karnataka's secretary
of Information Technology. ......
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Happiness is...
-
Varsha Bhosle, Rediff on Net, December
10, 2001
Happiness is... President Bush
freezing the assets of the Texas-based Holy Land Foundation for Relief
and Development, a "charity" that has funneled millions of dollars to the
Palestinian terrorist group Hamas. Said Treasury Secretary Paul H O'Neill:
"This organization exists to raise money in the US to promote terror. Last
year, Holy Land raised $13 million in the US." Heeheehee! ......
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Temple desecrated,
tension in Kodagu
-
Our Staff Correspondent, The Hindu,
December 10, 2001
Tension prevailed in Kodagu District
on Sunday evening after the desecration of Sri Satya Harishchandra Temple
at Palur, about 20 km. from here,by some miscreants. Hundreds of people
gathered at Napoklu, Kottamudi, Bettageri, and Madikeri, to protest against
the vandalism. ......
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Indian parties plead
Hindu refugees' cause
-
Shaikh Azizur Rahman, The Washington
Times, December 10, 2001
More than 17,000 supporters of
the defeated Awami League government in Bangladesh have fled to India in
the past two months, the great majority of them Hindus who complain of
murder, rape and looting at the hands of fundamentalist Muslims backing
the newly elected Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) of Prime Minister
Khaleda Zia. ......
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Jihad's Lost Battalions
Mourned by Pakistani Kin
-
John F. Burns, The New York Times,
December 10, 2001
From this lush valley alone, a
sinuous reach of sugar cane fields and citrus groves that runs a morning's
drive north of the old frontier city of Peshawar, villagers say 10,000
to 15,000 men marched off to Afghanistan to fight America in October, and
2,000 to 3,000 have not returned. ......
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US imposes curbs
on Pakistan banks: Day-to-day cash transactions
-
Masood Haider, Dawn, December 10,
2001
All Pakistani banks operating in
the United States have been asked to stop day to day financial transactions
in accordance with new laws enacted by the United States following Sept
11 attacks which endeavour to stop flow of money to the terrorist organizations.
......
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Britain condemns
Pakistani support of terrorism in J & K
-
PTI, Rediff on Net, December 10,
2001
Britain will continue to condemn
cross-border support of terrorism in Jammu & Kashmir and the "Pakistan
government can be under no illusion on this matter", Sir Rob Young, the
United Kingdom's high commissioner for India, said on Monday. ......
-
Pakistan ill-treating
scribes of Indian descent: Report
-
Rediff on Net, December 10, 2001
The Washington Post on Monday hit
out at Pakistan for expelling its correspondent Rajiv Chandrasekaran, saying
the treatment meted out to journalists of Indian descent raised doubts
over the country's commitment to press freedom. ......
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Let's leave John
Walker to the justice he chose
-
Mark Steyn, The Telegraph, December
9, 2001
A Fortnight ago two Americans met
in the northern Afghan desert, at the Qala-i- Jhangi prison. One was a
CIA special-ops man, Mike Spann. The other was a prisoner he was interrogating,
a Taliban soldier called "Abdul Hamid", the nom de guerre of John Walker,
formerly of northern California. ......
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Press Release - Bomb
Explodes in Hindu Religious Center during Prayer Session
-
The Daily Janakantha, December 9,
2001
In the capital's Swamibagh Ashram
(a famous Hindu religious center), a bomb explosion occurred during the
prayer (kirtan) session on December 88th, 2001. The sound of the explosion
was very loud, however no one was reportedly injured. The temple
administrator explained to this reporter that the prayer sessions occurred
every Saturday evening and this was no exception. Suddenly, a bomb
was hurled inside the center. ......
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Arafat's Suicide
Factory
-
Daniel Pipes, The New York Post,
December 9, 2001
In declaring his own war on terrorism
last week, Israel's Prime Minister Ariel Sharon made a surprising claim.
He said that Yasser Arafat, the Palestinian leader, "is responsible for
everything that is happening here," a reference to the onslaught of four
suicide operations that had just left 26 Israelis dead and some 200 wounded.
......
-
Kashmir militants
hit by shortage of money
-
Press Trust of India, The Indian
Express, December 9, 2001
Militant groups operating in Jammu
and Kashmir have lately been hit by shortage of arms and funds prompting
them to make distress calls to their mentors across the border in Pakistan,
defence sources said on Sunday. ......
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Goan Muslims alert
officials on provocative speeches in mosques
-
Mayabhushan Nagvekar, Herald, December
7, 2001
"All of you should be waging jehad
in Kashmir." "What are you Goan Muslims doing here, sitting quiet, while
your brethren die in Afghanistan?" ......
-
No noise pollution
is permitted on the grounds of religion
-
Raju Z Moray, The Indian Express,
December 6, 2001
Incantations calling the 'beuevers'
to prayer often also wake up the 'nonbelievers', way ahead of normal schedules.
God is great but must that be proclaimed on loudspeakers? Whether it is
the azaan of the muezzin or the midnight mass conducted by Christian priests,
supporters argue on the basis of their "fundamental rights". ......
-
Mullahs criticised
for lurign young Pakistanis into battle
-
Kim Murphy, The Indian Express,
December 5, 2001
Mohammed Youssef tried to stop
it, first calling the local religious leader on the phone, then following
his convoy of young jihad recruits into Afghanistan and confronting him
in person. Don't take them, he said. They're just boys. They don't know
how to fight. If it gets bad, they don't know how to run. ......
-
Pakistan and Northern
Alliance: new 'friends', older adversaries
-
Khaled Ahmed, The Indian Express,
December 4, 2001
The entry of the Northern Alliance
into Kabul has unleashed fears in Pakistan. Jamiat Islamabad its allies
ruled in Kabul from 1992 to 1996, during which period it killed 50,000
Kabulis and raped and pillaged the hapless population of the city. Commander
Ahmad Shah Massoud ordered the bombing of Pakistan embassy in 1996, climaxing
his bad relations with Pakistan. ......
-
Israeli experts put
disease killer garlic under scrutiny
-
Megan Goldin, Rehovot, The Indian
Express, December 4, 2001
Garlic, a key ingredient of folklore,
is being put to the test by some of Israel's leading scientists out to
unlock the herb's secrets. Scientists at the Weizmann Institute of Science
are focusing on allicin, a pungent compound that is nature's way of protecting
garlic from insects, fungi and bacteria in the soil. ......
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When Terror Strikes
-
Prakash Nanda, The Times of India,
December 4, 2001
The Prevention of Terrorism Ordinance
(POTO) has predictably generated an uproar in this country, with Parliament
devoting considerable attention to the subject. Opposition parties say
that the "extraordinary provisions" in POTO have no place in a liberal.
democracy like India and that the existing laws are adequate to deal effectively
with the terrorists and subversive elements. ......
-
Indian connection'
emerges from Mazar hell hole: report
-
Rashmee Z Ahmed, The Times of India,
December 4, 2001
Two days after 85 foreign Taliban
soldiers emerged blinking into the world from their subterranean hell hole
in Qalai-Jhangi fort near Mazar-i-Sharif, reports say there is an India
connection of sorts among some of the fighters and those they fought. ......
-
America looks to
put Al Quaida's sleeping units to rest
-
The Times of India, December 4,
2001
With the military campaign in Afghanistan
in its final stages, the Bush administration has increased its focus on
uncovering and eliminating AI Qaida "sleeper cellls" and the groups directly
involved with them around the world. ......
-
Lutherans Accused
of 'Idolatry'
-
Stephanie Simon, The Washington
Post, December 2, 2001
To the Rev. David Benke, the ceremony
at Yankee Stadium was a blessing, an opportunity to join other religious
and civic leaders in offering comfort to a nation raw from the terrorist
attacks on New York and Washington. He joined the celebrities and politicians
on stage to sing patriotic songs and to pray. ......
-
Lashkar, Jaish in
new US 'terrorist exclusion list'
-
Reuters, www.expressindia.com, December
8, 2001
The US State Department said that
it had put 39 groups, charities and companies on a newly created "terrorist
exclusion list," giving authorities the power to deport members or deny
them visas. Most of the groups are already on other US lists of "terrorist
organisations" and subject to financial controls, but were not specifically
subject to US visa restrictions. ......
-
US no longer believes
in zero sum game between India-Pak
-
Press Trust of India, www.expressindia.com,
December 8, 2001
The US no longer believes in playing
a zero sum game in choosing between India and Pakistan and wants the two
countries to bring down the tensions and begin a dialogue to resolve the
Kashmir issue, US Ambassador to Islamabad Wendy Chamberlen says. ......
-
56 cases of assault
on Indian diplomats reported in Pakistan
-
Rediff on Net, December 7, 2001
As many as 56 cases of assault,
harassment and intimidation against Indian diplomats in Pakistan has been
reported over the past three years, the Rajya Sabha was informed on Friday.
......
-
Salem's Lot
-
Stephen F. Hayes, The Daily Standard,
December 5, 2001
Just hours after President Bush
shut down the Texas-based Holy Land Foundation for Relief and Development
because of its support of the Palestinian terrorist group Hamas, his energy
secretary, Spencer Abraham, co-hosted a fly-by photo-op with the group's
lawyer, George Salem. ......
-
Bechare, battered
and besieged
-
Varsha Bhosle, Rediff on Net, December
3, 2001
Going through the articles missed
while abroad, I found this nugget by that high priest of liberals, Mushirul
Hasan, in The Indian Express: "For Gandhi, non-violence consisted in refraining
from exercising the power to hit back and was a virtue of the brave...
He would have, therefore, appealed to the American people to eschew the
path of retribution. ......
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In a Desolate House,
Vestiges of a Violent 1999 Hijacking
-
David Rohde, The New York Times,
December 6, 2001
The tiny piece of paper is inscribed
with the names, ages and nationalities of the hostages. Four Spaniards
at first. Then an American. A 71- year-old Frenchman wrote his name and
his wife's, the last name in capital letters, the first name in cursive.
One captor, for some reason, kept this reminder of the lives he once held
in his hands. ......
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Northern Alliance
handed over J&K terrorists to India: Report
-
Rediff on Net, December 6, 2001
The Saudi newspaper Ar-Riyadh on
Thursday reported that the Northern Alliance extradited a group of Kashmiri
terrorists, captured while fighting for the Taliban, to India on November
28. ......
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U. S. Forces Pakistan
to usher in broad reforms.
-
Chidanand Rajghatta, The Times of
India, December 6, 2001
Pakistan is being compelled to
initiate wide-ranging reforms, including changes in its strategic posture,
under relenting pressure from Washington to abandon its failed militaristic
policies, according to U.S. officials monitoring the fast changing dynamics
in the region. ......
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FBI Tied Islamic
Charity to Calls to Kill Israelis
-
Lisa Getter, The Los Angeles Times,
December 6, 2001
A prominent Islamic charity raised
$207,000 at a 1995 Los Angeles event at which the keynote speaker exhorted
the crowd to "Finish off the Israelis. Kill them all," according to an
FBI memo obtained Wednesday. ......
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If Pak's nukes are
safe, why are scientists in detention?
-
The Times of India, December 6,
2001
If Pakistani officials insist loudly
their nuclear secrets are safe from terrorists, they talk in whispers about
two of their top nuclear scientists who have been detained for weeks. ......
-
Al Qaeda had plans
to attack Parliament House: Advani
-
Rediff on Net, December 5, 2001
Al Qaeda had plans to attack the
Parliament House in New Delhi, besides places in Britain and Australia,
along with the September 11 strikes in the United States, Union Home Minister
Lal Kishenchand Advani said on Wednesday quoting confessions by an arrested
terrorist. ......
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As US shuffles deck,
Arafat is joker in the pack
-
The Indian Express, December 5,
2001
It has become a ritual over the
years: after every new round of bloodletting between Israelis and Palestinians,
a senior US official somberly urges both sides to exert maximum restraint
to prevent further violence. Not on Monday. With buildings still ablaze
near the Gaza headquarters of Yasser Arafat after an Israeli rocket attack,
the Bush administration had few words of sympathy for the Palestinian leader.
......
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Top Taliban defectors
flee to Pakistan: Report
-
The Times of India, December 4,
2001
In the first major split, senior
Taliban officials have fled Afghanistan to set up a moderate splinter group
in Pakistan, a British daily reported on Tuesday. ......
-
Foot In Mouth
-
Richard Johnson, Yahooo News, December
4, 2001
Whoops! Sen. Chuck Schumer - thinking
his microphone was off yesterday - made a crack about a pesky reporter
that was heard clearly by other journalists. At a press conference outside
Pace University, Schumer said PLO strongman Yasser Arafat (news - web sites)
should be held personally responsible for the latest suicide bombings in
Israel. ......
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Washington must target
Pak madrasas: US media
-
Press Trust of India, www.expressindia.com,
December 4, 2001
Islamic schools in Pakistan, charitable
institutions in Saudi Arabia and immigrant ghettos in European cities should
be targeted in the post-Taliban phases of the anti-terror war, even as
efforts should be taken to change the leadership in Iraq, The Washington
Post said. ......
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Fascists prefer red
to saffron
-
Priyadarshi Dutta, The Daily Pioneer,
December 4, 2001
In June 1940, the Soviet Red Army
marched into the Baltic state of Latvia and bullied this independent democracy
into the fold of Communist USSR. The move was part of a secret treaty between
the Communist Russians and the Nazi Germans to divide up militarily inferior
Eastern Europe as a plume cake. ......
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More missionaries
for India, Pakistan, Afghanistan: report
-
Vasantha Arora, Indo-Asian News
Service, December 3, 2001
Missionaries -- often called by
their euphemism of aid workers -- are being sent by countries like the
U.S. and Britain to spread Christianity in regions where most Muslims,
Hindus and Buddhists live, a newspaper report said. ......
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Nigeria death sentence
reprieve
-
BBC News, December 3, 2001
A court in northern Nigeria has
ordered a stay of execution to a woman sentenced to be stoned to death
despite saying she was raped. ......
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Do not trust Pakistan
-
Editorial, The Free Press Journal,
December 3, 2001
Though the vast paraphernalia of
terror which the Taliban and its spiritual leader, Osama bin Laden, had
gathered over the years is yet to be completely destroyed, there is no
doubt any more that the US-led alliance would finish the task at hand.
The total annihilation of the Talibans, al Qaida and bin Laden would automatically
mean a big blow to Pakistan which was the surrogate father of all three.
For sure, the fall of Kabul and other areas in Afghanistan was a great
setback for Pakistan. ......
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'This war is not
our war, I didn't want my son to fight in Kabul'
-
Susan B. Glasser, The Indian Express,
December 3, 2001
In the courtyard of a home high
on a Pakistani mountaintop, a congregation of village men has arrived to
congratulate Azaker Abbasi on the death of his son. They shake his hand,
they smile. Abbasi's son, Zia ul-Haq, has died a martyr, they say, in the
faraway north of Afghanistan. ......
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'If we had a choice
between India and Pakistan, we would not be part of Pakistan'
-
Abdul Hamid Khan, www.tehelka.com,
December 3, 2001
Q.: Why is the movement for Balawaristan
not known to the world? Is the Pakistan government's suppression of political
activity in Gilgit and Baltistan responsible for this?
A.: International attention is
focussed only on those political concerns that appear in the international
media. Unfortunately, the international press, particularly Western press,
is not bothered with a peaceful struggle. Only when a struggle turns into
an armed struggle does it attract media attentio ......
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Israel answers terror
as India holds back
-
Chidanand Rajghatta, The Times of
India, December 5, 2001
The US war on terrorism in Afghanistan
has been temporarily eclipsed by the turbulent events in the Middle-East
where Israeli forces struck back violently against the Palestinian establishment
on Monday following a series of terrorist attacks on Israeli territory
over the weekend. ......
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A history of impotent
rage
-
Sandhya Jain, The Pioneer, December
4, 2001
Anybody with a nodding acquaintance
with the ideas of His Holiness Karl Marx (peace be upon him) would know
that he analyzed Europe's declining feudalism and rising mercantilism and
propounded the theory that economic forces have independent power to change
societies, and that the politics of individual rulers play only a superficial
role in making history. ......
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The P & R of
Indian history
-
Arvind Lavakare, Rediff on Net,
December 4, 2001
History has created history. For
the first time, an ephemeral evil concept has been transported to events
of ancient times. Some of India's parliamentarians have accused the Vajpayee
government of "Talibanising" our education, and pseudo-secularists of all
hues and hubris have gleefully joined in. ......
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Arabs Have Never
Accepted Israel
-
Daniel Pipes, The Wall Street Journal
Europe, December 3, 2001
In June of this year, Palestinian
television broadcast a sermon in a Gaza mosque in which the imam, Ibrahim
Madi, made the following statement: "God willing, this unjust state [of]
Israel, will be erased; this unjust state the United States will be erased;
this unjust state Britain will be erased." ......
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Evangelism in Srilanka
(by A. Amarasekera)
-
December 3, 2001
While every one focusing their
minds at the LTTE problem, we Sinhalese Buddhists are pitted against
another force as dangerous as the LTTE but only a few realize the
dangers that the Sinhalese Buddhist way of life will have to face
in the near future. ......
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On To Baghdad?: Yes
- The Risks Are Overrated
-
Daniel Pipes & Jonathan Schanzer,
The New York Post, December 3, 2001
The Bush administration has dropped
some heavy hints about the need to rid the world of the Saddam Hussein
regime. In response, some are denouncing this prospect. Their dissenting
views, which fall under six main rubrics, need to be taken very seriously.
......
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Bangladesh : Attacks
on members of the Hindu minority
-
Amnesty International, December
1, 2001
Amnesty International has been
concerned about the situation of members of the Hindu community in Bangladesh
over the past several months. Following the general elections on 1 October
which were won by a coalition led by Bangladesh Nationalist Party(BNP)
with a large majority, BNP supporters reportedly attacked Hindus because
of their perceived support for the rival Awami League party during elections.
......
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Getting at the Roots
of Arab Poverty
-
Alan Schwartz, The New York Times,
December 1, 2001
Since the terrorist attacks, Americans
have learned that in many Arab and Muslim nations there are large numbers
of angry young men with time on their hands, unable to find jobs - or jobs
that make use of their education - because of their countries' poverty.
We've also learned that many Muslims blame us for their poverty. ......
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Dubious thing called
'popular support'
-
KPS Gill, The Pioneer, December
1, 2001
It is interesting to discover,
in the rout of the Taliban and the resurgence of a free Afghan people,
the anatomy of a terrorised society. At the end of under two months of
war, we discover only two pockets of serious resistance to the US-Northern
Alliance (NA) blitz-Kunduz and Kandahar. The largest estimates of total
Taliban forces in these locations stood at under 30,000. ......
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Housewife killed,
3 kidnapped in Tripura
-
The Times of India, December 1,
2001
A housewife was killed and three
school students were kidnapped by insurgents of the banned National Liberation
Front of Tripura (NLFT) in separate incidents in the state, police said
on Friday. ......
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Taliban will handle
US, our target is Kashmir: Lashkar
-
Press Trust of India/Agence France-Presse,
www.expressindia.com, December 1, 2001
The US must stockpile bodybags
if American troops try to launch a ground assault on the Taliban's stronghold
of Kandahar, according to a recruiter of jihad fighters belonging to the
terrorist outfit Lashkar-e-Taiba. ......
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6 Hindu women, girl
allegedly gangraped in Bagerhat
-
Staff Correspondent, The Daily Star
Internet Edition, December 1, 2001
At least five women and a girl
belonging to the Hindu community were gangraped by an armed gang at Gopalpur
village under Kachua upazila in Bagerhat district on November 16, some
of the victims and their family members alleged while talking to this correspondent
on Thursday. ......
-
Hizb commander among
8 militants killed in Kashmir
-
Press Trust of India, www.expressindia.com,
December 1, 2001
Eight militants, including a self-styled
area commander of Hizbul Mujahideen, were killed in separate encounters
with security forces in Kashmir Valley, where a militant surrendered and
20 kg of RDX were seized, official sources said on Friday. ......
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America urges Bangladesh
to respect religious freedom
-
Press Trust of India, www.expressindia.com,
December 1, 2001
The United States has urged Bangladesh
to respect religious rights and human rights and practise tolerance. Replying
to questions over minority Hindus recently coming "under attack" in Bangladesh,
the US State Department Deputy Spokesman Philip Reeker said: "I am not
aware of the particular situation there in recent weeks... I think we have
been clear in our calls... for tolerance ......
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No more Pak support
to J&K terrorism: UK
-
Rashmee Z Ahmed, The Times of India,
December 1, 2001
Even as rumours abound of Pakistani
intelligence officers joining the Western coalition's hunt for Osama Bin
Laden, British ministers have said that they believe the so-called war
on terror will change the nature of Pakistan's support for terrorism in
Kashmir. ......
-
Pak to close down
madrasas
-
The Times of India, December 1,
2001
The Pakistan government has decided
to close down religious seminaries or madrasas in the country providing
military training to their students. ......
-
George Leaves Ashes
For Ganges
-
Amit Roy, The Telegraph, December
1, 2001
Before he died in Los Angeles of
cancer at the age of 58 yesterday, George Harrison expressed a wish to
be cremated and his ashes to be tossed in the holy waters of the Ganges,
devotees at Bhaktivedanta Manor in Letchmore Heath, Hertfordshire, said
today. ......
-
Muslim terrorists
convicted on firearms charges in the US
-
Jen McCaffery, The Roanoke Times,
December 1, 2001
They did not hear that Vincente
Pierre has been linked by federal authorities to Al-Fuqra, a radical Islamic
group whose members have been convicted of the firebombing of a Hare Krishna
temple in Colorado, and the murder of an imam in Tucson. They did not hear
that Pierre pleaded guilty in Colorado in 1993 to workers' compensation
fraud in an Al-Fuqra scheme. ......
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Looking at Ram
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Anuradha Dutt, The Pioneer, December
1, 2001
Swami Chinmayanand, the BJP Lok
Sabha member from Jaunpur, is one of the most outspoken proponents of Hindutva,
both in Parliament, and outside it. He is also the convener of the coordination
committee of the Ram Janmabhoomi Mandir Nirman Samiti, set up by the Vishwa
Hindu Parishad. His association with the VHP dates back to 1981. ......
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Questions over Bangladesh
detention
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Subir Bhaumik, BBC News, December
1, 2001
The High Court in Bangladesh has
directed the government to justify the detention of leading journalist
and writer Shahriar Kabir who was arrested last month on charges of anti-state
activities. ......
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Editorial on David
Frawley's Work in the European Business Review
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Editorial on Indic Studies
When a journalist asked Mahatma
Gandhi what he thought of Western civilisation, he famously replied that
it would be a good idea. Like so much humour, this remark had an underlying
seriousness, which is why it is remembered and quoted so often. I doubt
that Gandhi regarded the West, or Westerners, as wholly barbarous, or that
he dismissed every aspect of Western culture. ......
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Pakistan's Jihad factories
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Ben Barber, The World and I Online,
December 2001
Afghanistan's Taliban studied in
the madrasahs-the Islamist religious schools-of Pakistan, where some 1.75
million students are currently preparing to fight for Islam around the
world. ......
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