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25 September 2007 13 views 4 Comments

From Sify: Clashes after Twenty20 final, 5 injured

Excerpts (emphasis mine)

“ …Members of two communities clashed in Gadarpur late Monday soon after India’s victory over Pakistan in the Twenty20 World Cup final in Johannesburg, after which police fired in the air to disperse the warring groups.

the clash…took place after some people took out a procession to celebrate the victory of Indian cricket team, which was objected to by members of the other community…

…The situation in nearby towns like Kitchha was also stated to be tense but under control…”

I thought our press had matured enough…but I may be wrong. 

What next? Members of a community are agitated that some atheists are making derogatory remarks about their faith?

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Avoiding the M-word from which comes this short excerpt:

“…The obfuscation is sometimes almost comical. The New York Times, reporting the Glasgow attack on Page 1, carefully avoided using the M-word to identify Britain’s Muslim terrorists. Instead it attributed the 7/7 bombings to Britain’s “disenfranchised South Asian population” and reported that the terrorists in Glasgow “were South Asian.” (As Joel Mowbray pointed out for Powerline, Indian Hindus are Britain’s largest South Asian demographic.)…”

and Teachers drop the Holocaust to avoid offending Muslims 

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UPDATE: There is more (courtesy of Sandeep’s blog).

Apparently, “A group of youths who were celebrating the Indian team’s victory in the Twenty 20 cricket final between India and Pakistan were attacked by a group of alleged NDF activists at Paruthukuzhi near Poonthura here on Monday night.”

For those who do not know NDF, it is a right wing, militant Islamist organisation in Kerala, India established in 1993. (more here)
   

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4 Comments »

  • 1. Patriot said:

    Yes, this is such a joke, isn’t it? As if people can not read through the article and figure out the communities. All of this nonsense goes back to Nehru and his soft peddling of secularism and his (and following) government’s insistence on the media not naming communities at fault. Although, the media has been very happy to say “majority” community when it wants ……….

    I think it is time to say, ENOUGH! Call a spade, a spade and be done or do not be a reporter/editor/media owner

  • 2. Patriot said:

    Here is a different, more blunt article on the clashes:
    http://www.indianexpress.com/story/221242.html

  • 3. B Shantanu said:

    Patriot: Thanks for the link…

    “As if people can not read through the article and figure out the communities. ”

    Exactly my point!

  • 4. Patriot said:

    So much for “secular”, progressive Bengal ….. I wonder what the traitor communists have to say for themselves now?

    http://www.indianexpress.com/story/222040.html

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