Comments on: Secular Harit Desh – Guest post by Sanjay

By: B Shantanu

B Shantanu — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 06:14:28 +0000

Bharat: Any links to MJ Akbar’s article re. Rushdie?

By: Bharat

Bharat — Sat, 05 Dec 2009 08:40:05 +0000

“MJ Akbar, the celebrity journalist, editor (Sunday and Telegraph), author, commentator and columnist has for some time now taken pains to present the Muslim liberal point of view.”

Swami Devananda aka Ishwar sharan’s website gives this info about M.J:
http://hamsa.org/coelho.htm

“………. ……. He is an exhibitionist, a celebrity journalist and jihadi apologist (see his Shade of Swords), and a very clever falsifier of Islamic history who can get away with murder in print. And get away with the murder of print: he was one of the first Indian journalists to call for a ban on Salman Rushdie’s Satanic Verses, and act which aligned him with Muslim fundamentalists and provoked shocked European intellectuals to call him, ironically, “a true green Nehruvian secularist”.

Regards
bharat

By: mohan

mohan — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 02:27:00 +0000

Harit Desh sounds like Waterloo or is it Kurukshetra ?

By: संदीप नारायण शेळके

संदीप नारायण शेळके — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 19:07:33 +0000

One more radical thinker. I thought MJ Akber would have been in the interest of nation, but seems like he more concerned about one community (Muslim) and is not fussed about the needy and economically backward Bharatiya (no religion/caste/region).
MJA: “It will become a natural socio-economic magnet for Muslims of the north. The idea is still in an embryonic stage. Whoever articulates it, will have rung a wake-up call.”
This means he want a separate zone for Muslims and whoever will demand this can be another Jinah.
Nice one Mr Akbar, so Mahatma Gandhiji proved wrong here. It is proved time and again that no matter whatever education you possess, will not be a human (humanity seeker) by guarantee.

Jai Hind!

By: Kaffir

Kaffir — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 18:25:09 +0000

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Khalidi had also advocated, in an interview with The Times of India, a reorganisation of the districts in Andhra Pradesh, Bihar, West Bengal and Assam to create “compact Muslim zones” where their culture and rights could be “safeguarded”
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Wouldn’t it be much easier to give such Muslims who want “compact Muslim zones”, a one-way ticket to the Islamic republic of their choice? There are many such existing republics that they can choose from. And such asinine suggestions (as this one from Khalidi) come from intellectuals (?) who live far away and cut off from the day-to-day ground realities – no surprise there. Plus, it goes without saying that such “brilliant” ideas are always meant for others to follow, never for the one suggesting them.