Calling out Wahabbism the root of terror

Sometimes someone has to call a spade a spade. Mr. Ram Jethmalani, in an international conference on terrorism said,

Unfortunately in the 17th century, they produced an evil man in Saudi Arabia by the name of Wahab, who was concerned about the decline of the Muslim world, but he hit upon a wrong remedy.

He continued stating,

India had friendly relations with a country that supported Wahabi terrorism

I'm not sure that Saudi Arabia supported Wahabi terror, than actually creating and sustaining it.
Of course all the other luminaries attending the conference denied Jethmalani's statements and claimed the usual rigmarole of no religion being the root of terror. If the leaders and legal heads of countries will not call out one of the biggest problems facing civil society today, at least cant they hear out a person willing to speak his mind? What next, the Ulemas going to call a fatwa on Jethmalani?

Swines of the week - mid week edition

Yes this is an early edition. Due to time constraints I was not able to get the right photos. But here goes,

• Swine #1: As pointed out by reader CodeNameV - a beloved Indian economist Amartya Sen who claimed,

  I am on Left and if Left want me I’m delighted.
  

Apparently the criticism of the Leftist intelligentsia (aka village idiots) has stung Amartya that he wants to rebuild those bridges.

• Swine #2: Is an old favorite of this blog, good old Sidd Varadarajan for his support Manmohan Singh's asinine actions and abject capitulation vis-a-vis Pakistan during the recent summit.

That is why Dr. Singh was careful to emphasise on Wednesday the need for India to make sincere efforts to live in peace with Pakistan, to reach “an honourable settlement of the problems between us,” to keep channels open. “Unless we want to go to war with Pakistan, dialogue is the only way out,” he asserted at the end of his speech, “but we should do so on the basis of ‘trust but verify’.”

Really Sidd, do you expect us to believe this bunch of BS? Let us say hypothetically there is another attack in Indian soil by Pak sponsored militants in the near future. Where does this leave the Indian Government? Are we again going to beat our breasts and complain that Pakistan govt. could not control the militants? Or are we going to continue the dialogue as you so smartly analyzed that without dialogue this problem cannot be solved? Lets face it Pakistan has no interest in controlling the militants from attacking India. The only reason why we have not seen more attacks is the pressure by the US government to handle certain groups within Pakistan which has forced the ISI and the Army to take action.
MMS has done precious little to bolster India's national security and his actions expose him for what he is.

Hoopla on the Ajmal trial

Chindu is among the pack of media hounds giving significant visibility on the Ajmal aka Kasab trial.
Like a note from the judge Tahaliyani who said,

We have to see whether he [Ajmal Amir] is really pleading guilty to all the charges levelled against him. Accepting or rejecting his plea comes at a later stage

Or the lawyer for one of the accused who claimed,

If he has given any statement against my client, I would like to check the veracity of the statement, and in order to do that,” said Shahbaz Rajput, “he has to be produced before the court here for cross-examination.

Can the media really be this stupid and follow a puppet show played to the audience, while the Government decides to hold iftar parties with a Paki government which cannot control a kid vandalizing a police station.

Islamic terrorists as heroes? Only in Porkistan

Apparently our beloved neighbor Prez Z thinks Islamic terrorists were heroes.

The terrorists of today were the heroes of yesteryear until 9/11 occurred and they began to haunt us as well,” Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari said on Tuesday night.

Apparently Z has a deathwish as well when he said,

Militants and extremists emerged on the national scene and challenged the State not because the civil bureaucracy was weakened and demoralised but because they were deliberately created and nurtured as a policy to achieve some short-term tactical objectives.

Let us see who created them in the late 80s and early 90s? Apparently some leaders called Zia Ul Haq and a person close to Z called Benazir Bhutto. Wonder what the Indian response should be. If I were to guess, "We told you all so many times before", would be a great riposte.