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Indian politicians woo Muslim vote

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From People of Shambhala.

Digvijaya Singh says Islamist terrorist incident was "fake."

Political parties in Uttar Pradesh are wooing the Muslim vote as the northern Indian state heads to the polls.

Congress leader Digvijaya Singh “raked up” the arrest of Islamist terrorists in the Balta House incident of 2008, according to IBN.

Two of the suspected terrorists were killed in an exchange of gunfire during the encounter with police, two others were arrested, and one escaped. However, Singh maintains that the event was “fake.”

Uma Bharti, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader, accused Congress of trying to divide India by introducing… read more.

Ron Banerjee: Understanding Islamic violence and how to defend our freedoms

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Footage from the 2008 Mumbai terrorist attacks that left over 100 people dead and over 200 wounded.

From People of Shambhala.

In the wake of renewed violence against Hindus in Pakistan, and with more than 100 Hindu families seeking asylum in India, Ron Banerjee, Director of the Canadian Hindu Advocacy group spoke to People of Shambhala. Mr. Banerjee talks about the background to the conflict, and why Pakistan was created in 1947. Why the West should include Hinduism, not just the “Judeo-Christian” tradition. And he also discusses Islam and violence against Hindus and the West, and how we can defend our values and freedoms.

PoS: At the moment about 100 Hindu families are seeking asylum in India, from Pakistan, and are claiming discrimination and violence. There were four doctors murdered on the first day of Eid, and, I think, a Sikh was stabbed as well. Can you tell us a little about that situation?

RB: Sure. The situation is very natural. Most people don’t understand what Pakistan is. Pakistan is a country that was formed for the Muslims. India is a multi-ethnic country for everybody. So Pakistan was formed with the very idea that the only people that should be in Pakistan are Muslims. There is nothing strange about what’s going on in Pakistan today. It’s being going on for a long time.

At independence Pakistan’s population was about ten percent Hindu and Sikh. Now it’s less than one percent. So the question is where did that nine percent go? Well, they were either ethnically cleansed, driven away, or slaughtered in large numbers in the 1971 war between India and Pakistan. In East Pakistan an estimated 2.4 million Hindus were slaughtered in just one year, and hundreds of thousands of Hindu women were… read more.

India’s new “positive discrimination” pleases Muslim leadership

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From People of Shambhala

India will soon put into effect a new 4.5% job reservation quota for minorities, which comes within the already established OBC [“Other Backward Classes”] quota. Better known as “positive discrimination” in the West, The OBC quota was established to help “backward” minorities, such as those from the lower castes and various tribes.

Muslim leaders appear to be pleased with the new quota, and believe Muslims — which make up the largest minority in India — will be the beneficiaries. It will mean that 4.5% of public jobs will be reserved for… read more.

US plans $1 trillion investment in India

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What’s a trillion between friends ay? Well, while I doubt the US can afford this, it’s probably worth it just for how much it will piss off Pakistan.

From IBN:

KOCHI: The United States will invest one trillion dollars for infrastructure development in India, said Nirupama Rao, India’s ambassador to the US.

She was speaking at an interactive session organised by the Kerala Chamber of Commerce and Industry (KCCI) and its Ladies’ Forum at the Chamber Hall on Thursday.

In order to discuss the possibilities of investment, a trade delegation led by the United States Commerce Minister will visit India By March, 2012. Discussions towards an ever green revolution similar to the earlier Green Revolution using US expertise to increase agriculture production and rural income will take place.

Space technology for monsoon prediction and for linkage between farm and market will also be considered. Nirupama said that around 2.8 million Malayalis are part of the Indian community in the US.

In terms of trade, business contracts between the two countries have grown exponentially over the last few years. Also, the imports and exports are on the rise. In the last five years, the US exports to India have increased three times and Indian exports to the US have doubled.

The FDI by the US in India has increased seven times, Nirupama added.

Apart from political and strategic cooperation, energy, education, agriculture, science and technology, healthcare, space technology and skill development are the other areas which will be given prominence in the bilateral relations between the two nations. Trade and economic relations will be the central driving force in the multifaceted partnership.

Tens of thousands rally against US, India in Lahore Pakistan

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Tens of thousands rally against US in Lahore

Hafiz Saeed, the head of Islamic organization Jamaat-ud-Dawa speaks to gathering during an anti-American and Indian rally on the grounds of the Minar-e-Pakistan in Lahore. -Reuters Photo

LAHORE: Tens of thousands gathered in one of the biggest-ever protests in the Pakistani city of Lahore Sunday to condemn Nato and United States over the killing of 24 soldiers along the Afghan border.

The protestors, mainly from Islamist groups and political parties, vowed they would march to the capital Islamabad if the government did not cancel agreements between the US designed to fight terrorism.

“We will hold a march towards the capital if the government does not revoke agreements of cooperation in the war against terror with the US,” said Hafiz Muhammad Saeed, a senior leader of the Pakistan Defence Council (PDC).

About 3,000 activists from the Council, which organised the rally, also acted as guards in addition to a 1,000-strong police contingent Saeed, who heads the charity Jamaat-ud-Dawa and founded the Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) faction blamed by India and the US for the 2008 attacks in Mumbai, warned that “we will no longer tolerate any attacks on our soil.”

”The US should not turn its missions in Pakistan into spying stations,” he said, adding that “we will respect Americans if they live in Pakistan as guests but any other agenda will not be tolerated.”Saeed called on Pakistan’s government to decide on a date that would see it take the country “out of the war against terror” and vowed “every sacrifice to preserve and uphold sovereignty and territorial integrity of the country.”

Since the attacks last month, Pakistan has charged that US-led forces deliberately carried out the air strikes that killed the two dozen soldiers, but the US has insisted the November 26 incident was a regrettable mistake.

The incident came amid high tension between the US and Pakistan, whose military, long the country’s most powerful institution, has been on the defensive since the secret US raid in May that killed Osama bin Laden.

In response, Pakistan has sealed its Afghan border to Nato supply convoys, boycotted the Bonn conference on the future of Afghanistan and ordered US personnel to vacate an air base reportedly used by CIA drones.

An AFP photographer present at Sunday’s rally put the number of demonstrators at over 40,000 while two senior police officials said more than 70,000 people attended the protest.

Protestors waved the flags of their respective Islamist parties and shouted “friends of the US are traitors and long live Pakistan”.

Liaqat Baloch, a top leader of the radical Jamaat-e-Islami (JI) party, told the rally: “We will not allow Pakistan to become a colony of the US.”

India: Huge explosives haul in Ambala foils terror plot

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This time, the Sikhs join in with the Muslims to try and kill random Hindus

From The Deccan Herald:

New Delhi/Chandigarh, Oct 13, DHNS:
Security agencies on Thursday claimed to have foiled a ”major terror operation” with the detection of 5 kg RDX from an abandoned car at the Ambala cantonment railway station.
“All angles are being probed, including the involvement of Sikh terrorist outfits and Pakistan-based groups”, sources told Deccan Herald.

The car with the RDX was reportedly heading towards Delhi before it was abandoned for the fear of being trailed by the Delhi Police. Sources said, based on specific information, Delhi Police sleuths were trailing the vehicle and it was said to have passed on Wednesday from the Lakhanpur toll barrier along Jammu-Pathankot barrier.

The Delhi Police alerted their Haryana counterparts about the car after which Haryana police officers, Government Railway Police and the Railway Protection Force personnel rushed to the spot.

Sources did not confirm whether any military installation was the intended target of the alleged terror groups.

Preliminary investigations indicated that the explosives seemed to be meant to target Delhi during the festive season. Delhi Police Special Cell officials said that the explosives appeared to have originated from Jammu and Kashmir. Continue Reading →

Apparent bombing outside Delhi court kills 4

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Times Online

Posted: Wednesday, September 7, 2011 1:40 am

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A top Indian security official says an apparent bomb blast outside the New Delhi High Court has killed four people and wounded 30 others.

The blast erupted shortly after 10 a.m. outside a crowded gate leading to the court building.

Home Ministry official U.K. Bansal said the blast appeared to have been caused by a medium intensity bomb possibly hidden in a briefcase.

THIS IS A BREAKING NEWS UPDATE. Check back soon for further information. AP’s earlier story is below.

NEW DELHI (AP) _ An explosion erupted Wednesday morning outside a crowded gate leading to the High Court building in New Delhi, wounding at least 24 people, police said.

The cause of the blast, which took place soon after 10 a.m., was not immediately clear, said police spokesman Mohamed Akhalaque.

The explosion, if a bomb, would be the first major terror attack in India since a string of bombs exploded in three busy Mumbai neighborhoods on July 13, killing 20 people. Suspicion for those attacks fell on the shadowy extremist network known as the Indian Mujahedeen, though no one has been arrested.

Police officials at the scene said the blast hit an unsecured area outside a gate where the public gathers to enter the court complex.

Indian television showed images of ambulances taking the wounded from the scene.

The blast was the second explosion at the High Court this year. On May 25, a small explosion that appeared to be a failed car bomb hit the court parking lot.

Mumbai attack July 2011. Someone has to say it first.

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So far not a whisper. But one has to wonder. Of all the soft targets in a city the size and vitality of Mumbai (Bombay) why pick a diamond market and a target that was pretty much right next to the target in the 2005 attack? Could it be that Jews often work in the diamond business much like Italians and ceramics or Vietnamese and fake nails? Why that target when it would not be as strategically significant as high tech or high tourist areas?

Just saying is all.

 

Terror attack by Indian Mujahadeen in Mumbai India

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Islam. The religion of terror, slaughter and slavery all for the glory of one psychopath who has been mercifully dead for 1300 years.

As of 11:25 AM EST 13 dead and 81 injured, over 50 in hospitals. 7 IED’s used.

Live coverage can be seen here at IBN and below is a short clip I caught at around 11:00 AM

UPDATE:
http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/179359/20110713/india-mumbai-rocked-three-serial-blasts-dadar-zaveri-bazaar-opera-house-nia-cfsl-nsg.htm

India: Three Blasts in Mumbai, 10 Killed, Over 100 Injured

India’s Western city of Mumbai was rocked by three serial blasts at around 7.30 pm on Wednesday. The explosions took place at Dadar West, Zaveri Bazaar and Opera House.

At least 10 people were killed in the blasts, including four in Zaveri Bazaar. Six people were killed in Dadar.

3 bomb blasts in Mumbai; 8 killed, 70 injured

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IBN

Security alert in Delhi after Mumbai blasts Total comments0
Three explosions were reported from south Mumbai’s Zaveri Bazar, Dadar in Central Mumbai and Opera House.

3 bomb blasts in Mumbai; 8 killed, 70 injured

  • Home Min sources say blasts are terror strikes
  • Injured rushed to JJ, KEM hospitals
  • Police suspect IEDs were used in serial blasts
  • BSF plane being readied to fly to Mumbai

Morality police attack woman in India for being out at night

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Here is part of the story from Jihad Watch.

Please click over to see the rest

India: Muslim “morality police” brutally assaults woman because she was out at night

This Asia News piece never specifically identifies what kind of “fundamentalists” were behind this attack. Militant Baptists? Hardcore Hindus? We only get the real picture from the name of one of the attackers: Thajuddin. And so it becomes clear that this is another story involving the peculiar Islamic “morality” that finds the prospect of a woman out bicycling at night to be immoral, but the brutal assault of that woman to be perfectly moral.

“Kerala: ‘morality police’ attacks women because she is out at night,” by Nirmala Carvalho for Asia News, June 22 (thanks to Block Ness):