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To: muawiyah

>>that small country.

Kashmir isn' a country. Ask the Pakistanis.

Very nice apologist for jihadis and Pak in general.

Sunnis fight against Shia. A lot.

Your shameless justifications for trying to make this a Hindu Muslim thingie is disgusting.

Plus, you assume the dentist was a Shia. How do you know.

Maybe, perhaps, could be, etc etc. Sheesh, try writing fairy tales.

You twist and distort. All seveners, to use your asinine phrasing are doctors. In Pakistan? You are delusional. Most Hindus have left Pakistan. Most Moslems have NOT left India.

Bah. You are an apologist for these whackjobs.

Believe what you want.


76 posted on 10/10/2006 11:04:02 AM PDT by swarthyguy
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To: swarthyguy
Considering that the overwhelming majority of doctors, et al in Pakistan are Seveners, I think it's safe to suggest this particular dentist might well be a Sevener.

Twelvers are all the time killing Seveners ~ mostly out of blind rage, and also because the Seveners know the truth about the Mahdi, and it's not the little kid in the well eh!

Regarding how many Hindus left Pakistan and how many Moslems left India, and how many Hindus stayed behind in Pakistan, etc., these numbers are well known and anybody who doesn't know about the Hindu minority in the South doesn't know much about Pakistan or India.

There's even been a recent National Geographic article that pointed this out ~ it's not a large number, but I was as surprised as you will be. In fact, there are still Hindu shrines in Pakistan that people from India visit. Personally I think that's nuts, but if they think it's worth the risk, then go to it.

I think you missed entirely the fact that I was being totally sarcastic coming up with a gazillion scenarios to address the "who, what, when, where and why" of that dentist's death at the hands of torturers.

Now, regarding whether or not "Kashmir" can be considered a country, I would argue that it has an ancient history of independence as a country long before the arrival of Islam in the Sind and along the Indus.

In fact, it wasn't conquered by Moslems until the late 1300s, but when that happened, the Moslems converted most of the population. Later on, like most of the rest of India, the Moghal empire absorbed it. However, by 1751, the local ruler had managed to extract independence. The Brits didn't subdue the place until 1846.

I know that Hindus have this thing about "conversion" and would argue that the population was forcibly converted to Islam and therefore should bow to Hindu supremacy in the present time. After meeting many people over the years whose families hale from Kashmir, I have yet to find a single one who would agree with you on that point. In fact, depending on the progressiveness of the local variations in Hinduism, which can vary from complete superstitious belief in demons counseled only by hallucinogenic using shamen to very advanced nearly monotheistic structures created by Brahmin guided by highly educated gurus, Islam might well have been an improvement at the time ~ but that's a debate for a different day.

As far as being an "apologist for those whack jobs", I rather think of myself as a totally disinterested, even neutral party, with numerous Moslem and Hindu friends and associates on all sides of every serious issue in South Asia. What I find amazing is that around here so many of them find it possible to co-exist, even at the dinner table. One might suppose that the further you get from India and Pakistan the less meaningful these religious differences really are.

77 posted on 10/10/2006 2:25:53 PM PDT by muawiyah
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