Train Fire in Western India Kills 30 (2,000 MUSLIMS ATTACK TRAIN FULL OF HINDUS - MY TITLE)

YAHOO NEWS ^ | FEBRUARY 27, 2002 | HARISH DESAI

[Lion's Cub]

I see the writer left out the part about them dancing in the streets as the train burned. I guess he more or less mentioned the celebratory rifle shots in the air, though.

[HiTech RedNeck]

The St. Paul's Cathedral claim sounds ludicrous, but one would expect India to have actual records of what was in their own land practically yesterday.

[Madiuq]

"In this incident the Moslems are clearly at fault, but in the whole Ayodhya controvery the Hindus are at least equally at fault."

Hindus at fault because they rebuilt a Hindu temple in Ayodhya that was previously torn down by Islamic jihadi radicals?

Do you have any clue what Ayodhya is? It is the birthplace of Rama, in the Indian national epic story/poem, the Ramayana.

The Ramayana has often been compared to the Greek's Odyssey or Illiad, and is deeply engrained in ancient Indian culture. The purpose of the Muslims dislodging this holiest of holy places for Indian Hindus was to inflict a psychological blow that their ancient culture was to be obliterated. For Indians to take back their rightful site was a rebellion that they were not going to take this cr*p from the jihadis. The Indians are hardly at fault here.

[aShepard]

"Can't we just all get along?"

[Illbay]

This is just incomprehensible to me. How fortunate we are to live in a place where religious strife has, with some few exceptions, not been in evidence.

[Yardstick]

Hindu nationalists shot up a Catholic church the other day. I wonder if the Hindus on the train were part of the same group?

[rwfromkansas]

wow....

[gridlock]

Gee, building a mosque at Ayodhya would be like building a mosque on top of the Temple Mount and then making up some bogus claim in 1945 that it is the second holiest site in Islam. That could just never happen, because Islam is Love!

[Dog Gone]

I just don't understand these religious conflicts about building some sort of shrine, temple, mosque, etc. at a particular spot, whether it's here, in Israel, or anyplace else.

It's just dirt, for pete's sake, and there's no shortage of it.

There's nothing holy about a particular plot of land, except in the opinion of whoever chooses to make such a declaration. It's completely irrational, yet people routinely kill each other over stupid plots of land. Sure, some sites have more historical significance than others, but this conflict is basically over which group gets exclusive rights to conduct religious rituals at a particular piece of sedimentary deposits.

It's absurd.

[Godfollow]

Muslims just want to send the love of Allah throughout the world via the burning peacetrain. They simply exude the love of Allah don't they?

[E Rocc]

Dude you are such a liar. Hinduism is like 10,000 years old, at least. Islam is like 1500 years old. Do the math.

And this has what to do with what?

-Eric

[sandydipper]

Muslims hate Hindus, Arabs hate Jews, Catholics hate Protestants, Sheites hate Budhists, Rednecks hate Yankees, I hate politicians -God must be pissed.

[KSCITYBOY]

The media wants us to trust them and then they write articles that don't tell the whole truth just to be politically correct. Someone should let them know that omitting inforamtion is a form of bias also. If this had been a bunch of white skinheads setting fire to a train load of non-whites you would see a glaring headline.

[E Rocc]

Hindu nationalists shot up a Catholic church the other day. I wonder if the Hindus on the train were part of the same group?

Probably not the ones on the train. But it wouldn't be suprising if some of the people who did it were involved with the mob that destroyed the mosque, much in the manner that Palestinian mobs tore down a Jewish shrine during one of their intifadi. Here's a pretty good writeup on the history from a Hindu source: Ayodhya: stop this madness now

It's ironic that people here are knee-jerking to attack the Moslems. In India, Moslems and Christians are de facto allies in the face of the BJP's Hindu militants. While Hinduism, like Buddhism, has a long history of tolerance of other faiths, that has definitely changed in the last 10 to 20 years. These days some of them can be as hateful as the most sharia-mad Moslem.

-Eric

[Madiuq]

If they don't fight against the Muslims, India will become a Muslim nation. That means 1.5 billion more Muslims, with hundreds of Nukes. India already lost huge parts of their land to Islam, including Pakistan and Bangladesh, using tactics of peace, tolerance and "looking the other way." If they continue to act like you want them to act, pretty soon, the whole country will be Islamic.

Chew on that for a little bit.

[P-Marlowe]

ARTIST: Tom Lehrer
TITLE: National Brotherhood Week

Oh, the white folks hate the black folks
And the black folks hate the white folks
To hate all but the right folks
Is an old established rule

But during National Brotherhood Week
National Brotherhood Week
Lena Horne and Sheriff Clark
Are dancing cheek to cheek
It's fun to eulogize
The people you despise
As long as you don't let 'em in your school

Oh, the poor folks hate the rich folks
And the rich folks hate the poor folks
All of my folks hate all of your folks
It's American as apple pie

But during National Brotherhood Week
National Brotherhood Week
New Yorkers love the Puerto Ricans
'Cause it's very chic
Step up and shake the hand
Of someone you can't stand
You can tolerate him if you try

Oh, the Protestants hate the Catholics
And the Catholics hate the Protestants
And the Hindus hate the Moslems
And everybody hates the Jews

But during National Brotherhood Week
National Brotherhood Week
It's National Everyone-Smile-At- One-Another-hood Week
Be nice to people who
Are inferior to you
It's only for a week, so have no fear
Be grateful that it doesn't last all year!

[veronica]

BTTT.

[Rebelbase]

Islam is a religion of peace^tm

[Redleg Duke]

Ahhh! The Religion of Peace.