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Re: Some other things I would not like to forget
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<P>You cannot keep harping on historic events. Sensible people of all
races and religious pursuits need to wake up soon and realse that
extremisn has no place in a progressive environment. If you wish to
eliminate poverty and suffering you have to revisit the old values and
evalute the role religion should play in the future- otherwise
you risk conflicts and slippage towards medival environment
when poverty and desease were rampant. Poverty and suffering breed
'terrorism' that we see today. IOts the only way the poor and weak can
respond against the dominant force. The root cause time and again
points to orthodox/extreme religious values. It therefore requires and
two prongod attack : curbing of religiuios thinking which encourages
dissent and elimination of poverty. <BR></P>
<P>anant trivedi </P></DIV>
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<DIV></DIV>----Original Message Follows----
<DIV></DIV>From: Npsingh123@aol.com
<DIV></DIV>Reply-To: debate@indiapolicy.org
<DIV></DIV>To: debate@indiapolicy.org
<DIV></DIV>Subject: Some other things I would not like to forget
<DIV></DIV>Date: Tue, 16 Oct 2001 14:42:23 -0700 (PDT)
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<DIV></DIV>I do not want to forget that it were the western, and
especially British
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<DIV></DIV>policies that led to the creation of Pakistan and Israel
which were
<DIV></DIV>based on
<DIV></DIV>dividing lndia and Palestine respectively along religious
lines giving
<DIV></DIV>rise
<DIV></DIV>to great suffering to innocent people for the next 50 years.
If it
<DIV></DIV>were'nt
<DIV></DIV>for such policies there would probably have been no need for
nuclear
<DIV></DIV>weapons
<DIV></DIV>in the subcontinent in the first place and no need for a
perpetual state
<DIV></DIV>of
<DIV></DIV>war in the Middle East.
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<DIV></DIV>There is no hope for mankind unless we start to regard human
beings as
<DIV></DIV>human
<DIV></DIV>beings rather than as Hindus, Christians, Jews, Muslims,
Palestinians,
<DIV></DIV>Indians or Pakistanis. The need in the world is not so much
to fight for
<DIV></DIV>the
<DIV></DIV>rights of this or that group or country or race but the need
is to
<DIV></DIV>recognize
<DIV></DIV>the Universal Rights of Man and Woman and work to restore and
enhance
<DIV></DIV>them no
<DIV></DIV>matter where one lives, what ones eats or wears and how one
worships and
<DIV></DIV>what
<DIV></DIV>passport one carries. The struggle to bring dignity,
prosperity and
<DIV></DIV>freedom
<DIV></DIV>to people is more important than the struggle to right the
percieved or
<DIV></DIV>real
<DIV></DIV>wrongs against countries, religions, races, regimes and
governments. And
<DIV></DIV>this
<DIV></DIV>struggle should cut across the manmade boundaries of nations
and
<DIV></DIV>religions.
<DIV></DIV>
<DIV></DIV>Why should not a Muslim live without fear or discrimination
in India or
<DIV></DIV>a
<DIV></DIV>Hindu live the same way in Saudi Arabia and the Jews the same
way in
<DIV></DIV>Germany
<DIV></DIV>or Russia. An attack on one human beings rights, no matter
where he or
<DIV></DIV>she
<DIV></DIV>is, should be construed as an attack on humanity. That is the
only war
<DIV></DIV>that
<DIV></DIV>needs to be fought.
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