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KASHMIR AND DEMOCRACY
François Gautier
No
doubt Mr Vajpayee is a nice man, no doubt he is well-meaning, no doubt
he also embodies some of the better virtues of tolerance and ahimsa of
Hinduism, but lately, he has all but surrendered Kashmir to Islamic
separatism, not only losing elections there, even amongst his own
people, but also saying that “democracy has won in Kashmir”. Democracy
has won in Kashmir?.........More... Wahi: The
Supernatural Basis of Islam
Part II
- The Modern View of the Quranic Trance
Dr. Koenraad ELST
So, where did
the Quranic messages come from?
“It is the
concept of the unconscious that has enabled us to understand these
things. (…) One has only to dip into psychology text-books to find a
hundred perfectly bona fide cases of people in a state of hallucination
hearing things and seeing visions which they claim quite genuinely never
to have seen or heard before........More...
Two Elections:
Two Misnomers
Sreeram Chaulia
No
sooner had election results for the Jammu and Kashmir legislative
assembly and the Pakistan national and provincial assemblies been
declared in the first half of October, than the American press and
audiovisual media went into overdrive transmitting two major misnomers
which are at total odds with reality.......More...
Beyond Subcontinental Elections: Stabilizing Kashmir and Redefining
Restraint
Subodh Atal, Ph. D.
The recently
concluded elections in South Asia have highlighted the sharp contrast
between democracy and pluralism in India and religious fundamentalism
and terrorism. In Jammu and Kashmir (J&K) state in India, Pakistan
did its utmost to disrupt elections and expression of democracy by
sending terrorists tasked with killing civilians and politicians, and
attacking campaign rallies and voting booths......More...
J&K: Forward to the Past?
K.P.S. Gill
Attempting to predict the future is, of course, an activity fraught with
danger, but it is safe to speculate on the basis of the historical
record that Sayeed's elevation at the present stage of the conflict in
J&K bodes ill for the counter-terrorism effort in the State......More...
Islam and
prisoners of war
Vinod Kumar
Islam advocates clemency with captives. History has never
known warriors so merciful to their captives as the early Muslims who
followed the teachings of their religion. The most authentic source of Islam is the Koran itself and after the
Koran it is the recorded traditions of the Prophet known as the Hadis.
Of all the four most well known traditions, the one compiled by Imam
Bukhari is deemed to be most authentic......More...
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