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India-Pakistan
The limits of freedom
2008-06-09
By HUMAYUN GAUHAR
Humayun Gauhar is the ghost writer of Pervez Musharraf's 2006 biography 'In The Line of Fire'. He is the son of Altaf Gauhar, the ghost writer of Pak Dictator Ayub KhanÂ’s 1968 biography 'Friends not Masters'
Double standards have screwed up the world - one rule for you and another for us. Muslims are as guilty of this duality as non-Muslims are, calling all and sundry "infidels" with great abandon, even twisting the intent of God if they have to. In the tears over the Danish embassy bomb last Monday, let the context not be lost. Our latest foreign secretary said that Pakistanis are "ashamed" of this incident. But can the same be said about the Danish people? They allowed their media to print and reprint and go on printing the blasphemous cartoons with great abandon too. I use the word "allowed" because public pressure can stop most things. I hope that they will now learn something from this horrible incident, that while all freedoms are highly desirable, they too have limits.

It's not a question of "freedom is indivisible" - sound-bytes that stick in the gullet are plain humbug that mean little and only mislead. The limits of freedom begin where the freedoms of others start getting transgressed. You have the right to express anything you like as long as it doesn't hurt others.
Posted by:john frum

#9  I have observed throughout my life that city people are tolerant and adopt a stay-out-of-it attitude. Because of this, cities are easily changed by waves of immigrants and fail to hold traditions. Country folk, on the other hand, are individuals of action who are not cowed and resist changing to please newcomers. I predict that cities will fall to the Muslim scum, but war in the streets if they stray into the country. This is what faces this spineless liberalism. The liberals will be first to disappear. City life will be masters and slaves loosely tied with fear. Not a plan for success.
Posted by: wxjames   2008-06-09 14:21  

#8  Though, it could be jesuit-joooos.
Posted by: anonymous5089   2008-06-09 13:21  

#7  I'm very confused, I thought it was the jesuits, not the jooos?
Posted by: anonymous5089   2008-06-09 13:20  

#6  Jews have most control and influence over the global media. Jews virtually control world financial institutions and the ability to move capital across borders instantaneously, including over the central bank of the most powerful country in the world.

That's one of their leading thinkers?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2008-06-09 12:39  

#5  Malmo will be telling. So will the Swedish reaction. The Euros are being struck when they are weak spiritually and demographically. The American reaction will be interesting.
Posted by: Nimble Spemble   2008-06-09 10:13  

#4  Be armed, be ready.
Posted by: Hellfish   2008-06-09 09:47  

#3  "We had been telling the Danes, the Swedes and the Dutch for years not to rile an already riled people with their blasphemy."

In other words the ROP will kill you if you don't bow down to their death-cult moon god.

Posted by: AlanC   2008-06-09 09:18  

#2  It is us v them; take sides.

Already there.
Posted by: Spanky Whavilet8559   2008-06-09 04:29  

#1  "Blasphemy" is a religious concept.

Secular constitutions seperate church and state.

Free people may attack religions as falsities.

I don't believe that ALL Muslims are capable of committing terror, in some context, because of intolerance. My copy of ibn Ishaq's 8th century biography of the self-appointed "prophet," records 59 seperate military operations in which he participated. Further, the Yemen conquest was effected because those people recognized their own "prophet." The campaign against Byzantines - Tabuk - was founded on naked aggression. Same with the wars against: Oman, Mesopotamia, Persia, Egypt, the Maghreb. The koran is the only religious text to include a full chapter on "division of the spoils" (anfal). Take a freaking hint.

Why do Muslims immigrate to the West? Even those who say they seek a better economic life, soon embrace the purpose of advancing islam. And if the first generation doesn't do it; the next will. The Muslim is a demographic threat to Western liberty. Prediction: once they achieve majority status in cities of the old European states - as will they in Malmo, Sweden next year - they will make sharia demands. The first opponents will find their homes burned to the ground. Then there will be murder. Muslim leaders will act to reduce the slaughter, but they manage a piecemeal advance of Islam. Muslim cities will be constituted on sharia; Western freedoms will be obliterated. At long last, the self-loathing that allowed this viral enemy to penetrate the Free World will be recognized, and Free People will react in national revolutions.

The Pakistan writer is well aware that post-Partition, 20% of Pakistanis were Hindu; ethnic cleansing reduced that number to 1%. In stark contrast the Muslim population of India has doubled in the same time. Muslims are inherently aggressive and intolerant, if not always as individuals then as followers. They are a threat. We don't need lectures from those savages; we need to put them under ICBM oppression, and dictate THEIR social policies to them. It is us v them; take sides.
Posted by: McZoid   2008-06-09 02:23  

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