11-19-2003, 05:42 AM
I agree that India's partition was symptomatic of a civil war, and has been beneficial to the Hindu's and Sikhs.
However, this benefit was diluted, and now stands to be jeopardized by the rapid growth of the residual muslim populace - who through unfettered population growth has grown to become 13% of India . Compounding this is the illegal immigration from bangala-desh, which is altering the demographics of several border areas adversely- sowing the seeds of more strife and violence.
Reading Ambedkar's account of the Partition on the web site referenced above is stunning.
It reinforces my view that we have been criminal in not teaching true history to our children. We raised 3 generations of "unaware", head-in-the-sand pseudo-secularists trained to worship gandhi and nehru - but totally ignorant about history, the ruthless and barabric muslim rule and the true heroes who stemmed the green tide and stopped the "islimic" invasion.
Be that as it may, there are now more than 130 million muslims in India now, who are not going to go anywhere.
I agree that many of them are good people, despite the perverse teachings of islam, and would be happy to melt into "Indianness" or hindutva; but many more are fanatical, wedded to the fundamentals of islam which basically puts them at loggerheads with India, Hindus and Sikhs.
Our inability to weed them all out in 1947 , when it would have been easier, will cost us big time. In blood, in time and in wealth.
But we will have to deal with this problem sooner than we think.
I would like to discuss possible solutions to this problem on this thread - in addition to further defining the scope and size of the problem
However, this benefit was diluted, and now stands to be jeopardized by the rapid growth of the residual muslim populace - who through unfettered population growth has grown to become 13% of India . Compounding this is the illegal immigration from bangala-desh, which is altering the demographics of several border areas adversely- sowing the seeds of more strife and violence.
Reading Ambedkar's account of the Partition on the web site referenced above is stunning.
It reinforces my view that we have been criminal in not teaching true history to our children. We raised 3 generations of "unaware", head-in-the-sand pseudo-secularists trained to worship gandhi and nehru - but totally ignorant about history, the ruthless and barabric muslim rule and the true heroes who stemmed the green tide and stopped the "islimic" invasion.
Be that as it may, there are now more than 130 million muslims in India now, who are not going to go anywhere.
I agree that many of them are good people, despite the perverse teachings of islam, and would be happy to melt into "Indianness" or hindutva; but many more are fanatical, wedded to the fundamentals of islam which basically puts them at loggerheads with India, Hindus and Sikhs.
Our inability to weed them all out in 1947 , when it would have been easier, will cost us big time. In blood, in time and in wealth.
But we will have to deal with this problem sooner than we think.
I would like to discuss possible solutions to this problem on this thread - in addition to further defining the scope and size of the problem