According to historian Toynbee, the central idea of Islam is Justice and that of Christianity is Love. To fight for justice is right thing otherwise injustice will flourish in this world leading to the development of “Might is Right”. In the aftermath of the killing of Bin Laden in Pakistan by the USA there is a cry in some pockets in Islamic world to avenge the killing of Bind Laden. Will this help to bring about peace in the world? No doubt according to some knowledgeable persons in Islam consigning of the dead body of Bin Laden into the sea is not correct and as such the USA and its allies must pay the price for the offence USA made to the Muslim Bin Laden.
“Eye for an eye and tooth for tooth” is the law of Hammurabi the ancient king of ancient Mesopotamia. Will this Law help to bring about peace and reconciliation in this world? To fight for justice is the right decision but using violent methods to get justice is right? Violence will invite violence only and those who fight with violent methods will get liquidated with violent methods only.
It is over 60 years now that the Arab world is fighting for the cause of Arab Palestine against foreign intruders the Jews in Israel and yet there is no peace in the occupied land. Unimaginable damage has been done to this land and especially to Palestinians, both for Muslim and Christian Palestinians. One of the factors that failed Arabs in Palestine was the violent methods used by the Palestinians to regain their homeland illegally occupied by the Israeli Jews. Palestinians got very good reason to defeat the Israelis thru peaceful methods but instead they used violent methods to fight against their enemy thereby inviting ill-will from all around the globe. Even the Prime Minister of India, the late Indira Gandhi the strong supporter of Palestinian cause and a very good friend of the late Yasser Arafat the then chef of PLO, was terribly upset when she got the news of Munich Olympics terrorists operation conducted by the Palestinians in 1972 Olympics. Immediately following this operation by the Palestinian terrorists, opponents of Indira Ghandi demanded from her to downgrade India’s support to Palestine. Because of this operation the cause of Palestinians suffered a heavy blow for its goal.
The killing of Bin Laden and consigning of his body into the sea was not condemned by the entire Arab and Muslim world thereby giving an impression that Bin Laden is not the hero of all the Arabs and all the Muslims. There are Muslims in this world who believe that Bin Laden and his Al Qaeda group are lowering the image of Islam because Islam does not preach violence. At this hour of turmoil what is required is love to get justice for the hurt parties. Only thru love we can get peace and justice.
America got itself involved in Afghanistan not as invaders but as helpers to the Islamic Government of Hamid Kharzai who is the head of sovereign Islamic counry Afghanistan. USA will not stay in Afghanistan permanently but to leave them from Afghanistan the terrorists in Afghanistan must play a constructive role and not the destructive role that sheds the blood of innocent people. Nobody on this God created planet got authority to kill innocent children of God and those who are killing innocent people in the name of their religion and God are the enemies of God and their reward is devine punishment, either today or tomorrow.
According to my assessment the world will remain safe for the humanity only with the USA and its Western allies. USA is known in the past to protect the world from the clutches of Monster nations like Germany, Italy, Japan and Saddam Hussein’s Iraq. If USA now allows the world to fall into the hands of religious fanatics and etremists, not only the West and USA will get liquidated from this planet but also the entire civilisation. We have responsibility to protect our civilisation and those who work to protect our civilisation deserve our support. The great Philosopher Prof. Bertrand Russell during the second world war while at Oxford in UK told the students "to stop coming to classes and instead join the British Government in its war efforts to fight against that monster Hitler of Germany who is all out to liquidate the civilisation from this planet". If there is no brake on their moves, the fanatics in the name of their religion will finish the civilisation from this planet. Hence, the civilised world must fight to stop the fundamentalists and religious fanatics from liquidating our civilisation by using terrorism to justify their belief. If it was Twin Towers in USA yesterday then today it may be any tower in your country and tomorrow it can be anything in my country and the day after tomorrow it can be the destruction of the world. This world belongs to God and besides Him there is nobody having authority to finish this world by using terrorism.
After the 9/11 operation by Bin Laden’s Al Qaeda, one top aide of the President of USA warned Pakistan saying “ if Pakistan does not stop co-operating with Al Qaeda, we will bomb Pakistan to the Stone Age”. This was enough for Pakistan and its president Parvez Musherraf to toe the line of USA for the survival of Pakistan. After the killing of Bin Laden in Pakistan by the USA without the knowledge of Pakistan, the Chief of Pakistani Military Gen. Kayani warned USA saying, “if this is repeated again, Pakistan will retaliate”. Is Pakistan capable to do that? I doubt very much even though I fully disagree with the USA to intrude in the sovereign country Pakistan and conduct its operation of killing Bin Ladin. One of the reasons for Pakistan to lose its one wing the then East Pakistan was trusting USA and its President Richard Nixon. India relied on Soviet Russia who stood by India while USA betrayed Pakistan and its President Gen. Yaha Khan. USA has its own interest to protect and if Pakistan does not realise this fact, the remaining part of Pakistan may go the way its second wing has gone earlier leading Pakistan into pieces which many Pakistanis craving for.
A. Veronica Fernandes,
Kuwait.
May 8, 2011
ENGLISH V/S KONANI IN GOA.
This issue is hotting up so much that any one writing in any way in support and in opposing and while opposing they show so much hate to Konkani indirectly only to glorify English.
Some say English is very useful to the children so that they study it well which will help and serve them to get jobs world wide. Some say learning Konkani will not support them internationally which is true and who said konkani is read, written and spoken internationally other than by Goans and who will give them Jobs overseas? only in Goa and surrounding they might get. So we go English way. So far we have been doing that, i mean we speak, read and write Konkani eitheir in Roman or perhaps in Devanagri, and who is that while learning this remained totally ignorant of English and how many of those who went abroad and flourished are different from what i said so that they could not get jobs?.
This tamasha is only an excuse to jump from one into another era. Many of us studied in Portuguese and now running our life in English. In fact nothing went missing and how can it go missing in future? Indirect hate is shown to Konkani just to glorify English is what we can see. English is essential llanguage and no one is opposing it. There is a choice and it is made since long to which medium one want to study. The present and past generationS baring some are not exclusively specialized in English only yet there is no problem and why only now to coming generation it will make a problem to those who want to go abroad for jobs? English is not being blacklisted! As is present there is none a problem so why we are afraid of an issue which should not been an issue at all?
Some say, there we can get no jobs in Goa, so we went abroad. some say the Jobs are being sold by Politicians for lakhs of Rupees so if we know English (better than English presently studied) we will get jobs abroad as all jobs in Goa are sold to non-Goans/outsiders for a price so at this time the English better than presently studied English will help fetch them job abroad! And will some one say what happened to presently studied English? Is it not helping fetch jobs overseas? How come there are so many thousands of Goans now abroad, aren't they working? Besides this, fine we all learn English to go abroad to work because there are no jobs found in Goa for Goans. And now how many of us are not hating Non Goans calling them ghanttis etc because they have occupied the vacancies which was supposed to be ours, How many of us not cursing them that they eat what was ours? and Now we want English better than what English we studied so that we go abroad for hunting the jobs and allow to fill the remaining jobs by the Ghanttis and non-Goans?
So we leave Goa now for them only to be occupied and take over our would be jobs, our lands and our Goykarponn too. One side we are cursing them, other side we are helping them to come over to Goa and take over our jobs and Goa while we go abroad to hunt for the jobs, then we say Goa is no longer same, Goa is gone taken over by ghanttis and so on. Look we are demanding English (better than the present English now) so that we go abroad and let the non-goans take over Goa.
The present FORCE look like they want all of their children to go abroad wholesale and then the naked truth is we ourselves making Goa vacant for non-Goans to enjoy Goa in all respects. We Goans are pretty smart actors complaining too much while we ourselves are like hypocrites. Cant we see clearly here we ourselves are to be blamed? Or we fail to see it clearly the creation of our own conspiracy?
Elvino Rodrigues.
Some say English is very useful to the children so that they study it well which will help and serve them to get jobs world wide. Some say learning Konkani will not support them internationally which is true and who said konkani is read, written and spoken internationally other than by Goans and who will give them Jobs overseas? only in Goa and surrounding they might get. So we go English way. So far we have been doing that, i mean we speak, read and write Konkani eitheir in Roman or perhaps in Devanagri, and who is that while learning this remained totally ignorant of English and how many of those who went abroad and flourished are different from what i said so that they could not get jobs?.
This tamasha is only an excuse to jump from one into another era. Many of us studied in Portuguese and now running our life in English. In fact nothing went missing and how can it go missing in future? Indirect hate is shown to Konkani just to glorify English is what we can see. English is essential llanguage and no one is opposing it. There is a choice and it is made since long to which medium one want to study. The present and past generationS baring some are not exclusively specialized in English only yet there is no problem and why only now to coming generation it will make a problem to those who want to go abroad for jobs? English is not being blacklisted! As is present there is none a problem so why we are afraid of an issue which should not been an issue at all?
Some say, there we can get no jobs in Goa, so we went abroad. some say the Jobs are being sold by Politicians for lakhs of Rupees so if we know English (better than English presently studied) we will get jobs abroad as all jobs in Goa are sold to non-Goans/outsiders for a price so at this time the English better than presently studied English will help fetch them job abroad! And will some one say what happened to presently studied English? Is it not helping fetch jobs overseas? How come there are so many thousands of Goans now abroad, aren't they working? Besides this, fine we all learn English to go abroad to work because there are no jobs found in Goa for Goans. And now how many of us are not hating Non Goans calling them ghanttis etc because they have occupied the vacancies which was supposed to be ours, How many of us not cursing them that they eat what was ours? and Now we want English better than what English we studied so that we go abroad for hunting the jobs and allow to fill the remaining jobs by the Ghanttis and non-Goans?
So we leave Goa now for them only to be occupied and take over our would be jobs, our lands and our Goykarponn too. One side we are cursing them, other side we are helping them to come over to Goa and take over our jobs and Goa while we go abroad to hunt for the jobs, then we say Goa is no longer same, Goa is gone taken over by ghanttis and so on. Look we are demanding English (better than the present English now) so that we go abroad and let the non-goans take over Goa.
The present FORCE look like they want all of their children to go abroad wholesale and then the naked truth is we ourselves making Goa vacant for non-Goans to enjoy Goa in all respects. We Goans are pretty smart actors complaining too much while we ourselves are like hypocrites. Cant we see clearly here we ourselves are to be blamed? Or we fail to see it clearly the creation of our own conspiracy?
Elvino Rodrigues.
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