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India Muslim Cleric Backs Taliban
AP | 11/09/01 | Rajesh Mahapatra

Posted on 11/09/2001 9:06:47 PM PST by Freedom of Speech Wins

Friday November 9 1:05 PM ET

India Muslim Cleric Backs Taliban

By RAJESH MAHAPATRA, Associated Press Writer

NEW DELHI, India (AP) - The chief Muslim cleric in New Delhi said Friday that he supports the Taliban, and called the U.S.-led airstrikes on Afghanistan (news - web sites) an attack on Islam.

``Today I support the jihad,'' or holy war, declared by Taliban leader Mullah Omar, said Imam Syed Ahmed Bukhari, head cleric of Jama Masjid mosque.

``The target of America and its allies is not Afghanistan ... but Islam,'' he told thousands of Muslims who gathered for Friday prayers.

India has about 140 million Muslims, making it home to the world's second-largest Muslim community.

In Srinagar, the summer capital of India's only majority Muslim state, Jammu-Kashmir (news - web sites), shopkeepers shut their doors in solidarity with a pro-Taliban strike Friday in Pakistan.

Some protesters threw stones and clashed with police in downtown Srinagar after Friday prayers. Police lobbed tear gas shells to push back protesters.

Twenty-one people were injured in Srinagar and Baramullah, 40 miles to the north, authorities said.

Bukhari, the cleric, said he did not regret the deaths of thousands in the Sept. 11 terror attacks in New York and Washington. The United States is leading a bombing campaign against the Taliban for harboring chief suspect Osama bin Laden (news - web sites).

``I have no regrets because for the last 50 years America and Israel have been bleeding the Muslims,'' Bukhari said. ``America should know what it means to lose close relatives, sons and brothers ... and how it feels to the tearful eyes of mothers and sisters.''


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Islam has declared and is declaring war on us.
1 posted on 11/09/2001 9:06:47 PM PST by Freedom of Speech Wins
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To: Freedom of Speech Wins
Doesn't matter who backs the Taliban.

Matter of fact, it would be nice if all of the Islamic world backs the Taliban.

Target rich environments are good things.

5.56mm

2 posted on 11/09/2001 9:12:47 PM PST by M Kehoe
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To: M Kehoe
India should purge their country of these vermin - in the interest of survival.
3 posted on 11/09/2001 9:17:33 PM PST by Archie Bunker on steroids
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To: Freedom of Speech Wins
onward, Hindu soldiers.
4 posted on 11/09/2001 9:20:45 PM PST by Objective Reality
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To: Freedom of Speech Wins
I do have a suggestion, however, for the Prime Minister of India...
5 posted on 11/09/2001 9:23:52 PM PST by Scott from the Left Coast
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To: Freedom of Speech Wins
Still not too late to get your ass over to the front lines in Afghan.
7 posted on 11/09/2001 9:35:47 PM PST by paul51
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To: nocomad
Naivete implies ignorance but I have no desire to call names. In Japan they say "kangai ga amai" which literally means "sweet thinking". They say it when someone thinks something will be easy when in actuality it will be difficult. So I don't mean to call anyone ignorant, but I do want to point out that "target rich environment" and "purge them" are "sweet thinking".

It's called exchange of populations. Maybe you're not aware that in the 1950's around 6.5 million Muslims went from India to Pakistan and 8.5 million Hindus and Sikhs from Pakistan to India. Maybe India should encourage the rest to leave - at least those who are Islamicists and believers in the Jihad.

8 posted on 11/09/2001 9:49:13 PM PST by Lent
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To: nocomad
just to make this official... "kangae ga amai"
but yeah, it is gonna be hard to destroy islam when a show of force against islam might be seen by other countries as "hegemony". the funny thing is that, like the romans, an attempt to take out america will starve and purge the rest of the world.
10 posted on 11/10/2001 1:59:11 AM PST by struggle
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To: M Kehoe
Kill 'em all, let God sort them out later!
11 posted on 11/10/2001 2:40:03 AM PST by knighthawk
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To: Freedom of Speech Wins
go to afghanistan and 'call' for jihad or else shut your mouth!
12 posted on 11/10/2001 4:39:20 AM PST by alternatif
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To: Lent
Where do you suggest they go?

I can tell you with first hand assurance that they will not be permitted to enter Pakistan, the most obvious destination. Perhaps YOU would take them, but then, I doubt you have the room.

I believe that you actually would prefer them dead. But the problem with that is that is is a truly abominable thought first off, and second, you have NO way to isolate each of 150 million Indian Moslems from the general population to effectuate your mass killing.

By the way, there is a name for what you seem to have in mind. Genocide. It is a crime against humanity. For a reason.

13 posted on 11/10/2001 4:40:08 AM PST by John Valentine
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To: John Valentine
Get off your high horse. Pakistan was created as a Muslim homeland because the Muslims were so insistent. End result is there are ZERO Hindus in Pakistan but 130 million Muslims in India. The Muslim birthrate is higher than the Hindu.

To me this is outrageous. If Muslims are going to have nations free of others than others (Hindus) should be allowed to have nations free of Muslims.

14 posted on 11/10/2001 4:53:39 AM PST by dennisw
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To: dennisw
Sorry to say, but it is YOU that does not know what he is talking about.

I LIVED in Pakistan for five years, and I KNOW Hindu Pakistanis, and more than just a few. I also know Parsi and Christian Pakistanis, too.

So, before you go shooting off your mouth, find out the facts.

15 posted on 11/10/2001 6:35:05 AM PST by John Valentine
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To: John Valentine
I believe that you actually would prefer them dead. But the problem with that is that is is a truly abominable thought first off, and second, you have NO way to isolate each of 150 million Indian Moslems from the general population to effectuate your mass killing.

Maybe you should stop foaming at the mouth and read your history. It was Islam which has tried to genocide the Hindus ever since the Muslims invaded India centuries ago. Destroying thousands of Hindu Fire Temples, replacing these with mosques, forced conversions, massacres.

By the way, there is a name for what you seem to have in mind. Genocide. It is a crime against humanity. For a reason.

Take a deep breath to give some oxygen to your brain. Here is what I stated "exchange of populations". That's not genocide. Are you confusing your terminology and concepts. Moreover I stated as related to Islamicists and Jihadists. Maybe you haven't been reading much on Islam lately on these threads. There is no excuse since you've been on FR for some time. I'd suggest you do go to this site Daniel Pipes and get an education.

16 posted on 11/10/2001 6:49:28 AM PST by Lent
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To: Lent
You don't need to lecture me on Islam. You also don't need to lecture me on Indian/Pakistani history or politics. I know it first hand. I have friends who lived through the partition, and I have frineds who lived through the three wars since.

I am fully awasre of the virulent strain within Islam, which is really not all that new. I am familiar with Pipes' writings, which I respect.

I also want to apologize. I realize that I tarred you with a brush meant for another. You never suggested anything other than 'relocation'.

I ask again however, "Relocation to where"?

Pakistan will NOT take more Mohajirs. They won't even take back the so-called stranded Pakistanis.

Relocation of India's 150 million Musmlims to Pakistan is simply not an option.

17 posted on 11/10/2001 7:18:20 AM PST by John Valentine
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To: John Valentine
It is nice to know exactly where are enemies are.......we save money on bombs this way
18 posted on 11/10/2001 7:26:06 AM PST by 1 FELLOW FREEPER
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To: John Valentine
I LIVED in Pakistan for five years.....

OK. I'll bite. How many Hindus and how many Muslims live in Pakistan? Please tell me.

19 posted on 11/10/2001 7:34:49 AM PST by dennisw
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To: John Valentine
Relocation of India's 150 million Musmlims to Pakistan is simply not an option.

Right. Getting rid of Muslims never is. They are a force of nature to be in awe of. It's only Muslims who are allowed to get rid of non-Muslims. [/sarcasm]

20 posted on 11/10/2001 7:36:58 AM PST by dennisw
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