Adeel Halim/ReutersIndian police officers guarded the Ayodhya temple after the attack.
Posted on 07/05/2005 12:22:39 PM PDT by neverdem
NEW DELHI, India, July 5 - India's best-known tinderbox of Hindu-Muslim strife, the heavily fortified Hindu temple compound at Ayodhya, was stormed by several gunmen this morning, though the attack was repelled.
After a firefight that lasted more than two hours, officials said that the temple compound had been secured and that at least five suspected assailants had been killed; neither their identities, nor their motives has been established.
The office of the Indian prime minister, Manmohan Singh, called the attack "a threat to our security and polity" while other members of his cabinet appealed for calm. The government said several Indian cities, national monuments and religious sites had been placed on high alert in anticipation of potential communal clashes.
Right-wing Hindu political groups seized on the attack to criticize the government for failing to protect the complex. Lal Krishna Advani, the head of the opposition Bharatiya Janata Party, or B.J.P., called for nationwide protests to take place on Wednesday.
Mr. Advani, whose reign as head of the Hindu nationalist party has been troubled for several weeks, declared in a nationally televised news conference that the Ayodhya temple issue was back "on center stage." Last month, Mr. Advani was criticized by Hindu hard-liners for praising the legacy of Mohammed Ali Jinnah, the founder of predominately Muslim Pakistan.
Mr. Advani, the architect of the ascendance of Hindu right politics in this country, was present when a Hindu mob, numbering in the thousands, stormed Ayodhya compound in December 1992, and with their bare hands, demolished a 16th-century mosque that had stood there. The Hindus accused Muslim rulers of building their mosque on top of a temple that had marked the birthplace of a blue-skinned Hindu deity, called Ram. In the ensuing riots, more than 1,100 people were killed, most of them Muslims.
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Adeel Halim/ReutersYeah. Their motives. There's a big mystery.
Iraq, Thailand, the Sudan and India. The common link: the cult of islam
A few more: Israel, Lebanon, Nigeria, Russia, Phillipines, China, AFghanistan, Yugoslavia, Macedonia, Greece, Spain, France, etc.
New York City, Washington DC, Pennsylvania..
translation
"How many times do I have to tell you; you are in war. Fact is fact; either you wake up to it: or you find your house being occupied by enemy! You don't understand. I am telling you, wakeup and face reality, or face self destruction. You can't hide, neither can you hide facts; this is war: either you like it or not face it. Lets combine our forces and do what is necessary; don't hesitate, don't think, either fore make decision or face self destruction. At end there is a hope from above, before will you stand up?"
Indian Ping!
So what did the NY Times get wrong?
That's not fair, because it's the NY Slimes, every single syllable must be a lie!
It will stay domestic. It doesn't go international until the Legislature itself is attacked.
A good example of how the Muslim religion respects other religions. The Taliban destroying the statues of the Buddha in Afghanistan is another one. Now you all be kind to Muslims, hear?
There are some who would point out that because such wars pre-date Islam, it would be wrong for us to hold Islam or its followers responsible for such attacks.
No, seriously!
Yeah, I'm not buyin' that either.
Islam is a Religion of Peace--it's only ignorant bigots who keep on bringing such nuissances as 1400 years of Jihad and sometimes genocidal conquest, oppression of women (incl. genital mutilation), suicide bombing, etc. -:)))
The media makes me sick: we just don't know what the motivation of the "militants" was!!! As if they're really that stupid.
I like the way in India there were six terrorists & six terrorists are dead. The same can be said for Russia & China's way of dealing with these vermin.
No sending them off to Gitmo where they can complain that they are being brutally tortured because their rice has lumps in it.
That day was one of the proudest moments in India's history, and a shining example of how to deal with Muslims everywhere. Israel should have ripped the Jerusalem mosques apart in June 1967. Their failure to do so was a critical error.
I was raging when I read these guys were getting showers and hots while the valient MPs slept in tents and ate MREs. WTF? What are we doing and why aren't these scum having their bones picked clean by crows as they hang from gibbets?
Didn't stop the slamies from doing that to Joseph's Tomb.
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