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NEW DELHI: Stating that India was seen by Daesh or Islamic State (IS) as a country of "infidels" that "occupies Islamic space", BJP MP and author-journalist M J Akbar said the global terror outfit, as part of its mission to reinvent an age when one 'Islamic power' ruled continguous territory, could logically expand its war into Afghanistan and then to Pakistan and India.
Delivering the 10th R N Kao Memorial Lecture on 'The Romance of Regression: Caliphate Versus Modernity' here on Saturday, Akbar said the ability of IS to strike anywhere between France, India and Indonesia could not be doubted. "Where modernity has failed, or failed to reach, the vacuum is being increasingly filled by the romance of regression," he said. The counter to this regressive IS ideology, he said, lay in modernity as defined by four principles; freedom for the individual and democracy for the state; faith-equality; gender equality and economic equity.
The annual lecture commemorates the memory of Ram Nath Kao, the founder of India's external intelligence agency Research and Analysis Wing (R&AW).
"The nub of the challenge lies in whether nations adopt faith-supremacy or faith-equality as a fundamental principal of nationalism. Those who believe they can accept faith-supremacy as a tactic, and tame it to their needs, will discover that the long war will be won by supremacists and not by advocates of compromise. India is a role model for the post-colonial world because it adopted modernity as the template for its Constitution: democracy, faith-equality, gender-equality and economic equity are all embedded in its Constitution," stated the author-journalist.
Talking of Indo-Pak conflict, Akbar said it had become, without anyone realising it, the longest continual war in history. He noted that Kashmir, the core issue between the two countries, was an inalienable part of India because it is Muslim and giving it up would amount to surrendering the right of Muslims.
There is no country in the world that is so tolerant like India. Only Congress & its stooges find it intolerant and ... Read Moresalihaamiali salihaamiali
"We had already surrendered in the two-nation theory (partition). We can't be permanently subject to it," he said.
Raising a question whether India is condemned to thousand years of war as late Prime Minister Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto had promised, the eminent author said "we might, just now, be witnessing the consequences of the altered situation".
"There are Pakistanis who are beginning to appreciate the meaning of a 'near enemy' and recognize that they are it. A common enemy is the best reason for creating a common front, although I would always add that the past shows that any engagement with Pakistan is a walk on egg shells," he said.
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So India need to remain a secular constitution to prevent IS from entering our doors ?
Do Hindus have to glorify Muzzies ?
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Delivering the 10th R N Kao Memorial Lecture on 'The Romance of Regression: Caliphate Versus Modernity' here on Saturday, Akbar said the ability of IS to strike anywhere between France, India and Indonesia could not be doubted. "Where modernity has failed, or failed to reach, the vacuum is being increasingly filled by the romance of regression," he said. The counter to this regressive IS ideology, he said, lay in modernity as defined by four principles; freedom for the individual and democracy for the state; faith-equality; gender equality and economic equity.
The annual lecture commemorates the memory of Ram Nath Kao, the founder of India's external intelligence agency Research and Analysis Wing (R&AW).
"The nub of the challenge lies in whether nations adopt faith-supremacy or faith-equality as a fundamental principal of nationalism. Those who believe they can accept faith-supremacy as a tactic, and tame it to their needs, will discover that the long war will be won by supremacists and not by advocates of compromise. India is a role model for the post-colonial world because it adopted modernity as the template for its Constitution: democracy, faith-equality, gender-equality and economic equity are all embedded in its Constitution," stated the author-journalist.
Talking of Indo-Pak conflict, Akbar said it had become, without anyone realising it, the longest continual war in history. He noted that Kashmir, the core issue between the two countries, was an inalienable part of India because it is Muslim and giving it up would amount to surrendering the right of Muslims.
There is no country in the world that is so tolerant like India. Only Congress & its stooges find it intolerant and ... Read Moresalihaamiali salihaamiali
"We had already surrendered in the two-nation theory (partition). We can't be permanently subject to it," he said.
Raising a question whether India is condemned to thousand years of war as late Prime Minister Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto had promised, the eminent author said "we might, just now, be witnessing the consequences of the altered situation".
"There are Pakistanis who are beginning to appreciate the meaning of a 'near enemy' and recognize that they are it. A common enemy is the best reason for creating a common front, although I would always add that the past shows that any engagement with Pakistan is a walk on egg shells," he said.
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So India need to remain a secular constitution to prevent IS from entering our doors ?
Do Hindus have to glorify Muzzies ?
==============================
@Abhijat @A chauhan @Alien @alphacentury @Ancient Indian @anupamsurey @blueblood @brational @Bangalorean @Blackwater @Bornubus @bose @cobra commando @DingDong @DFI_COAS @ersakthivel @gpawar @guru-dutt @hit&run @Indx TechStyle @jackprince @Kharavela @Illusive @I_PLAY_BAD @LETHALFORCE @Lions Of Punjab @maomao @Mad Indian @OneGrimPilgrim @Peter @pmaitra @Razor @raja696 @Rowdy @Sakal Gharelu Ustad @saty @sydsnyper @Srinivas_K @Screambowl @sorcerer @Simple_Guy @Sylex21 @wickedone @tarunraju @TrueSpirit2 @thethinker @VIP @Vishwarupa @VIP @Varahamihira @roma
seriously.
