BF2S Forums A Disappointing Lack Of Appeasement

jord wrote:

Nice post, I watched one hell of a fight on NUTS TV channel last Saturday I think, can't remember who the fighters were. Did Khan win?

Mekstizzle wrote:

That's cos they weren't Muslims, you just aren't paying enough attention like lowing is

lowing wrote:

ATG wrote:

I blame the media.

Do you mean the media coverage of every place of worship holding services for the Mumbai victims except the Mosques? Or does it happen to be true?

Switch wrote:

I know there's something wrong when an Irishman has been to my very own nations capital and I have yet to do so.  I should be hung for treason to be honest.

Good post.

lowing wrote:

ATG wrote:

I blame the media.

Do you mean the media coverage of every place of worship holding services for the Mumbai victims except the Mosques? Or does it happen to be true?

CHENNAI: They wore black ribbons, they carried placards calling for peace, they put up banners saluting the Mumbai martyrs, they announced a signature campaign, and they prayed. Chennai's 10,000-strong Shia Muslim community turned out in full force at Thousand Lights mosque on Tuesday morning for two reasons the Eid-ul-Adha prayer and the special meeting to protest the "barbaric deeds" that took place in Mumbai for three days beginning November 26.

After the customary prayer that began at 10.30 am and ended at 11.15 am, Ghulam Mohammed Mehdi Khan, the Chief Shia Khazi, and NM Mirza, chairman of the Tamil Nadu Shia Muslim Convention and member of the wakf board, addressed the gathering of more than 200 people under a banner that read: "Islam condemns the barbaric deed of the self-declared jihadis. We salute our security officers who perished to save our country. Our sympathies are with those innocent souls who died in the tragedy in Mumbai."

Khazi Mehdi Khan said in English, "What is the logic and rationale behind three days of relentless firing and bombing in Mumbai; three days of disaster? I request each and every Indian regardless of their caste, community, state, religion or race to stand united against such baseless and inhuman groups because our sustenance and survival lies in our unity as Indians and not as individuals. No religion promotes terrorism and terrorism has no religion."

"Islam is a religion of peace," said Mirza, "and a Muslim is a patriot above all else." He went on to tell the gathering that the Taj Mahal hotel in Mumbai was a symbol of patriotism. "Do you know that when Jamshedji Tata tried to enter a hotel in Mumbai in the late 1800s, he was turned away because he was an Indian? He built the Taj Mahal for Indians. Is that not patriotism?" said Mirza.

Trader Navaz Currimbhoy described it as a landmark day. "This is the first time I have heard a Khazi categorically condemn an act of terror. It's also the first time that the speech was made in English so people could understand it. Usually, general sweeping statements are made. But this time, the act was outright condemned and I am glad I was there to hear it," he said.

Navaz, in the last week, has written a letter which he is handing out to Muslims in the city and elsewhere addressed to the Prime Minister's office, which states that the signatories of the letter are Indians born in Muslim households and who do not believe that it is right to support, harbour, encourage, glorify or attribute any positive feeling to any Muslim that indulges in terror or violence on any account. "The letter also states that our allegiance lies to our government," says Navaz, who adds that he wrote out the letter as he was upset about people coming to India to avenge the Muslims here. "Indian Muslims do not need to be avenged. Two wrongs do not make a right," he says. He is also asking people to visit the website of the Prime Minister's office and write in offering support to the government.

Special prayers for Eid-ul-Adha were also held at Island Grounds, Big Mosque in Triplicane and across the city. The Mumbai attacks, still fresh in people's minds, cast a shadow on the celebrations. Mohammed Usman, a private taxi driver in Triplicane, said, "This year it just doesn't feel like Eid. The neighbourhood is quiet due to the terror attacks in Mumbai. We have toned down our celebrations and just observed the basic rituals."

"The city's Muslims, who make up about 15 per cent of Mumbai's estimated 19-million-strong population, were to take to the streets after Friday prayers in a peace march."

""A number of Islamic organisations are also categorically refusing to have those responsible for the deadly attacks buried on Indian soil.""