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Socialism is immoralProtest the quota systemEnd entitlement benefits for freeloaders Support the death penalty for terrorists and anti-nationals Resist "Global Governance" |
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Tuesday, December 29, 2009 |
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Climate Concerns: OMG!!! We are all gonna die!!! | |
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This exemplifies the nasty effects of the pervasive fear mongering that prevails in the atmosphere. At a time when her outlook on life should be as cheery as her sign off, poor little Nikky is scared of the possibility of extinction of her species. How exactly do you get an impossible demographic like teenage fans of Shah Rukh Khan to actually get serious enough to truly believe in a cause, however fake and farcical it is? This is really a question for behavioral scientists, psychologists and philosophers. We suspect billions of dollars worth of advertisements and news items (paid by YOU) has something to do with it. Perhaps there is something about climate change fears that appeals to the post-modern lifestyle, to people who like to be in a flash crowd or be a "friend" of a celebrity on social networking sites. Anyway, we digress. Many of the "climate" concerns shared by Indians are actually for real. Our cities are overloaded, a walk outside causes a deposit of soot on our clothes. Toxic fumes permeate the air, grime, dirt and squalor everywhere. Factories billow dark plumes of poisonous gases in obvious and flagrant violation of environmental laws, right at the heart of our cities. The water table continues to get depleted, the summers seem severe and dry. Coastal areas and mountain sides undergo land erosion. Unfortunately, none of these problems have anything to do with what the folks at IPCC have been talking about. As a matter of fact, even if the full recommendation of IPCC is adopted into a binding international treaty, none of these concerns will be addressed. In fact, most of these problems will be aggravated and some very nasty new problems will likely get introduced. Although cleverly named InterGovernmental Panel on Climate Change, the central focus of IPCC and the "scientific" research they publish is global warming. Between "global warming" and "climate change" a lot can happen, the gullible public can be duped into believing anything. The actual IPCC report is not all that scary, none at all. Politicians add another layer of polish on top of the IPCC report which gets further amplified in the media. Let's take a recent example of media fear mongering:
Winter in Mumbai? White Christmas in Maharashtra? Funny, the report itself contains evidence to the contrary. We have been set up for the worst type of confirmation bias, we feel scared no matter whether it is hot, cold or temperate; whether it rains or remains dry. This winter, like the previous one has been much colder than averages in large parts of Northern India. Europe and North America reeled under severe snow storms and blizzards over the past week. As a matter of fact, there is no discernible long term change in climatic pattern observed in India. What if we believe Anthropogenic Global Warming is a certainty and indeed adopt in full measure all of IPCC's recommendations?
If India eventually signs up for a binding global climate treaty, its impact will be felt by the poorest segment. There will be an enormous increase in energy costs, which will of course be subsidized by the Government leading to severe economic imbalances. Subsidies do not work perfectly even when they do work at all - so there will be a steep increase in poverty. The monies that could potentially go towards cleaning up the real pollutants such as SO2, NOx, soot, asbestos etc. would chase the mirage of CO2, which is a harmless trace gas. The monies that could go to provide good quality electric coverage will be wasted on solar lanterns. The monies that could go to prevent deforestation, sand mining would actually be chasing large wind farms and solar cities, actually causing more deforestation and land erosion. If we let ourselves be coaxed into a binding global treaty premised on demonstrably false science, we will be basically ruining our future and little Nikky will be none the wiser for it.
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Monday, December 28, 2009 |
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Move over NGOs, here comes the GONGOs | |
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Commenter Ashok Kumar forwarded a few fantastic links on the NGO menace. The first article focuses on the GONGOs and the obvious problems they pose in the democratic setup:
The second link is an excerpt from a book by Dr. Sam Vaknin:
The third article is a treatise from The International Journal of Not-for-profit Law:
* * * In the Indian context, NGOs are already starting to create massive damage, as we discussed in a recent post: NGO: Government is their middle name. It should be blindingly obvious to anyone by now that these organizations are involved in wholesale graft and corruption involving amounts that probably exceed the services they provide. If we add on the salaries and perks received by the NGO personnel, we will probably not even get a social surplus. A recent case is the usurping of money received in donation for Tsunami aid from abroad.
The fact that The Church of South India (CSI) is one of the most powerful and prominent religious organization in the Southern region is a testament to the extent of the rot. In India, we also have what can be called GANGOs, i.e. Government Aided Non-Governmental Organizations. These GANGOs receive a ton of funds from the Government, i.e. YOU. There is no systematic audit requirements or disclosures in place. These are completely destroying the natural feedback mechanism of our democracy. Newspapers quote NGOs, Government use their statistics. They end up influencing policy in harmful ways. NGOs have managed to insert themselves even in our foreign policy areas. During the PM's US visit, he made an appearance at the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR). Among others, NDTV's Prannoy Roy is on CFR's International Advisory Board. The Clinton Foundation is also involved heavily in India. There were reports that Amar Singh of Samajwadi Party gave millions to the Clinton Foundation. But people are smart, they know which side of the bread the butter is on. There is a mad rush to open NGOs, if you have connections, or join one.
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Sunday, December 27, 2009 |
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Minority Report | |
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Harsh Mander is a perfect case that illustrates many of the problems with our Administrative Services. For a former bureaucrat, Mr. Mander's complete lack of statistical sense of proportion is remarkable. Does he even read the census reports? So, we have another one of those reruns of virtually the same column, which claims minorities live in fear in India. Sure, in a demographic segment of more than 150 millions, at least some of them are liable to have a little bit of everything. If stats not his style, he could simply ask the Hindu teen girl who must go past a Muslim ghetto to her tuition classes or a stewardess on a Haj flight. What is it with India? The Agriculture Minister wants to do Cricket, IAS officers want to be Human Rights Activists and writers. Maybe our problem is that we got too many people stuck in the wrong career. In any case, this issue of our report is dedicated to Harsh Mander. Man who was blackmailing Anoushka Shankar arrested Woman nabbed with 3 passports Piracy racket Producers seek Rs 100 cr in damages Youth who used pals bikes to snatch chains held Man accused of luring 15 yr old maid 5 Bangladeshis held BBA student alleges repeated rape by father Man wanted in fake currency racket arrested Two held in fake credit cards case Murder case accused killed Cops raid CPM mans home in Kaliachak Wife lover held for mans murder Gang involved in printing fake postal stamps busted report_man kills wife for fling with clients Agnecy dupes job seekers of Rs 1 cr Passenger held for misbehaving with air hostess Man beaten with shoes for raping 13 year old Father daughter gun down 2 over incest taint Cuffe Parade cops nab 4 for extortion Youth kills sister over love affair Youth Congress activists protest at MLN Hospital Girl kidnapped rescued in Sikar 7 Pak nationals arrested with boat Charges framed against gangrape accused Four held with antiques worth Rs 2cr Top guns of Latif gang to go for Haj RJD activists protest implication of Shahabu in criminal cases Burglar gang arrested report_absconding from bihar jail arrested in city report_teacher tortures adopted student report_teen arms supplier arrested JK cricketer held for RDX in bag Police attach property of ex SP MLA Five women stripped paraded naked in Jharkhand.html Kidnapper held 5 held for assault Cops and robber chase led to deadly accident 5 SIMI activists arrested in Madhya Pradesh Jetpur villager abducted 3 arrested city 3 youths held in Nigerian credit card scam Kamal Khan off Bigg Boss for violent behaviour Accused in multi crore recruitment scam arrested Forgery charge against head of Delhi NGO Case against NGO man for using fake ministry IDs Man marries daughter claims divine sanction Love jihad Karnataka joins probe Bihar cop killed in Jharkhand mob attack 4 hurt Two dozen trees on Halim College campus cut down report_three held with fake notes in haridwar Pancholi has helped Munir escape Police Minister gets notice for gun licence Cops nab real estate agent for visa fraud Model is nabbed at mall in dowry case Two more held for Vile Parle guards death High court orders protection to runaway Hindu Muslim couple HC asks top cop to decide on MCOCA against 3 BMC men FIR against Amar for election remark Three held for attacks on 2 Naga students Militants object to judges remark comparing them to Kasab Fresh arrests in MP show banned SIMI active again Anoushka case Warrant against accused hacker Driver behind girls abduction caught Kidnapped girl rescued unharmed 18 year old robs Thane policeman of revolver Notorious burglar who escaped from Godhra nabbed policemen suspended Victim nabs robber fleeing with Rs 2 lakh Cops oppose Wahabs Haj pilgrimage Pak spys passport was issued from Lucknow Two aides of Pak spy arrested in Lucknow 3 HuJI LeT linkmen held in Kolkata report_dawood thought he was the us president report_now fake notes are almost as authentic as the original Bangla terror trio nabbed in city report_cops hunt for bangla girl Top Shakeel man gunned down in Borivli encounter Man alleges human traffickers took his wife to the UK Top Shakeel man gunned down in Borivli encounter 6 more fake passports found NIA chargesheets Assam babus netas Cops arrest another city Limouzines director Hyderabad bound Indigo flight grounded after bomb threat 1 held Duo admits role in Bangalore blasts Hoax terror SMS a bid to frame wifes lover sex racket delhi hotel manager is bangladeshi national say cops D gang is now dialling rural areas IB Fake currency unit unearthed in Delhi report_naxal arrested 20 gelatin rods recovered from up s manchi area report_demonstration held over conversion of sikh girl in j and k report_five simi activist further remanded till nov 17 report_teenager held for raping 6 year old girl in vakola report_bar girl turned drug kingpin held 1240kg marijuana seized report_30 yearr old kidnaps sells baby in tardeo report_jilted lover gets life for killing girl s mother in delhi report_did disappeared simi and im cadres use headley s services report_gold worth rs2 lakh recovered from robber in ap Rape convict escapes Kutch police custody report_up stf arrests two persons involved in visa racket report_wahab changed cars on way to mumbai to dodge police report_wanted criminal arrested in meerut Man gets 3 years for placing iron bar on railway tracks Women bartenders face the bar again Who is Syed Wasim Sherwani of Nizam era seized 2 held Gangrape case Cops another girl cross examined Five held on eve teasing charges Youth attacks rapist dad NRI techie arrested for rape Cops in a spot over Habib Hussain case Six inter state gang members held in Hyderabad Previous: Minority Report - May 10, 2009
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Tuesday, December 22, 2009 |
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 Source: Livemint
As you can see, it tested the very limits of our self-control to pass up stories like this, yet we did. Why? Because the issue at hand is that important. In India, we have a tendency to miss the forest for the trees. We obsess over silly little political games they play and that have no real consequence. We debate over the Swiss minaret ban which has practically no consequence in India, thankfully, aside from the comic relief provided by presumably Hindu secular journalists feigning more indignation than Muslims themselves. Yet, scams worth tens of thousands of crores get virtually no attention. Funny thing is, we can at least recognize those scams. Take for instance the Madhu Koda scam or the Ambulance scam. These were low tech 19th century scams. Then the spectrum scam - tricky, but nothing you couldn't explain to the Mufassil types over a cup of tea. Just how exactly do you even begin to explain the AGW scam? While you remain fixated over Copenhagen, your aam aadmi friendly Government has already bartered away your interest and you don't even know it. In our next post, we will expose how our Government has already committed to a certain energy regime at a potential cost of literally hundreds of billions of dollars. Meanwhile, please take a few moments to ponder over the chart at the top of the post as well as the following: Delhiites wrapped themselves up in more woollens today as the national capital woke up to a chilly and foggy morning with the mercury plummeting to the season's lowest of 7.4 degree Celsius. The capital is likely to get chillier ahead of Christmas with the Weatherman predicting minimum and maximum temperatures falling below average levels. (Source: Yahoo India)
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Saturday, December 19, 2009 |
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CLIMATEGATE: Some random thoughts, Links and Resources | |
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In continuation to the previous two posts on Climategate (CLIMATEGATE: The biggest "scientific" scandal ever, CLIMATEGATE: The market is the best peer reviewer), here are some final thoughts and resources on the AGW issue in general, before we move on to Copenhagen and its implications for India. After initially ignoring the climategate leakage for nearly two weeks, MSM in the developed countries finally caved in, partly because the leaks went viral and attracted massive amounts of attention. Steve McIntyre, a leading skeptic and a maverick climate scientist was even interviewed on US prime time TV. Several newspapers in the UK have already gone over to the other side or at least moved towards a more of an agnostic position. Andy Revkin, the leading climate journalist of the New York Times is reportedly leaving. George Monbiot, The Guardian's leading climate journalist, seems to have regained composure after his initial shock and disbelief, he remains a believer. Unfortunately, Indian media and intellectuals have given the climategate scandal a complete miss. Indian media did not cover the issue with much enthusiasm earlier, since few people really care about it one way or the other. Copenhagen was covered with much enthusiasm in articles full of baseless speculation and gross factual errors. Links and Resources: Two highly recommended websites are Watts Up With That? maintained by Anthony Watts and ClimateAudit.org by Steve McIntyre, the latter being the more science oriented. Another very good website is The Science and Policy Institute with which the most vocal opponent of IPCC, Lord Christopher Monckton is associated. Lord Monckton, a former policy adviser to Margaret Thatcher, famously challenged the UK Department of Education when they made the Al Gore movie An Inconvenient Truth compulsory viewing in UK schools. Lord Monckton won that court case after pointing out some 35 errors in the movie. A very good and recent video of a presentation given by Lord Monckton on October 14, 2009 is available on [YouTube]. The slides for the presentation are available here [pdf]. Another must read is an open letter by Lord Monckton to IPCC Chairman Rajendra Pacharuri. This letter, apart from being a scathing critique of some of the scientific and statistical techniques used by the IPCC throws light on massive conflicts of interest that helps us understand the money game behind it. For a better understanding of the problems of the solutions being proposed, in particular the economic viability of the various "green" energy sources, US based think tanks The Cato Institute and The Heritage Foundation are particularly helpful. A quick fun post by Professor Mark Perry shows how Ethanol, the 90s magic bullet of the greenies has already turned out to be a "dangerous and delusional bullshit". We urge the readers to research the web on their own before drawing any conclusion based purely on MSM propaganda. The status of the AGW debate post climategate: The climategate leak was by no means the first time the whole IPCC thing was seriously challenged. However, it helped shatter the mythology to a great extent. Already public support for AGW is tottering below the 50% mark. A common talking point of the believers is that, the whole thing could not possibly have been all a scam. It is difficult to imagine thousands of scientists, the MSM all over the world, all green and environment groups and major politicians from virtually every country working lockstep in a grand conspiracy. Actually, this is the nature of all major socially engineered movements - they gain their own momentum. Think of socialism itself - an ideology that has miraculously survived despite its proven track record of creating misery. For something like this to stick, it needs several conditions: First, it must be perceived to help the left-liberal political parties. This in itself will ensure that the MSM in every country will deliver the right message to the intended target. Second: it must have an underlying moral or social concern so that the feel good crowd can, well, feel good about supporting it. What can beat saving the planet? Third: it must be aligned with the money game. This essentially means big corporations must be able to make money out of it, the financial world must love the scheme and it should generate loads of jholawalla type opportunities. The AGW concept met all these conditions and more. There is a reason it has come to be called "climate change" and not just "global warming" - a convenient ploy to get all sorts of anxiety to sharply focus at achieving a singular goal, in this case a politically binding UN led treaty for all nations to sign up for eternity. The money trail: Contrary to the popular belief, there is huge money to be made from a green world. The finance world loves it because the trading desks stand to gain massive amounts of commission from carbon trading. Many big corporations will make windfall profits by selling their carbon credits. As an example, Lakshmi Mittal can make up to £1bn on profits under the European scheme. The same story holds true for the Tatas for their Corus acquisition. A WSJ article details some of the money trail involving policy research institutes and academia. A potential conflict of interest scenario involving IPCC chairman Rajendra Pachauri and the Tatas can be found here and also in the open letter by Lord Moncton linked earlier. Green energy being heavily government subsidized, an army of NGOs around the world will make out like bandits, mostly for doing unproductive work. Of course, the companies involved in green energy production themselves stand to make Government guaranteed profits, with much of the downside protected by Government. In turn, the financial world will make commissions out the green IPOs, bonds etc. A global energy regime will create a massive global scale bureaucracy with an estimated 700 organizations under the UN umbrella. Many conventional energy and utility companies actually welcome "green" energy. These companies are always the primary target of socialist wrath on account of their windfall profits. Most have diversified into green energy and for a good reason - green energy earns an overall better operating margin. By contrast, coal based energy for instance, runs at very low margins. Global Governance: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh gave a speech to the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR), an independent think tank, during his US visit. Clueless Indian media reported this as though this is some sort of official US Government body. Among others, NDTV's Prannoy Roy is on CFR's International Advisory Board. CFR is an example of an organization that believes in the concept of a "World Government". A full discussion of this concept is beyond the scope of this blog. Needless to say, these things increase the chances of international wheeling-dealing. The global governance concept looks particularly attractive to the Left-Liberal parties of Western Democracies. Many of them can not get their own legislative bodies to accept the recommendations of IPCC, for instance a carbon trading scheme was rejected in the Australian Senate just a while ago. The problem is, under the Geneva convention, an international treaty such as the one being proposed for climate change is binding on a nation and supersedes the nation's legislature. For India, the implications are less severe since for all practical purposes we do not have a constitution. The ruling party has a blank check for a trillion dollars and they can do as they please. Unfortunately, if an arbitrary global governance regime gets accepted and signed into international law, its consequences can be very problematic. Financial and economic consequences aside, it can open up a whole new front for diplomatic assault under the pretext of saving the world.
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Monday, December 07, 2009 |
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CLIMATEGATE: The market is the best peer reviewer | |
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Recently activist P. Sainath ran an expose on three local dailies in Maharashtra showing that they had simultaneously run the same story on Maharashtra CM Ashok Chavan, just prior to the elections. Today, 56 newspapers across the globe ran an identical editorial, that included The Hindu from India. This editorial claims exactly what the entire left-liberal world has been claiming for the last couple of decades, that if unprecedented regulatory powers are not vested upon the UN and a select coterie of global "intellectuals", humanity will be faced with catastrophic consequences of Anthropogenic Global Warming. As we all know, there is no limit, no outer bound for the bad things that can happen to us - children will die by the millions, oceans will rise and flood many countries, tsunamis and hurricanes will increase, there will be wide spread disease and epidemics, low rainfall, low crop yield, many species will go extinct, your penis will shrink - ok, made that one up. These newspapers are pretending that climategate never happened. Well, climategate already gets more google hits than Global Warming. As it stands now, the global warming story stands thoroughly debunked. Up until now, most people accepted the general idea of global warming, although few believed in the doomsday scenarios and even fewer accepted the so called solutions. Climategate shows the whole thing was a scam on a scale beyond our wildest imagination. It corrupted institutions, sacred principles of science and above all, it pushed a set of people generally considered above suspicion on the brink of and possibly well into criminal behavior. Perhaps the latter is the most tragic chapter in the book of climategate. Consider the following: - the scandal involves the very core of the global warming industry, the Climate Research Unit (CRU) of the University of East Anglia, UK. The entire edifice of global warming and the IPCC reports are based on this organization's data and research. - over the last two decades, the research grants for CRU and other pro scientists have increased dramatically, to the tune of many tens of millions, if not hundreds. - the global warming scientists have always claimed a massive scientific consensus. It turns out there was no such consensus. The 2,500 scientists named in the IPCC report? Well, perhaps a few of them are actually scientists, the rest are bureaucrats. Rajedra Pachauri, IPCC head honcho, is a former railway engineer. - the scientists vigorously denied any grain of truth in the so called "skeptics" claim, yet they actually entertained Stephen McIntyre's rebuttal and corrected the part involving Medieval Warm Period and the Little Ice Age. - the scientists persistently refused to share data with the "skeptics". If they at all released data, it was the heavily massaged and processed data. - CRU now claims that the raw data was deleted for "space reasons". - The Chief of CRU has stepped down following an externally constituted investigation. - The famous hockey stick graph was found to have been based on a single tree! This tree was actually a huge outlier. - NASA is yet to share raw data - New Zealand NIWA produced a graph showing global warming that can not rationally be reproduced from the underlying data The list goes on and go on. If what they are willing to admit and what their massaged data and research reveals is shocking enough, what they did to achieve the so called consensus is absolutely repulsive. They ganged up on anyone in the academia who challenged their thesis, they influenced journals to pull out contrarian articles and universities to drop competing research. Some of the emails exposed in the scandal indicate they might have completely compromised the scientific peer review process. They took care of the academia while their overground supporters - politicians, governments and government agencies made sure that if you did not support global warming, your funds ran dry. In due course, everyone wised up and played ball. To understand the implication of this, consider this: reliable temperature records exist only for a century or so. In order to get a handle on temperature variability, one needs data for at least a couple of thousands of years. This is achieved in a rather esoteric field of paleoclimatology. This science produces what is known as proxy data - for instance, by studying width of tree rings of ancient trees, one can get a handle of temperatures far into the past. In this manner the "global warming" science touches upon a very broad range of sciences. It is entirely possible that in order to keep contradictory evidence out of sunlight, many of these science areas have been either been heavily compromised or parched in terms of funding. As is very evident, the entire process of Government funding research creates such sinister scenarios of moral hazard. Economics as we all know is a heavily compromised area, with the climategate expose, it appears that any political meddling in supposedly cut and dry areas of sciences can get corrupted in no time. The only way to restore sanity is to let the market work its magic on the scientific process. Once the dignity of the science is restored, there is little by way of climatic danger that humanity can't handle.
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Sunday, December 06, 2009 |
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The Grand Asymmetry: The Swiss Minaret Ban | |
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  Left: The minaret that triggered the ban overwhelms the local landscape Right: Terrified bleeding passenger after attack on bus at Agra after Saddam execution Neither the picture on the left nor on the right are big surprises really. For those of us unfortunate enough to live in a country that capitulates to every irrational whims of the minorities to the point of masochism, it is a matter of how you accept it and move on. Our landscapes are dotted with structures, our cities are named after personalities who have inflicted terrible carnage on our ancestors, calls to prayer to the faithful shatters our eardrums, our history rewritten, religious customs and places of worship defiled, denuded by the Government, constitution perverted - in short order our life is held hostage. So we end up with the occasional nosebleed like the man shown above. To take a more recent example, peruse the YouTube videos of Miraj riots (video 1, video 2). What is absolutely stunning is the sheer magnitude of the asymmetry. The fantastic denial of dozens and dozens of theocratic states of that religion with horrendous record of human rights and treatment of minorities. Let's try to put this in context, as Suzanna Genocide Roy always exhorts us to do. Now Switzerland is a neutral country, always was. It stayed neutral in WW I, WW II and characteristically it remained neutral in the Iraq war. In other words, if there is one country the "occupation" theory does not apply to, it is the region of Europe we proudly claim Kashmir is similar to. The Swiss minority population doubled in the recent decade to about 450,000, at 5% of the total population. Most of them are refugees, i.e. they went there to be safe. Many of them are on welfare. They enjoyed full religious, economic and political freedom sans prayer calls which were afoul of sound pollution laws from much before anyway. So, we should expect a "they lived happily ever after" Bollywood ending, right? Wrong! Swiss minorities started radicalizing and started creating the same sort of issues that we see everywhere. The recent imports from more radical countries started becoming more assertive. The minaret that triggered the ban (pictured above) was in fact constructed atop a Turkish cultural center, amid protests by local residents. It was clearly more political than anything religious. It was clearly a "mine is bigger than yours" type of statement. In 2006, terror plots got exposed in Switzerland, leading to the arrest of a dozen people. Clearly the Gandhian angle wasn't working as it has not worked anywhere else or has the remotest chance of working anywhere else ever. Now, the left-liberal howlers would like to divide the world into two tranches of "liberals" and "illeberal" (with the people of that faith presumably filed under a special category) . Under this fake reconstruction, the Swiss people would have to bend over and see their way of life, constitution, freedom and happiness trampled all over by a set of primitive people. By banning construction of future minarets legally and under the provision of referendum in the Swiss constitution, the Swiss people have restored the true meaning of "liberal", which is also giving it back to the evil. Our heartiest congratulations to the great Swiss people, more power to them! NOTE: Do not forget to read about the Acorn treatment of a bleeding heart secular journo here and analysis by RealityCheck here. The Swiss minaret ban is none of our business and does not concern us. But we were forced to comment on it because people like Vishnu Som make it our business. We are also concerned of potential for violence by India's minorities who tend to make every issue real or imaginary anywhere in the world their business.
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