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varun Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jul-23-03 10:44 AM
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Hindu and Muslim extremist find something in common...
their aversion to American interference in South Asia (India and Pakistan)...

This is amazing. A Jihadi (Father of Taliban) from Pakistan meets the leader of Hindu dominated BJP of India...

http://www.atimes.com/atimes/South_Asia/EG24Df08.html

NEW DELHI - Pakistan is often said to be run by three "As" - America, Army and Allah, in that order. Now the latter two, represented by Muslim fundamentalists and their supporters in the army, are teaming up with the Hindu fundamentalists ruling India to reduce the influence of the first A - America - and oust the pro-American, lately pro-Israel, liberal President General Pervez Musharraf...

..As if these first-time high-level meetings between Pakistani Muslim and Indian Hindu religious extremists were not stunning enough, Rahman shocked the country, not by his fundamentalist rhetoric - that would have been expected - but by a peace blitzkrieg. He said all the right things that would have been sweet music to Indian ears, but for the fact that the sight of these words emanating from his fundamentalist mouth, so used to brandishing extremist anti-India rhetoric, was incongruous to Indian eyes...

...In numerous interviews to the print and electronic media, he consistently refused to rise to the journalistic bait and criticize India. But he was most forthright in expressing himself against any US intervention in the region in the name of resolving the Kashmir dispute, "Even after the failures of so many talks and wars to sort out the Kashmir imbroglio, I am of the view that there is no need for a third party to intervene as it is a matter between India and Pakistan, and a country like the US will have its own vested interest to toe if it intervenes. Such intervention will create more problems...

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