I’m sorry, I think you have India confused with a certain country to its northwest. See 1965 War and, well, now….

Perhaps the worst of your pashtun customs is the rampant bachabazi (pederasty) that pashtun men are notorious for. Also the culture of violent revenge.

But to a Muslim, the treatment of Hindu widows living a life of deprivation in a ashram is appalling. As a Muslm watching Mira Nair’s Water, I was bothered by the fate of India’s Hindu widows. In Islam, Muslim men are encouraged to marry widows.

It used to be far worse. Hindu widows were often burned alive a practice that the british rulers of India finally outlawed over the strenous objections of orthodox brahmins who called it an interference in their religious customs!

Looks like Shilpa is another one of those pathetically deluded, megalomaniacal hindutva lunatics who are stupid and ignorant enough to actually believe that India is a “shining”, “incredible”, “superpower” already instead of a a failed state that cannot even feed its citizens properly or provide halfway decent jobs for even its educated minority.

FYI, India is both militarily and economically a weakling. It produces very little of its own armaments. It will run out of ammunition within weeks. It is not even the predominant power in the indian subcontinent and you BJP/RSS crackpots keep getting off on delusions of imperial grandeur! Get real.

FYI

I am not “Arab Washed.”. My family speaks Farsi and Pashto. Being Pashtun, I don’t consider myself Pakistani or Desi. My family practices Twelver Shia Islam and celebrates Noruz and other Persian holidays like Yalda and Mehregan. Being Pushtun, we affinity to our Muslim brothers, but we have no desire to be Arabs.

How come MF Hussain who whines about his creative freedom turned into a toady of the sundry Emirs, and not once bothered to paint or sketch even a postcard in honor of these many 1000 guestworkers and their toil

Why only the guestworkers in Dubai? Why not extend this to the current condition of Dalits in India and Northern Indians in Mumbai and Delhi? Perhaps then, he could examine bigotry within his own people which would even amaze Arabs.

No offense, I love India, but Islamabad is a cleaner city than most Indian cities. Now the city is a living prison.

India has dirty slums. But slums in the Arabian peninsula are clean and orderly in appearance. India may be an emerging power, but India needs to eradicate poverty before it can close the gap with other emerging nations. The Middle East has poverty, but the slums there are much nicer than the ones in South Asia.

I went up to them and admonished their “un-Islamic demeanor.”. They were astounded by my “ugly American” demeanor. I created a scene. Being in the Gulf Arab states, people assumed I was an Arab. The local police were summoned, they asked what the ruckus was about. I was cited.

However, Desi Muslims can be as dispicable as some of the local Arabs. I turned heads fraternizing with female women, Desi Muslim women wearing their dupattas on the shoulder as oppose to having it on their heads.

• saudi arabia treats its shia minority like america used to treat its blacks, while there’s been a decades long campaign of expunging all the old historic turkish era architecture from the holy cities.

invading the world has worked out really well for the USofA let me tell you! (that’s sarcasm btw)

As POC, it would serve us well to be as critical of Western coverage of all non-Western countries as we are when India is concerned.

who is this we you speak of? in any case, the whole idea of “POC” is totally eurocentric. arabs don’t have solidarity with brownz against white europeans as POC because many arabs view themselves as white (rightly to my eye). many east asians also view themselves as white (if of a different kind), and far prefer white europeans to the darker races (whether malay, indian or black african).* there’s some psychological evidence that colored people in the west tend to have some solidarity because view themselves as subject to white racism. but it’s ridiculous to assume that this is operative in societies where white europeans don’t have hegemony.

• when large numbers of african slaves showed up in ming china in the 16th century (brought by europeans) they were referred to as “kunlun slaves,” indicating that they were from beyond the kunlun mountains. what was beyond the kunlun mountains? india of course, were there were black people.