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The moderate elements online

As a policy of encouraging debate on religion and debate against fundamentalism FACT (Foundation against continuing terrorism) has started the project DARA SHIKOH. Dara the prince royale that would have changed the way India is , is a role model for most fundamentalists. Online on the web despite more venom and slit the throat , Jehad and Holy wars here is one blog that lists the FATWAS against the Terrorists and I would make it a point to list more such debates on this blog. The blog claims in its own words We're not getting all the news from the media, and we're sure not hearing it from the plethora of Islamophobic sites online. Talk radio suppresses this news, too. There are Islamic sites and Islamic associations, religious and political leaders that strongly condemn terrorism and violence, that are strongly allied with the US in the war on terror, but not enough people know this. This site will bring you that news. http://www.altmuslim.com/ This is one site that hosts di

India Appeases Radical Islam : Wall street Journal

By SADANAND DHUMENovember 27, 2007; Page A18 Friday's multiple bomb blasts in the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh -- which killed 13 people and injured about 80 -- ought to give pause to those who see the world's largest democracy as a linchpin in the war on terror. India's leaders and diplomats seek to portray the country as a firebreak against radical Islam, or the drive to impose the medieval Arab norms enshrined in Shariah law on 21st century life. In reality, India is ill- equipped to fight this scourge. Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati visits a man injured in last Friday's bomb blasts in Varanasi. Like neighboring Pakistan and Bangladesh, (and unlike Turkey or Tunisia) India has failed to modernize much of its Muslim population. Successive generations of politicians have pandered to the most backward elements of India's 150-million strong Muslim population, the second largest in the world after Indonesia's. India has allowed Muslims to follow S

India: states of insecurity Courtesy : Open democracy

Ajai Sahni A fresh bombing wave in Uttar Pradesh and land-confrontation in West Bengal expose the Indian polity's security failures, says Ajai Sahni. 28 - 11 - 2007 A series of blasts in court compounds across three cities in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh killed fifteen persons and injured over eighty on 23 November 2007 . They are the latest link in a chain of comparable terrorist attacks by Islamist groupings that have long received safe haven, sustenance and support from Pakistan and, increasingly, Bangladesh - a chain that includes, over the past three years alone, major terrorist strikes in Delhi, Bangalore, Ayodhya, Mumbai, Varanasi, Hyderabad, Malegaon, Panipat, Ajmer and Ludhiana, and lesser attacks at a number of other locations. For the complete article click here

Recollecting FACT Exhibitions in US

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Exhibition on Atrocities on Hindus in Bangladesh at the Capitol Hill Courtey: www.indoamerican-news.com WASHINGTON, DC — An exhibition of pictures, posters and panels vividly describing the atrocities on Hindus in the Bangladesh caught the attention of influential Congressmen and key policymakers from the Bush Administration this week. The two day-exhibition titled Asru was held at the Rayburn House Office Building at the US Capitol on July 30 and July 31. The panel of some 27 exhibits, which graphically chronicled deteriorating condition of the Hindus and other religious minorities in Bangladesh over the past several decades, was put together by the Human Rights Congress for Bangladesh Minorities (HRCBM) and Foundation Against Continuing Terrorism(FACT). Complete story Click here US exhibit whips up support for Kashmiri Pandits C ourtesy: India Abroad (Rediff) Aziz Haniffa in Washington DC | September 22, 2005 21:46 IST