[Reader-list] Muslims must appeal to Al-Qaeda: Stop hurting and threatening India

[Kshmendra Kaul]

Dear Anupam
 
1. It would have been graceful if you had simply accepted that you erred in attributing a comment to me which I had not made. Maybe that is expecting too much from you.
 
2. Your contention is ridiculous that if I find nothing objectionable in Aman-Shanti's comment then I am party to it. 
 
There are uncountable Comments/Positions that a person might not find objectionable but that would not mean that the person is 'party to' such Comments/Positions. Think over that because I do not want to bludgeon you with examples.
 
3. Your comment "even, your political stand on Jamia encounters is appreciated" seemed to be directed at me. If it was, then again you are fantasising. I never declared any 'political stand' on the "Jamia encounters" 
 
Kshmendra
 

--- On Sat, 2/14/09, anupam chakravartty <c.anupam at gmail.com> wrote:

From: anupam chakravartty <c.anupam at gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [Reader-list] Muslims must appeal to Al-Qaeda: Stop hurting and threatening India
To: "sarai list" <reader-list at sarai.net>
Date: Saturday, February 14, 2009, 9:23 PM

dear kshmendra and aman,

In your recent comment written:

 "It was not I who wrote 'indian muslims should ask al-qaeda to stop
terror
attacks'. So your comment that you found 'my line problematic' was
a
misdirected comment.

I personally find nothing objectionable in the 'line' that was actually
posted by Aman-Shanti: """ Indian Muslims (and everyone else)
must appeal to
Al-Qaeda and its allies to stop their activities of terror and violence in
the world."

so logically, my misdirected comment actually hit the right spot. and as you
are now saying that there is nothing objectionable in aman shanti's
comment,
so you are also a party to it.

to repeat what i said, earlier, the proposition that "indian muslims are
against terrorism" is a good idea. even, your political stand on Jamia
encounters is appreciated. but then what is this message you are sending in
the header: "Muslims must appeal to Al-Qaeda: Stop hurting and threatening
India."?

i personally have no problems with such initiatives but at least aman should
have used the right words.* aman's (your's too kshmendra) understanding
of
the situation after reading the header looks like indian muslims have been
inviting alqaeda all this while and now if they ask to stop it, they would
do so.* i am trying to point towards a fallacy which aman has made. you can
change it and i hope you can change your hearts also while dealing with
something so elusive and destructive as terrorism.

and if you guys think, that you can ask anyone to adopt such an initiative
through this mailing list, then you all are wrong. i would not visit your
blog or your facebook as a sign of protest against these specific words:
"Indian Muslims (and everyone else) must appeal to Al-Qaeda and its allies
to stop their activities of terror and violence in the world". it is
completely upto you to change it and come up with something else. to put it
very simply:

how's my friend abdul (being an indian muslim) connected with al-qaeda? in
what capacity should abdul, particularly (as your header
suggests), who paints and dreams of faiz and nazrul, should go to al-qaeda
and ask them to stop their acts? how is he a stakeholder? is every muslim a
stake holder in the crimes committed by a group of mujaheedins? why
should abdul be pinpointed, when all of you self-righteous peace loving
people (including me) are responsible for what has been happening in the
country?

-anupam
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