[Reader-list] To Taha Mehmood

[Pawan Durani]

Compare her face with some that I shall show,
  And it will make thee think thy swan a crow.

-- William Shakespeare




On Sat, Jan 31, 2009 at 8:20 PM, Taha Mehmood
<2tahamehmood at googlemail.com>wrote:

> Dear Pawan
>
> Thank you for your response.
>
> It is indeed true that apples do not grow in Nagpur and Oranges in Kashmir,
> but don't you sometimes feel that what is true of apple and oranges might
> not be true of milk and butter. It is indeed unfortunate that we have to
> deal with the numbing presence of terrorism- which is either State induced
> or of religious variety be it Hindu, Muslim, Jewish, or Christian on a daily
> basis like milk and butter. I would certainly want it be like apple and
> oranges, which would deem it to be more localised and seasonal.
>
> Think of it this way- both RSS and Lashkar do not want the good of all.
> Both RSS and Lashkar thrive on demonization of the 'other' which is a narrow
> way of looking at things. Both RSS and Lashkar do more harm to all than they
> do good which they claim in the name of a few proponents. Lashkar's claim to
> Islam is as valid or invalid as RSS's claim to Hinduism. It is true that
> words like terrorism are employed to describe Lashkar as words like culture
> are used to describe RSS. But no word is inalienable part of an
> organizations. One can easily interchange these words and state that Lashkar
> promotes a terror culture as RSS indulges in acts of cultural terrorism-such
> an articulation will not alter fundamental attitudes and value systems which
> is common to these organizations.
>
> Warm regards
>
> Taha
>